Pan african ancesrtal egbe

Pan-African Ancestral Egbe History & Structure

Pan-African Ancestral Egbe history & structure

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Mission – To reconnect Afrikan people with their ancestral selves. This is done by calling upon a mixture of practices and concepts from the South Afrikan Zulu (1st ancestor practices), Congo Mayombe practices, West Afrikan Egun practices, Voodoo and Kemetic ancestral concepts and practices.

History

The pan African Egbe start in spring 2012 as a collaborate between Malenga H Shakara, Baba Ifaniyi Akintunde and Iya Olakunle Oludina . There was a need to address the lack of ancestral rite and ritual in the greater North East region. To address this need aspects and some members of the Ka KhepeRa Shule (African Martial arts school), the Ancestral Warrior Shemshu and other students and devotees were formed into the ancestral Egbe.

Vision

To form a self-sustaining and self-identifying spiritual and cultural community, that significantly contributes to the political & economic empowerment of its members and upliftment of community in general. This will be achieved via practices of collective economics and collective responsibility in a Pan African modality. The Egbe is based on the foundation of a Pan African interoperable model[i] where multiple African spiritual traditions can interact in a common space based upon their ancestral common unity

“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” — Dr. Martin L. King Jr.

Socio cultural principles

Seq.

Principle

Description

Ubuntu

States that your humanity is determined by how you treat your neighbor, and that of how your neighbor returns the interrelated relationship as we are co-dependent. Ubuntu is also seen as: We are, there for I am. I am there for we are.

Maat

Truth, justice, righteousness, harmonious balance, and reciprocity.

Sankofa

To look back and study your history as a basis for moving forward.

Ujima

Collective work and responsibility.

Sovereignty

To be socially, economically and politically independent

reverence of ancestors

It is widely understood that it is the ancestors who assist with your personal experience.[i]

Socio-political movements

Seq.

Empowerment Connection model

Description

Black Nationalism

Political unity

Cultural nationalism

Cultural nation model

Pan Africanism

Solidarity of African identity unity

Spiritual nationalism

Spiritual unity of African Soul

Process

Our mission is achieved by calling upon an admixture of practices and concepts from the Pan African world including the West African Egun, South African Zulu, Congo Mayombe, Voodoo and Kemetic traditions.

Additionally, the mission is achieved through the following initiatives:

Ancestral reconnections

Ancestral spiritual initiation
Connecting members and families by the acceptance of a mutual (spiritual & mundane)aid pact
Support of the community collective spirit by public and private Egungun rites and rituals
Support of in Pan African Spiritual Nationalism
Veneration of core ancestral deities which will enhance the, self-awareness, African consciousness and spiritual resilience of the members, their families (living and dead), and the community
Reestablishment of core ancestral rituals
1. Naming Ceremonies and Rites
2. Puberty Rites
3. Ancestral archetypes Rites
4. Marriage Rites
5. Conflict Resolution
6. Funeral Rites
Support of The National Ancestral Shrine

Economic empowerment: own and control resources, to produce group wealth, become more self-

sufficient, economically competitive, to change behavior and establish systems of accountability.

Our Principles and practices of empowerment

Buy black - Purchased Black manufactured products on a consistent basis

Partnering- Bring great external skill into alignment for your goals

Win win negotiating- Be good to your volunteers, clients and partners

Entrepreneurship- Open and grow new business, and create your own jobs

Owner ship- Build and support your own institutions

Institutionzation – A) Planning for continuity

B) Documentation process

C) Training youth

When brothers fight to the death Strangers inherit the father estate -Igbo proverb

Pragmatisms We have no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, just permanent interests.

The First Key to Empowerment is Know Your Culture.

