Essays by Ekowa
Iconography
and Religion
Iconography:
According to some scholars the name Isis or Auset may have been
derived from the word Ashesh, meaning to 'pour out' and 'supporting'
implication of her blood or milk that kept all humanity alive.
Similarly, the Hebrews used the name to Ishah/Esha for their
first woman in the biblical account.
We must remember neither the Hebrews or the
Egyptians or any other people living in Africa used vowels to emphasis
pronunciation. this was a cultural trait handed down through the generations.
In Gen., iii,
20 the name Havvah or Eve is connected etymologically with the verb meaning "to live":
"And Adam called the name of his wife Eve [hawwah]: because she was
the mother of all the living". The Septuagint rendering in this passage is
the Greek Zoe
(=life, or life-giver), which is a translation; in two other passages (Genesis
4:1 and 25) the
name is transliterated Eua.
The life giving symbol are the fallopian tubes and the union of male and
female and the returning or reincarnate nature of the spirit. The Egyptians used the Ankh as
the symbol for life, male and female, creation, and returning. So the iconic
symbol of all those concepts are encapsulated into the ankh.
The Ox or Cow
The cow-headed
Isis
pouring out a libation in honor of the soul of Osiris, which rises in the form
of a man-headed hawk from the plants growing in a sacred lake.
The cow headed woman is Hathor.
Meaning "mansion of Horus")
Hathor is an Ancient Egyptian goddess/neter who personified the principles of
joy, feminine love, and motherhood. She was one of the most important and
popular deities throughout the history of Ancient Egypt. Hathor was reverenced
by royalty and common people alike in whose tombs she is depicted as "Mistress
of the West" welcoming the dead into the next life. In other roles she
was a goddess of music, dance, foreign lands and fertility who helped women in
childbirth, as well as the patron goddess of miners.
As a side note:
The neter Hathor is the model for Snow white and the 7 dwarves. There is nothing
new under the sun, the only difference is the whiteness of Snow White. the
diminutive miners [dwarves] are a representation of the Africans who first
smelted iron and dug underground for minerals, and Hathor was their patron
saint. When we do not know the autochthonous meaning when we see it
interwoven through world history, we will think it is something new or demonic
or against our Creator.
Images tell a story to
those who were not well versed in the ancient mysteries.
We
say a someone is “Strong as an Ox” the iconographic image would be a man/woman
with a head of an Ox or an Ox alone atop is in a position of power. If this image was
used for God then it would be fashioned as an Ox on a throne or with a crown of
halo, or in an elevated
position as seen below. The disk atop the head and between the
horns represents the icon for God [he/she/it] with a disk on its head
representing the largest object in the sky, the
Sun. This was not sun worship by our ancestors, but a reference to the power of the
Creator. No man has seen God and lived, but we have seen its power.
Bull standing on the square
[of the earth] crowned with the sun disk
How did the
biblical prophet Ezekiel describe his visions? In iconographic terms of course,
but was he seeing demons? No, because demonism is in the pen of the
translator.
Ezk. 1:4-11
“As
I looked, a stormy wind came out of the north: a great cloud with brightness
around it and fire flashing forth continually, and in the middle of the fire,
something like gleaming amber. In the middle of it was something like four
living creatures. This was their appearance: they were of human form.
Each had four faces, and each of them had four wings. Their legs were straight,
and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calf's foot; and they
sparkled like burnished bronze. Under their wings on their four sides they had
human hands. And the four had their faces and their wings thus: their wings
touched one another; each of them moved straight ahead, without turning as they
moved. As for the appearance of their faces: the four had the face of a human
being, the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side,
and the face of an eagle; such were their faces.”
Protestant Reformation drawing
of the vision of Ezekiel
Here Ezekiel is using iconic
imagery. As like, something like, they appeared like is all the language of the
unknown. The language of those who do not have the celestial vocabulary for the
images they see. The imagery of winged
gods/deities/creatures came out of the playbook of the African in Egypt the ones
who could interpret the images.
Winged Isis
with Ankh, staff and stool 538-519 BC
This is the imagery of
Ezekiel. When says as like or
something like it wasn't exactly it, but those are the elemental words
and thoughts he had to describe what he saw. He spoke in approximations of what he saw
in the vision or dream.
