“BaNtu Waltz ~ Nya’s Archangel Story”
Dear Reader, I am truly honored and excited to announce the release of my award-winning novel entitled “BaNtu Waltz: Nya’s Archangel Story”. I trust that it will find a broad and diverse audience, from those who would enjoy a multilayered love story catalyzed through the Industrial 3D Pop Music Matrix on the one hand (Michael Jackson fans), and those who may, like me, struggle with tensions aroused by the deeper cultural mandates of African Oral Traditions on the other. Immersed in the Communal 5D+ Mystery and epic Unity-Conscious memory of UbuNtu expressed through Black Popular Music conventions, Nya and Malik’s lives are forever changed by this ancient BaNtu Destiny resurrecting through the “Waltz“... Dance/Journey of their Ascending Twin Souls. [READ MORE + REVIEWS & a PEEK INSIDE “BaNtu Waltz” @ THIS LINK 😊] ~ 🪘🪘🪘 NOW ALSO AVAILABLE @ BLACK BOOKS PLUS 🪘🪘🪘& UMOJA HOUSE 🪘🪘🪘
I hope you enjoy reading BaNtu Waltz as much as I enjoyed writing it. Please feel free to write your own REVIEW at the LINK above. Questions and discussion are also welcomed in this blog space. As Always, Blessed Be ❤ ❤ ❤ M
Waltz of the One Soul
“Waltz” is a late 18th century word of German extraction from walzen, a verb meaning ‘revolve.’ In its present-day usage, waltz may refer to a partnered ballroom dance in 3/4 musical time which is typically guided by the masculine, while his feminine partner revolves around him by following his cues. Ancient Africans, including the Dogon of Mali,
saw a similar partnership in the binary Sirius star system of the constellation Canis Major [‘Greater Dog’] where the fainter Sirius B ‘white dwarf’ star revolves around Sirius A – the brightest star in our night sky, which ancient Egyptians referred to as Sopdet and regarded as their Spiritual Sun – around which planets revolve. 
They associated Sopdet with Auset [“Isis/Venus”] – Divine Feminine consort to Ausar [“Osiris/Orion/Pluto”], Divine Masculine counterpart to Her Soul. And within the Great Pyramid of Giza, there are shafts leading outwards from separate Queen & King’s Chambers which cyclically come into the most pristine orientation to their respective stars [Sopdet & the Hunter’s Belt] in a simultaneous occurrence that activates the annual opening of the Lion’s Gate Portal
. The ensuing flooding of the sacred Nile River in concert with the Divine Alignment of God/dess Ausar/Auset created an annual season of blessing & abundance for all in the African Temple of the World [per God Djehuti] and traditionally celebrated as the Egyptian New Year. Read More
SoS ~ Eden Rising…
The age of printed books in the West began with the Gutenberg Bible, the earliest major book to use movable type to enhance and facilitate the capabilities and global reach of abstract western writing technologies, through the mass-production and dissemination of select Africa-sourced narratives told through propagandistic Euro patriarchal storying. One might regard the Gutenberg Bible as its own sort of New Beginning – the Genesis of a mass printed communication technology disseminating themes of Creation (set in a Garden of Eden) and a Covenant purportedly made between the Almighty Creator & His Chosen People profiled in biblical Genesis with clear lines of inclusivity/exclusivity. Jewish and Christian scholars attribute the authorship of this biblical Genesis and the other 4 books of the Pentateuch […Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy] to Moses. Historically elevated by Abrahamic faiths/platforms as the Greatest Of All Prophets, the roles said to have been played by Moses as the leading character included a parting of the Red Sea, and his receipt of the Ten Commandments upon which Jewish law was founded as he led Israelites out of slavery & away from Egypt – where these Commandments were most likely sourced.
In the same printed Gutenberg Bible, we find the Canticum Canticorum, Latin for Song of Songs [SoS], another Old Testament book, in this case attributed to Solomon [r. 970-931 BCE], who succeeded his father David to become King of Israel. Historically promoted as the Wisest Of All Men, Solomon is also notoriously famed for having 700 wives “of royal birth” & 300 concubines! According to many scholars, the black female protagonist in SoS – identified as the Shulamite – represents Sheba [aka Makeda], the African Queen who came to Solomon’s Kingdom to test his legendary wisdom. 
