Incarnation

==Serer religion==
The [[Serer religion]] of [[West Africa]] rejects any notions of incarnation or manifestation of the supreme deity ''[[Roog (Serer deity)|Roog]]'' (also called Koox in the [[Cangin languages|Cangin]] language). However, the [[reincarnation]] (''ciiɗ'')<ref name=faye>Faye, Louis Diène, ''Mort et Naissance Le Monde Sereer'', Les Nouvelles Edition Africaines (1983), pp 9-10, {{ISBN|2-7236-0868-9}}</ref> of the [[reincarnation#Serer religion|ancient Serer saints and ancestral spirits]], called ''[[Pangool]]'', is a well-held principle in Serer religion. These Pangool (singular : ''Fangool'') act as intermediaries between the living world and the divine. When the Serers speak of incarnation, it is these ''Pangool'' they refer to, who are themselves holy by virtue of their intercession with the divine.<ref name=faye/><ref name="Religio">{{in lang|fr}} [[Issa Laye Thiaw|Thaiw, Issa Laye]], « La religiosité des Seereer, avant et pendant leur islamisation », in ''Éthiopiques, no. 54, volume 7, 2e semestre 1991 [http://ethiopiques.refer.sn/spip.php?article1248] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925133630/http://ethiopiques.refer.sn/spip.php?article1248|date=2019-09-25}}''</ref><ref>[[Henry Gravrand|Gravrand, Henry]], ''La civilisation sereer, Cosaan:  les origines'', vol.1, Nouvelles Editions africaines (1983), p 33, {{ISBN|2-7236-0877-8}}</ref>