Incwala, the Swazi kingship ritual

Each year around the summer solstice the king of Eswatini is ritually renewed in Incwala, a month-long ceremony with sacred songs, seclusion and the tasting of first fruits.

1947 CE · -26.45, 31.20 · status: account

The account

Water and plants are brought from the sea and from rivers, and the king's strength is believed to be bound to the nation's. The anthropologist Hilda Kuper described it in An African Aristocracy (1947).

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Incwala