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And is intended to teach you an introduction to the occult, its history and beginning in East Africa, the oral history of humanity's oldest branches Niliothic and Cushite people. How to use it?
Simply stroll down and investigate the Astrology, then the Art section which deals with magick in its many forms.
And is intended to teach you an introduction to the occult, its history and beginning in East Africa, the oral history of humanity's oldest branches Niliothic and Cushite people. How to use it?
Simply stroll down and investigate the Astrology, then the Art section which deals with magick in its many forms.
Abachwezi
The beautiful Rwenzori Mountains
"We came from the beginning of the Nile where God Hapi dwells, at the foothills of The Mountains of the Moon." "We," meaning the Egyptians, as stated, came from the beginning of the Nile. Where is "the beginning of the Nile?" The farthest point of the beginning of the Nile is in Uganda; this is the White Nile. Another point is in Ethiopia. The Blue Nile and White Nile meet in Khartoum; and the other side of Khartoum is the Omdurman Republic of Sudan. From there it flows from the south down north. And there it meets with the Atbara River in Atbara, Sudan. Then it flows completely through Sudan (Ta-Nehisi, Ta-Zeti or Ta-Seti, as it was called), part of that ancient empire which was one time adjacent to the nation called Meroe or Merowe. From that, into the southern part of what the Romans called "Nubia," and parallel on the Nile, part of which the Greeks called "Egypticus"; the English called it "Egypt" and the Jews in their mythology called it "Mizrain" which the current Arabs called Mizr/Mizrair. Thus it ends in the Sea of Sais, also called the Great Sea, today's Mediterranean Sea. When we say thus, we want to make certain that Hapi is still God of the Nile, shown as a hermaphrodite having the breasts of a woman and the penis of a man. God Hapi is always shown tying two symbols of the "Two Lands," Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, during Dynastic Periods, or from the beginning of the Dynastic Periods. The lotus flower is the symbol of the south, and the papyrus plant, the symbol of the north.
The Mountains of the Moon
It is from this beautiful mountains, which have such high peaks, that Ancient African Ancestors, called the "Bachwezi", crafted the science of Astrology following upon knowledge given to them by the Son of Heaven who descended from the domed covered sky, called Obatala in Yoruba Ifa, Ptah in Egypt/Kemet, Katonda in Uganda and Muntu in Rwanda and Katonda in Eastern Congo, and finally the Son of Heaven is deemed the sky god in many cultures, who is credited with creating human beings. The mountains were observatories to where ancestors could watch the sky. They were able to observe that the land was flat all around the mountains. To see the stars, luminary lights, moving and fixed, were plastered against a blue dome dome, such bluish hue is caused by the Primordial Waters of Nun. The women of the Congo, once a part of the great empire of Kitara, used to put the constellation patterns, sacred scripts, on their baskets and painted them on mudhouses in very intricate designs. The Bugandans call the sky, "Lubaale", meaning, "The Domed Sky". After thousands of years of observations maps were created that became the great wheel or 25,000 yr celestial equinox. The 12 zones of the sky, each measuring 30 degrees, then divided into "Decans" or 10 degree sections. The lights are energy vortexes as we can see the rays of light beaming down in the hieroglyphs empowering the kings of ancient Chwezi. The African kingdoms began in the Age of Leo as Africans kings are lions. Instead of an evolution theory as taught by Dr. Darwin time is cyclic in the ancient model. In other words, life in this realm is constantly going through changes according the progressing 12 ages of the Zodiac. The fixed stars move at a rate of 1 degree per every 72 years giving us 2160 years in each age characterized by synchronized events. Magic is real and is the highest science, there are 9 dimensions, spirit entities, reincarnation, bestowing and curses. Civilization rises and falls, ebbs and flows, the realm complete with civilized parts and well as savage parts, various royal ancient bloodlines, secret cults and occult knowledge, a struggle between light and darkness, as the angels live in man as well as the demons. The 25,000 years is divided into 4 parts, given the metaphor of Alchemy; they are: the Golden Age, the Bronze Age, the Silver Age and then the last most corrupt the Iron Age as the cycle revolves again. There are many civilizations much more powerful and scientifically advanced than all the current and are buried in the Earth, thus their language and secrets are forgotten as the turning of the Great Wheel changes all.
Egypt was two lands, Upper and Lower, the South was the Mother of Egypt and Father as the Lower Egyptian king wore the Red Crown once paid tribute to the Southern King who wore the White Crown. The two kingdoms were vastly different in bloodlines and traditions but held together by a common origin. The Egyptians state that their civilization had seen 4 cycles of the Great Wheel, that is 100,000 years. Many Egyptians scholars labored to deciphered the ancient script of their ancestors as their civilization began to decay due to time.
Other views that life on Earth doesn't evolve but recycles via the 25,000 Celestial Equinox
Baba Egbe Iwa-Pele
The first idea is that human culture is much older than academics are willing to admit. The second is that the culture that built the pyramids was based on a level of scientific knowledge that is far advanced of the science taught in modern schools.
Both Christopher Dunn Joseph P. Farrell accept the idea that human culture is extremely old largely based on the research done by Michael Cremo and Richard L. Thompson. Their main thesis is that humans did not evolve from apes but have in fact co-existed with apes for millions of years. Cremo is a Hindu who believes his research confirms the history of humanity as it is described in the Hindu scriptures called the Vedas. The evidence he has amassed to support his claim is overwhelming and you can read of the proof in a 900 page book which is available on line as a free download. http://www.pdf-archive.com/2014/07/17/forbidden-archeology/. Cremo and Thompson are not academic historians, they are not archeologists and they are not anthropologists. They are independent researchers who combed the public record and discovered documented reports of academic discoveries that to do fit the pattern of established academic historic.
I have read the book and I find the evidence compelling. The most notable examples of the age of humanity is evidence that exists around the world showing human footprints at the same geological strata as dinosaurs. According to the academic time line dinosaurs disappeared from the planet 65 million years ago and the evolution of humans began about three million years ago. This is a huge discrepancy. Cremo and Thompson use this data to support the idea that the historical record as preserved in the Vedas is an accurate account of human cycles on the planet. The Vedas express the idea that human culture has gone through a number of cycles of development and decay.
The beautiful Rwenzori Mountains
"We came from the beginning of the Nile where God Hapi dwells, at the foothills of The Mountains of the Moon." "We," meaning the Egyptians, as stated, came from the beginning of the Nile. Where is "the beginning of the Nile?" The farthest point of the beginning of the Nile is in Uganda; this is the White Nile. Another point is in Ethiopia. The Blue Nile and White Nile meet in Khartoum; and the other side of Khartoum is the Omdurman Republic of Sudan. From there it flows from the south down north. And there it meets with the Atbara River in Atbara, Sudan. Then it flows completely through Sudan (Ta-Nehisi, Ta-Zeti or Ta-Seti, as it was called), part of that ancient empire which was one time adjacent to the nation called Meroe or Merowe. From that, into the southern part of what the Romans called "Nubia," and parallel on the Nile, part of which the Greeks called "Egypticus"; the English called it "Egypt" and the Jews in their mythology called it "Mizrain" which the current Arabs called Mizr/Mizrair. Thus it ends in the Sea of Sais, also called the Great Sea, today's Mediterranean Sea. When we say thus, we want to make certain that Hapi is still God of the Nile, shown as a hermaphrodite having the breasts of a woman and the penis of a man. God Hapi is always shown tying two symbols of the "Two Lands," Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, during Dynastic Periods, or from the beginning of the Dynastic Periods. The lotus flower is the symbol of the south, and the papyrus plant, the symbol of the north.
The Mountains of the Moon
It is from this beautiful mountains, which have such high peaks, that Ancient African Ancestors, called the "Bachwezi", crafted the science of Astrology following upon knowledge given to them by the Son of Heaven who descended from the domed covered sky, called Obatala in Yoruba Ifa, Ptah in Egypt/Kemet, Katonda in Uganda and Muntu in Rwanda and Katonda in Eastern Congo, and finally the Son of Heaven is deemed the sky god in many cultures, who is credited with creating human beings. The mountains were observatories to where ancestors could watch the sky. They were able to observe that the land was flat all around the mountains. To see the stars, luminary lights, moving and fixed, were plastered against a blue dome dome, such bluish hue is caused by the Primordial Waters of Nun. The women of the Congo, once a part of the great empire of Kitara, used to put the constellation patterns, sacred scripts, on their baskets and painted them on mudhouses in very intricate designs. The Bugandans call the sky, "Lubaale", meaning, "The Domed Sky". After thousands of years of observations maps were created that became the great wheel or 25,000 yr celestial equinox. The 12 zones of the sky, each measuring 30 degrees, then divided into "Decans" or 10 degree sections. The lights are energy vortexes as we can see the rays of light beaming down in the hieroglyphs empowering the kings of ancient Chwezi. The African kingdoms began in the Age of Leo as Africans kings are lions. Instead of an evolution theory as taught by Dr. Darwin time is cyclic in the ancient model. In other words, life in this realm is constantly going through changes according the progressing 12 ages of the Zodiac. The fixed stars move at a rate of 1 degree per every 72 years giving us 2160 years in each age characterized by synchronized events. Magic is real and is the highest science, there are 9 dimensions, spirit entities, reincarnation, bestowing and curses. Civilization rises and falls, ebbs and flows, the realm complete with civilized parts and well as savage parts, various royal ancient bloodlines, secret cults and occult knowledge, a struggle between light and darkness, as the angels live in man as well as the demons. The 25,000 years is divided into 4 parts, given the metaphor of Alchemy; they are: the Golden Age, the Bronze Age, the Silver Age and then the last most corrupt the Iron Age as the cycle revolves again. There are many civilizations much more powerful and scientifically advanced than all the current and are buried in the Earth, thus their language and secrets are forgotten as the turning of the Great Wheel changes all.
Egypt was two lands, Upper and Lower, the South was the Mother of Egypt and Father as the Lower Egyptian king wore the Red Crown once paid tribute to the Southern King who wore the White Crown. The two kingdoms were vastly different in bloodlines and traditions but held together by a common origin. The Egyptians state that their civilization had seen 4 cycles of the Great Wheel, that is 100,000 years. Many Egyptians scholars labored to deciphered the ancient script of their ancestors as their civilization began to decay due to time.
Other views that life on Earth doesn't evolve but recycles via the 25,000 Celestial Equinox
Baba Egbe Iwa-Pele
The first idea is that human culture is much older than academics are willing to admit. The second is that the culture that built the pyramids was based on a level of scientific knowledge that is far advanced of the science taught in modern schools.
Both Christopher Dunn Joseph P. Farrell accept the idea that human culture is extremely old largely based on the research done by Michael Cremo and Richard L. Thompson. Their main thesis is that humans did not evolve from apes but have in fact co-existed with apes for millions of years. Cremo is a Hindu who believes his research confirms the history of humanity as it is described in the Hindu scriptures called the Vedas. The evidence he has amassed to support his claim is overwhelming and you can read of the proof in a 900 page book which is available on line as a free download. http://www.pdf-archive.com/2014/07/17/forbidden-archeology/. Cremo and Thompson are not academic historians, they are not archeologists and they are not anthropologists. They are independent researchers who combed the public record and discovered documented reports of academic discoveries that to do fit the pattern of established academic historic.
I have read the book and I find the evidence compelling. The most notable examples of the age of humanity is evidence that exists around the world showing human footprints at the same geological strata as dinosaurs. According to the academic time line dinosaurs disappeared from the planet 65 million years ago and the evolution of humans began about three million years ago. This is a huge discrepancy. Cremo and Thompson use this data to support the idea that the historical record as preserved in the Vedas is an accurate account of human cycles on the planet. The Vedas express the idea that human culture has gone through a number of cycles of development and decay.
The pyramids are man made mountains mathematically aligned with the Orion stars that coincide with the start of the zodiac in the age of Leo.
The Great Year of 25, 000 Years
WHAT IS THE GREAT YEAR?
The Great Year, is the term that some ancient civilizations use to describe the slow precession of the equinox through the twelve houses of the ancient zodiac, a period that takes about 24,000 years. Different cultures refer to this cycle by different names including: the Platonic year, Perfect year, Yuga cycle, Ages of Man or just the equinoctial cycle, but one thing is clear, it was known to virtually every ancient culture throughout the globe. In their epic work Hamlet’s Mill Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend document the great year tale and point out it was the number one topic woven into myths and folklore around the ancient world.
Why were our ancestors so fascinated by this subject that they memorized stories that were passed down for thousands of years and built megalithic structures on every continent to monitor this movement? We think it is because the tales are true! That is, as the Sun curves through space carrying the Earth with it, our bodies and our planet move to a region where they are affected by different cosmic forces that indirectly result in the rise and fall of civilization. As mans consciousness expands and contracts, and the cycle plays out, just like a solar year with its seasons, it results in great ages of enlightenment and dark ages of misery. Indeed, the archaeological record shows a broad decline of ancient civilizations beginning about 5000 years ago, a long world wide dark age and then finally a rise in consciousness with the renaissance continuing to the present day. Were the tales and myths and stone henges really just for amusement and farming? Or is Hamlet’s Mill correct: folklore is the scientific language of ancient times, and they were trying tell us of the dark days to come, and trying desparetly to preserve knowledge in the pyramids and megaliths and temples so carefully aligned to the heavens incorporating sophisticated mathematical principles.
This is the story of the Great Year and new scientific evidence to support it. Recent solar system studies seem to indicate that precession is indeed caused by a curving motion of our sun through space. While not yet widely accepted, if true it a startling finding confirming the wisdom of the ancients.
The last and longest period, spanning 4800 years in the half cycle, is the age of Truth and Enlightenment. This is considered to be the period when human intellect can comprehend everything, including God, and the intelligence of man will be highly advanced. In this age, man will work in harmony with the Divine Plan. It is virtually impossible to comprehend at or current stage of development what our consciousness in the Golden Age will be like. However, one can imagine that “outwardly” man will live in perfect harmony with nature and the world will resemble a garden of immense proportions. Some of the myths and fables about Eden, Shangi La and the beauty and peace of the last Golden Age still linger.
THE SILVER AGE
The Mental age as it is commonly referred to lasts for a period of 3600 years. During this period human intellect can comprehend the divine magnetism resulting in advanced human traits such as telepathic communication and perfect memory. Today we think writing is a sign of intelligence, and we believe the simple hieroglyphs evolved into more complex writing. The fact is they devolved into writing, as this is a skill that is superfluous in the higher ages when one can virtually remember and know all. Thankfully, our planet is soon to evolve so quickly that at our current level of awareness we can hardly comprehend our state of consciousness in just a few decades to come, not to mention in the next Yuga. Look back 150 years who could have guessed what it would be like in the year 2000? Not even Jules Verne saw the possibility of gigabit computing, wireless communication, or the hopeful and sometimes scary, possibilities of biotechnology. But most of the upcoming changes will be in consciousness and lifestyle. It is impossible to convey a knowledge of the next cycle to the masses in this cycle, but many highly conscious individuals will intuit its enormous possibilities.
THE BRONZE AGE
Termed as the Electrical or Atomic age, it lasts for a total period of 2,400 years of the Daiva Yuga. This is the period when human intellect can then comprehend fine matter, subtle forces and their attributes, characterized by electrical and atomic-energy developments: the age of telegraphy, radio, airplanes, and other space-annihilators. In the descending period, moving away from the spiritual age there is less material development than in the ascending age where the materialistic influence is still strong. The ties to the prior cycle are slow to change. Thus at the beginning of the ascending Bronze age, man is still very materially oriented but beginning to discover subtle particles and forces and understanding more about energy on both a human and worldly level. It is a very exciting time of discovery but the biggest revelations are soon to be the realization our bodies are simply vehicles made of subtle energies operating in a very real matrix of energy and ideas.
THE IRON AGE
Referred to as the dark and materialistic age, it lasts for a period of 1,200 years in the half cycle. In this age, human intellect is unable to comprehend anything beyond the gross material world that we live in. The descending Iron age lasted from about 702BC to 499AD (a period of great destruction) and the ascending dark age ended about1699AD. Like the seasons they do not stop and start abruptly but after a few hundred years the difference in ages can be well identified.
Bunyoro Kitara
The Empire of Light
Bunyoro is a kingdom in Western Uganda. It was one of the most powerful kingdoms in Central and East Africa from 13th century to the 19th century. It is ruled by the Omukama of Bunyoro. The current ruler is Solomon Iguru I, the 27th Omukama (king) of Bunyoro-Kitara.
Kingdom of Tooro was founded in 1830 when Omukama Kaboyo Olimi I, the eldest son of Omukama of Bunyoro Nyamutukura Kyebambe III of Bunyoro, seceded and established his own independent kingdom. Absorbed into Bunyoro-Kitara in 1876, it reasserted its independence in 1891. Tooro is one of the five traditional kingdoms located within the borders of Uganda. The current Omukama of Toro is King Rukidi IV. The people native to the kingdom are the Tooro, and their language is likewise called Tooro.
Praise Kabalega
National Heru Of Uganda
Praise Omugobe Kabalega
Etituli Kyangire Abemi, he who hates the rebellious
Rukolimbo Nyantalibwa Omugobe,! Rwoota Mahanga!
The Great lion upon the hill who sees all the Sahara
Gracious Lord who always fights with a winning strategy
He who is magnanimous but cruel when provoked.
He who does not wait for battle but attacks the enemy at his fort.
He who never bows and yet causes his enemies to fall
Great father of the palace, giver of peace and comfort
He who provides for his children and educates them
Who feeds their bellies and provides for them nourishment
He who centralizes the state and storing of surplus!
Return always your favor to us!
Ase
List of Omukama (Greatest of Men) Bunyoro Kitara
King Solomon Agutamba Iguru on June 11 ,2017 celebrated 23 years on the throne. He is the 27th King of Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom. You can look at the whole list of his predecessors.
1. Rukidi of Bunyoro – late fifteenth century
2. Ocaki of Bunyoro – late fifteenth/early sixteenth century
3. Oyo Nyiba of Bunyoro – early sixteenth century
4. Winyi I of Bunyoro – early sixteenth century
5. Olimi I of Bunyoro– mid sixteenth century
6. Nyabongo of Bunyoro – mid sixteenth century
7. Winyi II of Bunyoro – late sixteenth century/early seventeenth century
8. Olimi II of Bunyoro – mid seventeenth century
9. Nyarwa of Bunyoro – mid seventeenth century
10.Cwamali of Bunyoro – mid seventeenth century
11. Masamba of Bunyoro – late seventeenth century
12. Anabwani I of Bunyoro, – late seventeenth century
13. Kyebambe I of Bunyoro – late seventeenth century
14. Winyi III of Bunyoro – early eighteenth century
15. Nyaika of Bunyoro – early eighteenth century
16. Kyebambe II of Bunyoro – early eighteenth century
17. Olimi III of Bunyoro – c. 1710-1731
18. Olimi IV of Bunyoro – c. 1782-1786
19. Nyamutukura Kyebambe III of Bunyoro – 1786-1835
20. Nyabongo II of Bunyoro – 1835-1848
21. Olimi V of Bunyoro – 1848-1852
22. Kyebambe IV of Bunyoro – 1852-1869
23. Kabalega of Bunyoro – 1869-1898
24. Kitahimbwa of Bunyoro – 1898-1902
25. Duhaga II of Bunyoro – 1902-1924
26. Winyi IV of Bunyoro – 1925-1967
KINGS OF TORO
The list of the kings of Toro is as follows:
1. Olimi I: 1822 – 1865
2. Ruhaga of Toro: 1865 – 1866
3. Nyaika Kyebambe I: 1866 – 1871 and 1871 – 1872
4. Rukidi I: 1871 – 1871
5. Olimi II: 1872 – 1875
6. Rukidi II: 1875 – 1875
7. Rububi Kyebambe II: 1875 and 1877 – 1879
8. Kakende Nyamuyonjo: 1875 – 1876 and 1879 – 1880
9. Katera: 1876 – 1877 Followed by Interregnum, reverted to Bunyoro:1880 – 1891
10. Kyebambe III: 1891 – 1928
11. Rukidi III: 1929 – 1965
12. Olimi III: 1965 – 1995. Interrupted by Interregnum: 1967 – 1993
13. Rukidi IV: 1993 to date
The Helical Rising of Sirius
The New Year In Africa
The new year is the helical rising of Sirius. That is when the star Sirius can be seen rising with the Sun, which usually occurs in late July or early August. It was never a set date but a set number of days it took. The Sun goes around the Earth every 24 hours. shocked Shocking, yes I know.
Here is the truth:
For Sirius, the arc comes to about 11°. Assuming transparent skies and a minimum altitude of about 3° for sighting Sirius, the heliacal rising of the star would occur with the Sun about 8° below the horizon. For current day Cairo at latitude +30° N, this occurs on the morning of August
3rd.Aug 10, 2016.
All will is magical and based upon 3 things, ritual, focal point and intent. So if your will is to quit bad habits on New Year's Day but you start in the middle of the year mislead by Romans, laughing, you have already lost the focal point. The ritual is whatever you are doing on New Year, setting up a candle, popping champagne, kneeling for prayer, sitting quiet. The focal point is the supposed to be the Sun at the beginning of its journey but it's not! grin The intent is whatever your intent statement is, I will quit smoking, I will lose weight, etc.
The Ancient Egyptians, our ancestors, knew that the Sun went around the Earth. The Yoruba Ogboni Society knows the Sun goes around the Earth, but they hide it. The Ogboni are the police, military of the Oyo Empire, they must be present during the burial of the great King. Sango is Sun-Go, meaning the Sun Go around the Earth not the other way around,Sango is the deity of fire, which is the Sun, whose twin flame is the Moon, Oya. All Alphabets come from Africa. Yoruba is ancient Egyptian language and Yoruba/Egyptian is the root of all languages in Africa and on Earth. Ancient Egyptians invented the world's first Alphabet. But anyway, I just showed you how magical will works! You must thank me one day. grin All praises to Olodumare!
The Moon
The moon is not a solid object, no one has ever gone to the moon or landed upon its surface. The Moon is a heavenly flame that lets out cold light upon the Earth. This cold light affects the temperature of air upon the planet, and when the cold air mixes with the hot air, which hot air is created by the Sun, storms arise! The cold light of the Moon also affects all water temperatures on the Earth, lakes, rivers, ponds, and oceans. We already know the Sun affects waters by heating the waters up. The Moon and Sun are twin flames of each other.
The moon is not a solid object, no one has ever gone to the moon or landed upon its surface. The Moon is a heavenly flame that lets out cold light upon the Earth. This cold light affects the temperature of air upon the planet, and when the cold air mixes with the hot air, which hot air is created by the Sun, storms arise! The cold light of the Moon also affects all water temperatures on the Earth, lakes, rivers, ponds, and oceans. We already know the Sun affects waters by heating the waters up. The Moon and Sun are twin flames of each other.
The Celestial Dome symbolized by the Palace and Tomb of Kings
The Ibimanuka’s royal lineage is rooted in the Rwandan story of the fall to Earth of his ancestor, Muntu, the King of Heaven’s son. As the first human, he became the people’s first father and first ruler as he gloriously created Mankind and founded “The Descents’” dynasty. His spirit lives on through the Ibimanuka, who holds his authority not as a single king, but as the representation of the creation of life.
The Ibimanuka’s royal lineage is rooted in the Rwandan story of the fall to Earth of his ancestor, Muntu, the King of Heaven’s son. As the first human, he became the people’s first father and first ruler as he gloriously created Mankind and founded “The Descents’” dynasty. His spirit lives on through the Ibimanuka, who holds his authority not as a single king, but as the representation of the creation of life.
Rwanda Flowery black tea
This rich, rounded, aromatic black tea summons and savours the timeless splendours of Rwanda. Generous, sweet almond notes reflect the lush green hills and open horizons of a land where humanity rose from unions of earthly women and Ibimanuka, princes of heaven. The palate-refreshing optimism of sunflowers relishes the ebullience of this first love, while a hint of rose petals serves to remind us that we are all the grandchildren of God.
Keys to understanding and unlocking Ancient myth:
1. One of the keys to the symbolism of Rwanda’s oral literature is “Urwanda ni isi yoseâ€: Urwanda is the whole world.
2. second key follows from the first: “Muntu ni se w’Abantu bose†- Muntu is the Father of all Humans
3. Existence on this plane, called Urwanda/Earth/ is that time goes through cycles, so instead of evolution we have a time cycle of the Great Wheel. The Great Wheel being the 25, 000 cycle of heavenly stars, Illuminaries, some fixed in position and turning as a whole, while others called planets, wandering stars are rotational planes above us.
4. Mankind starts out glorious in the Age of Leo and then falls slowly down from the Golden Age, to the Silver Age, then the Bronze Age and finally the Iron Age. All civilizations look back at their ancestors who live at a higher state they were as time progressions according the Great Wheel. Again the Great Wheel is the 360 degree sky of lights turning above us which guides this plane. So in essence civilization rises and falls and rises again in cycles.
ORAL LITERATURE:
The Legend of Gihanga within the community of Abavandimwe
Long time ago there lived a man called Gihanga.He was the son of Kazi ka Muntu and Nyirarukangaga.Kazi ka Muntu was a great grand son of Kigwa.He was a son of the fallen people (Ibimanuka).Gihanga on his part was of mixed blood.Although his father was a son of the fallen people,Nyirarukangaga,his mother was a daughter of the earth found-the Basangwabutaka.For this reason,he is regarded as the true first human king of the earth.He was father to eight children who are at the center of founding a big percentage of the Kivandimwe clans.His children are given as ; Nyirarucyaba,Gahima(Kanyarwanda),Sabugabo(Kanyandorwa),Gashubi,Ngabo(Kanyabungo),Rutsobe,Mugondo(Kanyabugesera or Kagesera) and Gafomo. Some accounts suggest that his eldest son and heir Gahima(Kanyarwanda) is the father of Gatutsi-the ancestor of all Batutsi,Gatwa-the ancestor of all Batwa and Gahutu, ancestor of all the Bahutu.Batutsi,Batwa and Bahutu are the peoples of Rwanda,Burundi and by some percentage, Uganda,Congo and Tanzania
Creation Story
Ubucurabwenge, or The Forging of Consciousness.
According to Rwanda's ancient lore, Gihanga was born in Rweeya, in the northeast of Rwanda. His father was Kazi ka Muntu, the Root of Man. Kazi was the last of the Ibimanuka, "the Descents", or the heaven-descended kings who founded the Rwanda dynasty. But Gihanga's mother, Nyirarukangaga, was the daughter of Nyamigezi, who was the King of the "Earth-Born" or the "Found-on-the-Earth," Abasangwabutaka, the people whom the "Descents", Ibimanuka, had found "below", when they landed on planet Earth, Urwanda. The ruling clan of these Earth-Born was known as "Abazigaaba".
Quotes from elsewhere in the region;
Gihanga was the first monarch of the Nyiginya/hindiro dynasty, folklore state that his second name Ngomijana stood for the fact that his reign lasted a hundred folds that of normal reigns by successive kings according to legend. JaJa Code-Africa , THE ancient CWEZI PEOPLE of Uganda and Rwanda.
The Legend of Gihanga within the community of Abavandimwe
Long time ago there lived a man called Gihanga.He was the son of Kazi ka Muntu and Nyirarukangaga.Kazi ka Muntu was a great grand son of Kigwa.He was a son of the fallen people (Ibimanuka).Gihanga on his part was of mixed blood.Although his father was a son of the fallen people,Nyirarukangaga,his mother was a daughter of the earth found-the Basangwabutaka.For this reason,he is regarded as the true first human king of the earth.He was father to eight children who are at the center of founding a big percentage of the Kivandimwe clans.His children are given as ; Nyirarucyaba,Gahima(Kanyarwanda),Sabugabo(Kanyandorwa),Gashubi,Ngabo(Kanyabungo),Rutsobe,Mugondo(Kanyabugesera or Kagesera) and Gafomo. Some accounts suggest that his eldest son and heir Gahima(Kanyarwanda) is the father of Gatutsi-the ancestor of all Batutsi,Gatwa-the ancestor of all Batwa and Gahutu, ancestor of all the Bahutu.Batutsi,Batwa and Bahutu are the peoples of Rwanda,Burundi and by some percentage, Uganda,Congo and Tanzania
Creation Story
Ubucurabwenge, or The Forging of Consciousness.
According to Rwanda's ancient lore, Gihanga was born in Rweeya, in the northeast of Rwanda. His father was Kazi ka Muntu, the Root of Man. Kazi was the last of the Ibimanuka, "the Descents", or the heaven-descended kings who founded the Rwanda dynasty. But Gihanga's mother, Nyirarukangaga, was the daughter of Nyamigezi, who was the King of the "Earth-Born" or the "Found-on-the-Earth," Abasangwabutaka, the people whom the "Descents", Ibimanuka, had found "below", when they landed on planet Earth, Urwanda. The ruling clan of these Earth-Born was known as "Abazigaaba".
Quotes from elsewhere in the region;
Gihanga was the first monarch of the Nyiginya/hindiro dynasty, folklore state that his second name Ngomijana stood for the fact that his reign lasted a hundred folds that of normal reigns by successive kings according to legend. JaJa Code-Africa , THE ancient CWEZI PEOPLE of Uganda and Rwanda.
The Kingdom of Rwanda was one of the oldest and the most centralized kingdoms in the history of Central and East Africa.
Its state and affairs before King Gihanga is largely unconfirmed and highly shrouded in mythical tales.
List
Abami b'imishumi (descendants of Ibimanuka gods) – B.C.E
Gihanga
Kanyarwanda I Gahima I
Rumeza I
Yuhi I Musindi
Rumeza II[1]
Nyarume[1]
Rubanda[1]
Ndahiro I Bamara (Wamala)
Ndahiro II Ruyange
Ndahiro III Ndoba
Ndahiro IV Samembe
Nsoro I Samukondo
Nsoro II Byinshi
Ruganzu I Bwimba
Cyilima Rugwe
1st Abami Bibitekerezo (1st Common Era Kings)
Kigeli I Mukobanya
Mibambwe I Sekarongoro I Mutabazi
Yuhi II Gahima II
Ndahiro V Cyamatare
2nd Abami Bibitekerezo (2nd Common Era Kings)
Ruganzu II Ndoli
Karemera Rwaka
Mutara I Nsoro III Semugeshi
Kigeli II Nyamuheshera (1576–1609)
Mibamwe II Sekarongoro II Gisanura (1609–1642)
Yuhi III Mazimpaka (1642–1675)
Cyilima II Rujugira (1675–1708)
Kigeli III Ndabarasa (1708–1741)
Mibambwe III Mutabazi II Sentabyo (1741–1746)
Yuhi IV Gahindiro (1746–1802)
Mutara II Rwogera (1802–1853)
Kigeli IV Rwabugiri (1853–1895)
Mibambwe IV Rutarindwa (1895 – November 1896)
Yuhi V Musinga (November 1896 – 12 November 1931)
Mutara III Rudahigwa (12 November 1931 – 25 July 1959)
Kigeli V Ndahindurwa (28 July 1959 – 28 January 1961)
On 28 January 1961 Rwanda became a republic, during the Rwandan Revolution. Afterwards, Kigeli V Ndahindurwa continued to maintain his claim to the throne until his death on 16 October 2016 in Washington, DC.[2] On 9 January 2017, the Royal Council of Abiru announced Prince Emmanuel Bushayija as the new heir to the throne. Prince Emmanuel adopted the regnal name Yuhi VI.
His Royal Highness Kabaka Mwanga II
The Warrior King
His Royal Highness Kabaka Mutesa II
First President of Uganda
History of The Kings of Buganda
After the death of Bbemba, Kintu Kato took over power as king of Buganda kingdom. Its from here that the scholars begun documenting about the kings of Buganda that followed to present. The information about these kings cannot be doubted since many scholars have written about them. In his book Buganda Gye Twasubwa, Dr. Adam Kimala identified the following kings to have ruled the Kingdom of Buganda since the death of Ssekabaka Bbemba.
Below is the list of the Kings of Buganda:
Ssabasajja Ronald Mutebi II
Daudi Chwa II
Edward Wulugembe Muteesa II
Muteesa I
Mwanga II
Kalema Rashid
Kiweewa Muteb I
Ssuuna II
Kamaanya
Jjunju
Kyabaggu
Namugala Lukanga
Mwanga I
Mawanda
Kikulwe
Kagulu Tebuucwereke
Ndawula Kanaakulya
Tebandeke
Kayemba
Jjuuko
Mutebi
Kateregga
Kimbugwe
Ssekamanya
Ssuna I
Jjemba
Mulondo
Nakibinge
Kayima Sennyimba
Kiyimba
Kiggala Mukaabya
Ttembo
Kimera
Ccwa Nnabaka
Kintu Kato
History of Bunyoro and Baganda Kingdoms
Descendants of Chwezi
Busoga Kingdom
His Royal Highness
Kyabazinga of Busoga
William Gabula Nadiope IV
Busoga a traditional Bantu kingdom in Eastern Uganda. We are cultural institution that promotes popular participation and unity among the people of Busoga, through cultural and developmental programs for the improved livelihood of the people of Busoga. We strive for a united people of Busoga, who enjoy economic, social and cultural prosperity. We also continue to enhance, revamp and pave the way for an efficient institutional and management system for the Kyabazinga kingship.
Obwa Kyabazinga bwa Busoga has evolved over years and each Kyabazinga that has presided over Busoga has added a piece to the process. To date, there have been three past Kyabazingas who have presided over Busoga since 1939 as an established federated state of Busoga.
These have been:- Chief Ezekiel Tenywa Wako, who was the first Kyabazinga of Busoga and ascended to the throne in 1939: Yosia Nadiope, and Sir William Wilberforce Nadiope Kadhumbula.
Sir William Wilberforce Kadhumbula succeeded his late father’s (Yosia Nadiope) quick sense of judgement and love for the people. He ridded the kingdom of insecurity; eliminating bad elements in society in the famous operation named Emizindula (war against theft), ended the British policy on the fight against smallpox (Kawumpuli), during which residents were ordered to carry rat tails to Busoga square for counting as evidence that they had really killed the disease agents (rats). This, he saw as a dehumanising act and joined his subjects to denounce the policy, which brought him in conflict with the British administration. As a result he was exiled to Bunyoro where he was called to lead the Basoga into the Second World War.
His war skills and mobilisation ability earned him Queen Elizabeth’s admiration and love. He was honoured with the title Sir among other awards.
He also played a big role in Uganda’s independence struggle and before the end of his career, he had served as the first Vice President of the independent Uganda. He was also the Chairman of Uganda People’s Congress political party (UPC).
He mobilised for the construction of infrastructures like roads, hospitals, government centres like county and sub-county headquarters and most of all mobilising the Basoga to productive farming of both food and crops.
During his tenure of office doubling as the Vice President, Kyabazinga and UPC Chairman, he managed to push for several development projects in Busoga that include construction of schools like the Balangira High School, which later became Busoga College Mwiri.
The Busoga Royal Council is composed of the 11 traditional leaders of Busoga: the heads of the five royal families and the six tribal chiefs.
Title Principality / Chiefdom Head
Zibondo Bulamogi G. W. Napeera
Gabula Bugabula William Nadiope
Ngobi Kigulu Izimba Gologolo
Tabingwa Luuka W. Tabingwa Nabwana
Nkono Bukono C. J. Mutyaba Nkono
Wakooli Bukooli David Muluuya Kawunye
Ntembe Butembe Badru Waguma
Menha Bugweri Kakaire Fred Menya
Kisiki Busiki Yekosofato Kawanguzi
Luba Bunha Juma Munulo
Nanhumba Bunhole John Ntale Nahnumba
Ankole Kingdom
His Royal Highness
Omugabe Asiimwe Ntare Rubambansi
Ankore Kingdom originally spelled, as Ankole Kingdom is one of the traditional four Kingdoms of Uganda. It is located in South Western Uganda in the greater districts of Bushenyi, Mbarara and Ntungamo.
The Kingdom has a long history and has been in existence for the last 600 hundred years. It started around 1400 CE and was founded by Ruhinda Rwa Njunaki who was the son of the last Bachwezi King, Wamala. Through all these years, the Kingdom has expanded to become one of the mightiest kingdoms of the African Great Lakes Region often referred to as the interlacustrine Bantu Kingdoms.
The monarchy headed by Omugabe (King) was, together with other Uganda monarchies, abolished by the Ugandan Government under President Apollo Milton Obote and ever since the government under President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni allowed all Ugandan Kingdoms to be restored in 1993, Nkore Kingdom has doing all possible preparations to make sure, once a mighty kingdom is taken back to its glory.
List of Omugabe of Ankole
Ruhinda - late fifteenth century
Nkuba - late fifteenth century
Nyaika - early sixteenth century
Ntare I - mid sixteenth century
Rushango - late sixteenth century
Ntare II - late sixteenth century/early seventeenth century
Ntare III - mid seventeenth century
Kasasira - late seventeenth century
Kitra - late seventeenth century
Rumongye - late seventeenth century
Mirindi - late seventeenth century
Ntare IV - c.1699-c.1727
Macwa - c.1727-c.1755
Rwabirere - c. 1755-1783
Kahaya I - 1783-?
Rwebishengye - ?-1811
Kayungu - 1811-?
Gasyonga I - ?-1839
Mutambuka - 1839-1873
Ntare V Rugingiza - 1873-1895
Kahaya II - 1895-1944
Gasyonga II - 1944-1967 (abdicated)
interregnum - 1967- Until now
Before the Coming of the Europeans to Africa, Most African communities had their own way of writing, way of counting and the calendar. Among those African communities is Ankole which had a modern 12 Months Calendar used to describe the times (obunaku).
The Calendar Months were named according to the activities in those months and it followed the Lunar and Solar Movements.
The months and activities plus weather conditions in these months are:
January = Biruru a month of harvesting millet.
February= Kaatambuga a month of to much sunshine. Clearing the fields for growing crops (Okujumika ekibiba, Okubanjura ekishaambu)
March = Katumba. A month of heavy rains when beans were sown and potatoes planted.
April = Nyaikoma. A rainy month. Guards had to be set upon the growing millet (Okubanjura).
May = Kyabehezi. The harvest of crops (Maize, Beans, G-nuts). A little rain.
June = Nyairirwe. A little rain, often drought and winds. Clearing the fields for Millet (Okuteera Amasiinde)
July = Kamena. Very hot sun. Some rain. The runners of the sweet potatoes planted.
August = Kicuransi. The rains began to fall and the heat of the sun was less. Small millet sown.
September = Nyakanga. A little rain.
October = Kashwa. A rainy month. Flying ants and edible grasshoppers appear. The millet weeding.
November = Musenene. Heavy rains. Grasshoppers.
December = Muzimbezi. A little rain.
The Year ends.
The Banyankore Calendar should be remembered and should be taught to pupils in schools. With the new Education system called Semantic Curriculum where pupils are taught in their local languages until a certain level, Banyankore should be taught and should learn Runyankore language, cultural values, norms and traditions plus the Civilization of Kaaro Karungi.
The Royal Drum of Ankole
According to Patrick G. N. Kirindi from Ankole, of all the Nkore regalia, the most important is the Bagyendanwa (the companion), which was made by Omuchwezi Wamala at Itaba in Rwampara.
The drum is a source of power, legitimacy and the right to rule. No king is recognised by the Banyankole without it. It is treated like a human being with life, blood and feelings of joy and sorrow.
On occasion, the Bagyendanwa and other drums in the regalia can ‘murmur’ and beat by themselves to express their displeasure and discontent. This happens, until the cause of discontent is found and put right.
Kenya Kingdoms
THE NABONGO MUMIA:
Kingdom on the verge of regaining cultural glory
The Celestial Dome over the Earth
The Ice Wall
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The Great Awakening.
PART 1 & 2
Temple of Dendar
Known as one of the oldest sacred places in Egypt, the first Temple of Hathor at Denderah was built during the Old Kingdom, during the reign of Khufu (2589–2566 BC). The present Temple of Hathor was built in the first century AD by Ptolemies. When Denon first discovered the Temple of Hathor at Denderah in January 1799, he happened into a little stone chapel on the roof, where he found a large circular planisphere, or zodiac. Vivant Denon published the first drawing of the Zodiac in his ‘Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte’. (Paris, 1802). The Zodiac was part of the ceiling of one of the chapels where the resurrection of Osiris was commemorated, on the roof of the great Temple of Hathor. Here, a disc, held up by four women assisted by falcon-headed spirits, represents the vault of heaven. The Dendera Zodiac is one of the most important surviving documents of antiquity. 1822, Claude Lelorrain used explosives to remove the Zodiac, the original Denderah Zodiac is now in The Louvre, France. The zodiac is a planisphere of the stars on a plane projection, showing the 12 constellations of the zodiacal band forming 36 decans of ten days each, and the planets. These decans are groups of first-magnitude stars. These were used in the ancient Egyptian calendar, which was based on lunar cycles of around 30 days and on the heliacal rising of the star Sothis (Sirius). The Dendera Zodiac depicts Twelve zodiacs and the planets; Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Moon, Sirius, Orion, the three known constellations of the north; Draco, Ursa Minor and Ursa Major, and the axis of the temple.
What is the Precession of the Equinoxes? The World Ages measured in the Zodiac provide the ultimate key of understanding to the evolutionary learning cycles of humanity. In Ancient Egypt, the day was divided into 24 hours, 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness. Each hour had a name specifying its force or influence. The months were of two kinds, lunar, 29 days and 30 days. 5 days were consecrated to Osiris, Isis, Horus, Seth and Nephtys. The Sothic Year is 365 1/4 days. The Sothic Year is linked with Sirius and the return to the heliacal rising of Sirius. This is the fixed year or ‘year of God’. The heliacal rising of Sirius can be used to track all celestial movements. 1460 years completes the Sothic cycle. The helical rising of Sirius takes place one day earlier each degree of latitude from North to South. This is a sliding gauge of time. The Ancient Egyptians had exceptional astronomical knowledge and the helical rising of Sirius celebrated the Festival of New Year. The pharaonic Sothic cycle of 1460 years records and predicts the summer solstice advancing 11.5 days in relation to the rising of Sirius. The Solstice gains 11 days per Sothic cycle and the return of the star loses 9 days. The vernal point is displaced by 20 days in 1460 days. The Precession of the Equinoxes is a cycle of 25920 years. The vernal point travels through the twelve constellations. Each twelve months is 2160 years and 3 decans of 720 years. We have also seen these measurements repeated in the great Pyramid- also known as the ‘House of God’.
Aries the Archer
The Thirty-Six Decans
It is my will to use all my abilities to learn ancient astrological magic!
Energy Manipulation
Direction
True Intent
Correspondences
Through the solar year.
# Name Archangel Degrees Governed Date Covered Character Indications
1 Asiccan Mars Aries 1-10 March 21-March 30 reliability, fearlessness, pride and obstinacy.
2 Senacher Sun Aries 11-20 March 31-April 9 nobility of mind, generosity, and ability, to command.
3 Acentacer Venus Aries 21-30 April 10-April 19 quick brain, kindliness, and love of pleasure.
4 Asicath Mercury Taurus 1-10 Apr 20-Apr 29 highest intellectual powers, aptitude for difficult mathematics, legislation: love of achievements in arts, especially architecture.
5 Viroaso Moon Taurus 11-20 Apr 30-May 9 easy ascent to highest spheres of fortune.
6 Aharph Saturn Taurus 21-30 May 10-May 19 obstacles to enterprise, dependance, threats of disaster.
7 Thesogar Jupiter Gemini 1-1O May 20-May 29 aptness for unprofitable abstract sciences.
8 Verasua Mars Gemini 11-20 May 30-June 8 proneness to anxiety, to destruction by striving against the difficulties of life.
9 Thepisatosoa Sun Gemini 21-30 June 9-June l8 carelessness, neglect of own interests, empty-headedness, vanity, enjoyment of mere talk.
10 Sothis Venus Cancer 1-10 June 19-July 3 July vivacious mind. sociable nature, desire for sympathy.
11 Sith Mercury Cancer 11-20 July 4-July 13 leaning to spiteful gossip, love of gain, likelihood of acquiring wealth.
12 Thuimis Moon Cancer 21-30 July 14-July 23 a nature relying on force.
13 Aphruimis Saturn Leo 1-10 July 24-Aug 2 a violent nature with evil passions.
14 Sithacer Jupiter Leo 11-2O Aug 3-Aug 12 a provocative nature with a tyrannical will.
15 Phuonisi Mars Leo 21-30 Aug 13-Aug 22 love for alliances, inflexible obstinacy in adventure even to loss of life.
16 Thumis Sun Virgo 1-10 Aug 23-1 Sep timidity, liking for the sedentary; aptitude for mechanical pursuits.
17 Thopithus Venus Virgo 11-30 Sep 2-Sep ll love of money, avarice.
18 Aphuth Mercury Virgo 21-30 Sep 12-Sep 21 indolence of mind, weakness, non-productiveness, joy in destruction.
19 Semeuth Moon Libra 1-10 Sep 22-Oct 1 a spirit of justice and truth, protection of weak against strong.
20 Aterechinis Saturn Libra 11-20 Oct 2-Oct 11 peaceful life, no ambitions or desire for wealth.
21 Arpien Jupiter Libra 21-30 Oct 12-Oct 21 mainly sensuality.
22 Senthacer Mars Scorpio 1-10 Oct 22-Oct 31 disappointments, plots, hidden and dangerous enemies.
23 Thepiseuth Sun Scorpio 11-20 Nov 1-Nov 10 disappointments, antipathies, revivals of forgotten enmity, onslaught of fresh foes.
24 Sencmer Venus Scorpio 31-30 Nov 11-Nov 20 a sensual nature, tending to violence.
25 Eregbuo Mercury Sagittarius 1-10 Nov 21-Nov 30 love of independence; possible career in armed forces or allied professions.
26 Sagen Moon Sagittarius 11-20 Dec 1-Dec 10 dangers and sorrows.
27 Chenen Saturn Sagittarius 21-30 Dec 11-Dec 20 obstinacy, violence, evil and dangerous tendencies.
28 Themeso Jupiter Capricorn 1-10 Dec 21-Dec 30 travel, good fortune and bad alternate.
29 Epima Mars Capricorn 11-30 Dec 31-Jan 9 intelligence given to useless research in vain enterprises.
30 Homoth Sun Capricorn 31-30 Jan 10-Jan 19 suspicious, irritable, weak nature.
31 Oroasoer Venus Aquarius 1-10 Jan 20-Jan 29 anxiety from actual livelihood; deferred hopes.
32 Astiro Mercury Aquarius 11-30 Jan 30-Feb 8 intelligence, gentleness, manners, personal virtue.
33 Thepisathras Moon Aquarius 21-30 Feb 9-Feb 18 disappointments in all directions.
34 Archathapias Saturn Pisces 1-10 Feb 19-Feb 28 & 29 restlessness, confused ideas, instability and changeableness, pursuit of elusive fortune.
35 Thopibui Jupiter Pisces 11-20 Mar 1-Mar 10 ambition, desire for fame, boldness in enterprise.
36 Athembui Mars Pisces 21-30 Mar 11-Mar 20 indolence, love of pleasure, narrow mind.
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36 Decades via Moon's travel through the 12 houses of the Zodiac
Magic Occurrences.
A Brief Study of the Decans in Astrological Magic
This will be the fifth post in our series on astrological magic. Now that we’ve gone over the placement of the planets, we can start to get into the theory behind magic which draws on the powers of the heavens (the ritual methods and related theory will follow in a later post). Although this post will take us closer to a complete method of astrological magic, you should keep in mind that even with all the information in the series so far, you will probably get very limited results if these posts are all you’re deriving your methods from. Regarding the familiarity you need with the symbols involved in this process, this post really only scratches the surface. I will continue to compile information in this subject, and this series will continue to grow and serve as a reference you can access any time. Please be safe. Feel free to send us an ask if you have any questions.
There is a classical Hermetic method to creating talismans or images concerning any and every body part. I doubt that I will speak of these in detail, because it is such a lengthy subject (I may make a post about it in the future if some necessity arises), but there is some freely accessible information about it available from various online sources. There are also Arabic and Hindu beliefs about the use of different decans for creating talismans or images for countless other purposes, some personal, and others impersonal. I will discuss some of these here. Remember though, to properly use any of the correspondences I’m describing, you will need to have some understanding of the ritual theory involved, and to properly use the ritual theory, you will need some understanding of the symbolism involved. Given that both are equally necessary, I decided to start here.
Every sign in the Zodiac has three decans (they are also sometimes referred to as faces, though decans and faces are often given different ruling planets), which you should familiarize yourself with. Each decan has a subruler (which is usually a different planet than the primary ruler of the sign), and specific properties and symbolic associations, as well as a different visual representation than the sign itself. To find which planet rules each decan, you can think of it this way: Place the sign in question on the ascendant of a hypothetical chart. The first decan is ruled by the planet which rules over the ascendant. The second decan is ruled by the planet which rules over the 5th House. The third decan is ruled by the planet which rules over the 9th House. This is useful to know, especially if you can remember the rulers of each sign and which order they proceed in. To learn how each decan is visually depicted, you should do your own research, because that information is very easy to come by.
Now consider that each decan of the Zodiac can lend you specific beneficial energies for making talismans or other powerful objects, as well as other types of magical work. There are 36 decans total in the Zodiac, and I will briefly describe some of their properties here.
Aries (which is primarily ruled by Mars):
The 1st Decan of Aries is ruled by Mars, and generally lends you a great advantage in any type of battle, literal or figurative. Basically, this face is useful for becoming victorious in a conflict against an enemy.
The 2nd Decan of Aries is ruled by the Sun, and can greatly assist you in gaining the favor of people on powerful positions, or gaining their graces, if they are already short-tempered with you.
The 3rd Decan of Aries is ruled by Jupiter, and can help you bring peaceful resolutions to official conflict, conflict between politicians, and problems among high clergy (as if you’d really want to deal with clergy at all).
Taurus (which is primarily ruled by Venus):
The 1st Decan of Taurus is ruled by Venus, and you can use it to improve the relationship between spouses.
The 2nd Decan of Taurus is ruled by Mercury. This decan is useful if you want to cause conflict between women.
The 3rd Decan of Taurus is ruled by Saturn. This one is good for causing hatred. It’s also a useful sign if you wish to make a man impotent, or to make a woman become disgusted with physical intimacy. You can also use this sign to help destroy romantic relationships.
Gemini (which is primarily ruled by Mercury):
The 1st Decan of Gemini is ruled by Mercury. You can use it to damage the intelligence and cognition of a person.
The 2nd Decan of Gemini is ruled by Venus, which can help you cause missing people to return, or to bring fugitives back to a certain place.
The 3rd Decan of Gemini is ruled by Saturn. It allows you to cause a person’s reputation to be destroyed. People will say hateful things about the person of your choice, and they will likely become subject to some kind of ridicule.
Cancer (which is primarily ruled by the Moon):
The 1st Decan of Cancer is ruled by the Moon. This is a time to call for rain. It can also serve to bring back people who are missing, no matter how they are traveling.
The 2nd Decan of Cancer is ruled by Mars. In this decan, you can try to ward off snow or rain. It also helps you banish snakes and other wild animals, whether you are at sea or on land.
The 3rd Decan of Cancer is ruled by Jupiter. It appears to be best for helping seafaring travelers survive dangerous situations.
Leo (which is ruled by the Sun):
The 1st Decan of Leo is ruled by the Sun. It’s a good time to cast talismans to help you get in the good graces of a politician or another fairly powerful figure. It’s also effective for causing wild predators like bears to gather in the place of your choice (within reason).
The 2nd Decan of Leo is ruled by Jupiter, and it serves to ward off wild predators, which is particularly useful for protecting livestock, or domestic animals.
The 3rd Decan of Leo is ruled by Mars. This decan is used to bring wild predators to places populated by humans.
Virgo (which is Mercurial):
The 1st Decan of Virgo is ruled by Mercury, and you can use this decan to make talismans for assisting you in writing and business.
The 2nd Decan of Virgo is ruled by Saturn, and it’s useful if you’re trying to bring destruction to someone’s tools or writing utensils.
The 3rd Decan of Virgo is ruled by Venus. You can use this decan to make images which keep spouses on good terms with each other.
Libra (which is ruled by Venus):
The 1st Decan of Libra is ruled by Venus. You can use it to make talismans which can strengthen or weaken a woman’s love.
The 2nd Decan of Libra is ruled by Saturn, and can be used to weaken the love of people of any gender.
The 3rd Decan of Libra is ruled by Mercury. This one is useful for talismans which help fugitives return safely.
Scorpio (which is ruled by Mars):
The 1st Decan of Scorpio is ruled by Mars. It’s useful for attracting spiders, snakes, and other venomous creatures to the place of your choice.
The 2nd Decan of Scorpio is ruled by Jupiter, and is useful if you want to make a talisman to repel the aforementioned venomous creatures.
The 3rd Decan of Scorpio is ruled by the Moon. This decan is good for talismans reducing the severity of rainstorms, or redirecting them altogether. In general, this decan is useful for preventing water damage of all kinds.
Sagittarius (which is ruled by Jupiter):
The 1st Decan of Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, and here you can make talismans which assist love, friendship, and good will.
The 2nd Decan of Sagittarius is ruled by Mars. This is a good time to make talismans for causing health problems and illness in any person you choose.
The 3rd Decan of Sagittarius is ruled by the Sun, and talismans made in this decan can help you get into the good graces of bosses, and of people in positions of great power.
Capricorn (which is ruled by Saturn):
The 1st Decan of Capricorn is Saturn’s. Talismans from this decan can aid people who hunt for food, and can also help increase the yield and quality of milk from farm animals who lactate.
The 2nd Decan is ruled by Venus. This decan supports talismans which help goats yield more milk (which will be of great interest to one of our mods), and to aid the health and population of bees in the area of your choice. You can also use this decan to make talismans which draw birds to the place of your choice.
The 3rd Decan of Capricorn is ruled by Mercury. This decan is basically only useful for making talismans which intend to destroy the things which are aided by the first two decans of Capricorn. I really hope you don’t ever see fit to use this.
Aquarius (which is ruled by Saturn):
The 1st Decan of Aquarius is ruled by Saturn. It’s useful for creating talismans to aid friendship with elderly people regardless of whether they are powerful or in a lower social class. This is also a good time to make talismans which can help you find hidden treasures of any kind.
The 2nd Decan of Aquarius is ruled by Mercury. This decan is good for making talismans which help you make friends with young or youthful people.
The 3rd Decan of Aquarius is ruled by Venus. This decan is particularly useful if you want a talisman to help you make friends with women, or to gain the love of women.
Pisces (which is ruled by Jupiter):
The 1st Decan of Pisces is ruled by Jupiter. This decan is good for making talismans which aid one in fishing, and in safe seafaring.
The 2nd Decan of Pisces is ruled by the Moon. At this time you can make effective talismans for helping plants (especially plants which bear fruit). You can also make talismans to call the rain or cause fish to gather at the location of your choice (only in bodies of water, of course).
The 3rd Decan of Pisces is ruled by Mars. Talismans made at this time can be made for successful military ventures, as well as successful hunts.
Before you begin any work, it’s important to know that every planet corresponds to certain materials (specific metals, stones, and sometimes types of glass) which effectively conduct their respective powers. For reference, here is a master list of many of the things ruled over by the planets, signs, and fixed stars.
It might also also important for you to learn the 7 groups of constituents of nature, each group consisting of 4 basic constituents. There are 28 such constituents of nature in all (according to this particular system of symbolism, of course). You can find information on these in almost any introductory volume on the occult, but in particular, I find Henry Cornelius Agrippa to be a good source for information of this kind. These 28 constituents correspond to the 28 Mansions of the Moon, and Pythagorean numerology also finds 28 to be a very important number, so it appears that this system has been thoroughly developed over a very long period of time, and you might benefit from doing some independent research on the numerological importance of the number 28 in various occult and philosophical traditions.
Taurus the bull
There are 10 days in the Decan and the Sun and its 7'children'.
3 Decans x 12 Triads = 36 Decans of 10 Days
36 x 10 Days = 360 Days
1 Day for each °Degree of the Earth's orbit
These are the 360 standard calendar days of the year, shown in the white circle on the graphic
Added to the 5 Intercalary Days these form the 365 Days of a standard year
The Bachwezi
Return of the Chwezi
The Cwezi or the Bachwezi were an ancient people on the source of the Nile river believed to have lived and ruled peacefully the ancient empire of Kitara or Empire of the Sun from perhaps 25,000 BCE up until *1200 CE. They were said to be demi-godly in nature and possessed a high intellect in addition to paranormal capabilities. However, legend has them shrouded in great mystery, yet they remain revered and praised across the western parts of great rift valley of East Africa particularly in most cultures of Uganda and are heard about through Tutsi oral traditions. The Cwezi are still worshiped by tribes in Ankole, Toro, Buganda, Bunyoro,East Congo, Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda.
