Visit to a Zulu Sangoma (Diviner)

During our stay at Phinda Private Game Reserve (http://www.phinda.com), we went to visit a local sangoma, Mrs Skoyi Gumede, to find out if she ever experienced lions in any of her visions when contacting the spirits or ancestors. Our ranger, Barry Mthembu, kindly acted as interpreter and through him she replied that while she did not use or conjure up these big cats during her divining she did have the image of a lion on some of her sarongs to represent power and strength. Several of her other sarongs depicted pictures of King Zwelithini of the Zulu and King Mswati of the Swazi, which had similar connotations of status as both of these kings have praise names associated with the bravery and majesty of a lion.

We were shooting pictures for our new book on lions (http://www.africanlions.co.za) and filmed this sequence of a Zulu Sangoma (Diviner) on the new Nikon P500 and Nikon D7000

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