Calling Rastafari: Wisdom of the Naga Maya ( Sesh,) or Star counsel

Wisdom of the Naga Maya

"Sigi so" or "language of the Sigui",

In Dogon mythology , sigi so would be the language taught by Nommo or by Amma to men. The Dogon language would only be spoken by those who did not know how to learn sigi so, sacred language, secret language of the masks spoken during major ceremonies such as the Dama (funeral) and the sigi (renewal of the world every sixty years) 

Around every 6000 years the earth is destroyed by some type disaster, for it is written Noah was 600 years when the floods came. Potolo travels around the bright star every 50 years(49.9) and that rotation is celebrated every 60 years,the Dogon says : To renew the earth…

Sura 53 Holy Quran(The Star) verse 49: And he Allah is lord of Sirius…

Sura 51 Holy Quran: Al-Dhariyat: The Scatterers.

Verse 24. Has the story of Abraham’s honored  guest reached thee?

Now we go to sura 15 which is 51 reversed and we go to verse 51 of sura 15 the rock

Verse 51: And inform them of the guest of Abraham.(read next few verses in both chapters,they reflect the other) the reason this is coded in Quran sura 51 is because Anunakki built great pyramid with a message and one code here is:

Each side of the Great Pyramid rises at an angle of 51.5 degrees to the top. Not only that, each of the sides are aligned almost exactly with true north, south, east, and west.

We will now look briefly at chapter 15,we see another sign of Anunakki telling us that they fixed it where NASA cannot go out into space, proof earth is a prison planet, verse 16-18:

And certainly we have made strongholds in the heaven, and we have made it fair-seeming to the beholders, and we guard it against every accursed devil…

For this is the wisdom of the star counsel.

( Sesh,)

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Dogon creation tradition is a very closely guarded sacred tradition, It’s an esoteric tradition, anyone in the tribe could learn if the Hogon  saw him fit and earned the right. But if not, he could be told anything…all that was required was to continue to pursue it…

Chilam Balam, Dogon, Rastafari, Same Thing…The Area of Expertise of the Rastafari, is Word sound /Power. i.e.,   Poetry , Music, sacred art of sound vibration etc, healing…

There is a harmony in the laws of the universe in relation and in Terms to and of the creation of matter, the  universe, and the creation of life, all three are Governed by similar principles and within this esoteric mythology system, the Dogon  have preserved this knowledge  through the years by painting and drawing symbols in the sand. This is of the origin of the oral tradition…note the Dogon wisdom was released in the 1930’s (around 1934) around same time, Nation of Islam starting and Rastafari Movement…

The counsel sura 42 holy Quran (five sections and 53 verses=19=Code of Quran)

Ancient Egyptians divided their country into 42 parts.

The ancient Egyptian people were known as the Sesh, hence why the term Seshu-Hor  means “people of the realized man” and according to the indigenous oral tradition, the Sesh were comprised of the original 42 tribes of Khemit (Egypt)—42 being a symbolic number seen throughout the Egyptian doctrine. They had come from 42 different directions or regions and possibly even from 42 different directions in the sky or star constellations. North Africa at the time was an ancient gathering ground for many people’s whom were made up of many ethnicities/“races”—the oldest known “melting pot.” Depictions of the people’s diversity can be seen on the walls of many great “dynastic” temples.   (Chaco Canyon) was such meeting place in north America where sages traveled from the four corners to the central hub, even in 12-21- 2012 Rastafari took interstate 10 runs all the way to new Mexico, date and year of the galactic alignment, following the Hopi migration, we spoke with the keeper of Hopi ancient stone Tablets. the three mesas aligned to belt of Orion, tilting towards Chaco Canyon as Sirius star. As did the Olmec of central America in times of old and Others, for Chaco canyon there are roads coming in and out from the hub all over The place of council at the end of the age etc.

