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The ancestral cult or institution is the most basic and primary cult exiting in all homesteads and families to ensure life fertility and its proper transmission and reproduction. The items used to constitute the shrine communicate, mythically and symbolically, the complete notion of life fertility, transmission and reproduction through the ancestral beings and elements. Here, ancestral beings are understood to be the proto-ancestors of life in general and not limited only to human ancestors.
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Object Figure 5 8_Shaking Gourd consecrated and dedicated for Bagr narration and divination .jpg
Object Figure 5 8_Shaking Gourd consecrated and dedicated for Bagr narration and divination .jpg		 Object Figure 5 9_Sacred gourd for Bagr Initiation.jpg
Object Figure 5 9_Sacred gourd for Bagr Initiation.jpg		 Object Figure 5 10_Two Gourds used as containers for medicine.jpg
Object Figure 5 10_Two Gourds used as containers for medicine.jpg		 Object Figure 5 12_Metal sculpture of two chameleons in coitus.jpg
Object Figure 5 12_Metal sculpture of two chameleons in coitus.jpg
Object Figure 5 13_Two Metal Sculptures of two Chameleons coloured differently and depicted as foraging.jpg
Object Figure 5 13_Two Metal Sculptures of two Chameleons coloured differently and depicted as foraging.jpg		 Object Figure 5 14_Two metal Sculptures of the Snake figurines.jpg
Object Figure 5 14_Two metal Sculptures of the Snake figurines.jpg		 Object Fig_-Force.jpg
Object Fig_-Force.jpg		 Object Figure 5 16_Sculpture of the electric fish as personification of ancestral sexuality.jpg
Object Figure 5 16_Sculpture of the electric fish as personification of ancestral sexuality.jpg
Object Figure 5 17_Two oysters shells as personification of ancestral authority.jpg
Object Figure 5 17_Two oysters shells as personification of ancestral authority.jpg		 Object Figure 5 18_The Male Totemic Ancestral Figure of the House community.jpg
Object Figure 5 18_The Male Totemic Ancestral Figure of the House community.jpg		 Object Figure 5 19_The Female Totemic Ancestral Figure of the House Community.tiff
Object Figure 5 19_The Female Totemic Ancestral Figure of the House Community.tiff		 Object Figure 5 20_Mythical ancestor of the kin group.jpg
Object Figure 5 20_Mythical ancestor of the kin group.jpg
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