Culture usually refers to the norms or systems of behavior and shared values that are passed on from one generation to another…It is through culture that members of a group know who and what they are, and how to behave. "(p. 35)

Poweromics Dr. Claude Anderson

“Any religion that profess to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concern with the slums that dam then, economic conditions that strangle them and social condition that cripple then is a Dry as Dust religion.” DR MLK Stride toward freedom p36

Process description (short)

Ancestral veneration benefits

Depending on the spiritual strength of the ancestor they are able to access higher and higher Absolute Cosmic Principles. Most ancestors (due to lack of spiritual development) don’t have the consistent regular access to our plane and energy to consistently positively affect you. Ancestral rituals and shrines (not an “impermanent” alter) provides a channel for bilateral support in a family between the living and the dead members. Your consecrated shrine continually gives your ancestors better and easier access the physical realm, (while also giving the living family an access portal(s) to the subtle realms) and your rituals, feedings and light, gives your ancestors energy to help and do more. The caliber, order and size of your shrine (from basic emblem to full enshrined pot), as well as your level of feeding will as dictate the scope of influence from base nuclear family to extend family and clan. Lastly, and most importantly ancestors, particular ascended one act as allies in assist you fulfill your life propose, living your life highest destiny, which is living your best life.

The ancestral benefit effect:

Mainly

Protection: Protection for hostile forces

Good fortune: subtle adjustment of world flow to benefit practitioner and family

Divination Communicating/attaining lost or out of range information or provide guidance

Minority

Astral: Allowing access to the Astral Plane, for movement and/or communication.

Mental: Access to collective intuitions, feelings, memories, thoughts and desires.

Healing: Remove afflictions &/or heal wounds physical and spiritual

Occasional

Intercession Acting as intermediary in heavenly hierarchy

Protection: Departed ancestors wield great authority, having special powers (base around, DNA linkage, self-extension and eldership) to influence the course of events or to control the well-being of their living relatives. They provide protection to the family; keeping it together is one of the departed ancestors’ main concerns. The living may regard the departed ancestors as ‘guardian angels’; protecting them from serious accidents, or guiding their path in life.
Divination: The descendants sometimes turn to the ancestors for guidance through divination, séances, mediums or Ouija boards and other methods to help them in making important decisions.
Communication from the afterlife: Departed ancestors have the ability to communicate with the living through dreams and by possessing their descendants.
Intervention: Sometimes departed ancestors are considered intermediaries between God (and / or Deities) and the family they have left behind. They may intercede with God/Goddess, Deities and Saints/ (other ascended being) for the benefit of the family.

These benefits are reversible in the case of ancestral discipline or an offense ancestral curse/work

Ancestral reconnections

Is key, if not core, to the process of re-establishing cultural and social identity and independent

The first goal achieved by monotheism (and colonialism) was to disconnect us from our ancestors, from our roots, from that precious knowledge of who we are and where we come from. It gave us instead a filter of disconnection, repression, over-intellectualization, excessive stoicism, fear, greed, and confusion. It did this so well that, many of us don’t even realize that we come from indigenous roots; we don’t recognize the filter of modern Christian pop culture.

This Ancestral reconnection is planned to address

– Our lack of consciousness and willingness to sacrifice for and support one another.

Member Ancestral Spiritual Initiation Progress table

Level

rank

Title

Attainment

Clarification or requirement

Follower (Mfuasi)

Belief

Ancestral Alter

1.0

beginning innate Mwari

Emblem lvl 2

Cultural path checked

1.0

beginning innate Mwari 2

Emblem w/ Bless necklace

Afrocentricity

1.4

Ancestral Devotee

Ancestral scratch

Usually warriors

2.0

Aspirant (Shauku )

Egun staff &/ Teha

Nguzo Saba +

2.0

Aspirant

Ancestral oathing blade

Usually warrior or head of house

2.1

Aspirant

Ancestral lineage re alignment

Learn re view Life transits Rituals[ii]

2.2

Aspirant

Root reading

What you suppose to do

2.3

Aspirant

Iku joto reading

Who is helping you

2.4

Aspirant

Ancestral linage empowerment

Empower your helpers

2.7

Aspirant of grandmother

Herbal rite

Met your spirit folk direct

Apprentice Traveler

Elegba, Enkon malengo, Gede

Careful which door you opened

Keeper family

Egun shrine full

Steward ship

Priest 1 student priest

Egungun shrine

May do Naming’s

Priest 2

Maat rite

May do Wedding

Atogun full priest

Elevation rite/Olokun

May do funerals

(note along with this progression member are expected to learn basic energy healing)[iii]

2 We believe in a community collective spirit. This spirit supports the interconnection of individual families and communities. It is part of the basis of the practice of Africans self-extension. It helps keep communities whole and health

One of the ways that we seek to support that spirit to enhance the overall health of the community is the practice of Egungun and other ancestral rituals both publicly and privately. We realize that the same ancestral practices that now have become identified primarily with European elite, were in fact the transliteration of ancestral practices that were the foundation of our society. Therefore, we established holy days to practice collective rituals and promote the teaching, training, and initiation of individuals and families to reintroduce ancestral practices Africans in the Diaspora. Sadly, we realize that the same practices that were liberating and empowering enough history have been vilified by the European construct in the Christian church. This was a method of the continued subjugation of African people both culturally and spiritually causing economic and political disenfranchisement.

