“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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UbuNtu ~ Black Lotus
SKIPPER’S LOG / ANCESTRAL ENTRY DATE: December 21, 2017 ∴ December 30, 2024 [Gregorian]
A Black Moon is rising tonight – December 30th, 2024 [Gregorian]. Showing up as the 2nd New Moon in a Gregorian calendar month or alternatively as the 4th New Moon in any 3-month season, the Black Moon is described as the opposite of a Blue Moon where the same criteria applies, but only in specific regard to the Full Moon. As Earth’s only natural satellite, the Moon in general is a key player in the trifecta relationship with the Sun that creates humanity’s organic rhythm and flow of light & dark, night & day, moon phases & eclipses, weather & seasons, gravitational pull on Earth’s oceans, and so on. As the feminine Yin energy in this celestial transaction, the Moon’s associations are with darkness, coolness, receptivity, & inward/spiritual (5D+) focus. This is particularly so in its Black Moon phase, which is occurring this year within the 2024-2025 season of Major Lunar Standstills – a once-in-every-18.6 years season. All this, of course, counterbalances the masculine Yang dynamic outward (3D) expressions of the Sun’s heat, light, & annual solstices/‘solar standstills’ which the Moon mirrors to varying degrees & effects in its ongoing cycles.
Black Moons, though rare (a once in a 33-month occurrence per estimates) are not a visible phenomenon. According to timeanddate, the astronomical designation itself was not well-known until recent years when “Black Moon” became a popular term through its usage by “social media, astrologers, followers of the Wiccan religion,” and Paganists “who believe certain actions become more potent when performed on the night of a Black Moon.” The reverent belief in a Divine who is spiritually present and consciously evolving in the cyclically ordered natural/celestial worlds through processes such as reincarnation is held by many. Some adherents argue that the official religious teaching about the Garden of Eden is bait-and-switch propaganda by Euro patriarchal biblical scribes, scholars & proselytes to popularize the narrative of Eve as Adam’s “wife/partner” rather than her more vexing predecessor, Lilith – humanity’s original Feminine ancestor who is associated with the Black Moon. Alternatively the Anglican name or term “Eve” means the day/period/evening before an important event… in this case, Human Genesis.
The name Adam is generally accepted in the west as an Anglicized version of the Hebrew word “Adamah” meaning “Soil/Dust” of the Earth out of which a male Biblical God is said to have created original man in His own image. Lilith, Adam’s “first Eve,” was similarly said to have been created from dust by the same God. She lived in the Garden of Eden with Adam, until the point when Adam tried to sexually dominate if not rape her. Troubled by what she experienced as Adam’s toxic disregard of her as his co-equal, Lilith fled the Garden in her bid for independence… Never to return. Thereafter, Lilith – who remains a controversial figure in Jewish folklore – was characterized as “disobedient,” and rendered in various texts and artistic depictions as a “succubus” and a “demoness” rather than as the “first Eve.” 
In their revised version, Euro-patriarchal Biblical scribes presented Eve as being fashioned from Adam’s rib out of their amended premise that primeval man ‘birthed/hatched’ Eve to be a lowly helpmate fit for him [Gen 2:18].
Many see Lilith as the earliest independent woman who fled the oppression she experienced in the masculine-biased Biblical space of the Garden of Eden. The Europatriarchal version of Lilith became associated with a chaotic and demonic brand of “dark feminine energy”… an insatiable envy which reportedly led her to target brides and young mothers as she seduced, harmed, and was simultaneously blamed for instilling fear in the hearts of otherwise “strong” men. The controversial narrative and misogynistic labeling and policing that Lilith was thus victimized by attest to what she endured in her journey, even beyond Eden as the serpent-beguiled “second Eve” was simultaneously being set up by Euro patriarchal Biblical scribes to be the scapegoat reason for the fall of ‘man‘ = Adam personified.
