Zulu Shaman : Dreams, Prophecies, and Mysteries

Foreword vii Luisah Teish Acknowledgments x Editor's Introduction xiii The Way of the Witch Doctor 1(32) The Illness 1(7) Beginning the Cure 8(5) The Sangoma's Apprentice 13(5) The Lore of the Soul 18(4) How a Sangoma Cures 22(4) The Bone Oracle 26(1) The Sangoma's Creative and Psychic Powers 27(6) The Great Goddess 33(28) The Tree of Life 33(7) How Evil Came Into the World 40(11) Amarava, and the Second People 51(5) The Childhood of the Second People 56(5) Of Goddesses and Gods 61(16) The Four Winds of the Goddess 61(6) How the Birds Saved the Earth 67(3) Ngungi, the Crippled Smith of the Gods 70(2) The Gift of the Magic Flower 72(5) Tales of the Trickster 77(44) The Theft of Fire 78(17) Kintu and the Cattle of the Sun 95(8) Kintu and the Star Goddess 103(6) The Trickster's Revenge 109(12) The Song of the Stars 121(32) The Song of the Stars 125(6) Fire Visitors 131(12) Extraterrestrial Beings 143(5) Communion 148(5) The Common Origin of All Humanity 153(20) Commonalities of Myth, Ritual, and Custom 153(5) Roots and Commonalities of Language 158(5) On the Family 163(5) On Banishing Fear 168(5) Dreams, Prophecies, and Mysteries 173(38) On Sleep and Dreaming 173(4) Prophecies 177(14) On the Sacred Rock Carvings 191(6) Science and Religion 197(5) A Path to Wisdom 202(5) The Boundaries of Human Life 207(4) Notes 211(9) Index 220