The Ewe negroes of the Slave Coast conceive the Rain-god Nyikpla as a man who rides a horse, and who may be seen galloping on it through the sky in the form of a shooting star.
Amongst the Hos, another Ewe tribe of Togoland, when a man is about to dig up his yam crop, he first of all digs up two yams which he had planted for the goddess Mawu Sodza.
M86 Effigies used as substitutes to save the lives of people among the Abchases of the Caucasus and the Ewe negroes of West Africa.
The Ewe negroes of Togoland, in West Africa, think that the spirits of all living people come from heaven, where they live in the intervals between their incarnations.
When a Ewe hunter of Togoland has killed an antelope of a particular kind (Antilope leucoryx), he erects an enclosure of branches, within which he places the lower jawbones of all the animals he has shot.
One ewe went to the bottom of the wall, then turned to look at the big-horned leader who lay still upon the grass.
Each ewe in turn gave a similar and equally striking exhibition; while the lambs, instead of breaking their necks in the play of drop and bounce, did not appear to be even cautious.
A ewe missed her footing and in her fall knocked two others over to their death, though she regained her footing and escaped.
Then he sat down and milked the ewes and the bleating goats, each in its turn, and beneath each ewe he placed her young.
Then he is milked his goodly flock, and beneath each ewe he set her lamb.
Then he lifted the huge door stone, and set it in the mouth of the cave; and after that he milked the ewes and the bleating goats, all in order, and beneath each ewe he placed her young.
On the eighth day, he shall take two lambs without blemish, and an ewe of a year old without blemish, and three tenths of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil apart.
And shall offer his oblation to the Lord: one he lamb of a year old without blemish for a holocaust, and one ewe lamb of a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for a victim of peace offering, 6:15.
Mistress and man were engaged in the operation of making a lamb "take," which is performed whenever an ewe has lost her own offspring, one of the twins of another ewe being given her as a substitute.
This is clearly apparent from a consideration of the Ewe language of the peoples of Togo, a German colonial possession.
As regards this point, Westermann's grammar of the Ewe language is in entire agreement with the much earlier results which Steinthal reached in his investigation of the Manda language, which is also of the Soudan region.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ewe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
