Nkisi or Nkishi (plural varies: minkisi, mikisi, zinkisi, or nkisi) are spirits or an object that a spirit inhabits. It is frequently applied to a variety...

of nkisi to include consecrated objects or charms that contained the essence of nature spirits and their spiritual powers. These minkisi (sing. nkisi) were...

bibliography. En/Gendered Power: A nkisi from the Rockefeller Collection Brooklyn Museum: Standing Nkisi Figure Nkisi at the Art Institute of Chicago Nkondi...

household altars (kamidana). Made and used by the BaKongo of western DRC, a nkisi (plural minkisi) is a sculptural object that provides a local habitation...

the words "nkisi" to mean "holy". Thus, church to Kongo people was nzo a nkisi, which means "another shrine," and the Bible was mukanda nkisi, which means...

sacred medicine, or minkisi. They were also responsible for charging a nkisi, or physical objects intended to be the receptacle for spiritual forces...

beings and other Nkisi; he is additionally the protector of the houses. Nkosi Mukumbe (also Hoji Mukumbi, Panzu, Xauê) is the Nkisi of roads, agriculture...

traditionally believe that bisimbi are magically water spirits (in kikongo: nkisi mia mamba) that can appear as a person, a snake, a calabash vine, or Kalûnga...

Bakongo spirituality that reduced other spirits like Nzambici, simbi and nkisi to "lesser spirits" that no longer had relevant voices in spiritual matters...

influences in Black populations in the Americas such as the continuation of Nkisi and Nkisi Nkondi traditions and Kongo burial traditions among African Americans...