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Keep - It might have been a nonsense edit to begin with, but it does have a purpose for Gadaa is a African religion. I will flesh it out a little.
Oswax 03:41, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
I have here a book called African Ark (text by Graham Hancock) which refers to gada (which the book spells with one "a") as a social stratification system. There are eleven classes, or luba, and one advances through each class every few years as one ages. While Waq (book's spelling) and ayana are mentioned, it does not use the term "gada" in reference to religion. It's possible that the stratification system is another component of the religion but this is speculation on my part. The book mentions that the gada system is still practiced "among the Borana of Sidamo province and, to a lesser extent, among the neighboring Guji. Elsewhere it is in steep decline but nevertheless continues to exert a powerful subliminal influence on many aspects of Oromo culture and religion." (p. 176)
The book also suggests that the worship of Waq didn't decline so much as it was syncretized with Christianity and, especially, Islam.
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link)Actually, I just checked the Borana article as there is some discussion of the stratification system (I think most of that article is about the Oromo in general, not the Borana specifically).
-- Gyrofrog (talk) 04:16, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
Now that I've checked the external link in the article, I'm pretty sure that this article's definition of gadaa (i.e., as the name of a religion) is incorrect. The website uses the term to describe the entire Oromo culture, including religion. The way the websie is worded does imply that gadaa is a religion, but upon reading the entire article, I don't think this was the intent. And everything else I can find about gadaa (so far) defines it as the stratification system. So, this article needs to be re-written, and a new article (presumably named Waaqqefata) created about the religion. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:19, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
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Keep - It might have been a nonsense edit to begin with, but it does have a purpose for Gadaa is a African religion. I will flesh it out a little.
Oswax 03:41, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
I have here a book called African Ark (text by Graham Hancock) which refers to gada (which the book spells with one "a") as a social stratification system. There are eleven classes, or luba, and one advances through each class every few years as one ages. While Waq (book's spelling) and ayana are mentioned, it does not use the term "gada" in reference to religion. It's possible that the stratification system is another component of the religion but this is speculation on my part. The book mentions that the gada system is still practiced "among the Borana of Sidamo province and, to a lesser extent, among the neighboring Guji. Elsewhere it is in steep decline but nevertheless continues to exert a powerful subliminal influence on many aspects of Oromo culture and religion." (p. 176)
The book also suggests that the worship of Waq didn't decline so much as it was syncretized with Christianity and, especially, Islam.
Here is the code for the citation, in case we end up using this source for the article:
It will appear thusly:
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cite book}}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)Actually, I just checked the Borana article as there is some discussion of the stratification system (I think most of that article is about the Oromo in general, not the Borana specifically).
-- Gyrofrog (talk) 04:16, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
Now that I've checked the external link in the article, I'm pretty sure that this article's definition of gadaa (i.e., as the name of a religion) is incorrect. The website uses the term to describe the entire Oromo culture, including religion. The way the websie is worded does imply that gadaa is a religion, but upon reading the entire article, I don't think this was the intent. And everything else I can find about gadaa (so far) defines it as the stratification system. So, this article needs to be re-written, and a new article (presumably named Waaqqefata) created about the religion. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:19, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
An anon editor data-dumped a mass of info on Oromo culture, not all of which related to the gadaa system. Below is what was relevant to this article (I won't opine whether this is a copyright violation):
(The anon editor attributes this to Gada Melba, Oromia and the Oromo People, Khartoum, Sudan 1988) -- llywrch 01:01, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
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