You need the keys to understand the allusion or illustration and you need to
look to history because Judaism and Ezekiel's understanding didn't grow up in a
vacuum, they borrow heavily from the major nations around them. Egypt was their
biggest influence. No many Christians would say that they drew on paganism, but
it was not, because our Creator always had a priesthood and everyone from
Abraham to Joseph, to Moses to Jesus went to study in Egypt, even Paul was said
to be an Egyptian. Why? Because Egypt was the school of divine learning.
In the protestant
Reformation drawings above:
' Cause they know something you don't know. It is the symbol of the SUN.
Those who claim orthodoxy want you to believe African were animist and
polytheistic sun and moon worshippers, but we were not!
Polytheism
- The belief in the existence of many Gods.
Animism
- derived from the Latin word anima meaning breath or soul, but
in this sense the animal icon or zootype is alive and represents man and God.
"The belief of animism is probably one of man's oldest
beliefs, with its origin most likely dating to the Paleolithic age. From its
earliest beginnings it was a belief that a soul or spirit existed in every
object, even if it was inanimate. In a future state this soul or spirit would
exist as part of an immaterial soul. The spirit, therefore, was thought to be
universal."
E.W.Budge
Is this
animism? No just iconography described in zootypes.
How is
anything on earth and in the heavens animated? Is it not the spirit of our
Creator [Creative Force] that embodies them and us? Who says that what we did was
against God? Those who translated and have changed all thing black into all
things white. Those who wanted to take over and those who developed a system to
say what was good and bad or what was evil or not, and finally what was the way and what was
error. This was the beginning of the system of white supremacy for those who
designated themselves a white and superior to the rest of the world.
The European concept of Polytheism and Animism was against
the Afro-Indus concept and they lied to condense the perception of what is or is
not God, and what is or is not the
manifestation of God [power to create, live and make all things seen and unseen,
known and unknown to mankind in the spiritual and natural worlds] for their own
power and control.
The European/Western concept is viewed in a different way than the
original African understanding; the former is viewed in the Western or
Occidental mind-set as the 'one and only' Sacred way, while the later,
African or Oriental concept, is viewed as
profane, pagan and primitive. We see again the racist stereotype that, if you are
white European you're right, but if you're black African get back!
Most of this is due to their complete misunderstanding and misinterpretation of
iconic imagery, zootypes and not using the same measuring rod to find the truth
in the mystery. Although they adopted this African imagery and reworked it to suit their
purposes.
The African no more worshipped animals or many gods as
the Christians today worship Jesus in the form of a Lamb sacrificed.
'The
Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the World...'
or
The Trinity referred to as God in 3
persons
'There
are three that bear witness in Heaven.'
Why isn't the trinity of God polytheism?
Because, it is understood as a oneness or monotheist concept. But where did this
concept come from? Egypt the trinity of the deity.
The Triune Family
In the Trinity there is the Father [middle/Osiris],
theSon [Horus left the hawk headed] and the Holy Spirit or mother [Isis to the
right]. The Holy spirit of the breath or Ruach of God [in Hebrew] and is a feminine
entity. So,
we have the
Egyptian iconic image of Father, Son and Holy
Ghost long before there was a biblical Hebrew text.
A
serpent on a pole the symbol of healing
The Caduceus:
The symbol of healing for the Hebrews and later the symbol of Medicine in
western culture.
Many "medical" organizations use a symbol of a short rod entwined by
two snakes and topped by a pair of wings, which is actually the
Greek or Romanish caduceus
or magic wand of the Greek god Hermes (Roman Mercury), which were
copies of the Egyptian Thoth, messenger of the gods, inventor of (magical)
incantations, conductor of the dead and protector of merchants and thieves.
The biblical Moses
used the same symbol which he had from his Egyptian training, but he understood
the mystery.
- And the LORD said to
Moses,
"Make
a Saraph [firey serpent] and mount it on a pole, and if anyone who has been
bitten looks at it, he will recover. "Moses accordingly made a bronze
serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever anyone who had been bitten by
a serpent looked at the bronze serpent, he recovered.
-
- Hum...how could looking on a serpent cure
a serpents bite? I'll leave that to you to discover...is all in the original
meaning of the words! Why would
God use an image that was an anathema for healing?
The brazen symbol on a pole, the mere sight of which cured the Israelites, was
probably the Caduceus [Numbers 21:9]. The Nehustan[serpent] was worshipped in the
tabernacle up to the time of Hezekiah [2Kings 18:4].
