SO WHO IS THIS BEING CALLED GOD?

By the power of the Hidden, the All-Seeing, and the UNIFIED

Welcome Myal:

Before I begin family, I want you to know that this post is extremely simplified and is only meant to spark study and curiosity within you, and for you to understand our position.

WHY A BLACK OR WHITE TYPE OF GOD?
If you have read my other post The Legacy of Organized Resistance, you would see that the idea of god was being associated with Indigenous People and/or rooted in the idea of a black savior and origin story starting in the early Nineteenth Century. What I did not explain in the last blog is that much of the reasons for a black god is because of the race ideology that worked in collusion with religion, class, economics, culture in general, that was/is impressed upon Indigenous People by the European inherited power structure/system on American soil. In other words, a lot of social ideas were centered around one group of people (called whites) being supreme over others, and this supreme race philosophy also worked well with a racially supreme being of religion.

Good examples of the above would be the Protestant philosophy of Calvinism via John Calvin and the pseudo-scientific philosophy called Social Darwinism via Herbert Spencer. The aspect of Calvinism that should be considered is the notion of predestination, that god had already determined the destiny of an individual, and there is nothing that they can do to change it. Whatever a person ends up doing in their existence, it should forever dominate the rest of their life because it is an unchanging divine path. A person cannot elevate or change because it is not what the Calvinist Christian and their doctrine of god intended.

Social Darwinism, a social and crude interpretation of the scientific work of Charles Darwin, posited that people are somehow made to be in the situation they are in because of their social evolutionary status. If a person is a tradesman, then that is how he or she is supposed to be relative to their society.


John Calvin 1509-1564


Herbert Spencer 1820-1903

While these two types of thinking (Calvinism and Social Darwinism) were at odds, they did work well to maintain the idea that Indigenous People were a low or inferior people, religious or otherwise. For the Calvinist, god says Indigenous Peoples, so-called blacks were/are to stay slaves, while a Social Darwinist interpretation would say that the institution of slavery is a natural expression in how the Indigenous, in this case so-called blacks, adapted to society.

Changing the face and doctrine of god and ideas related to nature was the way so-called blacks went about fighting against the above mindsets (AME Church/Peace Mission). In later attempts, we tackled the history and origins of god (Moorish Science Temple/Nation of Islam). Some presented god as a purely a racial root, while others not only used a racial identity for god (UNIA-ACL) but also used locations and/or people within the bible and qur'an and labeled themselves after those people (Moorish Science Temple/Black Hebrew Israelites).

So the Indigenous People, who are most anciently connected to land and nation, and call themselves by many names, used god with either the racial category Black or Moor, to redefine the ideas and doctrine of god. This was done in order for god to work upon their behalf, on all levels of society and self-development.

The problems presented with the above attempts is that we failed to recognize several issues that stem from colonialism:

1) god somehow equals or is better than the Creative Being (s) of Indigenous religions and spiritual expression

2) god is used generically as a term to describe a universal creator and no one challenges it

3) many do not considers that the etymological root of god would also have god's true origin

4) and lastly, its ok to racialize god in the same way the european's and their descendants had done

Before going into the root of where god comes from, we must understand what caused this type of creative being to become the standard for the world we presently live in. And what I mean by standard is that this being, with the proper name of god, is a dominant being pervading the religious and spiritual understanding of the diverse groups of peoples across the entire planet.

Some of you would say: what's wrong with that? My answer would be everything is wrong with that. Please read on...

THE EUROPEAN UNDERSTANDING OF SELF
Many things were happening in Europe from since the Eight Century C.E. Race and race grouping, the ranking and ordering of life, ideas of a chosen people, scarcity of resources, overcrowding of European nations, and the need for adventure became dominant themes.

