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The Religious System of the Amazulu; Izinyanga Zokubula Or, Divination, as Existing Among the Amazulu, in Their Own Words, with a Translation Into English, and Notes

The Religious System of the Amazulu; Izinyanga Zokubula Or, Divination, as Existing Among the Amazulu, in Their Own Words, with a Translation Into English, and Notes


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...The diviner by bones, when any one comes to him to enquire, unfastens the.bag in which the bones are kept, chews some little medicine, and puffs on them; he then pours them out, and picks out the bones of certain animals with which he is about to divine; they fill both his hands; he brings them all together and throws them on the ground; all the bones fall. But what the bones say is not clear to the man who comes to enquire; if he is not accustomed to them he sees nothing, and doesot know what it means. The owner of the bones manages them all properly. When one in falling rests an another--if for instance it is the bone of an elephant and of the hyena--he says, "What does the elephant and hyena say?" And afterwards by his management of the bones, he tells the enquirer that the bones say so and so; that he sees that the bones say this and that. And the man replies, "Yes; the bones mention that for which I came here." Then the owner of the bones says to the man, "Just take them yourself, and ask them why it is so." He throws them down, and the owner then manages them pro perly, and tells him what the bones say; he says, " You see this bone standing in this manner; it speaks of a certain matter in your village. This says you must do so-and-so." They say every thing the man knows. And a person by accustoming himself to divine with bones, himself manages them properly; from that proper management the matter is made evident, and he sees for himself. The diviner just points it out to him, and then follows him, when he has already seen by himself what the bones say. Such then is the mode of divining by bones. I myself once went to enquire of the bones. There was a goat of Umjijane, one of my brothers, which had been yeaning f...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781231164389
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 36
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1231164387
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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