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This book concerns the origins, structure, purpose, meaning, and
significance of libation, developments and change within the
ritual, and its distribution in the Afrikan world. Libation is a
liquid offering by and on behalf of all humanity, those living and
those yet-to-be-born, to ancestors, to the Creator, to other
divinities, and to the environment. Through this ritual Afrikans
affirm and re-establish Ma'at: cosmic harmony, balance,
interconnection and interdependence within, between and among
humans, the environment, the spirit world, and the Creator. The
text connects the practice of libation throughout the prodigious
time/space correlation occupied by the Afrikan experience of life,
connects Afrikans to their social history, and so to themselves
across generations in different spaces and times. The methodology
is at once both multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary. The
methods and techniques of history, linguistics, cultural studies,
literature and other human sciences are deployed to develop a
comprehensive reconstruction, description and analysis of a ritual
that has been antique for millennia, but has never become
antiquated.
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