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	Ghezo, unity, throne, symbol, budget, Category - Ghezo
		Ghezo's symbols are two birds on a tree, a buffalo, and a clay jar sieve with holes in it held by two hands, a symbol of unity.
		Ghezo is said to have used the sieve as a metaphor for the kind of unity needed for the country to defeat its enemies and overcome its problems; i.e., it takes everyone's hand to block the sieve's holes and hold water.
		Ghezo ascended to the throne after he overthrew his brother, Adandozan, in a coup d'Ã©tat.
	www.alphasearch.org /Ghezo.html (412 words)

	Ghezo
		Ghezo was a King of Dahomey (now Benin), counted as the ninth, and considered one of the greatest of the twelve remembered kings.
		Ghezo's symbols are two birds on a tree, a buffalo, and a clay jar sieve with holes in it held by two hands, a symbol of unity.
		Ghezo is said to have used the sieve as a metaphor for the kind of unity needed for the country to defeat its enemies and overcome its problems; i.e., it takes everyone's hand to block the sieve's holes and hold water.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gh/Ghezo.html (317 words)

	Bienvenu
		King Ghezo was a diplomat, a war general, a shroud administrator in short a personality of vision.
		Under king Ghezo, the administration of the kingdom was reorgarnised: The Avogan(provincial chiefs) were placed under the administration of the Mehu, the king prime minister.
		The reign of king Ghezo could be described as the chronicle testimony of a model administrator to revisit for historical remembrance.
	www.journal.vodoo-benin.info /e_editorial/editorial.htm (1218 words)

	Loading.se Blogg - ergoos
		The onions were already finished but they just had to cook the beef and put some spices on it that Marianda had gotten from her house.
		Ghezo didn't study necromancy but from the Mages Guild, he had a job to finish.
		Ghezo said a few words and casted a spell on the salesman.
	loading.se /blogg.php?user_id=19414 (2745 words)

	The 12 Kings of Dahomey
		He formalized his army, gave his 4,000 abosi female warriors uniforms, required soldiers to drill with guns and sabres regularly, and was able to repulse Oyo's attack when it came.
		He succeeded his father, Ghezo, and ruled from 1858 to 1889.
		Glele continued his father's successful war campaigns, in part to avenge his father's death, in part to capture slaves.
	newafrikanvodun.com /12kings.html (3126 words)

	Ndebo
		During the early nineteenth century, the decline of the Atlantic slave trade and Europe's demand for legitimate commerce (trade in material goods rather than human lives!) obliged African states to seek new sources of trade revenue.
		In the Asante Confederacy, state-owned slaves built large plantations of oil palm trees, while in the neighbouring Kingdom of Dahomey, King Ghezo passed a law in 1856 forbidding his subjects from cutting down oil palms.
		Palm oil became a highly sought-after commodity by British traders, the oil being used as industrial lubricant for the machines of Britain's ongoing industrial revolution, as well as forming the basis for soaps such as Palmolive.
	www.ithaca.edu /staff/ajirka/palm_facts.htm (649 words)

	Dahomey@Everything2.com
		Under King Ghezo the kingdom of Dahomey reached its height.
		But after Ghezo's death Porto-Novo became a French protectorate in 1863 and the largest town Cotonou was ceded in 1878.
		Efforts to recover them led to war with France in 1890-4, led by General Alfred Dodds, and King Behanzin was exiled to Martinique.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node=Dahomey (549 words)

	lisaarmstrong.net
		She had taken the herbs as she was supposed to and had been with King Ghezo just once, after the last battle four months before.
		There had been something in the way the back of his hand brushed the thin skin of her neck as he placed the coral necklace over her head.
		And she had heard it said that King Ghezo was an exceptional lover, though she often wondered how these women would know the difference as most had been virgins as was required to join the elite female battalion.
	lisaarmstrong.net /the-tree-of-forgetfulness (1044 words)

	The Sun News On-line
		Today it is remembered as the city of Felix de Souza, alias Chacha, a Portuguese adventurer who totally became African and ruled the kingdom of Dahomey with King Ghezo.
		The royal throne of King Ghezo was mounted upon the skulls of four enemy kings, while one worship centre with eight inch thick walls was built out of clay mixed with human blood instead of water.
		If anything puts Quidah on the world map, it is the Temple des serpents (the snake temple), also known as the Temple of the Python, which is across the street from the Basilica.
	www.sunnewsonline.com /webpages/features/sunsplash/2005/jan/29/sunsplash-29-01-2005-001.htm (1228 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		To the former end, in April 1847 he made a visit to the kingdom of Dahomey, the most powerful state in west Africa, and induced King Ghezo to sign a treaty of amity and commerce.
		The lieutenant governor dispatched a further mission to the Dahomeyan capital of Abomey (Benin) in November 1848, but Ghezo refused to abolish the slave trade, which was highly profitable to his kingdom.
		Winniett was no less energetic on other fronts, and when in 1848 the king of Amanahia, a coastal state, murdered and harassed Europeans and Africans, Winniett persuaded other local rulers to join him in an expedition which captured and imprisoned the king.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=37853&query= (611 words)

	Ouidah, english presentation
		This place saw the day in 1717 after the defeat of the Houeda kingdom against that of Agbomé.
		Having become a territory under his power, King Ghezo, the King of Abomey at that time entrusted to his friend Chacha Felix all the administration and running of this new annexed country.
		Instead killing war prisoners, they were made to do forced labour but then the idea arose to send them to work in plantations in Europe and America.
	www.45rdlc.com /quintessence/Ouidahanglais.htm (861 words)

