The name also occurs in the Taittirîya Âraṇyaka (i.
The Bṛihad-âraṇyaka contains a chapter which hardly admits of translation but the object of the practices inculcated is simply to ensure the birth of a son.
B/ri/hadâra/n/yaka together with the state of dream and the waking state.
Our principal authority for them is the Bṛihad-Âraṇyaka Upanishad of which he is the protagonist, much as Socrates is of the Platonic dialogues.
It is apparently on this principle that when the Ba-yaka of the Congo valley cement a peace, the chiefs of the two tribes meet and eat a cake which contains some of their nail-parings as a pledge of the maintenance of the treaty.
For the Taittirîyaka mentions the three libations, while the Chândogya does not, and so on.
Congo Free State, the Ba-Yaka and Ba-Yanzi of the, i.
Kasai district of the Congo Free State, the Ba-Yaka and Ba-Yanzi of the, i.
Then the Yaka gives the hero a magic cudgel, with which he regains his magic articles.
Yaka obtains from the demon a magic self-filling plate, a ring which when sold will always return to its owner, and a gold-dropping cow.
Pity nesika kopa nesika mesachie mamook, kahkwa nesika mamook klahowya klaksta us for our wickedness, as we pity any man spose yaka mamook mesachie kopa nesika.
He cut from the dead man's body the first joints of his fingers and all the toe-nails, put them in the hollow of a horn, and closed its opening, intending to add its contents to his family Yaka when he should return to Gabun.
Its description belongs properly to a later chapter under the name of the Family Yaka fetich.
I am uncertain whether the Yaka of the injured family is to be appeased or the offender's own Yaka aroused from dormant inaction to efficient protection, or both.
The sanctifying red-wood powder ointment is rubbed over their bodies, and the Yakaspirit having eaten the life essence of the sacrificed animal, its flesh is eaten by the doctor and the family.
But the powerful Yaka of the injured family has brought disease or death, or some other affliction, on the offender's family.
After the failure of ordinary medicines or personal fetiches to relieve or heal or prevent the continuance of the evil, the hidden Yaka is brought out by the chiefs of the offender's family.
The Yaka bundle was opened; some of its dust was added to the brain-mixture (already mentioned).
Another medicine similar to the Yaka in its family interest is called by the Balimba people living north of Batanga, "Ekongi.
The value of theYaka seems to lie in a combination of whatever powers were possessed during their life by the dead, portions of whose bodies are contained in it.
Kingsley, on page 273 of her "Travels in West Africa," mentions an incident which shows that she had discovered one of these Yaka bundles, though apparently she slid not know it as such and suspected it to be a relic of cannibalism.
The Yaka bundle is tied up again, and again is hidden away in one of their huts, care being taken to add to it from the body of the member who next dies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yaka" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