The Ancient Nubian Egyptians contributed much knowledge to the early Europeans (Greeks, Minoans, Etruscans, Sea Peoples, Romans) and Asiatics (Retennu, Peleset, Hatti, Amu, Haribu, and Shasu). This contribution took place in philosophy, religion, and science. So, when considering dominant religious doctrines of the past, these events happened under the Greek Theos and Roman Deus, the Germanic and Norse Aesir, the Elohim of Judaism and Christianity, and the Allah of Islam.



The Rmt (Egyptian), Tehenu (Lybian), The Nebu (Nubian), Amu (Semite)


Syrian (Asiatic or Amu), Nubian, Lybian (Tehenu), Egyptian (Rmt)

Orthodox Islam embraced the teachings of the Nubian Egyptian via the philosophy of the old Greek, Roman, and Ptolemaic philosophers. Within that expression of Islam, there was a heavy contribution to Europe at a time where education and literacy was outlawed to the general citizen via the Catholic Church. It was called the Dark Age ironically, and much of the Islam and non-Islamic Africans were called Moors or Black-a-moor by the Europeans.

Without going into a wide range of contribution (and there were), the specific idea and philosophy of race, mathematics, oceanography, topography, and navigation, were key contributions to the European consciousness. In arabic, there was the word Al-raz, which meant chief or head family. There is also the book called the Book of the Glory of the Black Race over the White Race. In terms of traveling, the Moors were highly skilled in creating ships as well as sailing the seas (this is not to say that the so-called Vikings did not also play a great part in travel and creating vessels as well).

This Dark Age caused many of the learned of Europe to seek education within North Africa. After the expulsion of Moors as a temporal power within the many European nations Moors occupied, the consciousness of race, and a Pan-European Christian Nationalism, started to emerge.


A Moor


Early Islamic Map with the top starting from the south. This is in the tradition of how the Ancient Nubian Egyptians saw the top from the south as well.

Race developed into big national myths for Europeans. Plenty of Europeans groups found themselves racially superior to other Europeans based on skull size and ethnicity. European Anthropologists also decided that certain human bodies were preferrable or more beautiful than others.

All this, coupled with a dim understanding of the continent of Africa and the above type of nationalism, dominated how European groups interpreted foreign peoples they encountered. The results of this encounter was betrayal between Indigenous People (called Africans), between Africans and Europeans, cunning, war, conquering, and then the imposing of European superiority. One aspect of this superiority was religion, and one main European group to promote their ideas of a superior creative being were the British. That creative being that they promoted was their personal and tribal ancestral being of worship they called God.

UNRAVELING THE NATURE OF GOD
When people think about god, they often think about religion or a holy book that supposedly professes the teachings of god. More specifically, they look towards the bible or quran for their understanding of who and what god is.

I want to challenge you and say that by no means do bible or quran teach, or any sacred book in the planet for that matter, ever taught about god. In fact, it is a great spell and illusion when someone believes that holy books actually teach about god.

When we think of god, we must consider the historical context of language. Language is important when considering the way religion, particularly the Christian Religion, spread throughout the entire planet. Christian holy books (and of other religions) of today, as well as of the past are always being translated, rewritten, and republished in a variety of languages, with new languages added as well. The underlying principle is that religious people do this to help people to better understand what the religion is offering since it would be within the respective people's own tongue.

But what about the tongue of God? Does god originally come from a specific branch of people? The answer is yes. God, however, is not from the bible because when we look at the history of god being in the bible, it goes up to the Fourth Century C.E. and still remaining obscure or non-existent to the rest of the world (even in Europe). Before then, the bible was in the language of Latin, and in other cases, Greek and Aramaic. God does not come from Latin, Greek, or Aramaic. And God does not come from the Romans, the Greeks, or the Semitic speaking people's of the world.

God comes from the tribes of Proton Indo-European Germanic Tribes (Goths, Visigoths, Anglos, Saxons, Germans etc.). God is a creative being that was worshipped by those tribes. A priest from the Goth tribe called Ulfilas made the first translation, and that's when God substituted the Roman creative being: Deus, which is from the Roman bible called the Latin Vulgate.