Varying schools of thought suggest Cwezi were part of the superhuman races, or remnants of such ancient people/beings that may have landed in the Nile valley from around 5000 BCE or pre-historic times, establishing great civilizations along it’s banks from deeper areas past Lake Tanganyika around Zimba-za Mabwe ( Zimbabwe)-Houses of stones (ruins) through to the Nile delta, Cwezi (Suez) canal and Sumeria.A time period that may have seen the constructions of great Khamitic and Sudanic pyramids and ancient Kushitic civilizations.Let’s also not rule out that, these mysterious people may have been fathers of the great Kings and Queens of khmt,Kush and Nubia or of the same blood or part of the group of known Sudanic and Khamitic Gods but not just ancients of Uganda.
The Empire of Kitara (Empire of Light), also known as Bunyoro-Kitara, refers specifically to the Kingdom of the bakitara at the time of its greatest expansion, which had rulership that stretched throughout the Nile valley and overseas. The Chwezi Empire had fragmented into various autonomous states towards the 1400s.
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(Nyoro/Uganda)
The pantheon of Chwezi (Cwezi) spirits constitutes the traditional religion of Bunyoro. The Chwezi, a mystical people who came to Bunyoro many years ago, ruled the country for some generations, then strangely disappeared. They possessed marvelous skills and miraculous powers. The Chwezi constitute a pantheon of contemporary effective spirits, each identified with one of the long-dead if not mythical Chwezi, and each possessing its own individuality and special competence. These spirits are not thought of as the ghosts of real men who died long ago, but rather as unchanging, timeless powers. Before the Chwezi came, there was an earlier dynasty of kings, the last king being Isaza. During his reign, this mysterious people came with cattle from the north and north-east. It is said that they were red and had long straight hair, and by superior magic and ability they obtained supreme power. They set up the empire of Bunyoro-Kitara, and moved with their cattle in search of grazing. The Chwezi built forts and knew the use of bronze.
Ndahura was the son of a Chwezi, Isimbwa, by the daughter of Buchunku, King Isaza's gatekeeper. Ndahura grew up a proud and arrogant young man. When he inherited the kingdom, he extended its boundaries and divided it up among the Chwezi. In the time of his son, Wamara, there was a series of plagues, cattle died, people no longer rendered obedience, and above all there was a plague of smallpox. In disgust, the Chwezi departed. Some say they disappeared in the lakes. When they had gone, people concluded that they were gods who had vanished into the earth, and their spirits were believed to live in large trees and rocks. Ndahura became the god of smallpox. When the Chwezi vanished from the country they left behind them a cult of spirit mediumship of which they themselves were the objects; they thereby bequeathed to the Nyoro people a permanent means of access to the magical wisdom and power that they represented.
Another Origin
An interesting group of people found in east Africa subregion of Rwanda and Uganda are the Ancient Cwezi. They are sometimes called the Bachwezi people. They are believed to have ruled the empire of the Sun or KITARA from 10,000BC to 1500 AD. Kitara later turned into Bunyoro-Kitara in 500C.E after disintegration into numerous smaller kingdoms led by brothers and kins.
These inhabitants were believed to be extra-terrestrial bodies or demigods because they possessed supernatural powers. Their physical appearance were also said to be distinct from the average human; they were much taller with a distinct head shape. They are worshipped and called upon by the Ugandans to intervene during crises. Among the Rwandans and Burundi people, they are referred to as Ibimanuka meaning “those who landed as gods”. Cwezi are still worshiped by tribes in Ankole,Toro,Buganda,East Congo,Tanzania,Burundi and Rwanda.
HUMANS OR GODS
Although the origin of these superhuman remains largely controversial, oral tradition from the Tutsi is largely relied on. A school of thought is of the opinion that these mysterious people may have been fathers of the great Kings and Queens of Kush, Nubia and Khamiti or of the same blood or part of the group known as Sudanic and Kamitic gods but not just ancients of Uganda.
Modern scholars however rely on the availability of ancient relics to ascertain the presence of these extra-terrestrial bodies. Hence, Modern theorists cast the Cwezi to have arrived in the western part of Uganda around 500 C.E from the north of the Nile planting seeds of leadership while introducing more organized kingdoms in the east African region. This conception is believed to be erroneous by Gakondo, an African writer. He opined that much of modern write ups about the history of Cwezi were fabricated during the colonial age.
In his yet to be published book, he stated that The cwezi ruled Kitara empire which stretched from modern day Eastern Congo, western/eastern parts of Uganda, Kano plains of Kenya to Karagwe, Rwanda and Burundi but not secluded around lake George and Albert as previously assumed. Their bloodlines went on to form modern day kingdoms of Toro, Buganda, Ankole, Rwanda and Burundi and perhaps lost kingdoms of the Kongo and Zanj.
Oral legend further states that Bacwezi were half gods and half humans while some writers describe them as beings with one foot on earth and another foot astral thus the belief to have held and combined an alien quality with that of Earth.
WITCHCRAFT OR AFRICAN SCIENCE?
Oral tradition describes the Cwezi to have been very tall, dark to dark-brown and sometimes brown with supernatural abilities and practiced teleportation and telekinesis.
While modern scientists are still dumbfounded on how the Giza pyramids were constructed, it is believed that it was largely through telekinesis that 30 ton blocks of rocks were lifted miles from South Sudan to Cairo in the construction of Pyramids. The initial weight of granite before transportation to Giza was more than 30 ton in weight before final block was precisely cutout using a lost magic/laser technology into desired shape and size that only people of the time knew so well. The rocks were not chiseled out and conveyed up with primitive tools as modern scientists purport. Gakondo went further to say that such presumption came from an idea forced on by belief in accepted hypothesis by secular paleontologists that, nothing ancient should be intelligent than that which we have today, in their quest to validate paleolithic age as that of a primitive Human.
Cwezi were reported to have possessed super natural powers and a laser technology that simplified mega works of Masonry. They were also described to be clairvoyant and could telepathically read thoughts and foresee events. Oral legend say that Cwezi could disappear and reappear in an instant and as such they simply disappeared when about to die or when an imminence of danger felt inevitable or when in urgent need to travel afar. This also suggest that they may have been influencing other parts of Africa or the world at the same time. Maybe in Mali or southern Africa considering similar account of such beings on oral tales of the Bambara people, the Ife of West Africa and the San people of Kalahari.
The aspect of air travel using mysterious powers was reported of Cwezi. This phenomenon or ability to levitate and defy gravity and conduct air travel on a Mat to far away distances was still practiced by people of Gisaka (Kibungo) in Rwanda and Karagwe until the late 1980s when evangelical Christianity took root into east Africa and discouraged heirs and guardians of that secret knowledge from practicing the mysticism which got labeled as Witchcraft. Later, most custodians of that knowledge faced extermination in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Unconventional Air travel among Africans was well known within certain tribes long before western discovery of aerodynamics. This ability to travel without modern technology may have been additional aid in ancient migrations of groups to far corners of the planet and even to outer planets.
Africans air traveled using mysterious science prior to western discovery of principles of Aerodynamics. Such practices are well known among the Banyagisaka of Rwanda and Karagwe and was characteristic of the Cwezi people.
CWEZI HERITAGE
Cwezi were great cattle keepers and are still credited for introducing the long horned Ankole Cows around the Nile source region. They are said to have been great sportsmen and enjoyed archery, high jump, spear throwing (Javelin), sprinting and wrestling. They also introduced and played the Board game (Omweeso,ekisoro,igisoro) common in Africa.
Although the CWEZI people were mostly vegetarians, they had high tolerance for lactose. During ritual sacrifices, only a virgin cow was considered. They were involved in hybrid farming which included plants and animals. For some, the CWEZI people were either herbalists or spiritualist. They were great warriors but they adjudicated for peace, hence, when there is war or when danger is imminent, they simply disappeared to a peaceful territory only to reappear unseen later. It is said among the Ankole culture that voices of CWEZI people who disappeared can still be heard as they go about their normal activities unseen.
The activities of the CWEZI clan has prompted the emergence of a longtime religious cult known as ABALANGA, ABARUNGI or ABALANGI gods”.
PARANORMAL BLOODLINES
It is believed that only special royal bloodlines possessed paranormal powers like the Cwezi. King Rwabugiri IV the great, an ancient Rwandan king was believed to have possessed paranormal powers along with one of his wives. Muhumuza. Rwabugiri was the first king to meet with the Europeans, he resisted slave trade and saved the remains of the Rwandan borders during the scramble and partition for Africa.
Also these bloodlines begun breaking the customary laws practicing forbidden customs such as eating prohibited meats, foods, certain fish, reptiles, marrying into hostile or forbidden bloodlines, murdering, breaking oath, abominations, inciting and obtaining curses, abandoning own customs, sodomy, laying down with animals etc. Ability to possess these mystical powers survived among some African peoples until 19th century when heavy interbreeding between clans, tribes and races took place therefore weakening special bloodlines.
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THE ancient CWEZI PEOPLE of Uganda and Rwanda.
Posted on August 4, 2012 by Gakondo
The Cwezi or the Bachwezi were an ancient people on the source of the Nile river believed to have lived and ruled peacefully the ancient empire of Kitara or Empire of the Sun from perhaps 25,000 BCE up until *1200 CE. They were said to be demi-godly in nature and possessed a high intellect in addition to paranormal capabilities. However, legend has them shrouded in great mystery, yet they remain revered and praised across the western parts of great rift valley of East Africa particularly in most cultures of Uganda and are heard about through Tutsi oral traditions. The Cwezi are still worshiped by tribes in Ankole, Toro, Buganda, Bunyoro,East Congo, Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda.
Varying schools of thought suggest Cwezi were part of the superhuman races, or remnants of such ancient people/beings that may have landed in the Nile valley from around 5000 BCE or pre-historic times, establishing great civilizations along it’s banks from deeper areas past Lake Tanganyika around Zimba-za Mabwe ( Zimbabwe)-Houses of stones (ruins) through to the Nile delta, Cwezi (Suez) canal and Sumeria.A time period that may have seen the constructions of great Khamitic and Sudanic pyramids and ancient Kushitic civilizations.Let’s also not rule out that, these mysterious people may have been fathers of the great Kings and Queens of khmt,Kush and Nubia or of the same blood or part of the group of known Sudanic and Khamitic Gods but not just ancients of Uganda.
Ancient rock painting of super humans possibly Cwezi
Cave painting depicting the arrival of strange headed men in sub-Saharan Africa roughly 25,000 BCE
Cwezi may have been of the bloodline of the offsprings of super races (Batembuzi) that stemmed from those millennia and far exceedingly perhaps; were of extraterrestrial in origin.
Modern scholars disregard strong physical remains in addition to oral legend around the source of the Nile as evidence.Ancient sites of their residence and activities were confirmed at BIGO BYA MUGENYI which is thought to have been the principle base and capital of their rulership within the interlacustrine region of East Africa.More sites are at Ntusi and Toro dating from time unknown to around the 16th century.
Also, contrary to* European staunch belief in physical evidence, Africans traditionally put strong emphasis on keeping records and information orally;and as such, a strong oral tradition of passing down historical information and other important knowledge as well as saving records in form of artifacts has been observed, maintained and handed down to younger generations from time to time in almost amongst all African peoples, since time immemorial.The timeless secret teachings passed down through word of mouth, rituals or sometimes encrypted into songs, temples and art crafts concealed and enshrined behind a veil of hieroglyphs and symbolism.
Modern theorists cast the Cwezi to have arrived in the western part of Uganda around 500 C.E ( a major misconception) from the north of the Nile planting seeds of leaders and introducing more organized kingdoms in the east African region.
The Cwezi ruled Kitara empire which stretched from modern-day Eastern Congo, western/ eastern parts of Uganda, Kano plains of Kenya to Karagwe, Rwanda and Burundi but not secluded around lake George and Albert as previously assumed. Their bloodlines went on to form modern day kingdoms of Toro, Buganda, Ankole, Rwanda and Burundi and perhaps lost kingdoms of the Kongo and Zanj.
Oral legend further states that Bacwezi were half gods and half humans while some writers describe them as beings with one foot on earth and another foot astral thus the belief to have held and combined an alien quality with that of Earth.
Cwezi Qualities
Oral tradition describes the Cwezi to have been very tall, dark to dark-brown and sometimes brown with supernatural abilities and practiced teleportation and telekinesis.
While modern scientists are still dumbfounded on how the Giza pyramids were constructed, it was largely through telekinesis that 30-ton blocks of rocks were lifted miles from South Sudan to Cairo in the construction of Pyramids. The initial weight of granite before transportation to Giza was more than 30 ton in weight before final block was precisely cut out using a lost magic/laser technology into desired shape and size that only people of the time knew so well.The rocks were not chiseled out and conveyed up with primitive tools as modern scientists purport.Such presumption came from an idea forced on by belief in accepted hypothesis by secular paleontologists that, nothing ancient should be intelligent than that which we have today, in their quest to validate paleolithic age as that of a primitive Human.
Cwezi were reported to have possessed supernatural powers and a laser technology that simplified mega works of Masonry. They were also described to be clairvoyant and could telepathically read thoughts and foresee events.Oral legend says that Cwezi could disappear and reappear in an instant and as such they simply disappeared when about to die or when an imminence of danger felt inevitable or when in urgent need to travel afar.This also suggests that they may have been influencing other parts of Africa or the world at the same time. Maybe in Mali or southern Africa considering the similar account of such beings on oral tales of the Bambara people, the Ife of west Africa and the San people of Kalahari.
The aspect of air travel using mysterious powers was reported of Cwezi.This phenomenon or ability to levitate and defy gravity and conduct air travel on a Mat to far away distances was still practiced by people of Gisaka (Kibungo) in Rwanda and Karagwe until the late 1980s when evangelical Christianity took root into east Africa and discouraged heirs and guardians of that secret knowledge from practicing the mysticism which got labeled as Witchcraft. Later, most custodians of that knowledge faced extermination in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Unconventional Air travels among Africans was well known within certain tribes long before the western discovery of aerodynamics.This ability to travel without modern technology may have been an additional aid in ancient migrations of groups to far corners of the planet and even to outer planets.
Africans air traveled using mysterious science prior to the western discovery of principles of Aerodynamics.Such practices are well known among the Banyagisaka of Rwanda and Karagwe and were characteristic of the Cwezi people.
A group of Men and Women from N.W Tanzania who are last custodians of the secret science of Levitation and Flying using simple objects such as a Mat or basketry being paraded and mocked by Christian members of the community accused of witchcraft.Many have been victims of Mob justice.
Cwezi expressed a lot using giant stones by balancing them on top of other stones in order of perfect alignments and juxtapositions,… for perhaps astronomical observations of the equinoxes, solstices, and abstract concepts.
Sites of heaps of extremely large granite/rocks and large slabs intelligently arranged can be seen from Zimbabwe to South Sudan.Some of these heaps of giant rocks were left behind during quarrying expeditions for quality rocks in the construction of Pyramids and Obelisks.The rocks are also thought to have been used as tools in mystic sourcing of energy and perhaps in interstellar communication.
Some European writers on the subject previously tried to describe Cwezi as “white Caucasians who came down the Nile river and ruled indigenous Bantu Africa”! An argument which stands unfounded and perhaps interpreted as an attempt to hijack this crucial but unique piece of hidden East African history by western academic theorists.There is no way the Cwezi were Caucasians and if it were true, most Bantus in the western Uganda and Rwanda would today have been of mixed race in appearance like modern day North Africans for instance who were conquered by Macedonian Greeks in 3 century B.C.E followed by Romans then Persians in 618 C.E along with Turks and Arabs.Further still, Bantus would look like Indians of Asia or Brazilians as evidently some Bahima, Banyankole, Batusi, Batoro and Banyoro are a people with Cwezi genetic heritage who appear truly African and thus dark in complexion and physically indigenous.
It is suspected that Cwezi intermarried with Bantus thereby bringing about offsprings that formed modern East Africa’s Royal lineages. Their gene may have remained among the Bahima, Batusi (Tutsi), Batoro, some Banyoro,Nyamulenge, northern Tanzania clans i.e Mburu, Masaai, royal Baganda of Uganda (Barangira), Herero and Himba , Sidama and original Galas of Ethiopia (a large number of modern Galas of Ethiopia are to a certain percentage mulatto due to Eurasian invasions and rape of the females through centuries). Cwezi were great cattle keepers and are still credited for introducing the long horned Ankole Cows around the Nile source region.
Sub-Saharan Cattle rock painting 7000 years old
Ankole/Watusi Cow as depicted in ancient Egypt.Cows were held supreme in KMT. This is a celestial Cow of Re that served as a medium between Gods and Humans
Ankole Cow seen in ancient Egyptian depiction
Hima /Tutsi with their long-horned Cattle
They are said to have been great sportsmen and enjoyed archery, high jump, spear throwing (Javelin), sprinting and wrestling. They also introduced and played the Board game (Omweeso, ekisoro, igisoro) common in Africa.
A walk through video of the Ekisaakaate Project
EKISAKAATE PROJECT (Royal Enclosure)
INTRODUCTION
Ekisaakaate is the traditional enclosure of a homestead of a local chief in Buganda. Traditionally, the children would be taken to the Kabaka’s loyal chiefs where they would be groomed into responsible adults of the future. Future kings too, were never spared this noble inculcation. Ekisaakaate was a prime institution where a child was exposed development of character, leaning of valuable life skills as well as discovery of new interests through practical training. Hence, the alumni of this informal education and training institution were the model icons of society in manners, discipline, responsibility, cultural norms and values of the Baganda.
Although the training in the kisaakaate was purposely for the boys, the girls were also attended to through the training offered under the auspices of the paternal aunties (bassenga). They acquired skills in domestic affairs, parenthood and family development The boys too, who underwent the KISAAKAATE training became respectable fathers with the best qualities of leadership.
Ekisaakaate together with the aunties’ training therefore, prepared the young ones for the future, equipped them with life skills to counteract the challenges in life. Hence, such sayings as:
“Weeyisa nga atali Muganda!” (you behave like a non – Muganda)
“Tewatuuzibwa” (you were never counseled)
“Omuganda tayisa atyo!” (A Muganda does not behave thus) and many others would be used to express dismay about someone who behaved in a way dissimilar to that of the kisaakaate trainees
Modern civilization however has accelerated moral decadence and societal degeneration. The scramble for economic survival and earthly wealth and prowess has betrayed parents with irresponsibility and hence exposed their children to horrible temptations. The parents today do not have time to spare for their children. The commercial aunties (bassenga) of today just sow seeds of obscenity and immorality. Today’s generation has missed out on their grannies’ love and tenderness simply because modern parents have shunned their parents’ role in bringing their grandchildren. As a consequence the children grow up not only alienated from their roots but also from the wealth of the life experience owned by the cultured grannies that are still living.
The schools where the children now spend most of their time are after academic excellence and would never sacrifice their valuable time for a venture that is commercially meaningless. Programs for the life skills that are provided on the school timetable are just gambled with because the facilitators are more comfortable with exam oriented curriculum.
Hence, for the concern of our nation, salvaging and redirecting the people of our Mother Buganda, Uganda and the Baganda in diaspora into a secure and peaceful path, the Ekisaakaate put into action to strive after handle responsibly the challenges imposed by politics, economics, society, ideology, foreign, culture, religions and technology.
IDENTITY AND LOCATION
The Ekisaakaate Program is a semi-autonomous body under guidance of the NDF board.
Its office is currently located in Bulange Building at Mengo and works closely with the Office of Her Royal Highness, The Nnaabagereka (Queen of Buganda.)
GOAL
Ensure that our people in the Buganda Kingdom and Uganda in general build and achieve a holistic, transformational and sustainable development in our society.
MISSION
To nurture a new and holistic society by educating people on the basis of SEE, LEARN and ACT.
VISION
Being a foundation for the new and holistic society
OBJECTIVES
The Ekisaakaate Program aims to achieve mainly the following socio-economic and education objectives:
To instill and strengthen self-knowledge, self-belief and self control in the people.
To instill and strengthen responsibility, good leadership and good moral values in the people, ethical conduct, integrity, decorum and politeness.
To instill and strengthen in the people the potential to invent and to become rich through the right means.
To instill and strengthen the potential in the people in order to protect and defend their social and physical environment and to use it in the most profitable manner.
To instill and strengthen in the people the zeal to keep their bodies fit and healthy.
To instill and strength in the people their faith in God and justice.
To instill and strengthen in the people the love for the Luganda language and to use it well.
I wanna dance by Kansiime Anne
Children's music
AQWCLN is a voluntary non-profit network of Queens and Cultural Women Leaders, united to foster African Cultural Solutions that build positive gender and cultural norms to accelerate the well-being of women and children by using our tremendous heritage to serve as an important engine for social and economic development. AQWCLN aims to build a strong network of Queens, Queen Mothers, Princesses and other Women Cultural Leaders that will act as a meaningful and effective partner in enabling Africa to fulfill its aspirations as a unified, peaceful and prosperous continent. It will leverage cultural influence, power and legitimacy at policy and grassroots levels to fulfill its objectives.
The African Queens and Women Cultural Leaders’ Network (AQWCLN) was launched from 3rd – 6th September 2013 in Kampala, Uganda. The Network brings together African Queens, Queen Mothers, Princesses and Women Cultural Leaders to improve the lives of women, girls and children in Africa. AQWCLN works in partnership with the African Union and the Regional Economic Communities and is supported by the United Nations and other partners.
AQWCLN Membership includes African Women Cultural Leaders in the following categories: Mothers of Kings & Sultans; Wives of Kings, Sultans & Princes; Leaders by Blood & Lineage/Heredity; Women within the traditional Council of Elders as defined by cultural institutions (Women appointed by traditional authorities and Women appointed as Development & Community Queens).
The key role of AQWCLN in Africa’s Development Agenda is to be an effective partner for the brokerage, advocacy and implementation of innovative initiatives for the advancement and empowerment of women and girls and the fulfillment of their social, economic and cultural rights.
VISION
We the AQWCLN desire a unified, peaceful, prosperous and dignified Africa where women and girls enjoy their full range of social, economic, political and cultural rights, especially their sexual and reproductive rights; where men and women have equal access to opportunities with traditional and cultural institutions playing a leading role in development.
MISSION
The Mission of AQWCLN is to establish meaningful partnerships with traditional and Cultural Women Leaders from all over Africa towards creating a continent wide positive culture revival for the implementation of programs to protect and promote the rights, welfare and development of women and girls.
OBJECTIVES
The Objectives of AQWCLN are to:
• Promote positive cultural values & practices & eradicate of harmful traditional practices;
• Enhance Peace and Security across Africa;
• Expand access to quality healthcare and improved health outcomes and quality of life for women and girls (including reducing infant and maternal mortality);
• Improve access to quality education for girls and ensure retention and foster girls completion in education at all levels/basic education
• Promote women’s economic empowerment and leadership;
• Support efforts to alleviate poverty, and provide local solutions to promote food security.
The Magic of GrandMama
New Evidence That Grandmothers Were Crucial for Human Evolution
A computer simulation supports the idea that grandmothers helped our species evolve social skills and longer lives
For years, anthropologists and evolutionary biologists have struggled to explain the existence of menopause, a life stage that humans do not share with our primate relatives. Why would it be beneficial for females to stop being able to have children with decades still left to live?
According to a study published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the answer is grandmothers. “Grandmothering was the initial step toward making us who we are,” says senior author Kristen Hawkes, an anthropologist at the University of Utah. In 1997 Hawkes proposed the “grandmother hypothesis,” a theory that explains menopause by citing the under-appreciated evolutionary value of grandmothering. Hawkes says that grandmothering helped us to develop “a whole array of social capacities that are then the foundation for the evolution of other distinctly human traits, including pair bonding, bigger brains, learning new skills and our tendency for cooperation.”
The new study, which Hawkes conducted with mathematical biologist Peter Kim of the University of Sydney and Utah anthropologist James Coxworth, uses computer simulations to provide mathematical evidence for the grandmother hypothesis. To test the strength of the idea, the researchers simulated what would happen to the lifespan of a hypothetical primate species if they introduced menopause and grandmothers as part of the social structure.
In the real world, female chimpanzees typically live about 35 to 45 years in the wild and rarely survive past their child-bearing years. In the simulation, the researchers replicated this, but they gave 1 percent of the female population a genetic predisposition for human-like life spans and menopause. Over the course of some 60,000 years, the hypothetical primate species evolved the ability to live decades past their child-bearing years, surviving into their sixties and seventies, and eventually 43 percent of the adult female population were grandmothers.
How would grandmothers help us live longer? According to the hypothesis, grandmothers can help collect food and feed children before they are able to feed themselves, enabling mothers to have more children. Without grandmothers present, if a mother gives birth and already has a two-year-old child, the odds of that child surviving are much lower, because unlike other primates, humans aren’t able to feed and take care of themselves immediately after weaning. The mother must devote her time and attention to the new infant at the expense of the older child. But grandmothers can solve this problem by acting as supplementary caregivers.
In the hypothesis—and in the computer simulation—the few ancestral females who were initially able to live to postmenopausal ages increased the odds of their grandchildren surviving. As a result, these longer-lived females were disproportionately likely to pass on their genes that favored longevity, so over the course of thousands of generations, the species as a whole evolved longer lifespans.
But why would females evolve to only ovulate for 40 or so years into these longer lives? Hawkes and other advocates of the hypothesis note that, without menopause, older women would simply continue to mother children, instead of acting as grandmothers. All children would still be entirely dependent on their mothers for survival, so once older mothers died, many young offspring would likely die too. From an evolutionary perspective, it makes more sense for older females to increase the group’s overall offspring survival rate instead of spending more energy on producing their own.
Hawkes goes one step further, arguing that the social relations that go along with grandmothering could have contributed to the larger brains and other traits that distinguish humans. “If you are a chimpanzee, gorilla or orangutan baby, your mom is thinking about nothing but you,” she says. “But if you are a human baby, your mom has other kids she is worrying about, and that means now there is selection on you—which was not on any other apes—to much more actively engage her: ‘Mom! Pay attention to me!’”
As a result, she says, “Grandmothering gave us the kind of upbringing that made us more dependent on each other socially and prone to engage each other’s attention.” This trend, Hawkes says, drove the increase in brain size, along with longer lifespans and menopause.
The theory is by no means definitive, but the new mathematical evidence serves as another crucial piece of support for it. This could help anthropologists better understand human evolution—and should give you another reason to go thank your grandmother.
Nilithotic Peoples
Moral Code of Sexual Conduct
Dinka culturally, are more restrictive than being permissive in their
sexuality, more especially, young boys and girls are expected to abstain
from sex until the time of their marriage.
Women in Dinka culture ,lesbianism is totally forbidden among the same sex, it can be punishable in accordance Dinka’s customary law which drafted and passed in to law in Tonj or Wath-alel.
Incest; Sex between relatives are completely prohibited in dinka culture since it causes sex linked-diseases such as hemophilia and STDs.
Most Dinka elders do prevent young people from sexual immorality by setting up the following rules in Tonj.
Women in Dinka culture ,lesbianism is totally forbidden among the same sex, it can be punishable in accordance Dinka’s customary law which drafted and passed in to law in Tonj or Wath-alel.
Incest; Sex between relatives are completely prohibited in dinka culture since it causes sex linked-diseases such as hemophilia and STDs.
Most Dinka elders do prevent young people from sexual immorality by setting up the following rules in Tonj.
A prohibition on dwelling on lascivious or immoral thoughts.
A prohibition on staring at members of the opposite sex, particularly at the reproductive anatomy.
A requirement to keep most of one’s body clothed in respectable clothing.
A requirement to avoid the company of uncouth individuals and avoid frequenting places where an atmosphere of levity and depravity prevails.
A prohibition on looking at pictures or scenes that will be sexually arousing.
A prohibition on touching a person of the opposite sex, especially in a lingering arousing manner. See
A prohibition on wearing the clothing of a member of the opposite sex.
A prohibition on looking at animals copulating.
A prohibition on erotically hugging or kissing one’s spouse in public,
A prohibition on sexual contact or touching between spouses when the wife is a (“men truant”) or has not immersed in following the menstruation period.
A prohibition on seclusion with a person of the opposite sex who is not a spouse or close relative
A requirement that men and women be separated during prayer, dancing, and on certain other occasions
A prohibition on secreting semen in vain” by men. There is no equivalent prohibition for women since there is no secretion. However, masturbation by women is considered to be a lewd act and is thus included in the general commandment “And you shall be holy”.
A prohibition on sex between men, or with any type of animal, or with a corpse.
Relative Positions of the Sun, Moon and Stars
Sidereal Day = 23 Hours 56 Minutes
Solar Day = 24 Hours
Lunar Day = 24 Hours and 50 Minutes
As the sun goes around the Earth every 24 hours it loses 1 degree on the stars/Illuminates as they encircle the Earth. The Moon loses 12 degrees to the Sun.
Section II: The Images of the Decans (�Faces�)
The decans were also called (or had associated with them, it is unclear) �faces� or �figures,� because the Greeks, Hindus, and Babylonians attributed a human or divine figure to each one.[27] These figures clearly have a religious background, as some sources attribute gods to them[28] (and my guess is that they could be related to the leitourgoi or munifices, see above). Later, the images were used for magical purposes (i.e., the Picatrix, and Agrippa).
Following are three versions of the images associated with the decans:
Ibn Ezra�s description of �the Hindus�� images. These are more motley images, often featuring animals and humans with animal parts.
The Picatrix�s images. These often include the animals or unusual features of �the Hindus�� images, but come with more explicit meanings similar to Agrippa�s.
Agrippa�s versions of the images, along with what they signify. These lose their animal symbolism, are more streamlined, and come with specific meanings relating to human emotions and pursuits.
I have compared the descriptions to the constellations that rise with the decans, as well as the two systems of decan rulership (by Chaldean order or speed, and by the rulers of the triplicity), but have so far been unable to find consistent reasons why the images and meanings are what they are, both between different decans and in terms of how the three sources differ. The answer may lie in the divinities associated with the decans, sources for which I have so far not consulted.
First Decan of Aries
Ibn Ezra: A head in the form of a dog with a candle in its left hand and a key in its right hand. Banbakha[29] says it is a Moor; his eyes are black, and his eyebrows are stright, and he is of the giants� race. He is self-laudatory and is wrapped in a large white cloak with a rope girdle on it; he is irascible and stands on his feet.
Picatrix: The form of a black man, restless and great in body having red eyes and holding a cutting axe in his hand, girded about with white garment; and there is great worth in this face. And this is a face of strength, high rank, and wealth without difference.
Agrippa: A black man, standing and clothed in a white garment, girdled about, of a great body, with reddish eyes, and great strength, and like one that is angry; and this image signifieth and causeth boldness, fortitude, loftiness, and shamelessness.
Second Decan of Aries
Ibn Ezra: The figure of a women draped in clothes and a mantle, and she has one leg, and she has the form of a horse.
Picatrix: A woman dressed in green clothes and lacking in one leg. And this is a face of high rank, nobility, worth, and kingship.
Agrippa: A woman, outwardly clothed with a red garment, and under it a white, spreading abroad over her feet, and this image causeth nobleness, height of a kingdom, and greatness of dominion.
Third Decan of Aries
Ibn Ezra: A yellow man whose hair is reddish, and he is irascible and contentious, and in his hand are bracelets of wood and a wand, and his clothes are red, and he is a blacksmith, and he desires to do good but he cannot.
Picatrix: An inquiet man holding in his hands a gold bracelet, and dressed in red clothes, who desires to do good and is not able. And this face is one of subtlety, and of subtle professions, and of new things and instruments, and the like.
Agrippa: A white man, pale, with reddish hair, and clothed with a red garment, who carrying on the one hand a golden bracelet, and holding forth a wooden staff, is restless, and like one in wrath, because he cannot perform the good he would. This image bestoweth wit, meekness, joy and beauty.
First Decan of Taurus
Ibn Ezra: A woman with hair, who has a son, and who wears clothes partly burnt.
Picatrix: A woman of curly hair, having a single child who is dressed in clothes like unto fire, and she herself dressed in similar clothes. And this is a face of plowing and working the earth, of sciences, geometry, of sowing seed, and making things.
Agrippa: A naked man, an archer, harvester, or husbandman, and goeth forth to sow, plough, build, people and divide the earth, according to the rules of geometry.
Second Decan of Taurus
Ibn Ezra: A man that resembles a ram in his face and in his body, who has a wife that resembles an ox. His fingers are like goat�s hoofs, and that man is very hot and gluttonous, and does not give his soul any rest. He builds land and drives the oxen to plow and sow.
Picatrix: A man like the figure of a camel and having on his fingers are hooves like those of cows, and he is covered completely with a torn linen sheet. He desires to work the land, to sow, and to make things. And this is a face of nobility, power, and of rewarding the people.
Agrippa: A naked man, holding in his hand a key; it giveth power, nobility, and dominion over people.
Third Decan of Taurus
Ibn Ezra: A man whose feet are white and so are his teeth, which are so long that they can be seen outside his lips. His complexion is reddish and so is his hair, and his body resembles that of an elephant and a lion, and he is not reasonable, and all his thoughts are toward evil, and he is sitting propped up. There also ascends a horse, and a dog, and a small calf.
Picatrix: A man of ruddy coloring with large, which teeth appearing outside of his mouth, and a body like an elephant whose legs are long; and there ascends with him one horse, one dog, and one calf. And this is a face of laziness, poverty, misery, and fear.
Agrippa: A man in whose hand is a serpent, and a dart, and is the image of necessity and profit, and also of misery and slavery.
First Decan of Gemini
Ibn Ezra: A beautiful woman standing in the air, and she can sew.
Picatrix: A beautiful woman, a mistress of sewing; and with her ascends two calves and two horses. And this is a face of the art of the scribe, of reckoning, of number, of giving and receiving [i.e., trade], and of the sciences.
Agrippa: A man in whose hand is a rod, and he is, as it were, serving another; it granteth wisdom, and the knowledge of numbers and arts in which there is no profit.[30]
Second Decan of Gemini
Ibn Ezra: A black man with his head bound in lead, and a weapon in his hand, and an iron helmet of his head, and on the helmet there is a silk crown, and in his hand a bow and arrows. He likes ridicule and mockery, and he walks around in a garden that has trees and flowers, and in his hand scales stones. He strikes them with his hand, and plays music, and picks flowers from the garden.
Picatrix: A man whose face is like an eagle and his head is covered with a linen cloth; he is garbed and protected in a leaden cuirass, and on his head an iron helmet upon which is a silken wreath; and he is holding in his hand a bow and arrows. And this is a face of burden and also of evils and of subtlety.
Agrippa: A man in whose hand is a pipe, and another being bowed down, digging the earth; and they signify infamous and dishonest agility, as that of jesters and jugglers; it also signifies labours and painful searchings.
Third Decan of Gemini:
Ibn Ezra: A man seeking arms who has a bow and a quiver, and in his hand an arrow and clothing and golden ornaments, and he desires to play music and laugh and mock in all sorts of ways.
Picatrix: A man garbed with a cuirass holding a bow and arrows, and a quiver. And this is a face of boldness, honesty, and the division and alleviations of labor.
Agrippa: A man seeking for arms, and a fool holding in the right hand a bird, and in his left a pipe; and they are the significations of forgetfulness, wrath, boldness, jests, scurrilities, and unprofitable words.
First Decan of Cancer
Ibn Ezra: A handsome young man, wearing clothes, and he has some sickness, and in his face and fingers there is some crookedness, and his body resembles that of a horse and an elephant, and his feet are white, and on his body are hanging ornaments in the shape of trees, and he sits in an orchard that grows fragrant stalk.
Picatrix: A man having twisted and crooked fingers and head; and his body is like the body of a horse, and having white feet and upon his body fig leaves. And this is a face of teaching, knowledge, of love, subtlety and of skills.
Agrippa: A young virgin, adorned with fine clothes, and having a crown on her head; it giveth acuteness of senses, subtlety of wit; and the love of men.
Second Decan of Cancer
Ibn Ezra: A beautiful maiden with pleasant speech, on her head a myrtle crown, in her hand a wooden stick, and she desires wind and music.
Picatrix: A woman of beautiful visage, and having on her head a green wreath of myrtle, and in her hand is the stem of the planet which is called the water lily, she is singing songs of love and joy. And this is a face of playing, and of wealth, joy and abundance.
Agrippa: A man clothed in comely apparel, or a man and woman sitting at the table and playing; it bestoweth riches, mirth, gladness, and the love of women.
Third Decan of Cancer
Ibn Ezra: A man whose foot resembles that of an animal, and on his body there is an animal, and he intends to enter a ship to go to sea and bring gold and silver to make rings for his wives.
Picatrix: A Celhafe[31] and he holds a serpent in his hand holding before him golden chains. And this is a face of running, riding, and acquiring in war in strife and contrariety.
Agrippa: A man, a hunter with his lance and horn, bringing out dogs for to hunt; the signification of this is the contention of men, the pursuing of those who fly, the hunting and possessing of things by arms and brawlings.
First Decan of Leo
Ibn Ezra: A large tree on whose branches there is a dog and a vulture, and a man wearing pretty clothes, though dirty, and he is about to hit his father.
Picatrix: A man dressed in filthy garments; and there ascends with him the figure of a lord of the horse looking toward the north; and his figure is like the figure of a bear and the figure of a dog. And this is a face of strength, liberality, and victory.
Agrippa: A man riding on a lion; it signifieth boldness, violence, cruelty, wickedness, lust and labours to be sustained.
Second Decan of Leo
Ibn Ezra: A man whose nostrils are fine, on his head there is a shape of a crown of white myrtle, and a bow in his hand. He is fierce like a lion in his anger, and he is wrapped in a cloak that looks like a lion.
Picatrix: A man having a crown of white myrtle on his head and in his hand a bow. And this is a face of beauty, of riding, and of the rising up of a man who is ignorant and vile; and it is a face of war, and of naked swords.
Agrippa: An image with hands lifted up, and a man on whose head is a crown; he hath the appearance of an angry man, and one that threateneth, having in his right hand a sword drawn out of the scabbard, and in his left a buckler; it hath signification upon hidden contentions, and unknown victories, and upon base men, and upon the occasions of quarrels and battles.
Third Decan of Leo
Ibn Ezra: An ugly black man, laborious, intelligent, with delicacies in his mouth and meat in his hand.
Picatrix: An old man black and foul, holding fruit and meat in his mouth and a jug covered with copper in his hand. And this is a face of love and delight, and trays [of food?][32] and of good fortune.
Agrippa: A young man in whose hand is a whip, and a man very sad, and of an ill aspect; they signify love and society, and the loss of one�s right for avoiding strife.
First Decan of Virgo
Ibn Ezra: A maiden wrapped in a cloak, and wearing worn out clothes, with a jug in her hand, and she stands in myrtle, and she wants to go to her father�s house.
Picatrix: A beautiful girl covered over with a woolen sheet and holding in her hand a pomegranate. And this is a face of sowing, of plowing, of the making of trees to sprout, of gathering bunches of grapes and of the good life.
Agrippa: The figure of a good maid, and a man casting seeds; it signifieth getting of wealth, ordering of diet, plowing, sowing, and peopling.
Second Decan of Virgo
Ibn Ezra: A black man, all covered with hair. On him are three garments, one of leather, the second of silk, and the third is a red mantle, and in his hand an inkwell in order to reckon.
Picatrix: A man of beautiful color, dressed in leather and upon the vestment of leather another vestment of iron. And this is a face of petition, of desires, and of wealth, of tribute and the denying of things that are just.
Agrippa: A black man clothed with a skin, and a man having a bush of hair, holding a bag; they signify gain, scraping together of wealth and covetousness.
Third Decan of Virgo
Ibn Ezra: A white woman who is self-laudatory; she is wearing a dyed mantle, her hands are leprous and she is praying to God.
Picatrix: A pale man of large body wrapped in a white linen cloth, and with him a woman holding in her hand black olive oil. And this is a face of weakness, old age, illness, sloth, the injury of limbs, and the destruction of the people.
Agrippa: A white woman and deaf, or an old man leaning on a staff; the signification of this is to show weakness, infirmity, loss of members, destruction of trees, and depopulation of lands.
First Decan of Libra
Ibn Ezra: A man in a shop in the market with scales in his hand, and he wishes to buy and sell.
Picatrix: A man holding a lance in his right hand but in the left a bird hanging by its feet. And this is a face of justice, truth, good judgments, the completeness of justice of the people and weak person, of doing good for the indigent.
Agrippa: An angry man, in whose hand is a pipe, and the form of a man reading in a book; the operation of this is in justifying and helping the miserable and weak against the powerful and wicked.
Second Decan of Libra
Ibn Ezra: A man in the form of an eagle, and he is naked and thirsty, and he is about to fly in the air.
Picatrix: A black man having a journey of marriage and joy. And this is a face of quiet, joy, abundance, of the good life.
Agrippa: Two men furious and wrathful, and a man in a comely garment, sitting in a chair; and the signification of these is to show indignation against the evil, and quietness and security of life with plenty of good things.
Third Decan of Libra
Ibn Ezra: A man whose face resembles that of a horse, with a bow and arrows in hand.
Picatrix: A man upon a donkey, and before him a wolf. And this is a face of evil works, sodomites, adultery, of songs, joy, and of taste.
Agrippa: A violent man holding a how, and before him a naked man, and also another man holding bread in one hand, and a cup of wine in the other; the signification of these is to show wicked lusts, singings, sports and gluttony.
First Decan of Scorpio
Ibn Ezra: A beautiful woman, her body is red and she is eating.
Picatrix: A man holding a lance in his right hand, but a human head in his left. And this is a face of disposition, sadness, evil will, and hostility.
Agrippa: A woman of good face and habit, and two men striking her; the operations of these are for comeliness, beauty, and for strifes, treacheries, deceits, detractions, and perditions.
Second Decan of Scorpio
Ibn Ezra: A woman who has left her house; she is naked and has nothing on and she is entering the sea.
Picatrix: A man riding upon a camel holding a scorpion in his hand. And this is a face of knowledge, modesty, disposition, of one who speaks evilly one to another.
Agrippa: A man naked, and a woman naked, and a man sitting on the earth, and before him two dogs biting one another; and their operation is for impudence, deceit, and false dealing, and for to send mischief and strife amongst men.
Third Decan of Scorpio
Ibn Ezra: A dog, and two pigs, and a big leopard with white hair, and various prey animals.
Picatrix: A horse and a rabbit with it. And this is a face of evil works and taste, and joining oneself with women by force and with them being unwilling.
Agrippa: A man bowed downward upon his knees, and a woman striking him with a staff; and it is the signification of drunkenness, fornication, wrath, violence, and strife.
First Decan of Sagittarius
Ibn Ezra: A naked man, from his head down to his havel it is the figure of a man, and from the navel down, it is in the shape of a horse, in his hand a bow and arrows, and he is shouting.[33]
Picatrix: Three bodies of men of which one is yellow, another white, but the third red. And this is a face of heat, weight, of fructifyingi n fields and on lands, of sustaining and dividing.
Agrippa: A man armed with a coat of mail, and holding a naked sword in his hand; the operation of this is for boldness, malice, and liberty.
Second Decan of Sagittarius
Ibn Ezra: A beautiful woman with a lot of hair, wearing clothes and earrings in her ear, and in front of her there is an open chest containing golden ornaments.
Picatrix: A man who leads cows, and holding/having a monkey and a bear before him. And this is a face of fear, lamentation, mourning, misery, and inquietude.
Agrippa: A woman weeping, and covered with clothes; the operation of this is for sadness and fear of his own body.
Third Decan of Sagittarius
Ibn Ezra: A man whose color of complexion is golden, and in his hand [something that looks] like a wooden earring, and he is covered with a door made of tree bark.
Picatrix: A man holding a cap on his head and killing another man. And this is a face of evil inclinations, of adverse and evil effects and of swiftness in these same things and in evil inclinations, of hostility, dispersion, and of doing evilly.
Agrippa: A man like in color to gold, or an idle man playing with a staff; and the signification of this is in following our own wills, and obstinacy in them, and in activeness for evil things, contentions, and horrible matters.
First Decan of Capricorn
Ibn Ezra: An irascible black man, his body is like that of a wild boar, with much hair, and his teeth are sharp and long as beams, and he has a cattle goad, and he catches fish.
Picatrix: A man holding a pipe in his right hand but a hoe in his left hand. And this is a face of happiness, joy, and the scattering of tasks and laziness with weakness and unceasing evils.
Agrippa: A woman, and a man carrying full bags; and the signification of these is for to go forth and to rejoice, to gain and to lose with weakness and baseness.
Second Decan of Capricorn
Ibn Ezra: A black woman covered with a mantle and she has a horse.
Picatrix: A man having before him half of a monkey. And this is a face of seeking matters which can in no way be, nor does anything prevail to touch upon these matters.
Agrippa: Two women and a man looking towards a bird flying in the air; and the signification of these is for the requiring of those things which cannot be done, and for the searching after those things which cannot be known.
Third Decan of Capricorn
Ibn Ezra: A beautiful woman, though black, and her hands are skilled in all kinds of work and spinning of silk.
Picatrix: A man holding a book and opening and closing it, and having before the book the tail of a fish. And this is a face of riches, the accumulation of money and the ascent of business affairs tending toward a good end.
Agrippa: A woman chaste in body, and wise in her work, and a banker gathering his money together on the table; the signification of this is to govern in prudence, in covetousness of money, and in avarice.[34]
First Decan of Aquarius
Ibn Ezra: A black man who is skilled in copper.
Picatrix: A man who has his head cut short [off?][35] and who holds in his hand a peacock. And this is a face of misery, poverty, and of a slave who deals with crumbs.
Agrippa: A prudent man, and of a woman spinning; and the signification of these is in the thought and labor for gain, in poverty and baseness.
Second Decan of Aquarius
Ibn Ezra: A very black man whose beard is long and in his hand a bow and arrows, and purses that contain precious stones and gold.
Picatrix: A man like unto a king who values himself much and who shuns those whom he sees. And this is a face of beauty and of position, of having that which one seeks, of completeness, of harm and of weakness.
Agrippa: A man with a long beard; and the signification of this belongeth to the understanding, meekness, modesty, liberty and good manners.
Third Decan of Aquarius
Ibn Ezra: And angry and deceitful black man who has hair in his ear, and on him a crown from the leaves of a tree, and he turns from place to place.
Picatrix: A man with his head shortened [cut off?][36] and who has an old woman with him. And this is a face of abundance, of the perfection of the will, and of insulting behavior.
Agrippa: A black and angry man; and the signification of this is in expressing insolence, and imprudence.
First Decan of Pisces
Ibn Ezra: A man wearing beautiful clothes, in his hand an iron instrument, and he is going home.
Picatrix: A man who has two bodies and is like he is going to salute with both hands. And this is a face of peace and humility, of weakness, of many journeys, of misery, of seeking wealth, and the lamenting of one�s manner of living.
Agrippa: A man carrying burdens on his shoulder, and well clothed; it hath his signification in journeys, change of place, and in carefulness of getting wealth and clothes.
Second Decan of Pisces
Ibn Ezra: A beautiful white woman, sitting in a ship at sea, and she wishes to go out on land.
Picatrix: A man turned around backwards holding his head downwards, and his feet upwards lifted up on high, and in his hand a tray of something to be eaten. And this is a face of reward and of strong will in matters which are high, burdensome and valued, and of thinking.
Agrippa: A woman of a good countenance, and well adorned; and the signification is to desire and put one�s self on our about high and great matters.
Third Decan of Pisces
Ibn Ezra: A naked man putting his foot on his belly, in his hand a lance, and he is shouting out of fear of robbers and fire.
Picatrix: A sad man and of evil thoughts thinking on deceptions and treachery; and before him a woman and an ass ascending over her, and in her hand a bird. And this is a face of ambition and of lying with women with a great appetite, and of seeking quiet and peace.
Agrippa: A man naked, or a youth, and nigh him a beautiful maid, whose head is adorned with flowers; and it hath his signification for rest, idleness, delight, fornication, and for embracing of women.
The stars do move very slowly, about 1 degree every 70 years, so you should be able to work out where the stars were when you were born. The degrees I have included are correct for the year 2014. I have listed the stars in zodiac degree order from the ones at the start in the sign of Aries through to the last sign Pisces. I hope you will find this a hugely helpful resource to aid you in your own astrological work. By the way, when it comes to how close the connections have to be in order for them to be effective, I use a very close orb of influence of 1 degree either side of the star.
Deneb Kaitos 02° 48' Aries – In the tail of Cetus the whale, this star is one of limitation, restriction and laziness but it also brings a charitable nature too. It encourages you to face up to your demons or opponents and gives you the strength to overcome them.
Alderamin 12° 59' Aries – The main star in the constellation of Cepheus the King. A star of gentle authority and strength, it brings honour and the ability to make reasoned decisions without being being too forceful against others.
Alpheratz 14° 31' Aries – A star in the Andromeda, this is a star of speed, freedom and movement and it brings a bit of a devil may care attitude to any planet or angle it hits. This star allows quick and decisive decisions to be made.
Baten Kaitos 22° 10' Aries – A rather unfortunate star in the belly of Cetus the Whale. The older stargazers mentioned that this star was linked to shipwreck, misfortune and accidents and it seems that one’s successes may at some point be severely tested or a great downturn in one’s fortunes can ensue.
Al Rescha 29° 35' Aries – This star in Pisces is the knot connecting the two fish of this constellation swimming in opposite directions. In the same way this star allows one to tie together different strands and ideas and combine them into a whole or it can indicate that you may not be stable in your point of view shifting from one position to another. This is generally a unifying influence and a generally peaceful one at that.
Mirach 00° 37' Taurus – Mirach sits in Andromeda, the Princess. This is a star that makes one very receptive to new things as well as being quite promiscuous as a person; it is also known to be linked to personal obsessions too. This is a creative star which encourages you to use your intuition and it brings much interest in the arts and in culture.
Hamal 07° 52' Taurus – A star in Aries the ram, this is a headstrong influence of independent action and it bestows a strong will. One will not take no for an answer and this can lead to success as well as confrontation and difficulties with people in charge.
Schedar 07° 59' Taurus – A star in Cassiopeia, the queen it embodies the values of female dignity and of using ones feelings and intuition to make the right decisions. This is a gentle star where wisdom and common sense is used ahead of conflict and anger.
Menkar 14° 32' Taurus - Sitting in the mouth of Cetus the Whale, this star is one of turbulence and also of insight. If harnessed correctly, this star can allow one to understand what the majority or collective want and need however it can also cause much disturbance in one’s life and leave one vulnerable and isolated.
Orion
Capulus 24° 24' Taurus - A difficult and potentially violent star in the sword of Perseus, this is reflective of male sexual energy. It brings a ruthless side to your character, is brutal, direct and decisive. There is much passion here, but it can get out of control and encourage you into taking savage and uncompromising action.
Algol 26° 22' Taurus - This star represents the head of the Medusa held in the hand of Perseus. Known as the demon star, Algol has a fearsome reputation depicting female sexual energy. Here is tremendous passion, intensity and determination that can be used for either good or thoroughly evil intentions. This is a star that can drive one to great heights or may lead one into hugely upsetting situations.
Alcyone 00° 12' Gemini - This is the brightest star in the Pleiades, a cluster of stars in Taurus. This is a star of wanting to gain insight but is also one that can make you angry and judgemental too and thus too narrow minded for your own good. There is a link to death, mourning and to sorrow with this star.
Mirfak 02° 17' Gemini – This star in Perseus the warrior, is a star of great energy and fearlessness. It can make you dive into action without considering your options and thus it may make you rash or unwise. Here is an influence that will encourage you to take on anything new and exciting, however you may overestimate your limits or abilities.
Aldebaran 10° 00' Gemini - A royal Persian star in Taurus the Bull. This is a star of great honour and success so long as you stick to the rules and do things by the book. This star can predict a great downfall in one’s life if one tries to cut corners or does things in an unethical manner.
Rigel 17° 02' Gemini - Rigel sits in the foot of Orion and is a star of learning and teaching. This star makes one want to gain wisdom and knowledge and to spread it to others as well. This star can lead one into education, politics and community work where one can make a difference to those around you.
Bellatrix 21° 09' Gemini – Another star in Orion, Bellatrix is known as the Amazon star or the conqueror. This is a star of gaining success but in the process you will expose your weaknesses too. One may have to face problems and troubles as a necessary price for doing well.
Capella 22° 04' Gemini - This star resides in the constellation of Auriga, the Charioteer. This is a star that encourages you to act and think in an uninhibited manner, one will not want to be tied down or restricted in any way. It also is a star of fairness and parity and it will want you to act in an even handed manner.
Phact 22° 22' Gemini – This star is found in the constellation of Columba, the dove and it is an star of spreading your wings and exploring new things ideas and places. It is quite a brave star and one that allows you to venture into the unknown, be it in a physical or intellectual way.
Taurus
El Nath 22° 47' Gemini - This star sits at the tip of the north horn of Taurus the Bull. It is an aggressive star as the horns are used as a weapon and a form of defence. This star can encourage one to act in a polarising manner, for good or for bad, to save and bring life or to destroy and to kill.
Alnilam 23° 40' Gemini – This star sits on the buckle of the belt of Orion. This is a star of bringing different objects together, allowing one to hold disparate ideas and people under one banner. One can take what is known and expand on it, improve it or make a new object out of it, thus one can build a new objects, groups and ideas that will stand the test of time.
Polaris 28° 46' Gemini – This is the pole star sitting in the constellation of Ursa Minor, the little bear. This star for centuries has been used by sailors and explorers for direction finding and making your way, and the same interpretation carries over here as one will be a pathfinder if a planet or angle is connected to it.
Betelgeuse 28° 57' Gemini – This star sitting in the constellation of Orion is one of the most fortunate stars in the heavens. If one is lucky enough to have a connection to Betelgeuse, then it will enhance one’s talents and will bring one power and unbridled success, without any hindrance. Remember, if one’s intentions are bad, then this star will encourage and help these too.
Murzims 07° 23' Cancer – Murzims sits in the constellation of Canis Major, the large dog and has the nickname the announcer. This is a star that helps you to speak out or be very vocal on issues that are important or it may mean that one has a message for others that they should hear.
Alhena 09° 18' Cancer - Alhena is found in the constellation of Gemini in the heel of one of the twins. It is also known as the marching one and it brings the concept of promoting a cause, having an idea and running with it or following the ideas and views of others behind one “marches”. In doing so, one may have to suffer some pain, but it will be a price that one will believe is worth paying.
Sirius 14° 17' Cancer - Sirius is also in Canis Minor and is the brightest star in the heavens, known as the Scorcher or the Shining One. It is connected to getting praise and success for the ordinary things that you do, but any fame may not be lasting and it may end in a blaze of ignominy just as quickly as it began. There is also a link to acts of selfless kindness and assistance that project one into the spotlight, going from anonymity to suddenly being in the spotlight.
Canopus 15° 09' Cancer – This star is part of the constellation Carinae, the keel part of the Argo, the great ship of the Southern skies. This is a star of taking voyages and of travel in connection to your work or career. This is also a star of leadership and making your mark on the world but as this star has connections to the end of the world, there is a dark and foreboding sense of the power it exudes.
Castor 20° 26' Cancer - Castor is one of the twin stars in Gemini. It’s presence and influence on the planets and angles of a chart is one of creativity, of writing and seeing things in a very poetic and optimistic manner. This star brings a lightness of touch and maybe a naivety to the way ones expresses oneself without seeing the darker side and more difficult side of things.
Pollux 23° 25' Cancer - Pollux is the other of the twins in Gemini and this star makes one express one’s ideas and views in a darker and much more sinister manner than Castor does. The nature of Pollux is to learn through experiencing hardship and rather than using words to solve a problem, here one will use a more aggressive and physical approach to get to one’s desired outcome.
Procyon 25° 59' Cancer – This star sits in the constellation of Canis Minor, the small dog. This is a star of transition and of changing from one state to another. In a similar vein, one must take advantage of all the opportunities that come along under this star as they will briefly fade. This is a star of short term success and gains, of doing well or being flavour of the month before retreating back to where you came from.
Melleff (Praesepe) 07° 36' Leo – This is a nebula of stars known as the beehive sitting in the constellation of Cancer. As one might think, this contributes the nature of being busy all the time and buzzing around. It is connected to business success as one is always on the go and active. There can be a love of or need for stimulants such as tobacco or other drugs as well as an appreciation of rich food and drink.
Acubens 13° 51' Leo – This star is also in Cancer and it is connected to the cycles of live and of death. This star may bring a very optimistic outlook on life as well as in interest in resurrection and what happens to us when we pass on into spirit. One may be drawn to interests and professions where one enters or one leaves, from recruitment and human affairs to medical careers and even undertakers.
