this presentation is about Africa, their people, tribes, and their famous story about creation. Enjoy ;3

1. AFRICA
MAGIC AND SYMBOLISM

2. RELIGION
ANIMISM
 The belief that all plants and
animals have spirits.
A doctrine that the vital
principle of organic
development is immaterial spirit.

3. RELIGION
FETISHISM
 The belief in magical fetishes
(talismans, idols, charms,
images) .
Extravagant irrational
devotion.

4. Fetishes (talismans, idols, charms, images).

5. RELIGION
TOTEMISM
 The belief in kinship with or a
mystical relationship between
a group of an individual or a
totem*.
*totem-symbol for a family or tribe.

6. Totems

7. PEOPLE
PYGMY
 a member of a group of small people
who live in Africa.
Bantu- spoken language of pygmies.
They believe in one supreme god
named Khonvum.
Khonvum-above all the lords of forest
and game, that he was perhaps first to
exist in the guise of an animal.

8. PYGMIES

9. Khonvum
Supreme god of the pygmies, they
believe that khonvum directs of controls
all celestial phenomena (lightning, storm,
day and night, shooting stars etc.)
When the sun dies (night) khonvum
collects broken pieces of stars in his sack
and tosses armful of them at the sun so it
can rise in the next morning.

10. Khonvum
He is also known as “Great Huntsman”
because of his two wielded serpents that
assumes visible forms as the rainbow.
He makes contact with men by
intermediary of either a real animal like
chameleon or imaginary animals who
appears in dreams—the elephant Gor,
whose powerful voice gives rise to thunder.

11. Khonvum

12. PEOPLE
BUSHMEN
 a member of a group of short statured
people of southern Africa who traditionally
live by hunting and foraging (scavenging).
They also have supreme being whose
name varies from tribe to tribe: Kaang or
Khu or Kho, or Thora.
He has an adversary called Gauna or
Gawa, the leader of the spirits of the
dead.

13. PEOPLE
BUSHMEN
 one of the special characteristics of
the bushmen’s mythology is the
existence of animal spirits such as the
Praying Mantis, I Kaggen married to
Hyrax. The Antelope or Porcupine,
heroes of dozens of adventures that
explains various celestial phenomena.

14. BUSHMEN

15. The Praying Mantis
The Praying Mantis is the oldest symbol of God ~
the African Bushman’s manifestation of God
come to Earth.
When a Praying Mantis is seen, diviners try to
determine the current message. In this culture
they are also associated with restoring life into the
dead.

16. Cagn
In the mythology of the Bushmen of
southwestern Africa, Cagn is the god who
created the world and all the people and
things in it. In some stories, he dies and then
comes back to life. Cagn is also called
Kaang, Kho, and Thora.
Cagn is a magician who plays tricks and
whose strengths lies in one particular tooth;
birds are his messengers or emissaries.

17. Cagn
In the beginning, Cagn had a friendly
relationship with human beings. After
people began to show disrespect toward
their creator god, however, Cagn
sent death and destruction to the world.
He left the earth to live somewhere far off
in the sky According to the Bushmen, only
the antelopes know exactly where he is.

18. Symbolism of Cagn’s Death
and Resurrection
All the adventures of Cagn, such as the creation
of the moon from an old shoe, are recounted
during the initiation of rites for young boys.
They may be considered as explanation of
these rites, and the swallowing of Cagn, his
death and resurrection may be regarded as the
symbolic expression of death and resurrection of
boys during initiation, which is presided over by
a priest disguised as an animal.

19. Video of initiation rites:

20. PEOPLE
HOTTENTOTS
 They have a higher level of technical
civilization compared to pygmies and
bushmen.
Their mythology seems to reflect this
twofold origin:
Their supreme god, Tsuigoab, who is
by nature a great priest or sorcerer.
The national hero, Heitsi-Eibib, name
derived from Heigib (the great tree).

21. HOTTENTOTS

22. Tsui-Goab
His cult was celebrated when the Pleiades.
He lives in the Red Sky; he commands storms,
sends rain for the crops and speak with the word
of thunder.
His name meands “wounded knee”.
He has an adversary who lives in the Black Sky;
he is Gaunab, the chief of the dead.
Tsui-Goab kills Gaunab in the end but he is first
wounded in the knee during the fight.

23. Heitsi Eibib
His name was derived from Heigib, the great
tree who teaches the Bushmen how to hunt.
He is an offspring of a cow who ate special grass
and conceived the hero in this way.
He appears as a sort of magician who performs
miracles, died and come back to life again.
He is victorious against his fights against
monsters.

24. TRIBES
BANTU TRIBE
Ethnologist have rightly emphasized the
important of cult of royal or family
ancestors of bantu tribes.
Their ancestors are intermediaries
between mortals and gods.

25. BANTU TRIBE

26. Unkulunkulu or ‘the very old’
-He is the first ancestor of human race
He arose from the bed of reeds and
therefore from the ground.
He is the creator of customs and
techniques typical of Kaffir civilization.
Although he is a hero, and the benefactor
of humanity, he is also indirectly
responsible for death.

27. Unkulunkulu, as indirectly responsible for
death.
He said to the chameleon: ‘Go and tell men
that they will not suffer death’.
But the slow and lazy chameleon lingered on
the way so; Unkulunkulu grew angry and sent a
new messenger, the lizard, to tell men that
death would come.
When the chameleon got there, the lizard had
already been before him and that is why men
are now mortal.

28. TRIBES
THE CONGO GROUP
They have similarities with Bantu tribe—
which is the belief in one god.
Their supreme god is Nzambi or Nzame.
Christian influence played its part and this
god-creator drove out deities.

29. Nzame
He created the first man, Fam, who was
intended to be master of all things; but he grew
in vain and revolted against Nzame and
destroyed the earth, he was buried into a hole.
Nzame created the second man, Sekame, the
ancestor of present race.
Sekame made his wife from a tree, Mbongwe.
But Fam was not dead and from his hole he
inflicted misfortune to mankind.

30. Nzame
Then Nzame came down the earth but fell in
love with a pretty girl Mboya and had a son
named Bingo.
But Nzame and Mboya quarreled over child’s
affection.
Because of anger, Nzame flung Bingo from the
heights of the vault of heaven.
His mother searched for him in vain and she is still
wandering in the world unable to find him.

31. Nzame
Bingo grew up and became the culture-hero,
the teacher, of humanity.

32. TRIBES
THE NILOTIC TRIBES
The Nilotic tribe is related both to Paleo-Negritic
culture and Hamitic.
It had produced stratified mythology in creating
with different status and function of invader and
invaded.
The Shiluk tribes has a god-creator Juck, whom
they inherited from non-shilluks.

33. Juck
He fashioned the world but not direct it.
Altough he is a personal being, he is also
impersonal might, he is present to a greater or
lesser degree in all things.
Beside him is Nyikang, the ancestor god of
Shilluks.
Nyikang is the indispensable intermediary
between men and Juck, who can only be
reached through him.

34. Nyikang
The ancestor god of Shilluks.
Omara, the first man, who came from the sky,
was believed to be Nyikang’s grandson.
Nyikang was the decendants of first cow that
was created by the supreme god.
Others believe that he is a son of crocodile
mother.

35. Shilluks
Nyikang quarreled with his half-brother about
who was to succeed to their father’s throne.
He fled after loosing the battle, taking with him
the insignia of royalty.
When he reached the land that was to become
Shilluk kingdom, he created subjects of his new
realm by changing wild animals into men.
Alternatively, it is said that he fished men out of
the water with his fishing line that brought them
out of calabash.