Saraph';
burning, i.e. (figuratively) poisonous (serpent); specifically, a Saraph or
symbolical creature (from their copper color):--fiery (serpent), seraph.
Here
is an interesting thing...I found a possible correlation between the word Neshstan and Nehesi
[The original people who populated Egypt].
"Nehesi
is the Egyptian name for Nubian and Nehesi was also the name of a Pharaoh from
the 14th Dynasty. The color of burn copper was the same color the Egyptians
applied to the drawings of themselves a dark reddish color. "
So were
these the healers of the Hebrews the Nehesi, that needed to be lifted up[ exalted] on a
pole? A serpent was always a sign, not of evil in the ancient world , but of
knowledge of the divine. Now, you can mixed that around if you want to, but you
have to ask the question why would the biblical Elohim put his two innocent
children in a garden with a talking snake? It has to be an allegory or an
allusion to something else. Remember we read the Bible based on an elemental
understanding or as the Hebrews say on a p'shat level. We have been taught to
sit in a seat that has been prepared for us.
Unfortunately, the farther away you get from the root of the
original understanding, the more confused and cloudy the subsequent understanding
becomes.
"The
more you hate your parents the more you will hate their ways. "
“The
farther you move away from your Momma, the more you misbehave, forgetting what you
were taught and the power of its meaning.”
Is
God Male or Female?
It is the same with gender; The Creator is neither
male nor female--IT is what IT is...to quote my sister.
BUT, it is easier for most 'religious' people in our society to
view God as white and male, because in this system of white supremacy white and
male is the symbol of supreme dominance and feigned fatherliness, but
that was not always the case.
We
have adopted the false idea of the ‘White man’s burden.”
To civilize all those darker than him and bring them into the light of
Christianity [religion]. Pope Innocence called to all mariners to civilize all
the darker races which is 98% of the world.
Remember Adam called his wife LIFE...so there was a time when Biblical
womanhood represented the Creator and creation.
The Biblical Adam and Eve were gods to their children and all
those who came after them. They were a
story told second and third hand.
The original story had its nativity in
Egypt/Africa with the Neter [gods] Elohim and those who sprang from them.
Now, I have no problem seeing the female in the Creator, but for
those who may still stumble over the femaleness of God I
will at times stick to modern orthodoxy and say He, but you need to study and
get your panties out of a knot!
Our terms, pictures, images and metaphors do not trouble our
Creator. It does not add or take away from the power of the Almighty. We
need to expand out thinking. In this creative pattern that exists on this Tera Firma and the
larger universe we live in, there is always a male and female component
for creation and maintenance.
The Bible
version tries to explain the first pair bonds by saying:
'In the image of God created he them, male and female he
created them.'
The Egyptians used Neteru which
are the pairs or
equal opposites of all existence. They
understood the Neteru were symbols of the power or attributes of the
One Creator and Maat [truth and order] being the principle that ordered these
forces.
So if there was a Amen [hidden force of life] there was a Amenet. Both were
understood and reverenced.
The European, trying to understand his misunderstanding and in the
process of his circular logic, called these African forces pagan and polytheistic and
spread the lie that we were in error but that is a LIE!
This new western thought is a paradigm shift in order to make
Europe/whites
the source and center of all wisdom, religion and the hope of mankind’s
salvation. The designation by Dr. Lightfoot and codified by Bishop Ussher
to map the time the world was created by the generations in the bible has done
us a disservice. The ancient people including the first Hebrews never would
comment of the length of time the earth and its inhabitants existed. Even the
Yom [designation for a day] is an indeterminate amount of time that can be a
literal 24 hour period to a figurative day. By demonizing our African people, culture and religion and calling us
pagans or heathens African culture was/is painted as negative
and Western Culture via
Greece
,
Rome
and
Europe
represent the positive. We became
darkness and they became light? But the truth is the light and Life!
Genesis 1:-3
“In
the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without
form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and
there was light.”
Remember this light was not
a White complexion, but illumination and revelation.
This new paradigm assigned to the Europeans as purveyors
of all truth in the eyes of the whole world and eventually in our eyes too
had brought an age of darkness not less troublesome than the dark ages. The
European Renaissance would not have occurred it was not for the Spanish Moor and
later those who traveled to Africa once again.