Dubhe 15° 24' Leo – Dubhe is the main star in Ursa Major, constellation of the great bear. This star is a gentle one of huge strength, persistence and endurance and if you have this star connected to your planets then you will be able to put up with all manner of problems in a calm and unhurried way. It gives intuition and understanding that what goes up must come down and everything works in cycles, so one’s time and opportunities will always come around again.
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Alphard 27° 29' Leo – This star sits in the constellation of Hydra, the Serpent. This can be a very turbulent and emotional star and if the energy of it is prevented from being expressed openly then it can provoke extreme violence and tumultuous outbursts of anger and rage. There is great passion and obsession here to take advantage of though, and it can drive one on to great feats and achievements.
Regulus 00° 02' Virgo – Regulus is a royal Persian star sitting at the heart of the Lion in Leo. This star has the potential for one to get to be the king of the jungle and to rise up to a very prominent position, however there will be tests along the way and if one resorts to revenge action against an individual who tries to thwart your plans, then you may lose everything that you have worked for.
Thuban 07° 39' Virgo – Thuban is a star in the constellation of Draco, the Dragon. This star is linked to looking after a treasure or something precious that is of value to others. It brings in the idea of sharing resources and it may make you overly nervous or afraid that you will run out of something that you need, therefore this can be a star of anxiety and worry too.
Zosma 11° 31' Virgo - This star sits on the back of the Lion in Leo and is one of hard work and suffering. This star may indicate that you will have to go through a period in life of toil and hard graft and it also indicates that you may be victimised or pressured in some manner. If this is not the case you may work instead with people and in situations where victims are present and need assistance.
Denebola 21° 49' Virgo – This star also is in Leo sitting in the Lion’s tail. It is a star of individualism and doing something that is either unique or special in some manner. It can also show someone who will avoid the mainstream and will prefer to do things for the minority or on the edges of society. There is a feeling of rebellion here and of seeing things differently to everyone else.
Alkes 23° 53' Virgo – This star is part of the constellation Crater, the Sacred Cup. Anyone with this star connected to their planets or angles will have some kind of special talent that they were born with or inherited from their family, maybe they use it through their work or it appears in what they create. There is a mystical and special feeling that surround individuals who have this star prominent.
Diadem 09° 09' Libra - This is a star of sacrifice sitting in the constellation of Coma Berenices, the woman’s headdress. This is a star where you will work hard for the benefit of many without looking for reward or thanks. You may sacrifice your own chances so that others can progress, or you may be asked to do something that seems beyond your capabilities.
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Vindemiatrix 10° 09' Libra – This star nicknamed the “grape picker” or the “widow maker” is found in the constellation of Virgo. This star is one of harvesting and gathering and if connected to a chart it will confer an enjoyment of collecting things, be it objects, ideas or anything that you find interesting. This star does have an unfortunate side of losing one’s partner or spouse when you least expect it.
Algorab 13° 39' Libra - This star is the main one in the constellation of Corvus, the crow. This is a nasty star and it will bring to one’s character a sly and cunning streak, and you will think nothing of using someone else, telling lies or even using violent and aggressive tactics to further your own position. You may suffer unfortunate events, suffer constant delays and or frustrations.
Spica 24° 03' Libra – Spica is a lovely star in the constellation of Virgo the Virgin sitting in her hand representing a wheatsheaf. This star connected to your chart indicate a potential for brilliance and having an abundance of talent. It shows you may be extremely gifted and you will have a chance to share that gift with the world.
Arcturus 24° 26' Libra - Arcturus is the main star in the constellation of the hunter and farmer, Bootes. This star represents man’s journey from hunting for an existence to developing agriculture and in the same way it contributes the qualities of making progress, developing new skills and leading from the front.
Acrux 12° 04' Scorpio – This star is in the Southern Cross and is a star of materialism and of running things. This star in your chart will give you the knowledge of how to make money, how to handle possessions and how to build businesses and organisations from the bottom up. There is a link here to the spiritual world and Acrux was prominent recently during a change in religious leaders at the Vatican and in the Anglican Church.
Alphecca 12° 30' Scorpio – Alphecca is a star in Corona Borealis, the wreath of flowers. This is a star where you will achieve much without little effort, however there will always be a price to pay later on. This star lends itself to a very open and colourful love life and also a love of nature and in particular flowers.
Zuben Elgenubi 15° 17' Scorpio – This is one of the stars of Libra, the Northern Scale and it is very connected to social reform. With this star in your chart, you will work tirelessly for a group or association or to make thing better for all without looking for any rewards for yourself. It can lead to careers in politics, local government of community affairs where you volunteer or give up your time for others.
Zuben Eschamali 19° 35' Scorpio – This star represents the Southern Scale in Libra and like it’s partner it is also linked to social reform. This time however, the motivation is personal and you will work on behalf of groups and associations to change things for the better but only if you gain from the effort that you put in, either through gaining power, getting influence or doing well financially.
Unukalhai (Cor Serpentis) 22° 17' Scorpio – This star lies in the heart of the Serpent in the constellation of Serpens. This star is linked to healing and the medical professions and when connected to your chart it can indicate a weakness and a propensity for being a little accident prone. You may do well in helping people with their problems but also have some of your own to deal with in your professional life if you are anything other than honest.
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Agena 24° 00' Scorpio – Agena is one of two prominent stars in the constellation of Centaurus, the Centaur. This star gives you an appreciation of what the ordinary man or woman wants and though it’s influence you will understand what to do to get success. This may be through action connected to a cause, through healing or being able to fix something that has gone wrong, either for the individual or for the group.
Toliman 29° 40' Scorpio - Toliman is the other star in the constellation of Centaurus and this star is about teaching others and expanding their knowledge. Again these lessons that you are either giving or receiving will be connected to something that has gone wrong or needs repairing, either in an individual sense or a collective one. This star is linked to healing through knowledge and through the giving of information.
Antares 09° 58' Sagittarius – Antares sits at the heart of the Scorpion in Scorpio. A royal Persian star, Antares is an influence of passion and intensity and it will give you a lot of courage in your convictions. This a powerful star of regeneration and through transformational experiences it can lead you to great heights and power however your nemesis here will be jealousy and obsession. If you succumb to these emotions then it can lead to self destruction.
Ras Algethi 16° 22' Sagittarius – Ras Algethi sits in the constellation of Hercules, the phantom, or kneeling one. This is a star of balance and connections to it will bring great love of nature and the environment around you and on a wider scale the future of the planet. You will have a need for things to be in the correct order and you may dedicate yourself to honouring something or someone who is more powerful or influential than yourself.
Ras Alhague 22° 40' Sagittarius – Ras Alhague is a star that sits in the constellation of Orphiuchus, the healer. Any connection to a planet or angle will suggest that you will have an aptitude for teaching or healing or you may suffer in an area of life. There is a feeling of providing a service here, through social work, political representation or though caring, psychological and healing practices.
Aculeus 25° 57' Sagittarius – This star is one of a pair of nebulae that sit in the sting of the Scorpion in Scorpio. This star shows that you will suffer the kind of attacks in your life that will toughen you up. This may be through criticism or even physical harm that you suffer. You will learn to take these on the chin and come back stronger and tougher.
Acumen 28° 56' Sagittarius – This star is the other nebula in the sting of Scorpio and like Aculeus it’s twin star this is again connected to attacks. The difference is that Acumen provokes attacks against you that are damaging to your confidence, and your determination to succeed as well as your mental and physical strength over time will tend to be worn down. Your resistance will lessen and the blows you suffer will hurt you more and more.
Facies 08° 32' Capricorn – Facies sits in the eye of the archer in the constellation of Sagittarius. This is a hugely focused and ruthless star and one that that can provoke action that is cruel or even deadly. The qualities here can turn you into a fearsome leader or a dangerous foe, determined to accomplish whatever task is set with precision and accuracy. Here are the conditions for high achievement, but it can also make one very direct and incredibly outspoken.
Nunki 12° 36' Capricorn – Nunki is another star in Sagittarius sitting on the arrow being aimed by the archer. This is an optimistic star of knowledge and faith and it also tends to add a very truthful and cheerful side to one’s character. One may travel long distances with connections to this star and it may give you the ability to speak very effectively on business, faith or international topics.
Vega 15° 32' Capricorn - Vega is a wonderful star in the constellation of Lyra, the Lyre. This is hugely creative star with special links to music, poetry or other artistic skills. You may have the ability to play an instrument, you may have incredible rhythm, have a mystical hold over others or just be very charismatic. There is the ability to deceive here, and you may be able to get others to do your bidding.
Rukbat 16° 51' Capricorn – Rukbat is a star in the knee of the archer in Sagittarius, holding his aim strong and true. This star is unspectacular in nature but it does allow you to make all the preparations and lay all the foundations in your life so that you can have lasting success, strong beliefs and philosophies that can last you a lifetime. The only downside is that Rukbat is so rigid it may lead to extreme stubbornness and when you have to change direction, you will struggle to do so.
Altair 01° 59' Aquarius – Altai is a star in the constellation of Aquila, the Eagle. This is a star of assertiveness but with a social conscience. Certainly if you have this star connected to your chart, you will not be afraid of taking a chance and you would rather get on and do something positive rather than sitting around and waiting for someone else to do so. One’s motives in any action will not only be for yourself but also for the betterment of everyone too.
Sualocin 17° 36' Aquarius – Sualocin sits in the constellation of Delphinus, the Dolphin. This is a fun, jovial and cheeky star and it will accentuate one’s confidence as well as indicating that you will be a master at a skill or over your environment. You may be curious, clever or very intuitive and this star allows you to constantly shine where others are struggling.
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Sadalsuud 23° 36' Aquarius – This star resides on the shoulder of the water barer in Aquarius and is a fortunate influence to have in your chart. It suggests that you will be fortunate through your intuition and in being in tune with the flow of things going on around you. In short you will be able to sense when to make the correct decisions at the correct time, so that you will maximise your opportunities.
Deneb Algedi 23° 45' Aquarius – This star sits in the tail of the sea goat in the constellation of Capricorn. This is a tough star connected to the law, justice and making sure that everything was in order. You will live life by the rule book with this star in your chart, having a serious demeanour and a conservative attitude. This star brings discipline and an attitude that one must do one’s best not only for yourself, but also for the community around you.
Sadalmelek 03° 34' Pisces - This star sits on the shoulder of the water barer Aquarius pouring the water from his urn. This is a very lucky star however you will not be able to benefit from the fortune on offer unless you make the best of your opportunities. If you work hard and make the most of the talents and abilities that you have, then luck, fortune and success will eventually come your direction.
Fomalhaut 04° 04' Pisces – This star sits in the constellation of Piscis Australis, the southern Fish. There is a mystical and special feel about this royal Persian star and it can be an indication of charisma, charm and high ideals as well as an ability to be poetic, creative or have a clever turn of phrase. The problems here lie in getting too big headed or arrogant for your own good, leading to either a loss of respect from others or a complete capitulation where you can literally crash and burn.
Deneb Adige 05° 33' Pisces – This star is found in the mystical constellation of Cygnus, the Swan. This is a star of contrasts, giving you an aura of mystery and enigmatic qualities but also of strength and quiet aggression. Through this star you will possibly have a graceful or even regal attitude that you portray covering up a more hostile side should anyone interfere with your work or aims. You may go on a journey of spiritual awareness under this star in a very open and hands on way.
Achernar 15° 32' Pisces – Achernar is a turbulent star sitting in the constellation of Eridanus, the river. This star will bring many a crisis you direction and you will gain the ability to change direction and adapt to rapidly changing situations. Your life will be one of ebb and flow with moments of calm interspersed with difficult situations that you will naturally and efficiently learn to cope with.
Ankaa 15° 42' Pisces – This star is the main one in the constellation of Phoenix, the bird of fire that rises from the ashes. With this star you will have an ability to let areas of life be transformed or be regenerated so that you can continue along your journey. This is something that you will get used to and you may even begin the destructive process yourself as a way of getting around obstacles or blockages in your life.
Markab 23° 42' Pisces – Markab is one of the main stars in Pegasus, the constellation of the winged horse. This star is found on the saddle on the horse, thus this a star of balance and steadiness while all around you is going crazy. This star in your chart allows you to deal with pressure and to keep solid and calm in a crisis, although it may also may make you slightly stubborn and unable to change tack if you need to.
Scheat 29° 35' Pisces – Scheat is also in the constellation of Pegasus. This star is quite headstrong and independent, especially in the the opinions that you have and the way that you think. You will tend to follow your own ideas rather then taking on board those of others. You will search for your own truth and answers to the things that concern and interest you. You may be an intellectual rebel, someone who goes their own way and against the grain of popular thinking.
Pharaonic astrology wheel from Africa--the world's 1st zodiac revealed
DENDERAH The Dawn of Astronomy
Hathor/Isis/Aset/Oya goddess of Beauty
The celestial cow milk, thus milky way galaxy, a hint to the Ankole cows that are like currency, wealth to many African ethnicity. Responsible for vitality, health and beauty of the people.
Temple of Hathor
Zodiac on ceiling of Pronaos
Claudius Ptolemaus VS Denderah Zodiac
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the Greek impostor
Claudius Ptolemaus VS Denderah Zodiac
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the Greek impostor
Our vast universe is home to a host of celestial bodies. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; were worshiped by all indigenous cultures around the globe under numerous names. They have influenced the actions of man since time immemorial. The majority of religious mythology was influenced by astrology; was it any wonder man sought out guidance from the heavens.
Between 10,000 and 6,000 BC the Africans of the Nile valley and great lakes region devised the stellar calendar. In 4,000 BC the solar calendar would mark the era of a new age; a dynastic period extended its greatness through an entire millennium. The pyramid builders and monument architects erected monolithic structures that till this day continue to marvel modern architecture.
The foundation of a culture’s spiritual system influenced by the celestial bodies and their movement in the heavens inspired them to erect monuments that marked the solstices and the equinoxes as well as the transits of the planets.
The veneration of the ancestors was also determined by the celestial movements; as translated in "The book of the dead" and "The book of coming forth by day”, "The coffin text, and Pyramid text. These religious text or papyrus scrolls are cryptic descriptions of allegorical stories of the deities that resided in the heavens that have considerably influenced their daily lives to such a high degree that magnificent temples were erected in their honor that are still in existence today.
The descendants of this culture who migrated from the Nile valley and great lakes region over period of generations became known as the Yarib a derivative of Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria in West Africa whose cultural practices were and still are deeply submerged in ancestral veneration. Despite the emergence of Christian missionaries and Islamic Jihads there still resides within this cultural context the traditional Yoruba's belief system is known as Ifa acknowledging the creator, Oludumare through the essence of nature. Oludumare` the creator force birthed the heavens into existence, thus bringing into existence the extensions of the creator; better known as Orisha a practice consisting of the acknowledgment of the creator through the forces of nature. Within the elements of earth wind water and fire there exist an entire pantheon of West African deities known as Orisha, the indwelling spirit of consciousness that plays a significant role from the heavens in the daily lives of the practioners of the spiritual traditions of Ifa; The Yoruba believe that it is Orisha who guides the consciousness of an individual. It is said that there exist 400 Orisha; facets of nature which are earthly representations of the cosmos; heavenly energies, and therefore nothing exist or happens in the sky that does not have its influence or vibration on earth within nature’s elements and also in human behavior. In other words as above so below.
The traditional Yoruba believe that everything within nature on earth possesses a consciousness; plant animal mineral and man. The Orisha's characters are based on the characteristic nature of the planets; their movements, such as oppositions, transits, trines, sextiles and conjunctions in astrology and astronomy. These celestial events are interpreted from the Yoruba's own cultural perspective.
The scope of this article is not intended to discuss the Ifa religious system in its entirety; only the major Orisha as their correspondence to the natal birth chart, the houses, inner and outer planets and transits.
If you could imagine the beginning and end of a circle you would come to understand the never ending cycle of creation, reincarnation transition and that all things created have a destiny that is influenced by the heavens. In traditional Ifa the Orisha or god of destiny is Orumila; also known as the oracle Orisha. Within the divination system of the Yoruba the Opan Ifa; divining board used in Ifa divination is similar to that of the astrological birth or natal chart that is divided into twelve houses equaling thirty degrees, the distance it takes the sun to travel in a day.
The twelve houses of the natal chart are areas of life governed by a particular planet, in regards to the traditional Yoruba's cultural perception of ones existence these houses would be ruled by a particular essence in nature or Orisha for instance:
The first house the self or outward appearance and surface personality is Aries the ram ruled by Mars, within the Yoruba tradition the Orisha of iron and steel, Ogun the warrior god possessing assertive and aggressive characteristics rules the first house. It is Ogun who is the patron of soldiers, police Officers, surgeons, railroad workers, welders, body builders, or anyone employed to work with iron and steel.
The second house the house of material possessions and money is Taurus ruled by Venus the goddess of love; within the Yoruba pantheon Orisha of the rivers lakes and all bodies of fresh water. Oshun the mother of abundance dominates this area of life; motherhood, wealth, and love.
The third house the house of duality, balance, communication, high energy is Gemini ruled by Mercury. The cosmic twins of the Yoruba pantheon the Ibeji; dominate in this area of life they are the ying and yang, expansion, and contraction, positive and negative energies existing within all life.
The fourth house pertains to issues surrounding the home. Maternal, protective, nurturing and instinctive; qualities dominate in Cancer ruled by the moon. These are the attributes of the Orisha Yemoja, Orisha of the ocean, whose ebb and flow of the tides are a result of the moon which is an attribute of her as well.
The fifth house Leo ruled by the sun; a house of enjoyment romance, children, and most of all creativity in all aspects of existence. Here the illumination of the sun is reflectant of the wisdom of Orumila the Orisha of destiny who sits by the side of Oludumare the creator god of the Yoruba. It is within this aspect of existence where man chooses his or her destiny and it is recorded by Orumila in the presence of Oludumare at which time the breath of life is given to man upon his or her emergence on earth; hence the creation, and destiny of man.
The six house Virgo a house of work, health, and service ruled by Mercury. Out of the Yoruba pantheon of Orisha it is Esu Orisha of the crossroads who is responsible for communication in every aspect of existence between the Orisha, the ancestors, man, and Oludumare. His realm of existence lies between the spirit world and the material world. His domain is within the crossroads; when the sun moon or planet crosses over into a various zodiac signs to assert a particular influence. This is an aspect of Esu, working to ensure that the other Orisha are able to serve their purposes. He is also known as the divine messenger the most important Orisha within the pantheon. His influence may also be found in the third house as well.
The seventh house of partnerships is a house of balance and harmony; a trait of Libra who is ruled by Venus. Here is another domain of Oshun that falls within the realm of love, romance and marriage. Oshun relishes in elegance, beauty, grace, artistry, charm charisma and refinement. She is the Yoruba goddess of love.
The eighth house of Scorpio ruled by Pluto this is a house of absolute power. Scorpio is one of the most powerful signs of the zodiac is it any wonder that the warrior Orisha Oya, also the storm goddess of the Yoruba dominates this eighth house of transformation, regeneration, death, sex reincarnation, and other peoples money; inheritances and financing. She is the hurricanes that form on the West coast of Africa traveling across the Atlantic with winds that generating anywhere from seventy to two hundred miles an hour, she is the tornados and twisters that uproots trees and houses. She is the only force within nature that has the ability to change the face of the earth from her destructive winds. This powerful Orisha is also responsible for carrying the spirits of the newly departed to the spirit world. In Nigeria it is Oya who dominates the market place. In some parts of Nigeria she is Oya of the Niger River; a force within nature to be respected, and a most formidable warrior attribute when invoked to fight for women's rights.
The ninth house the domain of Sagittarius; a place of higher education, religion, philosophy, and divine law; ruled by Jupiter the planet of expansion, growth, and good fortune is the largest body in our solar system besides the sun. This would be the Yoruba's planetary counterpart of Obatala the father of the Orisha; owner of the white cloth, he is the purity and illumination at its zenith, the Orisha of wisdom and intelligence, ruling the physical body his domain is all white fluids of the body, the skeletal structure, and the brain.
The tenth house of career status and reputation dominated by Capricorn is ruled by Saturn. The Yoruba pantheon of Orisha associates Babalu-Aiye with the planet Saturn, which is the taskmaster. Saturn is associated with patients, discipline, limitation, and structure. Babalu-Aiye is considered the Orisha of the earth. He can bring forth either prosperity or sickness and disease, for is also known as the deity of small pox, in Catholicism he is referred to as St. Lazarus.
The eleventh house is the house of Aquarius dominated by upheaval, rebellion, and sudden unexpected events. Ruled by Uranus these characteristics of rebellion, upraises, sudden changes, and upheaval are traits of the warrior Orisha Sango the Orisha of thunder lightning and fire. During the course of history when Uranus was transiting Pluto this was a time of great change through acts of war, slave uprisings, and rebellions, especially in the Caribbean islands. The civil rights era was violent and turbulent as well bringing about great change. These historical events throughout history as violent as they were would be associated with the warrior aspects of not only Sango but the Orisha Ogun, and Oya. This fiery energy of the heavens denotes aggressive and assertive influences of the heavenly bodies. Within the Yoruba pantheon such Orisha would be called upon for protection from ones enemies.
The twelfth house of Pieces ruled by Neptune is deeply submerged in secrecy prone to illusionary facets of reality. This house is centered on seclusion and spirituality. This house of the subconscious is dominated by Olokun the Orisha of the ocean floor. Deep and mysterious his realm is; the old Yoruba proverb says that nobody knows what lies on the ocean floor. His aspects are reflectant in the dream time, the subconscious, and the altered state of consciousness when one enters spirit possession, ritual and various levels of initiations and numerous rites of passage. Olokun is considered to be the star of Africa; he would be considered the owner of the great mystery systems of Africa; known by many names. He sparks within us the genius within our being activating our super subconscious.
The interchangeable role played by the Orisha, and numerous celestial bodies and their influence on one another can be somewhat overwhelming. As the study of astrology and astronomy becomes more advanced our comprehension of the Orisha and their planetary characteristics and similarities continue to remain a mystery to the initiated and uninitiated.
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All religions teach the phases of the moon except Christianity
Overview of the Moon Phases
Dark Moon
Invisible
sunrise
sunset
Waxing Crescent
Slim crescent (right side)
mid-morning
mid-evening
1st Quarter
half full (right side)
around noon
around midnight
Waxing Gibbous
3/4 full (right side)
mid-afternoon
wee hours of morning
Full Moon
full, round
sunset
sunrise
Waning Gibbous
3/4 full (left side)
early evening
mid-morning
3rd Quarter
half full (left side)
midnight
noon
Waning Crescent
Slim crescent (left side)
wee hours of the morning
mid-afternoon
THE CONGO SPIRITS LUNAR PHASES
One complete cycle of the moon takes exactly 28 days to complete, the same average time for a woman's menstrual cycle. This is no accident. A woman's body is something of a mirror of the moon and her ways. In many ways the differ-ence between the sun and the moon are very similar to the differences between men and women. The different person-alities the moon presents throughout her cycle have per-haps the most profound affect on ritual workings than any other Time Correspondence. In order to coordinate your rit-ual workings with the cycles of the moon, you can follow the generalized guidelines below or the more advanced guide-lines.
The Waxing Moon
Magic for increases that mirror the increasing size of the moon including: healings, prosperity, attraction, success, gains, love, increases, friendship, protection and any other positive magic. The horns on the crescent you see in the sky during the waxing phase of the moon are facing to your left.
The Full Moon
For the rituals that require the most potent and powerful magic, the fullest phase of the moon is most appropriate. Though there is some controversy over what kind of magic is most appropriate during the full moon, protection and any other dire situation in which a great deal of energy is needed in order to attain ritual success are universally ac-accepted as appropriate at this time. The full moon is the point when the moon reflects all light from the sun back to the earth. It is the most potent time of the lunar cycle.
The Waning Moon
Magic for decreases that mirror the decreasing size of the moon including: banishing, exorcisms, cleansing, magic to rid yourself of a bad habit, any type of ritual to rid yourself of negativity whether it is from human or spirit sources. The horns on the crescent you see in the sky during the waning
The Black Moon
This particular phase of the moon carries some controversy. Some practitioners insist that no magic be performed on this night, however, next to the full moon, the black moon is the second most potent time of the lunar cycle. Either highly difficult banishing that have been resistant to rituals performed on other nights of the waning moon can be abolished during this night when the moon is at it's blackest in the sky. However, take care to perform these banishing before the moon is at it's darkest point otherwise the moon will no longer be the Black Moon, but the New Moon which is associated with beginnings rather than endings.
The New Moon
The new phase of the moon begins when the moon is hidden from sight due to the earth's position between the sun and the moon. No sunlight is reflected back down to us from the moon's surface. This phase is sometimes mistaken for the Black Moon, which directly precedes it. The New Moon and all it's accompanying characteristics can be relevant from three days after the darkest point of the moon. Experiment to determine how best this system works for you. During this time, the following types of ritual/spell work are most appropriate: As the newest and earliest point in a new moon cycle, the new moon is seen by most practitioners as the most appropriate time to begin new projects,
new spells and any rituals that require many days to complete. has passed into the more powerful phase, the waxing gibbous phase. With rituals that require less lunar potency or are the first in a line of several consecutive rituals that lead up to the full moon, you can confidently use this phase of the moon. For example, a healing performed to ease a cold or mild chronic illness can easily be started during the waxing crescent phase of the moon. However, a more serious illness would be better served during the waxing gibbous phase. Ideally, with some minor examples, nearly all magic would be best divided out between the full or new moon, but this is such a short period of time each month, that we delegate certain phases to certain less important tasks. However, remember two things. For very serious illnesses the full (for healing the illness) or black (for banishing the illness) moons are the best choices, but they are not always necessary for more minor problems. Also the time does come sometimes when we have no choice but to do ritual work during incompatible times. In emergency cases, don't let bad timing stop you. Use other Nature Correspondences or the other types of magic (Mental or Spiritual Magic) to offset your lack of timing.
WAXING CRESCENT MOON
This period is especially favorable in all matters concerning growth, protection, healing advancement, abundance, to increase knowledge, spirituality, and fertility, new beginnings or to draw something to you
The Waxing Half Moon
This unique time of the month allows for all forms of positive magic that can otherwise be performed on the waxing phase of the moon, however, the waxing half moon is special in that you can perform magic during this time if you are engaged in a situation that is teetering on the edge of two resolutions and you want the result to turn out in your favor or in some positive fashion. For example if you wanted to do a spell for the success of a surgery in which the doctor predicts the patient has a 50-50 chance of survival, you could do the spell on the half waxing moon to ensure that the situation will have a favorable outcome.
The Waxing Gibbous Moon
Similar to the waxing crescent phase, you can perform all actions compatible with increase during this time period. However, magic that requires more lunar energy than the waxing crescent can provide should if possible be delayed until this time period because of it's closer proximity to the full moon. Of course minor magical workings can also be performed during this time as well, but the added energy here may not be absolutely necessary.
The Full Moon
The moon in it's fullest phase reflects all the light sent to it by the sun. The earth is completely out of the path between these two bodies and the energy of the moon is at it's most potent. The full moon is the most potent time of the entire month and the time when many traditions of witchcraft hold their Sabbaths, or ritual gatherings or celebrations. Since there is so much controversy over what actually begins and ends the cycle of the moon, there is some discrepancy over what kind of magic is best performed during this time. Technically, the full moon is the middle of the moon's cycle when the positive aspects of the moon's influence are at their peak, however many practitioners view the full moon as an down slope rather than a peak and thus either of the two
types of magic below may be performed a full three days before the full moon depending on your personal preference. Many people prefer to only perform full moon rituals on the day of the full moon, but as with all other things in magic, feel free to experiment. What works for one person may not work for you and vice versa. Positive magic of any kind including completions of spells begun during the new moon or any other positive spell that requires massive lunar energy to propel a ritual intention into being. Fortunately not all spells require this much energy and some magicians consider performing trivial workings during this time as "overkill". However, you will have to decide for yourself how serious a working is to you to decide whether it warrants waiting until the full moon. Experience is the best teacher here. Negative magic as in banishing, exorcisms, clean-sings or bindings. Protective magic while not necessarily negative is extremely effective when performed on the full moon.
The Waning Gibbous Moon
The relationship between the waning gibbous and waning crescent phases of the moon are opposite to those of the waxing phase because as the moon approaches the dark-est point, it's decreasing potency grows. Thus as it moves from waning gibbous to half waning to waning crescent, it becomes more powerful in decreasing energies. So for mi-nor decreasing and banishing rituals, the waning gibbous moon is more appropriate because not as much lunar decreasing energy is required to be successful. However for more serious decreases and banishing, the waning crescent moon is most appropriate because of it's closer proximity to the black moon (the greatest point of decrease).
The Waning Half Moon
This is another unique time of the month which allows for all forms of banishing or decreasing magic that can otherwise be performed on the waning phase of the moon. However, the waning half moon is special in that you can perform magic during this time if you are engaged in a situation that is teetering on the edge of two resolutions and you want the result to turn out in your favor or in some decreasing fashion. For example if you wanted to do a spell to keep your-self from being audited (in essence decreasing the problem) and you thought that you have about a 50-50 chance of this happening, then you could do the spell on the half waning moon to ensure that the threat of an audit will diminish and eventually disappear.
The Waning Crescent Moon
Rituals that require more energy for banishment though not necessarily the raw power of the black moon are best per-formed during this time as the waning crescent phase of the moon is close enough to the black moon that it carries a good portion of its lunar decreasing energy with it.
The Black Moon
The Black moon, also called the Dark Moon and the Lost Moon, is the point when the moon is at it's darkest in the sky. It is the end of the moon cycle when the absence of light in the sky reflects a void. Therefore by this theory, the black moon is the most appropriate time to perform banishings, cleansings, exorcisms and other reactionary forms of magic. Do your own experimentation to determine which system (or both) is right for you.
The 16 Mother Odus as Universal Ifa
The development of the 16 tetragrams – Universal Ifa
Adding again a single line and double line to the trigrams then produces the 16 tetragrams. These 16 tetragrams represent the 16 fractals or fractions of light reflected on the moon by the sun. This becomes the universal application of Ifa’s 16 signs. The ancients in nearly every culture used lunar calendars first. The lunar calendar reflected 29 1/2 days as seen by the earth in the southern hemisphere. There were 32 actual rotations. The full moon was the epitome of power and some cultures began the cycle at the full moon. From there, the moon would make its descent through the waning moon to the new moon. Then the ascent through the waxing moon crescent to return to the full. So, the 16 is related to the full moon and or the number of days it takes from the dark moon to the full moon. 15 are visible and the 16th is not. Other ways it has been presented is through the 16 phases of the moon. Here we can relate the odus
The 16 primary odus reflect the laws of nature from the cosmic to the personal.
These odus reflect nature through the ecology, biology, chemistry, psychology, etc. From the demonstration, we can see that the Ifa Odus principles are an evolution in understanding of how the universe extracts, and expands,and evolves.
What is universal are all of the instances these same principles are reflected throughout the indigenous world. Not only do the 16 mother odus show up in West African traditions including the Yoruba, Dahomey, Igbo, Fon, Ewe, etc, they show up all over the world including the Americas and Indus Valley civilizations.
In Ifa, we express these principles this way as a multiplied or concentrated energy as vertical lines with the open lines being a double line and the closed line being a single row of lines.
Above: Extracting and reflected in nature from our previous posts, we find the 16 Mother Odus as the 16 moon phases.
The Indus kush valley Tantric texts speaks of the 16 nityas of Kali and the 16 Tithes of Shakti which represent the waning and waxing moon respectively along with the ancient mothers This idea evolved into the 16 kalas of Krishna later and are associated with the Shastra Ramala oracle based on 16 signs. The Skiddy of Madagascar have 16 signs in their oracles along with the 16 katas in the South African oracles. These became the basis of counting and evolved a divination system with over 100 pieces and infinite combinations. The Arabic have a geomantic oracle of 16 signs that is called Al Raml and it evolved to the system of geomancy used in European mystery systems. The Hebrews are said to have 16 signs in the Urim and Thummim oracle. The Native Americans and Sioux have a divination system using 16 stones reflecting the 16 directions on the medicine wheel. The Kemetic people had a binary oracle with the entire 32 aspects and combined 32 x 32 producing 1024 combinations. In addition, the Egyptian mythology where Osirus ‘s body is cut into 16 parts also reflects the 16 signs as key principles in the cultivating divinity within. The Sumerian oracle called the Datu also reflects the 16 signs.
Phases of the Moon
15 Tithis
A tithi is a lunar day. There are 15 tithis in the waxing cycle of the moon (shukla paksha), and there are 15 tithis in the waning cycle of the Moon ( Krishna paksha). The tithi is based on a relationship between the Sun and the Moon. The first tithi is 12 degrees of the Moon away from the Sun after the new Moon (Amavasya) or full Moon (Purnima). The second tithi is the next 12 degrees of the Moon away from the Sun, 12 to 24 degrees. A particular day is ruled by the tithi at sunrise, but the tithi can change anytime of the day or night as it is not based on the solar day.
Egyptian civilization the world's oldest according to recorded history. The Ancient African Egyptians were the first to invent an alphabet which enables to keep record of time and human occurrence. Ancient Egypt dates backs to 10,000 B.C.E.
28 Mansions of the Moon
THE HINDU LUNAR MANSIONS (nakshatras)
Star Strength is Tara Bala, a system of using numbers 1 - 9 to find the auspiscious times to perform certain ritualistic practices.
1. Krittika. eta Taurus [ALCYONE]. 00GEM 05' in 2007. The General of the Celestial Armies. Symbol, a Flame or Razor. Regent, Agni, god of fire. Ruled by the Sun. A soft and sharp mansion or asterism belonging to the Brahmin caste and producing mixed effects. Those born on the lunar day will delight in white flowers, perform sacrifice, and will be magicians, metaphysicians, diggers, barbers, potters, priests or astronomers. With the Moon here at birth the native will be a glutton, adulterous, handsome and famous. Rules forests and the head. [p.76.]
2. Rohini. alpha Taurus [ALDEBARAN]. 9GEM52' in 2007. A Red Deer. Symbol, a Temple or Wagon Regent, Prajapati, the creator. Ruled by the Moon. A stable asterism belonging to the Shudra caste and favorable for coronations, expiatory ceremonies, planting of trees, sowing of seeds, building of towns, and matters of a permanent nature when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will be devout, rich, merchants, rulers, drivers, possessed of wealth and cattle. With Moon here at birth native will be truthful, polite, steady, handsome, cleanly and uncovetous. Rules vinegar pots and the forehead. [p.76.]
3. Mrigasiras. lambda Orion [Meissa]. 23GEM47' in 2007. The Head of the Stag. Regent, Soma, the Moon. {77} Ruled by Mars. A soft asterism belonging to the serving caste and favorable for friendship, married love, purchase and making of clothes and ornaments, music, and auspicious deeds when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will deal in perfumes, flowers, ornaments, and animals, will be lascivious and good writers or painters. With Moon here at birth native will be timid, capricious, skilful, talkative, rich, fond of pleasure. Rules cots and the brows.
4. Ardra. alpha Orion [Betelgeuse]. 28GEM51' in 2007. Moist, so called because of its stormy influence. Symbol, a Gem. Regent, Rudra, the storm god. Ruled by the Dragon's Head. A sharp asterism belonging to the butcher caste and favorable for punishment, torture, imprisonment, exorcism, mesmerism and separation or union when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will deal in pod-grains, black magic, sorcery, exorcism, and will delight in murder, torture, lying, theft, cheating and adultery. With Moon here at birth native will be insincere, proud, ungrateful, cruel, sinful, deceitful and wicked. Rules temples and the eyes.
5. Punarvarsu. beta Gemini (Pollux). 23CAN18' in 2007. The Two Good Again. Regent, Aditi, the sky goddess. Ruled by Jupiter. An asterism belonging to the Vaisya caste and favorable for shaving Those born on the lunar day will be truthful, generous, cleanly, respectable, handsome, famous and wealthy, {78} fond of service, friendly with painters and sculptors, honorable merchants. With Moon here at birth native will be devout, quiet, happy, good-tempered, of wrong views, sickly, thirsty and pleased with trifles. Rules granaries and the nose.
6. Pushya. gamma Cancer (ASELLUS BOREALIS). 7LEO36' in 2007. A Flower. Symbol, a Crescent on the Head of an Arrow. Regent, Brihaspati, the teacher of the gods. Ruled by Saturn. A light asterism belonging to the Kshattriya caste and favorable for sales, art, sculpture, learning, marital love, wearing of ornaments, medicine and purchase of carriages when containing the moon. Those born on the lunar day will deal in barley, cereals, crops, will be ministers or rulers and will live by water. With Moon here at birth, native will be popular, self-controlled, learned, wealthy, and charitable. Rules houses and the face or upper lip.
7. Aslesha. epsilon Hydra. 12LEO26' in 2007. The Embracer. Symbol, a Wheel. Regents. Sarpas, the Serpents. Ruled by Mercury. A sharp asterism belonging to the lowest caste and favorable for punishment, torture, imprisonment, exorcism, mesmerism and separation or union when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will deal in perfumes, roots, fruits, reptiles and poison, will be skilled in medicine and dishonest. With Moon here at birth native will be dishonest, ungrateful, a clever swindler and a promiscuous eater. Rules dust heaps and the ears or lower lip. {79}
8. Magha. alpha Leo [Regulus]. 29LEO55'. in 2007 The Mighty. Symbol, a House. Regents, the Pitris (the spirits of the dead ancestors), Fathers. Ruled by the Dragon's Tail. A severe asterism belonging to the Shudra caste and favorable for acts of disgrace, destruction, deceit, imprisonment, beating, burning and poison when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will be wealthy, fond of hills, merchants, valiant, and women haters. With Moon here at birth native will be wealthy, religious, contented, well served, and fond of life. Rules grain boxes and the lips and upper mouth.
9. Purva Phalguni. delta Leo [Zosma]. 11VIR24' in 2007. The Former Bad One. Symbol, a Bed or Couch. Regents, the Adityas, Aryaman and Bagha. Ruled by Venus. A severe asterism belonging to the Brahmin caste and favorable for acts of disgrace, destruction, deceit, imprisonment, beating, burning and poison when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will be fond of women, dancing, art and trade, will remain youthful and deal in natural produce. With Moon here at birth native will be generous, handsome, submissive, of wandering habits and good speech. Rules uninhabited houses and the right arm.
10. Uttara Phalguni. beta Leo [Denebola]. 21VIR42' in 2007. The Latter Bad One. Symbol, a Bed or Couch. Regents, the Adityas, Aryaman and Bagha. Ruled by the Sun. A stable asterism belonging to the Kshattriya caste and favorable for coronations, {80} expiatory ceremonies, planting of trees, sowing of seeds, building of towns, and matters of a permanent nature when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will be mild, cleanly, wealthy, virtuous, generous, learned, modest and heretical and will have influential friends. With Moon here at birth native will be popular, learned, free from cares and will have an enjoyable life. Rules lakes and the left arm.
11. Hasta. delta Corvus [ALGORAB]. 13LIB32' in 2007. The Hand. Regent, Savitar, the Sun. Ruled by the Moon. A light asterism belonging to the Vaisya caste and favorable for sales, art, sculpture, learning, marital love, wearing of ornaments, medicine, and purchase of carriages when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will be thieves, dealers in large animals, painters, merchants, handsome and religious. With Moon here at birth native will be active, resourceful, shameless, merciless, and a thief and drunkard. Rules tanks and the fingers.
12. Citra. alpha Virgo [Spica]. 23LIB55' in 2007. Bright. Symbol, a Lamp or Pearl. Regent, Tvashtar, the artificer. Ruled by Mars. A soft asterism belonging to the serving caste and favorable for friendship, married love, purchase and making clothes and ornaments, music and auspicious deeds when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will be mathematicians, surgeons, oculists, weavers, writers, singers, manufacturers of perfumes and dealers in jewels and cloth. With {81} Moon here at birth native will be fond of clothes and flowers of many colors and will have beautiful eyes and limbs. Rules water banks and the neck.
13. Svati. alpha Bootes (Arcturus). 24LIB19' in 2007. The Good Goer, or Sword. Also called Nishtya, Outcast. Symbol, a Coral Bead, Gem, or Pearl. Regent, Vayu, the god of the wind. Ruled by the Dragon's Head. A mutable asterism belonging to the butcher caste and favorable for commencing work of an impermanent or moving character. Those born on the lunar day will be weak, abstemious, skilful, fond of animals and changeable in friendship. With Moon here at birth native will be quiet, polite, self-controlled, skilful, kind-hearted and charitable. Rules rice fields and the breast.
14. Visakha. alpha Libra [Zuben Elgenubi]. 15SCO10' in 2007. Branched. Symbol, a Decorated Gateway. Regent, Indragni. Ruled by Jupiter. A soft and sharp asterism belonging to the lowest caste and producing mixed effects. Those born on the lunar day will be religious, dealers in produce, and fond of red flowers. With Moon here at birth native will be jealous, mean, miserly, good-looking, clever in speech, and quarrelsome. Rules cotton fields and the nipples.
15. Anuradha. delta Scorpius [Dschubba]. 2SAG39' in 2007. Propitious or Successful. Symbol, a Row or Ridge. Regent, Mitra, one of the Adityas. Ruled by Saturn. A soft asterism belonging to the Shudra caste and favorable for friendship, married love, {82} purchase and making of clothes and ornaments, music and auspicious deeds when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will be valiant, influential and keep vehicles. With Moon here at birth native will be wealthy, of wandering habits, unable to bear hunger and resident abroad. Rules fields overgrown with flowers, and the stomach.
16. Jyestha. alpha Scorpius [Antares]. 9SAG51' in 2007. Oldest. Symbol, a Pendent Ear Jewel. Regent, Indra, the sky goddess. Ruled by Mercury. A sharp asterism belonging to the serving caste and favorable for punishment, torture, imprisonment, exorcism, mesmerism and separation or union when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will be valiant, wealthy, famous, well born, somewhat dishonest, fond of travelling and in a high position. With Moon here at birth native will be cheerful, irascible, charitable, but will have few friends. Rules deserts and the right side of the body.
17. Mula. lambda Scorpius [Shaula]. 24SAG40' in 2007. The Root. Symbol, a Lion's Tail. Regent Nirrity, Calamity. Also called Vicritau, the Two Releasers, as the stars in this mansion were thought to bring relief from lingering diseases. Ruled by the Dragon's Tail. A sharp asterism belonging to the butcher caste and favorable for punishment, torture, imprisonment, exorcism, mesmerism and separation or union when containing the Moon. {83} Those born on the lunar day will be druggists, dealers in flowers and fruit, rich and fond of gardening. With Moon here at birth native will be conceited, wealthy, luxurious, kind-hearted, happy and resolute. Rules stables and the left side of the body.
18. Purva Ashadha. zeta Sagittarius [Ascella]. 13CAP43' in 2007. The Former Unconquered. Symbol, an Elephant's Tusk, or, together with the next asterism, a Bed. Regents, Apas, Waters, and Visve Devas, the Combined Gods. Ruled by Venus. A severe asterism belonging to the Brahmin caste and favorable for acts of disgrace, destruction, deceit, imprisonment, beating, burning and poison when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will be truthful, cleanly, wealthy, fond of fruit and flowers and sea voyages. With Moon here at birth native will be conceited, proud, constant in friendship and will have an agreeable life. Rules thatched houses and the back.
19. Uttara Ashadha. delta Sagittarius [Kaus Medius]. 4CAP40' in 2007. The Latter Unconquered. Symbol and Regent the same as for the last asterism. Ruled by the Sun. A stable asterism belonging to the Kshattriya caste and favorable for coronations, expiatory ceremonies, planting of trees, sowing of seeds, building of towns, and matters of a permanent nature when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will be honorable, handsome, happy, religious, fond of large animals and will be soldiers or wrestlers. With Moon here at birth native will be obedient, {84} polite, popular, grateful and have many friends. Rules wash-houses and the hips.
20. Abhijit. alpha [Vega]. 15CAP24' in 2007. Victorious. Symbol, a Triangle or Three-Cornered Nut. Under its influence the Gods vanquished the Asuras. It is an asterism belonging to the Vaisya caste and is used only in horary astrology.
21. SRAVANA. alpha Aquila [Altair]. 1CAP 52' in 2007. The Ear. Symbol, a Trident. Regent, Vishnu. Ruled by the Moon. A mutable asterism belonging to the lowest caste and favorable for commencing work of an impermanent or moving character. Those born on the lunar day will be cunning, active, bold, truthful, virtuous, religious and skilful. With Moon here at birth native will be rich, learned, famous, and have a good wife. Rules parade grounds and private parts.
22. Sravishtha. beta Delphinus [Rotanev]. 16AQU25' in 2007. Most Favorable. Symbol, a Drum or Tabor. Regents, the Vasus, Bright or Good Ones. Ruled by Mars. A mutable asterism belonging to the serving caste and favorable for commencing work of an impermanent or moving character. Those born on the lunar day will be shameless, rich, generous, women haters and will have few friends. With Moon here at birth native will be wealthy, liberal, fond of music, valiant, niggardly. Rules mills and the excretory system. {85}
23. Catabhishaj. lambda Aquarius. 11PIS40' in 2007. The Hundred Physician. Regent, Varuna, goddess of the waters. Ruled by the Dragon's Head. A mutable asterism belonging to the butcher caste and favorable for commencing work of an impermanent or moving character. Those born on the lunar day will be fishermen, washermen, or dealers in wine, fish and birds. With Moon here at birth native will be eloquent, harsh in speech, truthful, adventurous, thoughtless, independent, gambler, fond of bad women, murderer of enemies. Rules streets and the right thigh.
24. Purva Bhadra-Pada. alpha Pegasus [Markab]. 23PIS34' in 2007. The Former Beautiful, Auspicious, or Happy Feet. Symbol, a Couch. Regents, Aja-Ekapat, the One-footed Goat and Ahi Budhya, the Bottom Snake. Ruled by Jupiter. A severe asterism belonging to the Brahmin caste and favorable for acts of disgrace, destruction, deceit, imprisonment, beating, burning and poison when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will be wicked, mean, deceitful, shepherds, thieves, torturers, and irreligious. With Moon here at birth native will be sorrowful, wealthy, clever, submissive to women, miserly and of distinct speech. Rules the southeast of houses and the left thigh.
25. Uttara Bhadra-Pada. gamma Pegasus [Algenib]. 9ARI14' in 2007. The Latter Beautiful Feet. Symbol and Regents as in the last asterism. Ruled by Saturn. A stable asterism belonging to the Kshattriya {86} caste and favorable for coronations, expiatory ceremonies, planting of trees, sowing of seeds, building of towns, and matters of a permanent nature when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will be generous, devout, rich, and in influential positions. With Moon here at birth native will be happy, eloquent, charitable, and possess children and grandchildren. Rules swamps and the knees.
26. Revati. zeta Pisces. 20ARI05' in 2007. Rich. Symbol, a Drum or Tabor. Regent, Pusha, the Nourisher. Ruled by Mercury. The determinant star of this asterism marked the beginning of the celestial sphere in about 572 A.D., when it was 10' west of the vernal equinox. A soft asterism belonging to the Shudra caste and favorable for friendship, married love, purchase and making of clothes and ornaments, music and auspicious deeds when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will be dealers in flowers, perfumes, or ornaments and may be boatmen. With Moon here at birth the native will be popular, a warrior, wealthy, of strict principle, uncovetous and will have a well-developed body. Rules flower gardens and the ankles.
27. Asvini. beta Aries [Sheratan]. 4TAU03' in 2007. The Horsemen. Symbol, a Horse's Head. Regents, the Asvini Devas. Ruled by the Dragon's Tail. This mansion superseded Krittika as leader at about 400 B.C. It is a light asterism belonging {87} to the Vaisya caste and favorable for sales, art, sculpture, learning, marital love, wearing of ornament, medicine and purchase of carriages when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will be physicians, military commanders and dealers in horses. With Moon here at birth native will be polite, fond of ornaments, handsome, popular and intelligent. Rules towns and the upper part of the feet.
28. Bharani. 35 Aries. 17TAU01' in 2007. Bearer. Regent, Yama, God of Death. Ruled by Venus. A severe asterism belonging to the lowest caste and favorable for acts of destruction, deceit, burning and poison when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will be wicked, and dealers in precious stones. With Moon here at birth native will be faithful, persevering, healthy, successful and free from cares. Rules streets and the soles of the feet.
Only 27 mansions or Nakshatras are commonly employed in Hindu astrology, Abhijit being included only in certain systems of horary astrology. When referred to the circle of the ecliptic they are made to consist of 13 20' each, beginning with Asvini at 0Aries. In the above descriptions the term "lunar day" refers to the day of the Full Moon that falls in the mansion. {88}
THE CHINESE LUNAR MANSIONS (sieu )
1. Mao. eta Taurus [ALCYONE]. 00GEM05' in 2007. The Constellation. Ruled by the Sun.
2. Pi. alpha [ALDEBARAN] or epsilon [AIN] Taurus. 9GEM52' in 2007. A Hand-net or Rabbit-net. Ruled by the Moon.
3. Tsee. lambda [Meissa] and phi Orion. 23GEM47' in 2007. The Beak or Pouting Lips. Ruled by Mars.
4. Shen. delta Orion [Mintaka]. 22GEM29' in 2007. Three Side by Side. Ruled by Mercury.
5. Tsing. alpha with beta Gemini (Castor and Pollux). 20CAN19' in 2007. A Well or Pit. Ruled by Jupiter.
6. Kwei. phi with 44M (PRAESAEPE) and eta Cancer. 7LEO25' in 2007. Specter. Ruled by Venus.
7. Lieu. delta Hydra. 10LEO23' in 2007. A Willow Branch. Ruled by Saturn. This asterism governed the planets and was worshipped at the summer solstice as an emblem of immortality.
8. Sing, alpha Leo [Regulus]. 29LEO55' in 2007. A Star. Ruled by the Sun.
9. Chang. upsilon Hydra. 5VIR47' in 2007. A Drawn Bow. Ruled by the Moon. {89}
10. Yen. alpha Crater [Alkes]. 23VIR46' in 2007. Wings or Flanks. Ruled by Mars.
11. Tchin. gamma [GIENAH (CRV)] with beta [KRAZ], delta [ALGORAB], and epsilon [MINKAR] Corvus. 9LIB41' in 2007. The Cross-piece of a Chariot. Ruled by Mercury
12. Kio. alpha [Spica], with zeta Virgo. 23LIB55 in 2007. The Horn or Spike. Ruled by Jupiter.
13 Kang. kappa with iota [Syrma] and upsilon Virgo. 4SCO35' in 2007. A Man's Neck. Ruled by Venus.
14. Ti. alpha [Zuben Elgenubi] with beta [Zubenelschemali] Libra. 15SCO10' in 2007. Bottom. Ruled by Saturn.
15. Fang. pi with beta [Acrab], delta [Dschubba], and rho Scorpius. 3SAG01' in 2007. A Room or House. Ruled by the Sun. This asterism was connected with the rearing of silkworms.
16. Sin. sigma with alpha [Antares] and tau Scorpius. 7SAG53' in 2007. The Heart. Ruled by the Moon.
17. Wei. mu with epsilon, zeta [Grafias], eta, theta [Sargas], iota, kappa, upsilon [Lesath], and lambda [Shaula] Scorpius. 16SAG14' in 2007. The Tail. Ruled by Mars.
18. Ki. gamma [Alnasl] with delta [Kaus Medius] and epsilon [Kaus Australis] Sagittarius and beta Telescopium. 1CAP21'. A Sieve. Ruled by Mercury.
19. Tow. phi, with lambda [Kaus Borealis] and mu [Polis] Sagittarius. 10CAP13' in 2007. A Ladle or Measure. Ruled by Jupiter. {90}
20. Nieu. beta [Dahib] with alpha [Giedi Prima], nu [Alshat], omicron, pi [Oculus], and rho [Bos] Capricornus. 4AQU08' in 2007. The Ox. Ruled by Venus. This asterism was connected with the rearing of silkworms.
21. Mo. epsilon [Albali] with mu and nu Aquarius. 11AQU49' in 2007. A Woman. Ruled by Saturn.
22. Heu. beta Aquarius [Sadalsuud]. 23AQU29' in 2007. Void. Ruled by the Sun.
23. Gui. alpha Aquarius [Sadalmelik] with epsilon [Enif] and theta [Biham] Pegasus. 3PIS26' in 2007. Steep or Danger. Ruled by the Moon.
24. Shih. sigma with beta [Scheat] Pegasus. 23PIS34' in 2007. A House. Ruled by Mars.
25. Peih. gamma [Algenib] with delta Pegasus and alpha [Alpheratz] Andromeda. 9ARI14' in 2007. A Wall or Partition. Ruled by Mercury.
26. Goei. beta Andromeda [MIRACH]. 0TAU29' in 2007. The Man Striding or the Striding Legs. Ruled by Jupiter.
27. Leu. beta [Sheratan] with alpha [Hamal] and gamma [Mesarthim] Aries. 4TAU03' in 2007. The Train of a Garment. Ruled by Venus.
28. Oei. 35 with 41, 33 and 39 Aries. 17TAU01' in 2007. Belly. Ruled by Saturn.
At the earliest period the Chinese mansions or sieu began with No. 12, Kio, at the September equinox. They were grouped into four sets of seven sieu, each set forming one of the huge constellation figures into which the heavens were divided, the arrangement being as follows :
Nos.12 to 18 formed the constellation of the Azure Dragon. Number 19 to 25; Black Warrior. Numbers 26 to 4; White Tiger. Numbers 5-11; Red Bird
No information as to the influence of these constellations is available.
THE ARABIC MANSIONS (manzils)
[p.70] 1. Al Thurayya. eta Taurus [Alcyone]. 0GEM05' in 2007. The Many Little Ones. Profitable to sailors, huntsmen and alchemists. With Moon here in the case of an election, plant and sow but do not marry or travel by water.
2. Al Dabaran. alpha Taurus [Aldebaran]. 9GEM52' in 2007. The Follower. Causes the destruction and hindrances of buildings, fountains, wells, gold mines, the flight of creeping things, and begets discord. With Moon here, pursue business, travel, marry and take medicine.
3. Al Hak'ah. lambda [Meissa] with phi Orion . 23GEM47' in 2007. A White Spot. Helps the return from a journey, the instruction of scholars, building, and gives health and goodwill. With Moon here, begin war but do not sow or undertake any good. {71}
4. [p.71] Al Han'ah. gamma Gemini [Alhena]. 9CAN11' in 2007. A Brand or Mark. Favorable for hunting, besieging towns, and the revenge of princes, destroys harvests and fruits, and hinders the operation of the physician. With Moon here, plough, sow, but do not travel.
5. Al Dhira. alpha with beta Gemini (Castor and Pollux). 20CAN19' in 2007. The Forearm. Favorable for gain and friendship and for lovers, and destroys magistracies. With Moon here, travel and take medicine.
6. Al Nathrah. 44 M Cancer (PRAESAEPE). 7LEO25' in 2007. The Gap or Crib. Causes love, friendship and society of fellow travelers, drives away mice, afflicts captives and causes their imprisonment. With Moon here, navigate.
7. Al Tarf. lambda Leo (Alterf). 17LEO57' in 2007. The Glance (of the Lion's Eye). Hinders harvest and travelers and causes discord. With Moon here, plant, build, marry, but do not travel.
8. Al Jabhah. alpha [Regulus] with gamma [Algieba], zeta [Adhafera], and eta [Al Jabhah] Leo. 29LEO55' in 2007. The Forehead. Strengthens buildings, promotes love, benevolence, and help against enemies. With Moon here, sow, plant, release prisoners but take no purgatives.
9. Al Zubrah. delta [Zosma] with theta Leo [Coxa]. 11VIR24' in 2007. The Mane. Good for voyages, gain by {72} merchandise, redemption of captives. With Moon here, plant, marry but do not navigate.
10. Al Sarfah. beta Leo [Denebola]. 21VIR42' in 2007. The Changer (of the weather). Gives prosperity to harvest and plantations, hinders seamen, good for the bettering of servants, captives and companions. With Moon here, travel, navigate, sow, plough, marry and send messengers. [p.72]
11. Al Awwa. beta [Zavijava] with eta [Zaniah], gamma [Porrima], delta [Auva], and epsilon [Vindemiatrix] Virgo. 27VIR14 in 2007. The Barker. Gives benevolence, gain, voyages, harvests and freedom of captives. With Moon here, sow, plant, take medicine but do not travel or marry.
