单词 | shango |
释义 | Shangon. 1. An Afro-Caribbean folk religion practised chiefly in Trinidad and Grenada, based on the worship of Shango, the Yoruba god of thunder and lightning, along with other gods, and whose beliefs and rituals include animal sacrifices, divination, spirit possession, and exorcism. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > other non-Christian sects > Shango > [noun] Shango1913 society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > other non-Christian sects > Shango > [adjective] Shango1913 1913 R. Blind tr. L. Frobenius Voice Afr. I. p. xxiii Images of Shango ritual. 1958 J. Carew Wild Coast xi. 155 The shango gods, Dumbhalla, Legba, Moko. 2014 D. J. Bercuson & H. H. Herwig Long Night of Tankers i. 21 Large segments of the black and the black Creole populations [of Trinidad] had turned to religious syncretisms such as African Shango. 2. A dance used in Shango ceremonial rituals or associated with this cult. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > dance > [noun] canticoy1670 snake dance1772 ritual dance1805 cyclic chorus1846 sun dance1849 Ghost Dance1876 kagura1884 kachina dance1888 Ghost Dancing1890 tripudium1909 ring-shout1926 trance dance1935 Shango1941 society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > dances of other countries > [noun] > West Indies myal1868 bamboula1883 merengue1888 mento1910 burru1929 son1931 dinki mini1936 Shango1941 jump-up1948 Afro1949 1941 Dance Observer May 66/2 A Shango. The latter was a wild and frenetic piece of primitivism and truly exciting. 1971 Advocate-News (Barbados) 17 Sept. (Guyana Suppl.) p. i/1 Cumfa, a spirit dance like the Trinidad ‘Shango’. 2000 K. A. Lum Praising his Name in Dance viii. 172 I had..seen her dance Shango the previous night. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < |
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