Rethinking Traditions For Traditions Sake
I was thinking about the rituals and traditions that many practitioners of Black/African religions/paths are involved in, some respectfully, some not so. In particular, the serving of rum as libations or offerings as well as cigars and cigar smoke to the ancestral spirits. It came to me that maybe these "traditional" products aren't appropriate offerings to our spiritually cultivated ancestors and ancestresses (the Egungun in the Yoruba tradition, *Nananom Nsamanfo in the Akan (*as I learned from studying materials by Kwesi Ra Nehem Ptah, Akhan, Odwirafo), *Kuvito in the Fon, Ntoru/Ntorotu in Khemit, etc. If anyone that knows the history of slavery, The MAAFA, The Black Holocaust, *the Great Perversity, it is known that rum was introduced to the Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut, Black race by the white alien mutant albino oppressors. They also forced our people to work in their rum factories and pick tobacco in their tobacco fields. Many of our people died in these fields and ...