Monday, November 22, 2010

THE SUMERIANS IN ANCIENT IRAQ WERE BLACK! -FROM KEMETWAY.COM

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Africa, Kemet and Sumer

Lands of the Black (Headed) People

"After Anu, Enlil, Enki, and Ninhursag had fashioned the Black-Headed (people), vegetation luxuriated from the earth, animals, four-legged (creatures) of the plain, were brought artfully into existence..."

One of Africa's many civilizations is that of Sumer. Founded along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, in Asia-Minor, it in many respects was a twin city of Kemet; spawned by the same progenitors Nubia-Kush, it mirrored Kemet in numerous areas. In the names of cities and towns there was Anu, Mari, Amon, Kush (Kish), Assur (Ausar), and others. Like Pharaohs of Nubia and Kemet, Sumer was as also governed by divine leaders called 'En', who also were considered 'Son of the Sun' or, the 'Son of Anu'. The Ntcheru of Sumer were called Dingir, and they too paralleled those of Nubia-Kemet: For example

Painting scene from Mari (North-West Sumer) of the Annunaki including Inanna or Nanana (top register) and Enlil (middle register) being attended to by 'lesser-dinger' - the Iggigi. Note the 'African' race of Sumerians as distinct from, and indicated by the Aryan (White) 'fisher-man' and the African 'fisher-man' (partially shown) in the bottom register

Comparison of Ntcheru (Kemet) and Dingir (Sumer)
Kemet - Ntcheru	Sumer - Dingir	Manifestation
Anu	Anu	Creator
Ra	Anu, Utu	Sun
Geb	Enlil	Sky, Earth
Ausar	Enki, Assur, Asari	Ruler of Earth, Vegetation, Animal, and Man; Ruler of the 'Lower Ennead' (Ausar) / 'Lower Annunaki' [the Iggigi] (Enki), and 'Governor' of moral-behavior on Earth.
Auset	Inana, Nanana	Ruler of Earth, Vegetation, Animal and Man; Goddess of fertility and nurturing; Guardian of birth-rite to the throne
Ennead	Annunaki	Governing body of Ntcheru / Dingir that reside in Heaven


Dingir (Goddess) Inana or Dingir Nanana	Dingir's Ningizzida and another leading Gudea before Enki or Anu	En Ur-Nammu pours libation before Dingir Nannar. (below) Dingir Nannar leads En Ur-Nammu en-route to temple building

Kemet and Sumer built great solar temples to the Ntcheru / Dinger. Kemet built Pyramids whereas Sumer built Ziggurats; additionally both built temples to honor the other types of Ntcheru / Dingir - i.e. Creators, Elements and Principals.


The Ziggurat of Ur, one of the 'sun-temples' built to honor Great Dingir Anu and Innana, influenced and guided by the Kemetic philosophy associated with the Kemetic 'Step-Pyramid' [sun-temple] of Ghiza, and the even earlier pyramids [sun-temples] of Nubia-Kush	Dingir Enki [Ruler of Earth, establisher of government, governor of order] driving a (building) foundation stake into the ground

Both societies are families related by Ancestors - the Anu. In Sumer everyone is related to Anu - the creator - and Anu (the first people); likewise, in Kemet everyone is related to Anu - the creator - and to Anu (the first people). Lastly, both, in response to Aryan (White) invaders distinguished themselves as black people - i.e. Kemet = Land of the Black People and Sumer, Sa-Ga-(Gi) = The Black Heads / The Black Headed People.


Great Dingir Anu presented to by other Dingir of 'High Heaven'	Mythological characters believed to be the hero Gilgamesh (and Enkimdu?) feeds water to a pair of bulls

Each society revered creation and the governing 'life forces', and both generated outstanding periods in their history along with distinguished leaders. Of the Third-Dynasty in Kemet the Pharaoh distinguished himself and the society by commissioning the building of the first major pyramid - the Step Pyramid; in association with him the Great and Grand Vizer Imhotep distinguished himself as the architect of the Step Pyramid and as a multi-genius, in addition to being an outstanding Seba (spiritual leader). Right on the heels of Kemet, Sumer was distinguished by the Great En Naram-Sin who commissioned the building the Great Ziggurat for the Dingir Anu and Inanna (Inana); in association with him the Great Spiritual Leader Gudea distinguished himself and the Sumerian society by leading the revival and progression of Sumerian religion and spirituality. The era of Naram-Sin and Gudea is known as Ur III.