So, while still not in the Anglo tribe's (Ancient English) variety of Germanic tongue, God is now supreme within a book that went from Ancient Egyptian (mdw ntr), to Phoenician (Canaan), to Hebrew (Haribu), to Greek (Koine), to Latin, and finally to the German.


Ulfilas 310-383 - Priest and Translator of Roman Bible

Direct translations of the bible into Anglo Saxon or Old English was done in the 7th Century by Venerable Bede, Middle English in the 14th Century by John Wycliff, and an explosion of multiple bibles in the 15th Century in early Modern English (with the King James Version being the most powerful).


Venerable Bede circa 672-735 - 7th Century Translator


John Wycliffe circa 1320-1384 - 14th Century Translator



This latter bible, the King James Version was a companion for the Imperialist/Colonialist/Racist as a means to:

1) To convert people to belief in a being of Early Germanic Tribes, who name was God (Christianity was, and is, only a mask)

2) To make God superior to every other Creative Being's name (Nyame, Oludumare, Allah, Jesus, YHWH, etc.)

3) To shroud the fact that God was originally a proper name from a creative being from a relatively small and insignificant tribes in northern Europe

4) To make God not only supreme in religion but also supreme in race.

And now, We, the Indigenous Peoples of the World, who are most anciently connected to land and nation (called in Post Colonial times: African, Black, Native American, Asian, Australian Aborigine, African Diaspora, Latino, Caribbean, Southeast Asian, and a host of other names) engage in the same mind numbing, mentally enslaving practice!

We teach God like he comes from us and loves us.
All of our groups say they love god, even when they say they work on behalf of Indigenous People and their Development and reject Colonial European bred thinking!

We are ok with God superiority.
We make God the standard for everything we say whenever we mention our spiritual or religious beliefs! This is slave thinking!

We don't really care about God's origin (conscious person or not).We automatically assume God is the origin of who we are and not even question that maybe that is false!

We make God supreme over our own religions.
Some would say that black people who are puppets to whites are House Negroes or Uncle Toms. Well, what do you call an Indigenous person who thinks God is the one you call on when they can invoke better help from their own spiritual backgrounds? And we fight and try to make the Germanic tribal being God, into a black one to compensate for feelings of inferiority, lack of love, and centuries of trauma. Our true Creator (of any of our lands), and Our Doctrine, is laid out in our vast collection of diverse indigenous practices across the planet. A substitute is not needed. What is needed is our reclamation of who and what we are.

My reader should know my position already at this point. But just to make it clear: when I say to renounce god, it does not mean that I am an atheist. Rather it means that I am pointing to the fact that we have been enslaved by relatively small and obscure being, stemming from pre-colonial tribes of Northern Europe, which became famous because of imperialism and colonialism during the early 17th Century until now.

We must stop looking at the tribal being god as some type of standard for the ideas of our spirituality. Indigenous People and their spiritual practices are vastly more ancient.

And lastly, the tribal being called god does not equal Indigenous Creative Beings. You only think he does, as according to imperialism.

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THE LEGACY OF ORGANIZED RESISTANCE

By the power of the Hidden, the All-Seeing and the Creator

Welcome Myal:

Indigenous People Movements
Usually when we think of resistance to oppression, as it relates to the Indigenous Peoples in the United States (or perhaps anywhere within the world), we usually think about either the Civil Rights Movement, Nation of Islam, or perhaps the Black Panthers. Those are the most popular key terms that tend to pop up within our mind when invoking things like rights, self-determination, and equality.

Not only do those terms invoke those stereotypical, if not traditional ideas, but also the imagery that is attached to that day and time. Pictures of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King jr. are obviously the most popular images when thinking of resistance. Sometimes other images may come to the fore, such as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Noble Drew Ali, Huey P. Newton, a founder of the Black Panthers (there are many more).


