iboga
Studies on the iboga cults. III. Iboga and Bwiti mythology
By: GIORGIO SAMORINI – In this third contribution to the study of the cults of the hallucinogenic plant of iboga of Equatorial Africa, the themes concerning the mythical origins of the plant and of Bwiti—the religious cult that uses iboga as a visionary agent—are presented and analysed. Distinction is made between the mythological themes of…
La plante alan et le culte des ancêtres chez les Fang du Gabon
By: GIORGIO SAMORINI – The alan plant and the ancestor cult among the Fangs of Gabon” – During the past centuries, the Fang, a Bantu-speaking ethnic group of the Western Equatorial Africa, used the hallucinogenic plant alan (Alchornea floribunda) in their Byeri initiatory ceremonies. Byeri was a cult of ancestors that involved the conservation and worship of…