In the Garden of Eden where Human Genesis actually occurred (according to archaeological evidence), the word “Binadamu” in Swahili – meaning “Human” in the collective sense – derives from the word “Damu” meaning “Blood.” Not only is this supported phonetically by the Anglicized Biblical version, but it also centers the true “first Eve” as a co-creative Goddess presence with monthly [damu/blood] Moon cycles from her womb which, along with the masculine seed of Adam, is crucial for the perpetuation of “Binadamu” – the Human race. As the organ that pumps blood throughout the body & processes emotions, the Heart is likewise centered in their co-creative “Binadamu” journey & narrative. The astrological symbol for Black Moon Lilith simultaneously evokes the primal melanin energy of humanity’s First/Original Couple as well as resembling a harvesting tool,
all of which is echoed in the Biblical Song of Songs (a more cohesive Eden/Genesis ⇔ Revelation account for me), beginning with the Shulamite’s call: “I am Black and Comely O Ye Daughters of Jerusalem…” [SoS1:5]
In astronomical terms, “Black Moon Lilith” is the position in the Moon’s orbit when it’s furthest from Earth. Experts &/or readers of Astrology will analyze the hidden, taboo, or shadow parts of a client’s personality from the “Black Moon Lilith“ point in their birth chart – the self-confessional booth where one’s true desires have been kept secret to avoid judgment, criticism, rejection, &/or ouster by patriarchal authors and enforcers of their egoic “eden” dogmas. For Africans and others, “Earth” as we know it was pirated by a self-serving elite which hijacked organic space-time to promote, implement & police its self-serving industrial matrix programs [slavery, colonialism, apartheid/“apart-hate” etc…] and predatory 3D agendas during the receding Age of Pisces with its Biblical prescriptions & justifications. So, like “Black Moon Lilith,“ perhaps humanity is heeding the call to it’s own independence by purging the parasitic neo-colonial remnants of divisive progams that were designed to systemically lower our co-creative frequency. By reclaiming ubuNtu – the unity-consciousness energy that is the Divine Order of a holistic Eden – Binadamu empowers itself to ascend out of its collective matrix-weary trauma and resurrect Heaven-on-Earth’s true sovereignty and promise of the budding golden era some call the Age of Aquarius.
Rare and enigmatic, the Black Lotus AKA Black Lily is the flower most used to represent Lilith due to its mystery, creative power, and beauty… a blossom that arises from primordial waters as evidence of its inner (5D+) evolution. The darkness of the Black Lotus suggests the duality and complexity of Lilith’s independent and potentially dangerous nature. In contrast to the purity and innocence a standard Lily would represent, the Black Lotus is seen as a plant that blooms in the darkness, further reinforcing her association with defiance against an established order, such as the synthetic matrix imposed on humanity’s organic space-time coordinates during the receding Age of Faith/Pisces which Africa in particular experienced as slavery [1619-], (neo)colonialism [1884-], apartheid [1948-], etc… Humanity’s organic womb was unilaterally renamed after Grandmother of Europe, Victoria, who presided over the rape, pillage, and gerrymandering of what God Djehuti referred to as The Temple of the World. 
At this Temple, the sacred bond called Sema Tawy was established in the Early Dynastic Period [c3150-2613 BCE] to unify Khmt’s South & North kingdoms and to hold as sacrosanct organic Divine Order/Ma’at. This constitutionalized union was symbolized as a human trachea arising from the lungs (Heart-chakra) entwined with the papyrus (north) & lotus (south).
Sema Tawy was clearly not the guiding principle of a hierarchal industrializing global “north” towards the global “south” where, according to proselytizing missionaries and their Gutenberg-Pressed narratives, their God of Genesis [1:26-28] had mandated the aggressive exploitation of organic Eden’s spiritual, human, natural, & cultural resources. However, recent events in African space-time provide fascinating high-profile revelations of a fully engaged Black Lotus/”south”: (1) Elizabeth II [r.1952-2022] – great-great grand-daughter to the colonizing Grandmother of Europe, Victoria [r.1837-1901] – was monarch during Britain’s 2020 tempest in a teacup dubbed “Megxit,” stirred in the social realm by The Firm’s systemic inflexibility in the face of Binadamu’s evolved 21st-century sensibilities. The 2021 naming of the California-born 7th in line to the British throne as Lilibet in honor of Elizabeth II,
triggered further hypocritical tantrums from those whose very historical identity, laundered through the Church of England, involved the renaming of people and stolen resources, including the primal waters of true Eden, after the Victorian ‘god’ of Africa’s colonial Genesis. 
