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Thread #1259 Message #1496280
Posted By: Azizi
30-May-05 - 05:22 PM
Thread Name: Discussion: Wade in the Water
Subject: RE: Wade in the Water
Ha!
"teh Vicking god of thunder"!!!???
Correction [one of many]= the Viking god of thunder.
also the other name for the orisha of the crossroads-Eshu/Elegba.
Okay I promise to use Preview [more often anyway}.
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As an aside, some people think that during American and Caribbean Black slavery remembrances of West African Egungun masked promanades merged with observances of European mummering {if that is the correct way to refer to the activities of the Mummers}.
According to this theory, this resulted in the Jonkonu {John Canoe} activities of African Americans during Southern slavery and of Afro-Caribbeans then and continuing to date.
Probably the only remnant of these African Americans Jonkanu promanades is the parading of New Orleans Wild Indians during Mardi Gras ....