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Mircea Eliade - Iho, Nzambi, Sussistinako, & Awonawilona
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010973
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Mircea Eliade – Patterns in Comparative religion
Iho, the sky god of New Zealand and Tahiti, revealed only to those initiated into esoteric priestly learning, is more of a philosophical concept than a real divinity. Other sky gods – Nzambi of the Bantu peoples, for instance, Sussistinako among the Sia Indians – are asexual... Indeed, Awonawilona, among the Zuni Indians …. may be considered equally well as feminine or as masculine (Lang called it He-She)