What the Catholics did during the time of Diocletian was to try and become the
white Pharaoh, which they codified under Constantine and later under the
Popistry of Rome. Over the centuries in order to gain entrance into the
mysteries and the throne of Egypt through intermarriages with the African
Pharonic ruler of Egypt and elsewhere. We now know the white Pharaoh copy-cat as
the Pope. Prior to all white Popes there were African Popes, but you will
never hear of them. Catholicism means Universal or the one-world religion.
Protestants are just those who protest the 96 thesis of Martin Luther
nailed to the door of the church in protest of those errors. Protestants are
just protesting Catholics that still belong to the Catholic church of
Christendom. So, in actuality the Pope the head of the Catholic church is your
White Pharaoh!
Well, the scales have come off my eyes and now I see.
I will stick with the ancient black understanding of religion thank you!
In this case:
Simply Man and Woman is the image of the Creator - Male and Female
working together creating a new world daily. Life making life.
"As
it is above, So below."
As
the biblical Hebrew understood the double dale to be the renamed and attributed to the biblical Solomon as the seal of Solomon or Star of David
taken from the African iconic image of the double pyramid. As the pyramids in
the Giza plateau was once covered with water, the reflection of the pyramids
told the story of "as in heaven so on earth" for all to see!
As the Egyptian understood
this image:
As
the symbol of life the Ankh
in the hands of Messu [Messiah]
As
the Christian explained it Christ in us the hope of Glorification and as
it in Heaven so on Earth.
[The animal/lamb is wearing a sundisk around its head with the cross inserted,
it is carrying a staff,
but these are Christian images!
Unfortunately,
the
Christians understood it as the lamb of God or Christ's
and the redemptive work on the
cross and the multiplying of the church without seeing the ankh embedded in it.
The Ichthus or Fish symbol of the acrostic,
Jesus Christ, the son of God was a age-old symbol of the Isis knot or the ankh paired down
and turned on its side.
The Greek word for fish or Ichthus is said to mean:
Iota - From the northern Semitic
'yod'
(meaning hand) it came to denote the sound [i] as i in 'give' and it has come to
be known as: A tiny or scarcely detectable amount. [Yod - hand or give, or
the finger of God]
Chi - Initially it denoted the sound [kh] but it
gradually lapsed into a strong 'h' as in 'hearth' or'hero'. [Chi - Form of
Energy, spirit]
Theta - Originating from the northern Semitic 'teth' (where
the 't' sound is emphatic).[Tet -Serpent]
Upsilon - It was pronounced as so right until the 9/10
century A.D. when the Byzantines called y psilon (a thin y), instead of its
original name which was 'U'.It originates from the northern Semitic 'waw'.
[Waw
- Nail]
Sigma - From the northern Semitic 'sin' or ‘siyn’ (tooth).
[Sin or Shin - tooth]
So in Northern Semitic it could read:
Hand of God - Energy-Serpent -Nail -Tooth[hook]
Sounds
similar to the Nehestan or Caduceus doesn't it and was it the original intent of
Moses?
"21.6.
And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and
much people of Israel died. 7. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We
have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto
the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the
people. 8. And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it
upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he
looketh upon it, shall live. 9. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it
upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he
beheld the serpent of brass, he lived."
Note:
The so-called Northern Semitic peoples are the Canaanites. They
will also call it Paleo-Hebrew, but it is the original Canaanite language.
That is an acrostic supposedly means: "Jesus Christ,
of God, the Son, the Savior" [Iesous (Jesus) CHristos
(Christ) THeou (of God) Uiou (the Son) Soter (the Savior)]
in Greek.
The image of the serpent on the cross is the Icthus or the ankh/Isis knot
of the Egyptians.
Did you eat fish on Fridays?
In the Catholic and Protestant division of Christianity - Eating
fish on Fridays was the rule - but did you ask where that whole concept came
from? It was supposed to be in honor of Jesus and the disciples and their
role as fishermen, but it came from the Egyptian avoiding fish because of the
loss of the penis of Osiris when he was killed and dismembered by Set. His penis
was never found and the said a fish ate it so they avoided fish on a certain day
in honor of the god of the dead Osiris. Osiris is the god of the
resurrection that was 3 days in the grave.
Fish
womb
[ does the vagina smell fishy?]