En, Naram-Sin	Victorious! Stele of En, Naram-Sin leading Kussi (Black) troops against the Lulubi (Black) troops)	Gudea, man of peace	An Elamite/Susian Leader (notice the similarity to the Sumerian Dingir [god] EnKi [above, and below left])

Sumer's greatness and grandeur was both alluring and a magnate to the Aryan-Semites and the Aryan-Europeans who began to invade its territory and society until they finally conquered, dominated and destroyed it greatness. At the hands of the nomadic-barbarians the Sumerians (Africans) experienced invasions of their homeland, pillage of their resources, genocide, rape, slavery, exile, colonization, cultural theft, barbarism, and racism (in its beginning stages). From as early as 2,200 BCE Sumer, including its African neighbor Susa/Elam, endured the invasions of one increasingly brutal nomadic-barbaric 'White' people after another. Under the invasions of the Martu, also called the Assyrians, the strength of the African population known as Sumerian in Mesopotamia was defeated resulting in complete and utter domination at the hand of barbaric warring populations set on plunder and exploitation.


Dingir, Enki (God-Ruler of Earth) as a 'Royal Bull'	Sumerian Royal Couple - Wife and Husband	Offerings brought to Ur-Ningirsu (base of Ur-Ningirsu stature)

In addition to other benefactors, the Jewish and Arab culture and society - its religion, philosophy and government - also developed upon the plunder, domination and exploitation of the Sumerian; and including some Southern-European societies - among them Greece.


The Elamite/Susian army defeated by the Assyrians, who brutally decapitated the Elamite leader. Similar barbarity was perpetrated upon the Sumerians	After developing civilization in Sumer / Mesopotamia, three-thousand years later, Africans are now sold by enslaving barbaric-Arab tribes [1237 AD Yemen, Baghdad, Iraq (formerly Sumer)]

About the images:
Sumerians represented their Dingir (gods) with crowns of 'bull horns', major Dingir wore numerous horns [collectively they were called the Annunaki], while lesser Dinger wore fewer horns [collectively they were called the Iggigi]. Leaders, called En were considered 'Lesser Dinger' incarnate, they are almost always depicted wearing the 'Royal Beard' and sometimes with a bull horned crown. Priest (male) are, almost always depicted as clean-shaven and without head hair. Interestingly, in spite of the ongoing invasions and colonization the Sumerians', and the Elamites/Susians, continued to depict their Dingir (gods) in their image.
In spite of the above images and documentation to the contrary, it is interesting, and no less disturbing, that the school of 'White' researchers and writers of Sumer / Mesopotamian history have organized as a race-biased (racist) group to perpetuate a lie-myth-deceit and other falsehoods to deny the race (i.e. Black / African) of the Sumerian, and of the origin of Sumerian civilization. Somehow they do manage to find Africans among the population when they are conquered or enslaved.

