Critical Lens Experts - New Historical #6 B.H

From this essay "The Mother-Daughter Aje Relationship In Toni Morrison's Beloved" it describes the relationship of Sethe and Denver using this old spiritual human called Aje. Aje is a Yoruba word that means an empowering, spiritual force that is thought to be included in African women. It also means to describe spiritually humans. In other words, Aje can be considered a witch since they use earthly and cosmic laws. These Aje humans are used to balance society by giving them laws, and if they don't follow them they'll be punished. When one daughter inherits her mother's Aje, both spiritually and physically, it becomes a love and hate relationship. This relationship starts to happen when Paul D and Beloved enter into their homes as Denver is jealous that Sethe isn't paying much attention to her and more to Paul D and Beloved. For one, this spiritual force requires a man to function properly but in the book Beloved, Sethe's husband Halle has passed away and doesn't play a big role in the book. Additionally, there were discussions about the mother "killing" their daughter, either spiritually, mentally, or physically. In the book, Sethe "kills" her daughter by keeping her "where they'd be safe." What that means is that Sethe is so overprotective and attached to her daughter that Denver would have a difficult time leaving her mother in the future. Sethe doesn't want her daughter to experience what she had in the past, and in order to do that she keeps Denver away from any threat, or "White males."
African mythologies, like most cultures, believe in one God but there are more spirits and elements that are included in their culture. Spirits can be considered as The Sun, The Moon, The Rocks, The Earth, and many other elements from Earth. There are other spirits as well inside their soul that show their values and beliefs. For example, in Yoruba there are three spirits in every one of them. The Emi spirit keeps the man alive, sort of operating the lungs and heart and is fed by the wind. Ojiji is a form of shadow that waits in the person until he or she dies. Lastly, Eleda is fed by sacrifices but the connection between these three spirits is that the person will meet these spirits in heaven, waiting for them.