African Cosmology of the Bantu-Kongo
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Athelia Henrietta PR
Published: April 17, 2001
Language: eng; kon
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781890157289
Subjects: Ethnic or tribal religions; Religion: general; Religion; Ethnic & Tribal; Social Science; Alternate Spirituality; Sociology; Africa; Spirituality - General; Cosmology, Kongo; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Cosmology, African; Kongo (African people)
First sentence: The following graphics about Kongo concepts of their world are excerpts based on my book N'kôngo ye nza yakun'zungidila/Le Mukôngo et le Monde qui L'Entourait (ONRD, Kin 1969) and on my unpublished manuscripts KM Nènga; Vérité Sur les Grandes Initiations en Afrique Centrale (1973, pp. 300), and Makuku Matatu: Les Fondements Culturels Kongo (1978, pp. 450).
Description: "Life is fundamentally a process of perpetual and mutual communication; and to communicate is to emit and to receive waves and radiations (minika ye minienie). This process of, receiving and releasing or passing them on (tambula ye tambikisa) is the key to human beings game of survival. A person is perpetually bathed by radiations' weight, (zitu kia minienie). The weight (zitu/demo) of radiations may have a negative as well as positive impact on any tiny being, for example a person who represents the most vibrating: "kolo" (knot) of relationships." "The following expressions are very common among the Bantu, in general, and among the Kongo in particular, which prove to us the antiquity of these concepts in the African continent; Our businesses are waved/shaken; our health is waved/shaken; what we possess is waved/shaken; the communities are waved/shaken: Where are these (negative) waves coming from (Salu bieto bieti nikunwa; mavimpi nikunwa; biltuvwidi nikunwa; makanda nikunwa: Kwe kutukanga minika miami)?" "For the Bantu, a person lives and moves within an ocean of waves/radiations. One is sensitive or immune to them. To be sensitive to waves is to be able to react negatively or positively to those waves/forces. But to be immune to surrounding waves/forces, is to be less reactive to them or not at all. These differences account for varying degrees in the process of knowing/learning among individuals" --BOOK Cover.