References:
Anu, Heru-Ka, Kemet Way: The Triumph of African Civilization Over Aryan Barbarism, (publication pending)
Black, Jeremy, et.al., (1992), Gods, Demons and Symbols in Ancient Mesopotamia, University of Texas Press
Black, Jeremy, et.al. , (2004), The Literature of Ancient Sumer, Oxford University Press
Brunson, James E. ,(1990), Image of the Black In West Asian Art (5000 - 650 B.C.) - Kara Publishing
Budge, E.A.Wallis, (1895/1967), The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Dover Publications
Diop, Cheikh Anta, (1967/1974), The African Origin of Civilization; Myth or Reality, Lawrence Hill & Company
Parrot, Andre, (1961), Sumer The Dawn of Art, Golden Press (Ny)
Prichard, James B., (1969 [vol. 1], 1975 [vol. 2]), The Ancient Near East - An Anthology of Texts and Pictures, Princeton University Press
Sertima, Ivan Van, (1985), African Presence In Early Asia ("Africans In Early Asian Civilizations: A Historical Overview" - Runoko Rashidi, pp. 15-51), Journal of African Civilizations / Transaction Books
Sertima, Ivan Van, (1989/1991, Egypt Revisited ("The Lost Pharaohs of Nubia" - Bruce Williams", pp. 90-104), Journal of African Civilizations / Transaction Books
Images:
Lewis, Bernard, (1990), Race and Slavery In the Middle East, Oxford University Press
Parrot, Andre, (1961), Sumer The Dawn of Art, Golden Press (Ny)
Saggs, H.W.F., (1995), Babylonians, University of Oklahoma Press

Thursday, November 18, 2010

MARCUS GARVEY THE GREATEST BLACK LEADER OF BLACKS IN AMERIKKKA AND BLACKS WORLDWIDE!

SLAVERY !-LEST WE FORGET WHAT THE BLACK RACE WENT THRU SO THAT WE ARE NEVER TRICKED AGAIN!

"Flagellation of a Female Samboe Slave." Shows woman hanging from a tree with deep lacerations; in background two white men and two black men, the latter with whips. Stedman witnessed this punishment in 1774. The woman being whipped was an eighteen-year old girl who was given 200 lashes for having refused to have intercourse with an overseer. She was "lacerated in such a shocking manner by the whips of two negro-drivers, that she was from her neck to her ancles literally dyed with blood." For the definitive modern edition, with illustrations, see Richard and Sally Price, eds. Narrative of a five years expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988).IN SURINAM,SOUTH AMERICA! SISTERS DID REFUSE TO SLEEP WITH THE SLAVE MASTER! BLACK ON!

WHIPPING SLAVES IN SERRO FRIO BRAZIL CA.1770'S FROM WWW.slaveryimages.org,sponsored by the VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANIES AND THE UNIV. OF VIRGINIA LIBRARY,Buel-01, as shown on www.slaveryimages.org, sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia Library.\"USAReference

BEATING SLAVES IN BRAZIL-FROM www.slaveryimges.org

1868 WHIPPING SLAVES IN CUBA(FROM www.slaveryimages.org Reference Buel-01, as shown on www.slaveryimages.org, sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia Library.\"

FROM http://inetmgrs.com/onepeoples/black%20nationalism.htm

VIRGINA USING BLACK SLAVES TO BEAT BLACK SLAVES-FROM www.slaveryimages.org (sponsored by THE VIRIGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LIBRARY)ww wwww.slaveryimges.corgwwwference Buel-01, as shown on www.slaveryimages.org, sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia Library.\"


"The Last Daughter," shows a white man whipping a black woman while she holds onto her child. This illustration depicts a scene in which the author of this anti-slavery novel describes how slave children were sold away from their mothers who were past child bearing. In this case, a mother, all of whose children had been sold away, was unwilling to part with her only remaining child; while the girl clung to her mother's dress, the new master whipped the mother, telling her to hold her "cursed chatter" (p.94). First published as "The Slave: or, Memoirs of Archy Moore (Boston, 1836), but without illustrations; the London edition (1852) contains different illustrations (see copies located in the Library Company of Philadelphia).

OYOTUNJI VILLAGE IN SOUTH CAROLINA,UNITED STATES-BLACK PEOPLE LIVING LIKE YORUBAS ORIGINALLY DID!

from bookrags.com


ADEFUNMI II (NEW KABAYESI,SON OF THE FOUNDING KABAYESI)

OYO TUNJI: A YORUBA COMMUNITY IN THE USA

Religious beliefs and ceremonies, visual culture, and social organization closely based on traditional Yoruba prototypes from Nigeria and Benin Republic are embraced by African American members of Oyo Tunji in Beaufort County, South Carolina, as viable alternatives to mainstream American culture. Oyo Tunji (“Oyo Returns” or “Oyo Rises Again”) is a metaphor for the reconstruction, in the United States, of the ancient kingdom of old Oyo, which flourished in Nigeria (c.1600 to 1830 CE).

