62 NOTES ON WEST AFRICAN CATEGORIES 



Now let me try to reconcile the natural order of the 

 categories as they have fallen into their places in the 

 acrostic fashion they have, in accordance with the 

 prefixes in their language, with this order of the Moral 

 Law. 



The first three categories are governed by the 

 prefixes : 



1. Plural noun Zambi. 



2. Va-Mu class connected with space and the 

 winds. 



3. Mu-Mi class connected with equity and moral 

 ideas. 



These are all Godlike ideas, and I have shown that 

 sins against these ideas have been summed up by the 

 Bavili under their Xina, Xivanga- Zambi or God the 

 creator class. 



The fourth and fifth lateral categories are those of 

 instrument and of place. 



4. Xi or Ki or I plural Bi or Yi class connected 

 with reason and truth. 



5. Di, Li, E plural Ma class relating to marriage 

 and supplication. 



These two classes have to do with the law of 

 rest on the fourth day, when the father sees 

 that his fetishes are in order, and prays for his 

 people and the honouring of their parents by the 

 offspring. This is covered by the class Xina Va 

 Xifmba. 



6. 7, 8 and 9, refer to the manner, action, quality in 

 law-abiding man. He commits murder or adultery, or 



