Category: Umndawu Clothing

Umndawu Clothing: The dress code of a Sangoma highlights the importance of his/her relationship with the ancestors. Although the dress code is determined by the symbols of the colours, in South Africa there is no fixed list of equipment or specific dress code.

While there is great variety within the dress code, one characteristic element of the dress code of many Sangomas is the wearing of a goat’s gallbladder that is tied into the hair at the back of the head.

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This gallbladder comes from the goat that was slaughtered at the time of a Sangoma’s graduation, and it is said to “call the ancestors.” In most cases, a cluster of goat horns and bead containers filled with an assortment of herbs and medicines is worn around the neck, shoulders, and body. A cow-tail whisk and a stick are other typical elements of the regalia.

. The Sangoma may wear strips of goatskin taken from the initiation goat as straps that crisscross his/her chest.

How do sangomas dress?

Most Sangoma novices (thwasas) wear red, symbolizing the transformatory process that the apprentice is undergoing. The Sangoma is a wanderer of borders andboundaries and confronts within himself/herself the unknown spiritual terrain of the ancestors.

Why do sangomas wear red?

The ingwamba marks the beginning of the second stage of ukuthwasa, the training to become a sangoma. But this dress code is then changed from white clothing, as a symbol of ancestors’ bones, to red, as a symbol for the blood of life.

How do sangomas dress?

Most Sangoma novices (thwasas) wear red, symbolizing the transformatory process that the apprentice is undergoing. The Sangoma is a wanderer of borders andboundaries and confronts within himself/herself the unknown spiritual terrain of the ancestors.

Why do sangomas wear red?

The ingwamba marks the beginning of the second stage of ukuthwasa, the training to become a sangoma.

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Amandawe ahlukene kabili, kunamandawu wamanzi namandawu waphezulu. Amandawu wamanzi ilamandawu ayimimoya yangaphandle avela ko mozambique, swaziland, But msapa and some from Kenya. Lamandawu wamanzi mawuwaphupha ahambisana namandiya, abantwana abancane, abelungu, ukuphupha amanzi, isisu esigcwala umoya sibophane, but ukuba ngathi uyahlanya. Lamandawu asebenza ukufemba okucishe kufane nokuqubula okungukukhipha imimoya emibi emuntwini. Nawo lamandawu yiwo aphatha umucebo wobungoma futhi mawangenzelwe izinto zawo ayabulala and athanda ukuchitha igazi lemndenini.

Kuthe sekufikwa la e south africa saphinda sahlukana saba amazulu, amaxhosa, abesuthu, abapedi etc. But kulolonke lolushintsho lela gazi lase africa la sidabuke khona lisahamba nathi hence kumele sithwase lomndawu nomnguni.