12. Al Simak. alpha Virgo [Spica]. 23LIB55' in 2007. The Unarmed. Causes marital love, cures the sick, helps sailors but hinders journeys by land. With Moon here, dig but do not marry or travel.
13. Al Ghafr. iota [Syrma] with kappa Virgo. 3SCO53' in 2007. The Covering. Favorable for extracting treasures, digging pits, helps divorce, discord, the destruction of houses and enemies, and hinders travelers. With Moon here, unfortunate for anything.
14. Al Jubana. alpha [Zuben Elgenubi] with beta [Zubenelschemali] Libra. 15SCO10' in 2007. The Claws. Hinders journeys and marriage, harvest and merchandise, favorable for redemption of captives. With Moon here, buy cattle but do not navigate {73}
15. Iklil al Jabhah. beta [Acrab] with delta [Dschubba] and pi Scorpius. 3SAG12' in 2007. The Crown of the Forehead. Improves misfortune, makes love durable, strengthens buildings and helps seamen. With Moon here, build, sow, plant, navigate but do not marry.
16. Al Kalb. alpha Scorpius [Antares]. 9SAG51' in 2007. The Heart. Causes discord, sedition, conspiracy against princes and rulers, and revenge from enemies, but frees captives and helps building. With Moon here, plant, sow, travel and go to war.
17. Al Shaulah. lambda [Shaula] with upsilon Scorpius [Lesath]. 24SAG40' in 2007. The Sting. Helps in besieging cities, taking towns, driving men from their places, destruction of seamen and captives. With Moon here, buy cattle, hunt but do not marry.
18. Al Na'am. zeta [Ascella] with sigma [Nunki], tau, and phi Sagittarius. 13CAP43' in 2007. The Ostriches. Helps the taming of wild beasts, strengthening of prisons, destroys the wealth of societies and compels a man to come to a certain place. With Moon here, build, ask favors but do not marry.
19. Al Baldah. pi Sagittarius [Albadah]. 16CAP20' in 2007. The City or District. Favorable for harvest, gain, buildings, and travelers, but causes divorce. With Moon here take medicine, navigate and put on new clothes. {74}
20. Al Sa'd al Dhabih. alpha [Giedi Prima] with beta [Dahib] Capricornus. 4AQU08' in 2007. The Lucky One of the Slaughterers. Helps the escape of servants and captives and the curing of diseases. With Moon here, take medicine, travel, but do not lend money or marry.
21. Al Sa'd al Bula. mu with nu Aquarius. 13AQU05' in 2007 (Alan lists Epsilon (ε) Aquarius, Albali, as the brightest star in this mansion). The Good Fortune of the Swallower. Causes divorces, liberty of captives and heals the sick. With Moon here, marry, sow, take medicine and lead an army.
22. Al Sa'd al Su'ud. beta [Sadalsuud] with xi Aquarius. 23AQU29' in 2007. The Luckiest of the Lucky. Gives marital happiness, victory of soldiers but prevents the execution of government. With Moon here, build, marry, make friends and travel.
23. Al Sa'd al Ahbiyah. gamma [Sadalbachia] with alpha [Sadalmelik], zeta, eta and pi, Aquarius. 6PIS48' in 2007. The Lucky Star of Hidden Things or Hiding Places. Favorable for besieging and revenge, destroys enemies, causes divorce, helps prisons and buildings, hastens messengers, hinders childbirth and hinders the action of the body. With Moon here, unfortunate for everything except taking medicine.
24. Al Fargh al Mukdim. beta [Scheat] with alpha [Markab] Pegasus. 29PIS17' in 2007. {75} The Fore-spout (of the Water-bucket). Causes union, health of captives, and destroys buildings and prisons. With Moon here, plant, sow, bargain, marry but do not navigate.
25. Al Fargh al Thani. gamma [Algenib] with the former delta Pegasus which is now alpha Andromeda [Alpheratz]. 9ARI14' in 2007. The Second, or Lower, Spout (of the Water-bucket). Increases harvests, revenues, gain, heals infirmities, hinders building, upholds prisons, causes danger to seamen and destruction of enemies. With Moon here, marry, take medicine, pursue business but do not travel or lend money.
26. Al Batn al Hut. beta Andromeda [Mirach]. 0TAU29' in 2007. The Belly of the Fish. Increases harvest and merchandise, helps travelers through danger, strengthens prisons and causes marital happiness and loss of treasure. With Moon here, travel and take purgatives.
27. Al Sharatain. beta [Sheratan] with gamma [Mesarthim] Aries. 4TAU03' in 2007. The Two Signs. Causes discords and journeys. With Moon here, buy cattle, plant and take voyages. This mansion is now considered to begin the series.
28. Al Butain. delta [Botein] with epsilon Aries. 21TAU01' in 2007. The Belly. Helps the finding of treasures and retaining of captives. With Moon here, buy and sell but avoid the sea.
Tropical versus Constellational Mansions
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There are a variety of different methods for locating the boundaries of the lunar Mansions. The most famous grimoire of astrological magic, the Picatrix, orients the 28 Mansions to the Tropical Zodiac traditionally used by traditional Arabic and European astrologers. The Tropical Zodiac is based on the Sun and the Seasons of the year, with the Sun entering Aries on the Spring Equinox, the first day of Spring, entering Cancer on Midsummer's Day, the Summer Solstice, entering Libra on the Autumnal Equinox and entering Capricorn on the Winter Solstice.
14th Mansion
14th Mansion In the Tropical mansions, the first Mansion began with Aries, the 8th Mansion with Cancer, the 15th Mansion with Libra and the 22nd Mansion with Capricorn. These tropical Mansions are regular in size, approximately 12 degrees and 51 minutes. The Vedic astrology of India uses a sidereal Zodiac in which the Mansions are again regular and of equal size, approximately 13 degrees and 20 minutes. The beginning of Aries in the sidereal Zodiac is oriented not to the Seasons, but to the fixed stars which move very slowly, approximately a degree every 72 years due to the precession of the equinoxes.
Despite the effectiveness and accuracy of the Tropical Zodiac, many moderns reject it on philosophical grounds because they feel it does not correspond to the "real stars" With the regard to the Mansions they insist that a constellational Zodiac, that is a Zodiac based completely on the material stars is the only possible method. The constellational Mansions therefore are based on the location of certain fixed stars and are highly irregular in shape.
Al-Biruni, the noted medieval Arabic astrologer, notes that the constellational Mansions were used by the Arabs for weather prediction, and says, "The Arabs, being illiterate people could not recognize the Lunar [Mansions] except by fixed marks, visible to the eye. Therefore they marked the [Mansions] by those fixed stars which lie within them." Chronology of the Ancient Nations, Sachau trans. at 336.
Al-Biruni then says that, "...the Arabs attribute all meteorological changes to the influence of the rising and setting of the stars, in consequence of their ignorance of physical sciences, thinking that all changes of the kind depend on the bodies of their stars and their rising, not upon certain portions of the celestial globe [ie the Zodiac] and the Sun's marching therein..." Chronology of the Ancient Nations, Sachau trans. at 336-337.
Al-Biruni goes on to say that, "...the nature of pecularities which are attributed to the first [Mansion]...are peculiar to the first part of Aries and never leave this place, although the star (or stars which form the Lunar [Mansion]) may leave it. In a similar way all that is peculiar to Aries does not move away from the place of Aries, although the constellation of Aries does move away." Chronology of the Ancient Nations Sachau, trans. at 338.
The constellational Mansions exert an almost uncanny fascination for moderns since they follow the "actual" stars. Because of the influence of materialistic science, even when doing magic and astrology, both spiritual sciences, moderns wish to apply materialistic concepts and theory. Because they cannot see the action of the Mansions arising from anything other than some sort of rays or beams or field from the physical stars themselves there is an immediate tendency to embrace the constellational mansions. There was certainly a strand of traditional astrology that followed along these lines, but the majority of traditional astrologers and magicians took a more Platonic approach that saw the regular, even harmony of the Tropical Mansions as reflecting the perfection of higher spiritual realities, which are distorted and imperfect in their material manifestation.
While I follow my illustrious predecessors in preferring the Tropical Mansions, in my books and courses, I provide the boundaries of both the Tropical and constellational mansions so you can experiment and decide for yourself!
Constellational Mansions
The current positions of the Mansions of the Moon, based on the location in the tropical Zodiac of their indicator stars for 2010, with their Arabic names as given by Al-Biruni are as follows:
1. Al-Sharatain 3 Taurus to 18 Taurus.
2. Al-Butain 18 Taurus to 29 Taurus.
3. Al-Thuraiya 29 Taurus-10 Gemini.
4. Al-Dabaran 10 Gemini to 24 Gemini.
5. Al-Haqa 24 Gemini to 9 Cancer.
6. Al-Hana 9 Cancer to 20 Cancer.
7. Al-Dhira 20 Cancer to 7 Leo.
15. Al Ghafr 4 Scorpio to 15 Scorpio.
16. Al-Zubana 15 Scorpio to 3 Sagittarius.
17. Al-Iklil 3 Sagittarius to 10 Sagittarius.
18. Al-Qalb 10 Sagittarius to 24 Sagittarius.
19. Al-Shaulah 24 Sagittarius to 13 Capricorn.
20. Al-Naaim 13 Capricorn to 16 Capricorn.
21. Al-Baldah 16 Capricorn to 4 Aquarius.
8. Al-Nathrah 7 Leo to 18 Leo.
9. Al-Tarf 18 Leo to 28 Leo.
10. Al-Jabhah 28 Leo to 12 Virgo.
11. Al-Zubrah 12 Virgo to 22 Virgo.
12. Al-Sarfah 22 Virgo to 27 Virgo.
13. Al-Awwa 27 Virgo to 24 Libra.
14. Al-Simak 24 Libra to 4 Scorpio.
22. Sa'd al-Dhabih 4 Aquarius to 12 Aquarius.
23. Sa'd Bula 12-23 Aquarius.
24. Sa'd al Suud 23 Aquarius to 4 Pisces.
25. Sa'd al-Akhbiyah 4-23 Pisces.
26. Al Fargh al-Awwal 23 Pisces to 9 Aries.
27. Al Fargh al-Thani 9 Aries to 0 Taurus.
28. Batn al-Hut 0-3 Taurus.
Tropical Mansions
Here are the later tropical regular mansions from Cornelius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book Two, Chapter 33,
1. Alnath, 0 Aries to 12 Aries 51
2. Allothaim or Albochan 12 Aries 51 to 25 Aries 42
3. Achaomazon or Athoray, 25 Aries 42 to 8 Taurus 34.
4. Aldebaram1 8 Taurus 34 to 21 Taurus 25.
5. Alchatay or Albachay, 21 Taurus 25 to 4 Gemini 17.
6. Alhanna or Alchaya, 4 Gemini 17 to 17 Gemini 8
7. Aldimiach or Alarzach, 17 Gemini 8 to 0 Cancer. 15. Agrapha or Algarpha 0 Libra to 12 Libra 51.
16. Azubene or Ahubene 12 Libra 51 to 25 Libra 42.
17. Alchil, 25 Libra 42 to 8 Scorpio 34.
18. Alchas or Altob, 8 Scorpio 34 to 21 Scorpio 25
19. Allatha or Achala3 21 Scorpio 25 to 4 Sagittarius 17
20. Abnahaya, 4 Sagittarius 17 to 17 Sagittarius 8
21. Abeda or Albeldach, 17 Sagittarius 8 to 0 Capricorn
8. Alnaza or Anatchtraya, 0 Cancer to 12 Cancer 51.
9. Archaam or Arcaph, 12 Cancer 51 to 25 Cancer 42
10. Algelioche or Albgebh, 25 Cancer 42 to 8 Leo 34
11. Azobra or Ardurf 8 Leo 34 to 21 Leo 25
12. Alzarpha or Azarpha, 21 Leo 25 to 4 Virgo 17
13. Alhaire, 4 Virgo 17 to 17 Virgo 8
14. Achurethor Arimet2 17 Virgo 8 to 0 Libra 22. Sadahacha or Zodeboluch4 O Capricorn to 12 Capricorn 51
23. Zabadola or Zobrach, 12 Capricorn 51 to 25 Capricorn 42
24. Sadabath or Chadezoad, 25 Capricorn 42 to 8 Aquarius 34
25. Sadalbracha or Sadalachia, 8 Aquarius 34 to 21 Aquarius 25
26. Alpharg or Phragol Mocaden, 21 Aquarius 25 to 4 Pisces 17
27. Alcharya or Alhalgalmoad, 4 Pisces 17 to 17 Pisces 8
28. Albotham or Alchalcy, 17 Pisces 8 to 0 Aries
The Moon as she travels the sky spends about 2 1/2 days in these 12 star/Illuminates Constellation. So after you figure out the moon phase the next step, find out the house of the day, then you can double your manifestation, or rather, zero in more accurately the cosmic energy towards your project/ritual.
Aries- A fire sign. Barren and dry. Harvest root and fruit for storage. Cultivate, destroy weeds and pests.
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Taurus- An earth sign. Productive and moist. Second best for planting and transplanting. Good for root crops and potatoes, especially when hardiness is important. Also a good sign for leafy vegetables such as lettuce, cabbage and spinach.
Gemini image
Gemini- An air sign. Barren and dry. Harvest root and fruit for storage. Cultivate, destroy weeds and pests. Melon seeds respond well in this sign.
Cancer image
Cancer- A water sign. Very fruitful and moist. The best sign for all planting and transplanting. Also good for grafting, and irrigation.
Leo image
Leo- A fire sign. Very barren and dry. Cultivate, harvest root and fruit for storage. An excellent time to destroy weeds and pests in the fourth quarter.
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Virgo- An earth sign. Barren and moist. Some flowers and vines are favored by it. Cultivate and destroy weeds and pests.
Libra image
Libra- An air signs. Semi-fruitful and moist. Best sign for planting beautiful and fragrant flowers, vines and herbs. Good for planting pulpy stems like kohlrabi, and root crops.
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Scorpio- A water sign. Very fruitful and moist. Best planting sign for sturdy plants and vines. Tomatoes like to be transplanted in Scorpio, and it is a good sign for corn and squash. Graft or prune in the third and fourth quarter to retard growth and promote better fruit. A good sign for irrigation and transplanting.
Sagittarius image
Sagittarius- A fire sign. Barren and dry. Harvest roots and onions for storage, and plant onion sets and fruit trees. A good sign in which to cultivate the soil.
Capricorn image
Capricorn- An earth sign. Productive and dry. Good for planting potatoes and other root crops, and for encouraging strong hardy growth. Good for grafting, and pruning to promote healing, and applying organic fertilizer.
Aquarius image
Aquarius- An air sign. Barren and dry. Harvest root and fruit for storage. Cultivate, destroy weeds and pests. Good for planting onion sets.
Pisces image
Pisces- A water sign. Very productive and moist. Second best sign for planting and transplanting. Especially good for root growth and irrigation.
The Axis Mundi is the Tree of Life
The roots of Gullah Gee Chee
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African Diaspora
Mysticism of the Gullah Flag
The axis mundi (also cosmic axis, world axis, world pillar, center of the world, world tree), in certain beliefs and philosophies, is the world center, or the connection between Heaven and Earth. As the celestial pole and geographic pole, it expresses a point of connection between sky and earth where the four compass directions meet. At this point travel and correspondence is made between higher and lower realms.[1] Communication from lower realms may ascend to higher ones and blessings from higher realms may descend to lower ones and be disseminated to all.[2] The spot functions as the omphalos (navel), the world's point of beginning.
THE CULTURAL SECRET BEHIND UGANDA’S NAKAYIMA TREE
The Nakayima tree at Mubende Hill has existed for over four hundred years and is strategically located near the Kampala-Fort Portal road. Oral tradition has it that the sacred status of Mubende Hill dates to pre-Bachwezi times when it was settled by the magician called Kamwenge, who hailed from the vicinity of the present day Mbarara. The magician’s two sons established themselves as important local rulers, and their capital on Mubende Hill was known at that time which rapidly became on the of the largest settlements in the region. The site was however taken by the Bachwezi ruler Ndahura who resided therefore several years before the renouncing in favour of his son Wamala to retire to his birthplace near Fort portal Town. The specifics of these oral traditions however are subjected to some debate, but their broad sweep is corroborated by archaeological excavations that suggest an important settlement which existed on the crest of Mubende Hill at around the time when Ndahura would have lived.
The most prominent feature on Mubende Hill today is the Nakayima tree, which according to oral traditional harbours the spirit of Ndahura, defied both the Banyaro and Buganda as the god of small pox. The tree is named after a hereditary line of sorceries, which according to some sources claimed direct descent from Ndahura’s wife Nakayima, but might also have been founded by a priest from Ankole who adopted her name.
The Nakyima traditionally was not only a care taker of the tree, but she was also regularly possessed by the spirit of Ndahura, on which occasions her extremities became covered in smallpox marks for several days. Her supernatural powers are said to have included the ability to cure and prevent small pox and other fatal diseases, and to help infertile women bear children. The Nakayima was receiving regular tributes from the kings of both of these polities, and also overseeing ritual ceremonies that involved the sacrifice of cows, sheep and more occasionally teenage boys and girls.
If the oral tradition is to be believed, the Nakayima lineage was for full four centuries an acknowledged spiritual figured to both the rulers and the peasantry of Buganda and Bunyoro. Its end was remarkably abrupt. The first intimation of its demise in 1888, when the religious conflict that rocked Buganda forced the incumbent nakayima, Nyanjara, to flee from Mubende. When she returned a year later, all but one of the seven huts traditionally in habited by the Nakayima razed, while the graves of her predecessors had been defaced, and her sacred drums had vanished. This attack had no immediate impact on the Nakayima’s influence in Bunyoro, then relatively un exposed to exotic religions-indeed, king Kabalega made a special visit to Mubende to pay Nyanjara tribute in 1899.
As early as 1902, the political autonomy that had characterized the once- feared and revered spiritual community led by the Nakayima was curtailed when Mubende Hill was placed under the indirect colonial rule of a Muaganda Saza chief appointed by the British administration at Kakumiro. Nyanjara retired to Bugogo, where she died in 1907, the first Nakayima not to be interred in the traditional cemetery near the sacred tree, through eventually she was buried in isolation at the base of Mubende Hill. Her fantastic regalia, confiscated by the authorities now forms one of the most impressive displays in the national museum in Kampala-together with two large and ancient pots.
Unfortunately, no reliable successor to nakayima tittle ever emerged. In 1926, one Muhima sorceress briefly took up residence on Mubende Hill, while ten years later, a young Ankole girl dressed in full regalia reportedly spent several nights screeching at the base of the Nakayima Tree before presumably vanishing back whence she had come.
Igbo Pyramids and the 7 Planes of Existence
At least ten circular pyramid structures are known to have once existed in Nsude, Enugu State of Nigeria, before being destroyed by colonialists to make sure they were not entered into any existing official records. They were made of mud and clay, with five circular tiers laid one above the other. As elsewhere, the five-tier pyramids of Nigeria are symbolic of sacred mountains like Mount Meru and other sacred mountains, such as Sumeru, Moriah, Olympus, Zion and others. They all represent a sacred symbol of ascension to the heavenly summit in the afterlife. In Igbo tradition, sacred mountains, hills, and other lands are seen as the abodes of certain deities.
The five layers are a common theme in ancient pyramid building, found in the five-tier organization of Babylonian ziggurats, five-tier pyramid of King Zoser at Saqqarra, five-tiers above the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza, five-tier Mexican, Chinese and Korean pyramids, and, last but not least, five-tier Hindu funeral pyres. As a sacred symbol of ascension to the heavenly afterlife, the Nigerian pyramids are proof positive that the Igbo people had developed specific cosmological and spiritual concepts in prehistoric times.
The five-tier organization of these pyramids correspond to the different manifestations of the created universe from its highest to its lowest point:
1. Divine Source – The Seed
2. The World of Divinity – Fire - The First Light
3. The World of Creation – Water - The Primordial Ocean
4. The World of Formation – Air – The Spiritual Element
5. The World of Action - Earth - The Material Body of Living Things
The Nigerian five layers of the universe further correspond to the Old European concept of the "soul" represented by the "horizon" embedded into a pentagon. The pentagon embodies the natural order of the elements: fire, air, water, earth, and spirit. These elements are the five parts of man in Egyptian religion: BA, KA, AKH, REN, and SHWT. The five elements are also the creative idea behind Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man depicting a male figure superimposed simultaneously in a circle and a square. In Igbo tradition the five elements correspond to the five mirrors forming a pentagon in Ala’s headdress. These mirrors refer to the all seeing god who sees beyond anything as it is reflective.
Many features of Igbo sacred science have been preserved through oral tradition. Beliefs related to afterlife, the immortality of the soul, and reincarnation (Ilo Uwa) are expressed in different contexts by the most powerful, universal, meaningful, and sacred of all symbols, the circle. Although here we are concerned mainly with the sacred science of Igbo people, it is important to point out that many other ethnic groups in Nigeria, like the Edo and Yoruba, as well other early cultures of sub-Saharan Africa, share similar, if not identical, spiritual beliefs.
Prashant Trivedi
On The Multiverse & Other Realities
The Dimensions And How To Enter Them
The Sri Yantra - The Mother Of All Yantras !
The Sri Yantra is a form of mystical diagram, known as a yantra, found in the Shri Vidya school of Hindu tantra. The diagram is formed by nine interlocking triangles that surround and radiate out from the central (bindu) point. The two dimensional Sri Chakra, when it is projected into three dimensions is called a Maha Meru. Mount Meru derives its name from this Meru like shape.
It represents the goddess in her form of Shri Lalita or Tripura Sundari, "the beauty of the three worlds" - Bhoo, Bhuva and Swa. (Earth, Atmosphere and Sky(heaven)). The worship of the Sri Chakra is central to the Shri Vidya system of Hindu worship. Four isosceles triangles with the apices upwards, representing Shiva or the Masculine. Five isosceles triangles with the apices downward, symbolizing female embodiment Shakti. Thus the Sri Yantra also represents the union of Masculine and Feminine Divine. Because it is composed of nine triangles, it is known as the Navayoni Chakra.[1]
"These nine triangles are of various sizes and intersect with one another. In the middle is the power point (bindu), visualizing the highest, the invisible, elusive centre from which the entire figure and the cosmos expand. The triangles are enclosed by two rows of (8 and 16) petals, representing the lotus of creation and reproductive vital force. The broken lines of the outer frame denote the figure to be a sanctuary with four openings to the regions of the universe".[2]
"'Shree Yantra' - Shree meaning wealth and Yantra - Meaning 'Instrument' -
"Look into the center of the Yantra, trying to blink as rarely as possible; you don't want to look at the particular details of the Yantra, just keep your sight right in the center and observe the whole Yantra at once.
"In time, after at least seven days of Yantra meditation you will be able to tap into the same yantric energy even without a Yantra (at the beginning you may fix your sight on an exterior or imaginary point or evoke the Yantra with your eyes closed).
"In superior phases the Yantra absorbs the practitioner's complete attention, and he can no longer tell if the Yantra is within himself or if he is within the Yantra; this is the state of non-duality."
In a recent issue of Brahmavidya, the journal of the Adyar Library, Subhash Kak argues that the description of Sri Yantra is identical to the yantra described in the Śvetāśvatara Upanisad.[3]
Together the nine triangles are interlaced in such a way as to form 43 smaller triangles in a web symbolic of the entire cosmos or a womb symbolic of creation. Together they express Advaita or non-duality. This is surrounded by a lotus of eight petals, a lotus of sixteen petals, and an earth square resembling a temple with four doors.[1] The various deities residing in the nine layers of the Sri Yantra are described in the Devi Khadgamala Mantra.
The Shri Chakra is also known as the nav chakra because it can also be seen as having nine levels. "Nine" comes from "Nau or Nava" of Sanskrit. Each level corresponds to a mudra, a yogini, and a specific form of the deity Tripura Sundari along with her mantra.
Esu/Elegba Owner of the Crossroads
Ase of Olodumare
Very similar to the Sri Yantra symbol is the Veve of Esu/Elegba from Benin Repulic/Haiti Vodou system. The Orisha/Loa Esu/Elegba is the owner of all roads, roads material and spiritual, all lanes of communication and energy. Without Esu/Elegba there is no manifestation. Without energy there is no manifestation. Hidden inside of the veve of Esu/Elegba is the Fibonacci symbol and the symbol of Pi. This is African sacred geometry, hidden inside the Eye of Ra of Ancient Eygpt, the Fibonacci symbol and inside many Vodou and Congo sacred script.
The benefit in conjuring African deities is that they are safer for those of African descent. Ancestral lineage is still carried out by the spirit world, spirits respond to those who belong to their spiritual house. Conjuring foreign deities can bring up spiritual issues, curses, with that spiritual house. So be warned stick to the Motherland for your conjuring.
Qi Gong Practices for Activating the Pineal Gland and Harmonizing the Crystal Palace
Many Chi Kung (also known as Qi Gong) practices contain simple elements like breathing or tapping that can be used to activate the bones and glands of the Crystal Palace.
1. Breathing
Various breath practices move the pumps, activating the pineal and pituitary glands as well as stimulating the flow of cerebrospinal fluid. Breathing is said to ionize the CSF and therefore increase its potency.
2. Tapping
Gently tapping your forehead in between your eyebrows activates the pineal gland and all three structures of the Crystal Palace. The vibration sends a wave directly back to the pineal gland, activating it in the process. The same vibration also moves through the bones to the sphenoid, which in turn stimulates the pituitary gland that rests in the sella turcica. The vibration of the pituitary awakens the hypothalamus through the pituitary stalk.
3. Toning
Toning or chanting sends vibrations into the Crystal Palace, activating the pineal and other glands and energizing the CSF. Chanting the eight forces of the pakua to draw in elemental energies is an exceptionally powerful exercise for activating the Crystal Palace. See Cosmic Fusion (Destiny Books, 2007) for complete instructions on chanting the eight forces.
4. Pressing
Pressing your tongue to the roof of your mouth activates the pituitary gland and, through its physical and chemical connections, activated the pineal gland and hypothalamus as well.
5. Squeezing
When we squeeze our eyes, the muscular connection with the sphenoid activates the pituitary. Sucking in our cheeks moves the jaw, which stimulates the neck and cranial pumps. Contracting the anal sphincter and perineum sends vibrations to the muscles that envelop the anus and form the pelvic floor. From the pelvis, the vibration then travels up the spine and dural tube to the occiput. The intracranial membrane system transfers the vibration to the center of the head, activating the pineal and pituitary glands.
6. Spiraling
Spiraling movements such as spinning the pakua, the Tai Chi symbol, or our Dantians creates an electromagnetic field that energizes the CSF and enhances the power of the heart field, thereby activating the pineal gland and other glands of the Crystal Palace.
7. Being in Darkness
Darkness triggers increased production and release of melatonin, and eventually of pinoline and DMT as a result of its effect of activating the pineal gland and helping to stimulate function of and open the third eye.
8. Laughing and Smiling
Smiling opens both the heart and the crown, allowing more light to penetrate while also increasing the vibration of the organs. Laughing and smiling reduce stress and relax the body, which increases the flow of chi. Laughter also triggers the release of endorphins, promoting feelings of well-being. Relaxation increases blood flow, which amplifies the effects of the hormones released in the Crystal Palace and has an effect of pineal gland activation.
9. Focusing
Since energy flows where our attention goes, bringing our attention to the structures of the Crystal Palace will activate them.
The Most POWERFUL MANIFESTATION ACCELERATION TECHNIQUE You Can Use! (law of attraction)
This tip speaks of going back in time, in your mind only, laughing, and recalling a happy time with friends, any past event you've had that brought you joy. Then use this feeling to fuel a new event. Basically you are going back in time changing something that will manifest in the future. Time travel in the multiverse is purely spiritual. This is called, "Reverse Temporal Engineering", changing our script or writing the script you want. In other words, if you had the money for the car one month ago it will manifest now when you desire it. It will never happen in the future if you have not changed the past. Trust me, time is an illusion. Material world, an illusion if not so magick would not ever be possible. Have faith.
Endless Knot
Sacred Geometry Practical Usage in Magic
Semiotics "The Science of Signs"
The Theory of SEMIOTICS
Posted by Esurubelle1
January 26, 2015
Semiotics is the study of signs and according to Cobley, ‘The word “semiotics” comes from the greek root, seme, as in semeiotikos, an interpretation of signs. Semiotics as a discipline is simply the analysis of signs or the study of the functioning of sign systems. The idea of sign systems are of great consequence is easy enough to gasp; yet the recognition of the need to study sign systems is very much a modern phenomenon’ (Cobley, 1997, pg. 4). The African traditional visual culture features a lot of signs that have significant meaning in its culture. The significant signs in the African traditional culture is explored and developed on this practice in textile design for fashion as a mode of communication and commemoration. So therefore, it is important to study semiotics as a means of communication in the contemporary visual culture, critically looking at the roots and ideas of the practice. With the idea of developing a brand identity influenced by the visual culture of African historical references at hand, several symbolic traditional figures have been adopted to create a brand signature or sign influenced by this references, but first let us consider the semiotic ideas of what signs are. Cobley argues that “a sign is anything – a colour, a gesture, a wink, an object, a mathematical equation, etc. – that stands for something other than itself” (Cobley, 1997, pg. 4). Since a sign can be anything that stands for something, It can therefore be stressed that it is important to understand its meaning, why is it indicative of its meaning and how it represents its meaning. The importance of the meaning of the visual culture of African historical references that will be used on this project is both significant visually and also spiritually in its cultural heritage. The meaning can be understood by learning about the customary manner of its language. ‘Saussure proposed the notion of understanding sign systems by looking at the fundamentals of language’ (Crow, 2003, pg. 17). With the notion of understanding the language and its essentials as a system of signs, the traditional signs and symbols of Uli paintings and its cultural meaning and rituals will be critically researched looking at its traditional language and meaning.
Also the Yoruba arts and cultural traditional pattern and its significance are critically analysed on this project. The visual cultures of both the Uli painting and Yoruba culture of Nigeria will be used and referenced in the design creative process, examining the different visual cultures of every other cultures in Africa, particularly Nigeria. Its significant meaning and rituals in its cultural context will also be acknowledge on this practice as a means of communication and commemoration through textile design in fashion in the contemporary visual culture. This can be related to the issue of diversity in the African traditional cultures and on this case, particularly Nigeria. Nigeria as a nation comprises of many ethnic groups and cultures which faces a lot of diversity problems and issues of conflicts which has been a major problem in the nation. It is important to understand and identify the cultural meaning of this traditional visual references through this medium of textile design in fashion to produce universal pieces ready and available for all.
The two fundamental element of the signified and the signifier forms a sign. For example, the Ogene of the Uli design as shown in the figure below represents this idea. Th word ‘Ogene’ is known as the signifier and the symbolic representation of the object itself is the signified. The relationship between the signifier ‘Ogene’ and the signified is a completely arbitrary one argued by Crow. The theory further argued that there is no relationship between the word, its sound and the thing itself that is the object. This non relationship is known as duality’ (Crow, 2003. pg. 18-19).
The semiotic theory also looked at the necessity of the existence of signs and symbols as valued when a group of people agrees of its meaning and significance. For instance, the Uli designs has been utilised and referenced by many contemporary artists, particularly Nigerian artists popularly known as Nsukka artists, who formed an art movement ‘Ulism’. The artworks of these artist features the arbitrary nature of the language creating poetic connections for the viewers to accustom. For example, Uli artist such as Uche Okeke and Chika Aniakor both featured Ulism in their works. While Okeke’s themes were based on political and biblical themes, Aniakor’s based most of his works on Igbo cultural tales and ideals as seen below.
Uche Okeke, Baptism 1974, block print on paper, dimensions unknown (Ottenberg,1997)
Chika Aniakor, The Elders, 1967, pen, ink, and wash on paper, dimensions unknown (Ottenberg,1997)
Further more, Crow stated that ‘The sign stands for something, its object’ (Crow, 2003). in response to Crow’s quote on semiotics, the visual culture of the African mask can be seen as a sign in the homage or function of representing Africa to the world. The concept of the visual culture of the African mask is based on the cultural experiences and tradition behind every mask. Based on this, its meanings varies as there are different cultures and traditional customs with different interpretation. Below are some African mask from the British museum with their different identities.
Mask
Ivory, Iron and copper wire, Benin, Nigeria, 16th Century.Because of its unique aesthetic and importance, I was particularly drawn to the mask in honour of Idia, the mother of Oba Esigie, who established the special place of the Queen Mother in Benin. ‘Because of its aesthetic appeal it was used as a mark of cultural identity for the Second Festival of Black & African Arts and Culture published in 1977 (FESTAC 77) hosted and funded in Nigeria’ (Agbogun, 2011).
Brass
Benin, Nigeria, 16th Century
Mask of these forms were royal regalia, won by senior officials and returnable on loss of office or death. They were won over the left hip were the official’s cloth wrapper’s was tied.
Terracotta head
Benin, Nigeria 20th Century.
Heads of these forms and materials were the prerogatives of the bass casters
Wooden mask
Bangwa people, Grasslands religion, Cameroon 19th century.
Among neighbouring peoples, mask of this forms are identified as hippos. This mask belonged to the night society that exercised many functions including the installation of kings and the administration of capital punishment. The mask was considered so powerful that no man might wear it on his head on pain of death. Rather it was carried on the shoulders.
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With the local knowledge of the masks, the photographs of the mask have been used to create an iconic sign that resembles the the mask that it represents. Below are some icons l have created associated with Africa.
some symbols from the Ulism have no connection between the sign and what it means. For its understanding, the connection between the sign and its meaning have on learnt by it reader. On the contrary, an index symbol is directly linked to the object.
The term semiosis is used to describe v
go on to pose several questions about modeling, namely, “What is the function of modeling in life forms? … How is human modeling similar to, or different from, modeling systems in other species? What is the relation between modeling and knowing?” is the innate ability to produce forms to stand for objects, events, feelings, actions, situations, and ideas perceived to have some meaning, purpose, or useful function. The form may be imagined, in which case it is called a mental image, or it may be something externalized, in which case it is called a representation. Semiotic research has identified four basic types of forms: (1) signs (words, gestures, etc.); texts (stories, theories, etc.); (3) codes (language, music, etc.); and (4) figural assemblages (metaphors, metonyms, etc.). (Sebeok and Danesi 2000: 1)
–Primary Modeling System (PMS) = the system that predisposes the human infant to engage in sense-based forms of modeling.
–Secondary Modeling System (SMS) = the system that subsequently impels the child to engage in extensional and indexical forms of modeling.
–Tertiary Modeling System (TMS) = the system that allows the maturing child to engage in highly abstract (symbol-based) forms of modeling. (Sebeok and Danesi 2000: 10)
Sebeok and Danesi (2000: 11) argue that Modeling System Theory has four basic types or categories: singularized, composite, cohesive, and connective. From these basic processes, they then propose that there are six basic principles associated with Modeling System Theory:
-Representation is the end-result of modeling (the modeling principle).
–Knowledge is indistinguishable from how it is represented (the representational principle).
–Modeling unfolds on three levels or dimensions, of which iconicity and indexicality … are prior developmentally and cognitively to symbolicity … (the dimensionality principle).
–Complex (abstract) models are derivatives of simpler (more concrete) ones (the extensionality principle).
–Models and their meanings are interconnected to each other (the interconnectedness principle).
–All models display the same pattern of structural properties (the structuralist principle). (Sebeok and Danesi 2000: 11) When we consider the concept of “communication,” we generally think of a process of exteriorization through which an interior content is made manifest. The difficulty in providing a precise definition of culture is a longstanding one as Kroeber and Kluckhohn (1952) noted more than half a century ago. After a protracted discussion of different approaches to a characterization of culture, the author argues for a socio-semiotic definition of culture. In the first place, voice manifests our desire and will to express something. Hence the most important force and energy of the semiotic universe appears in it. This force is the movement from the immanent toward the manifest. in the way langue strives to to appear as parole. In its immanence and virtuality, nothing is yet a sign. It becomes one only when it is projected toward someone. Voice represents just such a fundamental intention. The voice does not just express an emotional state. It seeks to emanate from a subject; it strives to break through the borders of a solopistic Dasein. Therefore the voice is essentially an intersubjective entity. The voice can be studied as and in a text, transcendence, orality, social identity, national expression, gender, education, and through empirical approaches.
Thinking in Symbols
Afrikan Scripts
Alphabets were initially developed by the Ancestors to symbolize magical objects or ideas. Later, they were used for sacred writings and eventually for common writing. The descriptions of the alphabets that follow have survived through time or have been rediscovered. Many African societies keep their Magi, Juju, or rather traditional spiritual practices, secret from outsiders of their bloodlines. That is many scripts containing war, spiritual powers and sciences were never revealed to the colonizer and even keep secret from other Africans who were not of the bloodline.
Working on many Scripts requires added care and concentration, which means added Magickal force to your rituals and invocations, but the same also, applies to the spoken word. Ancient religions made their prayers (or invocations) in other languages than the one they used for daily life, because it means that the orator needs to think carefully, and this mental concentration adds force, to their prayers or invocations. But sometimes, when we want to pray quietly, a written invocation is better. At other times we feel the need of words, for words have power.
All script which later became writing alphabets added to phonetic systems of speech to classify languages is really symbolism, coding language that unlock the keys to the cosmos, other worlds, forces and dimensions. For warned.
Yoruba Oral Traditions
Oral Tradition is more powerful!
In the same article, we had outlined three concepts namely (1) acquiring knowledge, (2) sourcing knowledge and (3) rehearsing knowledge. We referred to the source of
knowledge which needed to be preserved. We mentioned the access to knowledge as the critical thing to preserve. In the preservation of knowledge, we outlined two concepts namely (1) the source and (2) rehearsal of knowledge. Now, we proceed with the rehearsal of knowledge.
Rehearsal of Knowledge
In this article, we focus attention on the rehearsal of knowledge. To benefit from the rehearsal of knowledge, we need three things namely (1) practice of knowledge, rehearsal of knowledge and frequency of language use.
Ketsahatso ya Tsebo (Practice of Knowledge)
The Sesotho construct Ketsahatso means to bring something into existence by application. Hoetsahatsa; an infinitive which initiates the existence of something by virtue of consistent practice. This is a goal oriented frequency of language use. This frequency preserves the language through usage. You may be a practitioner in any knowledge domain but the frequency of language use by application is extremely important as a strategic part of knowledge preservation. This is also good for the lexis, syntax and morphology of language.
The vital part of language preservation is access to the land. Through technological innovations, the lexis and morphology of language grow. The syntax of language is usually stable whereas the lexis and morphology must adapt to the requirements of politics, economics and technology.
Indigenous technological practices like pottery, metallurgy, agriculture and others nurture the growth and sophistication of language. If you deny access to the land that also spells demise to the language. If a traditional surgeon goes and digs medicine plants, a police force will prevent and even throw her in jail for trespassing. This is traumatic enough to discourage her from practicing her cultural knowledge. That prohibition will be passed on to the next generation; a tragic case of colonial conquest.
Kwetliso ya Tsebo (Rehearsal of Knowledge)
Knowledge must be kept alive. The best system for keeping knowledge alive is oral tradition. Oral tradition is dynamic and is the most adaptable cultural practice. You must rehearse the knowledge. This is where oral tradition succeeds over a literary tradition.
Oral tradition trumps writing in terms of the substance of knowledge. Writing platforms like Facebook allow you to write what you want and feel like sharing. The problem is that most of the Facebook pages are filled with trivialities. Conversely, oral tradition does not permit for trivialities.
In a literary tradition, you can write something down and shelve the writing. It will collect dust. In an oral tradition, you deliver a narrative and every time you make the rendition, the narrative comes alive.
Human brain likes rehearsal. This is because rehearsal tells the brain that the narrative is extremely important. Thus, the narrative strengthens and creates new synaptic connections and new neural pathways. If anything, you must rehearse the narrative because it is good for your brain.
Midiso ya Tsebo (Production of Knowledge)
Midiso refers to the nursery and birthing of new knowledge. This epistemic concept comes from the fact that Basotho always associate breastfeeding with knowledge acquisition. The axiom “Haba saenyanya, ke lefela la mafela” meaning if they did not acquire knowledge through breastfeeding, it is all in vain. It is interesting to note that breastfeeding is a powerful case of analogical reasoning because breastfeeding is a special case of gradual and gentle introduction to knowledge.
There are many ways of producing knowledge. Exploration generates new knowledge. Experimentation creates new knowledge. Critique of knowledge creates new knowledge. Technological innovation creates new knowledge. Looking at the same knowledge from a new paradigm creates new knowledge. Whatever the avenue of knowledge pursuit, there is always an opportunity to produce new knowledge.
Mandombe Script
Afrikans have been writing for thousands of years. There have been countless examples of systems of writing. People on the Afrikan continent have been writing history, folklore, medicinal tomes, spiritual tomes and many more. Almost all of the worlds scripts are thought to have come from systems created along the Nile Valley [1] and the Tigress-Euphrates Valley[2] many thousands of years ago. It is rather interesting to note that no alphabet is known to have ever been formed by Europeans.
Ethiopic Script
Ethiopic is an African Writing System designed as a meaningful and graphic representation of knowledge. It is a component of the African Knowledge Systems and one of the signal contributions made by Africans to the world history and cultures. It is created to holistically symbolize and locate the cultural and historical parameters of the Ethiopian people. The System, in its classic state, has a total of 182 syllographs, which are arranged in seven columns, each column containing 26 syllographs. Ethiopic is a knowledge system because it is brilliantly organized to represent philosophical features, such as ideography, mnumonics, syllography, astronomy, and grammatology. [1]
Egyptian Script
Sudan Script Meroitic script
By the third century BC a new indigenous alphabet, the Meroitic, consisting of twenty-three letters, replaced Egyptian script. The Meroitic script is an alphabetic script originally derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, used to write the Meroitic language of the Kingdom of Meroë/Kush. It was developed sometime during the Napatan Period (about 700 - 300 BC), and first appears in the 2nd century BC. For a time, it was also possibly used to write the Nubian language of the successor Nubian kingdoms. The Meroitic script is very similar to the Egyptian Writing System. It was used by the Meroe people, a civilization of the Sudan. The system is written from right to left, unlike the Egyptian system which can be written right to left, left to right, and vertically. [2]
Afan Oromo Script
It is the language by more than 25 million Oromo and neighboring peoples in Ethiopia and Kenya. Older publications refer to the language as "Galla", a term that is resented by Oromo people and no longer used.
Liberian Bassa Script
HISTORY of the Bassa Script, 500+ BC (Liberia, West Africa)
Many people today are unaware of the genius of the African. Although they might admit to a complex verbal language structure, it may come as quite a surprise to many that African people have a multitude of written languages. In Liberia the Bassa people have a written script. The Kpelle, Gola, Lorma, Grebo, Vai and Kissi also are known to have their own written language. Most of these scripts have diminished over time, as a result of abandonment.
Had Hanibal visited Liberia in 500 B.C., particularly Kpowin(Tradetown) and Bassa Cove, he would have witnessed the Bassa script in use. The script is called Vah by the Bassas, which is translated to the phrase: To throw sign. Not to be confused with the Vai ethnic group, who also have their own written script as mentioned above. Vah was initially the throwing of sign or signals utilizing the natural environment. Teeth marks would be left on leaves and placed in a discrete location for the intended reader. Messages where also carved in the barks of trees. Eventually this evolved into a complex written language. During the era of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, many Bassas avoided slave traders by utilizing Vah(Bassa Script). During the colonial, and on through to the neo-colonial period in Africa, a decline in the usage of Vah script caused by external cultural forces, almost brought this written portion of the Bassa language to extinction.
Dr. Flo Darvin Lewis in the 1900s would re-discover the script in South America. Bassas that were sold into slavery now living in Brazil and the West Indies; kept the tradition of writing alive, passing it from generation to generation. Through his travels, Dr. Lewis was astonished to find out that he, being a Bassa himself, knew nothing of any such writing amongst his people back in Liberia. This discovery put Dr. Lewis on a determined path to learn, teach and revive the script in Liberia. Lewis attended Syracuse University and earned a doctorate in Chemistry, where he was known as the African Prince. Dr. Lewis returned to Liberia by way of Dresden, Germany where a company manufactured the first printing press for the Bassa alphabet. In Liberia, he established an institution for learning Vah. Among his students were, former Senator Edwin A. Morgan, Counselors Zacharia Roberts and Jacob Logan. Fear, mis-trust, sabotage and colonial thinking Liberians would lead to Dr. Lewis’ untimely death; leaving an open legacy yet to be completed. [3] [4]
Vai Script
West Africa 1819
The actual origins of this script are enmeshed in mythology. This script said to be invented by inspiration by Momolu Duwalu Bukele at about 1819. Some suggest that he developed this script from coming into contact with the Bassa Liberian script in his sojourns. [5]
Mende script
Sierra Leone
Nsibidi Script
The Nigerian Nsibidi is an indigenous adaptable and fluid writing system of two dimensional signs, three dimensional forms of pictographs and ideographs and pantomimed gestures. It originated as an esoteric form of knowledge understood by a select group of people mostly members of a secret society in Southeastern Nigeria which some sources link to the Ejagham and later spread to Efik, Igbo, Ibibio, Efut, Annang and Banyang speaking areas.
Some of the signs of the Nsibidi spread to the Caribbean and Brazil during the slave trade.
Edo Script
Benin and Edo people of southern Nigeria have developed a chromatographic system of writing. That is a writing based on different color combination's and graphs. Aba Abhuluime of Nigeria brought the chromatographic writing system to our attention. The system is also called quantography or pictography. This system of color writing and tradition needs to be further investigated. According to Mr. Abhuluime, there is a published work entitled "African Science: The Art of Colour Writing" by Aba Ota in 1999. We hope to provide additional information on color writing in the future.
Ghana Scripts
The Shumom people are the people of Cameroon in West Africa. Their country is located between Nigeria in the West, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Congo Brazzaville in the South and Chad and Central African Republic in the North. Within Cameroon, the land of the Shumom people is located in the northern part. It is a land of massif plateau and mountains, valleys and vast forested land, a part of the great equatorial forest of West and Central Africa. Foumban is the administrative capital of the district.
In the beginning of the 20th century or perhaps earlier, the people of Cameroon were able to accomplish one of the most remarkable African achievements of the century: the invention of a self-sustaining and self governing writing system and a Bronze cast printing set device to document the histories of the people. Sultan Ibrahim Njoya, whose father was killed resisting the German invaders, led the invention. The invention that started in the late nineteenth century (1895 or 1896) was completed by the beginning of the 20' century in 1903. By the time of the Germans arrival, the writing system was in use in conjunction with the Bamum language, which is a tonal language, which means the meanings of a word will vary depending upon the tone with which the sound of the word is uttered. The system went through seven stages of development. The first stage had over five hundred pictographs and the last stage has had only 35 syllographs, graphs designed to represent all the phonetic and tone sounds in the Bamum language of the Shumom people.
King Njoya opened a school in Fumban where many are trained to become literate and promote leaning in their own language. Several manuscripts and documents were produced, including the histories, laws and customs of the people and their neighbors. Two systems of writing were taught at the school: the Royal and the popular scripts. Tragically the most important documents are taken away by colonial masters out of Cameroon and they are housed in the French and British Museums. The Germans and later the French did not want to see the flourishing of a literary tradition among the Bamums. Not only they killed or exiled their leaders; they also violently banned the use of Shumom, thereby condemning the people to colonial dark age.
The remarkable accomplishments of the Cameroonians is in line with the long and glorious traditions of the inventions and use of writing systems, perhaps beginning with the hieroglyphics of the Ancient Egyptians whose earliest pictographic writing now dated to be 3400B.C.
The Shumom writing system was invented and used in such a participatory democracy where all the members of the society are asked by the king to participate in the project. King Njoya, the able and visionary leader, ordered his constituency to contribute symbols for the writing system. In so doing not only he succeeded in ensuring a wide range of ideographic ideas to choose from, but he also paved the way for eventual acceptance of the system by the whole nation. This process combined with mythology would place the system as permanent cultural asset and legacy of the people.
King Njoya mythologized the invention of the Shumom writing system as follows:
"When King Njoya was asleep one night he had a dream. A man came and before him saying: 'Oh King, take a wide, flat piece of wood and mark on it a man's hand. Then wash the board and drink the water.' The king took a plank and made a mark as the man directed, and handed it to that man who also made a mark thereon and returned the plank to the King. In the dream there were many people sitting around, all schoolboys, and they had paper in their hands. They all made marks thereon and passed on what they marked to their neighbors.
"When it was daylight the King took a wide plank and marked thereon a man's hand. He then washed the plank with water and drank it, as the man in the dream directed. The King now summoned many of his courtiers and told them to mark out many things and to give names to all these things so that the result would be a book. In this way man's speech could be inaudibly recorded.
"Njoya asked whether the populace would be able to understand this silent speech. His courtiers replied: 'No, if things are done as you wish, no one will be able to interpret these marks.' Njoya asked whether it would not be as well to carry out his suggestions, and they replied: 'It is no use, no one will understand the meaning of these marks.' Njoya said to them: 'Go, sleep and ponder over the matter till it become clear.'
"The next day he summoned all his courtiers again and asked them, saying: 'What now do you think about this matter, this book business?' They replied that if he did as he suggested no one would be able to interpret the marks. Njoya said he agreed with them, and told them to leave the matter with him and he would try, and if the problem were too much for him he would abandon it. Nevertheless his courtiers were to make many signs, all different, and to bring them to him. He also made many signs.
"The King now collected all these signs, and called in Moma and Isiah (two Mohammedan Mallams) to help him plan. Five times he consulted with these two and by then he understood enough. When Njoya consulted with them again the problem was solved. Then he called together many of his courtiers and taught them the signs. Many people learned and King Njoya was very pleased."2
King Njoya's magnum opus in the royal script ran to 1,100 pages and its replica is now with the Pitt-Rivers Museum of Oxford. The published text regarding the writing system was the combined works of MDW Jeffreys and Madam Dugast of France in 1950 under the title: L'Ecriture des Bamum and it was published in France.
King Njoya had also successfully surveyed and produced a map of his nation. This is also a remarkable feat by itself. Just imagine the natural and progressive development of the people of Cameroon without the rude and violent and destructive intervention of European colonialism!
Quote of Albert Pike
Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and its laws.
Magic is the science of the Ancient Magi: and the Christian religion, which has imposed silence on the lying oracles, and put an end to the prestige of the false Gods, itself reveres those Magi who came from the East, guided by a Star, to adore the Savior of the world in His cradle
Random Quote:
When the medieval Roman Catholic Church rose to power, they systematically banned the ancient forms. It was not only about eradicating witchcraft, that was just propaganda, it was really about eradicating the deeply rooted cultural traditions that formed the basis of our culture, and that the Church authorities saw as competition their political power. The Knights Templar, the present day Illuminati Western Freemasonry, were sent to all parts of the world, killing ancient priests, stealing and burning ancient scrolls, and adding this knowledge to the Vatican's underground vault.The same consequence covers the reality of Flat Earth, the Domed Sky and the Electric Cosmos. It also explains how come Telsa's genius was greatly ignored and his scientific proposals were hidden and those released credit given to others more trusted to keep the political status quo.
Ethics of Magick
By Shadow Wolf
The ethics of magic is tied in to the mechanics of magic. To transmit a psychic signal, you must resonate it in your own mind. One's mind creates the original edition of the effect one wishes to produce in the target. If the target is receptive to your signal and linked to your mind, a copy of the signal resonating in your mind may resonate at the target, and be transmitted. You are left with the original edition.
Generally, only a fraction of the signal resonating in one's own mind is transmitted. The rest remains with the person generating it and with the associated media involved in transmission. To magically hex another person is to hex oneself. To do manipulative magic on another person is to perform similar manipulation on oneself. To perform unrequested magic on another may result in unwanted magical effects on oneself.
Rituals such as casting a magic circle and calling quarters, invoking elements and deities to initiate a magical state of mind, and grounding after work is done and thanking and dismissing the powers invoked to end this state of mind keep magical and rational states of mind separate. When not actively performing magic, the magician's consciousness should link with what is occurring and with that which has occurred in ordinary reality, and the magician should be able to function in harmony with nature and with one's surroundings.
Suggestions:
It is highly suggested to practice meditation for at least 6 months with discipline before attempting to direct intent. The mind can be varied when not focused and thus can cause the magick to not manifest, manifest in a way not intended or possibly backfire. The same can be said when performing rituals, such as if the rituals is not performed correctly, no matter how simple or complex, this lack of mental concentration can cause the magick spell to go awry. Some people get involved in sex magick which I do not recommend. They perform sex magick because the sexual essence, semen and vaginal secretions contain the life's essense, this orgone energy, life energy, charges their magical link. Yet what I find among these who practice sex magick is they become psychic vampires, sex addicts, fall often into sexual perversion. Also leaving one's essence on a magical link ties one to the physical realm and the purpose of magick is to raise the soul higher than the vibration of the false physical realm. Don't be lazy and irresponsible, meditate, rise above the false sensory of this world, be like the Monks of Tibet pure in life and intent. Further, too heavily of a reliance upon magick to cure problems, to create joy and happiness can wreak havoc to the soul.
African Magical Alphabets, Signal communication with the dead spirits via Sigils, Veves, Runes, Patipembas, Seals, Hieroglyphs, Theban and Sumerian Languages.
Chaos Sigils
Sigils are just symbols yet its deceptive to call these paper talisman sigils because talisman have been in existence for thousands of years and cultures all over the world. Research talisman and you find much material to advance your sigil magick.
Sigils can be written with many different scripts besides English. It is suggested to use an ancestral script because it would be understood by ones ancestral spirits who fulfill the desires of the intent. Some African Scripts are formed for knowledge and some for prosperity and healing. Some are still kept secret. The Cosmos responds to symbolism and alters reality, opens and closes doors to other dimensions. For warned.
Chaos sigils are freehand drawn symbols that begun invoking intent as they are written. They must be charged, which is feeding the spirit, then later activated which is sending the spirit to complete the mission of fulfilling the intent. Because Chaos magic is freehand care must be taken catering the intent to a specific but not too specific intent so that your wish can be granted in a probable fashion.
Using Basic Shapes In The Real World To Draw
How To Draw Anything Using 4 Basic Shapes
Breaking down subject of drawing into simple shapes
Sumerian Script
Hebrew Scripts
The Color Wheel
Color Therapy
12 Zodiac Color Wheel
7 Planetary Colors
Baqua Directional Colors
Color Theory Basics
Magickal Languages And Music
Greetings,
Once you've got used to the pictorial side of magick you might want to venture further into the magical mantras, drums, bells, gongs, and many forms of music. As visual objects have geometric shape so does sonic objects like sound waves. Yes, in Africa there are magical drums called the talking drums. The drums sounds are divided into different tones, low, medium and high. This is also done with language as in pitch languages are also divided into low, medium and high tones. A pattern is formed, any pattern you desire, also an agreed upon system of patterns that form a communication language up and down the Congo, Niger, Zambia and Nile rivers, so messages travel throughout the kingdom in a little of no time. But our quest here is magick, so we are speaking of using sound in a magical way to send messages to the other side. There are special prayers, psalms, oriki in Yoruba which means prayers, chants done is specific rhythm, mantras like in Hindu faith, Tibetan faith, Taoist Faith and Shaolin, that is to show this knowledge is universal not limited to Africa. There are many ways create magick with languages and music. I will be adding these many methods to the blog so stay tuned.
Oriki Yoruba
Yoruba Magical Language Chants
Electric Cosmos
Greetings,
This is here is the most important piece in dealing with magick is how to bring energy to what you are doing. I've heard many lectures on how mantras and spellwork doesn't seem to work for some people and many suggestions on how to correct that issue. What many people lack is integrity, what do I mean by integrity? That is purity of intent, to show forth your will to travel into a certain direction or commit to a certain course of action with unwavering resolve to see it manifest. In plain terms it means to direct your spiritual energy via yourself and your own body or physical object towards to magical link to give it energy. In Africa, many cultures dance, sing, clap, stomp and beat upon objects made to be like drums, or actual drums, many of them move their skeletal frames in a way of old people. All spiritual workings require energy and they receive energy from many different sources. To work with Veves, patipembas, sigils, Goetias, and other sacred symbols requires the charging of energy. Below are many ways to charge and activate your magick.
Offering to God: 6 Body & Vocal Offerings
Africans know how to praise the simple way. Offerings in many African cultures are called sacrifices, and no it doesn't always mean blood consecration.
