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No, I would not say Babylonian influence the way we Rastafarians know the term now. I just stumbled across the term iddimu in a book, and was struck by its similarity to the Shona Mudzimu, the Tswana Modimo etc. To me, it attests to the fact that the culture of Zimbabwe is linked to the cultures of Black people elsewhere. It is not static, it is not isolated, there have been exchanges in the past and there will be more.
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