3. We believe that any ministry to Africa people not designed for their empowerment is there to perpetuate Slavery (White Supremacy/Colonialism/Neo colonialism) Albert Cleage Jr. (1911–2000)

***The core of Institutionzation is developing and executing

Succession Planning- Seamlessly Transferring Key Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Membership

2 Target population & member, volunteers and initiates & teachers

Target population- The English-speaking western world “black” folk

Volunteers

Mission Alignment: Belief in our mission and strategy for helping fellow

Member affiliate

Membership is social & fiscal (20$ month)brass level or higher like silver membership 444 annual

Culture Fit: Motivated, highly-collaborative team environment.

Members full (Initiates) & teachers

Avid Learning: Adaptive to feedback and focused on continuous improvement.

Egbe clan oath before collective ancestral body (require embalm or staff)

Approved by divination

Must be willing to invest into one’s own development

Must be willing to practice African communalism

Egbe membership & mutual aid pact

Egbe membership proper is a mutual aid agreement to treat members as family and extended family. This course includes sharing resources, information and forms of spiritual sharing in which one agrees to have one’s ancestors aid another members ancestors. This agreement is in fact a form of a collective clan marriage pact, (mating) and the basis of a clanship as an alliance of families and bloodlines.

Pan Africa Egun Egbe Oath

Before and by,

The Omnipotent Power of the Universal Creator,

The Divine Forces (Neter, Nkisi Orisha, Abosom, Lwa etc.),

Our Venerated Ancestors, Revered Elders, initiated Masters and comrades In Arms & service

I, ____________________ of my own free and accord, give my loyalty respect and devotion to this

Pan Africna Egun Egbe, and due to devote my life to the understanding of my ancestors.

(Mutual support pack)

I understand that I &/or my ancestors may be called upon at time to lend support or or/give my ancestors my time, energy, and love, and I may be called upon to assist my kin (spiritual family), to further this Pan African Egun Egbe. I commit myself and ancestors as their initiated representative to support and recognize the mission, protocols & taboos of my spiritual Pan African Egun Egbe family.

(Spiritual nationalism)

I commit my ancestors to recognize that we as a community are a song with many voices;

One spirit, in many beings

One nation, in many peoples

One breath, in many bodies.

Consequently, we practice compassion, collaboration and communalism as

We walk many paths to One destiny

So, Help Me, and keep me steadfast in my commitment to the Egun Egbe

Historical and Ideological training outline

It is important that ancestral Egbe members understand key concepts in African culture, history, basic life lessons and contribution of special exemplars. (These topics cover in the 1,2,3a&3b 4 semesters)

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must master the ideas that influence that destiny

Dr. John Henry Clark

History training

African eve 320-80,000bc The monolith builders 80k-20k BCE The rise of Kmt 15-12 k BCE

Maafa (African Holocaust)[iv] Old & Neo colonialism& Haiti 1805[v] The fall of Kmt 500 BCE

History of the Yoruba History of Ghana History of Kongo

Ideological training

Cress Welsing color confrontation Ice cradle theory Irreconcilable differences

Moorish Indigenous African identity Power Elite. Mills Neanderthal Euro-hybrids

Cultural unity of Black Africa Pan Africanism Ubuntu & Maat

Destruction of black civilization C Williams Thing fall Apart 2000 Seasons

Kill the messenger – the Gray Webb story 13th the movie African divine kingship institution

Scholars

Amos Wilson key teaching Dr. Clark key teaching Ivan Van Sertima

Military

Kandace queens vs Alexander Zumbi vs Portuguese Hannibal Barca vs Rome

Scientists

Imhotep Cheikh Anta Diop[vi] Madame C.J. Walker (Sarah Breedlove).

