Carnival: Krst root of Christ!
Monday, October 1, 2007 at 06:17PM 
Before entering into this quagmire concerning Blacks & religion, a few etymological root words are in order for a clear overstanding of what we are saying when we say it.
Pagan-From Middle English paganus meaning a country dweller. From the Latin pagus, meaning a country district, akin to Latin pangere meaning to fix.
Heathen-From the Middle English hethen, from the Old English heathen meaning heath.
Heath-From the Middle English heth, Old English heath, akin to High German heida heather-A tract of wasteland; an extensive area of rather level open uncultivated land…
Lord-From Middle English loverd, lord, from the Old English hlAford, from hlAf=Loaf +weard= Keeper meaning loaf ward.
Ward-From the Middle English, Old English weard & Anglo French warde, garde of Germanic Origin akin to Old High German warta the act of watching, Old English warian to be aware of, guard, waer-careful. Wary
Har/Hor-Ancient Kemetan meaning Heir or Lord.
One having power over others; a ruler by hereditary right…
Vodou-From the Fon language meaning spirit.
Santeria-more correctly En Santo- In the Spirit
Religion-To tie or to bind. To bind back.
It would appear at first glance, that in fact “religion as we in the West know and practice it is an outgrowth of imperialism…” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King observed Sunday to be the most segregated day of the week. Dr. Yosef A. A. Ben Jochannan says “religion is culture deified. The Europeans have taken versions of ancient African forms of worship and contorted it to their way of life, culture and society.
Christianity has its foundation in Ancient Kemet with the Krst Mummy, the Queen Virgin Auset (Isis) and the fruit of her womb Heru (Horus) the Light of the World. This is why you see the Black Madonna and child all throughout Europe. Today’s Christian will call our distant ancestors pagan and reject the root of their form of worship. Black people refuse to find the root of what they say they believe.
The issue for Black people is gaining an overstanding about who we are and more importantly WHAT we are. One of the Books of the bible tells us that we are gods, and this was a basic tenet that Yeshua came to teach. To refer to the Most High using the term God, even for those that express doubt in the Most High, or reject the possibility of a supreme being totally, is verbally expressing their colonized state of mind. If your filter is dirty your “God-consciousness” will be dirty. It cannot flower. It is the patriarchal culture of the European that brought you the all powerful male God not your ancestors. So, how does one connect with their past, with the Goddess of their ancestors? It may best serve us to return to the God/Goddess of our Mothers and Fathers (Ancestors.)
The Candomble and the Voudou or En Santo or our Indigenous American way of worship may lead us closer to the ways of our ancestors. However, as long as we continue to look outside of ourselves for the God/Goddess our filter will remain dirty as the God/Goddess is in the midst of you. Wombman and Man must know ourselves, be still within ourselves and the Mystery will be revealed to us. Are we then practicing a “white man’s religion?” The answer is no. There is no religion on this Earth that the white man created and you will find there is no religion that can bind you once you know who you are and you purpose.
The Krst Mummy was the anointed mummy of Ancient Kemet, anointed with spices and oils, that was prepared to move to "heaven" or the realm of the ancestors as pure spirit. "In that she poured this ointment upon my body, she did it to prepare me for my burial." (Matt 26:12) As you can see Yeshua was being prepared by Mary of Bethany with an expensive oil for his eventual death and ressurection (re-erection) in the realm of the Spirit. Its important to note that a woman was preparing him for burial, thus it is by a woman that we come to Earth and it should be no surprise in the symbolism of a woman preparing him to leave the Earth.
On the issue of Christianity being forced into the lives of the Blacks enslaved in the Americas we will find this is a falsehood. There are too many misconceptions about slavery that I won't go into at this time but, I will address the misconception of forced Christianity on the enslaved. First, and foremost, Black people in the Americas whether of African ancestry or Indigenous American ancestry shared a common belief in water rites. Many of the earliest Black ministers of the Baptist Church were also Priest in the river rites of traditional African worship. Not surprisingly In the Southeastern Indian culture, nearly every ritual act, from the celebration of pregnancy to the selection of a war leader, from the stomp dance to ball play is preceded by "going to water" as a critical part the religious pracitce says Charles Hudson in his 1976 work Southeastern Indians. This is just a bit to show that the rituals in Christianity (Baptism) were familiar to the enslaved Blacks. We cannot not forget the contact with Islam the African had prior to the trans Atlantic slave trade and the contact with Islam via the Moor that ventured to the Americas long before Columbus existed, made our ancestors in the Americas well aware of the apostles, the patriarchs and the story of the Exodus prior to their acceptance of "Christ." Also note, that many of the Christian rituals fit right into the traditional rituals of our ancestors. Secondly, whites were very reluctant to begin to convert the enslaved Blacks, for fear the Blacks would view themselves as equals to the slave owners. From the Classified Digest of the Records of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 1701-1892, the slave owners were resistant to baptizing slaves..."If the masters were but good Christians themselves and would concurr with the Ministers, we should have good hopes of the conversion and salvation at least of some of their Negro and Indian slaves. But too many of them rather oppose than concurr with us and are angry with us." Its apparent from this statement, the slave masters and owners were reluctant to Christanize their slaves and not eager to convert them as we have been mislead to believe. The form of Christianity practiced is born more of "Aframerindian" than of the European, says Kenneth Wiggins Porter from the Journal of Negro History XVIII (January 1933, #1)
Its very important to study what we profess we believe or for that matter study the past events that lead us here where we stand today.
"KNOW THY SELF"!!!
Reader Comments (5)
I do believe that we are practicing the faith of our oppressors and because of that we are indeed bound by religion. It feels as if we are waiting for salvation instead of making our own...
This post did give me a lot of academic food for thought. I am fascinated by religion, its origins and uses and this post was succinct and informative. Thank you!
Good Post!