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Kongo people (Kongo: Bisi Kongo, EsiKongo, singular: Musi Kongo; also
Bakongo, singular:
Mukongo or M'kongo) are a
Bantu ethnic group primarily defined...
- The
Alliance of
Bakongo (French:
Alliance des
Bakongo, or ABAKO) was a
Congolese political party,
founded by
Edmond Nzeza Nlandu, but
headed by Joseph...
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Kongo religion (Kikongo:
Bukongo or
Bakongo) encomp****es the
traditional beliefs of the
Bakongo people. Due to the
highly centralized position of the...
- Father, and God of the Sun
across numerous traditional Bantu religions. The
Bakongo people of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Angola and the Republic...
- the sea,
bodies of water, and
ancestral spirits related to the sea. The
Bakongo believe that in the
beginning there was only a
circular void,
called mbûngi...
- the
blending of the
traditional religions brought to Cuba by
enslaved Bakongo people from
Central Africa with
ideas from
Roman Catholicism, the only...
-
traditions and
native languages or
dialects include the Ovimbundu, Ambundu,
Bakongo, Chokwe,
Avambo and
other peoples.
There are over 100
distinct ethnic groups...
- is the
eternal God of Essence, as well as Moon,
Earth and Sky
Mother in
Bakongo religion. She is also the
female counterpart of the
Kongo creator god,...
- Kikongo: ****nga dia
Kongo or
tendwa kia nza-n' Kongo) is a core
symbol in
Bakongo religion that
depicts the
physical world (Ku Nseke), the
spiritual world...
- the god of fire and change. This may have a
connection to an
element of
Bakongo cosmology called Kalûnga. It was seen as the
spark of fire that
begot all...
