Kuyo/ Kouyou Ottote Worship Figurine, Congo marriage The Ritual was used to

The Ritual was used to exorcise the malevolent and fearful ghosts of the dead from their homes

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Medieval healers believed that burning Jet around a patient was a cure not only for fevers

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108 bead mala

Kuyo/ Kouyou Ottote Worship Figurine, Congo marriage The Ritual was used toKuyo Kouyou Ottote Worship Figurine, Congo In earlier times, the Kuyu were divided into two totemic clans: the one of the panther in the west, and the one of the snake in the east. The Ottot, a secret masculine society, played an important political role in the appointment of chiefs. The initiation of young people came to an end by the revelation of the snake god Ebongo, represented in the form of a head. The dances accompanying the ceremony