I’ve been following your travels in Africa as we did most of these ports with Regent in 2024. We did a short excursion in Benin as I was not feeling up to snuff so I was particularly fascinated with your description of the python ceremony.
We are avid collectors of tribal art. Many years go we purchased a sculpture at a flea market in Atlanta. It depicts a python either consuming or releasing a man with African features. The story that came with the purchase was that it was a carved tree root pulled from a river in Tennessee and had been in the closet under the stairwell of the family farm for many years.
I always wondered if the sculpture referenced African animism which would have been very much frowned upon on the Christian south.
I’m unable to post a photo to this note. so, if interested, please email me at forgap@bellsouth.net
PS. We met you earlier this year on the Splendor cruise of the eastern Caribbean. I followed your reporting and introduced myself and my husband in the reception area. We are Jennifer Errion and George Perla
I’ve been following your travels in Africa as we did most of these ports with Regent in 2024. We did a short excursion in Benin as I was not feeling up to snuff so I was particularly fascinated with your description of the python ceremony.
We are avid collectors of tribal art. Many years go we purchased a sculpture at a flea market in Atlanta. It depicts a python either consuming or releasing a man with African features. The story that came with the purchase was that it was a carved tree root pulled from a river in Tennessee and had been in the closet under the stairwell of the family farm for many years.
I always wondered if the sculpture referenced African animism which would have been very much frowned upon on the Christian south.
I’m unable to post a photo to this note. so, if interested, please email me at forgap@bellsouth.net
PS. We met you earlier this year on the Splendor cruise of the eastern Caribbean. I followed your reporting and introduced myself and my husband in the reception area. We are Jennifer Errion and George Perla
I’ll be reaching out once we return to a quieter way of life, ie, home!