Thwasa training: February 2018

Tuesday, 6 February 2018

Healing methods of traditional healers

Izinyanga

Isigodlo

Indiki

Indiki is another confusing term. It is completely different from Umndiki which is an ancestral spirit.

Indiki is a ‘sign’ which one may have as an ‘umuntu omdala’ – an ancestor with you in a particular form.

Indiki can be that you have to inherit the name of one of your ancestor’s name either an Old woman (isalukazi) or an old man (ikhehla), or it can be that somebody in the family who died long time ago is within you, and he/she needs to be cleansed in order to be free.

Some people take indiki as a kind of sickness whereas it’s not.

Once consulted an African Healer (uhlanya), and identify what it is and what needs to be done, sickness can come to stop immediately.

The most common indiki is where a person is supposed to inherit someone’s name who was living in the family, an ancestor member (omunye wamathongo).

Many African Healers when they see this they start initiating people whereas he/she is not suppose to be initiated and such person will never perform his functions as an Uhlanya.

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The Idlozi which has possessed you is called ‘isithunywa’. The Isithunywa is also governed by the owners of ‘ubunyanga’ and ‘isigodlo’ or ‘umsamo’. Isithunywa comes in many forms.

There is isithunywa that operates through herbs –impande, the other operates through water, the other through, a prayer all depending on what the gift is.

There are those who even mix both the prayer and the herbs-impande. There are people who heal through praying, others through water, others through herbs; it all depends on the type of isithunya that has possessed you.

That is why it is not your choice where you can go and be initiated, but it’s them (amadlozi) who show you the person who will initiate you and also the place where you will be initiated. If it’s going to be in water they will show you and the whole process.

Ukuthwasa process has no specific time frame, as it is up to the isithunywa itself how fast she/he matures and when he/she has received his/her impande he/she requires in order to be matured.

This is an ongoing process because even if when you have graduated (ukuphothula), the ancestors continue initiating you, which we call ‘ukukhula komsamo. ’

There are people who gets possessed by more than one isithunywa. You find that it’s more than one ancestor – idlozi, and these amadlozi they operate at different levels, and gets initiated at different times.

Once the whole process is completed they will now come or visit you and show you all the impande which you will be using during the healing process. These herbs –impande is a secret only for your healing practices.

During this process the most important and critical thing is the amaphupho-dreams, which they use most of the time communicating with you.

It is these dreams-amaphupho which your initiator-ugobela must listen to because they are telling you and him the direction to be taken.

It is painful that most of the time the initiator of nowadays do not listen to their –amathwasa’s- dreams-amaphupho, and this hampered the process of ithwasa.

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Sangoma healers

Traditional healers of South Africa are recognized by the Traditional Practitioners Act as traditional
practitioners of traditional African medicine in Southern Africa.

They fulfill different social and political roles in the community, including divination, healing physical,
emotional and spiritual illnesses, directing birth or death rituals, finding lost cattle, protecting warriors,
counteracting witches, and narrating the history, cosmology, and myths of their tradition.

There are two main types of traditional healers within the Nguni societies of Southern Africa: the
diviner (sangoma), and the herbalist (inyanga).

These healers are effectively South African shamans who are highly revered and respected in a society where illness is thought to be caused by witchcraft, pollution (contact with impure objects or occurrences) or through neglect of the ancestors.

It is estimated that there are as many as 200,000 indigenous traditional healers in South Africa
compared to 25,000 Western-trained doctors. Traditional healers are consulted by approximately 60%
of the South African population, usually in conjunction with modern biomedical services.

For harmony between the living and the dead, vital for a trouble-free life, traditional healers believe
that the ancestors must be shown respect through ritual and animal sacrifice.

They summon the ancestors by burning sacred plants like imphepho (Helichrysum petiolare), dancing, chanting, channelling or playing drums.

Traditional healers will often give their patients muti—medications made from plant, animal and
minerals—imbued with spiritual significance.

These muti often have powerful symbolism; for example, lion fat might be prepared for children to promote courage. There are medicines for everything from physical and mental illness, social disharmony and spiritual difficulties to potions for protection, love and luck.

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What is a sangoma

Sangoma is a Zulu term that is colloquially used to commonly describe all types of Southern
African traditional healers, there are differences between practices: an inyanga is concerned mainly
with medicines made from plants and animals, while a sangoma relies primarily on divination for
healing purposes and might also be considered a type of fortune teller.

In modern times, colonialism, urbanisation, apartheid and cross-cultural mixing have blurred the distinction between the two and traditional healers tend to practice both arts.

Traditional healers can alternate between these roles by diagnosing common illnesses, selling and
dispensing remedies for medical complaints, and divining cause and providing solutions to spiritually
or socially centred complaints.

Each culture has their own terminology for their traditional healers. Xhosa traditional healers are
known as ixwele (herbalists) or amagqirha (diviners).

Ngaka and selaoli are the terms in Northern Sotho and Southern Sotho respectively, while among the Venda and Tsonga people they are called mungome. The Tsonga people also refer to their healers as n'anga.

A sangoma is a practitioner of ngoma, a philosophy based on a belief in ancestral spirits (Zulu:
amadlozi) and the practice of traditional African medicine.

Sangoma perform a holistic and symbolic form of healing by drawing on the embedded beliefs of the Nguni culture who believe that ancestors in the afterlife guide and protect the living.

Sangomas are called to heal, and through them it is believed that ancestors from the spirit world can give instruction and advice to heal illness, social disharmony and spiritual difficulties. Traditional healers work in a sacred healing hut or ndumba, where they believe their ancestors reside.

Sangomas believe they are able to access advice and guidance from the ancestors for their patients
through possession by an ancestor, or channelling, throwing bones, or by interpreting dreams.

In possession states, the sangoma works themselves into a trance through drumming, dancing and
chanting, and allows their ego to step aside for an ancestor to take possession of his or her body and
communicate directly with the patient, providing specific information about the problems of the
patient.

It can be dramatic, with the sangoma speaking in tongues, or foreign languages according to
the specific ancestor, or dancing fervently beyond their stated ability.

Ancestral spirits can be the personal ancestors of the sangoma or the patient or they might be general
ancestors associated with the geographic area or the community.

It is believed that the spirits have the power to intervene in people's lives who work to connect the sangoma to the spirits that are acting in a manner to cause affliction. For example, a crab could be invoked as a mediator between the human world and the world of spirits because of its ability to move between the world of the land and the sea.

Helping and harming spirits are believed to use the human body as a battle ground for their
own conflicts. By using ngoma, the sangoma can create harmony between the spirits which results in
the alleviation of the patient's suffering.

The sangoma may burn incense (like Imphepho) or sacrifice animals to please the ancestral
spirits. Snuff is also used to communicate with the ancestors through prayer.

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Remove negative energy http://www.traditional-healer.net/remove-negative-bad-energy.html
Hex removal http://www.traditional-healer.net/hex-removal.html
Protection spells http://www.traditional-healer.net/protection-spells.html
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Black magic removal http://www.traditional-healer.net/black-magic-removal.html
Remove curse http://www.traditional-healer.net/remove-curse.html
Binding love spells http://www.traditional-healer.net/love-binding-spell.html
Sangoma muti http://www.traditional-healer.net/sangoma-muti.html
Sangoma bones http://www.traditional-healer.net/sangoma-bones.html
Remove bad luck http://www.traditional-healer.net/remove-bad-luck.html
Sangoma spells http://www.traditional-healer.net/sangoma-spells.html