According to the indigenous oral tradition, it was the people themselves who came into “full consciousness”—in accordance with preordained cosmic cycles. Having achieved this “flowering of consciousness” they came into communion with the Neters or their “full spectrum of senses”—in which there are 360, 180 defined as feminine and 180 defined as masculine. To know that we were capable of possessing more than our 5 known senses; which connect us with the physical world—makes us, ‘modern’ descendants wonder how advanced the intelligence and capability of the ancients really was. Many indigenous traditions of the world have myths of when the “gods” came and bestowed great knowledge. Many believe that these “gods” were extraterrestrial beings like the “Anunakki” there is no doubt in our mind for the future in the past lies, it was Anunakki who endowed the humans with their gifts. Who came to Earth and genetically altered indigenous people and other hominids, thus creating modern man. The key is Black man, or the 42 tribes will not find themselves among the Humans save the Gods Anunakki our original blood, we are not the hybrids the primitive workers, this is what has been lost of the knowledge of The Black man subject to the hybrid propaganda machine…There is however more logical and down to earth explanations.

DOGON-CHILAM BALAM, many different blood lines

Dogon are descendants of kemetic priest who migrated south by orders of the pharaoh during time of invasion to keep the sacred knowledge intact.

Currently we are ones by cosmic design who inherited it…

The Hopi people, are one of the Native American tribes, descendants of the ancient ‘Pueblo people’, that lived in the South West Area of the United States, (product of Chinese and Olmec)which today is called Four Corners.(the place of safety when poles shift, deluge come. SHTF) one of the groups of the ancient Pueblo people, was the mysterious Anasazi, the ‘Ancient Ones’, that flourished, and disappeared mysteriously, between 550, and 1300 A.D.. The Hopi’s history, goes back thousands of years, making them one of the oldest living cultures in the world. But this reveals to us that is Chaco canyon, that Anunakki were here as early  as 718 years ago (disappeared mysteriously ) and could very well still be here, most definitely will return according to the wisdom. The original name of the Hopi people:

Hopituh Shi-nu-mu, means the ‘Peaceful People’. The concepts of morality, and ethics, are deep-rooted in the Hopi traditions, and this involved a respect for all living beings. I can remember in year 1992 I traveled to hopi land fulfilling the prophecy of phahana,guided by spirit to go check and see if they were still living by the old ways, it was dusk dark when I was entering the homes of Hopi and was welcome, some were at the dinner table but none familiar with their own lore of the return of the white one, which meaning one with pure hands and heart, the propagandist take the white brother to mean, a white man, but this is not true. I was directed by a young Hopi male to a place called  Kuhotsmovi, as he said they did not live those ways any more but there was an old man he referred to as Old Thomas who lived down near The Post office at Kuhotsmovi, that he might know what I’m speaking of, so we traveled through the rocks up the mountain there, where we slept until morning in back of our U-Haul gifted to us by a U-Haul company in Arizona as we came by bus. When I reached the door of Old Thomas, his wife came out, informed us Thomas was in a meeting and would come out shortly, he was meeting with Hopi from china, who were strategizing to present a plan to USA government that that they be able to travel in and out of country without passports, as Thomas never used an official passport. We were offered tea and an umbrella to cover us from the sun on a beach table, when old Thomas came out greeted me in a most friendly way, I told him story of my mission, to bring about The Grand Concert. And the fulfillment of The Pahana prophecy, I showed Him a document with Stevie wonder ,Bob Marley, Haile Selassie and some pictures of Crop circles, he smiled and ask me to hold on, he went inside came out with documentations showing where Government ask him to identify crop glyphs as some they thought resembled Hopi glyphs, Thomas told me that what I was saying did not sound farfetched, as some years ago a man came from south Africa dressed somewhat as I was, seeking The Indians but did not find them, only Hollywood Indians, now thinking back on it, this was assurance that I was spot on. little at the time did I know the man I was talking with was The Thomas Banyacya who was in the next few days about to fulfill the hopi prophecy of Going Before The United Nations. Little did I know it would be twenty years later, I would sit down 12-21-2012 time of the galactic alignment and talk sacred wisdom with Grand Father Martin, keeper of The Hopi sacred stone tablets. Exchanging wisdom and stones…Traditionally, they lived according to the laws of the Creator, Maasaw. The Hopi believed that the gods came up from the ground, in contrast to other mythologies, says the white researchers etc. in which gods came from the sky. Their mythology, suggests that the Ant People, inhabited the heart of the Earth.

An independent researcher, and Gary A. David, spent 30 years of his life, immersed in Native American culture and history. According to him, the Hopi might be connected to many different mysterious entities, who could be called extraterrestrials today.