Oyo Tunji is popularly referred to as “the African village.” The current leader, known as Oba (king) Efuntola Oseijeman Adefunmi I, along with a handful of priests and priestesses, established Oyo Tunji in 1970, near the town of Sheldon, where routes 17 and 21 intersect.

Oyo Tunji encompasses ten square miles of semi-forest, agricultural land in a rural, agricultural terrain. It follows a traditional town plan that can still be seen in the outlying areas of small Yoruba villages in West Africa. Oyo Tunji’s land is partitioned into precincts radiating from the central focus where the palace (called the Afin) is located. Oba Adefunmi I apportions the land to male and female householders who pay annual taxes to the Oba for this land. All the dwellings adhere to the traditional Yoruba architectural plans, which consist of small, usually windowless, enclosed dwelling units (used for storage and sleeping), built around large, open, square courtyards where most daily tasks are performed (Ojo 1966). The size and elaboration of architecture signifies status, ranging from the sprawling, immense palace through the middle-size homes of the chiefs to the small houses of the general populace.
Oyo Tunji is, first and foremost, a religious community. The primary criterion of membership is initiation into “Yoruba” religion, which, in fact, while foregrounded there, accommodates an intertextual blend of borrowing from other African religions including Fon, Asante, Edo (ancient Benin kingdom), and ancient Egyptian. The king’s name is an excellent example of the .influence of multiple African elements: Efuntola signifies his initiation into Yoruba religion as a priest of Obatala (in Nigeria, the Yoruba deity credited with human creation through his modeling of human bodies from primordial clay). Efun in Yoruba is white chalk and ola denotes abundance. Oseijeman (or “savior of the people” in Akan) is a customary name for chiefs in Ghana. Adefunmi (“crown for me”) builds upon the Yoruba traditional of designating all royal lineage families by prefixing their names with ade (“crown”). Funmi is a conscious signifier of Oyo Tunji’s king’s (formerly Walter Serge Roy King of Detroit, Michigan) proactive appropriation of Yoruba royal names and a conceptual pun on his “slave” name. Adefunmi can thus be seen as a “New World” oriki (Yoruba praise name) that puns on the fact that Walter Serge Roy King originated the “kingdom” of Oyo Tunji and created a royal lineage for himself and his family, with the right to rule and wear the crown (ade, the sign par excellence of royalty among the Yoruba in West Africa).
A very large number of African American men and women have been initiated in Oyo Tunji by Kabiyesi (Yoruba, “royal highness”) Queen Iy Orite and others since 1970. These priests and priestesses maintain close and continuous ties with the community, although many have chosen not to remain permanently in Oyo Tunji. They have dispersed throughout the United States to found small religious satellites of Oyo Tunji in Chicago, Indiana, Wisconsin, New York, Virginia, Florida, and Los Angeles. The major deities (orisha) are conceived as embodiments of organic, supernatural, and mortal power that often calibrate with numerology and astrology. Thus, Orunmila (while equated with the domain of Ifa divination among the Yoruba in Africa) is associated with the Sun. Olokun (a deity associated with rulership and wealth in the ancient Nigerian Benin kingdom) is identified with the planet Neptune and the sign Pisces. In Oyo Tunji, Olokun is also conceptualized as the] deity representing the souls of all descendants of Africans transferred from their homeland by ships sailing the Atlantic Ocean and, as such, serves as the patron deity of all African Americans. Obatala (the creation deity who first molded humans from earth) is the patron deity of Oyo Tunji and the one with the most initiates. Obatala is linked with the planet Jupiter and the sign Sagittarius. Sango (whose domain is thunder and who was a former king of old Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city) is governed by Uranus and linked to Aquarius. Yemoj (the mother of deities not born by Nanan), seen in Oyo Tunji as a powerful iyami (enchantress), governs the Gelede society organized by men to honor elderly women of tremendous spiritual authority. As a moon goddess, Yemoj is connected with the sign of Cancer and the numbers 4 and 7. Esu-Elegba, the prankster, is seen as, simultaneously, the youngest and the oldest of all the deities. He is linked to the planet Mercury, the signs Gemini and Virgo, and the numbers 1, 3, 11, and 21. His domains are the marketplace and the crossroads. He possesses the spiritual force to open and close roads and place or remove obstacles, all metaphors for positive or negative opportunities and success or failure.
In Oyo Tunji, a separate temple complex exists for each deity, which includes the main shrine, a smaller shrine for the Esu-Elegba of the deity, and a building where initiates are housed during their seclusion. Priests and priestesses function as diviners and herbalists who provide guidance for the inhabitants of Oyo Tunji, as well as visitors or local South Carolinians. They combine healing with herbs, fasting, divination, palmistry, tarot cards, numerology, and astrology.
Known ancestors are honored by paintings, photos, and Egungun cloth ensembles, as in Africa, while unknown ancestors are determined by roots-reading divinations and honored by fresh water, flowers, candles, and prayers. An innovation introduced in Oyo Tunji is the initiation of women into the Egungun society.
Finally, the visual culture of Oyo Tunji exemplifies a deliberate creative project that departs from the mainstream, exhibition-directed arts created by many African American artists, who position themselves within the American mainstream. In contrast, Oyo Tunjians look toward conventional Yoruba art forms still commonplace in the African homeland and available through African art books, journals, or early ethnographies.
In sum, Oyo Tunji occupies a unique place among African diaspora communities; it is a uniquely intellectual entity, consciously created by African Americans as a counterpoint to, and revitalization effort within, mainstream American society and culture. Rooted in West African Yoruba religious, sociopolitical, and artistic epistemologies, Oyo Tunji testifies to the agency and activity of African Americans in the diaspora.

