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Saga:
Inchazelo:
labanye.
Lidloti Iiyabhekelwa.
Lidloti Iiyasitwa. Akuyekelelwa konkhe emahlombe alo
kutsiwe litawubona.
Kubaluleka kwemadloti emphilweni yetive tebaNguni naletinye letinyenti
kugcanyiswa ngumcwaningi Maphalala (l985:3) laphlJ atsi:
They acknowledged uMvelingangi (a God that had power overall
agencies) They recognized that they were responsible not only to
their king, but also to uMvelingangi whom they regarded as being
more powerful than their king. Another element of their religious
beliefwas that the amadlozi (the ancestral spirits, who were second
in the religious hierarchy) should intercede for them. The lzangoma
and abalozi (the diviners and ventriloquists) were third in this order
of religious concepts.
EmaSwati awatisa kakhulu emadloti ngobe atsatfwa njengebachumanisi ekhatsi
kwemuntfu neMvelinchanti. Bumcoka bemadloti bubonakala kulomdvwebo
lolandzelako:
UMVELlNCHANTI
EMADLOTI
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