Dr. Martin Luther King jr. 1929-1968


The Honorable Elijah Muhammad 1897-1975

Learning about the above groups, terms, and images, concerning that era (surely important to Indigenous People across the world), is not what is detrimental to the learner and/or reader. It is how those same terms and images may put people in the mindset that those images and terms are the sum total of all Indigenous Peoples philosophy, culture, legacy, as well as resistance to injustice, race, class, etc., within this country and the rest of the globe.

The ideas that come out of the movements above, political separatism, integrationism, socialist thought, militancy, and the like, are oftentimes viewed as being exclusively from that era. This is far from the truth.

BLACK PEOPLE ARE GOD
Allow me to start off with the political and theological perspective that was popular for the Nation of Islam. They taught that god specifically the one worshipped by the Abraham faiths, is in fact black skinned and is in fact a man. To be more specific, the god of the bible and quran is a black person, a supreme black person. In some other parts of the doctrine, it goes on further to say that all black people (which is to include all Indigenous People) are considered gods or, as they say, Allah, collectively. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said he met his god as well as being taught this doctrine in the 1930s.

(We, the Myal, have issue with calling our most sacred and highest self god. Please refer to the post: Who is this being called God?)

Master Fard Muhammad - The Black Lord of the Nation of Islam

Another popular black god of the 1930s is the Rastafarian High Being called Selassie I/His Imperial Majesty/Jah/Ras Ta Fari Makonnen. Because of the influence of the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey and the teachings of Leonard Howell, a man that was a Ras (noble) and later, a Negus or King of Ethiopia, became a Jamaican messiah. He was the only sovereign in Africa, at the time, that the small Jamaican sect of Rastafarians looked towards as a fulfillment of prophecy, a prophecy that stated a king from Africa will be the liberation of black peoples. This king became equated to the stories of Messiah in the bible and was percieved as god.


The Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey 1887-1940


His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I 1892-1975 - Black Lord of the Rastafarians

Other black gods include Father Divine. He was also considered a Messiah and fulfillment of the bible stories and established his organization called the Peace Mission.


Father Divine 1879-1965 - The Black God

The two things that we have to consider is that Indigenous People were/are highly concerned with identity. And we used the tools given to us under our oppression. Those tools are the proto germanic being called god (theos and deus as well) and the colonial racial category called black. We have/had put a lot of investment in both of those umbrella names, created our mythologies behind them, and have said that being god or worshipping god and being black are eternal spiritual ideas.

Truthfully, these investments are rooted in post colonial ideas and the lack of knowledge on older doctrine stemming from a diverse body of Indigenous People who go by a multitude of different ethnic names and nationalities. We even try to take the post colonial names and align our oldest ethnicities and nationalities alongside them. Why? It was/is because of the effects of colonialism. This spawned the use of race terminology, such as Negro/Indian/Australian Aborigine/ (and other terms like it), as an umbrella term of control for violently conquered people, which separated us from our diverse heritage.

I am not saying this to minimize the amount of power, effort, moves, successes, failures, wins, battles, accomplishments, that have/had been put into our use of colonial racial group names. On the contrary, we have done a lot of great things under the umbrella of black/negro and in the name of god. I am simply saying we can help ourselves more if we embrace genealogy first and trace our nationalities to our Indigenous roots.

I believe in and support all the hardwork and effort Indigenous People has put into fighting and struggling against oppression and oppressive regimes, no matter what name they have or post colonial story they promote.

I want to also say at this moment that even the word Indigenous is a loaded term and has it's own legacy. However, to best describe our people in commonality as it relates to us being most anciently connected to land and nation, also being here prior to all other peoples on this planet, as well as the sole founders, I find this term agreeable. The only term that would trump it would be our individual personal names for our family groups, nations, tribes, that we give to ourselves, past, present, and the future.

Those names are too diverse to name every time I speak about our people. So, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, is a useful term for DESCRIPTION and NOT A RACIAL OR NATIONAL CATEGORY.

