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Nkisi or
Nkishi (plural varies: minkisi, mikisi, zinkisi, or
nkisi) are
spirits or an
object that a
spirit inhabits. It is
frequently applied to a variety...
- of
nkisi to
include consecrated objects or
charms that
contained the
essence of
nature spirits and
their spiritual powers.
These minkisi (sing.
nkisi) were...
- bibliography. En/Gendered Power: A
nkisi from the
Rockefeller Collection Brooklyn Museum:
Standing Nkisi Figure Nkisi at the Art
Institute of
Chicago Nkondi...
- the
words "
nkisi" to mean "holy". Thus,
church to
Kongo people was nzo a
nkisi,
which means "another shrine," and the
Bible was
mukanda nkisi,
which means...
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household altars (kamidana). Made and used by the
BaKongo of
western DRC, a
nkisi (plural minkisi) is a
sculptural object that
provides a
local habitation...
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beings and
other Nkisi; he is
additionally the
protector of the houses.
Nkosi Mukumbe (also Hoji Mukumbi, Panzu, Xauê) is the
Nkisi of roads, agriculture...
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sacred medicine, or minkisi. They were also
responsible for
charging a
nkisi, or
physical objects intended to be the
receptacle for
spiritual forces...
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Bakongo spirituality that
reduced other spirits like Nzambici,
simbi and
nkisi to "lesser spirits" that no
longer had
relevant voices in
spiritual matters...
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traditionally believe that
bisimbi are
magically water spirits (in kikongo:
nkisi mia mamba) that can
appear as a person, a snake, a
calabash vine, or Kalûnga...
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along with a
pantheon of
divine spirits such as the Orisha, Loa, Vodun,
Nkisi and Alusi,
among others. In
addition to the
religious syncretism of these...