	The African Executive \| History of Cotonou
		It was initially dominated by the Kingdom of Dahomey.
		In 1851, the French made a treaty with the Dahomean King Ghezo that allowed them to establish a trading post at Cotonou.
		During the reign of Glele, his successor (1858-89), the territory was ceded to France by a treaty signed on May 19, 1868.
	www.africanexecutive.com /modules/magazine/articles.php?article=2554 (333 words)

	Abomey, Benin
		At Abomey, we saw the two palaces which remain of the 12 from the Dan-Homey empire.
		We saw King Ghezo’s throne on four human skulls and appliqué tapestries depicting the history of conquests, slave trade and Amazon warriors.
		And there was the tomb of King Glele, buried with 41 of his 3,000 wives.
	www.swanassoc.com /africa/overview/pages/200604_Benin_090.htm (61 words)

	Political uses of memories of slavery in the Republic of Benin, by Ana Lucia Araujo, Universities of Laval and Ottawa
		It refers rather to his partner, King Ghezo, who waged military campaigns annually against neighboring kingdoms.
		However, the summit of the visit is when members of the family open the doors of the slave merchant's bedroom.
		Although the de Souza family is said to be Catholic, the different libation rituals and the ceremonies performed to install the chiefs of traditional worship take place in this room up to the present day.
	www.history.ac.uk /ihr/Focus/Slavery/articles/araujo.html (4739 words)

	BBC Inside Out -
		Beecroft writes about the Dahomey Palace having walls lined with human skulls, a warning to all that King Ghezo was a ruthless warmonger.
		Ghezo had an army of thousands of soldiers - half of them were female warriors who thought nothing of chopping off an enemy's head.
		When Beecroft reached the palace, he had a fearsome mission - to persuade the king to give up slavery.
	www.bbc.co.uk /insideout/northeast/series9/week_five.shtml (2191 words)

	Ron Eglash
		Bamana divination priests have diagrammed this force as a spiral waveform, marked by their binary code and eminating from the sacrificed life (figure 1).
		He told a story in which Ghezo defeated a buffalo by grabbing his horns with his hands, and explained that the royal staff showed this puissance (power or energy) flowing between his hands.
		Blier (1995) notes that such representations are closely related to images of the umbilical cord, as a symbol of the life force.
	www.rpi.edu /~eglash/eglash.dir/ethnic.dir/r4cyb.dir/r4cybh.htm (4515 words)

	Mappic.org - Travelogue - "Benin: Djougou - Bassila - Abomey - Allada - Ganvié - Ouidah -"
		Applique banners are a way of history-telling, using figures and symbols.
		Every king has his sign: King Glélé is represented by a lion, his father, King Ghezo by a buffalo, and so onMany war scenes are shown, where heads are cut off, bodies are separated etc. In Ghezo's time, even women - Amazons - were part of the army.
		The "Centre des Artisans", which is situated inside the palace courtyard is a good place to see some craftsmen at work.
	mappic.org /viewTravelogue.php?id=57 (1265 words)

	NetControl.net Archive of ::Voodoo Lives on in West Africa
		No outsider, before or since, has played a larger role in this country's history, and Don Francisco's deep involvement led to his family's permanent entanglement in and identification with Benin.
		He was named viceroy of Ouidah in 1818 by an Abomey king, Ghezo, who came to power after de Souza helped him overthrow a brutal predecessor.
		To the charge that their ancestor was a principal actor in the deportation of many thousands of slaves, today's de Souzas portray the first viceroy as something of a humanist.
	www.netcontrol.net /archives-98/257012/index.shtml (1293 words)

	Clotilda
		He later took the throne name of Glele.
		Glele succeeded his father Ghezo not only physically but in all of his father’s political enterprises.
		Sadly, this including slave raiding and selling of Afrikan bodies to Europeans.
	newafrikanvodun.com /clotilda.html (1003 words)

	Royal Palaces of Abomey - World Heritage Site - Pictures, info and travel reports
		Forget any Europe or Asia-based preconceptions about what the word “Palace” implies and you could find a visit an interesting entree to the region’s history.
		What remains is a large complex of 2 palaces — those of the 19th century Kings Ghezo and Glélé who were the 9th and 10th kings of Dahomey (Another 10 palaces were destroyed during the French defeat of the monarchy in the 1890s).
		The complex consists of large interlinked courtyards each surrounded by rather ordinary single story mud-brick buildings with “tin roofs” (originally of course they would have been thatched) and contains also a few separated structures which were/are tombs and temples.
	www.worldheritagesite.org /sites/abomey.html (810 words)

	:::Revelyno Web:::
		Discover the pleasure to share with the rest of the world and of the happiness to those that are abandoned opening him their heart.
		Venez donc pour qu'ensemble the jarre trouee du gnawed Ghezo puisse etre boucher avec us kindred doigts that l'eau puisse etre contenu.
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	www.revelyno.com (193 words)

	[No title]
		You may have noticed that Martine’s own name sounds suspiciously Portuguese.
		The De Souza family stem from a historic personality, Francisco Felix de Souza, who was not only a pirate, but also the first white viceroy of the kingdom of Dahomey, and a personal friend of King Ghezo.
		Behind the Moro market we also find a Mosque, and the Holly temple of Vodoun, again the two places for worship are located very close to each other.
	home.online.no /~annekie/ouidah.htm (398 words)

	Abomey Photo Gallery by Brian McMorrow at pbase.com
		Béhanzin was the last King of Dahomey, ruled 1889-1894 until deposed by the French
		Buffalo and clay jar, symbol of King Ghezo
		Part of the market in Abomey is dedicated to Vodon (voodoo) paraphenalia
	www.pbase.com /bmcmorrow/abomey&page=all (490 words)

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