Gardnerian Traditional Witchcraft – B.7. The Eightfold Way. (1953)
1 Meditation or Concentration. This in practice means forming a mental image of what is desired, and forcing yourself to see that it is fulfilled, with the fierce belief and knowledge that it can and will be fulfilled, and that you will go on willing till you force it to be fulfilled. Called for short, “Intent”
2 Trance, projection of the Astral.
3 Rites, Chants, Spells, Runes, Charms, etc.
4 Incense, Drugs, Wine, etc., whatever is used to release the Spirit. (Note. One must be very careful about this. Incense is usually harmless, but you must be careful. If it has bad aftereffects, reduce the amount used, or the duration of the time it is inhaled. Drugs are very dangerous if taken to excess, but it must be remembered that there are drugs that are absolutely harmless, though people talk of them with bated breath, but Hemp is especially dangerous, because it unlocks the inner eye swiftly and easily, so one is tempted to use it more and more. If it is used at all, it must be with the strictest precautions, to see that the person who uses it has no control over the supply. This should be doled out by some responsible person, and the supply strictly limited.)
5 The Dance, and kindred practices.
6 Blood control (the Cords), Breath Control, and kindred practices.
7 The Scourge.
8 The Great Rite.
These are all the ways. You may combine many of them into the one experiment, the more the better.
The Five Essentials:
1. The most important is “Intention”: you must know that you can and will succeed; it is essential in every operation.
2. Preparation. (You must be properly prepared according to the rules of the Art; otherwise you will never succeed.)
3. The Circle must be properly formed and purified.
4. You all must be properly purified, several times if necessary, and this purification should be repeated several times during the rite.
5. You must have properly consecrated tools.
These five essentials and Eight Paths or Ways cannot all be combined in one rite. Meditation and dancing do not combine well, but forming the mental image and the dance may be well combined with Chants. Spells, etc., combined with scourging and No. 6, followed by No. 8, form a splendid combination. Meditation, following scourging, combined with Nos. 3 and 4 and 5, are also very Good. For short cuts concentration, Nos. 5, 6, 7, and 8 are excellent.
Sigils, Veves, Patipembas and Goetia work very similiar in charging, except that sigils of a deity would require more specific offerings which are covered also below.
The Naga People/Niggas/Niger/Nigeria
Niger.. and Niger-ia: are two countries in .. Africa.. . The words “.. .. Niger.. .. ” means in Ibo “King (emperor)” and “Niger-ia” means “Queen (empress).”..
Nigeria has 36 states therefore 3+6= 9.
Eyan River also known as Oyo River/Niger
Iyansan = Mother of 9
There are 9 major Charkas
They are:
1. The root-Mars-Ketu
2. The gentials/Sex organs-Mars-Ketu
3. The dantian-Mercury
4. The solar Plex-Jupiter
5. The heart-Venus
6. The throat-Saturn
7. The third eye-Sun
8. The crown-Moon
9. The Aura/Energy body-Rahu
The Eight Most Powerful Women Inside The Aláàfin Of Ọyọ’s Palace That You Never Heard Of, They Are The Real Powers Behind The Throne And Are So Powerful The King Calls One Of Them BABA
BY ABIYAMO · OCTOBER 12, 2017
The Aláàfin Of Ọyọ, His Majesty, Kabiyesi Alaiyeluwa Ọba Dr. Làmídì Ọláyíwọlá Atanda Adéyẹmí III sits on a throne that is older than that of the British monarch. Among the Yorubas, women occupy a very respected position and they are involved at every level of administration in the society. The outstanding civilization of the Yorubas over time is seen in the royal court of the Oyo Empire.
In Yorubaland, a woman can aspire to the highest position in anything she desires and this has been the practice for thousands of years. The role of the female in the traditional Yoruba society is so deeply embedded that no major policy can be implemented or decision made without involving the women.
Women in Yorubaland are so incredibly influential that they control the economy by holding an unshakeable sway over the markets, social events and commercial activities. This is very obvious in the emergence of roles such as those of the Iyalaje, Iyalode and Iyaloja. Even in the occult, the women are still at the very top of the pyramid, the powerful Ogboni cult cannot make any decision without the Palace Mother giving the final go-ahead.
Please note that the Egbe Iyami Oshoronga (or the Great Mothers of the Occult, not witches in the traditional European or Caucasian sense of it) are considered to be the Mothers of the Ogbonis and also use the same symbolic gestures and handshakes when greeting or saluting each other. In fact, the Edan Ogboni takes its name directly from Egbe Iyami Oshoronga. Ogboni members are also known as Awon Omo Iya and the breast milk of the Mother (Earth) takes a very central place among the Ogbonis. The breast milk is symbolized in the greetings of the Ogbonis and when they greet they chant three times:
Omu iya dun mu, gbogbo wa lan jo mu (Mother’s milk is sweet to drink, we all drink it).
Make no mistake, women are behind the secrets of the Ogbonis. And when I say women, I mean the Ajes, Awon Iyami Oshoronga, Iya Mapo, Iya Nla, Edan (aka Iya Aye) and other prominent female members of the awo (occult). These names do not really connote negativity but rather mystery, unusualness or the remarkable nature of their prowess of the centuries-old traditions of the Yorubas. Women are believed by the Ogbonis to be more secretive or reserved than the men so mothers are deeply respected by the Ogbonis as the vessels carrying the most important secrets of existence and the occult.
These explanations have been given as introduction to allow the reader appreciate the role of women in Yorubaland as against the subjugation of the female gender as promoted by the foreign faiths of Islam (which insists a woman must be hidden, cloaked and veiled) and Christianity (which says a woman cannot even talk inside the church). This is not the case in Yorubaland and even the foreign faiths have been influenced by traditional Yoruba practices. So, who are the eight powerful women inside the aafin (palace) of the Alaafin of Oyo that people have not heard of? These women are collectively and casually referred to as the ‘King’s wives’ but they should not be confused with the Ayabas (Oloris) who are the queens and wives of the monarch. Here we go:
IYAMODE
Iyamode is the only person in the world the Aláàfin is permitted to kneel before. He kneels before no one else except Iyamode. Other people kneel before the Aláàfin. Iyamode occupies a role so deeply respected that the king calls her ‘Baba’ (father). Whenever the Aláàfin goes on his knees before this influential woman, she returns the salutation by also going on her knees but she never reclines on her elbow while doing so as this is the custom of women in saluting their superiors. Iyamode is one of the most senior eight priestesses inside the Aláàfin’s royal household.
Other priestesses within the palace include Iya’le Oduduwa (Priestess of Oduduwa) Ode (head of all the worshippers of the god Ososi, she dresses as a hunter, hence her name, on state occasions adorned with a bow ornamented with strings of cowries neatly strung on her shoulder), Obagunte (she represents the Aláàfin in the Ogboni confraternity and enters the Ogboni chamber on all occasions acting in the name of the Aláàfin), Eni Oja (she is the head of all the Eshu worshippers in the town, she is in charge of the King’s market and wears a gown like a man, the King leans on her arms the day he goes to worship the god of the markets, the Olosi is under the Eni Oja, same with the Aroja or the Market Keeper ), Iya’le Agbo (she is a private attendant to the Aláàfin and is in charge of his private pharmacy preparing all the agunmu (powders) and agbo (infusions) for the king) and Iya Otun.
Iyamode and Iya Oba are always clean shaven while others plait their hair in small strips from the forehead to the top of the head and gather the rest from the back to the top, tying all the hair clump into one knot with a string in a style known as the Ikokoro. As for the Ode, Eni Oja, Iyafin-Iku, Iya Olosun and the Iya’le Oduduwa adorn theirs with red feathers of the parrot’s tail.
It is interesting to know that the ancestor of the Yorubas, Oduduwa, had one son, Okanbi, with his principal wife named Omonide or Iyamode. Iyamode embodies the spirits of the Aláàfin’s fathers. Yoruba beliefs have it that fathers can be reincarnated in the anafemale child, and that explains precisely why the Aláàfin calls Iyamode ‘father’. Iyamode resides in one of the outhouses of the palace.
Her duties are not specially in the palace and she is the superior of the celibates living in the Bara (the royal mausoleum)¸ and that is another reason she is styled ‘Baba’. The role of the Iyamode entails worshipping the spirits of the departed Kings and calling out their Egunguns (masquerades) in a room in her apartments specially set aside for that purpose. This room is screened off from view with a white cloth.
Please note that Iyamode does not just oversee the worship of the ruler’s ancestors, she is those ancestors. Iyamode is described as the quintessential Aje and the only one who can house, embody and be the father and all ancestors of the king, all in one body at the same time.
The Aláàfin looks up Iyamode as his father and he addresses him as such, being the worshipper of the spirits of his ancestors. As stated above, the King kneels for no one else but Iyamode and prostrates before the god Sango and before those possessed with the deity, calling them ‘father’. These include those set apart for life-long service at the Bara. Anytime one of them is possessed by the spirit of deceased monarchs (it is said of one of them ‘Oba wa si ara won’) and bursts out of the Bara to the palace with violent energy, she is immediately placed under the control of the Iyamode. On such dramatic occasions, the possessed tells the people message received from the gods such as the sacrifice they have to offer to ward off impending evils.
To conduct this ceremony, some water is poured into a mortar and it is covered by a wide calabash while other women in the palace beat this with all their energy as a drum with the possessed and others dancing to the frenzied beats of the drumming. Note that once a woman becomes Iyamode, she becomes celibate and stays away from sex for life. Iyamode also heads the convent of queens (Ayabas) who have become widows following the death of their husbands (kings). These widows live close to the Bara and live secluded and chaste lives.
IYANASO (Iya Naso):
The Aláàfin is worshipped as the living reincarnation of the Yoruba god of thunder, lightning and energy (Sango). Inside the palace, the Aláàfin has a private chapel for the worship of Sango which is inside Iya Naso’s apartment and the person in charge of this spiritual room is the Iya Naso herself. She has to do with Sango worship generally and she is the one responsible for everything linked to it. All the emoluments and perquisites arising from this practice are hers and she has also to do with the same at Koso.
IYA KERE
The coronation of any Aláàfin of Ọyọ is not complete without the crown on his head. The person who places the crown on the head of the king at the coronation is the Iya Kere, regarded as one of the most powerful women in the palace. Actually, next to the King’s Mother (Iya Oba), Iya Kere holds the highest rank and although greater deference is given to Iya Oba, it is Iya Kere who wields the greatest power in the palace.
Iya Kere is the one in charge of the treasures of the King. She keeps the royal insignia and all the paraphernalia used on state occasions and special events. Her powers are so extensive that she can even decide to withhold some of these royal treasures thus preventing any state event or ceremony from holding, she can do this to register her displeasure with the King whenever she is offended. As stated above, it is Iya Kere who places the crown on the head of the Aláàfin at his coronation, no one else is entitled to do that.
Iya Kere is also the ‘mother’ of all the Ilaris (male and female) because it is inside her apartment that they are usually created and she keeps in her custody all the sugudus that bear the marks of each Ilari in order to ensure the safety of the life of the King.
That is not all, as powerful as the Olosi is, Iya Kere exercises full power over him and even have him arrested and put in chains if he crosses his bounds. Iya Kere is the feudal head of the Aseyin, Oluiwo and the Baale (now Soun) of Ogbomoso. Once she assumes the office, she remains a celibate for life, that is the tradition.
IYA OBA (The Queen Mother)
Iya Oba is the official mother of the king. According to tradition, the King is not to have a natural mother. In a case where his own biological mother happens to be alive when he is called to ascend the throne, she is asked to ‘go to sleep’ and is ‘decently buried’ in the house of a relative in the city. All the inmates of that particular house are then given special priviledges and honoured as ‘members of the household of the King’s mother.’
As a mark of deference and devotion, the King sends to worship at her grave once every year. After the demise of the Queen Mother, another of the ladies of the palace is then made the Iya Oba and she is the one who is then supposed to play the role of a biological mother to him. And part of the privileges she enjoys as the Iya Oba is that she is the third person in the room when the King and the Bashorun worship the Orun in the month of September every year.
Iya Oba is the feudal head of the Bashorun.
IYA MONARI
She is the first lieutenant and assistant to the Iya Naso. It is the role of the Iya Monari to execute by strangling any Sango worshipper who has been condemned to death. Sango worshippers condemned to capital punishment cannot be killed by the sword and that explains why they cannot be executed by the Tetus.
IYA-FIN-IKU
She is the second lieutenant and assistant to the Iya Naso. She is referred to as the King’s Adoshu Sango meaning the King’s devotee to the Sango mysteries. It is the normal practice for all Sango worshippers to devote one of their children to the worship of Sango and that is the role that Iya-fin-Iku fulfills for the Aláàfin. She is the one in charge of the sacred ram which is allowed to go everywhere and about the markets without anyone molesting it and the ram can also eat with impunity anything it so desires from the sellers.
IYALAGBON
The mother of the Crown Prince (Aremo) is always promoted to the rank of the Iyalagbon. In a case where the mother of the Aremo is deceased, then another woman is promoted to that office and she becomes the mother to the Aremo. As the custodian of the next Aláàfin, the Iyalagbon enjoys massive influence and the control of a portion of the city is in her hands.
ORUN-KUMEFUN
She is also to see to the welfare of the Aremo and works in conjunction with the Iyalagbon.
ARE-ORITE
She is the Aláàfin’s personal attendant. It is the Are-Orite who sees to it that the royal meals are properly made, that royal bed is properly made, that the royal chambers are neatly arranged and she is also the one who sees the Aláàfin comfortably in bed after which she will go to her own apartment. When an Aláàfin is enthroned, it is the Are-Orite who places the umbrella-like silken parasol over his head as a canopy and she is constantly by the side of the Aláàfin to see to his needs and small services on public and state events.
These influential women are the real powers behind the throne. Not much is usually said about them, some do not even know they exist but they are always there in the background. These women communicate with the spiritual realm and guide every single step of the Aláàfin. They are the one who teach the Aláàfin all he knows about the Aláàfinate, they encourage him during times of trials, support him during periods of challenges and defend him from all forms of evils both physical and metaphysical.
These Mothers also do the divination to see how long an Aláàfin will rule, they educate him on what he can eat and what is forbidden that he cannot even touch, they are the ones who give the Aláàfin the ritual bath and cleanse and anoint him. They also take him through another process where his head is shaved (also by the Mothers) and then after seven days, they bathe it in snail water so that the Aláàfin will have the calm disposition and temperament needed to successfully hold the office.
These Mothers reveals to the Aláàfin the days of the divinites, when to worship the Orishas (deities), the kinds of rituals he has to do for each Orisha and the time to perform them. The Aláàfin then agrees to all these revelations and agrees to please these Orishas every day of the year except only one day in the year when there is no sacrifice and no worship of divinites. Only the Aláàfin knows this particular day of the year.
After the Aláàfin takes the throne with the power and authority to rule, these Palace Mothers oversee everything and they work silently in the background. They are the ubiquitous brains behind the kingdom. These Mothers (Ajes) prepare and spiritually empower the Adenla (the Great Crown) itself and as hinted earlier on, the Iyamode must be present whenever the Aláàfin is to be install, for only her can crown the Aláàfin. Without these Ajes, there will be no Yorubaland.
Iba eyin Iya o!
THANKS FOR YOUR TIME.
ABIYAMO.
Oyotunji African Village Kingdom
Africa in America
Oba Adejuyigbe was born prince Adegbolu Adefunmi from the Adefunmi ruling house Osagiyan Palace Oyotunji, USA. His Royal Majesty became the 2nd Oloyo of Oyotunji July 3 2005.
The History of Oyotunji African Village.
The Father of the Cultural Restoration Movement
His Royal Highness Oba (King) Ofuntola Oseijeman Adelabu Adefunmi I, born Walter Eugene King on October 5, 1928 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He graduated from Cass Technical High School. Oba Waja’s exposure to African religion began when he became associated with the Katherine Dunham Dance Troupe at the age of 20. In that same year, Oba Waja traveled to Haiti. With his new found African understanding he found the order of Damballah Hwedo, Ancestor Priests in Harlem NY the following year.
On August 26, 1959, Oba Waja became the first African born in America to become fully initiated into the Orisa-Vodun African priesthood by African Cubans in Matanzas, Cuba. This marked the beginning of the spread of Yoruba religion and culture among African Americans. With a few followers, and after dissolution of the Order of Damballah Hwedo, Oba Waja found the Sango Temple in New York and incorporated the African Theological Arch
Ministry in 1960. The Sango Temple was relocated and renamed the Yoruba Temple the same year.
In the fall of 1970, Oba Waja found the Yoruba Village of Oyotunji in Beaufort County South Carolina, and began the careful reorganization of the Orisa-Vodu Priesthood along traditional Nigerian lines. He was initiated to the Ifa priesthood by the Oluwa of Ijeun at Abeokuta, Nigeria, in August of 1972. Baba Adefunmi was proclaimed Alase (Oba-King) of the Yoruba of N. America at Oyotunji Village in 1972.
In 1981, the Caribbean Visual Arts and Research Center in New York sponsored Oba Adefunmi to be a presenter at the first World Congress of Orisa tradition and culture at the University of Ile-Ife, Nigeria. After his presentation, his Divine Royal Majesty King, Okunade Sijuwade Olubuse II, the "Ooni" of the ancient Yoruba city of Ile Ife,Nigeria, summoned Adefunmi and ordered the Ife Chiefs to perform coronation rites on him; Thereafter becoming Oba Ofuntola Oseijeman Adelabu Adefunmi I. Oba Adefunmi I became the first in a line of new world Yoruba Kings consecrated at the palace of the Ooni of Ife. He was presented with a special ceremonial sword of state, incised with the name of his Liege Lord the Ooni of Ife.
In the summer of 1993, Oba Adefunmi supervised the establishment of Ijo Orunmila Igbo Mimo, the first African American Ifa society. During the fall of 1993, he became the only official representative of traditional religion, to address the Parliament of World Religions in the one hundred year history of that organization.
Oba Adefunmi I married several times during his lifetime and fathered six princes and sixteen princesses. He has designed and contributed the major finance for most of the public buildings and temples at Oyotunji and worked on many of its numerous monuments and decorative carvings. Oba Adefunmi fostered the establishment of Yoruba Temples and Shrines in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Indiana, Georgia, North Carolina, Connecticut, Ohio, Florida, Maryland, DC, VI, Panama and England.
He and his initiates have initiated thousands of priests into the ministries of Orisa-Vodun. In so doing, Oba Adefunmi restored to the African American the ancient sacred priesthoods of the deities, Esu, Orunmila, Obatala, Osun, Yemoja, Ogun, Oya, Sango and Olokun; restoring the African descendants the rites of Gelede, Egungun and Ancestor worship.
Odu, Bits, Orunmila, Yoruba, 256, Octagrams
Ifa Computer Names
The Yoruba gods of western Nigeria once existed as humans and had their way of communicating.
Prior to their disappearance, they left with the people a means to communicate with them in the outer realm (the ifa divination).
Over 12,000 years ago, Africans developed Ifa Oracle divination based on the square of 16=16x16=26 = 2^8 corresponding to the vertices of an 8-dimensional hypercube and to the binary 2-choice Clifford algebra C1(8) and so to related ones such asC1(8)xC1(8) = C1(16) [7]. Since the number of sub-hypercubes in an 8-dimensional hypercube is 6,561 =81x81=3^8, the Ifa Oracle has N=8 ternary 3-structureas well as binary 2-structure.
Babalawo, Corpus, Computer Science, Bits, Base
The 16 Odus
Orunmila, in order to make access to the retrieval of the Divine Message (Ifa) easy, devised the computer compatible binary coding system, thousands of years before the emergence of computer consciousness in so-called modern man! So, Ifa is preserved in binary coded format and is output Parable - Format.
Ifa is coded within 256
Odus or Corpus, each Odu representing an esoteric pigeon-hole, itself divisible into256 sub-holes. Within each of the 256 Odus, there are1,680 Sacred Verses all presented in Parable - Format.Thus, the body of Ifa consists of 430,080 messages for mankind [1]Prof. Olu Longe in His December 22, 1983 Inaugural lecture titled Ifa Divination And Computer Science asserted that Orunmila is one of the deities of theYoruba while Ifa divination is a device for forecasting the future. What has those two got to do with the high-tech world of computer science?
Ifa Binary Codes
Ifa is actually an ancient binary computer system which, in some inexplicable way, has successfully linked the probability of numbers with the complexities of the human condition and the ever complex flux of events.
Eji Ogbe
Ifa, Longe said, is based on the 8-bit pattern with its eight–piece divination chain, 16 major odu(chapters) and 256 odu in all. Bade Ajayi in his paper titled A New Model of Ifa Binary System stated that Orunmila, the Yoruba God of Wisdom and divination uses a geomantic system of divination to arrive at appropriate signs and employs Ifa verses to interpret the signs [1]
Ifa literary corpus consists of 256 possibilities called Odu and each Odu also contains superfluous stories called ese. Sixteen of the Odu are the principal ones while the remaining 240 are the mixed or minor Odu. As the name implies, each mixed Odu is formed by thecombination of two principal Odu. Each of the Odu (both principal and minor) is represented by a specific sign which is binary in nature [13]. Every Odu sign has two arms illustrated by the first two principal Odu, Eji-Ogbe and Oyeku Meji 3rd and 2nd images above, and the 1st is the computer model worked out by Ifa's Opele.
Ifa Elements
Bade Ajayi emphasized in his paper that communication with the Odu is achieved by means of a calculated mathematical framework based on the prescribed course of conduct required from each Odu[1]In fact, digital computer uses the binary system.
Like the computer, Yoruba anthmomancy is based on binary system and it is therefore a computer oriented science which can be used in mathematical education.
At a divination session, several Ibo (instruments for casting lot), may be used to find detail information about a client's problem. The commonest and simplest form of Ibo of Cowry Shells tied together representing types (1) and piece of animal bone representing “Iho†(0) This relates to computer language today, we need prediction (which is scientific and reliable) more than divination (which is religious and uncertain).
Eji Ogbe
Considering the locio in the arms of the opele, the pairs should be punched (d) and there ‘bi’ spairs not punched(0) using this code paper model of Ifa -6-A-Bits computer model N has been developed.
The 1st of the 3 images is the computer model worked out by Ifa's Opele.
Ifa is also known as Voodoo in Haiti, Lucumi in Cuba, Obeah in the West Indies, Chamdole in the Caribbean and Sateria in Brazil.
Computer Science is the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression and mechanization of the methodical processes (or algorithms). It underlies the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of and access to information, whether such information is encoded in bits and bytes in a computer memory or transcribed in genes and protein structures in a human cell.
Haki Kweli Shakur – Yoruba ifa/Igbo Akpkpala divination is the origin of the computer/internet
NIGERIAN ORIGIN OF INTERNET (IFA) IN YORUBA LAND
May be i am wrong,but i think i am right,even though it is not confirmed,a more historic research and analysis would show the connection. I am aware that the history of internet/computer didn’t show any connection,but come to think of it.
Computer/Internet was designed some someone,he represents the founder,he taught people,as in experts,then many followers use it.
IFA is an ancient Yoruba devination, Orunmila is the Grand Priest and custodian of Ifá who represents the founder of computer/internet. Ifa is the source of knowledge believed to have a keen understanding of the human form and of purity,information of the past and prediction of the future.
Divination Performing Ifa divination is called Ifa dida or idafa (or dida owo and ounte ale) which may be represented as networking,setting up. Ifa dida /Idafa (networking)is performed by adifa (experts,computer engineer).
After setting up,a cyber cafe is handled to the admin just like the adifa,who coordinate the divination of ifa or the administration of the cyber cafe.
People consult the Ifa priest just as we consult the cafe or service provider,The items used for divination include:
* A group of sixteen Ikin, commonly known as sacred palm nuts, which are used to create binary data which can be represented as the modem or ticket incase of a cyber cafe,Dust from the Irosun tree (Iyerosun), which may be the keyboard,a vessel for the seeds (Ajere Ifa), which may represent the CPU,a divination tray (Opon Ifa) which may be the computer,a tapper instrument (Iroke Ifa), may represent the mouse.
Ifa is consulted to get information,connect people,know history of the past and prediction of the future. Just like the computer internet where we get information,connect our old friends,see future prediction etc.
we open our computer like the ifa priest would to his opan ifa,ask question just as we type with the key board and press enter. The opan ifa would search for your requested information and bring possible answer to your question which would be determined by you,just like google and other search engines would bring different option for you to choose that which best for you. A thorough historical research would prove more about the connection!
Igbo culture, which run well into their hundreds, the primordial Akpkpala system of divination has surfaced as the most sophisticated, versatile, accurate, enduring and encompassing system thereof; employed successfully since time immemorial in determining and addressing all phenomena.
Rightly so, various questions have been raised by both dedicated scholars and keen enthusiasts of Igbo culture around the world as to the underlying mystery behind the prominently ancient Afa Akpkpala divination system. Many have attempted to explain and even compare it with the far more recent binary computing system of Western epistemological tradition; an approach that is highly flawed in itself but somewhat aids in lifting the heavy veil of mystery in which the Akpkpala divination system has been much shrouded in. Indeed, as concerns the profound mystical science undergirding the Akpkpala divination practice, Prof. Onwuejeogwu (1997) and Prof J. A. Umeh (1999) has in their respective ways, invested great efforts in bringing some of the primary mysteries undergirding the Akpkpala oracle to academic light. Umeh for instance elucidated that, “this form of divination has its own language which the Igbo people believe to be not only the oldest Igbo language but also indeed the oldest language in the whole world” (Umeh 1999). Quoting Nwankwo Nnabuchi, he maintained that,
Infact, as it appears, the algebraically contrived binary computing system and more recently, quantum computing system is as far as the Western mind can attempt of this feat. But one should be aware that the binary encoding threshold system (Akwu na Obi) as confessedly extracted from the ancient Akpkpala system by Western seekers merely embodies one of the preliminary, Akashic gateways that an Afa adept (Dibia Afa) has to “pass through” (kwu Afa – literally, jumping into Afa/shifting into the Afa mode of consciousness) before arriving the 5th dimension from where the herculean task of Afa-seeking (Igba Afa) actually takes off and well-extends into an infinity of dimensions or universes!
Let us not forget that the Western epistemological tradition whose global hegemony continues to stifle other richer, epistemological traditions from enlightening humanity is still in denial of Ala Mm (the other inter-existing worlds/universes/dimensions). Besides, as with BCS, any careful analysis of QCS (Quantum Computing System) will readily reveal that it is simply the result of Western seekers, once again, extrapolating about 10-15% of the embedded principles found in the mystical “fox-seed-sand-fingerprint” divination system of the generous Dogon people and transforming the same into a mere, quantum-mathematical “information system”. Whereas the original Dogon system is actually post-quantum oriented! And even at that, QCS is virtually still in its theorization stage!
Shamanic priestesses of East Africa
by Max Dashu
The amazon queen Kitami also called Nyabingi
The legend of Queen Nyabingi began with an amazon queen named Kitami, who possessed a sacred drum. Later generations revered her as a powerful ancestor (emandua) and she spoke through priestesses called Bagirwa. Most of them were were traditional healers, chosen by Nyabingi as her prophets. Wearing barkcloth veils, they entered paranormal states with "stylized trembling movements" and prophesied in arcane language, with high-pitched voices, holding dialogues with Nyabingi and speaking in her name.
Bagirwa: rebel priestesses of Uganda
Foreign travellers in the Uganda / Rwanda borderlands heard rumors about these holy women. The explorer Stanley had gotten reports of the WaNyavingi, and of an Empress of Ruanda (though women did not rule there). In 1891, Emin Pasha wrote from Mpororo that this powerful woman was never seen, “a voice behind a curtain of bark cloth, with the reputation of a great sorceress.” Sometimes she was carried on a litter like a queen. A British document refers to “Navingi, chieftainess of Omupundi.”
But there was more than one Nyabingi. Although the bagirwa "were almost invariably women," there were some men too. They also dressed in the female manner. The bagirwa demanded tribute from chiefs, disrupting the tribute patterns in Rwanda, and distributed cattle and beer.
Muhumusa
She appears in the early 1900s as a widowed Rwandan queen mother who fled with the heir to the throne into Ndorwa, in what is now SW Uganda. She was a chief who refused to acknowledge the usurper mwame Musinga, who was allied with the German colonials. In 1911 Muhumusa proclaimed “she would drive out the Europeans” and “that the bullets of the Wazungu would turn to water against her.” She roused a military resistance which was stamped out within months, and she spent the rest of her life under detention, first by the Germans and then at the behest of the British (1912-1945).
Muhumusa became the first in a line of rebel priestesses fighting colonial domination in the name of Nyabingi. The British passed their 1912 Witchcraft Act in direct response to the political effectiveness of this spiritually-based resistance movement. The graphic above shows a few of the bagirwa mentioned in colonial reports in the second decade of the 20th century.
In August of 1917, the “Nabinga” Kaigirwa engineered the Nyakishenyi revolt, with unanimous public support. British officials placed a high price on her head, but no one would claim it. One commissioner remarked, “These fanatical women are a curse to the country.”
In January of 1919, colonial forces attacked the Congo camp of Kaigirwa, her husband Luhemba, the male mugirwa Ndochibiri and others. The men died in battle, defiantly breaking their rifles and cursing their enemies. But Kaigirwa and the main body of fighters managed to evade the army and escape. However, the British captured the sacred white sheep, which they carefully burnt to dust before a convocation of leading chiefs. They lectured this captive audience “not to listen to Kaigirwa who will only lead them to trouble.” But a series of disasters afflicted the District Commissioner who killed the sheep. His own herds were wiped out, his roof caved in and a mysterious fire broke out in his house. Kaigirwa attempted another rising, then went into the hills. She was never captured.
One official wrote “that a very serious general rising … had been most narrowly averted,” and another referred to “the narrow escape… from a serious native outbreak” and the danger of “this Nabingi propaganda.” Others would follow. The most serious was the 1928 Rebellion, which began with the killing of puppet chiefs and “large, excited and armed gatherings in the hills” and what one British source described as "armed witchcraft dances."
After this, the political dimension of the bagirwa gradually fades, and the underlying healing culture reasserts itself. The missionaries were finally making headway in converting people to Christianity, which had political dimensions. Some converts were not above pressuring people into baptism by declaring that pagans would be under suspicion for political subversion.
Queen Nyabingi, the legendary spirit of liberation from oppression
But there was one more chapter to follow. Although the Nyabingi movement was quelled by the 1930s in East Africa, it inspired the Rastafarians in Jamaica, who were attuned to the region because of their allegiance to the king of Ethiopia. They adopted Queen Nyabingi as a spirit of liberation whose power would overcome "downpressors." The Order of Nyabingi became an important cultural touchstone. Drumming and chanting Nyabingi took on the meaning of overcoming oppression and destroying those who committed injustice.
Python priestess
of Malawi in
the sacred pool.
By an unknown
Chewa artist.
Python women and rain shrine priestesses were the primary spiritual leaders in old Malawi.
In Zimbabwe, too, priestesses were major figures. Kasamba founded a hilltop sanctuary of the Goba people in the distant past.
The Nehandas (lion oracles) were named after an originating princess who fled to a rocky shrine in the Mazoe valley in the 15th century. A long line of Nehandas followed, selected by the spirit with an initiatory illness and then ceremonially authenticated.
One of these lion oracles, Nehanda Nyakasikana, led the first Chimurenga (revolt against English colonial rule) in 1896-97. Her forces were victorious at first, forcing Cecil Rhodes to send to South Africa for reinforcements. They came with machine guns and explosives. The Nehand held out longer, but finally surrendered when the suffering of the Shona became too great. The British executed her for what they called "sedition," though she was defending her country agains conquest. She went to the gallows dancing, speaking and laughing.
The breadbasket of a country is a region which, because of richness of soil and/or advantageous climate, produces large quantities of wheat or other grain
African Mythology in Zimbabwe And Zambia
Nyami Nyami The Zambezi River God
Nyami Nyami Zambezi River God of African mythology in Zimbabwe
African mythology of the local Tonga tribe of the Zambezi Valley states that Nyami Nyami the River God who lives in Lake Kariba is believed to be a serpent-like creature. He is said to be about three metres wide, but nobody dares to guess at his length.
Legends has it that the water stains red when he swims past. Chief Sampakaruma saw him on two occasions many years ago, but the river god has been in hiding since the white men arrived in the country.
According to African mythology he lived under a large rock close to the present day Kariba dam wall. No tribesman would venture near it those few who did were sucked down with their canoes in the whirlpools and never seen again. They called the rock Kariwa, the "trap" and hence the name of the lake, Kariba.
The rising water of lake Kariba covered the rock Kariwa and it now lies 30 metres below the surface annoying Nyami Nyami. The Tonga people also believe that Nyami Nyami is married and that the building of Kariba Dam wall would separate him from his wife, this would anger him greatly and the river god threatened the peace of the valley.
Revenge of the River God
Nyami nyami walking stick
City dwellers had mocked the stories of Nyami Nyami, the river god but by 1958 the laughter had turned to chilled apprehension. Especially for those working on the project of building Kariba dam wall. Survey work on the proposed dam wall began in the late 1940's. On the night of the 15th February 1950 a cyclone from the Indian Ocean swept up the valley. Such a thing had never been heard of in this landlocked, stable land. Fifteen inches of rain, driven by a hurricane, fell in a few hours.
The river rose seven metres that night. A number of villages were swept away. When rescue teams finally managed to reach the area three days later, the putrefying bodies of antelope and other animals were seen hanging from the tops of trees. The survey team had perished in a landslide.
Work on the dam began in earnest in 1955 – but on Christmas Eve that year, an unprecedented flood stormed down the gorge and washed away the foundations of the coffer dam and the recently constructed pontoon bridge. The flood peaked, receded, and then peaked again. This had never happened before and people started to talk about the river god.
Nyami Nyami struck a third time in November 1956. The heavy rains fell a month before they were due. Sudden flash floods impeded work on the dam.
The Zambezi swollen with water from local catchment areas would rise over a metre in a night. They were unaware that 1300 kilometres away the Zambezi was mobilising its forces. It is fed by a catchment area of over a million square kilometres, of which nearly half is above the lake.
Heavy rains were falling throughout this vast region. The water was being hoarded in the floodplains of Zambia and the forests of Angola, and in January the Sanyati River, which entered the Zambezi very near the new wall, suddenly came down like cavalry charge. The river rose almost six metres in the next 24 hours and surged over the coffer dam.
The largest digger truck, which had not been moved, disappeared instantly. Only in March, after much damage had been done and the project set back some months, did the river begin to subside. Such a flood should occur on average once every 1000 years.
Believe it or not, in January 1958 a flood such as could be expected to occur only once in every 10 000 years, swept down the riverbed, wreaking havoc on all in its path. 16 million litres per second exploded over the suspension bridge, which buckled and heaved.
The north tower collapsed and the bridge rose clear of the water, bent like a gigantic bow.
Its spine shattered in three places and the Zambezi carried away its battered remains with what appeared to be a roar of triumph.
The Cosmic Serpent of Africa/Naga People
My school of thought is that we, Africans, the first humans, have been upon this plane of existence in this realm for millions of untold years. We have reincarnated and reincarnated many times though our ancestral bloodline lineages. They have been bloodlines to remain pure, royal bloodlines that stem back to the first son of heaven, and there have been bloodlines to become corrupted by breaking taboos and mixing with taboo bloodlines. Bloodline is more important that race as race is a social construct. While bloodline is affected by traditional practices, beliefs, norms and cultural habits of one's ancestors going back at least 7 generations. There is no such thing as tribalism in Africa but more of clashing between different bloodlines and spiritual frequencies in human beings. Africans have had kingdoms upon all 7 continents and Islands. Africans have kingdoms in heaven with millions of ancestors who have become enlightened in the trillions of years we have ventured this plane as spirits within physical bodies.
Who are the Naga?
By M. Mitchell
Secrets of Ancient Black India
Ancient Sumerians were African/Naga/Negro/Niggers/
Sumerian means Black headed people
Africa Is Bigger Than Asia
Asia Includes Europe
There is no Europe Continent
Tropical versus Constellational Mansions
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There are a variety of different methods for locating the boundaries of the lunar Mansions. The most famous grimoire of astrological magic, the Picatrix, orients the 28 Mansions to the Tropical Zodiac traditionally used by traditional Arabic and European astrologers. The Tropical Zodiac is based on the Sun and the Seasons of the year, with the Sun entering Aries on the Spring Equinox, the first day of Spring, entering Cancer on Midsummer's Day, the Summer Solstice, entering Libra on the Autumnal Equinox and entering Capricorn on the Winter Solstice.
14th Mansion
14th Mansion In the Tropical mansions, the first Mansion began with Aries, the 8th Mansion with Cancer, the 15th Mansion with Libra and the 22nd Mansion with Capricorn. These tropical Mansions are regular in size, approximately 12 degrees and 51 minutes. The Vedic astrology of India uses a sidereal Zodiac in which the Mansions are again regular and of equal size, approximately 13 degrees and 20 minutes. The beginning of Aries in the sidereal Zodiac is oriented not to the Seasons, but to the fixed stars which move very slowly, approximately a degree every 72 years due to the precession of the equinoxes.
Despite the effectiveness and accuracy of the Tropical Zodiac, many moderns reject it on philosophical grounds because they feel it does not correspond to the "real stars" With the regard to the Mansions they insist that a constellational Zodiac, that is a Zodiac based completely on the material stars is the only possible method. The constellational Mansions therefore are based on the location of certain fixed stars and are highly irregular in shape.
Al-Biruni, the noted medieval Arabic astrologer, notes that the constellational Mansions were used by the Arabs for weather prediction, and says, "The Arabs, being illiterate people could not recognize the Lunar [Mansions] except by fixed marks, visible to the eye. Therefore they marked the [Mansions] by those fixed stars which lie within them." Chronology of the Ancient Nations, Sachau trans. at 336.
Al-Biruni then says that, "...the Arabs attribute all meteorological changes to the influence of the rising and setting of the stars, in consequence of their ignorance of physical sciences, thinking that all changes of the kind depend on the bodies of their stars and their rising, not upon certain portions of the celestial globe [ie the Zodiac] and the Sun's marching therein..." Chronology of the Ancient Nations, Sachau trans. at 336-337.
Al-Biruni goes on to say that, "...the nature of pecularities which are attributed to the first [Mansion]...are peculiar to the first part of Aries and never leave this place, although the star (or stars which form the Lunar [Mansion]) may leave it. In a similar way all that is peculiar to Aries does not move away from the place of Aries, although the constellation of Aries does move away." Chronology of the Ancient Nations Sachau, trans. at 338.
The constellational Mansions exert an almost uncanny fascination for moderns since they follow the "actual" stars. Because of the influence of materialistic science, even when doing magic and astrology, both spiritual sciences, moderns wish to apply materialistic concepts and theory. Because they cannot see the action of the Mansions arising from anything other than some sort of rays or beams or field from the physical stars themselves there is an immediate tendency to embrace the constellational mansions. There was certainly a strand of traditional astrology that followed along these lines, but the majority of traditional astrologers and magicians took a more Platonic approach that saw the regular, even harmony of the Tropical Mansions as reflecting the perfection of higher spiritual realities, which are distorted and imperfect in their material manifestation.
While I follow my illustrious predecessors in preferring the Tropical Mansions, in my books and courses, I provide the boundaries of both the Tropical and constellational mansions so you can experiment and decide for yourself!
Constellational Mansions
The current positions of the Mansions of the Moon, based on the location in the tropical Zodiac of their indicator stars for 2010, with their Arabic names as given by Al-Biruni are as follows:
1. Al-Sharatain 3 Taurus to 18 Taurus.
2. Al-Butain 18 Taurus to 29 Taurus.
3. Al-Thuraiya 29 Taurus-10 Gemini.
4. Al-Dabaran 10 Gemini to 24 Gemini.
5. Al-Haqa 24 Gemini to 9 Cancer.
6. Al-Hana 9 Cancer to 20 Cancer.
7. Al-Dhira 20 Cancer to 7 Leo.
15. Al Ghafr 4 Scorpio to 15 Scorpio.
16. Al-Zubana 15 Scorpio to 3 Sagittarius.
17. Al-Iklil 3 Sagittarius to 10 Sagittarius.
18. Al-Qalb 10 Sagittarius to 24 Sagittarius.
19. Al-Shaulah 24 Sagittarius to 13 Capricorn.
20. Al-Naaim 13 Capricorn to 16 Capricorn.
21. Al-Baldah 16 Capricorn to 4 Aquarius.
8. Al-Nathrah 7 Leo to 18 Leo.
9. Al-Tarf 18 Leo to 28 Leo.
10. Al-Jabhah 28 Leo to 12 Virgo.
11. Al-Zubrah 12 Virgo to 22 Virgo.
12. Al-Sarfah 22 Virgo to 27 Virgo.
13. Al-Awwa 27 Virgo to 24 Libra.
14. Al-Simak 24 Libra to 4 Scorpio.
22. Sa'd al-Dhabih 4 Aquarius to 12 Aquarius.
23. Sa'd Bula 12-23 Aquarius.
24. Sa'd al Suud 23 Aquarius to 4 Pisces.
25. Sa'd al-Akhbiyah 4-23 Pisces.
26. Al Fargh al-Awwal 23 Pisces to 9 Aries.
27. Al Fargh al-Thani 9 Aries to 0 Taurus.
28. Batn al-Hut 0-3 Taurus.
Tropical Mansions
Here are the later tropical regular mansions from Cornelius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book Two, Chapter 33,
1. Alnath, 0 Aries to 12 Aries 51
2. Allothaim or Albochan 12 Aries 51 to 25 Aries 42
3. Achaomazon or Athoray, 25 Aries 42 to 8 Taurus 34.
4. Aldebaram1 8 Taurus 34 to 21 Taurus 25.
5. Alchatay or Albachay, 21 Taurus 25 to 4 Gemini 17.
6. Alhanna or Alchaya, 4 Gemini 17 to 17 Gemini 8
7. Aldimiach or Alarzach, 17 Gemini 8 to 0 Cancer. 15. Agrapha or Algarpha 0 Libra to 12 Libra 51.
16. Azubene or Ahubene 12 Libra 51 to 25 Libra 42.
17. Alchil, 25 Libra 42 to 8 Scorpio 34.
18. Alchas or Altob, 8 Scorpio 34 to 21 Scorpio 25
19. Allatha or Achala3 21 Scorpio 25 to 4 Sagittarius 17
20. Abnahaya, 4 Sagittarius 17 to 17 Sagittarius 8
21. Abeda or Albeldach, 17 Sagittarius 8 to 0 Capricorn
8. Alnaza or Anatchtraya, 0 Cancer to 12 Cancer 51.
9. Archaam or Arcaph, 12 Cancer 51 to 25 Cancer 42
10. Algelioche or Albgebh, 25 Cancer 42 to 8 Leo 34
11. Azobra or Ardurf 8 Leo 34 to 21 Leo 25
12. Alzarpha or Azarpha, 21 Leo 25 to 4 Virgo 17
13. Alhaire, 4 Virgo 17 to 17 Virgo 8
14. Achurethor Arimet2 17 Virgo 8 to 0 Libra 22. Sadahacha or Zodeboluch4 O Capricorn to 12 Capricorn 51
23. Zabadola or Zobrach, 12 Capricorn 51 to 25 Capricorn 42
24. Sadabath or Chadezoad, 25 Capricorn 42 to 8 Aquarius 34
25. Sadalbracha or Sadalachia, 8 Aquarius 34 to 21 Aquarius 25
26. Alpharg or Phragol Mocaden, 21 Aquarius 25 to 4 Pisces 17
27. Alcharya or Alhalgalmoad, 4 Pisces 17 to 17 Pisces 8
28. Albotham or Alchalcy, 17 Pisces 8 to 0 Aries
The Moon as she travels the sky spends about 2 1/2 days in these 12 star/Illuminates Constellation. So after you figure out the moon phase the next step, find out the house of the day, then you can double your manifestation, or rather, zero in more accurately the cosmic energy towards your project/ritual.
Aries- A fire sign. Barren and dry. Harvest root and fruit for storage. Cultivate, destroy weeds and pests.
Taurus image
Taurus- An earth sign. Productive and moist. Second best for planting and transplanting. Good for root crops and potatoes, especially when hardiness is important. Also a good sign for leafy vegetables such as lettuce, cabbage and spinach.
Gemini image
Gemini- An air sign. Barren and dry. Harvest root and fruit for storage. Cultivate, destroy weeds and pests. Melon seeds respond well in this sign.
Cancer image
Cancer- A water sign. Very fruitful and moist. The best sign for all planting and transplanting. Also good for grafting, and irrigation.
Leo image
Leo- A fire sign. Very barren and dry. Cultivate, harvest root and fruit for storage. An excellent time to destroy weeds and pests in the fourth quarter.
Virgo image
Virgo- An earth sign. Barren and moist. Some flowers and vines are favored by it. Cultivate and destroy weeds and pests.
Libra image
Libra- An air signs. Semi-fruitful and moist. Best sign for planting beautiful and fragrant flowers, vines and herbs. Good for planting pulpy stems like kohlrabi, and root crops.
Scorpio image
Scorpio- A water sign. Very fruitful and moist. Best planting sign for sturdy plants and vines. Tomatoes like to be transplanted in Scorpio, and it is a good sign for corn and squash. Graft or prune in the third and fourth quarter to retard growth and promote better fruit. A good sign for irrigation and transplanting.
Sagittarius image
Sagittarius- A fire sign. Barren and dry. Harvest roots and onions for storage, and plant onion sets and fruit trees. A good sign in which to cultivate the soil.
Capricorn image
Capricorn- An earth sign. Productive and dry. Good for planting potatoes and other root crops, and for encouraging strong hardy growth. Good for grafting, and pruning to promote healing, and applying organic fertilizer.
Aquarius image
Aquarius- An air sign. Barren and dry. Harvest root and fruit for storage. Cultivate, destroy weeds and pests. Good for planting onion sets.
Pisces image
Pisces- A water sign. Very productive and moist. Second best sign for planting and transplanting. Especially good for root growth and irrigation.
The Axis Mundi is the Tree of Life
The roots of Gullah Gee Chee
and
African Diaspora
Mysticism of the Gullah Flag
The axis mundi (also cosmic axis, world axis, world pillar, center of the world, world tree), in certain beliefs and philosophies, is the world center, or the connection between Heaven and Earth. As the celestial pole and geographic pole, it expresses a point of connection between sky and earth where the four compass directions meet. At this point travel and correspondence is made between higher and lower realms.[1] Communication from lower realms may ascend to higher ones and blessings from higher realms may descend to lower ones and be disseminated to all.[2] The spot functions as the omphalos (navel), the world's point of beginning.
THE CULTURAL SECRET BEHIND UGANDA’S NAKAYIMA TREE
The Nakayima tree at Mubende Hill has existed for over four hundred years and is strategically located near the Kampala-Fort Portal road. Oral tradition has it that the sacred status of Mubende Hill dates to pre-Bachwezi times when it was settled by the magician called Kamwenge, who hailed from the vicinity of the present day Mbarara. The magician’s two sons established themselves as important local rulers, and their capital on Mubende Hill was known at that time which rapidly became on the of the largest settlements in the region. The site was however taken by the Bachwezi ruler Ndahura who resided therefore several years before the renouncing in favour of his son Wamala to retire to his birthplace near Fort portal Town. The specifics of these oral traditions however are subjected to some debate, but their broad sweep is corroborated by archaeological excavations that suggest an important settlement which existed on the crest of Mubende Hill at around the time when Ndahura would have lived.
The most prominent feature on Mubende Hill today is the Nakayima tree, which according to oral traditional harbours the spirit of Ndahura, defied both the Banyaro and Buganda as the god of small pox. The tree is named after a hereditary line of sorceries, which according to some sources claimed direct descent from Ndahura’s wife Nakayima, but might also have been founded by a priest from Ankole who adopted her name.
The Nakyima traditionally was not only a care taker of the tree, but she was also regularly possessed by the spirit of Ndahura, on which occasions her extremities became covered in smallpox marks for several days. Her supernatural powers are said to have included the ability to cure and prevent small pox and other fatal diseases, and to help infertile women bear children. The Nakayima was receiving regular tributes from the kings of both of these polities, and also overseeing ritual ceremonies that involved the sacrifice of cows, sheep and more occasionally teenage boys and girls.
If the oral tradition is to be believed, the Nakayima lineage was for full four centuries an acknowledged spiritual figured to both the rulers and the peasantry of Buganda and Bunyoro. Its end was remarkably abrupt. The first intimation of its demise in 1888, when the religious conflict that rocked Buganda forced the incumbent nakayima, Nyanjara, to flee from Mubende. When she returned a year later, all but one of the seven huts traditionally in habited by the Nakayima razed, while the graves of her predecessors had been defaced, and her sacred drums had vanished. This attack had no immediate impact on the Nakayima’s influence in Bunyoro, then relatively un exposed to exotic religions-indeed, king Kabalega made a special visit to Mubende to pay Nyanjara tribute in 1899.
As early as 1902, the political autonomy that had characterized the once- feared and revered spiritual community led by the Nakayima was curtailed when Mubende Hill was placed under the indirect colonial rule of a Muaganda Saza chief appointed by the British administration at Kakumiro. Nyanjara retired to Bugogo, where she died in 1907, the first Nakayima not to be interred in the traditional cemetery near the sacred tree, through eventually she was buried in isolation at the base of Mubende Hill. Her fantastic regalia, confiscated by the authorities now forms one of the most impressive displays in the national museum in Kampala-together with two large and ancient pots.
Unfortunately, no reliable successor to nakayima tittle ever emerged. In 1926, one Muhima sorceress briefly took up residence on Mubende Hill, while ten years later, a young Ankole girl dressed in full regalia reportedly spent several nights screeching at the base of the Nakayima Tree before presumably vanishing back whence she had come.
Uagadou
By J.K. Rowling
Although Africa has a number of smaller wizarding schools (for advice on locating these, see here), there is only one that has stood the test of time (at least a thousand years) and achieved an enviable international reputation: Uagadou. The largest of all wizarding schools, it welcomes students from all over the enormous continent. The only address ever given is ‘Mountains of the Moon’; visitors speak of a stunning edifice carved out of the mountainside and shrouded in mist, so that it sometimes appears simply to float in mid-air. Much (some would say all) magic originated in Africa, and Uagadou graduates are especially well versed in Astronomy, Alchemy and Self-Transfiguration.
The wand is a European invention, and while African witches and wizards have adopted it as a useful tool in the last century, many spells are cast simply by pointing the finger or through hand gestures. This gives Uagadou students a sturdy line of defence when accused of breaking the International Statute of Secrecy (‘I was only waving, I never meant his chin to fall off’). At a recent International Symposium of Animagi, the Uagadou School Team attracted a lot of press when their exhibition of synchronised transforming caused a near riot. Many older and more experienced witches and wizards felt threatened by fourteen-year-olds who could turn at will into elephants and cheetahs, and a formal complaint was lodged with the International Confederation of Wizards by Adrian Tutley (Animagus: gerbil). The long list of celebrated ex-students produced by Uagadou includes Babajide Akingbade, who succeeded Albus Dumbledore as the Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards.
Students receive notice that they have gained entrance at Uagadou from Dream Messengers, sent by the headmaster or headmistress of the day. The Dream Messenger will appear to the children as they sleep and will leave a token, usually an inscribed stone, which is found in the child’s hand on waking. No other school employs this method of pupil selection.
Kemetic tree of life vs Kabbalstic Tree
Igbo Pyramids and the 7 Planes of Existence
The five layers are a common theme in ancient pyramid building, found in the five-tier organization of Babylonian ziggurats, five-tier pyramid of King Zoser at Saqqarra, five-tiers above the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza, five-tier Mexican, Chinese and Korean pyramids, and, last but not least, five-tier Hindu funeral pyres. As a sacred symbol of ascension to the heavenly afterlife, the Nigerian pyramids are proof positive that the Igbo people had developed specific cosmological and spiritual concepts in prehistoric times.
The five-tier organization of these pyramids correspond to the different manifestations of the created universe from its highest to its lowest point:
1. Divine Source – The Seed
2. The World of Divinity – Fire - The First Light
3. The World of Creation – Water - The Primordial Ocean
4. The World of Formation – Air – The Spiritual Element
5. The World of Action - Earth - The Material Body of Living Things
The Nigerian five layers of the universe further correspond to the Old European concept of the "soul" represented by the "horizon" embedded into a pentagon. The pentagon embodies the natural order of the elements: fire, air, water, earth, and spirit. These elements are the five parts of man in Egyptian religion: BA, KA, AKH, REN, and SHWT. The five elements are also the creative idea behind Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man depicting a male figure superimposed simultaneously in a circle and a square. In Igbo tradition the five elements correspond to the five mirrors forming a pentagon in Ala’s headdress. These mirrors refer to the all seeing god who sees beyond anything as it is reflective.
Many features of Igbo sacred science have been preserved through oral tradition. Beliefs related to afterlife, the immortality of the soul, and reincarnation (Ilo Uwa) are expressed in different contexts by the most powerful, universal, meaningful, and sacred of all symbols, the circle. Although here we are concerned mainly with the sacred science of Igbo people, it is important to point out that many other ethnic groups in Nigeria, like the Edo and Yoruba, as well other early cultures of sub-Saharan Africa, share similar, if not identical, spiritual beliefs.
Prashant Trivedi
On The Multiverse & Other Realities
The Dimensions And How To Enter Them
Nine-Year-Old Yogamaatha went to a "third eye awakening" course in India and is now demonstrating the unique ability to see with her third eye. With her eyes covered by three blindfolds, she claims to be able to read pieces of paper and play games as though her eyes were wide open.
The Sri Yantra - The Mother Of All Yantras !
The Sri Yantra is a form of mystical diagram, known as a yantra, found in the Shri Vidya school of Hindu tantra. The diagram is formed by nine interlocking triangles that surround and radiate out from the central (bindu) point. The two dimensional Sri Chakra, when it is projected into three dimensions is called a Maha Meru. Mount Meru derives its name from this Meru like shape.
It represents the goddess in her form of Shri Lalita or Tripura Sundari, "the beauty of the three worlds" - Bhoo, Bhuva and Swa. (Earth, Atmosphere and Sky(heaven)). The worship of the Sri Chakra is central to the Shri Vidya system of Hindu worship. Four isosceles triangles with the apices upwards, representing Shiva or the Masculine. Five isosceles triangles with the apices downward, symbolizing female embodiment Shakti. Thus the Sri Yantra also represents the union of Masculine and Feminine Divine. Because it is composed of nine triangles, it is known as the Navayoni Chakra.[1]
"These nine triangles are of various sizes and intersect with one another. In the middle is the power point (bindu), visualizing the highest, the invisible, elusive centre from which the entire figure and the cosmos expand. The triangles are enclosed by two rows of (8 and 16) petals, representing the lotus of creation and reproductive vital force. The broken lines of the outer frame denote the figure to be a sanctuary with four openings to the regions of the universe".[2]
"'Shree Yantra' - Shree meaning wealth and Yantra - Meaning 'Instrument' -
"Look into the center of the Yantra, trying to blink as rarely as possible; you don't want to look at the particular details of the Yantra, just keep your sight right in the center and observe the whole Yantra at once.
"In time, after at least seven days of Yantra meditation you will be able to tap into the same yantric energy even without a Yantra (at the beginning you may fix your sight on an exterior or imaginary point or evoke the Yantra with your eyes closed).
"In superior phases the Yantra absorbs the practitioner's complete attention, and he can no longer tell if the Yantra is within himself or if he is within the Yantra; this is the state of non-duality."
In a recent issue of Brahmavidya, the journal of the Adyar Library, Subhash Kak argues that the description of Sri Yantra is identical to the yantra described in the Śvetāśvatara Upanisad.[3]
Together the nine triangles are interlaced in such a way as to form 43 smaller triangles in a web symbolic of the entire cosmos or a womb symbolic of creation. Together they express Advaita or non-duality. This is surrounded by a lotus of eight petals, a lotus of sixteen petals, and an earth square resembling a temple with four doors.[1] The various deities residing in the nine layers of the Sri Yantra are described in the Devi Khadgamala Mantra.
The Shri Chakra is also known as the nav chakra because it can also be seen as having nine levels. "Nine" comes from "Nau or Nava" of Sanskrit. Each level corresponds to a mudra, a yogini, and a specific form of the deity Tripura Sundari along with her mantra.
Esu/Elegba Owner of the Crossroads
Ase of Olodumare
Very similar to the Sri Yantra symbol is the Veve of Esu/Elegba from Benin Repulic/Haiti Vodou system. The Orisha/Loa Esu/Elegba is the owner of all roads, roads material and spiritual, all lanes of communication and energy. Without Esu/Elegba there is no manifestation. Without energy there is no manifestation. Hidden inside of the veve of Esu/Elegba is the Fibonacci symbol and the symbol of Pi. This is African sacred geometry, hidden inside the Eye of Ra of Ancient Eygpt, the Fibonacci symbol and inside many Vodou and Congo sacred script.