Despite the disconnect from our cultural, historical, and ethnic names and nations, the investment of blackness, and it's connection with a Creator-Being or Divinity has some place within our past. This is not something that was started with the UNIA-ACL, Nation of Islam, Peace Mission, or Rastafarians of the 1930s. In fact, images of a black being go back to very ancient times (old Egypt, Nubia, India, Greece, Maya etc.).


Ek Chuah - Black 'God' of the Mayans

But when considering the scope of the United States during the Nineteenth Century, we can see the proto germanic tribal being called god (which was linked to the bible in the 4th Century C.E) being aligned with the racial identity negro/black by Indigenous People that sought to create a strong resistance platform.

(Remember, this is all happening under our belief, mental conditioning, and investment, that we are what conquerors called us racially. This is from our temporary lack of knowledge.)

Minister Nat Turner in his confessions stated that he saw black spirits in one of his prophetic visions. He also said that Jesus took off his yoke and gave him the burden, which implies that Minister Nat Turner would be the representative Jesus at that time.

The idea of the minister representing or being Jesus is not a new one. Many church organizations look at their leadership as the expressed image of Jesus on the planet (Catholic Church and the Pope, for example).

Bishop Henry Mcneal Turner 1833-1915

Another person that professed the god of the bible to be negro (black) was Bishop Henry Mcneal Turner. He was very adamant in saying that if peoples that are called white can see their creator in their own image and likeness, what would be wrong with negro (black) people doing the same thing. At the time, the politically correct word for Indigenous People in the United States, was negro, hence the reason why Bishop Turner said god is a negro.

COME FROM OUT OF THEM, MY PEOPLE
The original Nation of Islam and Rastafarians, in philosophy, promoted being politically (and in all other social aspects) separated from whites/caucasians (another colonial race term), and desired a separate Black Nation.

As I have said earlier, these ideas are not exclusive to, or originating from, these above groups. Gabriel (also known as Gabriel Prosser)organized a revolt to take over South Carolina and make it into a separate Black Nation. The African Blood Brotherhood of 1919, whose Leadership was Claude Mckay and Cyril Brigs, believed in a separate Black Nation as a solution for the continual lynching and abuse of Indigenous Peoples in the southern states. This manifested the dream of a separate or sacred spacefor our people in the midst of the effects and residue of slavery and oppression.

This was obviously realized in degrees with Numerous Indigenous Pocket Communities. And some of them were either forced to isolate themselves while others fought to maintain control of land they occupied. Some of them are the Maroons of Jamaica, the Palmares Kingdom of Zumbi in South America, Yanga of the Afro Mexican settlement Yanga, the still existing Caribbean country of Ayiti (may the power and dominion be their's once again), and the small Arawak spread throughout South America's interior and Native Americans in general.

We, the Myal, are the spiritual expression of Indigenous spiritual practices of both Native Caribbean and African Peoples, on the island of Xaymaka (Jamaica).


Yanga of the Afro Mexican Settlement of the Same Name


Zumbi - Ruler of the Palmares




Cyril Briggs 1888-1966 - Co-Founder of the African Blood Brotherhood


Claude Mckay 1889 1948 - Co-Founder of the African Blood Brotherhood

EXCEPT THAT VIOLENCE IS IN SELF-DEFENSE
The Black Panthers were the group that was popular when it came to self-defense. The Nation of Islam also preached self-defense and was brought to national acclaim through El Hal Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X). The Black Panthers are the progeny of Malcolm's political philosophy. These two groups are known to be the groups of defending one's self against the violent and malicious attacks of anyone, specifically attacks rooted in race thinking or racism.

El Haj Malik El Shabazz 1925-1965 (Malcolm X) - National Representative of the Nation of Islam, Founder of Muslim Mosque Inc., Founder of the Organization for African American Unity

The African Blood Brotherhood taught that self-defense was the way before the manifestation of the Nation of Islam. And before the Black Panther Party ever existed, there was the Deacons for Defense and Justice, whose founder was Charles Sims. Even earlier, Moses Dickson, an abolitionist, created two organizations, one called the Knights of Liberty and a secret initiate group called the Order of the Twelve. Dickson was inspired to do this upon seeing the terrible nature of slavery in the southern states.


