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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...
- bibliography. En/Gendered Power: A nkisi from the Rockefeller Collection Brooklyn Museum: Standing Nkisi Figure Nkisi at the Art Institute of Chicago Nkondi...
- of nkisi to include consecrated objects or charms that contained the essence of nature spirits and their spiritual powers. These minkisi (sing. nkisi) were...
- 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...
- context of folk religion Made and used by the BaKongo of western DRC, a nkisi (plural minkisi) is a sculptural object that provides a local habitation...
- spirits that dwelt within magical charms." It refers to the cavity of a nkisi, where magical items are normally stored. Alternative words for mojo, such...
- Bakongo religion incorporating the Kongo cosmogram, Simbi water spirits, and Nkisi and Minkisi practices. The West African influence is Vodun from the Fon...
- beings and other Nkisi; he is additionally the protector of the houses. Nkosi Mukumbe (also Hoji Mukumbi, Panzu, XauĂȘ) is the Nkisi of roads, agriculture...
- sacred medicine, or minkisi. They were also responsible for charging a nkisi, or physical objects intended to be the receptacle for spiritual forces...
- Bakongo spirituality that reduced other spirits like Nzambici, simbi and nkisi to "lesser spirits" that no longer had relevant voices in spiritual matters...