 Ital Iman grand father Martin

keeper of Hopi stone tablets

All across the American Southwest, we find petro glyphs, (rock carvings, or pictographs, (rock paintings, depicting entities, with spindly bodies, large eyes, and bulbous heads, that sometimes project antennae. These eerie figures, are frequently shown, in a “prayer stance,” their elbows and knees positioned at right angles, similar to the ant’s bent legs.

Many claim the ant beings depicted, resemble modern-day ideas of alien life, and some believe the Hopi tribe have seen, and interacted with extraterrestrial beings. But we who are aware know that these glyphs are symbolic, as is the story of the ant people is a tale of a group of people with ant like qualities, had the technology to build underground colonies and other great feats. It was these people who took the Hopi to safety, and they are the ones we will find at the root of all myths and cultures, hidden only by bias white propaganda, to keep the people in the dark from the messages they left for us, that we survive at the end of this world or age…

One of the most intriguing Hopi legends, involves the Ant People, who were crucial to the survival of the Hopi, not just once, but twice.

In the Hopi traditions there are cycles of time – similar to the Aztec mythology, and as with many other mythologies. And they believed that at the end of each cycle the ‘gods’ return. We are currently going through the fourth World, as they call it, or forth cycle. However, what is interesting in those cycles is the third one, during which the Hopi talk about the ‘Flying Shields’ (patuwvotas). This world of the fourth cycle achieved an advanced civilization that was destroyed in the end by the God Sotuknang – nephew of the Creator, with great floods, in a similar way as in many other traditions.

In describing how advanced the third world was, advanced ‘flying shields’ were developed with the capability to attack cities that were far away and to travel quickly between different places of the world. The similarity to what we consider today as flying discs or even advanced aircraft is uncanny.

The so-called “First World, (or world-age, was apparently destroyed by fire, possibly some sort of volcanism, asteroid strike, or coronal mass ejection from the sun. The Second World, was destroyed by ice, Ice Age glaciers, or a pole shift.

During these two global cataclysms, the virtuous members of the Hopi tribe were guided by an odd-shaped cloud during the day, and a moving star at night, that led them to the sky god, named Sotuknang, who finally took them to the Ant People, in Hopi, Anu Sinom . The Ant People then escorted the Hopi, into subterranean caves, where they found refuge, and sustenance. In this legend, the Ant People are portrayed as generous, and industrious, giving the Hopi food when supplies ran short, and teaching them the merits of food storage.

According to a the Native American Wisdom Series, “Hopi, Following the Path of Peace”, these words were spoken by Sotuknang at the beginning of the Fourth World:

See, I have washed away even the footprints of your Emergence; the stepping-stones which I left for you. Down on the bottom of the seas lie all the proud cities, the flying patuwvotas [shields], and the worldly treasures corrupted with evil, and those people who found no time to sing the praises to the Creator from the tops of their hills. But the day will come, if you preserve the memory and the meaning of your Emergence, when these stepping-stones will emerge again to prove the truth you speak.

Furthermore, according to the Hopi’s traditions, the survivors of the flood of the previous world, spread into different places under the guidance of Maasau, by following his sign in the skys. When Maasau landed, he drew a petro glyph showing a lady riding on a ‘ship without wings’ in the shape of a dome. This petro glyph symbolized the day of purification when the true Hopi will fly to other planets in those ships without wings.

Many have said these ‘flying shields’ or ‘ships without wings’ clearly refer to what we know today as unidentified flying objects.

In another part of the world, other drawings and carvings, would give us the spark to theories, on another race of extraterrestrial beings, that were here, interacting, and genetically engineering mankind, on the land of Ancient Sumerians. These beings, were the Anunakki.

The Anunakki race, was believed to be superior and was thought to originate from the skies. It was through their teachings that the Sumerians were able to learn how to live in the world and take care of it until  they: the gods of creation returned. Just like the Ant People of the Hopi, they were there to teach mankind about their planet and how to use its resources.

It is interesting to note there is a linguistic link. The Babylonian sky god was named Anu. The Hopi word for “ant” is also Anu, and the Hopi root word Naki means “friends.” Thus, the Hopi Anu-naki, or “ant friends,” may have been the same as the Sumerian Anunakki so the white writers say, but we know it to be true—the beings who once came to Earth from the heavens, are relative to all black people on earth today, we are the ones who chose to stay after the deluge. There is also the similar pronunciation of the Hopi ancestors, the Anasazi. Ones who built and lived at Chaco Canyon (symbol of Sirius)Again we see this phrase in another belief in another part of the world. Is it coincidence, or evidence. Is it possible to suggest that Ant People and Anunakki were similar beings who visited Earth in remote past to give our ancestors a helping hand? [Yes!]when the white man says “our Ancestors” he speak of his race only, Anunakki are our Ancesters,and not by being genetically engineered, from the Sumerian 10^th tablet the face on the sphinx proves it… and the white man ask: Is it possible that these stories interacted somehow?

