RESERVED -  Commissioned Dikenga cosmogram. Customer provided tray - wood burned Dikenga diagram as pictured, with adjustments:
 
full color sun/moon phases
 
growth cycle text on outside of life-flow arrows on raised walls
 
Tukula to correspond with Air, Luvemba with Earth, Musoni with Water and Kala with Fire.
 
snakes on handles.

Knowledge of Cosmogram and divination required.
 

ABOUT
 
The Kongo cosmogram (yowa or dikenga cross, Kikongo: dikenga dia Kongo or tendwa kia nza-n' Kongo) is a core symbol in Bakongo spirituality that depicts the physical world (Ku Nseke), the spiritual world (Ku Mpémba), the Kalûnga line that runs between the two worlds, the sacred river that forms a circle through the two worlds, the four moments of the sun, and the four elements.
 
 The Kongo cosmogram symbolizes the rising of the sun in the east, the setting of the sun in the west, and represents cosmic energies. The horizontal line in the Kongo cosmogram represents the boundary between the physical world (realm of the living) and the spiritual world (realm of the ancestors). The vertical line of the cosmogram is the path of spiritual power from God at the top traveling to the realm of the dead below where the ancestors reside.

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