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KEERAPA is the adinkra symbol of sanctity and means "good fortune".
More about Adinkra
In Africa a great deal of philosophical material is embedded in the proverbs, myth, and folk-tales, folksongs, rituals, beliefs, customs, and traditions of the people. Symbols known as adinkra are ubiquitous in Ghana, a West African country on the Atlantic, situated between Cote d'Ivoire and Togo. On cloth and walls, in pottery and logos, these Asante tribe symbols can be found everywhere.
History is not exactly sure how Adinkra symbols came to be. Legend has it that in the early nineteenth century, there was a war between two kings. King Adinkra, who loved to wear patterned fabrics, attempted to copy the designs of the sacred "golden stool", the unifying force of the Asante Nation.
This sacrilegious attempt angered the Asantehene, the Ashanti king Nana Osei Bonsu-Panyin. In the war, Adinkra was defeated and killed . The cloth that King Adinkera wore in battle was taken by the Asante as a trophy.
Each of the motifs that make up the corpus of adinkra symbolism has a name and meaning derived either from a proverb, a historical event, human attitude, animal behavior, plant life, forms and shapes of inanimate and man-made objects. These are graphically rendered in stylized geometric shapes
KEERAPA is one of these adrinka symbols and is the symbol of sanctity and good fortune.
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