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The knife-bell is the attribute of the priests of Goun
(Ogoun at Yoruba), divinity of metal, "owner" of the blacksmiths
and all those which work metal, and consequently of the war (weapons).
Sometimes the priest holds with the hand 2 called twin small bells
Adja and a knife, sometimes knife and bell are associated in the
same instrument symbolic system.
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