Notes. Bibliogr. Index.

The Lodagaa and their Intellectual Climate -- Religious Action among the Lodagga: The Earth Shrine, The Ancestors, Medicine Shrines, The Beings of the Wild, Gods and deities, The main Axes, The Guardian Spirit, The Bagre Myth in LoDagaa Religion -- The Bagre Association: The Name, The Distribution, The Dirt Bagre and the Oil Bagre, Other Associations, Reasons for Joining Bagre, The Functions of Bagre, Ritual Services, change and exchange, Recruitement, Bagre Roles, The Grades of Bagre, Bagre Equipment, Bagre Prohibitions, The Bagre Calendar -- The Bagre Myth: The Recitation of Bagre, The Language of Bagre, The Transmission of Bagre, The Translation of Bagre, The Characters of Bagre -- The Bagre Performances: Asperging the Neophyts, The Announcement of bagre, The Ceremony of Beans, The Beer of the Bagre Medicine, The Whitening Ceremony, The Beating of the Malt, The Bagre Dance, (Day 1 : The Bagre of Bamabara Beans. Day 2 : The Bagre Eve. Day 3 : Bagre Day. Day 4 : The End of the Dance), Bagre Gifts, Bagre Bells , The Second Grade, the Beer of the Leather Bottle -- Translation of the White Bagre -- Notes to the Translation -- Translation of the Black Bagre -- Notes to the Translation -- The Original of the White Bagre -- The Original of the Black Bagre.