Corresponding accounts of this visit between the two say this became the Genesis of Ethiopia’s Royal Dynasty which was inaugurated in the 10th century BCE through Sheba’s son Menelik… purportedly seeded by Solomon. Ethiopia’s legendary Solomonic Dynasty – which, 
under Emperor Menelik II, totally crushed Italy’s role in Europe’s colonial incursions into Africa during the 1896 Battle of Adwa – eventually ended after Emperor Haile Selassie I was assassinated in 1975. Born Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael in 1892 CE, Rastafarians in the Africa-centered world still hail this final Ethiopian Emperor as the bible’s Messianic Lion of the Tribe of Judah…
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Nakumbuka Day [Guest Post]
NAKUMBUKA DAY ~ Mwalimu Baye-Kes-Ba-Me-Ra
One aspect of African liberation is finding a way to bring some psychological, emotional and spiritual closure to the trauma we have experienced in the last five hundred years also known as the MAAFA (African Slave Holocaust). The Maafa has been the least discussed human tragedy in the past five hundred years by African people among themselves, yet this segment of African human time has crippled a continent, its people and its children of the Diaspora. 
What has probably made this tragedy even more horrific has been the inability of its victims to talk about it freely, openly and express their grief without shame or embarrassment.
Yet enough has never been written about the affects and effects of this holocaust on the social, economic and cultural evolution of the African continent and the children that it lost due to the genocidal nature of an emerging European Capitalism seeking free labor to build its cultural empire. The European aggression against African people reached a hundred year apex of violence and brutality as one hundred years of the trade in human beings destroyed and erased the existence of whole villages, peoples, traditions, rituals, ceremonies, histories and languages. 
At the apex of this barbarity it has been estimated that 60 to 90 million African lives were lost in the Middle Passage, not to mention the huge toll of African human life lost on plantations in the Caribbean, North America, Central America, South America and Europe. Read More
“BaNtu Waltz…”
SKIPPER’S LOG / ANCESTRAL ENTRY DATE: September 13, 2017 ∴ September 23, 2024 [Gregorian]
“MA’AT, who links universal to terrestrial, the divine with the human is incomprehensible to the cerebral intelligence… Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep… 
The key to all problems is the problem of consciousness… If you search for the laws of harmony, you will find knowledge… The best and shortest road toward knowledge of truth is nature… The kingdom of Heaven is already within you; if you understand yourself you will find it… The body is the house of the God/dess. That is why it is said, ‘Wo/Man know thyself’… By knowing one reaches belief. By doing one gains conviction. When you know, dare… You will free yourself when you learn to be neutral and follow the instructions of your heart without letting things perturb you. This is the way of MA’AT…” ~Proverbs from Ipet-Resyt [“Southern Sanctuary”] of God Amun & Goddess Mut
❤ ❤ ❤ Blessed Be ❤ ❤ ❤
Lions Gate Portal ~ 8/8
August 8th, known as the Lions Gate, has been revered for several thousand years as the date that marks the peak of an influx of high-frequency energy onto planet Earth from the star Sirius, which is in its closest proximity to earth from July 26th through August 12th – the full period of the Lions Gate opening or Galactic New Year. Second in brightness only to the sun, to Ancient Egyptians this star was revered as their “Spiritual Sun” (around which planets revolve) & referred to as Auset’s star Sopdet – Spdt, meaning “she who is sharp.”
The Lions Gate is the annual season when Spdt comes into her most pristine alignment with Re [the Sun], Geb [the Earth], and Sah – the Hunter constellation identified with ancient Egypt’s King Ausar – called Orion in Greek. During this cosmic portal, Sopdet – the spiritual Sun – emits an ancient activating energy so powerful as to cause the annual inundation which has sustained Nile River Valley communities over several millennia, whilst spurring the collective ascension of human consciousness throughout earth – the land or house of Geb/Keb. As God Djehuti proclaimed, “Truth be told, this land is indeed THE TEMPLE OF THE WORLD…” The August 8th peak of the Lions Gate is when Sopdet is said to perfectly align with the shaft from Queen Auset’s Chamber within the Great Pyramid of Giza, in concert with that from King Ausar’s Chamber aligning with Alnitak, one of the three stars of the Hunter constellation’s belt. Known also as the “3 Wise Men” or the “3 Sisters,” these three stars form the cosmic blueprint from which the complex known as the Pyramids of Giza was built.
