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A proverb that claims that these people are birds, not humans, is analyzed in Nuer Religion by E. E. Evans-Pritchard. In Voodoo, three-chambered terracotta plates of sweets are offered to loa representing these people, the Marasa. (15[1])A “pale fox” from Dogon religion who is condemned to wander the earth looking for one of these people gives his name to Marimba Ani’s critique of “European cultural thought,” Yurugu. (15[1])Upon the death of one of these people, (-5[1])a babalawo will carve a wooden statue of them that is regularly (*) washed and clothed by its parents. These people are depicted in Ibeji sculptures (10[1])and traditionally given (10[1])the names “Taiwo” and “Kehinde” (-5[1])in Yoruba (10[1])culture. These (10[1])people (10[1])battle monsters in a motif common to Ho-Chunk and Navajo myth. For 10 points, many African religions attribute divine significance to the birth of what (10[1])children, (10[1])who also (10[1])appear as heroes in the Popol (10[1])Vuh? (10[2])■END■

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