[1] Over time, Myal began to meld with Christian practices and created the religious tradition known as Revivalism.
Over time, these Myal-influenced churches began preaching the importance of baptisms and the eradication of Obeah, thus separating the two traditions.
Many Akan iconography was used and is still used by its derivative of the Zion Revival church: Such as religious symbols of the Nyame Dua, a brass pan with rain water outside of a church, Tano's brass pan containing river water and rocks from the river on top a stool with his two swords with his herbs of the leaf of life plant and aloe vera.
[7] By the 1840s, many Congolese indentured laborers arrived in Jamaica where they revitalised Myal practices and the Kumina religion.
[10] Myal as a separate religion is no longer practiced, its rituals can be found in Revivalism, Kumina,[11] and Convince.
[8] The folklorist Venetia Newall noted that Pocomania "has rarely been recorded in England, and evidently tends to Peter out quickly" on arrival.
It holds that a human has two souls: the duppy, which departs the Earth after death, and the second spirit, which acts as the person's shadow and needs protection from evil.
[3] Under slavery, Myalists would ingest a mix of cold water and branched callaloo to induce an intoxicated state and then dance to commune with the spirits.
[13] Most Revivalist faiths involve oral confessions, trances, dreams, prophesies, spirit seizures, and frenzied dancing.
[10] Kumfu(from the Asante word for the Akan religion known as Akom meaning prophecy in English) or Myal evolved into Revival, a syncretic Christian sect.
[14] Other Ashanti elements include the use of swords and rings as means to guard the spirit from spiritual attack.