Colourful photos from the 2nd Egungun Festival in Argentina 2015.
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One of the most fascinating spectacles of my childhood days was the annual Egúngún.Egungun means something that is perfect, balanced, or straight, formed from the word gún.In Yoruba, you repeat something to emphasize it: guńgún refers to the absolutely or superlatively gún element of life.It is from gún that Àdìgun, an oríkì, emerges: it means something that is dì or constructed to be gún or perfect.Egúngún, or ará ọ̀run comes from the other world of the ancestors annually to reconstruct ...
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