West African Spiritual Traditions

When your kinship (family) is traced back to your Mother's side of the family

• Matrilineal

• Patrilineal

• Lineal

Lines of extended families who can trace their roots to a common ancestor

• Lineal

• Lineage

• Ancestors

The belief that there was one great force or remote all-powerful creator god.

• Ancestor Worship

• Animism

• Indigenous African Spiritual Traditions

• Buddhism

Belief that the spirits of their ancestors were close by and were honored with statues.

• Ancestor Worship

• Animism

• Shintoism

• Buddhism

Belief in which spirits, present in all animals, plants, and trees help the living.

• Ancestor Worship

• Animism

• Indigenous African Spiritual Traditions

• Buddhism

West African storytellers that helped recalled historical events and transmitted history from one generation to the next.

• Shamans

• Griots

• Ancestors

Asian art was known for porcelain and West Africa was known for cloth

• True

• False

What is a female storyteller in West Africa called?

• Griot

• Garagoor

• Griottes

• Ghost

stories passed down from generation to generation

• timbuktu

• proverb

• oral history

• scholarship

traditional African storyteller

• Ghana

• Mansa Musa

• griots

• scribe