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单词 shango
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Shangon.

Brit. /ˈʃaŋɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˈʃɑŋɡoʊ/, Caribbean English /ˈʃaŋɡoː/
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Shango.
Etymology: < Shango (Yoruba Ṣàngó), the name of the Orisha of thunder and lightning in the Yoruba religion of western Nigeria.
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.
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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.
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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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