Ancestral spirits
Chaga · deity · mythic past · Recorded classification
Collective ancestral spirit-class of the Chaga (warimu). Treated as a deity-class entry (spirit-class -> deity), not an individual. English plain phrase 'Ancestral spirits' leads.
Domains
- ancestors
Powers
- watch over and demand sustenance from the living
Sources
- The warimu are the Chaga ancestral spirits within a cosmology that rejects ultimate death (the lineage of ancestors and descendants being perpetual); they are propitiated with offerings of meat and libations of beer, blood and milk.: Gutmann, B. (1926). Das Recht der Dschagga. Munich: C. H. Beck. (reference); Dundas, C. (1924). Kilimanjaro and Its People. London: Witherby. (reference)