Inhliziyo — heart and felt life
Affective and moral centre
The heart marks felt life, attachment, courage, grief, and the bodily register through which a person experiences social and spiritual disturbance. It is included as a body-region synthesis from the ethnographies, not as a claim that one uniform Zulu doctrine places the complete self in the heart.
Point 3 of 5 in Zulu / Nguni Body-Spirit Complex
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Axel-Ivar Berglund, Zulu Thought-Patterns and Symbolism (scholarly_modern)
Berglund's treatment of bodily symbolism and personhood supports the heart as a cautious locus of felt and relational life.
Harriet Ngubane, Body and Mind in Zulu Medicine (scholarly_modern)
Ngubane's ethnography connects bodily experience, illness, emotion, and social-spiritual interpretation, supporting the heart-region rendering without a universal map claim.