The official
Catholic story is:
We do not have to abstain from eating the flesh of meat on Fridays
of Lent (obligatory), or all other Fridays if we don't choose some other form
of penance (depends on what the Conference of Bishops in that particular
country have come to). This is a form of penance [atonement, reparation,
sacrifice].
Excuse me but
didn’t Messiah atone for our sins? OOPS! But, was this the
original Pre-Catholic meaning? Nope!
The Fish was always the ancient symbol of the goddess womb
and the missing penis of Osiris represented by this symbol () or LIFE represented by the ancient Egyptian symbol of the
Ankh that later in the Hebrew tradition became the Chia or the Havvah [Eve]
According to Barbara Walker in her book The Women Encyclopedia of
Myths and Secrets. Pg. 313:
"Fish and womb were
synonymous in Greek culture; delphos meant both the original
Delphic oracle [black women who prophesied] first belonged to the
abyssal fish goddess under her pre-Hellenic name of Themis, often
incarnate in the great fish whale or dolphin [delphinos]. "
[The Delphi were Black women.]
Even our superstitions today among older church members, the mothers
and grandmothers of the church reminds a woman if she has Dreamt of Fish
that is a sign of pregnancy.
The
Catholic Popes Mitre and Dagon
called the Great Fish God [the paternalistic rendition].
The last pope and his
successor
Why do you think the Pope wears the hat that looks a lot like Dagon?
It is representative of the Fish.
Check out my essay on Islam and Catholicism
there you will find the worship of the goddess/neter in the form of Mariology/Auset.
"The ankh called the Egyptian cross of life, represented the
male and female sexual symbols: a female oval surmounting a male cross. The
marriage between the god and the goddess [male and female]. The representation
of immortality and life. The letter hieroglyph that stands for 'The
Life female]. The representation of immortality and life. The letter
hieroglyph that stands for 'The Life to Come'. "
It has also been explained as the key to unlock the mystery of
heaven and earth. Combining the symbol of Osiris the Tau [T or cross] with
Isis
[the oval] is the symbol of immortality [Children, progeny, regeneration?] and
is often pictured being carried by the gods [neteru].
All symbols come from one source and that is
Egypt
. The original story is told and retold and additions and deletions are
made and that is how we come up with what we believe today. I hope you can see the pattern.
All images are iconographic and invoke something in all of us.
The wings of Isis or
Maat
The Greek Orthodox, Catholic Church and subsequent modern
Christianity have co-opted the symbol of the FISH symbol and
repackaged it and now it is the representation of Christ.
Herodotus speaking of the Africans:
"And of fish also they esteem that which is called the
lepidotos to be sacred, and also the eel; and these they say are sacred to the
Nile
."
Herodotus, Histories.
And just so the myth of the Hebrews being the only culture that
abhorred pigs:
"The
pig is accounted by the Egyptians an abominable animal; and first, if any of
them in passing by touch a pig, he goes into the river and dips himself
forthwith in the water together with his garments. "Herodotus, Histories
I
The Egyptian also
abhorred pigs because
their association with Set the one who killed Osiris.
The Hebrew picked up this supposed hatred and incorporated into their Levitical
laws.
"All
the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter
into them." At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came
out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the
steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea." Mark 5:13
The Egyptians Attributes of God as seen in the Earth and Sky.
The Neteru were twins or opposite principles for Egyptian iconography and
symbolic principles in nature.
The European erroneously translated the Neteru as 'Gods' and therefore in that
misunderstanding they believed the Egyptian was pagans and believed in
polytheisms. If that is true then all of us are pagans and believe in
polytheism.
The Bible, which borrowed[stole] heavily from the Egyptian concepts and
uses the same nomenclature.
Earth and Sky, Day and Night as described in Genesis 1. All underlined
words are the Egyptian Neteru.
In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth,
the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the
abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters.
Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was
light.
God saw how good the light was. God then separated the light
from the darkness.
God called the light "day," and the darkness he
called "night." Thus evening came, and morning followed--the
first day.
Then God said, "Let there be a dome in the middle of
the waters, to separate one body of water from the other." And so it
happened:
God made the dome, and it separated the water above the dome
from the water below it.
God called the dome "the sky." Evening
came, and morning followed--the second day.
Then God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered
into a single basin, so that the dry land may appear." And so it
happened: the water under the sky was gathered into its basin, and the dry
land appeared.
