“Living Water” in Nguni Healing Traditions, South Africa
This paper explores the ideas of “living water” held by Nguni-speaking diviner-healers in South Africa. It considers their beliefs in snake/mermaid water divinities and their claims of being called by them underwater, either physically or in a dream, to obtain knowledge and gifts of healing. Seen as...
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Brill
2013
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Worldviews
Année: 2013, Volume: 17, Numéro: 2, Pages: 138-149 |
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living water
Nguni diviner-healers
water divinities
dreams
hierophanies
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