In Gbaya, the notion of bowing down the head is emphasized in Isaiah 58:5 with kɔ̧ɔ̧sɔ̧ɔ̧, an ideophone that describes something that curves, like a horse’s head or a bunch of bananas.

Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)