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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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Ancestral Shrine Object: Composition of the Ancestral Shrine: Dagara/Lobi Family cultic items
Ancestral Shrine Object: Composition of the Ancestral Shrine: Dagara/Lobi Family cultic items		 Ancestral Shrine Object: Dagara/Lobi Ancestral Figurines
Ancestral Shrine Object: Dagara/Lobi Ancestral Figurines		 Ancestral Shrine Object: Dagara/Lobi Ancestral Figurines
Ancestral Shrine Object: Dagara/Lobi Ancestral Figurines		 Ancestral Shrine Object: Dagara/Lobi Ancestral Figure_Male and Female
Ancestral Shrine Object: Dagara/Lobi Ancestral Figure_Male and Female
Ancestral Shrine Objects: The mythical ancestor of kinship origins
Ancestral Shrine Objects: The mythical ancestor of kinship origins		 Ancestral Shrine Objects: A totemic pole of kinship origins.
Ancestral Shrine Objects: A totemic pole of kinship origins.		 Ancestral Shrine Object: Dagara/Lobi fetish Figure of a Female Founding Ancestor
Ancestral Shrine Object: Dagara/Lobi fetish Figure of a Female Founding Ancestor		 Ancestral Shrine Object: Dagara/Lobi Fetish Figure of a Male Founding Ancestor
Ancestral Shrine Object: Dagara/Lobi Fetish Figure of a Male Founding Ancestor
Ancestral Shrine Object: Snake figurine with a bell attached
Ancestral Shrine Object: Snake figurine with a bell attached		 Ancestral Shrine Object: Two Chameleons on top of each other
Ancestral Shrine Object: Two Chameleons on top of each other 		Ancestral Shrine Object: Metal-Iron Snake Sculptors
Ancestral Shrine Object: Metal-Iron Snake Sculptors		 Ancestral Shrine Object: Calabash Gourds Containing Medicinal substances
Ancestral Shrine Object: Calabash Gourds Containing Medicinal substances
Ancestral Shrine Object: Three skulls of goat or sheep tied together with a key on the string
Ancestral Shrine Object: Three skulls of goat or sheep tied together with a key on the string		 Ancestral Shrine Object: One Cloth bag with three sealed animal skin bags containing a number of cowries each
Ancestral Shrine Object: One Cloth bag with three sealed animal skin bags containing a number of cowries each		 Ancestral Shrine Object: Eight Dagara/Lobi Ancestral Iron small bells for initiation
Ancestral Shrine Object: Eight Dagara/Lobi Ancestral Iron small bells for initiation		 Ancestral Shrine Object: Dagara/Lobi Ancestral shaped Iron rod representing lightening rods
Ancestral Shrine Object: Dagara/Lobi Ancestral shaped Iron rod representing lightening rods
Ancestral Shrine Object: Dagara/Lobi Medicine Pot containing medical Substances
Ancestral Shrine Object: Dagara/Lobi Medicine Pot containing medical Substances		 Object Figure 5 1_Four Cosmic Stones. .jpg
Object Figure 5 1_Four Cosmic Stones. .jpg		 Object Figure 5 2_Cosmic Soil and earth materia.jpg
Object Figure 5 2_Cosmic Soil and earth materia.jpg		 Object Fig_ent in.jpg
Object Fig_ent in.jpg
Object Figure 5 4_Animal skulls tied together as foundational objects of the house community as a cognate group.jpg
Object Figure 5 4_Animal skulls tied together as foundational objects of the house community as a cognate group.jpg		 Object Fig_times .jpg
Object Fig_times .jpg		 Object Figure 5 6_Hunted animal skull.jpg
Object Figure 5 6_Hunted animal skull.jpg		 Object Fig_oughts.jpg
Object Fig_oughts.jpg
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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