“Whether Or not there is an actual connection between the Hopi of the Southwest and the ancient Sumerians, it certainly gives one pause that creation stories were very similar. It also makes the point that celestial communication has been a curiosity of mankind for much longer than UFO sightings in the 20th century. As we continue searching in the skies for answers, it is humbling to think how many centuries the questions have possibly been asked.”

The Four Worlds of the Hopi

The First World
The First World of the Hopis was corrupted not so much by evil as by "forgetting."

The people had been instructed by Sotuknang and Spider Woman to respect their Creator, and to use their vibratory centers to help them follow his plan. But as they began to forget this, they began to quarrel among themselves. Finally, the situation reached a point where Sotuknang and Taiowa decided that the world had to be destroyed.

Sotuknang appeared before those "chosen people" who still remembered the Creator and his plan, and told them that the doors at the tops of their heads would lead them to safety before he destroyed the world.

They followed his indication, and took refuge underground with the Ant People as the First World was destroyed by fire, and a Second World was created for their emergence.

The Second World
The Second World was almost as beautiful as the first, with the significant difference that the animals no longer trusted humans and remained separate from them.

But here, too, people began to forget the plan of the Creator, until finally this world also had to be destroyed.

Again, those who had "remembered" were saved, and taken care of by the Ant People. Once they were safe, the twins at the poles were instructed to leave their posts so the world would spin off its axis and out of control.

As it traveled through space it froze into solid ice, until the twins took up their stations again and restored the Earth to life, creating a Third World.

The Third World
Now in the Third World they multiplied in such numbers and advanced so rapidly that they created big cities, countries, and a whole civilization.

This made it difficult for them to conform to the plan of Creation and to sing praises to Taiowa and Sotuknang. More and more of them became wholly occupied with their own earthly plans.

Some of them, of course, retained the wisdom granted them upon their emergence. With this wisdom they understood that the farther they proceeded on the Road of Life and the more they developed, the harder it was. That was why their world was destroyed every so often to give them a fresh start.

Some Hopi accounts of the Third World contain the tantalizing information that "flying shields" had been developed there, capable of attacking faraway cities and coming back so quickly that no one knew where they had gone.

When this world and its advanced civilization was finally destroyed by Sotuknang, this time with great floods, the people who still remembered the plan of Creation took refuge inside the hollow stems of the bamboo.

Then came their emergence into the Fourth World.

The Fourth World
This time, the people had to search long and hard for a place to establish themselves and start over again.

The Hopi tradition tells of endless journeys by boat, paddling uphill all the way. From time to time they would find a place to land, beautiful and bounteous, only to be told by Spider Woman that they must move on: this place was too easy, and soon they would fall into evil ways if they stayed.

Finally, completely exhausted from their fruitless efforts, the people "opened their doors" and let themselves be guided.

The water carried them gently to a sandy shore, where they were greeted by Sotuknang and given further instructions. They were to separate into different groups, each heading in different directions, to claim all the land for the Creator. Each group would have to "follow its own star" to a place where the earth met the sea.

They would complete such a journey four times in all, to cover all the four directions, before being guided back together again to settle permanently.

Before the newcomers to the Fourth World set out on their migrations, they were given a tablet [some say tablets] containing symbolic representations of their journey and final resting place, and events that would confirm their adherence to the Creator's plan.

The tablet best known today is reportedly held by members of the Fire Clan. This tablet has always had one corner missing that, according to legend, is in possession of a "lost white brother" called Pahana. Pahana's return with the missing corner will signal the beginning of a new brotherhood of mankind.

These words were spoken by Sotuknang at the beginning of the Fourth World:

"See," said Sotuknang, "I have washed away even the footprints of your Emergence; the stepping-stones which I left for you. Down on the bottom of the seas lie all the proud cities, the flying patuwvotas [shields], and the worldly treasures corrupted with evil, and those people who found no time to sing the praises to the Creator from the tops of their hills. But the day will come, if you preserve the memory and the meaning of your Emergence, when these stepping-stones will emerge again to prove the truth you speak."

