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IF we were to classify the various African tribes which speak dialects of the Bantu language-branch (the Ethiopians of Herodotus and Pomponius Mela, of Dos Santos and Merolla) according to the names by which they designate the Deity, the greater number of them would be found to fall into two great groups.
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TOOKE, W. The God of the Ethiopians. Nature 46, 78–79 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/046078a0
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