Ojiji is a shadow that follows its owner and awaits his return in heaven when he dies. It resides in the heart and lungs and is fed by the wind. (meaning "breath"), is a vital force that keeps man alive. In Nigeria, the Yoruba people believe that a person has at least three spiritual beings. Some African Religions even distinguish more than one spiritual essence residing within a person. Mediums enter into trance-like states, allowing a spirit to possess their body and use them to communicate or prophesy.Īfrican religious practitioners undergo intense training and there are different roles of spiritual professionals including priests, rainmakers and healers, also known as diviners or herbalists. Bad spirits are believed to cause misfortune and illness and many societies have spiritual professionals who communicate with ancestral spirits to protect against evil. Unlike Europeans, who believe spiritual beings must be separated, African mythology believes Jok is the unified spirit of all supernatural beings: God and the spirits, the gods, the holy ghost and beings from the otherworld.Īfrican Religion believes in the existence of good and evil spirits and rituals play a very important part in African culture. In African mythology, Jok is the concept of the divine it can be good or evil, one or many. There also exist African myths of spirits that inhabit rocks, mountains and trees, such places are considered sacred.
Some African peoples believe that the spirits live in the sky and control the rain, while others believe in water spirits that control the rivers, lakes and oceans. It is said that animals understand and obey the earth but that man does not. She is regarded as a powerful spirit, ruling over life and death, moving mountains, forests and all when angered. Even the elements come from the earth, yet the earth itself is seldom worshipped. Sculpture of Ori Olokun, "Head" - God of spiritual intuitionĪll creatures are earth and none can live without her.
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