So, little surprise perhaps that the Nov. 2024 resignation of this same Church’s Archbishop would morph into a racist hue & cry against Meghan, Lilibet’s mother, whose 2018 marriage to 5th in line Prince Harry was presided over by Abp. Welby who later presided over the funeral of QE2 [2022] and ensuing coronation of KC3 [2023]. (2) Meanwhile, across the pond it was the hope of many that a Herstoric new day would dawn out of the 2024 #47 POTUS election. And I, for one, am instead left in the aftermath [“2nd Coming”?!] having to ponder over the ironic yet profound significance of the Sanskrit name Kamala – ΑΚΑ “Lotus”…?!
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” [Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.]… “Look not upon me because I’m Black, because the sun hath looked upon me…” [Song of Songs 1:6]… Binadamu wanafungua ukurasa ⇔ Humanity is turning the page… ❤ ❤ ❤ Blessed Be ❤ ❤ ❤
“In every vital activity, it is the Path/Free-quency that matters… A house has the character of the Man who lives in it… If you search for the laws of Harmony [UbuNtu/Ma’at], 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 Thy Self’… 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 [UbuNtu]…”~Proverbs from Ipet-Resyt [“Southern Sanctuary”] of God Amun & Goddess Mut
Embers of 5D
SKIPPER’S LOG / ANCESTRAL ENTRY DATE: December 13, 2017 ∴ December 22, 2024 [Gregorian]
❄️Happy Solstice!❄️
It’s that moment when the Sun (Latin: “sol”) stands still (Latin: “sistere”) in The Eternal Dance with Mother Earth before reversing direction on Her Dancefloor. At this (December 22nd, 2023) point in the choreography of these literal Life Partners, the Sun has reached its annual southern limit over Earth‘s Tropic of Capricorn, marking a shift in Earth’s seasons which registers in the Northern Hemisphere as the shortest day and longest night of the year. This Winter Solstice event is a death-of-sorts, signaling the start of a 3-day transitional mourning period which ends on Dec 25th when it then becomes for some a time to celebrate the “Resurrection or Birth of the Sun.” According to scholars, Christianity personified this solar activity by creating a Euro-patriarchal Savior-figure with a formal “Christmas” birth-date that corresponds to the climax of this natural annual event [see “Caesar’s Messiah…” link @43:00].
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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
The Beautyful Ones…
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Ayi Kwei Armah’s debut novel (published in 1968), owes its title to the misspelled inscription on a bus in Ghana where the story is set. It opens during the final months in 1965 of President Kwame Nkrumah’s rule as Ghana’s first post-colonial president, and closes with the coup that ousted him on February 24th, 1966. This period in Ghana’s history is filled with rampant poverty; overdependence on foreign capital and goods; corruption & bribery as the order of business; and other ills that have plagued Africa’s countries which followed Ghana into independence – all without the needed systemic changes that would mitigate the stagnation and disillusionment of Africans who’d only become inevitably ensnared in parasitic neo-colonial arrangements. Immersing his characters in putrid filth, rottenness, dirt, and scatological imagery as he airs out Ghana’s post-independence laundry through story, Armah leads the reader to the judgment on the novel’s final page – the misspelled bus inscription that becomes its title.
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born was widely praised but also criticized, most notably by Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, who writes: Armah is clearly an alienated writer complete with all the symptoms. Unfortunately, Ghana is not a modern existentialist country. It is just a Western African state struggling to become a nation. So there is enormous distance between Armah and Ghana.… A man is never more defeated than when he is running away from himself.
AUSAR [Osiris] ~ The ‘Beautyful’ One
In his preface to a new edition of the novel published by Per Ankh, Ayi Kwei Armah himself makes note of the criticism his novel received: “Much of it focused on [my] perceived artistry. There was a tendency …to contrast this supposed authorial virtuosity with the novel’s subject matter, rather inaccurately summed up as the pervasive negativity of the human condition in Africa. This bias didn’t surprise me, and I assumed it would take little time for some careful scholar to balance it by zooming in on the conceptual content of the title, which I think expresses the meaning of the text as accurately as any title can. It is a matter of some bafflement to me, therefore, that to date, as far as I know, no critical assessment has actually gone to that thematic core: the provenance of the concept and image of the beautyful ones. 
