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Chapter III: Minor Gods. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Food is regagularly supplied to these reptiles every fifth day, or festival, and many of them become sufficiently tame to come for the offering as soon as they see or hear the worshippers gathering on the bank. |
 | | Shankpanna, or Shakpana, who also came from the body of Yemaja, is the Small-pox god. |
 | | The name appears to be derived from shan, to daub, smear, or plaster, which probably has reference to the pustules with which a small-pox patient is covered, and akpania,[1] a man-killer, homicide. |
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