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Afro-Greek Mythology

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 23:00:56 -0500

A great deal of ancient African history has been meticulously hidden and subsumed in Dorian "Greek" mythology. Many of these ancient "myths" are actually derived from Egyptian, Afro-Babylonian, and Afro-Canaanite (Phoenician) history which predates the arrival of the Dorian ("white") Greeks in the Ionian (Grecian) Islands by more than 3000 years. Many were introduced later by them after the Greek arrival. The story of the Titans is one example of these myths assumed to be of “Greek” origin, but is actually African. . .

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Disparaging African Indigenous Faiths: A Much Needed Paradigm Shift in Our Westernized Cultural Consciousness

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:25:31 -0400

The Diaspora are born with African spirits in their lineages

The Vodoun Mami Wata Religions are some of the oldest indigenous religions in the world, yet they continue to bear the brunt of western bias and remain the central target of Christian missionaries quest to extinguish them from the face of the earth.

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The Vodoun religion is one of the most misunderstood and bitterly maligned religions in the West. The suppression and denigration of Vodoun and other African spiritual systems brought to the New World by enslaved Africans, was instrumental in stripping the African of their cultural and spiritual identities. Attempting to re-explore and discover why African spiritual sciences were so feared, or why until the present, does many in the Diaspora continue to harbor shame and mistrust of the very sacred traditions upon which African civilizations, its cultures and its social institutions were founded, remains an on-going mystery. The mystery remains even more elusive when one considers that in spite-of nearly all of Africa’s governments having rejected their ancestral religions in favor of Islam and Christianity; there exists even more war, unspeakable atrocities, rampant corruption, abject poverty, lawlessness and daily misery than in any other period in the continent’s history. That western missionaries spend more money manipulating vulnerable Africans and their families into accepting Christianity than in “feeding them” is never rationally questioned by those who have been misled to believe that these “altruistic” services are “the best thing to ever happen to Africa and the Diaspora.” That African religions played no significant role in the development of what are now classified as “Western faiths,” is buried deep beneath a substratum of historical lies, omissions, thefts and cover-ups, further obscured by Africa’s current abject conditions rendering the idea of such a claim impossible. Could this have been the plan all alone? Clearly, it is time to critically and carefully examine what might be one of the most important neglected chapters in the religious history of the Diaspora. The ancestral challenge remains to explore beneath the substratum of myths, fear, and confusion surrounding the world’s ancient religious systems of Africa and present a clear, more accurate portrayal of what might prove one of the most revealing and liberating journey’s of a life-time.

African-Americans More Connected To African Spirits As A Result of Slavery

Sun, 2 Nov 2008 14:26:51 -0500

Contrary to Western anthropological speculations, the African-American Diaspora are not less, but are more connected to their ancient ancestors and ancestral deities as a result of slavery. Many in the Diaspora have been conditioned to view the enslavement of their ancestors as an isolated phenomena, confined largely to western ambitions of wealth, cultural imperialism and power. However, African enslavement actually follows a historical continuum which extends as far back as so-called “biblical times.” Beginning with the rise of the “Roman Church” and its economic and political ambitions in competing for (and ultimately seizing) African (Kemetic) religious theology, their temples, rituals and the enormous wealth they'd established throughout the ancient world. Further, Western anthropologists tend to omit the Diaspora (esp. in America) as no longer possessing any significant ancestral or bio-spiritual connection to their African gods or ancestors, based on the faulty notion that African spirit is merely a theoretical, subjective myth based largely on “primitive superstitions”. They base their assumptions on the notion that western linear science has successfully proved these beliefs to be mere fantasy. In truth, in Western Africa, many of the established spiritual houses, ancestral guilds, and deities have transformed and re-adapted themselves throughout time in accordance to the plight of their people, based on their increasing limited ability to freely worship them in the face of the growing threat of aggressive and intolerant religions such as Islam and Christianity. This spiritual adaptational phenomena of African spirits has evolved specifically as a result of 2000 years of enslavement and persecution of displaced Africans world-wide. Many of these major West African groups can further trace their ancestor’s trek across the African continent as far east as Egypt and Ethiopia. In contemporary times the African-Americans are featured front and center in the enslavement experience, their ancestors having been transported thousands of miles away into lands in which they were faced with an even greater hostile reception and denial to freely worship their gods and ancestors. Today, many of their descendants are unashamedly beckoning the call . . .

