#bakongo
“A Simbi…is a Central Africanguardian spirit of the water and nature in traditional Bakongo religion, as well as in African diaspora spiritual traditions, such as Hoodoo in the southern United States and Palo in Cuba.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simbi
Simbi - Wikipedia
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September 19, 2026 at 12:12 PM
‼️ CAMBIO DE HORARIO ‼️

Os invitamos a «Angola na Casa», dos encuentros para disfrutar de la música y la danza

📍 Lugar: Sala de Usos Múltiples 1 (FCEP)

🗓️ Fechas: 18 de septiembre ⏰ Horario: 9:00 - 11:00 h

¿Qué nos espera?

Taller de Kizomba con Álvaro Muginga.

Sesión de ritmos con DJ Bakongo.
September 17, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Nkisi Kozo Statue ✨
This Bakongo Nkisi Kozo nail fetish dog statue from the Democratic Republic of Congo is a carved wooden power figure in the form of a two headed dog. The doubled heads reflect the belief that dogs could see both spirit and human worlds.
August 28, 2026 at 8:00 AM
The Waters That Divide: An Archive of the Kalûnga Line 

The Kalûnga Line marks the watery threshold in Bakongo cosmology dividing the living from the ancestral dead. This archive traces its cosmogenic origins, cosmogrammatic geometry, devotional observances, and haunting survival across the…
The Waters That Divide: An Archive of the Kalûnga Line 
The Kalûnga Line marks the watery threshold in Bakongo cosmology dividing the living from the ancestral dead. This archive traces its cosmogenic origins, cosmogrammatic geometry, devotional observances, and haunting survival across the Atlantic diaspora, where enslavement recast the ocean itself as the boundary between worlds.
wickeddualblog.com
July 22, 2026 at 12:53 AM
vincent woodard. o desenho eh francês, jornal le rire, 1911.
August 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Fun fact: the whole American mythology about crossroads arises from hoodoo: the Kongo Cosmogram, from the Bakongo religion.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongo_c...
Kongo cosmogram - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
July 5, 2024 at 9:50 AM
The Kingdom historically spanned both banks of the Congo River, politically and culturally uniting the Bakongo people—an identity that was subsequently divided by colonial borders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kongo

#geoweirdness
February 8, 2026 at 10:54 AM
BBC Radio 1
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Frozen Isle (Motu Remix)
May 28, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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Frozen Isle (Motu Remix)
May 21, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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Frozen Isle (Motu Remix)
May 14, 2024 at 11:22 PM
I saw Sinners the other night and I couldn't get over how much it spoke to the new Commonplace piece by @rybeddard.bsky.social which details the links between BaKongo cosmology, Christianity, life/death, conjure bags, and the 1730 Chesapeake Rebellion.🗃️

commonplace.online/article/the-...
The Power of the Dead: BaKongo Inspiration and the Chesapeake Rebellion - Commonplace
Sensitivity to the influence of BaKongo cosmology on Kongo Christianity provides useful context to that argument and can help us better understand the choices made by leaders of the rebellion.
commonplace.online
May 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
How did African religious beliefs and practices inform reactions to slavery in colonial Virginia? Check out Ryne Beddard's @rybeddard.bsky.social fascinating new piece at Commonplace @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social on BaKongo cosmology and the Chesapeake Rebellion.🗃️

commonplace.online/article/the-...
The Power of the Dead: BaKongo Inspiration and the Chesapeake Rebellion - Commonplace
Sensitivity to the influence of BaKongo cosmology on Kongo Christianity provides useful context to that argument and can help us better understand the choices made by leaders of the rebellion.
commonplace.online
May 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The Portuguese anticommunists’ annihilation of dozens of thousands of Africans must never be forgotten. #coldwarhist

lemmygrad.ml/post/12131099
The Portuguese anticommunists attempted to exterminate the Bakongo people - Lemmygrad
(This takes 7–10¼ minutes to read.) >The repression in Angola was to intensify dramatically in June 1960, after the independence of the Congo with Lumumba. The MPLA, with a poor following in the rural...
lemmygrad.ml
July 7, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Grattis! Så intressant ämne. Min kollega på vår institution Pia Lundqvist har ju som du vet skrivit på temat. Lyssnat på verkligt givande föreläsningar av henne. nordicacademicpress.se/product/ett-...
Ett motsägelsefullt möte - Nordic Academic Press
I Ett motsägelsefullt möte utforskar historikern Pia Lundqvist med hjälp av dagböcker och brev, missionärernas möte med befolkningsgruppen bakongo.
nordicacademicpress.se
July 16, 2026 at 10:27 AM