The benefit in conjuring African deities is that they are safer for those of African descent. Ancestral lineage is still carried out by the spirit world, spirits respond to those who belong to their spiritual house. Conjuring foreign deities can bring up spiritual issues, curses, with that spiritual house. So be warned stick to the Motherland for your conjuring.
The Third Eye Improvement
The Sri Meditation helps to implant the Fibonacci sequence into the mind's eye. This universal spirit is the spirit behind all manifestation in the cosmos, in nature and in magic. All magic is of the mind, rather the mind's eye, called the Pinael Gland. Mastering this sequence can assist with other symbols, Veve, Sigils, Patipembas, Goetia, etc, helping to bring out the inner dimensions of each and the spirits within. This is real magick! Its recommended to ground oneself first, learning to let go, forgive where forgiveness is needed, nothing we experience in this life no matter how harsh is permanent. Focusing upon positive then positive will manifest. Its suggested to do this mind training for 15 minutes upon waking, 15 before sleeping, for a period of 21 days to get best results. You may start to see results in as little as 7 days, some even shorter who have experience in meditation. The third eye in many people are calcified but this can be cured with some herbs and exercises, Sri Mediation is the most powerful of the third eye cures! We were created to become beings who manifest our reality and not be subjected to it. Magic has been hidden by occult societies for good and bad reasons because magick is very, very, powerful.
The PINEAL gland and the Sri Yantra:
Staring at the central dot or ‘bindu’ of the Sri Yantra is known and proven to create changes within the brain and the stimulation of the Pineal gland by focussing our attention on the ‘3rd eye’ area. The Pineal gland is a small endocrine gland in the brain. It produces melatonin, a serotonin derived hormone, which affects the modulation of sleep patterns in both seasonal and circadian rhythms. Its shape resembles a tiny pine cone (hence its name), and it is located in the epithalamus, near the center of the brain, between the two hemispheres, tucked in a groove where the two halves of the thalamus join. René Descartes believed the pineal gland to be the “principal seat of the soul” and viewed it as the third eye.
Check out the emphasis on the Pine cone in various architecture from around the world. Coincidence? I think not!:
Interesting Facts about the Pineal Gland:
* The pineal gland is formed at 49 days within the human embryo: the same time that Tibetans believe it takes for a soul to reincarnate. And the same amount of days that the human embryo becomes either male or female.
* In the ancient Vedic energy system of the chakras, the pineal gland is referred to as the ‘Ajna’ or ‘3rd Eye’ chakra. Modern studies reveal that the gland contains rods and cones – just like those found in the retina of your eyes! This is why when you visualize something strongly enough, you can literally see it “in your mind’s eye.”
*Your pineal gland receives more blood flow per cubic area than any other gland in your body. In other words, compared to all your other organs – including your lungs, your heart and your brain – this tiny little gland gets the highest concentration of energy. Hmm…
* Studies show your pineal gland secretes a substance called Dimethyltriptamine (DMT). The interesting thing about DMT is that it causes experiences which can take you well beyond common states of awareness. This is perhaps why the pineal gland is known in many cultures as the ‘Seat of the Soul’, the ‘Gateway to the Universe’, the ‘Mind’s Eye’ and the ‘Doorway to Higher Realms’.
* Your pineal gland is also important to your physical and mental health, and its wellbeing has been linked to memory, creativity, intuition and critical thinking skills. It is also sensitive to light and plays an important role in your sleep and waking cycles. When light strikes the retina of your eyes, it travels through a tiny nerve system and into the gland. When the lights go off, it sends a signal to the pineal gland to begin secreting melatonin, which activates your nervous system to go into sleep mode.
The Sri Yantra is considered to be a symbol of immense power partly because when you meditate for prolonged periods on it, you focus your attention on the area between you eyebrows which stimulates the pineal gland. This then increases the alpha brain wave activity (this fact is based on controlled EEG studies at Moscow University!). The Sri Yantra (amongst other forms of Pineal gland stimuli) and the Pineal gland complement and serve each other, and harnessing them in tandem could be the most important thing you ever do for your superhuman self!
How do I meditate on a Yantra?
It is thought that prior to being incarnated into this dense, third dimensional level, on a higher dimensional level, we had to become masters of manifestation. It is also thought that as little as 5 minutes of meditation on this symbol a day, can help us to reach that goal. Check out Project Yourself to find out how Amish Shah, a multi millionaire, did it!
(Please note – Manifestation should only be carried out to achieve the HIGHEST GOOD in all cases)
1. Position the yantra so its centre is at eye level and a comfortable distance away. Sit with your spine straight. Breathe in and out slowly until your breath flows naturally.
Begin with your eyes open, simply gazing at the yantra. Look at the center or ‘dot’ which represents the unity that underlies all the diversity of the physical world. The key is to maintain a receptive, alert frame of mind, without drawing any conclusions, and free of concepts or thoughts. As you feel yourself gathering consciousness, allow yourself to flow with the momentum of this consciousness.
2. Now allow your eyes to see the triangle that encloses the bindu. The downward pointing triangle represents the feminine creative power, while the upward facing triangle represents male energy.
3. Allow your vision to expand to include the circles outside of the triangles. They represent the cycles of cosmic rhythms. The image of the circle embodies the notion that time has no beginning and no end.
4. Bring your awareness to lotus petals outside the circle. Notice that they are pointing outwards, as if opening. They illustrate the unfolding of our understanding.
5. The square at the outside of the yantra represents the material world that our senses show us and the illusion of separateness via the well defined edges and boundaries. At the periphery of the figure are four T-shaped portals, or gateways. Notice that they point toward the interior of the yantra, the inner spaces of life. They represent our earthly passage from the external and material to the internal and sacred.
6. When your awareness begins to shift inward, close your eyes. Now watch the yantra imprinted in your mind’s eye, allowing it to gradually guide you within.
7. Do nothing, and you will find yourself participating in pure consciousness without the mind defining it.
8. The patterns of creativity represented by these primordial shapes express the fundamental forces of nature. They govern the world and they govern you. When you are ready, you may wish to take a deep breath, begin to move your toes and fingers, open your eyes, and become aware of your surroundings once again.
9 powerful ways to activate your Pinael Gland
Qi Gong Practices for Activating the Pineal Gland and Harmonizing the Crystal Palace
Many Chi Kung (also known as Qi Gong) practices contain simple elements like breathing or tapping that can be used to activate the bones and glands of the Crystal Palace.
1. Breathing
Various breath practices move the pumps, activating the pineal and pituitary glands as well as stimulating the flow of cerebrospinal fluid. Breathing is said to ionize the CSF and therefore increase its potency.
2. Tapping
Gently tapping your forehead in between your eyebrows activates the pineal gland and all three structures of the Crystal Palace. The vibration sends a wave directly back to the pineal gland, activating it in the process. The same vibration also moves through the bones to the sphenoid, which in turn stimulates the pituitary gland that rests in the sella turcica. The vibration of the pituitary awakens the hypothalamus through the pituitary stalk.
3. Toning
Toning or chanting sends vibrations into the Crystal Palace, activating the pineal and other glands and energizing the CSF. Chanting the eight forces of the pakua to draw in elemental energies is an exceptionally powerful exercise for activating the Crystal Palace. See Cosmic Fusion (Destiny Books, 2007) for complete instructions on chanting the eight forces.
4. Pressing
Pressing your tongue to the roof of your mouth activates the pituitary gland and, through its physical and chemical connections, activated the pineal gland and hypothalamus as well.
5. Squeezing
When we squeeze our eyes, the muscular connection with the sphenoid activates the pituitary. Sucking in our cheeks moves the jaw, which stimulates the neck and cranial pumps. Contracting the anal sphincter and perineum sends vibrations to the muscles that envelop the anus and form the pelvic floor. From the pelvis, the vibration then travels up the spine and dural tube to the occiput. The intracranial membrane system transfers the vibration to the center of the head, activating the pineal and pituitary glands.
6. Spiraling
Spiraling movements such as spinning the pakua, the Tai Chi symbol, or our Dantians creates an electromagnetic field that energizes the CSF and enhances the power of the heart field, thereby activating the pineal gland and other glands of the Crystal Palace.
7. Being in Darkness
Darkness triggers increased production and release of melatonin, and eventually of pinoline and DMT as a result of its effect of activating the pineal gland and helping to stimulate function of and open the third eye.
8. Laughing and Smiling
Smiling opens both the heart and the crown, allowing more light to penetrate while also increasing the vibration of the organs. Laughing and smiling reduce stress and relax the body, which increases the flow of chi. Laughter also triggers the release of endorphins, promoting feelings of well-being. Relaxation increases blood flow, which amplifies the effects of the hormones released in the Crystal Palace and has an effect of pineal gland activation.
9. Focusing
Since energy flows where our attention goes, bringing our attention to the structures of the Crystal Palace will activate them.
The Most POWERFUL MANIFESTATION ACCELERATION TECHNIQUE You Can Use! (law of attraction)
This tip speaks of going back in time, in your mind only, laughing, and recalling a happy time with friends, any past event you've had that brought you joy. Then use this feeling to fuel a new event. Basically you are going back in time changing something that will manifest in the future. Time travel in the multiverse is purely spiritual. This is called, "Reverse Temporal Engineering", changing our script or writing the script you want. In other words, if you had the money for the car one month ago it will manifest now when you desire it. It will never happen in the future if you have not changed the past. Trust me, time is an illusion. Material world, an illusion if not so magick would not ever be possible. Have faith.
Endless Knot
The Eternal (Endless) Knot Symbol Meaning in Tibetan Buddhism
THE ETERNAL (ENDLESS) KNOT SYMBOL MEANING IN TIBETAN BUDDHISM
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The Endless Knot symbol (Sanskrit name is shrivatsa) is ancient and may have its origin in a Naga-related symbology.
Nagas are a class of beings that live in a variety of locations ranging from underground locations and waterways and also in unseen realms. These powerful beings have their own perceptions and vary in their enlightened level as do humans beings. In addition, some Nagas take the role of Dharma (spiritual teachings) protectors.
More importantly, in Hindu mythology, they are malevolent and benevolent, Gods and demons. The Nagas represent our unconscious mind which consists of 2 parts: the higher self and our base consciousness. Additionally, serpents also symbolize renewal and rebirth due to the systematic shedding of their skin. You can also find serpents in ancient cultures representing the cycles of time.
Endless Knot meaning in Tibetan Buddhism
In Tibetan Buddhism, the symbol of promise symbolizing the unity between compassion and infinite wisdom, that is without beginning or end. Occasionally, you can find the symbol in Chinese art and used in Chinese knots.
The symbol also represents Samsara, which is the endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, a karmic cycle that continues eternally until complete spiritual liberation. Since the symbol has no beginning or end, it represents the wisdom of the Buddha. Another possible interpretation relates to the interaction of the opposing forces in the dualistic world of manifestation, leading to their union, and ultimately to harmony in the entire creation.
Eternal Knot meaning in Celtic art
This Buddhist symbol is comparable to knots of other ancient cultures, bearing a fascinating similarity to the Celtic Knot of the ancient Celts. The Celtic symbol, also known as the mystic knot, represents an uninterrupted life cycle. These symbols started to appear in Celtic Art in the 5th century.
7 Laws of the Multiverse
How to apply | use the 7 Hermetic Principles
The principles of truth are seven; He who knows these, understandingly, possesses the magic key before whose touch all the doors of the temple fly open. – The Kybalion
The ancient Egyptians possessed knowledge far ahead of their time and it is sometimes baffling to us with what they created. Feats like the Pyramids would be difficult for us to do now with vast amounts of technology.
Some of the knowledge they possessed was the Hermetic principles which came from Hermes also known as Thoth, living in Egypt thousand years ago known as the master of masters because of the profundity of his teachings.
These principles which I will explain below are compiled in The Kybalion, however, we do not know who wrote this book. The authors come under the pseudo name ‘The Three Initiates’.
The Principle of Mentalism
The ALL is Mind, everything in Mental. This is the understanding that everything is created with thought or mind and nothing material is created without it. You may have heard the saying ‘thoughts become things’.
The law of attraction states the same and this was known thousands of years ago under the hermetic principles. We create our reality with the power of our mind.
To apply this principle we must first discover what we want in our lives clearly. We can then adjust our thoughts to a reality that we want.
The Principle of Correspondence
As above so below: as below, so above. This famous quote was created by Hermes and this means that the thoughts/images of your conscious and subconscious mind reflect your external circumstances. The outer world is a mirror of the inner world. This law is always working. Your thoughts, beliefs and attitudes must be changed in order to manifest a different result in reality.
To apply this principle we must first accept full responsibility for everything that is happening in our lives and reflect on what isn’t currently working and see what patterns are affecting these. We must then go about changing them.
There are many ways to do this, we can read books that will give us the knowledge to tackle the problems we face, we can change the types of questions we ask ourselves daily into more empowering ones, we can spend time with people that will elevate our minds, we can attend powerful seminars on the issues we want to change from people that are excelling in those areas.
Those are just a few tools we can use to influence the principle of correspondence in our favour.
The Principle of Vibration
Nothing rests. Everything moves; Everything vibrates. Every atom and molecule is vibration at a certain speed, vibration, frequency and motion. It is the combination of these that determines the form of any given object. Nothing is at rest means that even though you yourself seem to be solid at a microscopic level you are vibrating.
This is why many spiritual teachers talk about your vibration because this is what you are emitting constantly. What we think, do and feel manifests your vibration and there are many levels of more positive ones and negative ones. The higher your vibration the quicker your ability to manifest is. It is up to us to increase our vibrational state for a better world.
To apply this we must figure out how to FEEL a different way emotionally by changing our environment, our thoughts or by using visualising a better future. Examples of this are jumping up and down with joy for no reason at all, feeling grateful for the all the small things in our lives or even test driving the car of your dreams and really getting in touch with how it feels to have it.
The Principle of Polarity
Everything is dual; Everything has poles; Everything has its pair of opposites; Like and unlike are the same; Opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; Extremes meet; All truths, are but half-truths; All paradoxes may be reconciled. – The Kybalion
Everything is the same but at different degrees. For example heat and the cold, light and darkness, slow and fast. Take water you freeze it. It becomes ice. Boil water and it evaporates and becomes gaseous fumes. But they are identical.
You can apply the same thing to the mental plane. Love and hate, generosity and stinginess, elation and depression are one and the same. The importance of this is by understanding you can change one vibration to another. The alchemists in the middle ages were preoccupied with changing base metals into gold but this is real alchemy.
So to apply this in your life you must understand that anything can be changed. Your lower self can be transformed into your higher self. An empty bank account can be transformed into a full one. Weakness can be transformed into strength. They’re all varying degrees of the same thing that are under your direct control.
The Principle of Rhythm
Nature and life have a rhythm to it. Your breath has a rhythm. The tides of the oceans have a rhythm. The economy has a rhythm. They all move in an order of action and reaction, advance and retreat, rising and falling.
This is manifested in all aspects of our lives and we see this in the ups and downs of situations we come across.
To apply this we must be aware of this principle and not be bound to an eternal struggle of highs and lows in life. Most people totally succumb to the principle of rhythm and have no control of their mental state. They believe this is normal and is outside their awareness to think different.
You can attain a level of mental fortitude where you are in a good state regardless of any situation transcending duality. The ultimate state of living is to get to a level of loving blissful equanimity.
This is explained in the Bhagavad Gita by Krishna and also in the book Hannibal and Me one of histories greatest military strategists. To be able to maintain this whether you have profit or loss, pain or pleasure, sickness or health, victory or defeat, praise or criticism.
The Principle of Cause and Effect
The Kybalion states that nothing escapes this law. There are no accidents in this universe we all create our reality through the actions we take.
Simple examples of this are if you’re in poor health is it a result of poor diet or lack of exercise. Is your unsuccessful business a result of poor work ethic. All your actions add up and are creating the life you have currently.
Most people are at the effect of the world, not the cause. They are subject to the effect of their thoughts, moods, desires, emotions, other people and the environment. Successful people learn how to become the cause and master their own reality.
You can apply this by emulating people that have achieved what you want in life. Find out what they did, how they thought, what beliefs they had about life. We are in an age where there is an abundance of resources from whom you can learn from. You need to apply the law of cause and effect and take massive action on them. If you follow this you can achieve any result you desire.
The Principle of Gender
This principle states that everything in the universe has a gender. Masculine and feminine are at work not just on a physical plane but on a mental and spiritual one as well. You can also call this yin and yang.
On the physical plane this manifests as sex but it takes higher forms on the other planes. It is impossible for creation to take place without this principle.
To apply this we must learn to balance and integrate both sides of us and as you do so you will get closer and closer to self-mastery. The feminine and masculine must work together to achieve harmony as each on their own can be destructive.
These are the Seven Hermetic Principles and you can see these laws in many religions and teachings across the world. Keep them in mind and harness them to achieve what you desire from life.
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(The Patterns of Consciousness) Pt1
Sacred Geometry
in the Energy Theory of Magick - part 1
This is part 1 of a two part article on the topic of sacred geometry and the energy theory of magick. We will be introducing this subject in these two articles, and then expanding on it in future articles. At this point, let us establish the foundation for this discussion.
Continuing with our discussion of the use of prismatic energy forms in the discipline of ritual magick, we should touch upon the fact that these prismatic structures emulate a form of simple sacred geometry. If that idea can be accepted as a fact, then we can then consider examining these structures as they exist in a symbolic formulation as archetypes, as well as actual energy structures which have a direct practical application.
Sacred Geometry is defined as the geometrical physical shapes that are deliberately used in the architectural design of buildings and precincts that are used for religious or spiritual purposes. There is an entire discipline that is devoted to identifying, classifying and deriving the meaning of such geometric shapes. This article isn’t going to discuss the elements of sacred geometry as found in sacred structures; instead, it will demonstrate the more limited domain of sacred geometry as found in the extended energy theory of magick. While very complex and dense magickal rituals can use an extensive repertoire of different prismatic energy shapes in regards to the magickal power generated and deployed, we are going to concern ourselves with the fundamental structures that a beginning ritual magician might use.
First of all, magickal energy is a deliberate action or movement of some kind within sacred space. Therefore, movement/action generates magickal energy when the conscious mind is attuned to subtle and spiritual phenomena. Whenever a ritual action is performed it produces some kind of energy signature. Also, energy is generated through a contrast or polarization, which can be implicit (through symbols and archetypes) or explicit (through obvious sexual activities, whether direct or indirect).
Another important consideration is that magickal energy is best perceived and manipulated when one is in the proper mental state, which is the kind that meditation and simple breath control can produce. So the first step is learning to become competent with alternate states of consciousness, mastered through the basic processes of asana (assuming a comfortable posture), prana-yama (fourfold breath counting technique), and perhaps even some mantra work, such as the ubiquitous mantra AUM. Performing these techniques, one should focus the mind strictly on what is occurring - in other words, to be a witness to what is occurring within the body and the mind, but to avoid and side step distracting thoughts and emotions.
Performing these techniques as a meditation session will produce a refined state of consciousness that will allow one to perceive subtle and paranormal phenomena. Learning to attune to the subtle will assist one in being able to sense phenomena that normal conscious states would typically omit, and it will allow one to perceive magickal constructs and sense magickal energies, such as prismatic energy shapes produced through the use of strategic energy ritual structures.
From this foundational state of consciousness, as produced by the meditation session, one can then perform actions that will produce magickal energy. So how is it generated? There are seven techniques in the repertoire of the basic ritual magician, and these techniques should be practiced and used until they become automatic.
Circumambulation (around the sacred space or consecrate magick circle)
Slowly turning in place (dervish dance)
Sacred dance (alone or with a small group)
Ritual actions (drawing lines of power, etc.)
Breathing techniques (advanced forms of prana-yama - cool breathing, hyperventilation)
Visualization - building mental images (moving the mind)
Sacred sexuality.
The symbolic analogue representing magickal power is the union of the archetypal masculine and the archetypal feminine. So this could symbolize the joining of Light and Darkness, Life and Death, the Yang and the Yin, the Lingam and the Yoni, or the joining of a god and goddess. From this state of union, all power and energy proceeds. This is how visualization alone can generate magickal power, since one would visualize this sacred union of opposites. One can surmise that prismatic energy structures as used in ritual magick would employ the use of polarity (mutual attraction and resistance) and fusion (union).
Techniques of using magickal power have a fourfold progression, which begins with the generation of magickal power through one or more of the above methods, qualifying (defining with a magickal device), focusing and imprinting the energy, intensifying it to a climax and finally, releasing the energy. This fourfold pattern, taken from the beginning to the moment of release is called “resonance”, because it represents a process of both iteration and intensification. However, when you think about it, this process sounds a lot like the human sexual cycle, too. And indeed, it is quite significantly analogous. Perhaps this is why sacred sexuality has always been an important part of the practice of ritual magick.
Prismatic energy shapes generated in a ritual working are defined by the ritual structures inherent in a magick circle and qualified through the use of specific magickal devices. To truly understand these shapes, we need to define the magickal devices and the methodology of specific ritual patterns. A ritual structure has both a ritual pattern and uses specific points in the magick circle to give it a characteristic shape, and the devices placed at those points help to further qualify it. A prismatic energy structure is used by a magician when performing any variation of a ritual of empowerment - it is often found throughout the basic ritual repertoire. So let’s carefully examine all three of these qualifying components.
A magickal device is basically a geometric symbolic shape that is drawn to one of the points in a magick circle. For the beginning ritual magician, there are a total of six devices. These six devices consist of the following forms:
point,
line,
triangle,
cross,
star,
spiral.
Ritual patterns, which incorporate the points in a magick circle to generate a prismatic shape, consist of seven basic patterns that are analogous to the six magickal devices. These formulations produce the following energy shapes:
circle - sphere,
pylon - two points and a line of force,
trigon - triangle, tetrahedron,
square, cross-roads, circle-squared,
concentric spiral - electric/magnetic conical container,
eccentric spiral (with three revolutions) - inward/outward spiral,
pyramid - circle squared and central pylon.
The eleven points in a magick circle consist of the classic six (four cardinal directions, and the zenith and nadir occupying the middle of the magick circle) with the addition of the four angles (cross cardinal directions) and the central mid point, which is between the zenith and nadir. I prefer to use the nomenclature of the ultra-point (zenith), infra-point (nadir) and the meso-point (mid point) when speaking about the three points in the middle of the magick circle. So the eleven points consist of the following directions:
Four cardinal directions - also called the Watch Towers,
Four cross-cardinal directions, called the Angles,
Ultra-point,
Meso-point,
Infra-point.
We have now examined the three different components that are used to shape magickal energy into prismatic geometric shapes. The six devices, seven ritual structures and eleven points of the magick circle aren’t exhaustive, so one can see that more complex structures are possible through the use of additional components and more complex ritual patterns. We will limit ourselves to discussing the basic energy shapes that can be defined with the above devices and ritual structures.
Six Archetypal Devices
As stated above, there are six archetypal devices that are used to qualify a magickal energy structure. The devices are represented in the order of the most simplistic to the most complex, arranged as they are on the numbers one through seven. Let’s examine each of them in greater detail.
Point - the most simplistic device is a point, symbolizing a single dimension of reality or existence. From the standpoint of a ritual device, a point is a specific place or location, often indicated with a pointing device, such as the index finger, wand or dagger. The ritual action of making a point with a pointer draws the attention to that location and highlights it. Such an action is one of “declaring” that something exists or has been made. The point is most often an imaginary one, perceived in the mind after the pointer reveals it.
Line - this device is called a line of force, since it is the linear structure that connects two points or two features. A line of force is drawn with a pointer, like the finger, wand or dagger, and characterizes that an energy conduit has been drawn and established. Lines of force are used to connect points together, forming a bond, where energy may travel in either direction. Like the point, the line of force is perceived in the mind, but may not actually exist as a physical phenomenon.
Triangle - a triangle is where three points and lines converge to produce a pure two dimensional form, which is defined as a plane. A triangle is also a gateway or doorway, and represents the quality of harmony as the dialectic process of thesis, antithesis and synthesis. A triangle may be drawn with the vertex pointing up or down, symbolizing the archetypal male or female, respectively. When joined together, a six-pointed star is formed, which symbolizes the union of male and female. A triangle is more often used in a ritual pattern than drawn as a device with a pointer.
Cross - a cross has a variety of forms, each with its own specific meaning, but it generally represents the union of heaven and earth. It is defined as the confluence of the polarities of spirit and matter, joined into an indivisible whole. Crosses are usually drawn with the hand or a wand to produce a softer and more invocative form than a dagger. Some of the cross variations that are used in basic ritual magick have the following designs.
Equal Arm Cross - this cross is a pure representation of union, the confluence of heaven and earth, spirit and matter, where precedence is given to neither one. It can also symbolize the union of the four elements, where each identical sized leg demonstrates that the cross consists of four outer dimensions with a hidden fifth where they join, which is the quintessence.
Rose Cross - this cross has an extended base that gives it five parts instead of four, so the aspect or attribute of spirit is no longer hidden or implied. The rose is an invoking spiral that is superimposed over the center of the cross, where the five parts are joined to form a hidden sixth. The rose symbolizes the passion, pathos and material seduction of sorcery; when the rose occupies the center of a five part cross, it symbolizes the passion of spiritual and magickal redemption, which is the ultimate power of healing, protecting and spiritual guidance. A rose cross projects a powerful solar force that is closely associated with the solar godhead.
Rose Ankh - the Roseate Crux Ansata, or Rose Ankh, is also a five part cross, but the fifth element is a loop that replaces the upper arm, and the base is extended. The ankh symbolizes the power of eternal life, since it characterizes a cross that is “pregnant” with life. It is also the Egyptian hieroglyph of a sandal strap, signifying that life is integral to all living (animate) things. When a rose, or invoking spiral, is superimposed over the point where the loop, the arms and base join, it symbolizes the power of the life force that is fully activated and empowered. A rose ankh is often a proper symbol of the female godhead. It also projects a feminine, magnetic and mesmerizing force that is associated with the descending grace of the sacramental godhead.
Star - A star is a device that is drawn with a single uninterrupted stroke and whose structure has five or more points. Two forms of the star that are used are the pentagram and the hexagram, but there are many others as well, such as the septagram, octagram, enneagram, decagram, undecigram and the duodecagram. However, I have found that beyond the unicursal hexagram, the more complex star forms are generally too difficult to draw in the air by memory. Therefore, I tend to trace the lines of a septagram using a large painted talisman - the same rule of thumb applies to the rest of the star forms that have more than six points.
Pentagram - a star with five points, the pentagram symbolizes the four elements dominated by the fifth, which is spirit. A pentagram can be drawn to invoke a specific quality of an element or spirit by tracing a line along the pentagram towards the specific point that represents the target element. I usually prefer to start at the point opposite and draw towards the targeted point, and then continue following the line that makes up the pentagram until the point opposite the target point is achieved. I have a preference of drawing one last stroke from the point opposite to the target point at the end of the tracing, but others quit when reaching the point opposite the target point, which is also the starting place. Additionally, I finish with an invoking spiral drawn over the pentagram, which gives it added power. A banishing pentagram is drawn from the target point to the point opposite, with the motion going away from the target point, following the line of pentagram to the final repeated stroke. I then draw a banishing spiral over the pentagram. (When we get to spirals later on, we’ll go over the different types of spirals used.)
A pentagram can be drawn obversely, with the point of spirit above the points of the four elements, or inverted, with the point of spirit below the four elements. There are some who believe that the inverted pentagram is an evil symbol, representing the dominance of the four elements over spirt as a kind of chaotic revolt over the expected status quo. Satanists and some followers of the left hand path have made the inverted pentagram an emblem of the goat’s head, a symbol of Satan. However, the inverted pentagram has a simple meaning, which is the opposite of the obverse pentagram. The obverse pentagram symbolizes the ascent of the powers (as the elements) into spiritual union, and the inverted pentagram symbolizes the descent of grace or sacramental blessings from the godhead. Thinking about that distinction makes the belief that the inverted pentagram is somehow evil appear quite silly, and indeed, it is.
Hexagram - a hexagram is a six sided star that is generally used to invoke one of the seven planets of the ancients (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn). There are two types of hexagram in use. The old classic version consists of two triangles superimposed to create a star form, and the new version is called a unicursal hexagram, which is drawn with a continuous line. The unicursal hexagram is much more useful for invoking the planets than the classic version, since it then becomes more like the pentagram. However, I prefer to use the septagram for invoking the planets, and I use the hexagram in its classic form to symbolize a state of union between the archetypal masculine and feminine qualities.
Since planetary magick is more advanced, we will consider just the conjoined triangles symbolizing the union of archetypal polarities. There are also three lesser hexagram devices, where the triangles are not joined but in eccentric or overlapping relationship to each other. I use these devices to represent the three qualities of cardinal, fixed and mutable when working with astrological magick. Obviously, we will pass over a further explanation of these devices as well.
Spiral - a spiral is drawn to invoke, banish, seal or unseal. So there are four different kinds of spirals produced by only two different qualities - focus (inward/outward) and direction (clockwise and counter clockwise). A spiral is generally drawn with a wand, unless it is accompanying an invoking or banishing pentagram, then the dagger is used. The following four spirals are produced by a the qualities of focus and direction.
Invoking spiral - clockwise spiral from the periphery to the center,
Banishing spiral - counter clockwise spiral from the center to the periphery,
Sealing spiral - counter clockwise spiral from the periphery to the center,
Unsealing spiral - clockwise spiral from the center to the periphery.
An invoking spiral is used to invoke or empower something into manifestation. A banishing spiral causes something to become unmanifest or driven away. A sealing spiral is used to seal or preserve something, and an unsealing spiral is used to unseal something that has been sealed. Sealing and unsealing spirals are used in conjunction with magickal operations that cause a vortex to be warded (sealed) for future use, and unwarded to make it ready for use.
The Merkaba
The Merkabah
Having etymological roots to the Egyptian concepts of “ka” and “ba,” the merkabah is a spiritual light vehicle that unites both spirit and body; mer means light, ka means spirit, and ba means body
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Semiotics "The Science of Signs"
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Posted by Esurubelle1
January 26, 2015
Semiotics is the study of signs and according to Cobley, ‘The word “semiotics” comes from the greek root, seme, as in semeiotikos, an interpretation of signs. Semiotics as a discipline is simply the analysis of signs or the study of the functioning of sign systems. The idea of sign systems are of great consequence is easy enough to gasp; yet the recognition of the need to study sign systems is very much a modern phenomenon’ (Cobley, 1997, pg. 4). The African traditional visual culture features a lot of signs that have significant meaning in its culture. The significant signs in the African traditional culture is explored and developed on this practice in textile design for fashion as a mode of communication and commemoration. So therefore, it is important to study semiotics as a means of communication in the contemporary visual culture, critically looking at the roots and ideas of the practice. With the idea of developing a brand identity influenced by the visual culture of African historical references at hand, several symbolic traditional figures have been adopted to create a brand signature or sign influenced by this references, but first let us consider the semiotic ideas of what signs are. Cobley argues that “a sign is anything – a colour, a gesture, a wink, an object, a mathematical equation, etc. – that stands for something other than itself” (Cobley, 1997, pg. 4). Since a sign can be anything that stands for something, It can therefore be stressed that it is important to understand its meaning, why is it indicative of its meaning and how it represents its meaning. The importance of the meaning of the visual culture of African historical references that will be used on this project is both significant visually and also spiritually in its cultural heritage. The meaning can be understood by learning about the customary manner of its language. ‘Saussure proposed the notion of understanding sign systems by looking at the fundamentals of language’ (Crow, 2003, pg. 17). With the notion of understanding the language and its essentials as a system of signs, the traditional signs and symbols of Uli paintings and its cultural meaning and rituals will be critically researched looking at its traditional language and meaning.
Also the Yoruba arts and cultural traditional pattern and its significance are critically analysed on this project. The visual cultures of both the Uli painting and Yoruba culture of Nigeria will be used and referenced in the design creative process, examining the different visual cultures of every other cultures in Africa, particularly Nigeria. Its significant meaning and rituals in its cultural context will also be acknowledge on this practice as a means of communication and commemoration through textile design in fashion in the contemporary visual culture. This can be related to the issue of diversity in the African traditional cultures and on this case, particularly Nigeria. Nigeria as a nation comprises of many ethnic groups and cultures which faces a lot of diversity problems and issues of conflicts which has been a major problem in the nation. It is important to understand and identify the cultural meaning of this traditional visual references through this medium of textile design in fashion to produce universal pieces ready and available for all.
The two fundamental element of the signified and the signifier forms a sign. For example, the Ogene of the Uli design as shown in the figure below represents this idea. Th word ‘Ogene’ is known as the signifier and the symbolic representation of the object itself is the signified. The relationship between the signifier ‘Ogene’ and the signified is a completely arbitrary one argued by Crow. The theory further argued that there is no relationship between the word, its sound and the thing itself that is the object. This non relationship is known as duality’ (Crow, 2003. pg. 18-19).
The semiotic theory also looked at the necessity of the existence of signs and symbols as valued when a group of people agrees of its meaning and significance. For instance, the Uli designs has been utilised and referenced by many contemporary artists, particularly Nigerian artists popularly known as Nsukka artists, who formed an art movement ‘Ulism’. The artworks of these artist features the arbitrary nature of the language creating poetic connections for the viewers to accustom. For example, Uli artist such as Uche Okeke and Chika Aniakor both featured Ulism in their works. While Okeke’s themes were based on political and biblical themes, Aniakor’s based most of his works on Igbo cultural tales and ideals as seen below.
Uche Okeke, Baptism 1974, block print on paper, dimensions unknown (Ottenberg,1997)
Chika Aniakor, The Elders, 1967, pen, ink, and wash on paper, dimensions unknown (Ottenberg,1997)
Further more, Crow stated that ‘The sign stands for something, its object’ (Crow, 2003). in response to Crow’s quote on semiotics, the visual culture of the African mask can be seen as a sign in the homage or function of representing Africa to the world. The concept of the visual culture of the African mask is based on the cultural experiences and tradition behind every mask. Based on this, its meanings varies as there are different cultures and traditional customs with different interpretation. Below are some African mask from the British museum with their different identities.
Mask
Ivory, Iron and copper wire, Benin, Nigeria, 16th Century.Because of its unique aesthetic and importance, I was particularly drawn to the mask in honour of Idia, the mother of Oba Esigie, who established the special place of the Queen Mother in Benin. ‘Because of its aesthetic appeal it was used as a mark of cultural identity for the Second Festival of Black & African Arts and Culture published in 1977 (FESTAC 77) hosted and funded in Nigeria’ (Agbogun, 2011).
Brass
Benin, Nigeria, 16th Century
Mask of these forms were royal regalia, won by senior officials and returnable on loss of office or death. They were won over the left hip were the official’s cloth wrapper’s was tied.
Terracotta head
Benin, Nigeria 20th Century.
Heads of these forms and materials were the prerogatives of the bass casters
Wooden mask
Bangwa people, Grasslands religion, Cameroon 19th century.
Among neighbouring peoples, mask of this forms are identified as hippos. This mask belonged to the night society that exercised many functions including the installation of kings and the administration of capital punishment. The mask was considered so powerful that no man might wear it on his head on pain of death. Rather it was carried on the shoulders.
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With the local knowledge of the masks, the photographs of the mask have been used to create an iconic sign that resembles the the mask that it represents. Below are some icons l have created associated with Africa.
some symbols from the Ulism have no connection between the sign and what it means. For its understanding, the connection between the sign and its meaning have on learnt by it reader. On the contrary, an index symbol is directly linked to the object.
The term semiosis is used to describe v
go on to pose several questions about modeling, namely, “What is the function of modeling in life forms? … How is human modeling similar to, or different from, modeling systems in other species? What is the relation between modeling and knowing?” is the innate ability to produce forms to stand for objects, events, feelings, actions, situations, and ideas perceived to have some meaning, purpose, or useful function. The form may be imagined, in which case it is called a mental image, or it may be something externalized, in which case it is called a representation. Semiotic research has identified four basic types of forms: (1) signs (words, gestures, etc.); texts (stories, theories, etc.); (3) codes (language, music, etc.); and (4) figural assemblages (metaphors, metonyms, etc.). (Sebeok and Danesi 2000: 1)
–Primary Modeling System (PMS) = the system that predisposes the human infant to engage in sense-based forms of modeling.
–Secondary Modeling System (SMS) = the system that subsequently impels the child to engage in extensional and indexical forms of modeling.
–Tertiary Modeling System (TMS) = the system that allows the maturing child to engage in highly abstract (symbol-based) forms of modeling. (Sebeok and Danesi 2000: 10)
Sebeok and Danesi (2000: 11) argue that Modeling System Theory has four basic types or categories: singularized, composite, cohesive, and connective. From these basic processes, they then propose that there are six basic principles associated with Modeling System Theory:
-Representation is the end-result of modeling (the modeling principle).
–Knowledge is indistinguishable from how it is represented (the representational principle).
–Modeling unfolds on three levels or dimensions, of which iconicity and indexicality … are prior developmentally and cognitively to symbolicity … (the dimensionality principle).
–Complex (abstract) models are derivatives of simpler (more concrete) ones (the extensionality principle).
–Models and their meanings are interconnected to each other (the interconnectedness principle).
–All models display the same pattern of structural properties (the structuralist principle). (Sebeok and Danesi 2000: 11) When we consider the concept of “communication,” we generally think of a process of exteriorization through which an interior content is made manifest. The difficulty in providing a precise definition of culture is a longstanding one as Kroeber and Kluckhohn (1952) noted more than half a century ago. After a protracted discussion of different approaches to a characterization of culture, the author argues for a socio-semiotic definition of culture. In the first place, voice manifests our desire and will to express something. Hence the most important force and energy of the semiotic universe appears in it. This force is the movement from the immanent toward the manifest. in the way langue strives to to appear as parole. In its immanence and virtuality, nothing is yet a sign. It becomes one only when it is projected toward someone. Voice represents just such a fundamental intention. The voice does not just express an emotional state. It seeks to emanate from a subject; it strives to break through the borders of a solopistic Dasein. Therefore the voice is essentially an intersubjective entity. The voice can be studied as and in a text, transcendence, orality, social identity, national expression, gender, education, and through empirical approaches.
Thinking in Symbols
Alphabets were initially developed by the Ancestors to symbolize magical objects or ideas. Later, they were used for sacred writings and eventually for common writing. The descriptions of the alphabets that follow have survived through time or have been rediscovered. Many African societies keep their Magi, Juju, or rather traditional spiritual practices, secret from outsiders of their bloodlines. That is many scripts containing war, spiritual powers and sciences were never revealed to the colonizer and even keep secret from other Africans who were not of the bloodline.
Working on many Scripts requires added care and concentration, which means added Magickal force to your rituals and invocations, but the same also, applies to the spoken word. Ancient religions made their prayers (or invocations) in other languages than the one they used for daily life, because it means that the orator needs to think carefully, and this mental concentration adds force, to their prayers or invocations. But sometimes, when we want to pray quietly, a written invocation is better. At other times we feel the need of words, for words have power.
All script which later became writing alphabets added to phonetic systems of speech to classify languages is really symbolism, coding language that unlock the keys to the cosmos, other worlds, forces and dimensions. For warned.
Dr. Philip Emeagwali, the Creator of the Internet
Dr. Emeagwali used traditional Igbo script to formulate the equations for the world's first super computer that enables all computers worldwide to communicate with each other in a network, thus creating the web of online worldwide users.
IFA Yoruba Script
IFA is an ancient metaphysics that has been passed down from generations to generations over the millennium. IFA divination is a way of communicating or interacting with the unseen, spiritual world usually called our ancestors or forefathers. It is believed that with IFA, we can see the unseen, go into the future, tell the past and ascertain the present situation of things. It is believed that with IFA, problems can be diagnosed by consulting IFA.
Yoruba Oral Traditions
Oral Tradition is more powerful!
In the same article, we had outlined three concepts namely (1) acquiring knowledge, (2) sourcing knowledge and (3) rehearsing knowledge. We referred to the source of
knowledge which needed to be preserved. We mentioned the access to knowledge as the critical thing to preserve. In the preservation of knowledge, we outlined two concepts namely (1) the source and (2) rehearsal of knowledge. Now, we proceed with the rehearsal of knowledge.
Rehearsal of Knowledge
In this article, we focus attention on the rehearsal of knowledge. To benefit from the rehearsal of knowledge, we need three things namely (1) practice of knowledge, rehearsal of knowledge and frequency of language use.
Ketsahatso ya Tsebo (Practice of Knowledge)
The Sesotho construct Ketsahatso means to bring something into existence by application. Hoetsahatsa; an infinitive which initiates the existence of something by virtue of consistent practice. This is a goal oriented frequency of language use. This frequency preserves the language through usage. You may be a practitioner in any knowledge domain but the frequency of language use by application is extremely important as a strategic part of knowledge preservation. This is also good for the lexis, syntax and morphology of language.
The vital part of language preservation is access to the land. Through technological innovations, the lexis and morphology of language grow. The syntax of language is usually stable whereas the lexis and morphology must adapt to the requirements of politics, economics and technology.
Indigenous technological practices like pottery, metallurgy, agriculture and others nurture the growth and sophistication of language. If you deny access to the land that also spells demise to the language. If a traditional surgeon goes and digs medicine plants, a police force will prevent and even throw her in jail for trespassing. This is traumatic enough to discourage her from practicing her cultural knowledge. That prohibition will be passed on to the next generation; a tragic case of colonial conquest.
Kwetliso ya Tsebo (Rehearsal of Knowledge)
Knowledge must be kept alive. The best system for keeping knowledge alive is oral tradition. Oral tradition is dynamic and is the most adaptable cultural practice. You must rehearse the knowledge. This is where oral tradition succeeds over a literary tradition.
Oral tradition trumps writing in terms of the substance of knowledge. Writing platforms like Facebook allow you to write what you want and feel like sharing. The problem is that most of the Facebook pages are filled with trivialities. Conversely, oral tradition does not permit for trivialities.
In a literary tradition, you can write something down and shelve the writing. It will collect dust. In an oral tradition, you deliver a narrative and every time you make the rendition, the narrative comes alive.
Human brain likes rehearsal. This is because rehearsal tells the brain that the narrative is extremely important. Thus, the narrative strengthens and creates new synaptic connections and new neural pathways. If anything, you must rehearse the narrative because it is good for your brain.
Midiso ya Tsebo (Production of Knowledge)
Midiso refers to the nursery and birthing of new knowledge. This epistemic concept comes from the fact that Basotho always associate breastfeeding with knowledge acquisition. The axiom “Haba saenyanya, ke lefela la mafela” meaning if they did not acquire knowledge through breastfeeding, it is all in vain. It is interesting to note that breastfeeding is a powerful case of analogical reasoning because breastfeeding is a special case of gradual and gentle introduction to knowledge.
There are many ways of producing knowledge. Exploration generates new knowledge. Experimentation creates new knowledge. Critique of knowledge creates new knowledge. Technological innovation creates new knowledge. Looking at the same knowledge from a new paradigm creates new knowledge. Whatever the avenue of knowledge pursuit, there is always an opportunity to produce new knowledge.
Nsibidi Script
Peoples in what is today Eastern Nigeria developed a proto writing system known as Nsibidi that has since been abandoned following colonisation.
Mandombe Script
Afrikans have been writing for thousands of years. There have been countless examples of systems of writing. People on the Afrikan continent have been writing history, folklore, medicinal tomes, spiritual tomes and many more. Almost all of the worlds scripts are thought to have come from systems created along the Nile Valley [1] and the Tigress-Euphrates Valley[2] many thousands of years ago. It is rather interesting to note that no alphabet is known to have ever been formed by Europeans.
Ethiopic Script
Ethiopic is an African Writing System designed as a meaningful and graphic representation of knowledge. It is a component of the African Knowledge Systems and one of the signal contributions made by Africans to the world history and cultures. It is created to holistically symbolize and locate the cultural and historical parameters of the Ethiopian people. The System, in its classic state, has a total of 182 syllographs, which are arranged in seven columns, each column containing 26 syllographs. Ethiopic is a knowledge system because it is brilliantly organized to represent philosophical features, such as ideography, mnumonics, syllography, astronomy, and grammatology. [1]
Egyptian Script
Sudan Script Meroitic script
By the third century BC a new indigenous alphabet, the Meroitic, consisting of twenty-three letters, replaced Egyptian script. The Meroitic script is an alphabetic script originally derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, used to write the Meroitic language of the Kingdom of Meroë/Kush. It was developed sometime during the Napatan Period (about 700 - 300 BC), and first appears in the 2nd century BC. For a time, it was also possibly used to write the Nubian language of the successor Nubian kingdoms. The Meroitic script is very similar to the Egyptian Writing System. It was used by the Meroe people, a civilization of the Sudan. The system is written from right to left, unlike the Egyptian system which can be written right to left, left to right, and vertically. [2]
Afan Oromo Script
It is the language by more than 25 million Oromo and neighboring peoples in Ethiopia and Kenya. Older publications refer to the language as "Galla", a term that is resented by Oromo people and no longer used.
Liberian Bassa Script
HISTORY of the Bassa Script, 500+ BC (Liberia, West Africa)
Many people today are unaware of the genius of the African. Although they might admit to a complex verbal language structure, it may come as quite a surprise to many that African people have a multitude of written languages. In Liberia the Bassa people have a written script. The Kpelle, Gola, Lorma, Grebo, Vai and Kissi also are known to have their own written language. Most of these scripts have diminished over time, as a result of abandonment.
Had Hanibal visited Liberia in 500 B.C., particularly Kpowin(Tradetown) and Bassa Cove, he would have witnessed the Bassa script in use. The script is called Vah by the Bassas, which is translated to the phrase: To throw sign. Not to be confused with the Vai ethnic group, who also have their own written script as mentioned above. Vah was initially the throwing of sign or signals utilizing the natural environment. Teeth marks would be left on leaves and placed in a discrete location for the intended reader. Messages where also carved in the barks of trees. Eventually this evolved into a complex written language. During the era of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, many Bassas avoided slave traders by utilizing Vah(Bassa Script). During the colonial, and on through to the neo-colonial period in Africa, a decline in the usage of Vah script caused by external cultural forces, almost brought this written portion of the Bassa language to extinction.
Dr. Flo Darvin Lewis in the 1900s would re-discover the script in South America. Bassas that were sold into slavery now living in Brazil and the West Indies; kept the tradition of writing alive, passing it from generation to generation. Through his travels, Dr. Lewis was astonished to find out that he, being a Bassa himself, knew nothing of any such writing amongst his people back in Liberia. This discovery put Dr. Lewis on a determined path to learn, teach and revive the script in Liberia. Lewis attended Syracuse University and earned a doctorate in Chemistry, where he was known as the African Prince. Dr. Lewis returned to Liberia by way of Dresden, Germany where a company manufactured the first printing press for the Bassa alphabet. In Liberia, he established an institution for learning Vah. Among his students were, former Senator Edwin A. Morgan, Counselors Zacharia Roberts and Jacob Logan. Fear, mis-trust, sabotage and colonial thinking Liberians would lead to Dr. Lewis’ untimely death; leaving an open legacy yet to be completed. [3] [4]
Vai Script
West Africa 1819
The actual origins of this script are enmeshed in mythology. This script said to be invented by inspiration by Momolu Duwalu Bukele at about 1819. Some suggest that he developed this script from coming into contact with the Bassa Liberian script in his sojourns. [5]
Mende script
Sierra Leone
Nsibidi Script
The Nigerian Nsibidi is an indigenous adaptable and fluid writing system of two dimensional signs, three dimensional forms of pictographs and ideographs and pantomimed gestures. It originated as an esoteric form of knowledge understood by a select group of people mostly members of a secret society in Southeastern Nigeria which some sources link to the Ejagham and later spread to Efik, Igbo, Ibibio, Efut, Annang and Banyang speaking areas.
Some of the signs of the Nsibidi spread to the Caribbean and Brazil during the slave trade.
Edo Script
Benin and Edo people of southern Nigeria have developed a chromatographic system of writing. That is a writing based on different color combination's and graphs. Aba Abhuluime of Nigeria brought the chromatographic writing system to our attention. The system is also called quantography or pictography. This system of color writing and tradition needs to be further investigated. According to Mr. Abhuluime, there is a published work entitled "African Science: The Art of Colour Writing" by Aba Ota in 1999. We hope to provide additional information on color writing in the future.
Ghana Scripts
Adinkra are visual symbols that represent concepts or aphorisms. Adinkra are used extensively in fabrics and pottery among the Ashantis of Ashanti Kingdom and Baoulés of Cote d'Ivoire.
Bantu Scripts
Cameroon Scripts
Bantu Scripts
Somalian Scripts
Nko script
A linguistic trip around Africa will show that there have been, and still are many African scripts all over, from the N’Ko script used by the Bambara, Maninka, and Dyula (Guinea, Mali and Ivory Coast) to the Mwangwego Script in Malawi.
Native American Scripts
Cameroon Scripts
The King Njoya and his favorite wife
The Shumom people are the people of Cameroon in West Africa. Their country is located between Nigeria in the West, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Congo Brazzaville in the South and Chad and Central African Republic in the North. Within Cameroon, the land of the Shumom people is located in the northern part. It is a land of massif plateau and mountains, valleys and vast forested land, a part of the great equatorial forest of West and Central Africa. Foumban is the administrative capital of the district.
In the beginning of the 20th century or perhaps earlier, the people of Cameroon were able to accomplish one of the most remarkable African achievements of the century: the invention of a self-sustaining and self governing writing system and a Bronze cast printing set device to document the histories of the people. Sultan Ibrahim Njoya, whose father was killed resisting the German invaders, led the invention. The invention that started in the late nineteenth century (1895 or 1896) was completed by the beginning of the 20' century in 1903. By the time of the Germans arrival, the writing system was in use in conjunction with the Bamum language, which is a tonal language, which means the meanings of a word will vary depending upon the tone with which the sound of the word is uttered. The system went through seven stages of development. The first stage had over five hundred pictographs and the last stage has had only 35 syllographs, graphs designed to represent all the phonetic and tone sounds in the Bamum language of the Shumom people.
King Njoya opened a school in Fumban where many are trained to become literate and promote leaning in their own language. Several manuscripts and documents were produced, including the histories, laws and customs of the people and their neighbors. Two systems of writing were taught at the school: the Royal and the popular scripts. Tragically the most important documents are taken away by colonial masters out of Cameroon and they are housed in the French and British Museums. The Germans and later the French did not want to see the flourishing of a literary tradition among the Bamums. Not only they killed or exiled their leaders; they also violently banned the use of Shumom, thereby condemning the people to colonial dark age.
The remarkable accomplishments of the Cameroonians is in line with the long and glorious traditions of the inventions and use of writing systems, perhaps beginning with the hieroglyphics of the Ancient Egyptians whose earliest pictographic writing now dated to be 3400B.C.
The Shumom writing system was invented and used in such a participatory democracy where all the members of the society are asked by the king to participate in the project. King Njoya, the able and visionary leader, ordered his constituency to contribute symbols for the writing system. In so doing not only he succeeded in ensuring a wide range of ideographic ideas to choose from, but he also paved the way for eventual acceptance of the system by the whole nation. This process combined with mythology would place the system as permanent cultural asset and legacy of the people.
King Njoya mythologized the invention of the Shumom writing system as follows:
"When King Njoya was asleep one night he had a dream. A man came and before him saying: 'Oh King, take a wide, flat piece of wood and mark on it a man's hand. Then wash the board and drink the water.' The king took a plank and made a mark as the man directed, and handed it to that man who also made a mark thereon and returned the plank to the King. In the dream there were many people sitting around, all schoolboys, and they had paper in their hands. They all made marks thereon and passed on what they marked to their neighbors.
"When it was daylight the King took a wide plank and marked thereon a man's hand. He then washed the plank with water and drank it, as the man in the dream directed. The King now summoned many of his courtiers and told them to mark out many things and to give names to all these things so that the result would be a book. In this way man's speech could be inaudibly recorded.
"Njoya asked whether the populace would be able to understand this silent speech. His courtiers replied: 'No, if things are done as you wish, no one will be able to interpret these marks.' Njoya asked whether it would not be as well to carry out his suggestions, and they replied: 'It is no use, no one will understand the meaning of these marks.' Njoya said to them: 'Go, sleep and ponder over the matter till it become clear.'
"The next day he summoned all his courtiers again and asked them, saying: 'What now do you think about this matter, this book business?' They replied that if he did as he suggested no one would be able to interpret the marks. Njoya said he agreed with them, and told them to leave the matter with him and he would try, and if the problem were too much for him he would abandon it. Nevertheless his courtiers were to make many signs, all different, and to bring them to him. He also made many signs.
"The King now collected all these signs, and called in Moma and Isiah (two Mohammedan Mallams) to help him plan. Five times he consulted with these two and by then he understood enough. When Njoya consulted with them again the problem was solved. Then he called together many of his courtiers and taught them the signs. Many people learned and King Njoya was very pleased."2
King Njoya's magnum opus in the royal script ran to 1,100 pages and its replica is now with the Pitt-Rivers Museum of Oxford. The published text regarding the writing system was the combined works of MDW Jeffreys and Madam Dugast of France in 1950 under the title: L'Ecriture des Bamum and it was published in France.
King Njoya had also successfully surveyed and produced a map of his nation. This is also a remarkable feat by itself. Just imagine the natural and progressive development of the people of Cameroon without the rude and violent and destructive intervention of European colonialism!
Saki Mafundikwa Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets
Western Magick Alphabets
Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and its laws.
Magic is the science of the Ancient Magi: and the Christian religion, which has imposed silence on the lying oracles, and put an end to the prestige of the false Gods, itself reveres those Magi who came from the East, guided by a Star, to adore the Savior of the world in His cradle
Random Quote:
When the medieval Roman Catholic Church rose to power, they systematically banned the ancient forms. It was not only about eradicating witchcraft, that was just propaganda, it was really about eradicating the deeply rooted cultural traditions that formed the basis of our culture, and that the Church authorities saw as competition their political power. The Knights Templar, the present day Illuminati Western Freemasonry, were sent to all parts of the world, killing ancient priests, stealing and burning ancient scrolls, and adding this knowledge to the Vatican's underground vault.The same consequence covers the reality of Flat Earth, the Domed Sky and the Electric Cosmos. It also explains how come Telsa's genius was greatly ignored and his scientific proposals were hidden and those released credit given to others more trusted to keep the political status quo.
Ethics of Magick
By Shadow Wolf
The ethics of magic is tied in to the mechanics of magic. To transmit a psychic signal, you must resonate it in your own mind. One's mind creates the original edition of the effect one wishes to produce in the target. If the target is receptive to your signal and linked to your mind, a copy of the signal resonating in your mind may resonate at the target, and be transmitted. You are left with the original edition.
Generally, only a fraction of the signal resonating in one's own mind is transmitted. The rest remains with the person generating it and with the associated media involved in transmission. To magically hex another person is to hex oneself. To do manipulative magic on another person is to perform similar manipulation on oneself. To perform unrequested magic on another may result in unwanted magical effects on oneself.
Rituals such as casting a magic circle and calling quarters, invoking elements and deities to initiate a magical state of mind, and grounding after work is done and thanking and dismissing the powers invoked to end this state of mind keep magical and rational states of mind separate. When not actively performing magic, the magician's consciousness should link with what is occurring and with that which has occurred in ordinary reality, and the magician should be able to function in harmony with nature and with one's surroundings.
Suggestions:
It is highly suggested to practice meditation for at least 6 months with discipline before attempting to direct intent. The mind can be varied when not focused and thus can cause the magick to not manifest, manifest in a way not intended or possibly backfire. The same can be said when performing rituals, such as if the rituals is not performed correctly, no matter how simple or complex, this lack of mental concentration can cause the magick spell to go awry. Some people get involved in sex magick which I do not recommend. They perform sex magick because the sexual essence, semen and vaginal secretions contain the life's essense, this orgone energy, life energy, charges their magical link. Yet what I find among these who practice sex magick is they become psychic vampires, sex addicts, fall often into sexual perversion. Also leaving one's essence on a magical link ties one to the physical realm and the purpose of magick is to raise the soul higher than the vibration of the false physical realm. Don't be lazy and irresponsible, meditate, rise above the false sensory of this world, be like the Monks of Tibet pure in life and intent. Further, too heavily of a reliance upon magick to cure problems, to create joy and happiness can wreak havoc to the soul.
African Magical Alphabets, Signal communication with the dead spirits via Sigils, Veves, Runes, Patipembas, Seals, Hieroglyphs, Theban and Sumerian Languages.
