ABSTRACT
The sacred is mediated continually to the entire community. This mediation has prescribed ritual channels in order to condense the sacred who makes Himself felt in the particular, but the same mediation extends to all aspects of the culture which draw together and build up the whole life of the community. Thus the sacred is mediated in, not to, Karamojong territoriality, sociality, economy, polity, jurality, morality, personality, mentality and musicality, as well as its religion and language. It would be importing religious concepts to assert that the Karamojong assume two different worlds, one visible, the other invisible. The Tesyo and Ser clans of the Jie even subscribe to the Teso name for God, Edeke, which in Ngakaramojong means disease or pestilence, though in public, ritual prayers are made to Akuju and unity maintained. This shows the connection between suffering and the diverse revelation of the divine to enemy tribes, whose capacity to intercede is grudgingly recognized.
