Power Figure: Male (Nkisi). Created circa 1800-1950, DRC, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979
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 objects used throughout the Congo Basin in Central Africa, especially in the Territory of Cabinda that are believed to contain spiritual powers or spirits. The term and its concept have passed with the Atlantic slave trade to the Americas.[1]
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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...
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...
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...
Bakongo spirituality that reduced other spirits like Nzambici, simbi and nkisi to "lesser spirits" that no longer had relevant voices in spiritual matters...
sacred medicine, or minkisi. They were also responsible for charging a nkisi, or physical objects intended to be the receptacle for spiritual forces...
and smelting, and the women make clay pots. Popular figures include the Nkisi nkonde and female phemba statues. In 1981 there was an estimated 15,000...
influences in Black populations in the Americas such as the continuation of Nkisi and Nkisi Nkondi traditions and Kongo burial traditions among African Americans...
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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...
African religion portal Alusi, the Igbo pantheon. List of Yoruba deities Loa Nkisi West African mythology Winti Yoruba mythology "orisha | deity | Britannica"...
To guide man, Nzambici and Nzambi Mpungu created nature spirits—simbi, nkisi, nkita, and kilundu—and separated the physical world, called Nseke, from...
houses, snake reverence, African-American churches, spirit possession, some Nkisi practices, Black Spiritual churches, Black theology, the ring shout, the...
sensitivity and is identified by weeping. In Candomblé Bantu, Osun is called Nkisi Ndandalunda, the Lady of Fertility and Moon. Hongolo and Kisimbi have similarities...
names is more similar to the incorporeal "zombie astral", as in the Kongo Nkisi spirits. A related, but also often incorporeal, undead being is the jumbee...
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...
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Shaker" in Spanish) in Latin America, is one of the most important of all nkisi. Kengue is the Sky Father and the primordial creator of all life. "Palo...
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Yahweh Elements Ancestral veneration Kalunga line Kongo cosmogram Mfinda Nature spirits Nganga Nlongo Simbi Art Nkisi Nkondi Tumba Diaspora Category v t e...
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