and the Mpongwe. 
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bfa, or, as he writes the word, “ Aniambie,” with 
Inyemba, a witch, to bewitch being “ punga in- 
yemba.” Mr. W. Winwood Reade seems to make 
Ariyambfa a mysterious word, as was J ehovah after 
the date of the Moabite stone. Like the Brahm 
of the Hindus, the god of Epicurus and Confucius, 
and the Akarana-Zaman or Endless Time of the 
Guebres, Anyambia is a vague being, a vox et prce- 
terea nihil , without personality, too high and too 
remote for interference in human affairs, therefore 
not addressed in prayer, never represented by the 
human form, never lodged in temples. Under this 
“ unknown God ” are two chief agencies, working 
partners who manage the business of the world, 
and who effect what the civilized call “ Providence.” 
Mbwi'ri here becomes the Osiris, Jove, Hormuzd or 
Good God, the Vishnu, or Preserver, a tutelar deity, 
a Lar, a guardian. Onyambe is the Bad God, Ty- 
phon, Vejovis, the Ahriman or Semitic devil ; 
Shiva the Destroyer, the third person of the 
Aryan triad ; and his name is never mentioned 
but with bated breath. They have not only fear 
of, but also a higher respect for him than for the 
giver of good, so difficult is it for the child-man’s 
mind to connect the ideas of benignity and power. 
He would harm if he could, ergo so would his god. 
I once hesitated to believe that these rude people 
had arrived at the notion of duality, at the Mani- 
chseanism which caused Mr. Mill (sen.) surprise 
