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Word: shilluk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
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...child whom she called Kola; his grandson was Ukwa. Ukwa took two wives, beautiful holy maidens who rose out of the sacred river. One of Ukwa's sons, Nyakang, a Negro, went south to the swampy country of the Upper Nile; there he founded the Shilluk nation and became its first ret (ruler) and a demigod. That was about four centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUDAN: God's Last-born | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

Last month the passing of Ret Fafiti (rets, like Christian Scientists, do not die) brought the stately Shilluk peers into conclave. The peers elected the 30th in a long line of rets: middleaged, blue-black Anei Kur, prepared to install him at Fashoda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUDAN: God's Last-born | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

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