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juju

1. an object superstitiously revered by certain W African peoples and used as a charm or fetish
2. the power associated with a juju
3. a taboo effected by a juju
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MaaS

(1) (MaaS) (Mobility As AService) See TaaS.

(2) (Metal As AService) A cloud computing provisioning tool from Canonical that was introduced in Version 12.04 LTS of the Ubuntu operating system. Using cloud functionality, MAAS manages physical servers, including newly deployed server testing, firmware updates and performance evaluation. MAAS works with Canonical's JuJu deployment software, which supports application servers, load balancing and databases. The "metal" in the name refers to "bare metal," a computer term for hardware. See Ubuntu, bare metal and XaaS.
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[m]ention has already been made of the African hunters' religion--Animism--and later developments of Jujuism, Pantheism and Fetishism....
Although their [Nilo-Hamites: "the Masai, the Nandi and the Teso"; Nilotes: "the Shilluk and Dinka"] belief in the powers of their supreme God and the spirits was based on Jujuism, their religious ceremonies and worship was that of African Animism.
The author opens the fifteenth chapter, "Jujuism," with the following claim:
Jujuism, like Fetishism, is a religion that entertains rituals and ceremonies, and whose main doctrine is the preservation of life and reincarnation....
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