Greetings,
All languages is symbolic in thought and represent a specific frequency or form, as I would say, within the Astral realm. That is to say that the universe responses to signals and the changes in reality according to requests of the one invoking the symbol. This change is done by the spirits of the dead, those whom live in the Astral plane who once lived in this plane, also by higher spirits; Irunmole/Angels and Ajogun/Demons. Also this is done on an soul level by the practioner and depends soley on focus, concentration and spiritual energy, build up your energetic body. There are two branches of this signaling which is invoking dead spirits, they are Ancestral, which is the age old familiar symbols, and Chaos Magick, which is spontaneous created freehand art by the invoked based upon intent. Ancestral Scripts are designed to invoke spirits who the symbols belong to that specific spirit and the spirit must respond. The second type of Ancestral spirit is symbols that are known to ancestors during the time period in which they lived, therefore these symbols are old, known to the spirit, some have crossed cultures but may mean something different in another culture. The next type of magi script are Sigils which are freehand, spontaneous symbols created by the magician and are not known by spirits. Since the dead can not hear, but they can see, they can sense the vibrations of energy being released when a symbol is either burned, activated by mental, physical and spiritual energy, when other forms of energy are used to bring the symbol to life. The spirits fulfill requests behind all signals and require offering, some devotion, to fulfill the requests. Caution is to be taken in using such knowledge because if the intent is not trained and focused upon the positive the person might get exactly what they wished for and serious regret. Magick is real!!!
Vodoun VeVE
Names of the Gods and Goddesses
To understand vodou, one has to have three qualities. First being an evolved human being. Second, knowing the concept of the scientific method and not afraid to acquire knowledge and finding the truth and finally, you can not be among those who are taking pleasure in human suffering.
Haitian Bokor VEVES(SIGILS) ARE NOT SAME AS THE LOA'S NAME
The World Mind V.S The Magick Mind
Greetings,
Obviously the mind you use while surfing the internet, being on Facebook, watch t.v, or playing with your friends and family isn't the same mind that you access to spark magic. The world mind is different from the mind of magic, it is mundane, ordinary, concerned with everyday living situations changable and unchangable, limited to time and the rules of the material world. The magick mind the opposite it doesn't not have to obey the laws of time and material world. Yet to access the magick mind, the deep subconscious mind, we have to enter trance state. This normally takes about 15 minutes, sometimes immediate if its an experienced priest, priestesses, monk or religious person who prays often. The subconscious mind doesn't separate itself from creation and in fact sees itself as one with everything. The subconscious mind doesn't see past, present or future, it is only the eternal now. This is where change happens when the command for magic take place when the subconscious mind is activated not before. Get yourself worked up, this is what many rituals are actually for, scenes set up to get you into the magic mind. Once the magic mind comes on that's where your sigil, hypersigil, spell implants itself, releases from the conscious mind and begins to change reality as the intent of your desire. This is where spirit takes form in the form of what you created. Every intent is a spirit.
Chaos Sigils
Sigils are just symbols yet its deceptive to call these paper talisman sigils because talisman have been in existence for thousands of years and cultures all over the world. Research talisman and you find much material to advance your sigil magick.
Sigils can be written with many different scripts besides English. It is suggested to use an ancestral script because it would be understood by ones ancestral spirits who fulfill the desires of the intent. Some African Scripts are formed for knowledge and some for prosperity and healing. Some are still kept secret. The Cosmos responds to symbolism and alters reality, opens and closes doors to other dimensions. For warned.
Sigil Magick - What it is & How to use it
Chaos symbolized into sigils is exactly as implied, "Chaos", when you start with letters. All letters are left brain objects and meant to give logical though to objects of reality. Geometry can be found all within nature, circles, squares, triangles and rectangles, dots, spirals, etc. Everything we imagine in our mind's eye has a shape to it. So drawing is basically learning to draw out what we see in our mind's eye. When we wish for something, in this case intend for something to manifest, we see its shape. So why not start with shapes rather than letters? If you are going to take the statement of intent remove duplicate letters and vowels but only to make shapes out of them in the end, then why not start with the shapes in the first place? The shapes that you start with are going to be more exact to what you intend as opposed to chaos drawings of letters that could be any shape in the end process. This to me is how come many sigils manifest weirdly or do not manifest because of this phenomenon not to mention some wishes lack probability in the first place.
THREE STEP METHOD OF ATTAINING YOUR DESIRES!
Chaos sigils are freehand drawn symbols that begun invoking intent as they are written. They must be charged, which is feeding the spirit, then later activated which is sending the spirit to complete the mission of fulfilling the intent. Because Chaos magic is freehand care must be taken catering the intent to a specific but not too specific intent so that your wish can be granted in a probable fashion.
I love to use the 8 step method of manifestation that utilizes auto suggestion and affirmations, plus feeling of triumph after reaching my goal. The auto suggestion and affirmations can be embedded within mantra, talking drum, dance, prayer, mythical story and/or commands to spirit.
That is take a simple goal or intent and break it down 8 steps.
Each step is a pathway that leads to your goal. Like if your goal is to get an A you would will better study habits, another pathway would be a fresh mind for studying.
1. Start of action
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8. Completion of goal-Feeling of Triumph-Visualize Successful event
Thought
Feelings
Desire
Intent
Action
Belief
Result
Think of 3 ways in which your goal can be fulfilled. Probability determines how much energy it will take to create your new reality.
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Think of 3 adjectives that describe the feeling of success!
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Shoaling
Taking an intent and creating 9 completely different intents so as fire them all at once! This decreases the lust for desire, creation on different channels of your life, and gains a boost from being fired with easily forgettable intents.
1. Economics/Finances
2. Education/Knowledge/Wisdom/Ability/
3. Entertainment
4. Work, how you can do labor your good/An easy job
5. Legal/Rules/So going you're way
6. Power/Esteem/Rank
7. Spirituality/Psychic/Religion
8. Fertility/Love
9. Protection/Safety
Hines Method
S- Statement of Intent
P- Pathways Available
L- Link Intent to Symbolic Carrier
I- Intense Gnosis/Indifferent Vacuity
F- Fire
F- Forget
Your statement of intent is a precise statement that clarifies exactly what it is you want from this sigil. The pathways is a reminder that you have to put in work for the sigil to be a success- otherwise the universe will have it happen in a way you don’t necessarily want. Linking your intent is the part that most people think of as actual sigil making; creating the monogram or glyph, mantra, or hand gesture. The intense gnosis is your method to fire the sigil, either through sensory overload or deprivation. Fire is when you hit the peak of your gnosis and send it to the universe. (Hine discusses the ways of doing that through orgasm, which is a really common approach among newcomers who are men it seems). Forget is literally that; you need to try to forget the sigil, its intention, and why you wanted it or it will become unlikely that it will manifest.
In biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling (pronounced /ˈʃoʊlɪŋ/), and if the group is swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner, they are schooling (pronounced /ˈskuːlɪŋ/).[1] In common usage, the terms are sometimes used rather loosely.[1] About one quarter of fish species shoal all their lives, and about one half shoal for part of their lives.[2]
Fish derive many benefits from shoaling behaviour including defence against predators (through better predator detection and by diluting the chance of individual capture), enhanced foraging success, and higher success in finding a mate. It is also likely that fish benefit from shoal membership through increased hydrodynamic efficiency.
Fish use many traits to choose shoalmates. Generally they prefer larger shoals, shoalmates of their own species, shoalmates similar in size and appearance to themselves, healthy fish, and kin (when recognized).
The "oddity effect" posits that any shoal member that stands out in appearance will be preferentially targeted by predators. This may explain why fish prefer to shoal with individuals that resemble themselves. The oddity effect thus tends to homogenize shoals
Shoaling
Shoaling is the deployment of multiple, interrelated sigils in the one activation session. It is the scattergun rather than the cannon.
If you adopt the Moorean conceit that thoughts have some form of functional existence then it becomes possible to map some behaviour models over them... specifically the clustering behaviour known as shoaling.
Unlike simply picking a magical outcome and enchanting for it, a sigil shoal embeds the necessary adaptability into the overall enchantment.
The extraordinary complexity of shoaling behaviour emerges from just a couple of rules:
Each member maintains a minimum distance from other objects in its environment, including other members.
Each member matches the velocity of its neighbour.
Each member moves toward the perceived centre of the mass.
Shoals form from the bottom up rather than the top down. This isn't the 'shouty' approach of medievalists and Victorian factory owners where you yell about what you want to happen because in your little space you're God. (It always reminds me of the midpoint in an 80s sitcom where the father has banned one of the kids from doing something: "my house, my rules." Then one of the kids is offered drugs at a party and turns them down of her own volition. Then there's a dénouement in a kitchen with Tony Danza.)
Instead are a couple of simple rules that create complex behaviour in fish, birds and even cab drivers. Three rules, all determined by a relationship to one neighbour at a time.
So what about creating a sigil for something that has already happened?
Enter the robofish. This really is the key to the whole technique:
Create a shoal of sigils based on a breakdown of your overall goal.
Include something that has already happened or you already have.
Activate them all at the same time.
The success rate so far has been orders of magnitude greater. There is something about enchanting for a goal that already exists that 'pulls' the rest of them along. It also allows you to dictate the speed, direction and veracity of the shoal depending on what you select for your robofish. Check it out. Directed sigil magic is possible!
One final possible implication for the robofish:
'Lust of result' seems less about keeping the objective out of your conscious mind, as Spare thought, because we now know that moving back and forth between conscious and unconscious happens as part of normal cognition. It seems to me to be more about continuously shifting the time frame further out... you encode the want rather than the have.
An effective counter to this is to -for want of more modern words- send your unconscious a 'request' for something that already exists... the robofish. How can their be lust after the result has been achieved? Built into the middle of your enchantment is a method for neutralizing its own result lust.
5 Reasons Sigils Fail
A sigil fails for the following reasons:
1) The desire is either impossible or too unlikely to fulfill
2) Not enough energy has been transferred into it
3) The state of gnosis was insufficient
4) The sigil remains in the conscious mind – primarily through memory
5) The desire remains
Easy to Difficult Magick
1. Financial gain (difficult)
2. To see a car painted baby-blue (easy)
3. To encounter a black dog (moderate to easy)
4. To be given a small and useless gift (moderate to easy)
5. To increase dream recall (difficult, if you want it)
6. To see an enemy's downfall (difficult)
7. To see a yellow house (easy)
8. To make it rain (moderate to easy)
9. To banish all clouds by noon (moderate to easy)
10. To encounter an orange cat (moderate to easy)
Brand Study Implies Secret Mechanism of Sigil Magic
TV MIND-CONTROL EXPOSED-ANCIENT SIGIL MAGICK--SECRET BEHIND SYMBOLS
SYMBOLOGY AND YOU
How SYMBOLS Affect Your Subconscious Mind WITHOUT Knowing It + ANCIENT Symbols
DEMONIC MNEMONICS - Digital Sigils
A 30 millisecond, nearly subliminal flash of a logo can affect behavior, says a study from Duke University and University of Waterloo researchers. Flashing Apple’s logo caused test subjects to describe about 30 percent more uses for a brick, while the IBM logo prompted less but more similar answers from subject to subject.
This will be spun into an Apple story—Epicenter already did, for instance—but it’s a fairly monumental acknowledgement of the power of logoforms if further study continues to bear out the same results. It follows to ask: how does a logo gain its meaning? And how can we uses logos of our own design to prompt our own willful, subconscious results?
I’m reminded of the work of Austen Osman Spare, a 19th-20th century painter whose personal philosophy included the notion of “sigil magic.” While Spare did not cotton to the ornate ritual of his hermetic peers such as the Golden Dawn or O.T.O., he practiced a simple ritual in which a statement of intent could be codified into a glyph. This sigil would then be “activated,” through intense effort Pete Carroll referred to as “Slight of Mind,” such as yogic concentration or deliberate forgetfulness. Spare used a form a sex magic, in which sustained self-pleasure was used to create a state of absent-mindedness in which the sigil could slip into the subconscious.
Is it possible, then, that this logo study has borne out some theory to explain the mental workings of sigil magic? And that we’ve impregnated our subconscious with thousands of warring logos bursting with beneficent or malicious meaning?
I’m just glad that I am usually not staring at the back of my Macbook every time I masturbate.
[Left, an Apple logo; right, Agrippa’s sigil for the Archangel Michael. For the record, I tend to believe that “magic” as a ritual to affect subconcious thought sounds quite possible, but am exceedingly skeptical about it affecting the physical world in any measurable way.]
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Sigil surroundings are exactly what they sound like. They are shapes, designs, and/or glyphs you put around your sigil in order to enhance its magickal purpose. This part of sigil magick is usually never talked about, and it is very hard to find online, or in any other sources. Some of this information will be based off of kuji kiri, and majutsu which are two japanese mysticisms, but most of it will be base on chaos magick, and other western magicks, but I digress.
Circle:
The circle is a powerful symbol used in all different types of magick. It embodies the energies of protection, unity, cycles and focus. In sigil magick the most talked about, and used sigil surrounding is the circle. The magickal purpose of drawing a circle around your sigil is to allow its energy to build up around itself, and to protect the sigil from being tampered with. Some practitioners are so into using circles around their sigils, that they actually draw two of them to ensure there will be no leaks of the sigil’s energy. Some of these practitioners will also fill the inter space between these two circles with other sigils, magickal symbols, and/or a magickal alphabet of some kind to enhance the energy of the sigil within.
Triangle:
The triangle represents the trinities, and embodies the energies of ascension, manifestation, and duality. Sigils surrounded by a right side up triangle will be much more expansive, and active, and sigils surrounded by a right side down triangle will lower the spiritual energy to a more tangible plane level, and make the sigil a lot more passive. Triangles are also used in the act of manifesting spirits, and other entities. Being used in order to trap them, and to keep them away from you during the summoning, and manifestation. These type of triangles are usually a “Triangle Of Art”. The triangle part is use to magnify the strength of the spirit, while usually names of gods, or other sigils a place along the outside sides of the triangle to trap the spirit in. I believe the reason that a “Triangle Of Art” is not some other shape is, because the triangle is the first shape with space in the middle. Meaning it’s the first shape to hold space from a side perspective, and only three sides to barricade in order for the spirit to not be able to sneak out.
Square, And Rectangle:
Square embodies the energies of structure, balance, and community. Although I use the word square most of all this can be used in a rectangle. Sigils surrounded with a square allows the sigil to be housed, and reserve its energy. It is for sigils that are used in more of a balanced state where its energy will be used more like a battery, and called upon. The square also allows the energy of the sigil to steep, and if there are more sigils, and/or magickal symbols in the square, their energies will combined together making a new, and unique energy.
Pentagram, And Pentacle:
The pentagram, and pentacle embodies the energies of the elements, power, and protection. Certain practitioners would place their sigil in the very center of the pentagram, or the pentacle to allow them to be stronger, and to take on the energies of the elements. Using the pentacle would also mean you would gain the magickal benefits of the circle also pretty much supercharging your sigil. Also the spots on the arms, legs , and head of the star could be used as a prime spot to place more sigils in order to enhance your original base sigil.
Interesting Sigil Creation Method
Breaking Letters Into Basic Shapes
Very interesting technique, I've seen this used by various magicians which I studied their material online. It goes like this, just as shapes are made up of vertical lines, horizontal line and circles so are Alphabet letters. So you take each alphabet letter from your remaining letters after you done the step of reducing your statement of intent, which is removing the vowels and the duplicate letters, take each letter and break them up into vertical lines, horizontal lines, circles and half circles. You can further reduce this remaining result by eliminating any replicated verticals, horizontals, half circles and circles. You don't have to use all the of the lines and circles in other words. The important function is to use your energy in drawing every stroke. Imagine your intent manifested and how it will affect your environment to have your intent in hand. You can chant a mantra you created from your reduced statement of intent to charge as you create. Remember most sigil magick fails because lack of energy utilized in the creation process. Once sigils are created they are fired into the universe. Some sigils require constant enchantment if they are meant for long term use or the magician needs to charge him or herself up to access their subconscious spirit.
9 Chambers Method
More like a cellphone key pad, the 9 Chambers method, is actually very old.
AJS forms the first cell as seen below:
Take your broken down statement of intent, for instance, "Power".
You can also eliminate vowels as before thus reducing the amount of letters in your sentence of desire.
Planetary Sigils Using Magick Squares
Greetings,
Forming sigils, "Squiggles", using planetary hours combined with the magick square is alot older than the Austin Spare method, otherwise known as the modern Chaos Magick way of making sigils. This method is much more powerful as it utilizes the energy of the planets to charge the intent. This way is less creative than the modern method but much more efficient and faster in creating sigils that work! It is best to give this one more study time, that is learn the planetary astrology, study old grimoires and apply as much as you can to your own style.
The first step is the same as making other sigils, form your statement of intent in the present tense. Remove vowels, repeat letters, then use the remainder to form your sigil upon your chosen square.
Second step take the remainder and covert them into numbers. Numbers have cosmic energy and each planet has its own number that it resonates. Such as the Moon resonates with 9, the Sun with the number 6, etc. Once you have converted all your letters into numbers you can then chart them through your magick square to form your sigil.
Third step while plotting your sigil through the square envision your intent, now is the time to vision any Kabbalah vision related to your desire. This is meditating while you are drawing your sigil. You can of course redraw, trace your sigil unto another piece or object you plan to use as a talisman, mojobag, sacred object, etc, You can for added measure you the symbols of the planet your invoking along with your spell.
Do not cross over lines, if you duplicate a number, just draw a curve showing that the number was crossed twice, etc
Draw a dot, circle with the first square and draw a line at the line square.
Square of Saturn
Numbers: 3, 10, 15, 45
Color: Black
Metal: Lead, Pewter
Attributes: Authority, Banishing, Barriers, Binding, Bones, Building, Business, Civil servants, Countering magick, Criminals, Cursing, Death, Debts, Dentists, Discipline, Discovery, Earth magick, Elderly, Endings, Endurance, Exorcism, Farm workers, Financing, Freedom, Garden magick, Grounding, Hard work, Hex-breaking, Hexing, Homes, Houses, Justice, Karma, Knowledge, Life, Limitations, Longevity, Lost articles, Manifestation, Math, Meditation, Money matters, Morality, Murderers, Negativity neutralizing, Obstacles, Passing-over rituals, Perseverance, Plumbing, Politics, Property, Protection, Psychic defense, Real estate, Reality, Responsibility, Retribution, Revenge, Separation, Societal laws, Spirit contacts, Stalkers, Structure, Teeth, Tests, Time, Transformation, Trustworthiness, Water magick, Wills, Wisdom
Square of Jupiter
Numbers: 4, 17, 34, 136
Color: Blue
Metal: Bronze, Tin
Attributes: Abundance, Acclaim, Air magick, Ambition, Astral work, Blessings, Broadcasting, Business, Charity, Cleansing, Divination, Doctors, Dreamwork, Earning, Education, Expansion, Exploration, Fame, Fertility, Financial acuity, Fire magick, Forecasting, Fortune, Gambling, Guardians, Generosity, Growth, Happiness, Harmony, Healing, Health, Honor, Horse, Joy, Justice, Kindness, Knowledge, Law, Leadership, Legal matters, Logic, Long distance travel, Love, Luck, Male fertility, Material wealth, Merchants, Money, Morals, Parties, Peace, Philosophy, Political influences, Power, Prophecy, Prosperity, Protection, Psychologists, Publicity, Publishing, Purifying, Rapid results, Reading, Relations, Religion, Research, Responsibility, Riches, Royalty, Self-improvement, Social matters, Spirituality, Sports, Spring Equinox, Study, Success, Visions, Wealth, Weather magick, Winter Solstice, Wisdom
Square of Mars
Numbers: 5, 26, 65, 325
Color: Red
Metal: Iron, Steel
Attributes: Action, Addictions, Aggression, Ambition, Anger, Arguments, Banishing, Beginnings, Binding, Bravery, Business, Cleansing, Combat, Competition, Conflict, Confrontation, Conviction, Countering magick, Courage, Cursing, Desire, Destruction, Ego, Energy, Exorcism, Fire magick, Fast results, Freedom, Gardening, Goals, Guns, Healing, Hex-breaking, Hexing, Hunting, Independence, Legal matters, Love, Lust, Male magick, Male sexuality, Marriage, Masculine energy, Medical issues, Metal, Motivation, Overthrow enemies, Passion, Physical energy, Police, Power, Protection, Purification, Rapid results, Recklessness, Relationships, Retribution, Revenge, Self-assertion, Sex, Sex magick, Sexuality, Soldiers, Spell breaking, Sports, Strength, Strife, Struggle, Surgery, Swift movement, Tools, Upheaval, Vices, Victory, Violence, War, Wishes, Woodworking
Square of the Sun
Numbers: 6, 37, 111, 666
Color: Gold, Yellow
Metal: Brass, Gold
Attributes: Abundance, Active change, Advancement, Alliances, Ambition, Arrogance, Astral work, Authority figures, Autonomy, Banishing, Beauty, Bigotry, Binding, Blessings, Buying, Career, Cleansing, Countering magick, Courage, Creativity, Crops, Dedications, Divination, Drama, Dreamwork, Ego, Exorcism, Fairs, Fame, Family, Favor, Fertility, Finances, Fire magick, Fortune, Friendship, Fulfillment, Fun, Goals, Growth, Happiness, Harmony, Healing, Health, Heart, Hex-breaking, Hope, Illumination, Individuality, Initiations, Joy, Law, Leadership, Life energy, Light, Love, Luck, Lust, Marriage, Monetary gain, Money, Music, Natural abilities, Passion, Peace, Pleasure, Power, Pride, Promotion, Prophecy, Prosperity, Protection, Purifying, Rapid results, Relationships, Romance, Self-confidence, Selling, Sexuality, Solar magick, Solar Plexus Chakra balancing, Speculating, Spirituality, Strength, Success, Superiors, Totem animals, Vitality, Volunteer services, Wealth, Wishes
Square of Mercury
Numbers: 8, 65, 260 & 257 (diagonally top right to bottom left), 2080
Color: Purple
Metal: Aluminum, Mercury, Zinc
Attributes: Abundance, Accounting, Adaptability, Addiction, Advertising, Air magick, Astral work, Astrology, Bending the mind of another, Blessings, Business, Buying & selling, Changes, Cleverness, Communication, Computers, Conscious mind, Connection, Contract signing, Correspondence, Counseling, Creativity, Debt, Deception, Dishonesty, Diplomacy, Divination, Dreamwork, Editing, Education, Fertility, Finances, Fortune, Goals, Healing, Information, Ingenuity, Insight, Intelligence, Journalists, Journeys, Kin, Knowledge, Legal matters, Luck, Magickal works planning, Medicine, Memory, Mental activity, Messages, Music, Neighbors, Phone calls, Prophecy, Prosperity, Psychic abilities, Reliance, Science, Self-expression, Siblings, Skills, Study, Travel, Visiting, Weather magick, Wisdom, Wishes, Writing
Square of Venus
Numbers: 7, 50, 175, 1225
Color: Green
Metal: Copper, Lodestone
Attributes: Abundance, Affection, Alliances, Aphrodisiac, Architects, Artistic abilities, Arts, Beauticians, Beauty, Blessings, Chiropractors, Courtship, Creativity, Dancers, Dating, Death, Decorating, Designers, Engineers, Entertainers, Fashion, Female sexuality, Fertility, Fortune, Friendship, Gardening, Gifts, Grace, Growth, Happiness, Harmony, Healing, Household improvements, Income, Joy, Love, Luck, Lust, Luxury, Marriage, Money, Music, Painting, Partners, Party planning, Passing-over rituals, Passion, Peace, Pleasure, Poetry, Prosperity, Relationships, Riches, Romance, Sensuality, Sex magick, Shopping, Sociability, Soul mates, Water magick
Square of the Moon
Numbers: 9, 82, 369, 3321
Color: Silver, White
Metal: Silver
Attributes: Abundance, Agriculture, Animals, Antiques, Astral work, Beginnings, Blessings, Cleansing, Dedications, Delusions, Domestic abilities, Dreamwork, Emotions, Empathy, Family, Female fertility, Feminine magick, Fertility, Fortune, Friendship, Happiness, Harmony, Healing, Health, Imagination, Initiations, Insight, Instinct, Intuition, Journeys, Joy, Love, Luck, Lunar magick, Lust, Marriage, Memories, Messages, Motherly love, Peace, Prophecy, Prosperity, Psychology, Psychic workings, Purification, Reconcile, Reincarnation, Relationships, Religion, Secrets, Shapeshifting, Sleep, Spirituality, Subconscious, Theft, Totem animals, Travel on water, Trip planning, Water magick, Women’s mysteries
Art Tools
From Ancient Egypt until Today
As you can see in the photo the compass, tools to measure and cut for accuracy of art.
Since magick is based upon signs and symbols, which goes all the back to Ancient Egypt, it is important to know tools exist to assist you in accurate creation of what you see in your mind's eye. It may not matter to some but the more artistic your symbols, sigils, veves, and magical talisman, the more easier they are to remember and sink effortlessly into the subconscious. So discipline, discipline, discipline and with practice and time you will fine tune your art which will improve your magick.
Using Basic Shapes In The Real World To Draw
How To Draw Anything Using 4 Basic Shapes
Breaking down subject of drawing into simple shapes
Patipembas from the Congo
Patipembas are Congo Sacred Magi Script
Hebrew Scripts
Theban Language The Witches Alphabet
Theban Alphabet (Wiccan alphabet, Witches’ Runes)
The Theban alphabet is used almost exclusively by Wiccans as a substitution cipher to protect magical writings from prying eyes. It originated as a magical alphabet; the exact origin of the text is unknown. The Theban alphabet first appeared in print in Henry Cornelius Agrippa’s Third book of Occult Philosophy in 1531, where it was ascribed to the legendary magus Honorius of Thebes.
This alphabet is occasionally referred to as the “Runes of Honorius,” although Theban is not a runic alphabet. While it resembles some ancient alphabets, it is unknown before Agrippa’s publication. It is little used as a magical alphabet, except as an occasional substitute for Anglo-Saxon runes, or for making charms and amulets. Theban was introduced to Wicca by its founder, Gerald Gardner. To use Theban as a cipher, simply substitute Theban letters for English letters
Runes
From Phoenician to Greek to Runes
Hebrew Letters & Magical Meanings
Hebrew, value, English letter
ALEPH (Ah-lef) meaning-ox, value -1. Aleph is the dual principle that represents all that exists and all that does not exist, the positive and negative, life and death. It represents humanity as a collective unity and as the Ruler of the Earth. Aleph is the glyph of power and stability. The ideas that it expresses are those of unity and of the principle by which it is determined.
BETH (Beth) meaning-house, value-2. Beth is the symbol of all habitations and receptacles, of anything that “contains.” It is virile and paternal; a glyph of active and interior action.
GIMEL (Gi-mel) meaning-eamel, value-3. Gimel is the activity, the motion of contained, limited existence or nonexistence; it is Aleph in Beth. The throat. Acanal. Gimel is an glyph which signifies organic development and produces all ideas originating from the corporeal organs and from their action.
DALETH (Dah-leth) meaning-door, value-4. Daleth is the archetype of physical existence. It is the glyph of nature, divisible and divided, expressing every idea that proceeds from the abundance born of division. The breast: every abundant, nutritive object: all division, all reciprocity.
HEH (Heh) meaning-window, value-5. Heh is the principle of universal life. Feminine. The breath; all that which animates: air, life, being.
VAV(Vahv, also Yah and Waw) meaning-pin or hook, value-6. Vav is the archetype of all fertilizing substances. It is the image of a knot which unites, or the point which separates nothingness and being. The Son. It is the universal, convertible glyph which makes a thing pass from one nature to another. The ear: all that is related to sound, noise, and wind.
ZAYIN (Zah-yeen) meaning-sword or armor, value-7. Zayin is the completed fertilizing act. Every object leading to an end. A symbol of luminous refraction. A staff or arrow.
CHETH (Chayth) meaning-fence or enclosure, value-8. Cheth is the enclosure of all unevolved cosmic energy. A field. An image of natural or elementary existence; all that which requires work, labor, and effort.
TETH (Tayth) meaning-serpent, value-9. Teth is the symbol of the initial female energy. A place of surety; a refuge, haven or shelter. An aim or goal. A glyph of resistance and protection.
YOD (Yode) meaning-hand, value-10. Yod is the opposite of Aleph; it is a steady state, continuity. The finger of a person, the extended hand. Masculinity. All that which indicates the directing power and which serves to manifest it. It is the image of potential manifestation, of spiritual duration, and of the eternity of time.
KAPH (Kahf) meaning-fist/palm of the hand, value-20 (Kaph Final-500). Kaph is the archetype of receivers. The hand of a person half closed and in the act of taking. An assimilative glyph which receives and makes all forms. Kaph Final is the cosmic final attainment of individual existences.
LAMED (Lah-med) meaning-ox goad, value-30. Lamed suggests everything which is extended, raised, or displayed. It is the glyph of expansive movement, including all ideas of extension, elevation, occupation, and possession. Lamed is the image of power derived from elevation.
MEM (Mem) meaning-Water, value-40 (Mem Final-600). Mem is the archetype of the maternal creative principle. Woman or femininity: all that which is fruitful and creative. An image of passive active. Mem Final is the cosmic state of fertility in humanity, both in mind and body.
NUN (Noon) meaning-Fish, value-50 (Nun Final-700). Nun is the archetype of all individual and corporeal existences. The offspring of woman: a child, any fruit whatsoever, every produced or reflected being. Nun Final is the symbol of interplay of cosmic energies.
SAMEKH (Sah-mehk) meaning-prop or support, value-60. Samekh is the archetype of female fertility, the ovum. An image of all circumscription. It is a glyph of circular movement.
AYIN (Ah-yeen) meaning-eye, value-70. Ayin is the illuminating principle behind the act of impregnation. It is a glyph of material meaning and physical relations.
PEH (Pay) meaning-mouth, value-80 (Peh Final-800). The mouth of a person as an organ of speech. Anything relating to speech.
TZADDI (Tzah-dee) meaning-fish hook, value-90 (Tzaddi Final-900). Tzaddi is a symbol of womanhood in a social sense. Indicates movement toward an end or solution. Tzaddi Final is the archetype of womanhood in a mythical sense.
QOPH (Kohf) meaning-back of the head, value-IOO. Qoph is an exalted state of Aleph, transcending the negative or death aspect. A positive arm: all that which serves, defends or makes an effort for humanity. An image of restraint, compression and force.
RESH (Raysh) meaning-head, value-200. Resh is the archetype of universal or cosmic”containers.” The head of a person. All that which possesses in itself a proper and determining movement. It is a glyph of all proper movement, good or bad: an image of the renewal of things and their movement.
SHIN (Sheen) meaning-tooth, value-300. Shin is the “spirit” of God. A glyph of relative duration and of movement connected therewith.
TAU (Tau) meaning-cross, value-400. Tau is the archetype of all cosmic existence. A symbol of symbols. An image of that which is mutual and reciprocal. Perfection.
Random Symbols
Similarity Among Deity Symbols Universal In the Occult
Veve Symbol of Kalfu in Haiti and Benin
Veve Symbol of Kalfu in Haitian Islands
Symbol of Kalki from Sankrit
Writing Intent Statements In Symbols
Semiotic Communication
Words are limitation because they are depended upon letters. Some words are spelled the same but have a different pitch, words spelled the same without a difference in pitch mean the same thing. Words are a limited way of communication and less than symbolism. When you see an object or even state of condition you visualize in your third eye its shape, even a situation has a shape. Sacred Geometry covers all manifestations in the multiverse. All objects, forces, and states have their symbol, to see the symbol is to will into existence its manifestation. By combining symbols we can create our statements of intent which can then be used in our formula. The formula for magic is in 3, ritual, magical link, and intent. Remember emotion is the fire of belief and without belief in magic there is no magic!
Color Magic Correspondences
The Color Wheel
Color by Frequency
Color By Energy Centers
Color Therapy
12 Zodiac Color Wheel
7 Planetary Colors
Baqua Directional Colors
Advanced Sigil Magick
Introducing Colors and Symbols
Coming soon
Color Theory Basics
Magickal Languages And Music
Greetings,
Once you've got used to the pictorial side of magick you might want to venture further into the magical mantras, drums, bells, gongs, and many forms of music. As visual objects have geometric shape so does sonic objects like sound waves. Yes, in Africa there are magical drums called the talking drums. The drums sounds are divided into different tones, low, medium and high. This is also done with language as in pitch languages are also divided into low, medium and high tones. A pattern is formed, any pattern you desire, also an agreed upon system of patterns that form a communication language up and down the Congo, Niger, Zambia and Nile rivers, so messages travel throughout the kingdom in a little of no time. But our quest here is magick, so we are speaking of using sound in a magical way to send messages to the other side. There are special prayers, psalms, oriki in Yoruba which means prayers, chants done is specific rhythm, mantras like in Hindu faith, Tibetan faith, Taoist Faith and Shaolin, that is to show this knowledge is universal not limited to Africa. There are many ways create magick with languages and music. I will be adding these many methods to the blog so stay tuned.
Oriki Yoruba
Yoruba Magical Language Chants
Electric Cosmos
Greetings,
This is here is the most important piece in dealing with magick is how to bring energy to what you are doing. I've heard many lectures on how mantras and spellwork doesn't seem to work for some people and many suggestions on how to correct that issue. What many people lack is integrity, what do I mean by integrity? That is purity of intent, to show forth your will to travel into a certain direction or commit to a certain course of action with unwavering resolve to see it manifest. In plain terms it means to direct your spiritual energy via yourself and your own body or physical object towards to magical link to give it energy. In Africa, many cultures dance, sing, clap, stomp and beat upon objects made to be like drums, or actual drums, many of them move their skeletal frames in a way of old people. All spiritual workings require energy and they receive energy from many different sources. To work with Veves, patipembas, sigils, Goetias, and other sacred symbols requires the charging of energy. Below are many ways to charge and activate your magick.
Offering to God: 6 Body & Vocal Offerings
Africans know how to praise the simple way. Offerings in many African cultures are called sacrifices, and no it doesn't always mean blood consecration.
Witchcraft - The Eightfold Path to the Center
Gardnerian Traditional Witchcraft – B.7. The Eightfold Way. (1953)
1 Meditation or Concentration. This in practice means forming a mental image of what is desired, and forcing yourself to see that it is fulfilled, with the fierce belief and knowledge that it can and will be fulfilled, and that you will go on willing till you force it to be fulfilled. Called for short, “Intent”
2 Trance, projection of the Astral.
3 Rites, Chants, Spells, Runes, Charms, etc.
4 Incense, Drugs, Wine, etc., whatever is used to release the Spirit. (Note. One must be very careful about this. Incense is usually harmless, but you must be careful. If it has bad aftereffects, reduce the amount used, or the duration of the time it is inhaled. Drugs are very dangerous if taken to excess, but it must be remembered that there are drugs that are absolutely harmless, though people talk of them with bated breath, but Hemp is especially dangerous, because it unlocks the inner eye swiftly and easily, so one is tempted to use it more and more. If it is used at all, it must be with the strictest precautions, to see that the person who uses it has no control over the supply. This should be doled out by some responsible person, and the supply strictly limited.)
5 The Dance, and kindred practices.
6 Blood control (the Cords), Breath Control, and kindred practices.
7 The Scourge.
8 The Great Rite.
These are all the ways. You may combine many of them into the one experiment, the more the better.
The Five Essentials:
1. The most important is “Intention”: you must know that you can and will succeed; it is essential in every operation.
2. Preparation. (You must be properly prepared according to the rules of the Art; otherwise you will never succeed.)
3. The Circle must be properly formed and purified.
4. You all must be properly purified, several times if necessary, and this purification should be repeated several times during the rite.
5. You must have properly consecrated tools.
These five essentials and Eight Paths or Ways cannot all be combined in one rite. Meditation and dancing do not combine well, but forming the mental image and the dance may be well combined with Chants. Spells, etc., combined with scourging and No. 6, followed by No. 8, form a splendid combination. Meditation, following scourging, combined with Nos. 3 and 4 and 5, are also very Good. For short cuts concentration, Nos. 5, 6, 7, and 8 are excellent.
Sigils, Veves, Patipembas and Goetia work very similiar in charging, except that sigils of a deity would require more specific offerings which are covered also below.
Ways to charge a sigil or seal.
There are so many ways to charge sigils, and to empower your intent. In my other post “How to make Sigils.” I covered some of the ins, and outs on how to create sigils. I even covered some ways on how to charge them, but there are so many ways. I thought this time, I would have to actually make a list. This list will cover so many ways on how to charge your sigils, and because there are so many ways I probably will miss a lot of them too. I will also cover some of the ways that I did in my other post. Without further Ado! Here is a list on ways to charge a sigil.
Ways To Charge A Sigil or Seal:
Pray to it!
Pushing energy through your hands into the sigil.
Meditating intently on the sigil.
Dancing around the sigil.
Chanting over the sigil.
Burning candles around, or on the sigil.
Putting the sigil in the sunlight, or moonlight.
Having the sigil by a crystal grid.
Placing a crystal on top of the Sigil.
Submerging the sigil in water.
Looking at the sigil while assuming a painful posture, yoga or gymnastic
Talking to the Sigil as if it was a person.
Having people see the sigil.
Speaking about the sigil to other people.
Focusing on the sigil while being in a intense emotional state.
Drawing your Sigil on something, and burying it.
Asking a higher power to charge the sigil for you.
Praying over the sigil.
Singing over the sigil.
Ways to activate a sigil
After you are done charging, and filling your sigil with your intent you must go through the process of activating it. Activation is the process of firing your sigil into the universe along with the act of allowing the sigil to work in your subconscious. There are two types of ways to activate your sigil. These two types of ways are passive, and active sigil activation. Both of these types of ways have their own benefits, and it is important to understand how to use both of them, so that you can pick the right one for the job.
Active Sigil Activation:
In active sigil activation the energy is usually released all at once, or in a very immediate fashion. This type of activation is usually going to be done through the act of destruction of the sigil, so that all the energy that has been charged into it can be released and fired into the universe, and your mind can greatly actively focus on the sigil that has been marked upon your subconscious. This is usually going to be used for such sigils that are used once on one particular thing. This is really good for quick, and fiery manifestation, but it will go out, and try to complete its task, and then burn out rather quickly. This type of method should be used on things that you want done that are pretty direct, and will only need to be impacted once.
Ways to activate active sigils:
Putting the sigil on a piece of paper, and burning it in fire.
Putting the sigil on a piece of paper, and submerging it in water until it dissolves.
Putting the sigil on a piece of paper, and ripping the paper in half.
Drawing the sigil in to the sand at the beach, and letting the sea wash it away.
Drawing the sigil in the air with your energy, and pushing through it in order to destroy it.
Making the sigil out of dust, or powder, and then blowing it away to destroy it.
Making the sigil in your mind, and then imagining it being destroyed to activate it.
Putting the sigil on food then eating it.
Drawing the sigil on a firework, and then set it off.
Drawing the sigil on a balloon, and then pop it.
Drawing the sigil on your body, and then wash it away.
Singing the sigil out loud for all to hear.
Playing a music, or an audio sigil out loud for all to hear.
Place the sigil on a piece of paper, and rip it up.
Draw the sigil on a rock, and throw it in a body of water.
Putting the sigil on a cigarette, and then smoking it.
Write it on a dry erase board, and then erase the sigil.
Take a picture of the sigil, and then delete the image.
Writing it on the condensation of a window, or mirror, and then allowing it to disappear.
Writing it in the air with a sparkler, and allowing it to eventually fade.
Vibrating the sigil with your voice.
Signing the sigil with sign language.
Using a hand tapping sigils.
Passive Sigil Activation:
In passive sigil activation the energy is usually released overtime through a very moderate, and controlled fashion. This method is done through the act of keeping your sigil around, so that it can continue to work, and releases energy when it is needed. This may be continuously releasing energy overtime, or being triggered at a certain point to release energy. This makes for a very Earthy form of manifestation. This allows this sigil not to use all the energy at once, but to continue working for an extended period of time, or only when it is triggered. This also allows the sigil to work in a more dynamic way allowing it to work to fulfill its desire, or intent in a more ever-present, and passive manner. It will be use only when it is needed, making that sigil more versatile in its actions. Passively activated sigils will always be active, unless they have a trigger. You will have to recharge your sigils if you are using this method every once in awhile after they get low on energy, unless they have a source to draw energy from.
Ways to activate Passive Sigils:
Putting the sigil on a piece of paper.
Drawing the sigil on your body.
Getting a tattoo of the sigil on your body
Carving sigils into a candle, and lighting the candle.
Carving sigils into soap, and washing your body with the soap.
Making a sigil amulet.
Writing, or carved the sigils upon wood, or stones.
Drawing it in energy upon something
Placing the sigil as your computer, or phone background.
Posting an image of the sigil online.
Drawing the sigil with chalk on the street, or sidewalk.
Having a piece of clothing with the sigil on it, or sewn into it.
Drawing it in a public place.
Sigils Activation via Elements
Fire: To burn them add passion and strength
Water: To soak them away adds creativity and psychic ability
Earth: To bury them or use animals to eat them builds strength, intelligence and patience
Air: To blow incense over them adds fuel, power that rises
Ways to please the spirit or make Ebbo/Offerings
To offer something to a deity is to show and profess loyalty, gratitude and love. These are usually given in rituals.
But in doing so, you must remember the following:
What does my deity want and appreciate?
How and how often do I have to make offerings?
What materials will I use on my altar?
How frequently do I have to do it?
KINDS OF OFFERING
Offerings come in many, many ways. The way spirits, gods and goddesses reply varies, either by your method or form of offering.
Normally, offerings are given by form of food and drink, but some offerings also come as your most valued possession, such as jewelries. However, some offerings come in unique ways. For example, there are fertility god/goddess who appreciates seeing you in pleasure, which is why masturbating or engaging in sex can also serve as an effective offering.
WHAT DEITIES LIKE
Listen. It’s really, really important that you understand your deity.
When offering, you have to understand first what your deity is like, what he/she represents, what kind of gift will suit them and what they surely would accept. Surely it would not be correct when you offer flowers to a war god, right? In offering something to a deity, you have to really pay attention and be alert with your senses.
Searching online about your deity is absolutely helpful for you to know what to offer. Making research and asking for friends also really, really helps.
Here is a list of offerings with their specific god/goddess type that might be useful for you:
Gods/Goddesses of Hearth and Home:
Food: Bread and grains, cooking oil, salt
Drink: Milk, wine, cider
Herbs: Rosemary, thyme
Gods/Goddesses of Love and Passion:
Food: Eggs, honey, apples
Drink: Wine, fruit juice
Herbs: Lavender, sandalwood
Gods/Goddesses of Nature:
Food: Bread, cornmeal, fruit
Drink: Milk, water
Herbs: Bay
Gods/Goddesses of Prosperity and Abundance:
Food: Grains, dairy products like cheese or eggs
Drink: Milk, beer
Herbs: Mint, pennyroyal, catnip
Spirits of Ancesters
Food: Any meal from your family’s table
Drink: Drinks from the family table
Herbs: Sage, sweetgrass
Childbirth or Fertility Goddess:
Food: Eggs, baked sweets like cookies
Drink: Milk (including breast milk)
Herbs: Rose, sandalwood, apple blossoms
Here are some of the items that pleases all gods and goddesses: fresh fruit and vegetables (especially homegrown), grain (cereal or bread), apples, honey, fruit juice, wine, beer, mead, any alcoholic beverage that could be found natively wherever your deity comes from.
Offerings of Spirits by Element
Earth Spirits, bread, root vegetables such as potato, yam,
Fire Spirits, hot and spicy dishes, peppers, gunpowder, fresh onion
Air spirits, light and aromatic foods and sweets, marshmellows, cake, cookies,
Water Spirits, pale and bland foods such as eggs, fresh cucumber slices, rice cakes,
Spirit Incense Via Elements
Fire: Frankincense, strong, sharp and acrid smell
Water: Vanilla, mild, soft,
Air: Flower scents like rose, berry, etc
Earth: Sandalwood, pine, woody and heavier fruit
List of Gods and Goddesses
Ancestral Worship
There is a lot of confusion about who the ancestors are and how they can help us in our manifesting efforts. In this short presentation I am going to go over how to work with the ancestors from a more esoteric perspective. (The emphasis here in this lecture is on power development using ancestral worship)
Not Every Ancestor Is A Good Ancestors
NOT EVERY AFRICAN ANCESTOR(ZANSET) IS A (GOOD) ANCESTOR
It is important to understand that when conjuring and working with spirits that the nature of the spirit will affect the outcome of the work and your life. I advise not to work with any ancestors, those who were criminals, murderers, rapists, tyrants, sodomites and incestuous, sexual deviants, drunkards which includes drug abuse, evil conjurers, haters of others, gangter cultists and workers of iniquity. How you set up your altar is highly important in keeping these spirits from affecting your work. Spirits are always around us especially ancestors. Our ancestors live in our blood.
DO ZANSET(ANCESTORS) EVOLVE ON THE OTHERSIDE AFTER THEY DIE?
AFRICAN SPIRITUALITY:
Who are the ancestors and what is reincarnation?
Greetings,
Not all Gods are thought forms especially in Africa, many African Gods are inter-dimensional beings, and some are the spirits of once legendary Kings and Queens of Africa whom have been defied by their priesthoods. You must respect Gods and not call upon them without having first made proper sacrifice. Sacrifice means to feed them, your call needs energy to be heard by the Gods and your requests fulfilled. Those who wait until they urgently need a prayer fulfilled but have neglected sacrifice and devotion to the God will have his/her requests ignored. This is the same as if you had a flashlight and allowed the batteries to run low, then the day you need the light for an emergency it won't turn on because the batteries are dead. Always respect Gods by giving them constant devotion on the special days which are theirs and with offerings that they will accept. For those too poor the Gods always accept sincere praise over lofty gifts. Praise can be clapping, singing, dancing, stomping any activity done rhythmically to send vibration energy up to the Gods. Devotion is the same as a mother caring for a child if she misses feeding her baby it will suffer. Ase.
List of Gods : "Uganda"
Name Origin Description
God Name: Apap Teso Uganda Creator god who as a benevolent sky god brings rain Uganda
God Name: Arawa Kenya Moon goddess and the daughter of the creator god Tororut and his consort Seta. Kenya and Uganda
God Name: Atida Uganda Goddess of hunting and rain Uganda
God Name: Edeke Uganda God of calamity and disasters. Uganda
God Name: Edeke Teso Uganda A god of disasters
God Name: Enudu Gisha Uganda God of plague, specifically smallpox Uganda
God Name: Gasani Uganda A god of the sky and of the water and chief god of the Baken. Uganda
God Name: Gibini Uganda Plague god associated with of the smallpox god Uganda
God Name: Gibini Gishu Uganda A plague God associated with of the smallpox god
God Name: Jie Uganda The supreme god of the Akuj. Uganda
God Name: Jok Uganda God of the Alur tribesmen of Uganda and Zaire. He is also known as Jok Odudu the god of birth. Uganda
God Name: Kagaba Uganda Sun goddess, creator and mother of all. Uganda
God Name: Kaikara Bunyoro Uganda Harvest goddess Uganda
God Name: Kangalogba Pokot/ Suk / Uganda A primordial female spirit personified in the dragonfly
God Name: Kangalogba Pokot Uganda Primordial female spirit personified in the dragonfly Uganda
God Name: Kibuka Buganda Uganda God of war Uganda
God Name: Lubanga Buynyopro Uganda God of health. Uganda
God Name: Min Jok Uganda Goddess rain Uganda
God Name: Mugizi Bunyoro Lake Guardian deity of Lake Albert Uganda
God Name: Muhingo Bunyoro Uganda God of war Uganda
God Name: Mukasa Lake God of Lake Victoria. Buganda, Uganda
God Name: Mukasa Buganda Uganda A beneficent god for he demanded no sacrifices
God Name: Mulenyi The creator Uganda Another name for Imana. Uganda
God Name: Mulindwa Uganda Tutelary goddess of the tribal chiefs. Bunyoro, Uganda
God Name: Mulindwa Bunyoro Uganda The tutelary goddess of the tribal chiefs
God Name: Munume Uganda Can be found in Limbo in the Land of the Dead. Uganda
God Name: Munume Bunyoro Uganda The god Weather
God Name: Musisi Uganda God of earthquakes. Uganda
God Name: Nagadya Uganda Goddess who causes the rains to fall, allowing food to grow. Uganda
God Name: Nagawonyi Uganda Goddess who, along with Nagadya, causes the rains to fall, allowing food to grow. Uganda
God Name: Nambi Uganda Sky goddess who came to earth and married Kintu, the first man. Uganda
God Name: Nawandyo Uganda Deity concerned with healing and medicinal herbs. Uganda
God Name: Ndahoro Uganda The Great Spirit of the Batoro whose assistants are Wmala and Kyomya. Uganda
God Name: Ndaula Uganda The name given to the god of smallpox. Lunyoro, Uganda
God Name: Ndaula Bunyoro Uganda A plague god associated with smallpox
God Name: Omubumbi Uganda The creator deity of the Gisu. Uganda
God Name: Omuhangi Uganda The creator deity of the Ankore. Uganda
God Name: Rubanga Alur Uganda creator god
God Name: Rugaba Uganda God of the sky who guides the souls of the dead. Uganda
God Name: Ruhanga Bunyoro Uganda this creator god was the initiator of the world, regarded as distant & if ever invoked
God Name: Suk Uganda Creator goddess. Uganda
God Name: Topoh Pokot/ Suk / Uganda This astral god is the god of the evening star
God Name: Topoh Pokot Uganda Astral god associated with the evening star Uganda
God Name: Tororut Pokot/ Suk / Uganda He is the creator god
God Name: Tororut Pokot Uganda Creator god Uganda
God Name: Umubumbi Uganda The aspect of God as the creator, "the potter." The Gisu, Uganda
List of Gods : "Nigeria"
Name Origin Description
God Name: Abassi Efik The creator god of the Nigerian Efik people. On the suggestion of his wife Atai Abassi created the first humans; to prevent them from exceed his wisdom, he ordered the first humans to neither procreate nor labor. This prohibition lasted some time, but eventually the first couple did have children and work, for which crime Abassi slew them and set their children against each other.
God Name: Ajalamo Africa God of unborn children. Nigeria, West Africa
God Name: Ala Nigeria Goddess of fertility, morality and of justice. Nigeria
God Name: Ala Ibo Nigeria Goddess of the earth in its dual aspect of fertility and death. Nigeria
God Name: Ala aka Ale Africa Ana, Ani, Chthonic fertility goddess who is also goddess of the underworld linked with a cult of the dead, which rest in her womb . Ibo Eastern Nigeria, West Africa
God Name: Among the Yoruba Africa / Nigeria Aja also refer to a "wild wind". It's believed that if someone is carried away by aja, and then returns,he becomes a powerful "jujuman". The journey supposedly will have a duration of between seven days to three months, and the person so carried is thought to have gone to the land of the dead or heaven (0run).
God Name: Aondo Africa Creator god who lives in the sky and sends the sun each morning. Central Nigeria, West Africa
God Name: Aondo Tiv Nigeria The creator god that lives in the sky
God Name: Ba-Chi Nigeria Iju, god of the sky who sends the fertilizing rain. Nigeria
God Name: Bakuli Nigeria The supreme being of the Mbula. Nigeria
God Name: Cghene Nigeria The supreme God of the Isoko people in southern Nigeria. He is believed to have created the world and all peoples, including the Isoko. Cghene is beyond human comprehension and is only known by his actions. Because the God is so distant and unknown he has no temples or priests, and no prayers or sacrifices are offered directly to him.
God Name: Chiuke Ibo Nigeria Sky god who is also regarded as Creator god. Nigeria
God Name: Dorina Nigeria Goddess of hunting. Nigeria
God Name: Dzakuta Nigeria A sky god and the ‘thrower of celestial stones.’ The Yoruba, Nigeria
God Name: Ebore Benin Sky god. Nigeria and Benin
God Name: Gbenebeka Nigeria A goddess from the sky and mother of the Ogonu. Nigeria
God Name: Hinegba Nigeria The supreme god, who is benevolent, resides in the sky, and controls the universe. Nigeria
God Name: Igwekaala Nigeria A sky god. Igbos. Nigeria
God Name: Iju aka Ba-Chi Nigeria The sky god who sends the fertilizing rain. Nigeria
God Name: Ikenga Nigeria God of fortune and industry. Nigeria
God Name: Ikenga Ibo Nigeria A god of fortune, a benevolent deity
God Name: Ikoro Nigeria The spirit of the drums. Igbos. Nigeria
God Name: Iku Nigeria God of death Nigeria
God Name: Imo miri Nigeria River spirit. Igbos. Nigeria
God Name: Jukun Nigeria The creator of the Shido and Chido people. Nigeria
God Name: Kyanwa Nigeria Goddess of hunting. Nigeria
God Name: Obumo Africa The thunderer, the principal god and great First Cause. Nigeria, Africa
God Name: Ochosi Nigeria God of hunting and justice. Nigeria
God Name: Ochu Nigeria Goddess of the moon who sweeps away the ashes of death. Nigeria
God Name: Ofo Nigeria A sacred object used to intensify the power of prayers. Ibo, Nigeria
God Name: Ohe Nigeria The omnipresent and supreme sky god. The Egede, Nigeria
God Name: Oko Nigeria Oko god of the farm and agriculture. Yoruba, Nigeria
God Name: Olodumare/ Alaaye/ Elemii/ Olojo/ Oni/ Olorun/ Orishanla Yoruba/ Nigeria A creator god to whom the souls of the dead are expected to make a confession
God Name: Orisanla Nigeria Orishanla, Sky god who was designated to be the creator of earth and living things. Nigeria
God Name: Orunmila Nigeria God of mercy and destiny. Yoruba, Nigeria
God Name: Osowo Nigeria The supreme being, a sky god, who is also identified with or represented by the big tree which is worshipped. Indem, Nigeria
God Name: Ra Nigeria Goddess of wealth and fertility. Nigeria
God Name: Ru Nigeria The supreme being and sun god of the Yendang, Nigeria
God Name: Sango Yoruba/ Nigeria A god of thunder
God Name: Sango Yoruba Nigeria God of thunder Nigeria
God Name: Shakplana Nigeria God of plague identified with smallpox Nigeria/Yoruba
God Name: Shango Nigeria God of storms and thunder. Nigeria
God Name: Soko Nigeria A rather vague and abstract concept, referring more to a mysterious impersonal power than to a personified deity. Nupe, Nigeria
God Name: Soko Nupe Nigeria The sky god, specifically the dark sky that precedes the beginning of the rainy season
God Name: Tar Tiv Nigeria The chthonic earth god
God Name: Tenye Te'en Nigeria Goddess of marital fidelity Nigeria
God Name: Ubasi Nigeria The creator god of the Yako. Nigeria
God Name: Yamba Nigeria Yemba. The supreme deity of the Kulu. Nigeria
God Name: Yemonja Nigerian/ Yoruba She is one of the great goddesses
God Name: Yurugu Nigeria One of the male twins in the Cosmic Egg. He was desperate to reproduce and broke the egg in search of a mate. His search was unsuccessful so he used pieces of the yolk he to create the earth and proceeded to mate with it. Nigeria
The Naga People/Niggas/Niger/Nigeria
Naga
means “Serpent” in the Vedic Sanskrit. The Hindu Naga Serpent Gods of India are mention in the “Upanishad Texts”, Nagini for the feminine. Indian Serpent Ruler, son of Kadru (Kedar in Hebrew means Black). In ancient .. .. India.. .. , the people with the blackest skins were respected and held to high esteem; original, first or primary. The Nagas ruled .. India.. as well as a substantial portion of Asia from Arabia to .. China.. and the South Pacific, as well as the .. Indian Ocean.. region. There are a few definitions of the Naga but the origin is the Naga serpent, or the Naga’s a race of serpent like people from Hindu and Buddhist mythology. The word Naga comes from the Sanskrit and nag is still the word for snake, especially the cobra, in most of the languages of .. .. India.. .. . The Naga is referring to the people who have full access to the Kundalini energy. Kundalini being a serpentine force, to be honored with being called a Naga is to be wise as the serpent. Matthew 10:16 verse “Be ye therefore wise as Serpents, yet gentle as doves.” Note that the Snake (Serpent Spirit) has been a symbol of wisdom since the metaphysical story of Adam and Eve. It’s the wise Serpent who offered them the fruit of knowledge. Also attach to the wise Nag serpent is eternal healing, mystery, magical power, and holiness throughout most of the ancient non-western world.
