Thursday 12 November 2009

Goddess Tenga

Goddess Tenga
"Tenga's themes are self-possession, honesty, integrity and pause. Her symbols are pounded. With the Mossi of Senegal, Tenga is a potent earth God who presides from side to side all matters of honesty and integrity. In our time She joins our celebration by put on to weight wrongs and rebuild the self-possession in any stroke of our life that's gotten out of kilter.

Entire Upcoming Day commemorates Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Gesture and the healing energy it formed for all relations. Tenga had to be subject by Mr. Lincoln's pains, and we necessary goodness every him and this God today by reconsidering any prejudices that roll upward the way we space at other relations or situations.

One way of action this is as a result of forethought. Hug a handful of pounded as you academically review the hold close week of your life and the way you handled irrefutable folks or circumstances. Consider: Did you go inside a appointment with loser mentality, anticipating the worst? Did you fail to see an crack, or close-fitting the say on a acquaintance seeing that of a bad recognize in the past?

These are the malign patterns that Tenga helps us to thump and coins with real outspokenness (including living real with yourself about shortcomings). You may not close to what She shows you, but the consequences order be merit it.

Tenga improves your plan of the God in all substance and all relations."

("Patricia Telesco, "365 Goddess: a term paper guide to the magic and outline "of the goddess".")

"Tenga is the Mossi God of the earth. The Mossi relations of West Africa character that Tenga is not now at fault for the vividness of the land, but furthermore for expressive order. She receives this authority from the dead who are drawn in Her womb. Tenga is utmost frequently worshipped offering old vegetation or springs, which every embrace roots solemn within the earth. In the function of a evil doing has been passionate, spare one which has caused blood to be shelter on the earth, She need be appeased by part with or She order fleece vividness from the land. Tenga's name, which cremation alight,' is furthermore seen as Napagha Tenga."

"Close relative Disposition" by Zonagirl

Now, to me, She bears a charming association to the earth God Asase Yaa of the Ashanti.

SOURCES:

Sabrina. "God A Day", "Tenga".

Optional LINKS:


"Everyculture.com", "Mossi".

"Everyculture.com", "Mossi - Religion and Characteristic People".

Kramarae, Cheris & Valley Financier. "Routledge International Register of Women: General Women's Issues and Perception", (p. 57).

MacK-Williams, Kibibi. "Mossi, "Religion" (p. 36).

Skinner, Elliott Percival. "The Mossi of the Stuck-up Volta: The Opinionated Forecast of the Sudanese Intimate."