Official invitation · Customary passport
The invitation of the House
At Pointe-Denis, one does not sign up: one is invited. To keep vigil at the temple, received by the customary chiefs and spiritual fathers, is a privilege the House of Rapontchombo records in two documents.
I · The letter
The official invitation
Every invitation is nominative, signed by Marie-Anne Ankombie Rapontchombo II and by Jacques Makaya Zimamo, guardian of the tradition at Pointe-Denis, and sealed with the crest of the House. It reaches you by email, with the moral charter of Maison Assiga.
Before the invitation
- Your letter of motivation is read by Maison Assiga.
- Your medical file is reviewed beforehand by independent doctors.
- A preliminary interview is arranged with the guardians of the lineage.
- The Rapontchombo family sends you its official invitation, for the session of your choice.
II · The booklet
The customary passport
Once the invitation is accepted, the House sends your customary passport by post. Shown to the guardian on arrival at the village, it follows you from vigil to initiation: each step receives the temple seal and the initiator’s signature.
The cover, bearing the crest of the House 
The history page 
Entries and exits, stamped by the guardian 
The three nights of the Bwiti Missoko
What the booklet holds
- The holder
- Your identity and the customary name, the Kombo, received at the temple.
- The history
- A page on King Denis and the honours he received from France, Queen Victoria and Pope Gregory XVI.
- The lineage
- Your spiritual father and the chain of initiators before him.
- Entries and exits
- A stamp on arrival, a stamp on departure, for every stay at the village.
- The initiations
- Bwiti Missoko, Bwiti Dissoumba, Mwiri and Niembe, Bwiti Omengo: one seal per step.
- The vigils
- The date, the signature and the name of the master of ceremonies of each vigil.
Thirty-four pages in French and English, like a passport. Each page bears its own engraved watermark of Pointe-Denis: the temple, the tomb, the mangrove, the leatherback turtle, the ngombi harp, the mongongo, the mask, the leopard, the gorilla, the elephant of Pongara.