I promised myself to make an entry for today, as I had not made one all week. Every day I’ve been busy with my study of African religions and other things of course, but my studies took care of the mornings and that to the detriment of the entries.

I’m doing laundry right now and the second load is due in about half an hour; of to an early start I was this morn! No? It had to be this morn as the afts are too warm at present and I don’t want to fight for a machine on the weekends.

Every day I’ve been busy with my study of African religions and other things of course, but my studies took care of the mornings …

Yesterday I visited my MD, who did his annual routine. When I mentioned that my memory is a bit less sharp, he joked he’d worry only, when I would forget to see him and I’d no longer show up!

In the eve I took Juliet’s computer in for a check up, as it will not bring up the browsers, even though the it shows status ‘connected’. A virus I was told is the culprit and can be fixed for 200$$. This remedy will now be attempted by a family member!

I did not go to the Stampede this year, since I’m fairly busy and find such a visit quite tiring in the summer heat. I did my grocery shopping last Tuesday, visited Juliet on Wednesday and skipped the coffee with John, who is busy too! Below a word or two on the mentioned studies.

It is too early to have my outline in place, but there are a few points that so far have drawn my attention in my studies of African Religion. The first one is the concentration of religious activities on the daily here and now. There is very little speculative concept formation that I’ve come across. Daily activities, rituals and what I’m calling ‘locality’, is central in my various sources.

What I do not come across is time keeping and calendar systems that figure so prominently in many other human religions, such as the Maya and Babylonian. The divination in the African tradition is all about social, family and personal interaction and never referring to the configurations that others observe in the heavenly constellations.
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Whereas the Western and India’s systems are speculative in nature in time and space, the African is operational and centered on the human daily experience.

The horoscope casting so prominent in Antiquity, Europe and Meso America has been totally absent from my readings, but divination is front and center in the style of the Chinese oracle casting with bones and yarrow roots.

Heavenly forces are minimal in the African model of human experience, whereas the Ancestors, spirits, prophets, priests and witchcraft combine with the skills of the diviners to structure the daily African human experience.
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While thinking things over during my coffee break I came up with this recap: “Whereas the Western and India’s systems are speculative in nature in time and space, the African is operational and centered on the human daily experience."

This statement I’ll use as a hall mark to test other ideas against for classification and creating a frame work for understanding.
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