It’s the represents the power of life death resurrection. It’s used in everything from sex potions to drugs to kill cancer, life and death. .Its poison can kill and used to heal, is shed its skin as a symbol of resurrection. It’s a symbol of all the four elements water, air, earth and fire. The wise serpent lives in water and also in the earth, the poison is fire and the movement in “S” form is the same way waves move across air. Its symbol is used today in medicine, and other healing professions in the form of the Caduceus, and its live descendants are hailed as sacred and used in everything from cancer drugs to sex potions. Other words related to the Naga or Nag:
Naga-raj: King of cobras
Naga-rjuna: A Baudha Saint
Nag-eena: Gem of Ring, Diamond, great
Nag-endra: Lord Shiva
Nag-esh: Lord Shiva, Lord of snakes
Nag-eshwar: Airawat, Sheshnaag
Nag-eshwaran: Lord Snake
Nag-mani: Lord Krishna, Snake's Gem
Nag-pal: Protector of Snakes
Nag-pati: Master of Snakes
Nag-raj: Sheshnaag, Snake king
Nag-ulan: Witty
.. Niger.. and Niger-ia: are two countries in .. Africa.. . The words “.. .. Niger.. .. ” means in Ibo “King (emperor)” and “Niger-ia” means “Queen (empress).”..
Negro: is a Spanish word meaning “Black.” Negro is closely connected to the word Necro, a Greek word, which means “Dead.” “Black” and “dead” is also derived from Naga the “Black Serpent”. In other languages such as Italian, northern dialects still use
Negher to refer to “black.” Neger in Dutch and German had the same meaning. In the .. .. Netherlands.. .. ,
Neger is generally not considered a slur, but in German the word has fallen out of use. Negro is the preferred polite term for a black person, in contemporary Portuguese. In French, Nègre was the word generally used in the 19th century and earlier times to describe black persons of African origin, or, sometimes, African slaves. It now too is considered as a racist word, and the word noir (black) is always used instead... .. ..
Negger: “Golden One” in ancient Kemit. Negger is another form of the god “Geb also referred to as Seb and Keb. This god was the personification of the earth, and indeed this is what his name means earth, and thus it was said that when he laughed, it caused earthquakes. The feminine version would be the goose that laid the golden egg reference to the universe being an egg before the big bang. Also Mother Goose would be a way later version of Geb. Geb is prosperity because of the association with fatness, and pregnancy, cosmic egg and so forth, the individual glyph became used as the word for goose represented as a black goose, where black represented the fertile soil and also the people of the land, The Negger’s. It is also a termed for the King-Initiate which keeps its connection to Naga the Serpent King/ Queen. Literally translated Arnold Schwarzenegger (German) Schwarz = Black or Black-Negger...
.. .. Niger.. .. : is a masculine derivative of the ancient Kamite word
Ngu, which means Serpent King. It is a title of the Kamite King, Pharaoh or Priest.
Niger-ia is a feminine derivative of the ancient Kamite word Nga, (Naga) which means "Serpent Queen." It is a title of the Egyptian Queen; this title was given to those who have mastered the Uraeus power. When you see an Egyptian headdress which has a snake on the top of it, you are looking a Uraeus crown. Seen in most hieroglyphs as an upright form of an spitting cobra, used as a symbol of sovereignty, royalty, deity and divine authority in ancient Kemit. Uraeus is obvious reference to the Kundalini energy.
.. Niger.. II: officially the .. Republic.. of .. Niger.. is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the .. Niger River.. . It borders .. Nigeria.. and .. Benin.. to the south, .. Burkina Faso.. and .. Mali.. to the west, .. Algeria.. and .. Libya.. to the north and .. .. Chad.. .. to the east. The capital city is .. .. Niamey.. .. .
.. Nigeria.. : (country in .. West Africa.. ).
Ngosi: blessing (.. .. Ibo.. , .. Nigeria.. ..
Naga-saki: A Japanese city destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945, by the .. .. U.S... .. and it means “Serpent Spirit” or “Serpent Life-Force.”..
Nig-gina: is the Mesopotamian word for “Justice.” .. ..
Nig-sisa: is the Mesopotamian word for “Righteousness.”
Uru-niggina-kiagga: in .. .. Babylon.. .. means the “City which Loves Truth.”
Uru-niggina-sisa: in .. Babylon.. means the “City of .. .. Truth.. .. and Justice.”
Uru-nigerim-hulgig: in .. .. Babylon.. .. , means the “City which Hates Evil...
Ngola: (Manding-Congo) = "King/Lord"..
Nega Negast: An Ethiopian word which, means Serpent King of Kings.
The Kebra Negast, also called the “Book of the Glory of Kings of Ethiopia,” has been in existence for at least a thousand years, it contains the true history of the origin of the Solomonic line of kings in .. .. Ethiopia.. .. .
Negus (King) The Kebra Negast is often referred to as the Rastafarian Bible. It was handed down from generation to generation orally, in Rastafarian and West Indian culture. It contains a mix of the history and traditions of the Ethiopia Orthodox faith. It documents the descent of the Ethiopian royal lineage from King David to Emperor Haile Selassie...
Nag Hammadi: is an ancient Aramaic and Hebrew scripture which means “The Serpent Black Guide.” Origin of the gospels and you can study them today if you research anything on Gnosticism.
Nibiru: Sumerian, the Golden Light (Auric Halo). This golden light connected to the Lead to gold you hear so much about in Alchemy which is an internal process. Those who call themselves Naga understood their royal connection and there mastery of the most advanced transformation process on planet earth called alchemy. So much so they named themselves after that fact.
Nibiru, to the Babylonians, was the celestial body associated with the god Murduke. The name is Akkadian and also means “crossing place” or “place of transition”, which is connected to the transformation of alchemy. In most Babylonian texts it is identified with the planet Jupiter. In 1976 Zecharia Sitchin wrote a book called The Twelfth Planet or Nibiru by Sitchin and Eldem. Nibiru in Sumerian tablets referred to an undiscovered 12th Planet or Planet X. Unlike the other planets in our solar system, Nibiru allegedly has an elliptical orbit and moves clockwise rather than counterclockwise. Nibiru's orbit passes through our solar system only once every 3,600 years, which is equal to one Nibiruan year. This controversial theory is based on Mr. Sitchin's interpretation of ancient Sumerian texts and cuneiform tablets, having its origins in the Bible, the book of Genesis. Sitchin has spent decades as an archeologist and historian researching ancient writings from the Sumerian civilization and putting them into his five-part paperback series.
Ndaba: (Manding-Congo/South Africa) =A council of wise people, kings, chiefs.
Netjer: is the Medu origin of the word Nigger, which means “God”, God of wisdom or force of nature. Medu Netjer is also the origin of the word “Mother Nature.” Netjer, a Kemetic word meaning “divine power,” is the one self- created deity which manifests in myriads of forms as the many forms of god/goddess manifest in nature. Each of the aspects is separate, but each remains a part of the whole. The word for divinity that they used to represent the sum of all the names of the gods and goddesses is “NTR”, pronounced “Net-jer”, this word means simply means God...
Nergal: is “the Healer” in the Sumerian lore. In ancient Sumeria, the Anunnaki which are also called Sun Serpents, The Heavenly Serpent, or The Serpent and the Rainbow, were the Serpents kings. Take for instance the Naki in the word Anunnaki. As in one of the chief Sumerian gods Enki, (connected to the Naki) “en” is translated as a title equivalent to lord; also a title given to the High Priest; “ki” which means earth; (connected to Geb the black goose). Naki is also connected “Nake” in s-NAKE) name for the Initiates of Chaldea, corresponding to the Nagas or “Snake-Kings.”..
Shub-Niggar-uth: is an ancient Sumerian name for God, called later in Latin called Pan. It is a reference to the constellation Sirius. Shub-Niggurath; often associated with the phrase “The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young”. Also is sometimes referred to as “The Black Ram of The Forest with a Thousand Ew.” The Black Goat is a personification of Pan.
Nakiel: another name of the Arch-angel Uriel. Naki-el in Hebrew means “Serpent of God,” or “Knowledge of God,” or” fire of God.” In The Book of Adam and Eve he presides over repentance. He’s is the dark angel who wrestled with Jacob at Peniel (Pineal Gland). The Magus claims that alchemy was brought down to earth by him...
Abe-Naki: “Father Serpent”, a name of an Indigenous people in .. .. America.. .. or the so-called Native Americans. The Abenaki also Wabanaki, meaning people of the dawn, are a tribe of Native Americans/First Nations belonging to the Algonquian peoples of the Northeast portion of .. North America.. .
Nuga-rmar-ta and Nago-mina: establishers of civilizations in .. Ghana.. and .. .. Mali.. .. that existed in the area before 1000 B.C.E...
Naba: In the Mossi tribe King is currently called “Naga”, which is “Naba,” which later developed into “Nuba” or “.. .. Nubia.. .. .” Nahsi is another word for “Nubian.”
Nebo: the Babylonian word or the Biblical Hebrew word “Nebo.” Hebrew-Assyrian word “Nebo” means “Prophet” or “Eye” as in the “All-Seeing Eye.” “Nebo or Nabu” means prophet, proclaimer. The Babylonian “Nebo” is the heavenly scribe. In Star Wars the Phantom Menace the princess Padme Amidala home world was Naboo an obvious play on them being Babylonian. Jar-Jar Binks is a “Gungun” The Gungans resemble Hadrosaurs, A type of dinosaur. This is a representation of the reptilian Kundalini serpent life force. They lived under the water and the Naboo live above ground. The gunguns are the primal life force and Amidala’s people are the transformed version of the, beauty and the beast. When she meets with their king she tells them that they always lived together in peace and how they need each other to survive. Pointing out the higher and lover self coming together...
Nakir: Is a black angel in Mohammedan lore...
Nabi: is the Arabic equivalent, which means “Master of Knowledge” and is derived from the ancient Kama'atu (Egyptian) word “.. .. Neb... .. ” meaning Gold. .. .. Neb.. .. (Serpent) spelt backwards is “Ben,” short for “Ben Ben,” meaning Source, Spring or Phoenix-Bird or "Serpent in the Sky").
Naga-raj: means “King of Serpents, Serpent King.” Nagaraj or Nagraj is a common Indian surname. .. .. ..
Naga-bhushan: means “One who wears Snakes as ornaments of Shiva.”
Nag-endra: means "King of Snakes." Means “lord of snakes” from Sanskrit Naga or again snake. The Nag is combined with the “Endra,” is the Hindu god Indra, used here to mean “lord”. This is a word used in Hindu texts to refer to a large snake...
Nag-esh: “Snake in Man,” which is a reference to the Kundalini serpent force sleeping in the garden at the base of your spine.
Naga Kanya: “Snake of the Rainbow.” The Naga Kanya is a Seven-headed Cobra, a counterpart of the God Vishnu. Naga-rjuna of .. .. India.. .. is shown with a golden aura, or halo, of Seven Serpents that is an indication of a very high degree of Initiation. The symbolism of the Seven Serpents is a reference to the (Seven Chakras)...
Naga Lakshmi: “Queen of Snakes.”
Naga-mani: “Mind of Serpents.” Some of the earliest legends describe The Naga women who turn from human to snake at will, aided by a jewel embedded in their forehead which is the pineal gland or third eye. This is a myth, referencing the power of the rising Kundalini.
Nagal: “Serpent-God” and is the title of the medicine men, magicians and initiates in ancient .. .. Mexico.. .. , Central and South American Indigenous civilizations. Nagal means a “Teacher, Serpent-God, Chief”, In Uruguay...
Naggai: is Hebrew and it means “giving light, shining, brilliant, illuminating, enlightening, luminous intelligence...
Nachash: is Hebrew and means “Serpent.” Nachash, is the serpent that spoke to the woman in the Garden of Eden. The Hebrew word Nachash is translated to “shine” as in golden aura, illumination of full Kundalini. Also means whisper (as in enchantment) Nachash is the Shining enchanter. He was also shrewd, cunning, smooth, slick higher intelligence...
Nazarene: (Nasarene, Naaserene, Nazirite or Nazarite) is a Hebrew (Het-Heru) word which means Aide, Helper or Friend; also means a native or resident of .. .. Nazareth.. .. . Nazirite or Nazarite The German word Nazi, the German fascist party controlled under Hitler in 1933 to 1945, is also derived from the Hebrew word Nazi-r or Nazi-rite.
Naas: (gnosis) and this is the realm of the People or those made from mud “Black mud” (melanin)...
Naga-Krita: (Chinese are from the Ngu-African descent), Chinese are even said to have originated with the Serpent demi-gods. In .. .. China.. .. , the Naga is given the form of the Dragon, also called the “Dragon Spirit” the Emperor-King and is known as the “Son of Heaven.”..
Naga-rjuna: called in Tibetan, Lu-trub, “The God-Serpents”. In .. .. Tibet.. .. , they are still known in a symbolic sense and are called “Lu (Dragon).”..
Nahua: is a Mexican word which means “Serpent.”
Ngola: (.. .. Angola.. .. ) means “King” in the Angolan languages...
Negus: (Nee-goos) Ethiopian term for Emperor...
..Niger.. .. : Roman/Latin term for Black or Negro
Negre: French for Negro or Black
Negro: Spanish for Black
Linguistic Similarities: Kemet and Yoruba
Kemet/Ancient Bachwezi
1. Wu (rise)
2. Ausar (Osiris, father of the gods)
3. Ere (Python/Serpent)
4. Heru (a great god)
5. Sen (group of worshippers)
6. Ged (to chant)
7. Ta (sell/offer)
8. Sueg (a fool)
9. On ( living person)
10. Kum (a club)
11. Enru (fear/terrible)
12. Kun / qun (brave man)
13. Win (to be)
14. Odonit (festival)
15. Ma or mi (to breath)
16. Tebu (a town)
17. Adumu (a water god)
18. Khu (to kill)
19. Rekha (knowledge)
20 Hika, Ika (evil)
21 Mhebi (humble)
22 Sata (perfect)
23 Unas (lake of fire)
24 Tan (complete)
25 Beru (force of emotion)
26 Em (smell)
27 Pa (open)
28 Bi (to become)
29 Hepi (a water god)
30 Sami (water god)
31 Osiri (a water god)
32 Heqet – Re (frog deity)
33 Feh (to go away)
34 Kot (build)
35 Kot (boat)
36 Omi (water)
37 Ra (time)
38 Oni (title of Ausar)
39 Budo (dwelling place)
40 Dudu (black image of Ausar)
41 Un (living person)
42 Ra (possess)
43 Beka (pray/confess)
44 Po (many)
45 Horuw (head) middle Egyptian
46 Min (a god)
47 Ash (invocation)
48 Aru (mouth)
49 Do (river)
50 Do (settlement)
51 Shekiri (water god)
52 Bu (a place)
53 Khepara (beetle )
54 No (a water god)
55 Ra -Shu (light after darkness)
56 Run-ka (spirit name)
57 Deb/dib (to pierce)
58 Maat (goddess of justice)
59 Aru (rise)
60 Fa (carry)
61 Kaf (pluck)
62 Bu bi (evil place)
63 In- n (negation)
64 Iset (a water god)
65 Shabu (watcher)
66 Semati (door keeper)
67 Khenti amenti (big words of Osiris)
68 Ma (to know)
69 Bebi (a son of osiris)
70 Tchatcha chief (they examined the death to see if they tricked)
71 Ren( animal foot)
72 Ka (rest)
73 Mu (water)
74 Abi (against)
75 Reti (to beseech)
76 Hir (praise)
77 Ta (spread out)
78 Kurud (round)
79 Ak (male)
80 Se (to create)
81 Hoo (rejoice)
82 Kamwr (black)
83 Omitjener (deep water)
84 Nun (the primeval water mother)
85 Ta (land)
86 Horiwo (head)
87 Ro (talk)
88 Kurubu (round)
89 Penka (divide)
90 Ma-su (to mould)
91 Osa (time)
92 Osa (tide)
93 Fare (wrap)
94 Kom (complete)
95 Edjo (cobra)
96 Didi (red fruit)
97 Ba (soul)
98 Ke (hill)
99 Anubis ("evil" deity)
100 Kan (one: Middle Egyptian)
101 Nam (water god)
Yorùbá/Ife/Oyo
1. Wu (rise)
2. Ausa (father)
3. Ere (Python/Serpent)
4. Orise (a great god)
5. Sen ( to worship)
6. Igede (a chant)
7. Ta (sell/offer)
8. Suegbe (a fool)
9. One ( living person)
10. Kumo (a club)
11. Eru (fear/terrible)
12. Ekun (title of a brave man)
13. Wino (to be)
14. Odon (festival)
15. Mi (to breathe)
16. Tebu (a town)
17. Adumu (a water god)
18. Ku (die)
19. Larikha (knowledge)
20 Ika (evil)
21 Mebi (humble to ones family)
22 Santan (perfect)
23 Una (fire)
24 Tan (complete)
25 Beru (fear)
26 Emi (smell)
27 Pa (break open)
28 Bi (to give birth, to become)
29 Ipi (a water god)
30 Sami (a water god)
31 Oshiri (a water god)
32 Ekere (the frog)
33 Feh (to blow away)
34 Ko (build)
35 Oko (boat)
36 Omi (water)
37 Ira (time)
38 Oni (title of the king of Ife)
39 Budo (dwelling place)
40 Dudu (black person)
41 Una (living person)
42 Ra (possess/buy)
43 Be or ka (to pray or confess)
44 Po (many/cheap)
45 Oruwo (head) (Ijebu)
46 Emin (spirit)
47 Ashe (invocation)
48 Arun (mouth ) Ilaje
49 Odo (river)
50 Udo (settlement)
51 Shekiri (a water god)
52 Bu (a place)
53 Akpakara (beetle)
54 Eno (a water god)
55 Uran-shu (the light of the moon
56 Oruko (name)
57 Dibi (to pierce)
58 Mate (goddess of justice)
59 Ru (rise up)
60 Fa (pull)
61 Ka (pluck)
62 Bubi (evil place)
63 IIn-n (negation)
64 Ise (a water god)
65 Ashonbo (watcher)
66 Sema (lock/shut the door)
67 Yenti – yenti (big, very big)
68 Ma (to know)
69 Ube, a god
70 Tsatsa (a game of tricks, gambling)
71 Ren (to walk)
72 Ka (rest/tired)
73 Mu (drink water)
74 Ubi (against / impediment)
75 Retin (to listen)
76 Yiri (praise)
77 Ta (spread out)
78 Kurudu (round)
79 Ako (male)
80 Se (to create)
81 Yo (rejoice)
82 Kuru (extremely black
83 Omijen (deep water)
84 Nene (mother
85 Ita (land junction)
86 Oriwo (head)
87 Ro (to think)
88 Kurubu (deep and round)
89 Kpen (divide)
90 Ma or su (to mould)
91 Osa (time)
92 Osa ( tide)
93 Fari (wrap)
94 Kon (complete)
95 Edjo (cobra)
96 Diden (red)
97 Oba (king, soul of a people)
98 Oke( hill)
99 Onubi (evil person)
100 Okan (one)
101 Inama (water god)
Oduduwa Royal Descendant of the Race of Niolithic Giants
Oral tradition describes the Cwezi to have been very tall, dark to dark-brown and sometimes brown with supernatural abilities and practiced teleportation and telekinesis.
Tutsi King of Rwanda Royal Descendant of the Race Niolithic Giants
The Giant Bachwezi Bloodline that ruled built Egypt and ruled the Nile
The physical differences in East Africas rather all Africans lies in the bloodlines. The more taller Tutsi, called Bachwezi, were the bloodlines of the Gods. This is how come in their arrival into what is modern Rwanda the Bachwezi assumed control over the area from Hutus and Twas though they were in smaller number. It was well understood in ancient times that these people were giants, they were royal descendant, bloodlines of the Gods. This is even evident in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs that there were physical differences and castes among Egyptians. This phenomenon also played a key role in Oduduwa's people who arrived in West Africa some 2000 years ago. Oduduwa was said to be over 7 feet tall, most of his warriors and people were giants compared to the Igbo people who occupied the town of Ife. Note: Oranmiyum was said to be very tall, over 7 feet tall. This height advantage, greater civilization technical knowledge is what made it easier for Oduduwa's people to take over Ife from the smaller Igbo and eventually the two merged as one into the powerful Ogboni society of Ife . Not to mention that Oduduwa was carrying the royal staff of Queen Sheba of the Kushite Empire. Could it be possible the legendary Queen Sheba, rather Queen Bilikisu Sungbo is the true legend of Sango's origin as some legends have told? Could it be the reason that Sango's male followers wear dresses and that Yoruba women have hold over the entire Yorubaland? Anyway, legends live on.
West and East African Connection
The Mystical Meaning of Nigeria
Bilikisu Sungbo
Queen of Ijebu Royal Descendant of the Niolithic Race of Giants
Ijebu traditional historians tend to stick to the migra¬tion legend that the people migrated to their present territory from a region of Sudan called Waddai which means that the Ijebu had a parallel migration wave just like other Yoruba who believe they came to their present abode via Oduduwa. That claim seems to be corroborated by a publication by one Hailemariam which states that “the most powerful people that the Negede Orit (ancient Ethiopian immigrant into Africa) met in East Africa were the Jebus.” Their King was claimed to be so influential that he appointed the gover¬nors of Yemen. If that king was the same Olu-Iwa, the legendary first Ruler of Ijebuland, we do not know. The regional capital is Ijebu- Ode, The commercial capital is Sagamu, The spiritual capital is Ijebu - Igbo.
Nigeria has 36 states therefore 3+6= 9.
Eyan River also known as Oyo River/Niger
Iyansan = Mother of 9
There are 9 major Charkas
They are:
1. The root-Mars-Ketu
2. The gentials/Sex organs-Mars-Ketu
3. The dantian-Mercury
4. The solar Plex-Jupiter
5. The heart-Venus
6. The throat-Saturn
7. The third eye-Sun
8. The crown-Moon
9. The Aura/Energy body-Rahu
Ayaba Sango, Alaafin Of Oyo's Youngest Wife Queen Ajoke
Trades and Guilds
Omo Sango headed by Ogboni Chief of Sango
Wood Arts
Wood turning
Furniture
Wood frame construction
Architectural preservation
Wood carving
African dance/Orisha dance
Music festivals
Drum/Bata/Jembie
African music Across the continent
Gardening
Outdoor skills/safety
Traditional medicine
Yoruba and Gullah Herbal Medicine
Exercise/Martial Arts and Weapons
Security/Police/Military science
Amateur Radio Classes/Morris code/Talking Drums
Communication/Central communication
Horse Riding
Management/Administration
Ambassador
Native plant identification
Orienteering
Building a business around your craft
Omo Ogun headed by Ogboni Chief of Ogun
Barber
Blacksmiths shop
Basic blacksmith skills
Tool making/repair
Engine Mechanic/Small/Medium/Large Diesel/Regular
Boat building/Sail and engine powered
Homesteading/sustainable living
Home and community energy
Earth bag construction/
Adobe Construction
Commercial Farming
Gardening
Drum/Bata/Jembie Construction
Security/Police/Military Training
Weapon making, maintenance/sales/research and weapon training
Transportation/Heavy Equipment Operation
Bridge and Road Construction
Leather craft
Wood stove
Stone ovens
Stone craft
Outdoor Skills/Ecology
Native plant identification
Bird watching/Animal tracking
Hunting/fishing/seafood gathering
Outdoor skills/safety
Animal husbandry eggs
Orienteering
Foraging
Micro farming/Small scale food business development
Solar energy
electrical knowledge – for putting together low impact energy generating systems
Building and repairing solar panels
Installing solar systems
Building, making and repairing generators
Greenhouse building
Water seeking skills/Well drilling/Warka Towers
Condensing Air into Water
Artificial lake and pond building
Aqua-phonics
Plumbing
Irrigation
Water reservoir construction
Clean water and sanitation
Soil renewal and regeneration
Environment cultivation-giving back.
Building a business around your craft
Omo Orunmila headed by Ogboni Chief of Orunmila
Scholarship
Book Writing
Paper, Writing and Printing Press
Computer Science and Network
Mnemonics
Communication skills/Languages
Public Speaking and Presentation
Lecturing
Liaison/Community Relation/Regional/Foreign relations
Bookkeeping/Finance/Banking
Book Arts
Paper making
Writer’s workshops
Letterpress and printing
Painting/Symbolism
Gardening
Health/Medicine
Ifa/Traditional Priest/African Spirituality
Chemical Lab Tech Training
Chemical lab
Yoruba and Gullah Herbal Medicine
Civil Engineering
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The Eight Most Powerful Women Inside The Aláàfin Of Ọyọ’s Palace That You Never Heard Of, They Are The Real Powers Behind The Throne And Are So Powerful The King Calls One Of Them BABA
BY ABIYAMO · OCTOBER 12, 2017
The Aláàfin Of Ọyọ, His Majesty, Kabiyesi Alaiyeluwa Ọba Dr. Làmídì Ọláyíwọlá Atanda Adéyẹmí III sits on a throne that is older than that of the British monarch. Among the Yorubas, women occupy a very respected position and they are involved at every level of administration in the society. The outstanding civilization of the Yorubas over time is seen in the royal court of the Oyo Empire.
In Yorubaland, a woman can aspire to the highest position in anything she desires and this has been the practice for thousands of years. The role of the female in the traditional Yoruba society is so deeply embedded that no major policy can be implemented or decision made without involving the women.
Women in Yorubaland are so incredibly influential that they control the economy by holding an unshakeable sway over the markets, social events and commercial activities. This is very obvious in the emergence of roles such as those of the Iyalaje, Iyalode and Iyaloja. Even in the occult, the women are still at the very top of the pyramid, the powerful Ogboni cult cannot make any decision without the Palace Mother giving the final go-ahead.
Please note that the Egbe Iyami Oshoronga (or the Great Mothers of the Occult, not witches in the traditional European or Caucasian sense of it) are considered to be the Mothers of the Ogbonis and also use the same symbolic gestures and handshakes when greeting or saluting each other. In fact, the Edan Ogboni takes its name directly from Egbe Iyami Oshoronga. Ogboni members are also known as Awon Omo Iya and the breast milk of the Mother (Earth) takes a very central place among the Ogbonis. The breast milk is symbolized in the greetings of the Ogbonis and when they greet they chant three times:
Omu iya dun mu, gbogbo wa lan jo mu (Mother’s milk is sweet to drink, we all drink it).
Make no mistake, women are behind the secrets of the Ogbonis. And when I say women, I mean the Ajes, Awon Iyami Oshoronga, Iya Mapo, Iya Nla, Edan (aka Iya Aye) and other prominent female members of the awo (occult). These names do not really connote negativity but rather mystery, unusualness or the remarkable nature of their prowess of the centuries-old traditions of the Yorubas. Women are believed by the Ogbonis to be more secretive or reserved than the men so mothers are deeply respected by the Ogbonis as the vessels carrying the most important secrets of existence and the occult.
These explanations have been given as introduction to allow the reader appreciate the role of women in Yorubaland as against the subjugation of the female gender as promoted by the foreign faiths of Islam (which insists a woman must be hidden, cloaked and veiled) and Christianity (which says a woman cannot even talk inside the church). This is not the case in Yorubaland and even the foreign faiths have been influenced by traditional Yoruba practices. So, who are the eight powerful women inside the aafin (palace) of the Alaafin of Oyo that people have not heard of? These women are collectively and casually referred to as the ‘King’s wives’ but they should not be confused with the Ayabas (Oloris) who are the queens and wives of the monarch. Here we go:
IYAMODE
Iyamode is the only person in the world the Aláàfin is permitted to kneel before. He kneels before no one else except Iyamode. Other people kneel before the Aláàfin. Iyamode occupies a role so deeply respected that the king calls her ‘Baba’ (father). Whenever the Aláàfin goes on his knees before this influential woman, she returns the salutation by also going on her knees but she never reclines on her elbow while doing so as this is the custom of women in saluting their superiors. Iyamode is one of the most senior eight priestesses inside the Aláàfin’s royal household.
Other priestesses within the palace include Iya’le Oduduwa (Priestess of Oduduwa) Ode (head of all the worshippers of the god Ososi, she dresses as a hunter, hence her name, on state occasions adorned with a bow ornamented with strings of cowries neatly strung on her shoulder), Obagunte (she represents the Aláàfin in the Ogboni confraternity and enters the Ogboni chamber on all occasions acting in the name of the Aláàfin), Eni Oja (she is the head of all the Eshu worshippers in the town, she is in charge of the King’s market and wears a gown like a man, the King leans on her arms the day he goes to worship the god of the markets, the Olosi is under the Eni Oja, same with the Aroja or the Market Keeper ), Iya’le Agbo (she is a private attendant to the Aláàfin and is in charge of his private pharmacy preparing all the agunmu (powders) and agbo (infusions) for the king) and Iya Otun.
Iyamode and Iya Oba are always clean shaven while others plait their hair in small strips from the forehead to the top of the head and gather the rest from the back to the top, tying all the hair clump into one knot with a string in a style known as the Ikokoro. As for the Ode, Eni Oja, Iyafin-Iku, Iya Olosun and the Iya’le Oduduwa adorn theirs with red feathers of the parrot’s tail.
It is interesting to know that the ancestor of the Yorubas, Oduduwa, had one son, Okanbi, with his principal wife named Omonide or Iyamode. Iyamode embodies the spirits of the Aláàfin’s fathers. Yoruba beliefs have it that fathers can be reincarnated in the anafemale child, and that explains precisely why the Aláàfin calls Iyamode ‘father’. Iyamode resides in one of the outhouses of the palace.
Her duties are not specially in the palace and she is the superior of the celibates living in the Bara (the royal mausoleum)¸ and that is another reason she is styled ‘Baba’. The role of the Iyamode entails worshipping the spirits of the departed Kings and calling out their Egunguns (masquerades) in a room in her apartments specially set aside for that purpose. This room is screened off from view with a white cloth.
Please note that Iyamode does not just oversee the worship of the ruler’s ancestors, she is those ancestors. Iyamode is described as the quintessential Aje and the only one who can house, embody and be the father and all ancestors of the king, all in one body at the same time.
The Aláàfin looks up Iyamode as his father and he addresses him as such, being the worshipper of the spirits of his ancestors. As stated above, the King kneels for no one else but Iyamode and prostrates before the god Sango and before those possessed with the deity, calling them ‘father’. These include those set apart for life-long service at the Bara. Anytime one of them is possessed by the spirit of deceased monarchs (it is said of one of them ‘Oba wa si ara won’) and bursts out of the Bara to the palace with violent energy, she is immediately placed under the control of the Iyamode. On such dramatic occasions, the possessed tells the people message received from the gods such as the sacrifice they have to offer to ward off impending evils.
To conduct this ceremony, some water is poured into a mortar and it is covered by a wide calabash while other women in the palace beat this with all their energy as a drum with the possessed and others dancing to the frenzied beats of the drumming. Note that once a woman becomes Iyamode, she becomes celibate and stays away from sex for life. Iyamode also heads the convent of queens (Ayabas) who have become widows following the death of their husbands (kings). These widows live close to the Bara and live secluded and chaste lives.
IYANASO (Iya Naso):
The Aláàfin is worshipped as the living reincarnation of the Yoruba god of thunder, lightning and energy (Sango). Inside the palace, the Aláàfin has a private chapel for the worship of Sango which is inside Iya Naso’s apartment and the person in charge of this spiritual room is the Iya Naso herself. She has to do with Sango worship generally and she is the one responsible for everything linked to it. All the emoluments and perquisites arising from this practice are hers and she has also to do with the same at Koso.
IYA KERE
The coronation of any Aláàfin of Ọyọ is not complete without the crown on his head. The person who places the crown on the head of the king at the coronation is the Iya Kere, regarded as one of the most powerful women in the palace. Actually, next to the King’s Mother (Iya Oba), Iya Kere holds the highest rank and although greater deference is given to Iya Oba, it is Iya Kere who wields the greatest power in the palace.
Iya Kere is the one in charge of the treasures of the King. She keeps the royal insignia and all the paraphernalia used on state occasions and special events. Her powers are so extensive that she can even decide to withhold some of these royal treasures thus preventing any state event or ceremony from holding, she can do this to register her displeasure with the King whenever she is offended. As stated above, it is Iya Kere who places the crown on the head of the Aláàfin at his coronation, no one else is entitled to do that.
Iya Kere is also the ‘mother’ of all the Ilaris (male and female) because it is inside her apartment that they are usually created and she keeps in her custody all the sugudus that bear the marks of each Ilari in order to ensure the safety of the life of the King.
That is not all, as powerful as the Olosi is, Iya Kere exercises full power over him and even have him arrested and put in chains if he crosses his bounds. Iya Kere is the feudal head of the Aseyin, Oluiwo and the Baale (now Soun) of Ogbomoso. Once she assumes the office, she remains a celibate for life, that is the tradition.
IYA OBA (The Queen Mother)
Iya Oba is the official mother of the king. According to tradition, the King is not to have a natural mother. In a case where his own biological mother happens to be alive when he is called to ascend the throne, she is asked to ‘go to sleep’ and is ‘decently buried’ in the house of a relative in the city. All the inmates of that particular house are then given special priviledges and honoured as ‘members of the household of the King’s mother.’
As a mark of deference and devotion, the King sends to worship at her grave once every year. After the demise of the Queen Mother, another of the ladies of the palace is then made the Iya Oba and she is the one who is then supposed to play the role of a biological mother to him. And part of the privileges she enjoys as the Iya Oba is that she is the third person in the room when the King and the Bashorun worship the Orun in the month of September every year.
Iya Oba is the feudal head of the Bashorun.
IYA MONARI
She is the first lieutenant and assistant to the Iya Naso. It is the role of the Iya Monari to execute by strangling any Sango worshipper who has been condemned to death. Sango worshippers condemned to capital punishment cannot be killed by the sword and that explains why they cannot be executed by the Tetus.
IYA-FIN-IKU
She is the second lieutenant and assistant to the Iya Naso. She is referred to as the King’s Adoshu Sango meaning the King’s devotee to the Sango mysteries. It is the normal practice for all Sango worshippers to devote one of their children to the worship of Sango and that is the role that Iya-fin-Iku fulfills for the Aláàfin. She is the one in charge of the sacred ram which is allowed to go everywhere and about the markets without anyone molesting it and the ram can also eat with impunity anything it so desires from the sellers.
IYALAGBON
The mother of the Crown Prince (Aremo) is always promoted to the rank of the Iyalagbon. In a case where the mother of the Aremo is deceased, then another woman is promoted to that office and she becomes the mother to the Aremo. As the custodian of the next Aláàfin, the Iyalagbon enjoys massive influence and the control of a portion of the city is in her hands.
ORUN-KUMEFUN
She is also to see to the welfare of the Aremo and works in conjunction with the Iyalagbon.
ARE-ORITE
She is the Aláàfin’s personal attendant. It is the Are-Orite who sees to it that the royal meals are properly made, that royal bed is properly made, that the royal chambers are neatly arranged and she is also the one who sees the Aláàfin comfortably in bed after which she will go to her own apartment. When an Aláàfin is enthroned, it is the Are-Orite who places the umbrella-like silken parasol over his head as a canopy and she is constantly by the side of the Aláàfin to see to his needs and small services on public and state events.
These influential women are the real powers behind the throne. Not much is usually said about them, some do not even know they exist but they are always there in the background. These women communicate with the spiritual realm and guide every single step of the Aláàfin. They are the one who teach the Aláàfin all he knows about the Aláàfinate, they encourage him during times of trials, support him during periods of challenges and defend him from all forms of evils both physical and metaphysical.
These Mothers also do the divination to see how long an Aláàfin will rule, they educate him on what he can eat and what is forbidden that he cannot even touch, they are the ones who give the Aláàfin the ritual bath and cleanse and anoint him. They also take him through another process where his head is shaved (also by the Mothers) and then after seven days, they bathe it in snail water so that the Aláàfin will have the calm disposition and temperament needed to successfully hold the office.
These Mothers reveals to the Aláàfin the days of the divinites, when to worship the Orishas (deities), the kinds of rituals he has to do for each Orisha and the time to perform them. The Aláàfin then agrees to all these revelations and agrees to please these Orishas every day of the year except only one day in the year when there is no sacrifice and no worship of divinites. Only the Aláàfin knows this particular day of the year.
After the Aláàfin takes the throne with the power and authority to rule, these Palace Mothers oversee everything and they work silently in the background. They are the ubiquitous brains behind the kingdom. These Mothers (Ajes) prepare and spiritually empower the Adenla (the Great Crown) itself and as hinted earlier on, the Iyamode must be present whenever the Aláàfin is to be install, for only her can crown the Aláàfin. Without these Ajes, there will be no Yorubaland.
Iba eyin Iya o!
THANKS FOR YOUR TIME.
ABIYAMO.
Oyotunji African Village Kingdom
Africa in America
Oba Adejuyigbe was born prince Adegbolu Adefunmi from the Adefunmi ruling house Osagiyan Palace Oyotunji, USA. His Royal Majesty became the 2nd Oloyo of Oyotunji July 3 2005.
The History of Oyotunji African Village.
The Father of the Cultural Restoration Movement
His Royal Highness Oba (King) Ofuntola Oseijeman Adelabu Adefunmi I, born Walter Eugene King on October 5, 1928 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He graduated from Cass Technical High School. Oba Waja’s exposure to African religion began when he became associated with the Katherine Dunham Dance Troupe at the age of 20. In that same year, Oba Waja traveled to Haiti. With his new found African understanding he found the order of Damballah Hwedo, Ancestor Priests in Harlem NY the following year.
On August 26, 1959, Oba Waja became the first African born in America to become fully initiated into the Orisa-Vodun African priesthood by African Cubans in Matanzas, Cuba. This marked the beginning of the spread of Yoruba religion and culture among African Americans. With a few followers, and after dissolution of the Order of Damballah Hwedo, Oba Waja found the Sango Temple in New York and incorporated the African Theological Arch
Ministry in 1960. The Sango Temple was relocated and renamed the Yoruba Temple the same year.
In the fall of 1970, Oba Waja found the Yoruba Village of Oyotunji in Beaufort County South Carolina, and began the careful reorganization of the Orisa-Vodu Priesthood along traditional Nigerian lines. He was initiated to the Ifa priesthood by the Oluwa of Ijeun at Abeokuta, Nigeria, in August of 1972. Baba Adefunmi was proclaimed Alase (Oba-King) of the Yoruba of N. America at Oyotunji Village in 1972.
In 1981, the Caribbean Visual Arts and Research Center in New York sponsored Oba Adefunmi to be a presenter at the first World Congress of Orisa tradition and culture at the University of Ile-Ife, Nigeria. After his presentation, his Divine Royal Majesty King, Okunade Sijuwade Olubuse II, the "Ooni" of the ancient Yoruba city of Ile Ife,Nigeria, summoned Adefunmi and ordered the Ife Chiefs to perform coronation rites on him; Thereafter becoming Oba Ofuntola Oseijeman Adelabu Adefunmi I. Oba Adefunmi I became the first in a line of new world Yoruba Kings consecrated at the palace of the Ooni of Ife. He was presented with a special ceremonial sword of state, incised with the name of his Liege Lord the Ooni of Ife.
In the summer of 1993, Oba Adefunmi supervised the establishment of Ijo Orunmila Igbo Mimo, the first African American Ifa society. During the fall of 1993, he became the only official representative of traditional religion, to address the Parliament of World Religions in the one hundred year history of that organization.
Oba Adefunmi I married several times during his lifetime and fathered six princes and sixteen princesses. He has designed and contributed the major finance for most of the public buildings and temples at Oyotunji and worked on many of its numerous monuments and decorative carvings. Oba Adefunmi fostered the establishment of Yoruba Temples and Shrines in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Indiana, Georgia, North Carolina, Connecticut, Ohio, Florida, Maryland, DC, VI, Panama and England.
He and his initiates have initiated thousands of priests into the ministries of Orisa-Vodun. In so doing, Oba Adefunmi restored to the African American the ancient sacred priesthoods of the deities, Esu, Orunmila, Obatala, Osun, Yemoja, Ogun, Oya, Sango and Olokun; restoring the African descendants the rites of Gelede, Egungun and Ancestor worship.
Odu, Bits, Orunmila, Yoruba, 256, Octagrams
Ifa Computer Names
The Yoruba gods of western Nigeria once existed as humans and had their way of communicating.
Prior to their disappearance, they left with the people a means to communicate with them in the outer realm (the ifa divination).
Over 12,000 years ago, Africans developed Ifa Oracle divination based on the square of 16=16x16=26 = 2^8 corresponding to the vertices of an 8-dimensional hypercube and to the binary 2-choice Clifford algebra C1(8) and so to related ones such asC1(8)xC1(8) = C1(16) [7]. Since the number of sub-hypercubes in an 8-dimensional hypercube is 6,561 =81x81=3^8, the Ifa Oracle has N=8 ternary 3-structureas well as binary 2-structure.
Babalawo, Corpus, Computer Science, Bits, Base
The 16 Odus
Orunmila, in order to make access to the retrieval of the Divine Message (Ifa) easy, devised the computer compatible binary coding system, thousands of years before the emergence of computer consciousness in so-called modern man! So, Ifa is preserved in binary coded format and is output Parable - Format.
Ifa is coded within 256
Odus or Corpus, each Odu representing an esoteric pigeon-hole, itself divisible into256 sub-holes. Within each of the 256 Odus, there are1,680 Sacred Verses all presented in Parable - Format.Thus, the body of Ifa consists of 430,080 messages for mankind [1]Prof. Olu Longe in His December 22, 1983 Inaugural lecture titled Ifa Divination And Computer Science asserted that Orunmila is one of the deities of theYoruba while Ifa divination is a device for forecasting the future. What has those two got to do with the high-tech world of computer science?
Ifa Binary Codes
Ifa is actually an ancient binary computer system which, in some inexplicable way, has successfully linked the probability of numbers with the complexities of the human condition and the ever complex flux of events.
Eji Ogbe
Ifa, Longe said, is based on the 8-bit pattern with its eight–piece divination chain, 16 major odu(chapters) and 256 odu in all. Bade Ajayi in his paper titled A New Model of Ifa Binary System stated that Orunmila, the Yoruba God of Wisdom and divination uses a geomantic system of divination to arrive at appropriate signs and employs Ifa verses to interpret the signs [1]
Ifa literary corpus consists of 256 possibilities called Odu and each Odu also contains superfluous stories called ese. Sixteen of the Odu are the principal ones while the remaining 240 are the mixed or minor Odu. As the name implies, each mixed Odu is formed by thecombination of two principal Odu. Each of the Odu (both principal and minor) is represented by a specific sign which is binary in nature [13]. Every Odu sign has two arms illustrated by the first two principal Odu, Eji-Ogbe and Oyeku Meji 3rd and 2nd images above, and the 1st is the computer model worked out by Ifa's Opele.
Ifa Elements
Bade Ajayi emphasized in his paper that communication with the Odu is achieved by means of a calculated mathematical framework based on the prescribed course of conduct required from each Odu[1]In fact, digital computer uses the binary system.
Like the computer, Yoruba anthmomancy is based on binary system and it is therefore a computer oriented science which can be used in mathematical education.
At a divination session, several Ibo (instruments for casting lot), may be used to find detail information about a client's problem. The commonest and simplest form of Ibo of Cowry Shells tied together representing types (1) and piece of animal bone representing “Iho†(0) This relates to computer language today, we need prediction (which is scientific and reliable) more than divination (which is religious and uncertain).
Eji Ogbe
Considering the locio in the arms of the opele, the pairs should be punched (d) and there ‘bi’ spairs not punched(0) using this code paper model of Ifa -6-A-Bits computer model N has been developed.
The 1st of the 3 images is the computer model worked out by Ifa's Opele.
Ifa is also known as Voodoo in Haiti, Lucumi in Cuba, Obeah in the West Indies, Chamdole in the Caribbean and Sateria in Brazil.
Computer Science is the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression and mechanization of the methodical processes (or algorithms). It underlies the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of and access to information, whether such information is encoded in bits and bytes in a computer memory or transcribed in genes and protein structures in a human cell.
NIGERIAN ORIGIN OF INTERNET (IFA) IN YORUBA LAND
May be i am wrong,but i think i am right,even though it is not confirmed,a more historic research and analysis would show the connection. I am aware that the history of internet/computer didn’t show any connection,but come to think of it.
Computer/Internet was designed some someone,he represents the founder,he taught people,as in experts,then many followers use it.
IFA is an ancient Yoruba devination, Orunmila is the Grand Priest and custodian of Ifá who represents the founder of computer/internet. Ifa is the source of knowledge believed to have a keen understanding of the human form and of purity,information of the past and prediction of the future.
Divination Performing Ifa divination is called Ifa dida or idafa (or dida owo and ounte ale) which may be represented as networking,setting up. Ifa dida /Idafa (networking)is performed by adifa (experts,computer engineer).
After setting up,a cyber cafe is handled to the admin just like the adifa,who coordinate the divination of ifa or the administration of the cyber cafe.
People consult the Ifa priest just as we consult the cafe or service provider,The items used for divination include:
* A group of sixteen Ikin, commonly known as sacred palm nuts, which are used to create binary data which can be represented as the modem or ticket incase of a cyber cafe,Dust from the Irosun tree (Iyerosun), which may be the keyboard,a vessel for the seeds (Ajere Ifa), which may represent the CPU,a divination tray (Opon Ifa) which may be the computer,a tapper instrument (Iroke Ifa), may represent the mouse.
Ifa is consulted to get information,connect people,know history of the past and prediction of the future. Just like the computer internet where we get information,connect our old friends,see future prediction etc.
we open our computer like the ifa priest would to his opan ifa,ask question just as we type with the key board and press enter. The opan ifa would search for your requested information and bring possible answer to your question which would be determined by you,just like google and other search engines would bring different option for you to choose that which best for you. A thorough historical research would prove more about the connection!
Igbo culture, which run well into their hundreds, the primordial Akpkpala system of divination has surfaced as the most sophisticated, versatile, accurate, enduring and encompassing system thereof; employed successfully since time immemorial in determining and addressing all phenomena.
Rightly so, various questions have been raised by both dedicated scholars and keen enthusiasts of Igbo culture around the world as to the underlying mystery behind the prominently ancient Afa Akpkpala divination system. Many have attempted to explain and even compare it with the far more recent binary computing system of Western epistemological tradition; an approach that is highly flawed in itself but somewhat aids in lifting the heavy veil of mystery in which the Akpkpala divination system has been much shrouded in. Indeed, as concerns the profound mystical science undergirding the Akpkpala divination practice, Prof. Onwuejeogwu (1997) and Prof J. A. Umeh (1999) has in their respective ways, invested great efforts in bringing some of the primary mysteries undergirding the Akpkpala oracle to academic light. Umeh for instance elucidated that, “this form of divination has its own language which the Igbo people believe to be not only the oldest Igbo language but also indeed the oldest language in the whole world” (Umeh 1999). Quoting Nwankwo Nnabuchi, he maintained that,
Infact, as it appears, the algebraically contrived binary computing system and more recently, quantum computing system is as far as the Western mind can attempt of this feat. But one should be aware that the binary encoding threshold system (Akwu na Obi) as confessedly extracted from the ancient Akpkpala system by Western seekers merely embodies one of the preliminary, Akashic gateways that an Afa adept (Dibia Afa) has to “pass through” (kwu Afa – literally, jumping into Afa/shifting into the Afa mode of consciousness) before arriving the 5th dimension from where the herculean task of Afa-seeking (Igba Afa) actually takes off and well-extends into an infinity of dimensions or universes!
Let us not forget that the Western epistemological tradition whose global hegemony continues to stifle other richer, epistemological traditions from enlightening humanity is still in denial of Ala Mm (the other inter-existing worlds/universes/dimensions). Besides, as with BCS, any careful analysis of QCS (Quantum Computing System) will readily reveal that it is simply the result of Western seekers, once again, extrapolating about 10-15% of the embedded principles found in the mystical “fox-seed-sand-fingerprint” divination system of the generous Dogon people and transforming the same into a mere, quantum-mathematical “information system”. Whereas the original Dogon system is actually post-quantum oriented! And even at that, QCS is virtually still in its theorization stage!
Father of the Internet
Shamanic priestesses of East Africa
by Max Dashu
The amazon queen Kitami also called Nyabingi
The legend of Queen Nyabingi began with an amazon queen named Kitami, who possessed a sacred drum. Later generations revered her as a powerful ancestor (emandua) and she spoke through priestesses called Bagirwa. Most of them were were traditional healers, chosen by Nyabingi as her prophets. Wearing barkcloth veils, they entered paranormal states with "stylized trembling movements" and prophesied in arcane language, with high-pitched voices, holding dialogues with Nyabingi and speaking in her name.
Bagirwa: rebel priestesses of Uganda
Foreign travellers in the Uganda / Rwanda borderlands heard rumors about these holy women. The explorer Stanley had gotten reports of the WaNyavingi, and of an Empress of Ruanda (though women did not rule there). In 1891, Emin Pasha wrote from Mpororo that this powerful woman was never seen, “a voice behind a curtain of bark cloth, with the reputation of a great sorceress.” Sometimes she was carried on a litter like a queen. A British document refers to “Navingi, chieftainess of Omupundi.”
But there was more than one Nyabingi. Although the bagirwa "were almost invariably women," there were some men too. They also dressed in the female manner. The bagirwa demanded tribute from chiefs, disrupting the tribute patterns in Rwanda, and distributed cattle and beer.
Muhumusa
She appears in the early 1900s as a widowed Rwandan queen mother who fled with the heir to the throne into Ndorwa, in what is now SW Uganda. She was a chief who refused to acknowledge the usurper mwame Musinga, who was allied with the German colonials. In 1911 Muhumusa proclaimed “she would drive out the Europeans” and “that the bullets of the Wazungu would turn to water against her.” She roused a military resistance which was stamped out within months, and she spent the rest of her life under detention, first by the Germans and then at the behest of the British (1912-1945).
Muhumusa became the first in a line of rebel priestesses fighting colonial domination in the name of Nyabingi. The British passed their 1912 Witchcraft Act in direct response to the political effectiveness of this spiritually-based resistance movement. The graphic above shows a few of the bagirwa mentioned in colonial reports in the second decade of the 20th century.
In August of 1917, the “Nabinga” Kaigirwa engineered the Nyakishenyi revolt, with unanimous public support. British officials placed a high price on her head, but no one would claim it. One commissioner remarked, “These fanatical women are a curse to the country.”
In January of 1919, colonial forces attacked the Congo camp of Kaigirwa, her husband Luhemba, the male mugirwa Ndochibiri and others. The men died in battle, defiantly breaking their rifles and cursing their enemies. But Kaigirwa and the main body of fighters managed to evade the army and escape. However, the British captured the sacred white sheep, which they carefully burnt to dust before a convocation of leading chiefs. They lectured this captive audience “not to listen to Kaigirwa who will only lead them to trouble.” But a series of disasters afflicted the District Commissioner who killed the sheep. His own herds were wiped out, his roof caved in and a mysterious fire broke out in his house. Kaigirwa attempted another rising, then went into the hills. She was never captured.
One official wrote “that a very serious general rising … had been most narrowly averted,” and another referred to “the narrow escape… from a serious native outbreak” and the danger of “this Nabingi propaganda.” Others would follow. The most serious was the 1928 Rebellion, which began with the killing of puppet chiefs and “large, excited and armed gatherings in the hills” and what one British source described as "armed witchcraft dances."
After this, the political dimension of the bagirwa gradually fades, and the underlying healing culture reasserts itself. The missionaries were finally making headway in converting people to Christianity, which had political dimensions. Some converts were not above pressuring people into baptism by declaring that pagans would be under suspicion for political subversion.
Queen Nyabingi, the legendary spirit of liberation from oppression
But there was one more chapter to follow. Although the Nyabingi movement was quelled by the 1930s in East Africa, it inspired the Rastafarians in Jamaica, who were attuned to the region because of their allegiance to the king of Ethiopia. They adopted Queen Nyabingi as a spirit of liberation whose power would overcome "downpressors." The Order of Nyabingi became an important cultural touchstone. Drumming and chanting Nyabingi took on the meaning of overcoming oppression and destroying those who committed injustice.
Python priestess
of Malawi in
the sacred pool.
By an unknown
Chewa artist.
Python women and rain shrine priestesses were the primary spiritual leaders in old Malawi.
In Zimbabwe, too, priestesses were major figures. Kasamba founded a hilltop sanctuary of the Goba people in the distant past.
The Nehandas (lion oracles) were named after an originating princess who fled to a rocky shrine in the Mazoe valley in the 15th century. A long line of Nehandas followed, selected by the spirit with an initiatory illness and then ceremonially authenticated.
One of these lion oracles, Nehanda Nyakasikana, led the first Chimurenga (revolt against English colonial rule) in 1896-97. Her forces were victorious at first, forcing Cecil Rhodes to send to South Africa for reinforcements. They came with machine guns and explosives. The Nehand held out longer, but finally surrendered when the suffering of the Shona became too great. The British executed her for what they called "sedition," though she was defending her country agains conquest. She went to the gallows dancing, speaking and laughing.
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Nyami Nyami The Zambezi River God
Nyami Nyami Zambezi River God of African mythology in Zimbabwe
African mythology of the local Tonga tribe of the Zambezi Valley states that Nyami Nyami the River God who lives in Lake Kariba is believed to be a serpent-like creature. He is said to be about three metres wide, but nobody dares to guess at his length.
Legends has it that the water stains red when he swims past. Chief Sampakaruma saw him on two occasions many years ago, but the river god has been in hiding since the white men arrived in the country.
According to African mythology he lived under a large rock close to the present day Kariba dam wall. No tribesman would venture near it those few who did were sucked down with their canoes in the whirlpools and never seen again. They called the rock Kariwa, the "trap" and hence the name of the lake, Kariba.
The rising water of lake Kariba covered the rock Kariwa and it now lies 30 metres below the surface annoying Nyami Nyami. The Tonga people also believe that Nyami Nyami is married and that the building of Kariba Dam wall would separate him from his wife, this would anger him greatly and the river god threatened the peace of the valley.
Revenge of the River God
Nyami nyami walking stick
City dwellers had mocked the stories of Nyami Nyami, the river god but by 1958 the laughter had turned to chilled apprehension. Especially for those working on the project of building Kariba dam wall. Survey work on the proposed dam wall began in the late 1940's. On the night of the 15th February 1950 a cyclone from the Indian Ocean swept up the valley. Such a thing had never been heard of in this landlocked, stable land. Fifteen inches of rain, driven by a hurricane, fell in a few hours.
The river rose seven metres that night. A number of villages were swept away. When rescue teams finally managed to reach the area three days later, the putrefying bodies of antelope and other animals were seen hanging from the tops of trees. The survey team had perished in a landslide.
Work on the dam began in earnest in 1955 – but on Christmas Eve that year, an unprecedented flood stormed down the gorge and washed away the foundations of the coffer dam and the recently constructed pontoon bridge. The flood peaked, receded, and then peaked again. This had never happened before and people started to talk about the river god.
Nyami Nyami struck a third time in November 1956. The heavy rains fell a month before they were due. Sudden flash floods impeded work on the dam.
The Zambezi swollen with water from local catchment areas would rise over a metre in a night. They were unaware that 1300 kilometres away the Zambezi was mobilising its forces. It is fed by a catchment area of over a million square kilometres, of which nearly half is above the lake.
Heavy rains were falling throughout this vast region. The water was being hoarded in the floodplains of Zambia and the forests of Angola, and in January the Sanyati River, which entered the Zambezi very near the new wall, suddenly came down like cavalry charge. The river rose almost six metres in the next 24 hours and surged over the coffer dam.
The largest digger truck, which had not been moved, disappeared instantly. Only in March, after much damage had been done and the project set back some months, did the river begin to subside. Such a flood should occur on average once every 1000 years.
Believe it or not, in January 1958 a flood such as could be expected to occur only once in every 10 000 years, swept down the riverbed, wreaking havoc on all in its path. 16 million litres per second exploded over the suspension bridge, which buckled and heaved.
The north tower collapsed and the bridge rose clear of the water, bent like a gigantic bow.
Its spine shattered in three places and the Zambezi carried away its battered remains with what appeared to be a roar of triumph.
The Cosmic Serpent of Africa/Naga People
My school of thought is that we, Africans, the first humans, have been upon this plane of existence in this realm for millions of untold years. We have reincarnated and reincarnated many times though our ancestral bloodline lineages. They have been bloodlines to remain pure, royal bloodlines that stem back to the first son of heaven, and there have been bloodlines to become corrupted by breaking taboos and mixing with taboo bloodlines. Bloodline is more important that race as race is a social construct. While bloodline is affected by traditional practices, beliefs, norms and cultural habits of one's ancestors going back at least 7 generations. There is no such thing as tribalism in Africa but more of clashing between different bloodlines and spiritual frequencies in human beings. Africans have had kingdoms upon all 7 continents and Islands. Africans have kingdoms in heaven with millions of ancestors who have become enlightened in the trillions of years we have ventured this plane as spirits within physical bodies.
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