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Translations:
Gyenyame
Español by Phil Bartle, PhD
Português Among the many adinkra symbols of the Akan,
perhaps the best known is Gyenyame.
While difficult to translate into English, it is
usually rendered as “unless God,” or “except for
Other Pages: God.”
CEC Training Modules In my “Three Souls” paper, I explain the
cosmological and cosmographic interpretations of
Akan Studies Site Map the three colours, red, black and white. The white
is associated with masculinity and the red with
femininity, found in the whole universe, and in all
Sociology for beginners
of us as individuals, both physically and
spiritually. Black is our “kra,” our gift from God,
Contact expressed in the weekday of our birth, our destiny.
(The word ““kra” is translated as “soul, gift,
Kompan Adepa goodbye, and goodbye gift).
Go to the People Take your right (male) hand and let the palm face
you, with the thumb upwards (the male direction).
Put your left (female) hand next to it, palm by
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palm, with the thumb downwards (the female
direction). The adinkra symbol gyenyame
represents that image of your hands. It implies that
the Supreme Being, כdomankoma, is beyond male
and female. Nothing can exist or happen without it
being the Will of God.
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Files in the Akan Religion Set
Introduction
The Spirit in Us;
Overview
Gods I; Tutelary Deities
Gods II; Nansing
Gods III; Health
andFertility
Gods IV; Ohantrase
Ancestors I; Death and
Beyond
Ancestors II; Afahye
Three Souls
Black Linguist Staff
Geographic Food Taboos
Forty Days
Swiss Missionaries
Gyenyame
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