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97 At the Back of the Black Man's Mind By R. E. Dennett NKONDI is the province on the South-east of BUALI where the sisters of Maluango reside and have children from among whom the king's successor is chosen. The word means a hunter and this connects the province with fruitfulness (see P. 103). MBUKU is the province to the East of BUALI and northeast of XIKAMBA, where MAMBUKU resides and guards the Eastern gate of the kingdom-the province where the sun rises. MBUKU means explosion. These six provinces surround BUALI, the centre province in the middle of which MALUANGO has his XIBILA or sacred grove. The meaning of BUALI is the deep of breathing life. The sea is called MBU, the deep, an enclosed space. It is at the mouth of the river, where whirlpools are created by the meeting of the fresh and the sea waters that the deeps of maternity exist, which they call MBUNGU NTWALI. The KUILU, is the principal river of the kingdom of Luango, the word means to and from the sky. Into this river the tributaries LUICI, LUKULU, and the LUALI run. NYANGA is the name of the lake and means the repetition of the four, and it is here that the NYARI, the name by which the KUILU is known in its upper reaches, has its source. 51 The Sacred Rivers and Provinces and Contents of Sacred Grove. Rivers. BUKOIO (Contents of the grove.) 1. KUILU. MACI (rain water). MBU (salt water). 2. LUICI. XIVUNGA (seed). MTI (tree). 3. LUKULU. NZO (house). XINKONKOLO (oyster shell). 4. LUALI. XINIOKA (snake). XAMA (snake). 5. NYANGA. MBIZI or NFU (fish). 51 The meanings of these words are: Kuilu, to or from heaven; Luici, primeval essence; Lukulu, of the spirit, of the departed, or of the ray of light; Luali, of the breathing life, Nyanga, continuance of being; Nyari, of the road of being www.globalgrey.co.uk
98 At the Back of the Black Man's Mind By R. E. Dennett SUSU (fowl). 6. NYARI. VUMUNA (animal). XIBULU (beast). BUALI. In the above order it will be seen by the meaning of the words that the order of the six categories is maintained. The following lesson, if not exactly what Maluango used to say to his people, at any rate is a close reproduction of it. I have talked over these questions with him many times, although I never heard him address his people in a sacred grove. In the reading of these symbols it will be noted that my friends have as it were doubled the formula in the middle and taken the first and sixth families together, and worked down and up towards the line dividing the third and fourth. Maluango is supposed to be speaking. Nyari-Kuilu. The way of Being, to and from sky. The Source and the mouth of the river must not be separated in your minds. God is the Source of all things the Nyari. Great ruler (Nyari) in heaven as I am the ruler on earth- Kuilu. From heaven to heaven do we come and go- Vumuna. We suckle our young like cattle Xibulu. And know our wives like the beasts of the field. Xibila. But as we come together let us remember that we Xibila. Are also one with God so that our Mbuku. living offspring born through the birth-producing powers given to us by the Sun may also inherit and absorb the bright and Samanu. pure waters of morality. Nyanga-Luici-Life www.globalgrey.co.uk
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