References

Gregory, Steven. 1999. Santeria in New York City: A Study in Cultural Resistance. New York: Garland.

Murphy, Joseph M. 1988. Santeria: An African Religion in America. Boston: Beacon Press.

——. 1994. Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora. Boston: Beacon Press.

Hunt, Carl. 1979. Oyo Tunji, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia.

Ojo, G.J.A. 1966. Yoruba Culture: A Geographical Analysis. London: University of London Press.

Omari, Mikelle Smith. 1984. From the Inside to the Outside: The Art and Ritual of Bahian Candomble. Monograph Series no. 24. Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles.

——. 1989. The Role of the Gods in Afro-Brazilian Ancestral Ritual: African Arts Journal XXIII, no. 1.

——. 1990. Creativity in Adversity: Afro-Bahian Women, Power, and Art. The International Review of African American Arts 9, no.1:35–41.

——. 1991. Completing the Circle: Notes on African Art, Society, and Religion in Oyo Tunji, South Carolina. African Arts, July, 66–75, 96.

——. 1994. Aesthetics and Ritual of Candomble Ago. In African Religions: Experience and Expression, ed., Thomas Blakely, pp. 135–9. London: James Curry; Portsmouth, N.H.: Heineman.

——. 2002. Manipulating the Sacred: Yoruba Art, Ritual and Resistance in Brazil. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Pinn, Anthony. 1998. Varieties of African American Religious Experience. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

MIKELLE SMITH OMARI-TUNKARA

Monday, November 08, 2010

AKON! -BLACK SKINNED HANDSOME BLACK MAN STARS IN NIGERIA-ILLORIN,OCT.2,2010!

FROM jaguda.com

Live in Kwara state was some of the biggest events of the Independence Day weekend for Nigeria turning 50. The concert was held on October 2nd at Metropolitan Square in Illorin, Kwara State. The Concert featured International artist, Akon along with the biggest names in Naija entertainment, Dbanj, Sasha, Naeto C, Wande Coal, P-Square, YQ, Sauce Kid & co. Check out pics:
Source: Obi Asika’s FB album