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Great Zimbabwe's Mambo Gara and the Spirit Mediums of the Matopo Hills
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the spiritual underpinnings of Great Zimbabwe through the reign of Mambo Gara, who turned to the rainmaking mediums of the Matopo Hills during the great drought of 1300. They discuss the role of the svikiro and mhondoro spirits, the sacred groves and caves where mediums communed with Mwari, and how Gara's alliance with the Matopo mediums shifted the balance of power away from the established mhondoro lineage in the Great Enclosure. The episode also examines the tension between the royal cult of Mwari and the ancestral spirit mediums, the symbolism…
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