“As above, so below… As within, so without” are codes which remain key to Kemet’s ancient Mystery System. Thus, the Nile River represents the Milky Way (called Maziwa Mkuu in Kiswahili, meaning ‘Great Milk’) on earth ‘below’ as in Heaven ‘above’. Two lions are said to hold open this magnificent time-space portal, one of which is represented by the Great Sphinx whose figure is an earthly representation of the constellation of Leo and a key piece of the puzzle of relationships within the Milky Way galaxy ‘above & below’. Lying on the west bank of the Nile river, the Great Sphinx is poised with its tail to the west [where the sun exits] as it faces directly east towards the sun’s reentry & the Leo constellation.
The Lions Gate [7/26 – 8/12] opens within the astrological season of Leo, adding to the influx of regal energy from the alignment between Earth and the Universe’s Galactic Center, which reaches its peak on 8/8 over African soil. It is a powerful reminder of Heaven-on-Earth’s potency, symbolized ‘within & without’ through the quintessential Divine Love that exists between cosmic Hunter Ausar and his earthly Gatherer, Throne Queen, and Spiritual Sun – Auset.
According to the mythology of Ausar-Auset, in a jealous bid to usurp their Heaven-on-Earth throne, Set murders King Ausar, dismembers his body into 14 parts and scatters the pieces into the wilderness [African Diaspora] so as to prevent his resurrection and return. Set the antagonist is god of chaos, foreign oppressors, violence, perversion, illness, and the desert who caused Egypt to be widowed of the gods and humanity to be trapped in his false predatory & parasitic matrix. After widow Auset searches the wilderness and manages to retrieve and mummify only 13 of her husband’s mutilated body parts, it is up to Heru, her posthumously/”immaculately”-conceived son with King Ausar, to become the Warrior who avenges his father’s fate and restores divine order to the kingdom by defeating Set…
Pyramid texts speak of Heru as the Great Lion: “Horus who comes forth from the acacia to whom it was commanded: ‘Beware of the lion’. May he come forth to whom it was commanded: ‘Beware of the lion’.” [Pyramid Text 436a-b]
Africa’s Acacia tree, which is sacred to goddess Auset, has long been associated with ancient mysteries including the secrets to life, death, healing, sustenance, and resurrection – hence their organic ties to matriarchal goddesses. Linked to the Akashic Records, the astral ancestral library where everything that has or will ever occur is recorded, the Acacia trees in Heliopolis were thought to have been the birthplace of the very first deities. Heliopolis (called On in Lower Egypt & mentioned in the bible), was the ancient worship center of sun-god Re whose celestial boat was made of Acacia wood in its hind parts (palm wood in its fore-parts). The mythologies of Ausar-Auset are Heliopolitan in their derivation and orientation, e.g. the reference to Ausar as ‘the one in the tree… the solitary one in the acacia.’ This saying was based on the version of their story in which Auset releases her husband’s body from a pillar in Byblos [a prophecy relating to the scripted bible?] that had been fashioned out of the tree which enclosed the coffin King Ausar had been tricked into entering as Set’s ploy to usurp/colonize Egypt’s throne. 
Symbolizing the immortality of the soul in Freemasonry, the thorny acacia tree otherwise represents Ausar’s backbone, depicted as the Djed Pillar in this particular mythological account.
Trees act as resurrection portals and/or gateways between worlds in ancient Egyptian Mysteries, such as the Sycamores (associated with goddesses Nut & Hathor) through which Re rises as the Sun each day from the east: “I know the two sycamores of turquoise between which Re comes forth, when he passes over the supports of Shu to the gate of the lord of the east from which Re comes forth” [Book of the Dead: Ch. 109]. Auset & Nepthys were regarded similarly as “the two Acacias.” Thus, these Mother Trees act as do the two lions which hold open the portal for the “Spiritual Sun” Sopdet to rise as the consort of Sah during the Lions Gate season, in order to usher forth the blessings of the Galactic New Year with the annual inundation of the Nile River. 
Their child, hawk god Heru-Sopdu is referred to as “Lord of the East,” thus presaging mythologies surrounding the Ausar-Auset-Heru trinity as archetypal personifications of key spiritual motifs that connect us organically to our higher selves… “As above, so below.”
“As within, so without” is a principle that plays out in the eternal relationship that exists between Ausar-Auset, their love representing a Heaven-on-Earth divine order, which is interrupted by the chaos that Set’s predatory & parasitic rule brings, i.e. until Heru is able to successfully accomplish his Hero’s Journey and help restore Ma’at/UbuNtu… unity-consciousness. For Africa, the earthly source and staging of these Love-as-Salvation narratives, Set is representative of a false matrix built on slavery, (neo)colonialism, apartheid, misogyny, misogynoir, etc. – controlling foreign narratives which have in-formed external elite-run global systems & misled most of humanity into profound states of isolation, alienation, disconnection, and disorientation from spiritual, organic, and natal bonds. 