Slaver & resistance

John horse& Seminole wars William Parker & 1851 Christiana Riot XXXXXXXXXXXXX

Political

Patrice Lumumba Thomas Sankara Amílcar Cabral

Spiritual

Oseijeman Dinzulu Shekum shekum

Atrocities

German-Namibian holocaust Belgium Kongo holocaust Arab Slave Trade

Conspiracy &politics

Rock feller medical takeover surgical totalitarianism soft fascism

Nakumbuka is a Kiswahili word that means “I remember”. Nakumbuka is the name given to the annual day of observance for the Maafa (The African slavery holocaust) and all OUR VETERANS who died fighting for the liberation of People of African Descent anywhere in the world.

(November 11 each year is observed as Veterans' Day in the USA (Remembrance Day in Canada). The English, French and Americans honor the Unknown Soldier. Although servicemen of African heritage lost their lives in the World Wars and subsequent imperialist wars Veterans Day or Remembrance Day did not resonate with people of African heritage. These wars were not pursued for the benefit of African liberation so commemoration of them was not so meaningful for Black/People of African Descent the world over.), -Kheper the evolutionary (warrior Shemshu)

This is a link to a more detailed history of Nakumbuka day in the words of some the people and not all of the people who began promoting this Pan Afrikan Holiday/Holy-Day. http://www.nakumbuka.org/History01.html

Some books

Of Water and Spirit, Some

Egun: The Ifa Concept of Ancestor Reverence (V3) by Awo Fa'lokun Fatunmbi (Nov 2, 2013)

ORÍKÌ EGÚN Praising the Ancestors By Awo Fa’lokun Fatunmbi

African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing (African Systems of Thought) by Philip M Peek

Egbe ancestral articulation: The second phase

Requires completion of ashram set1, Kung kia 1 Dogon 2 and, meditation 1 &2

Is a branching point. It is not required for a basic practitioner. It is a deeper study of Ancestral, funerary and shadow forces. It is a preparation for initiation into Egungun proper and the other associated entity.

Note Mayombe initiation and or curriculum not required for this level of study)

Egbe ancestral articulation: The third phase

Requires completion of ashram set2, Kung Ra 2\ Dogon 3 and, Tantra 1 training & empowerment

Curriculum Advance Pan African ancestral and Egungun practices level 3 priest 1.v2 (1 year training)

This set of teachings and practices designed primarily for the advanced practitioner and the priest.

In this particular course that focuses actually learning how to do specific rituals and rites and assumes a familiarity with them and certain rights rituals have already been received.

Ancestral Society insignia (8.v)

Egbe shoulder sash

Egbe sash 12’ wide 90 inches long worn on left shoulder.

The shoulder scarf represents the ancestral force that are with and around the wearer (initiate)

Red shoulder sash with 1 white shell if ancestral staff

Red shoulder sash with 3 white shells if emblem

Red shoulder sash with +4 tiger shells if scratch Mayombe

Red shoulder sash with +2 white shells if pot & options of small pouch w/ ase from pot

Red shoulder sash with +9 white shells if Egungun priest

Red shoulder sash with 13 tiger shell if full Mayombe (includes 4 from scratch)

Description

White Cowie shell

Total

Cowie

shell[vii]

Tiger back

Cowie

Total

back

Cowie

Total

Shells

ancestral staff

emblem

Pot

Oya

Egungun priest

Mayombe scratch

Mayombe priest

Ossian

Eshu[viii]

Warriors usually wear their sash across chest[ix] and ties in a knot on right.