Charles Sims - Founder of Deacons for Defense and Justice


Moses Dickson 1824-1901 - Founder of the Knights of Liberty and Order of the Twelve

So we can see that the fight and the resistance of the Indigenous Peoplein the United States (and across the world) has always been an ongoing one, with the same themes and ideas being refurbished and perhaps applied differently. We must keep this in mind since in this present time, there are groups that may be mimicking the themes of the past but are not using an organizational styles that would compliment and compensate for the very different and constantly changing times we live in today.

So we try to define who we are through:

1) being black (negro/indian/aborigine/pariah, and much more)
2) god worshippers ( the same can be said for theos and deus)
3) being or becoming god,

These are the parts we need to analyze about ourselves. We need to understand that under the root of terms such as god and negro and things similar, we are not seeing our full potential. We must think outside of the box of those categories because we did not choose them. They were forcibly put upon us. We need to understand that colonial racial and germanic religious identities are umbrellas we have used to unite, in degrees, to manifest survival: food, shelter, clothing, cultural legacy, healthy and wealthy living.

What does this mean? We are NOT searching for a racial identity or worshipping a colonial religious being.

1) WE WANT OUR INDIGENOUS NAMES AND NATIONHOOD.
2) WE WANT OUR ORIGINAL BEINGS OF REVERENCE AND WORSHIP
3) WE WANT FOOD, SHELTER, CLOTHING, CULTURAL LEGACY, HEALTHY AND WEALTHY LIVING

Most Importantly, we are searching for better ways to unify to attain these things. The best way is through putting genealogy first and practicing the evolving art of being UNIFIED!

Our Great House School presents not only presents a unity model, but seeks to partner with any and every of the Indigenous who want to treaty with us and work on effective means of carrying out unifying results.

Please contact Abba@deozi.com for further information.

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Spiritual Worship of Wealth

By the power of theHidden,
the All-Seeing,
and the Creator

Peace Family:



The Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey (HMMG) always spoke about our high culture around the nile valley area. This area included Ancient Nubia, Egypt, and Punt. Since HMMG was always about being enterprising and industrious, creating a variety of businesses while trying to make the downtrodden wealth-minded, we must understand the principles of wealth coming from the lands to which he respected and invoked during his talks.

The lands mentioned above had many principles of worship that represented nature and the ancestors. In fact the word nature comes from the latin word natura, which is similar to the ancient nubian egyptian word ntrw or neteru. So what was worshipped was spiritual expressions of what the ancients considered nature to be, and aligning these revered ideas to deceased loved ones.

IMHOTEP - NETERU OF SCIENCE

For example, Imhotep, an ancestor that was a scientist doing biology, medicine, mathematics, and architecture, became a part of the neteru after He left the body. He became the Neteru of healing, mathematics, and building. When a nubian egyptian engaged in those types of disciplines, it was Imhotep that was studied or called upon. So when we think about those ideas of invoking a principle of nature or neteru, we look to an ancestor for guidance so that we may do well in what we do.

DEDWEN - THE NETERU OF WEALTH AND PROSPERITY


When considering the ideas of wealth, it would be in our interest to invoke those neteru that can relate to that type of empowerment. From inside of Nubia, past the traditional boundaries of what is called Upper Egypt or the Sedge, there is the principle or Neteru of Wealth called 'Dedwen'.

AMANI - MOST POWERFUL NUBIAN EGYPTIAN PRINCIPLE

Dedwen was a part of the Neteru that presided over the wealth of the country of Nubia. Not only was that Neteru the ensign of wealth, but Amani, who was known to those of the north as Amen, Amun, or Ammon, was the all encompassing power of all things, and this included health, wealth, and culture.

So when considering HMMG, and his love of the Nile Valley, we want to have a spiritual focus on wealth and wealth creation. Surely Dedwen and Amani are those Beings approved by HMMG.

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