2011
DOI: 10.1007/s10437-011-9101-9
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Schematic Rock Art, Rain-Making and Islam in the Ethio-Sudanese Borderlands

Abstract: Two sites with schematic rock paintings in Western Ethiopia, where Islamic ceremonies connected with rain-making are performed and miraculous events are said to occur regularly, are interpreted in the light of such factors as the beliefs of local informants, the Islamic appropriation of prehistoric rituals in Northern Africa, the characteristics of similar sites linked to rain-making rituals throughout Eastern Africa and the apotropaic meaning of schematic marks in many traditional cultures. Probably painted b… Show more

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