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- Title
The Lemba - 'angel-stars', ngoma lungundu and ancestors.
- Authors
le Roux, Magdel
- Abstract
Hendel (2004) states that "the remembered past is the material with which biblical Israel constructed its identity as a people, a religion, and a culture. It is a mixture of history, collective memory, folklore, and literary brilliance. In Israel's formative years, these memories circulated orally in the context of family and tribe. Over time they came to be crystallized [mainly] in various written texts" (my insertion). The experiential dimension of religion of ancient Israel and that of the Lemba (the so-called 'Black "Jews" of Southern Africa' and other African tribes) is expressed orally and textually, but also in art. It is in no small part also created by them, as they formulate new or altered conceptions of the sacred past. Guidance by stars, the ancestors and the ngoma lungundu (sacred drum of the ancestors) play a major role in the expression of Lemba and early Israelite religion, culture and art.
- Subjects
COLLECTIVE memory; SHRINES; NAME of God in Christianity; ANCESTORS; APOLOGETICS
- Publication
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2021, Vol 102, p1
- ISSN
1018-9556
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.46222/pharosjot.102.13