Abstract Between Deities and Men: A Few Untypical Remarks About the Anthropology of Possession Cults. —This article is based on long field work among the Minyanka. Till recently, possession was a major fact of religious life among the Minyanka in Mali, who have various origins but fit into a vast cultural zone known as "Bamanaya". All cults are founded on fetish objects, which, crystallizing power relationships, only keep their power insofar as they are fed with the blood of sacrifices. Possession is never related complaints. Nor does it seem related to a crisis, nor, for that matter, to a reaction against Islam. Instead, the possessed are the respected mediums of a deity. In this sense, a possession cult tends to be a "mediation cult" link...