RG ST 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Buddo Hill, Ggulu, Warumbe
Document Summary
Unlike creator gods, ancestors have direct impact lives of human families, clans. Ancestors aid families, in return for which expect to receive sacrifices. Before birth, human soul comprises two spirit families living far apart in heaven. One family concerned with biological life, the other with the life of the human mind. At birth, both spirit families compressed into single body to become his double soul (dark shadow/ light shadow) At death/transformation into an ancestor, dark shadow returns to heaven, while light shadow remains on earth among the living oferings to ancestors. Diagnosis includes name of ancestor, appropriate sacrifice. Heirs to kingdom of buganda in 1400. Became a portion of uganda in 1900. Sse-kabaka, the dead former king, lives in a shrine that is: An opening onto forest of the dead. Kintu and wife nnabi, daughter of ggulu. The descendants of kintu will never be finished syncretism: story of kintu and genesis 2-3.
