Augusta, GA-July 12, 2007-
Vodoun Chief Priestess, Mama Zogbé claims that for 6,000 years, Africa was ruled by a powerful order of matriarchs known throughout the ancient world as "Sibyls."
Fig 1: Ethiopian Python oracle priestess Known as a "Sibyl." Their image was worn on coat-of-arms by Carthaginian soldiers for "good-luck".
In her well researched, groundbreaking book The Sibyl The First Prophetesses of Mami (Wata) author Mama Zogbé contends that
the Sibyls produced the world's first prophetic oracles, prophetesses and prophets. Mama Zogbé states that the Sibyls were known as "Pythoness," because their oracle source was a mighty ancestral python that “spoke” prophecy to them during trance possession. It was the Sibyls who built and worked the powerful oracles in the African Egyptian colonies in ancient Greece, Rome, Turkey, Israel, Syria and Babylon.
The most famous of these temples was the (later renamed) Temple of Amon in ancient Libya, and the Temple of Delphi (meaning “dolphin”) at Dodona and Delos, in the Grecian islands. However, their holy temples were more numerous than the Christians churches of today. According to Mama Zogbé, “many of the first Christian churches were created by either assimilating, or were built atop the temple ruins of the Sibyls.” She further states that in ancient Rome, the Sibyls were the first to establish the "holy seat" of the Vatican. They were celebrated and respected as advisors to the world's heads of state. “The Romans even credit a famous Sybil named Cimeria with prophesying the birth of Julius Caesar and his nephew Augustus.” The famous Roman augur/diviner Navius, speaks about Cimeria in his book on the Punic Wars. Known as great healers, Mama Zogbé claims that “centuries before Christ, the Sibyls cured epileptics, the blind, lepers and ‘casted out demons,’and even called-up the dead.” It was a Sibyl, (later demonized by the emerging church papals as a “witch”) who called-up the spirit of the Apostle Samuel to speak to him from the dead.
Mama Zogbé claims that the "pagan" prophecies of the Sibyls were later collected by the Roman Emperor Tarquin and compiled into numerous books. The Sibyls preserved their history in poetic and prophetic prose that would later be used as the basis for Greek and Roman tragedies. These books were eventually seized by the emerging Roman papal to create a western theological foundation to compete with the Kemetically leamed levitical Jews. They would later lay the ecclesiastical
foundation for the collection of
apocryphal books modified as the "Christian" Bible. Mama Zogbé concludes that "the New Testament is actually a historical chronicle of the final destruction of the ancient temples, and the forced imposition of a new theology" revised by church officials from the more ancient books of the Sibyis and others.
Fig 2: Authors of the Book The Sibyls: The First Prophetesses of Mami Wata, Sariki Nana Bosofo Tidzana Chief Hounon Amengansie Mama Zodédé (right) and Founder In Chief Hounon Amengansie Mama Zogbé, Circa Early 2000s.
This article is a contribution to the reclamation and re-education project of unearthing and presenting the lost history of Africa.