Heru – “[the Lion] who comes forth from the acacia…” [Pyramid Text 436a-b] – thus has his work cut out for him.
Again, in this case the acacia reference represents a fascinating organic matriarchal portal between worlds for Heru as humanity itself coming into an evolved discernment of predatory &/or parasitic agendas of matrix propaganda disseminated as religion, for instance through self-centered scriptures and images of mankind’s singular Europatriarchal “savior”-figure.
The site of the original ANNUNCIATION of the Divine Child [1350 BCE] – a reference to Heru/MuNtu which Christianity later incorporated into the story of Jesus exists within the “throat area” of Ipet-Resyt – the Southern Sanctuary of God/dess Amun/Mut known today as the Luxor Temple in Egypt. John A. West interprets this original account from the hieroglyphs and scene depicting the Hieros Gamos/Sacred Marriage between Father-Amun & Mother-Mut Deities on his tour [video link @ 1:17:20].
The birth of their Divine Child was celebrated annually during the Lion’s Gate season with feasts and jubilant processions along the 1.7-mile sphinx-&-ram-lined “Path of God” uniting their Temples of Luxor & Karnak/Ipet-Isut [-meaning The Most Select/Chosen of Places]. After 2,000+ years of disrepair and unuse, this Path of God was excavated and officially reopened ceremoniously in Egypt on 11/25/2021. In light of the fact that the divisive, bi-millennial Age of Faith/Pisces [link] in which Western Imperial interests with their Savior narrative was waning despite having colonized/reset global space-time to current Eurocentric/Gregorian/3D-matrix standards, the 2021 reopening of the ancient Path of God seems propitiously aligned with humanity’s Ascent to the 5D+ unity-consciousness of UbuNtu/Ma’at in the dawning, so-called Age of Aquarius…
Deep inside Africa – humanity’s birthplace and the regal lion‘s natal home – the acacia tree itself has a characteristic dome-shaped canopy due to the way indigenous giraffes graze, which they have to do carefully because the acacia senses this feeding activity and releases tannin, a defensive poison that can kill from the overgrazing of its leaves. The acacia then emits ethylene on the wind, a chemical that alerts other acacia trees to preemptively defend themselves against “predators” by producing tannin also. 
DMT, a hallucinogen associated with spiritual experiences, is present in various species of the tree such as the Acacia Nilotica – a reference to Africa’s sacred Nile River/Maziwa Mkuu, or Milky Way… a Heaven-on-Earth Akashic Library of Khmt’s Mystery [“Chemistry”].
The Lions Gate represents so much to so many, especially during this dramatic period of Humanity’s Ascension in 2024 [Gregorian timeline]. Feline power, highly revered in Khmt, is front & center as the astrological symbol for Leo… & also as the identity of the African Goddess annointed as “Opener of Heaven’s Door.” Among her other titles, Goddess Seshat – “Foremost of the per-Ankh” – is also known as the “Panther Goddess” and “She of Seven Points” in reference to her highly emblematic dress and crown, respectively. Appropriated by Europatriarchs in their design of Lady Liberty following America’s post-Civil War end to slavery, Seshat‘s 7-pointed crown symbolically counters the racist and misogynistic tendencies of false 3D matrix systems. Seshat‘s traditional panther-skin dress returns our consciousness to Humanity’s African Source and the need to descramble and purge predatory Victorian Matrix Codes which, during the receding Piscean era, morphed into parasitic neo-colonial arrangements, hijacking & exploiting Africa’s spiritual, cultural, natural, & human resources and their potential. 