The phrase ‘The Beautiful One’ is ancient, at least 5,000 years old. To professional Egyptologists, it is a praise name for a central figure in Ancient Egyptian culture, the dismembered and remembered Osiris, a sorrowful reminder of our human vulnerability to division, fragmentation and degeneration, and at the same time a symbol of our equally human capacity for unity, cooperative action, and creative regeneration…
By the time I wrote the novel my impressions of Osiris, though still relatively disorganized, had evolved to the point where I was ready to recognize the image as a powerful artistic icon. Here, in mythic form, was the essence of active, innovative human intelligence acting as a prime motive force for social management. I have yet to come across an earlier, or more attractive image for the urge to positive social change.”
NEFERTITI ~ ‘The Beautiful Woman Has Come’
For conceptual context, Armah could well have used another renowned ancient Egyptian figure whose name means “the beautiful woman has come.” Queen Nefertiti, alongside her husband Pharaoh Akhenaten, established the monotheistic cult of Aten-worship – a ‘new world order’ in 14th century BCE which Akhenaten led from his worship center of Amarna. Egyptian artwork during Aten’s Amarna Period was also radically different from its predecessors. The imposed reforms of traditional culture and spirituality resulted in Aten’s legacy becoming that of Egypt’s despised ‘heretic king.’ Aten’s son and eventual successor, Tut’Ankh’Amun (formerly Tut’Ankh’Aten – meaning “the living image of Aten”) restored ancient Egypt’s cultural traditions around Amun and returned its worship center to Uaset (Gr. ‘Thebes’) during his reign. Hence his name change to Tut’Ankh’Amun.
The Nefertiti Bust – believed to have been crafted in 1345 BCE by Thutmose because it was found in his workshop in Amarna by German Ludwig Borchardt’s archaeological team in 1912 – has become one of the most copied works and iconic symbols of feminine beauty, which most associate with Egypt. Kept at various German locations since its “discovery,” the Nefertiti Bust is currently on display at the original pre-WW2 display site of Neues Museum in Berlin. Germany, like most former colonial powers which have profited greatly off their stolen African artefacts, continues to resist Egyptian demands (since 1924) for the repatriation of Egypt’s Mona Lisa, as it were – the bust of Egypt’s ‘beautiful woman…’ Nefertiti.
In relation to Armah’s musings on Osiris/Ausar‘s symbolic relevance to Africa-writ-large, in ancient Egypt a true Queen [Auset] was said to be “She who sees Set and Heru.” Set – god of foreign oppression, chaos, violence, perversion, illness… – who usurped Egypt’s Heaven-on-Earth throne through murdering and dismembering Ausar, and then scattering his pieces [African diaspora] is evident from the predatory Eurocentric divide-&-conquer playbook which creates the parasitic matrix systems humanity experiences as slavery, (neo)colonialism, apartheid… through misappropriation & predatory control of Africa’s sovereign resources. Heru – Ausar & Auset’s posthumously-conceived son who avenges his father by defeating Set & restoring Heaven-on-Earth – is apparent in the post-Amarna role of regeneration Tut’Ankh’Amun played out of his allegiance to Amun, not Aten… #Sankofa.
FATHIA HALIM RITZK NKRUMAH ~ A ‘Beautyful’ First Lady of Ghana
The links between Egypt and Ghana go further than a background concept in Ayi Kwei Armah’s mythologically-based authorial imaginings. Fathia Halim Ritzk – a Coptic Egyptian who’d taught French prior to taking a job at a bank in Cairo – became First Lady of a newly independent Ghana when she married Kwame Nkrumah on New Year’s Eve 1957-58. According to published reports, Nkrumah – who succeeded Queen Elizabeth II on March 7, 1957 as ruler of Ghana – had set out to find himself a Christian wife from Egypt through his friend, Alhaji Saleh Said Sinare – one of the first Ghanaians to study in Egypt. Fathia was chosen out of five finalists. 
Despite her mother’s refusal to bless their union, Fathia’s marriage to Nkrumah took place at Christianborg Castle upon her arrival in Accra, Ghana. Unmoved by Nkrumah’s pan-African vision & bona-fides, Fathia’s mother – whose son had left Egypt with an English wife – had been reluctant to see another of her five children marrying a foreigner and leaving the country. Fathia returned to Cairo with their 3 children after the western-sponsored coup d’état that ousted Nkrumah on February 24, 1966. Nkrumah died in 1972 in Bucharest, Romania. Fathia died in Cairo in 2007. Both husband and wife lie buried side by side at the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park in Ghana.
