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Susanne Wengen, the now 86-year-old Austrian artist, accompanied her husband in the early fifties to live amoung the Yoruba people in Nigeria, West Africa. Soon she was taken in by the leading class of priests and initiated into various cults. Just as her most important teacher predicted and with the Oracle's confirmation, the Yoruba gods entrusted her to restore the ruined shrines of the Sacred Groves in the town of Oshogbo - the traditional home of the river goddess Oshun. By virtue of Susanne Wenger's merging of art and ritual, the Sacred Groves have survived the onslaught of Christianity and Islam unharmed. Together with her ritually adopted children Shandogare and Doyin, Susanne Wenger is an important part of the rich traditional cult life in Oshogbo, which has its annual climax in the festival of the river goddess Oshun and the thunder god Shango.

Germany / Austria - 2001 - 58 mn - Betacam SP • 16/9 - Colour

Réalisation Claudia Willke Image Bernd Meiners Son Judith Adam Montage Margot Neubert-Maric Musique originale Aja Addy

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