While priest usually pin it and let it hang from left shoulder

When you worship another people’s ancestor you are a slave. (Whether you know it or not)- Mfundishi of Steel

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust –Aesop’s Fables

Religion is not the opium of the masses,

but religion must be used as an arm by the revolutionary forces–Kwame Ture

Calendar Events

(Olokun white table) winter solstice Invitation Sponsor EO NJ December

(Oya /Maat/Yanca white table) Public Sponsor EO NJ October

Spring equinox community feeding Invitation Sponsor Residence March last week end

Tribute to ancestors Public Support NYC June 1st or 2nd Saturday

Odunde Public Support Phily June 1st Sunday

Juneteenth Ancestral Masquerade Public Sponsor EO NJ June 19st Saturday/Sunday

African diasporic festival Public Support Newark August

Harlem African heritage Parade Public Support NYC September

Kwanza Public Support Refal/ECC December

[i] The reverence of ancestors is widespread across the Continent, they are seen as spiritual teachers and guardians who provide assistance in one’s life journey. The connection is on a DNA (lineage) level which enables them to remain in contact (beyond time and space). Consistently across the Continent there is the understanding of the supreme life force (Creator/God) that exists in all-living things, yet it is widely understood that it is the ancestors who assist with personal your experience.

[i] This model is a component of the spiritual layering and initiation model used in Kemet as a unified spiritual system discussed later in other articles.

[ii] Includes reading family Covey, Stephen R., 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families and covers Rites, Birth ,naming, communal oath & identity, adulthood, mate selection, mating/sex, marriage, conflict resolution, death/funeral, kwanza, solstice, memorial & holydays

[iv] Songs we would never hear! Histories we would never know! Art we would never see! Because the European had the capacity to destroy and didn’t have the moral restraint not to.— Maulana Karenga

The word”’Maafa”’ (also known as the African Holocaust) is derived from a Swahili word meaning disaster, terrible occurrence or great tragedy. 1)The term today collectively refers to the Pan-African discourse of the 500 hundred years of suffering of people of African heritage through Slavery, imperialism, colonialism, apartheid, rape, oppression, invasions, and exploitation.

The African Holocaust is a pan-African discourse on the global historical and contemporary genocide against the mental and physical health of African people. The effects of this genocide impact all areas of African life: religion, heritage, tradition, culture, agency, self-determination, marriage, identity, rites of passage, and ethics. And finally acts to marginalize Africans from their historical trauma and historical glory.

The African Holocaust is the greatest continuing tragedy the world has ever seen. It was also the most impacting social event in the history of humanity. Not only in terms of scale but also in terms of legacy and horror. It is a Holocaust which is constantly denied, mitigated and trivialized.

The Maafa reduced humans with culture and history to a people invisible from historical contribution; mere labor units, commodities to be traded. From this Holocaust/Maafa the modern racial-social hierarchy was born which continues to govern the lives of every living human where race continues to confer (or obstruct) privilege and opportunity.

And because the African Holocaust is rarely treated as a continuous history, worthy of an ongoing discourse, the inter-relations a Holocaust Trans-Atlantic and the agents of this Holocaust escape treatment. It makes it easy to make people see slavery, colonialism, apartheid as divorced from one another. Treating them as isolated studies, often misses the pattern of white supremacy throughout (modern) African history. -Alik Shahadah

And in the 21st century the legacy of enslavement manifest itself in the social-economic status of Africans globally. Without a doubt Africans (as well as Native Americans and Australians) globally constitute the most oppressed, most exploited, most downtrodden people on the planet; a fact that testifies to the untreated legacy of Slavery, colonialism and apartheid. Not only is this reality in the social-economic spectrum, it is also experienced in the academic and political value the Maafa receives compared to the Jewish genocide. While African people are told to “move on from slavery”, Jewish holocaust is a staple of World history.- http://africanholocaust.net/africanholocaust/-

[v] Why is Haiti So Poor? Haitian Revolution Complete History Feat. Prof. Bayyinah Bello, www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcV6NTqoyAc

[vi] Kemtiyu, Cheikh Anta Director: Ousmane William Mbaye. Year: 2016, Running Time: 94 min.Language: Wolof and French with English subtitles discussion on the life of Cheikh Anta Diop. -This film tracks Diop as a Renaissance man: historian, scholar, scientist, inventor, political activist and institution builder. Born in Diourbel, Senegal. His writings are mandatory reading for those studying African history: Precolonial Black Africa (1987); The African Origins of Civilization: Myth or Reality (1974); The Cultural Unity of Black Africa (1990), and; Civilization or Barbarism (1992)

[vii] Assuming a “normal “progression

[viii] Eshu is not Orisha proper but is a special entity class and closer to the earth

[ix] The Red Cross chest scarf represents the ancestral warrior(s) that walk with wearer & fire up their heart