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Hwegbadja,
Houegbadja
- Von
1645-1685 König von Dahomey; erster König der Aladahonu-Dynastie
in Abomey, Dahomey, seine Nachfolger: Akaba,
Agajá, Tegbesu,
Adanzan, Ghezo
(vgl. Agotime); (Museu
Afro-Brasileiro, vgl. Ferretti 102); "In the reign of this Hwegbadja,
therefore, who ruled from about 1650 to 1680, four chief priests of the earth
cult, and six of the cult of the silk-cotton tree, their families, retainers and
disciples were sold to the Portuguese because of plots to incite the gods
against the conquerors" (Herskovits II 88).
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