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Ewe

Member of a people inhabiting Ghana and Togo, and numbering about 2.5 million. The Ewe live by fishing and farming, and practise an animist religion. Their language belongs to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family. Traditionally independent, the Ewe tribes have been politically unified since the 1950s.
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Bring, then, two lambs, a white ram and a black ewe, for Earth and Sun, and we will bring a third for Jove.
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