Adinkra Symbols, Pt 2
Author: dcrosby
14
Mar 09
As promised, here are more Adinkra symbols to use for whatever purpose you see fit. Don’t forget to check the previous collection posted earlier. If you’re slick you’ll click the “Clip Art” category under the “Sight” quadrant. That will put both posts right up front. Part 3 (coming soon) should finish it up with some of the more popular symbols.
EBAN (Fence): SAFETY, SECURITY & LOVE
EPA (Handcuffs): LAW & JUSTICE
SE NE TEKREMA (The teeth and the tongue): FRIENDSHIP and INTERDEPENDENCE
FAFANTO (The Butterfly): TENDERNESS, GENTLENESS, HONESTY
FAWOHODIE (independence) INDEPENDENCE, FREEDOM, EMANCIPATION
FI-HANKRA (secured compound): SAFETY, SECURITY, SOLIDARITY
FOFO (Seeds of a plant): WARNING AGAINST JEALOUSY & COVETOUSNESS
FUNTUNFUNEFU-
DENKYEMFUNEFU
(Siamese crocodiles): DEMOCRACY & UNITY
GYE NYAME (except God): OMNIPOTENCE OF GOD
HWEHWEMUDA (measuring rod): EXCELLENCE, PERFECTION, KNOWLEDGE
HYE-WO-NHYE (Unburnable): TOUGHNESS, PERMANENCE
KETE PA (good bed): A GOOD MARRIAGE
KUNTUNKANTAN (Inflated pride): INFLATED PRIDE AND EGO
KWATAKYE ATIKO
(hair style of an Asante war captain): BRAVERY &VALOR
MATE MASIE
(What I hear, I keep): WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE & PRUDENCE
ME WARE WO (I shall marry you):
COMMITMENT, PERSEVERANCE
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- Adinkra Symbols, Pt 2
- Adinkra Symbols, Pt 2
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