utterain blood group 

- material system of descent 

1. ciczenship 

2. inheritance 

3. political rights - can suceed to any position 

1. Elected leaderes 

2. shares funeral responsibilities 

3. remember dead 

4. appoints someone to suceed the dead 

5. gathers togerher and shares wealth 

- belongs to mother and her siblings 

spirit 

- which father contributes 

- transmited through semen 

Has spiritual control of child 

- child named by him 

- controls spirit 

divine agency of human soul

- physical being 

soul comes when you inhell your first breath 

krado 

Shoulder 

- seat of the soul 

physical human being becomes 

- spiritual being ( sumsum ) 

-goes to father's house awaits reincarnation 

Belived that religion is a system of symboles 

- these symbols represents the group of people 

- has profound efect on people 

1. order fo existence is the way 

2. False sudo speciation 

3. every human group thinks they are better than other 

1. Darkness 

2. Sun 

3. Moon 

- Religious symbol 

- spiritual symbol - occupant become

-socio political and spiritual leader 

1. they get you a stool 

2. offer you water 

3. asks for your mission 

1. Community stability 

2. that a cimmunity exsts 

3. Every child must have a stool - soul must be seated by father 

* must have gold ring 

1. Black Dover 

2. Egg Yolk 

1. must come out every 5 years so peole know it is in good hands 

2. Genuine stool - must have mysterious origin 

3. Stool must have external origin 

4. Must have diety to protect it 

1.  Osie tutu - first king -soul wandered because he was shot so body was never buried 

2. Prempeth the 2nd 

3. OKowari 2nd 

1. Kastar 

2. Pianki 

3. Shabaka 

4. Tahaqar 

found in london musuem 

1. was copy an old sripture from papyrus 

- first sign of God 

God 

Horus - heart to God 

thoth - tongue 

1. self created, self existant eternal

2. Mind of the earth - knows all things world and underworld 

3. God mealy a form of his thoughts 

Birim - rive that is made up of diamonds

Densu - Godess with 3 heads 

Aficans believed that God 

1. powerful - all knowing 

2. No physical representation 

3. God worshiped through Gods 

The Akan 

Odomankuma Nyame

The everlasting God

Darknesss was the first son of God 

- created the earth 

Obi nyene obfra Nyame 

- no one hase to point god out to children 

 Yoruba 

Ase 

Life force originated with OLODUMARE 

- gives to seen and unseen 

1. use priest to determine destiny of a person 

what god ha in store 

head destinity carried on head 

based on sex 

Husband 

- Okuno - death 

Asi- sunday 

adwo - monday 

abena - tuesday 

ku - wed 

awo - thrusday 

afi - friday 

saturday - amen