LIBATION

This book concerns the origins structure purpose meaning and signi cance of libation developments and change within the ritual and its distribution in the Afrikan world Libation is a liquid offering by and on behalf of all humanity those living and those yettobeborn to ancestors to the Creator to other divinities and to the environment Through this ritual Afrikans af rm and reestablish Ma at cosmic harmony balance interconnection and interdependence within between and among humans the environment the spirit world and the Creator The text connects the practice of libation throughout the prodigious timespace correlation occupied by the Afrikan experience of life connects Afrikans to their social history and so to themselves across generations in different spaces and times The methodology is at once both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary The methods and techniques of history linguistics cultural studies literature and other human sciences are deployed to develop a comprehensive reconstruction description and analysis of a ritual that has been antique for millennia but has never become antiquated