In the Mande creation myth, a progenitor of this profession hits a rock to bring the first rain.
In a Zande myth retold by Evans-Pritchard, the Abare are divine holders of this profession whose nephew Ture tricks them by dancing in a bark cloth costume. In the Mande creation myth, a progenitor of this profession hits a rock to bring the first rain. A man of this profession explains that Gassire's lute won't sing until it is given a heart. The legendary Mande soothsayers Nounfairi and Farakourou are of this profession, which the Mande people believed to control a sacred life force called nyama. Along with hunting and war, the path-clearing Yoruba orisha (*) Ogun presides over the material used in this profession. In the Epic of Sundiata, Sundiata stands for the first time using a rod given by a worker in, for 10 points, what profession revered in pre-modern West Africa, whose lighter-hued mythical exemplars include the Finnish Ilmarinen and the crippled Greek god Hephaestus?
In a Zande myth retold by Evans-Pritchard, the Abare are divine holders of this profession whose nephew Ture tricks them by dancing in a bark cloth costume.
blacksmiths [or forge-workers; or iron-workers; or ironsmiths; or metalworkers; prompt on craftsmen or craftsmanship]