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Updated: May 16, 2025
Here, in addition to other deities who deal with the dead on their entrance into this farther world, the great deity Ndengei has his abode, and one of his functions is to pass on the merits of those who present themselves from the world of living men. He is, however, in part an otiose deity and can hardly be said to rule over this otherworldly realm.
'We made men, says Ndengei, 'placed them on earth, and yet they share to us only the under shell. Here is an extreme case of the self-existent creative Eternal, mythically lodged in a serpent's body, and reduced to a jest.
The Mikado was a political Dendid or Ndengei an awful, withdrawn, impotent potentate. Power was wielded by the Tycoon. A Mikado of genius asserted himself; hence arose modern Japan. In the same way, a religious reformer like Khuen Ahten in Egypt would preach down minor gods, ghosts and sacred beasts, and proclaim the primal Maker, Ndengei, Dendid, Mtanga.
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