These & other ancient unity-conscious codes [UbuNtu] are key to Human Ascension and Heaven-on-Earth reparations in the dawning Age of UbuNtu… Ma’at… Aquarius… “Return, return, O Shulamite; Return that We may look upon thee…” [Song of Songs 6:13] “Make haste my Beloved…” [SoS 8:14] “Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which Thou hast, that no one take Thy Crown.” [Revelation 3:11] Blessed Be… ❤ ❤ ❤
SKIPPER’S LOG / ANCESTRAL ENTRY DATE: August 2, 2016 ∴ August 8, 2024 [Gregorian] & “Nane Nane” [Kenya]
African American Music Appreciation Month
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“Every man must act in the Rhythm of His Time. Such is Wisdom… Routine & Prejudice distort Vision. Each man thinks his own Horizon is the limit of the World… In every vital activity, it is the Path/Free-quency that matters… Know.Thy.Self.“~Proverbs from Ipet-Resyt [“Southern Sanctuary”] of God Amun & Goddess Mut
❤ ❤ ❤ Blessed Be ❤ ❤ ❤
A SaNgoma’s Path to Source
SKIPPER’S LOG / ANCESTRAL ENTRY DATE: January 4, 2016 ∴ January 13, 2024 [Gregorian]
“In every vital activity, it is the Path that matters“~Proverb from Ipet-Resyt [“Southern Sanctuary”] of God Amun & Goddess Mut
❤ ❤ ❤ Blessed Be ❤ ❤ ❤
‘Maafa~Nakumbuka’~Embers…
The Presence of the Maafa within the Global African Community in 2023 ~ by Elder Baye Kes-Ba-Me-Ra
The effects of the Maafa (African Slave Holocaust) remains with African people today on the African continent and in the Diaspora. None of us can claim any kind of collective power in the world whether it be an African nation below the Sahara, an island in the Caribbean or a group of African people in North or South America. The symbolism of individual achievement has no meaning if it cannot translate into real, organized and directed power. We need to observe Nakumbuka Day, not just because of the past horrors of the Maafa but also because of the current horrors of the Maafa. Here is some of the manifestation of the Maafa today: Read More
A Master Drummer & His Healing Path
In Africa it is said that each person has a rhythm to which they alone dance. What I’ve learned about this cultural proposition is there is a journey involved in finding one’s rhythm that will likely take you to unexpected places… the highs, lows, and in-betweens of which depend upon how genuine one is about self-discovery. The question of me/”self” was not going to be answered through academic inquiry, no matter how off-the-beaten-path ethnomusicology may have seemed by the time I had to decide on a graduate program to enroll in. Though I remained clueless about how to respond to the musical call that had compelled me to make my south-west journey from Kenya to the US in the first place, I was grateful that my university gospel choir was a space where I could return to organic call-response flows and break from the academic humdrum of musicology discourse. Many years and countless lessons later I’ve come to appreciate that while this path provided a necessary critical lens on the western knowledge industry, I was being guided step-by-step by a higher universe back to my culturally and spiritually authentic/integrated self…
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A SaNgoma & Her Healing Path
The New/Golden Era is dawning! According to Age of Aquarius holdouts, this New/Golden Era will usher in a high-frequency, holistic unity-consciousness between human beings, & nurture an optimal co-dependent relationship with the organic environment as disclosed in the 1969 song by The 5th Dimension. Jumping onto this bandwagon, seasoned New Age scholars, Astrologers, Alchemists & other well-meaning hopefuls go further to suggest that this anticipated disclosure/salvation has & will come from some outer-space resource. Some have even gone so far as to promote the widely published Galactic Codex of the Confederation of Light (so-called) whose purported “legal basis” and stated aim is to liberate our “hostage” planet Earth from its resident evil “dark forces.” 
From an Africa-centered perspective, all of this revisionist Savior-interventionist posturing continues to ignore indigenous wisdoms that were encoded way before the particularly egregious latter-day unleashing of Eurocentric enactments of slavery, colonialism, and apartheid campaigns which have time & again provided existential proof of the inherently toxic flaws/evils/hypocrisies of their antithetical alien intentions. Read More
Queens of the South & the Mandela Effect
“SOUTH” is the entry point (Genesis) on The Medicine Wheel… the first of four cardinal directions and steps one takes to obtain wisdom and power in order to become the equivalent of a sangoma (shaman) who brings harmony and well-being to the community & humanity. Honoring the circular pattern of our cosmos, The Medicine Wheel has been used in indigenous cultures for eons to represent the organic cycles of life/nature within the womb of time – thus honoring Divine Feminine Mysteries and their potential. Following the four cardinal directions, the would-be sangoma proceeds clockwise on 
The Medicine Wheel to the “WEST” (land of sunsets & introspection); followed by the “NORTH” (where knowledge & wisdom have flowered in relation to “SOUTH”); & finally “EAST” – land of the rising sun where, through the successive challenges and phases of her journey, she has now obtained her own sovereign terms of enlightenment (Revelation). Read More
Malaika Mutere 