The transformation dance in the rock inscriptions and drawings in southern Africa during the Late Stone Age (10000 BC - 500 AD)

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1 Institute of African Research and Studies and Nile Basin Countries - Aswan University

2 Institute of African Research and Studies and the Nile Basin Countries Aswan University

3 Faculty of Higher African Studies - Cairo University

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Abstract: In order to carry out his religious duties in the non-physical realms, the shaman needs his soul to leave his body temporarily, in order to restore balance between man and the surrounding environment, and to bring good or evil, or prevent them to perform the ritual of dance transformation is gradual intensity dance: a dance transformation ritual of gradual intensity similar to (zar) in the Egyptian folklore, where the shaman goes into bouts of dancing until he loses consciousness, and here he is said to have died a temporary death, and this ritual requires animal sacrifice especially (ُElnad) , doses of honey, To give him more energy, and obesity especially women, as well as supporting the spirits of the ancestors by performing the ritual next to the tombs, and given that the ritual is very stressful It has been replaced - now - in Southern Africa with the orthopedic and farewell consultation rite. t uses pieces of ancestor bones, dice, coins, animal bones,

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