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Updated: May 14, 2025

Then, of course, Nyankupon would receive the best sacrifices of all, as the most powerful deity? Far from that, Nyankupon received no sacrifice, and had no priests. No priest would have a traditional way of serving him. As the unlucky man in Voltaire says to his guardian angel, 'It is well worth while to have a presiding genius, so the Tshis and Bantu might ironically remark, 'A useful thing, a new Supreme Being! A quarter of a continent or so adopts a new foreign god, and leaves him planté l

Andrew Lang - The Making of Religion