Kongo class destroyer, a current warship class operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Kongo, the mythical trident-shaped staff of the Japanese god Koya-no-Myoin
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Kongo was laid down on January 17, 1911, launched on May 18, 1912 and completed and sent to Japan on August 16, 1913.
Kongo spent nearly all her wartime service escorting aircraft carriers, although she did participate in some surface actions, such as the bombardment of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, on 14 October 1942, along with her sister ship Haruna.
The battleship was preceded by the 1877 Japanese corvette Kongo.
Kongo leaders were targeted for conversion by Christian missionaries, and often divisions between followers of Christianity and followers of the traditional religions resulted.
When the Kongo Kingdom was at its political apex in the 15th and 16th centuries, the King, who had to be a male descendant of Wene, reigned supreme.
Nzambi was the supreme god for all in the Kongo Kingdom, and the intermediary representations included land and sky spirits and ancestor spirits, all of whom were represented in nkisi objects.
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