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Journal Article
The Myth of Bida God of the Kingdom of Wagadu
2022
Overview
The myth of Bida, the python, God of the kingdom of Wagadu in ancient Ghana, is one of the prominent examples depicting the history of the Soninke tribes and the kingdom of Wagadu from its emergence in the second century until its decline by the beginning of the eleventh century, and this was before the advent of Christianity and Islam therein. The people of Wagadu used to sacrifice the most beautiful virgin in the kingdom to God Bida, the python every year in exchange for ensuring the abundance of rain and the abundance of gold in the Kingdom. This situation lasted for centuries, until the reign of King Kaya Maghan when the choice of Miss Wagadu, the virgin fell on Sia, the fiancée of Mamadi, who rejected the decision of the priests. After resisting the kingdom's entire army to save his fiancée, he arrived in the forest where God Bida lived, he discovered a shocking thing that no one in the kingdom had in mind except the priests. The paper will focus on the characters of this myth in its first episode, that is, King Dinga, Bida the python (God) and the spirit (the king of the region of Nairo). In the second episode of the myth, new characters entered the scene, together with the king who became nicknamed \"Kaya Maghan\", the priests, the virgin Sia Yatabaré (Miss Wagadu), Mamadi (fiancé of Sia) and Kerfa.
Publisher
جامعة الجيلالي بونعامة خميس مليانة - قسم التاريخ
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