Ein Leben mit den Göttern 1

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Ein Leben mit den Göttern 6

© Willke Film

Ein Leben mit den Göttern 7

© Willke Film

Ein Leben mit den Göttern 3

© Willke Film

Ein Leben mit den Göttern 4

© Willke Film

Ein Leben mit den Göttern 2

© Willke Film

Director
Claudia Willke
Country
  • AT
  • DE
Year
2001
Length
58
Shooting Format
  • BetaSP
Aspect Ratio
  • 1:1,78 (16:9)
Sound
  • Stereo

Living with the Gods

with Susanne Wenger and Shangodare

Susanne Wenger, the now 86-year-old Austrian artist, accompanied her husband in the early fifties to live among the Yoruba people in Nigeria, West Africa. Soon she was taken in by the leading class of priests and initiated into various cults. Just as her most important teacher Aajagemo predicted and with the Oracle’s confirmation, the Yoruba gods entrusted her to restore the ruined shrines of the Sacred Groves in Oshogbo - the traditional home of the river goddess Oshun. By virtue of Susanne Wenger’s merging of ritual and art, the Sacred Groves of Shogbo have survived the onslaught of Christianity and Islam unharmed, which have helped keep traditional Yoruba rituals alive.