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She also starred in the title role of 1954’s “Panther Girl of the Kongo.”

The group's head, Tsaka Kongo, told the BBC that the family was required to present a letter to the authorities agreeing to end their disputes and allow the government to organise the burial.

This last tradition is possibly derived from enslaved Yoruba and Kongo people living in Texas at the time, for whom the color red represents spiritual power, culinary historian Michael Twitty writes in his blog Afroculinaria.

Yet, the four classical elements are one of civilization’s great unifiers, a cosmological theory shared by the Hindu Vedas, the Buddhist Mahabhuta, the Kongo cosmogram, the Indigenous medicine wheel and the zodiac.

Among the faithful was Clément L’onde, who travelled from Kisantu, a town in the province of Central Kongo, more than 150 kilometers from Kinshasa.