BRANFORD MARSALIS ~ ‘The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born’
Titled after Ayi Kwei Armah’s book, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is also a 1991 jazz album by Branford Marsalis (tenor and soprano sax player) who leads a trio with Jeff “Tain” Watts and Robert Hurst. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is the 2nd track on the album which peaked at #3 on the Top Jazz Albums chart. Wynton Marsalis, Branford’s trumpet-playing brother, makes a guest appearance on the album’s 4th track, Cain and Abel. Hailing from New Orleans Louisiana, the Marsalis brothers are world-renowned members of their multi-generational ‘First Family of Jazz.’ Wynton is often quoted as saying: “The bloodlines of all important modern American music can be traced to Congo Square.”
Congo Square in New Orleans is a cultural and spiritual intersection which, like nearby Angola… was named after countries of origin of Louisiana’s predominant enslaved African population. Custodians of BaNtu oral-aesthetic traditions navigated this foreign space in ways that generated musical conversations (jazz, rhythm-&-blues, etc.). Guided by UbuNtu – the unity-conscious cultural philosophy which says “I am, because we are…” – African oral-aesthetic traditions became one of the greatest civilizing forces in America. BaNtu aesthetic quality or beauty – called KuNtu – is judged by how well cultural expression meets its art-for-life’s-sake cultural mandate towards the collective. In contrast to Manifest Destiny &/or Western Exceptionalism which were used to justify the enterprises of slavery, (neo)colonialism, apartheid, etc. – the so-called “white man’s burden” – UbuNtu has endured as a counteractive Africa-centered guiding & humanizing force.
PRINCE ~ ‘The Beautiful Ones’
In a scene from his 1984 movie, Purple Rain, Prince delivered an unforgettable performance of a song titled The Beautiful Ones. Apparently the artist had already settled on the same as a title for his biography which he’d begun working on with writer and lifelong fan, Dan Piepenbring. Through the telling of Prince’s story, it seems the greater vision was for the co-written project to inspire and help cultivate a society of beautiful ones… be a “handbook for the brilliant community”… a how-to guide for black -musicians, -creatives, -collective ownership, -freedom… an authentic voice against racism, elitism, etc. & for positive social reform. An ancient proverb from Ipet-Resyt (the “southern sanctuary” and temple of Amun~Mut) says: “When the governing class isn’t chosen for quality it is chosen for material wealth: this always means decadence, the lowest stage a society can reach.“ A fragmented version of Prince’s The Beautiful Ones was posthumously published and released exactly 5 years ago – on October 29th, 2019. So much has evolved on the community’s global streets since then…
Perhaps, as Ayi Kwei Armah suggests, a resurrected Ausar is rising out of the Babylonian ashes of a false ‘elite’ matrix through the Collective Ascension of a fragmented/degenerated Human Consciousness – and, like the proverbial Phoenix of old… The Beautyful Ones Are Now Being Reborn… Sankofa ❤ ❤ ❤ UbuNtu
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
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Africa Day ~ 25th of May
African Liberation Day – variously referred to as African Freedom Day… African Unity Day… Africa Day – is the term that came into use on May 25th, 1963 to commemorate the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU). Read More
A Master’s TKHNology
SKIPPER’S LOG / ANCESTRAL ENTRY DATE: April 13, 2016 ∴ April 21, 2024 [Gregorian]
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“In every vital activity, it is the Path/Freequency that matters… The first concerning the ‘Secrets’: all cognition comes from inside; we are therefore initiated only by ourselves, but the Master gives the keys. The second concerning the ‘Way’: the Seeker has need of a Master to guide them and lift them up when they fall, to lead them back to the right way when they stray… If the Master teaches what is error, the Disciple‘s submission is slavery. If S/HE teaches Truth, this submission is Ennoblement.” ~Proverbs from Ipet-Resyt [“Southern Sanctuary”] of God Amun & Goddess Mut
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Age of the Water Bearer
SKIPPER’S LOG / ANCESTRAL ENTRY DATE: February 15, 2016 ∴ February 23, 2024 [Gregorian]
Malaika Mutere 