The world of the ancestors and the world of the living - ukanyi ritual in mediation: an essay on ancestry in south of Mozambique
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The objective of this article is to think how the relation between the world of the ancestors and the world of the living ones is established and is structured by means of the ukanyi ritual (a ritual realized for the consumption of the drink-ancestral-sacred ukanyi). This proposal refers to the study and understanding of traditional african religiosity, which is based on the world view of africans permeated by a system of bantu values, beliefs and practices. Thus, the ethnographic method and the extended case method appear as foundations to understand the phenomenon in question. I consider the assumption that the ukanyi ritual is a ceremony that allows the exaltation of the ancestors, active and reactive values, beliefs and practices that strengthen and reinvigorate traditional african religiosity. In this way, it enables us to living and experience two different worlds, the living and the dead (ancestors). I understand that understanding the relationship between the world of the living and the ancestors is to penetrate the way in which the afro-philosophies are constituted that allow us to touch the african universe.
Keywords: Ukanyi Ritual. World of the living. World of the dead. Ancestors.
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