The Sibyls: the First Prophetess’ of Mami (Wata):The Theft of African Prophecy by the Catholic Church

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:53:53 -0400

After viewing this comprehensive slide-show trailer it is impossible to view the mythical origins of Western Christianity the same again. After reading the book, many in the Diaspora may be shocked to learn that the New Testament books are a historical chronicle of the systematic destruction of their ancient mothers temples, and a forced conversion to a corruped doctrine largely based upon their own ancient theology. Part I & II of this slide-show trailer is based on the ground breaking book on the ancient African Sibyl prophetesses' and how their "pagan" prophecies played a dominate role in developing the foundation of Christianity and Judaism. Historical facts buried for centuries inthe dusty tombs of the Vatican.

Missionaries Are Colonialists

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:02:30 -0400

Although 99% of Africans nations have rejected their ancestral religions in succumbing to the missionary zeal of Christian and Islamic evangelicals, their countries are torn by civil strife, abject poverty, hunger, disease and corruption. Few are even aware that in our history's most recent massacre of human beings in Rwanda, that dozens of Christian missionary priests, nuns and workers were also indicted for their active participation in the slaughter of thousands of Tutsis. This reality begs the question of what exactly is the true agenda of these western faiths in which more money is spent proselytizing than on medicine, homes and food.
www.mamiwata.com/christian_atrocities.html

The religious and cultural Imperialism performed by missionaries nearly always goes hand-in-hand with political and economic Imperialism. Christian missionaries often work in partnership with the CIA, with the US government, and with wealthy corporations to subvert the religion, the culture, the economy, and the politics of vulnerable indigenous populations. The CIA often uses planes owned by Christian missionary organizations and flown by Christian missionary pilots ,smuggle drugs, arms, and prisoners. . .

MAMI WATA: Ancient African God/dess Reawakens in the Soul of the Diaspora.

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:02:31 -0400

By far, one of the most devastating and little written about aspects of slavery in America, was the active suppression and demonization of African religions. The loss of crucial sacred knowledge of the African deities and how they manifest at birth, (or any stage of maturation) in the Diaspora, was no longer relied upon or respected by “educated blacks,” desperate to disconnect themselves from what they had been conditioned to believe were “barbaric and primitive African practices. . .”

Women & Afa/ifa in the Yeveh Vodoun Religion

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:02:29 -0400

Since its inception, Afa has been open to all whom are called by the Spirits in Vodoun. The word “Afa” in the Vodoun religion means “Keeper of the Mysteries’s” which was later changed to “Father of the Mysteries” during the rise of African patriarchy.

YouTube Videos: An African-American's Ancestral Journey

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:15:32 -0400

Slavery and the suppression of African Religious traditions had a devastating impact on African-American spiritual health and their families. One African-American returned to Togo, West Africa to receive the sacred ceremonies of her great-great grandparent’s lineage. She has now returned to re-introduce this ancient religious system into America, in fulfillment of her ancestral calling to assist in the resurrection of others in the Diaspora.

Publications by Mama Zogbé

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:34:17 -0400

The Theft of African Prophecy by the Catholic Church
For 6,000 years, Africa was ruled by a powerful order of Sibyl matriarchs. They produced the world's first oracles, prophetess and prophets. known as "Pythoness," they worked the oracles in the Black Egyptian colonies in ancient Greece, Rome, Turkey, Israel, Syria and Babylon. Their holy temples were more numerous than the churches of today. In ancient Rome, they first established the "holy seat" of the Vatican advising the world's heads of state. Centuries before Christ, they cured epileptics, the blind, lepers and “cast out demons.” It was a Sibyl who called-up the spirit of "Apostle" Samuel. Their "pagan" prophecies . . .

Support African Indigenous & Diaspora Religions!

Sun, 2 Nov 2008 13:30:47 -0500

Purchase our MWHS logo t-shirts, sweat-shirts, hats, note books and many other useful items for your personal use, or to give as gifts. Your tax deductible donation will assist in supporting the very worthy cause in resurrecting, promoting and firmly establishing African Traditional Religions in North America.

The Mami Wata Healers Society of North America Inc., (formerly OATH) founded by Mama Zogbé, is a non-profit 501(c)3, ancestral, Afro-religious organization committed to the resurrection, establishment, dissemination and maintenance of the Mami Wata and Yeveh Vodoun spiritual and ritual traditions, brought to the North American shores by enslaved Africans and their descendants. Its main focus is targeting those in the Diaspora, who are beckoning the call to serve the deities of their ancestors. The MWHS is also committed to the promotion of community awareness through religious tolerance, education and the right to open ceremonial and ritual expression as is accorded all religions.

The Mami Wata Healers Society does not exclude anyone based on race, gender, age, handicap, or sexual orientation.