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Ejagham Ekpe society leopard dancers in Big Qua Town, #Nigeria, 1965 | © of Eliot Elisofon #vscocam #Cultureartsociety

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Shango in a trance Ifanhin, Benin | © Pierre Verger

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G. I. Jones, 1930s.

Sun Ra

In Yoruba culture (West Africa), the calabash is considered a container for items, both sacred and profane, but importantly is a symbol used when explaining the universe, which is considered to be a calabash (again, science concurs that the universe as we understand it is in essence an expanding sphere). In that role, the universe is cut in half with the upper half representing Orun (heaven) and the lower half representing earth or the “known” universe (aiye). This plays directly into our diagram of circle with two intersecting lines, the horizontal representing the differentiation between heaven and earth and subsequently life and death.

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Yoruba naming ceremony in Ibussa village, Nigeria \ © of Bruno Barbey