God called the dry land "the earth," and the basin
of the water he called "the sea." God saw how good it was.
So, here we have the equal opposites, the attributes of
power that were given names: Heaven and Earth, Light and Dark, Sky and Sea.
The power to create and sustain were assigned male and female characteristics or
anthropomorphic features by the parents of the original Hebrew Creation Story,
the Egyptians.
Amon Saba Saakana says:
"Out
of the waters of Nun [primeval matter] emerged Atum-Re, the veritable
Creator-God who is self-created and who creates four pairs of human beings,
male and female, and is responsible for the germination of life. Scholars have
tended to portray Khemet as polytheistic, but there is no word in the majority
of African languages that convey the idea of a multiplicity of gods."
Modupe Oduyoye
in his essay; The Spirits that rule the world
African Religion and Judaism -
"The problem with discovering the origins of Judaism is that
Judaism is a religion that denies its
origins...Judaism declares that
it arose out of total rejection of the religions of Mesopotamia, of
Egypt
and of
Canaan
."
In rejecting the symbols of your nativity the Hebrew had to
replace the meanings then make up a supporting story for the symbols.
But, the thread of original truth runs through
all the Biblical accounts especially in Genesis chapter One. From the
remaking of Creation and the making of the Adam and the dividing of that unit
into two or twins, Adam and Chavvah.
The Hebrews also took a page out of the Egyptian handbook of
explanations by referring to Cain and Abel in an offhanded way to say twins
[actually 2 sets of twins]
The Hebrew legends in the Misnah and
Talmud speak
of the Biblical Eve had Cain, Abel and 2 daughters simultaneously, 2 sets of
twins, male and
female.
Our view of God being exclusively male is very recent, since
Judaism denies the female principle, but uses the AH, T and OT endings to
denote the feminine principle. Here is where we get the Shekinah as
a feminine and not masculine attribute of the Almighty.
Yes, the Shekinah is feminine and the Rabbis understand it as
such. The modern Protestant has not delved deep enough to see this ancient
truth the whole world understands. It has been only in translations that the
Holy Sprit has taken on male characteristics.
Quoting Barbara Walker in her book stated above, pg. 932:
" The Hebrew Shekinah means dwelling
place, ...Sh'kina was the soul of the universe. Jewish Mystics said the 'outer
garment' of the Shekina is Torah 'Holy Law.' A man became the bridegroom of
Torah by study, symbolizing erotic imagery. He must court her [Torah] like a
beautiful maiden. "She begins from behind a curtain to speak words in
keeping with his understanding, until very slowly insight comes to him.' The
Shekina as 'Indwelling One' might be compared to the Latin I-dea or 'Goddess
within'.
"A man required his Shekina for
enlightenment, so God required his Shekina for wisdom and creativity. This
crucial tenet of Kabaalistic doctrine is seldom emphasized - or even
mentioned - today."
Hummmm....sounds
like the Shekina is MAAT!
In Hebrew, both verbs and adjectives have male or female forms,
and many names suggest gender to anyone who understands the language and they
must agree in gender and number. The word Shekinah, in Hebrew, is derived
from the Biblical verb shakhan, meaning "the act of dwelling"
but taking the feminine form.
Unfortunately, the medieval and modern Hebrew could not live up to
the root of this understanding, so they refer to the 'Shekinah' or 'Holy
Spirit' in the female gender without the female principle. This
understanding is forever lost in Christianity and the Shekinah is seen as a male
in the male Trinity of Beings as ascribed and ratified by the Nicean
Council, who in their haste to cover-up all thing African, distorted the true
meaning of the Scriptures.
Even the overshadowing of Miriam the mother of Jesus has been seen
as the male Shekinah overshadowing the female womb and impregnating it.
But the Shekinah or sprit of God is feminine. So without explanation what do we
believe?
"Once the essence [truth] is sucked out and replaced with an
alternative, it is very difficult to understand the allusions, so we just
over-look them until it piles up so high it is like a 3000 pound elephant
walking around your home."
Thousands and Thousands of years have gone by and the original
meaning of African religious iconography had been lost in translation, only the shell of
the truth remains, and the Western world has long since lost the root meaning of equal opposite
of the creative power and the iconographic images that can lead us to the truth.
To
be continued...
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Blessings,
Ekowa
2oo6
-2016