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129 At the Back of the Black Man's Mind By R. E. Dennett when she is annoyed instead of beating her. Unlike other animals, he is never caught in the act of copulation. But in spite of all this the Bavili say that man must not be led to believe that the chimpanzee is an animal that he can make a real friend of. Its skin is found in the XIBILA. When a person wishes to refuse a request he has simply to mention his XINA. Thus, supposing his XINA to be NGWALI, the person says NGWALI, the words MINU I CIABAKOKO, I have it not," being understood. The word KAZILA (no road) is often used for the word XINA. There is a class of people called MAVUMBU66 (VUMBA to leak) living in different districts of Kakongo and just on the southern borders of LUANGO, who are not allowed to eat out of the same dish as the Bavili or people of Kakongo. Should one ask for food he must tell the people that he is MAVUMBU, but as it is a great disgrace to admit this, such a one seldom does ask another for it. I know one or two very rich and important men in the country, whose names I will not mention, who are MAVUMBU. But where these people come from I cannot find out, neither can I make out why they should be so cursed. MAVU=dirt, and so MAVUMBU may mean the essence of dirt. We may now, I think, conclude that this remarkable word XINA means law, a thing forbidden, an abomination, and a totem. It is said that the King Maluango has no XINA, but I think that this merely means that as NKICI CI he is in the place of God, and therefore above the law, for as Fumu his XINA is pig, and he must have his family BINA also. Sacred Animals. MPAKASA. MBAMBINGOMBI. BAFU. NKAKA. NSEXI. BECI. SUSU. NVULI. MAKUNKULA. NGUALI. NGULUBU. MAILI. MBOMA. MPILI. NKALA. NQUIMBI. NKUFU. XINGOLOXINYUNDU. TELE. NVUBU. 66 Father T. Derouet informs me that the tribe the Bavili call BAKUTU call themselves BAVUMBU Or BAHUMBU, and that their greatest fetish (sic) is NGO www.globalgrey.co.uk
130 At the Back of the Black Man's Mind By R. E. Dennett NKOMBO. NZIKUNKONDO. SUNGU. NZAU. NDUMA. NKABI. This formula differs from those which have preceded it. In connecting the animals. with the categories we must take account of the fivefold division of the laws; two families in the formula-the third and fourth-are classed together by them for this purpose; and the six families of the formula are harmonised with the five divisions of the law, which may in fact be regarded as prohibitions of the opposite of the categories; thus theft is associated with the idea of running away, and this is the opposite of love and union, two of the ideas associated with fire. THE PROHIBITIONS. My friends have found no difficulty in placing these families in their order under the five great divisions into which their laws are divided. I give them exactly as they were given to me:- 1. XINA XIVANGA NZAMBI-against God and rulers. 2. XINA VA XIFUMBA -against parents. 3. XINA NKAKA -against neighbours. 4. XINA NSOKI or NSEXI -against covetousness. 5. XINA MVILA -against illegal marriages. Xina Xivanga Nzambi. As the KONGOZOVO armed with a tail of the ox (Mawso) punish offenders so does God- The Badungu armed with the snout of the saw fish (bafu) are ready to avenge the abused authority of their king by punishing those who like the Mbambingombi would lead the people astray by false pictures (KUSALA Fumu, the magic mirror by which Nganga Nyambi is alone allowed to see the true picture of the prince to be elected in the place of the Ntawtela). The Nkaka or executioner is ever ready to punish those who by their foolish talk disturb that silence (MPILI) ordered by the king concerning his name and that of God-Xibika Bakolu. The above three commandments refer to God but also to Xifumba or the class that cannot be separated from God, in that God is man's father. www.globalgrey.co.uk
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