He also found praise with his geographical studies and documents on traditions of the Fon people.

The bas-reliefs carry an iconographic program expressing the history and power of the Fon people.

He has also attempted to translate the Fon people's tales for a French speaking audience.

The Fon people of Benin are another example of this variation.

They originate from the Fon people of Dahomey (present day Benin).

Agé is a god of the mythology of the Fon people of Africa.

It is from the Fon people of Dahomey (now Benin) and means spirit, or family of spirits.

Fon is spoken mainly in Benin by approximately 1.7 million speakers, by the Fon people.

One is a haunting Janus figure produced by the Fon people of the Republic of Benin.

Her father is from the Fon people of Ouidah and her mother from the Yoruba people.

The royal palaces of Abomey are a group of earthen structures built by the Fon people between the mid-17th and late 19th Centuries.

Some people use this story to suggest that Shopona went into exile among the neighboring Fon peoples to the West of the principal Yoruba areas.

Around 1550, emigrants from Tado established the Allada (or Alada) kingdom, which became the center of the Fon people.

The Fon creation myth is the traditional creation story of the Fon peoples of West Africa.

For the Fon people of Benin the appropriate phrase is Night has fallen or The King has returned to Allada .

The Fon people of Benin believes the rainbow snake Ayida-Weddo, created to serve Nana Buluku, held up the heavens.

Those Aja living in Abomey mingled with the local Fon people, also a Gbe people, creating a new ethnic group known as "Dahomey".

Are called juntas (boards) o convites and have similar characteristics to Haitian combite closely related to the dokpwe of the Fon people of Dahomey.

The empire was established in about 1600 by the Fon people who had recently settled in the area (or were possibly a result of intermarriage between the Aja people and the Gedevi).

The name Fon relates to the dominant ethnic and language group, the Fon people, of the royal families of the kingdom and is how the kingdom first became known to Europeans.

That island's voodoo religion, rooted in the beliefs of West Africa's Fon people, has produced a succession of brilliant improvising drummers, including La Troupe Makandal's leader, Frisner Augustin.

A late 19th-century iron staff of the West African Fon people of Benin, newly installed outside the entrance to the African Gallery, is topped with a flat disk decorated with tiny cast-iron figures.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Other ambiguities of status are played out in two deservedly famous objects in the Met's African galleries, both made by the Fon people in the Republic of Benin.

Other examples are the relics and observances of various traditions of Yoruba orisa worship as well as Vodou of the Fon people in the Republic of Benin (former Dahomey) and southwest Nigeria.

The Kingdom was founded in 1625 by the Fon people who developed it into a powerful military and commercial empire, which dominated trade with European slave traders on the Slave Coast until the late 19th century, to whom they sold their prisoners of war.