The tablet given to the Fire Clan at the dawn of the Fourth World is still missing its corner....

“Contrary to popular belief, the Dogon are not just a small tribe that lives in Mali; Dogon are composed of many different bloodlines that represent the elite of the Pharaonic society. Dogon bloodlines include the families of: Naba (healers/priests), Woba (farmers), Yonlis (guardians of the kingship), Kediou (builders), Mende (blacksmiths), etc. These bloodlines can be found in tribes such as Gourmantche, Chibisi, Dogomba, Farafara, Sonike, Germa, etc. The Dogon once lived in the Nile Valley, but migrated inland during the invasion around 400 BC. Today, the Dogon can be found living by the bend in the Niger River.

The name –Dogon comes from the word –dogou, which means land. The Dogon are considered the “landlords” of Africa and their culture aims at preserving the Earth and everything that lives on it. The Dogon culture has remained uninterrupted since the time of the Pharaohs. The Dogon can be seen as Kemetic people who, during the periods of invasion, migrated so that their culture and spirituality could be kept pure. Due largely to the facts that the Dogon culture now resides in a land-locked area and that the Dogon possess deep spiritual knowledge, the culture has been preserved from colonial interruptions and influence. This cultural and spiritual preservation also is the result of very strong and strict rules of initiation (the mode by which initiation knowledge is passed from generation to generation.)

The recent works The Science of the Dogon and Sacred Symbols of the Dogon by Laird Scranton definitely confirms this statement. What’s interesting about this quote is the notion, again, of priesthoods separated by occupation, that belong to one larger priesthood (called the Dogon), which echoes in a similar manner as expressed by Credo Mutwa of the Zulus. By studying Dogon society you get a real sense of what pharaonic culture was like. They are in fact ancient Egyptians and their sacred symbols confirm it.

To confirm that this practice of travelling for knowledge is not only a west and central African thing, we will again quote Mutwa who informs us of his own travels and initiations all across Central, East and South Africa. In his book Zulu Shaman: Dreams, Prophecies and Mysteries, he tells us that (1996:18):

After I had ended initiation under my grandfather and under my mother‘s sister Mynah, I wanted to learn more, so I went to Swaziland and studied there under great healers while earning a living both as a healer and as a laborer and sending money back to my father and the rest of my family. From Swaziland I went to Mozambique, which was then under Portuguese control, and there I studied under Mombai traditional healers and under Shangon sangomas and Tsonga nyangas. There I learned even more than I had learned under my grandfather. I went on to Rhodesia – today called Zimbabwe. Wherever I went in Africa, there I knelt before great teachers and I learned. I discovered how insignificant my Western education was, and how inadequate and how false in many aspects – especially where knowledge of Africa is concerned.

There are several things that the astute reader should be asking him/herself. The first question is, “How did he know where to go to find certain teachers to learn under?” How did he meet the challenge of language differences in these respective countries? How were his experiences similar or different in these ports along the super highway of wisdom? Did he take what he learned in all of these places and taught members of his own society?

These are very important questions to answer. It is impossible to visit all of these countries for initiation to study and NOT share terms and concepts. One only goes through initiation because one feels that the wisdom gained through the experience is valuable in a practical sense, for everyday practical purposes. As we can see, Mutwa went through several initiations, which means he found these types of experiences valuable and practical.

For those who have spoken with brother Mutwa knows that he has travelled farther then south East Africa for initiations. To my knowledge he has travelled as far as Cameroon to the Sudan for initiations. He even went to Australia to learn under the indigenous there. When people read his book Indaba My Children, they may be under the impression that all of the stories told are Zulu stories. This is in fact not true. Brother Mutwa created a seamless story out of countless stories he has gained through initiations all across Africa. These are the histories of various African groups. If one pays attention to the book, one will realize that it chronicles the movement of the Bantu from Cameroon to the Sudan to South Africa. As Mutwa notes:

It is through these stories that we are able to reconstruct the past of the Bantu of Africa. It is through these stories that intertribal friendship or hatred was kept alive and burning; that the young were told who their ancestors were, who their enemies were and who their friends were. In short, it is these stories that have shaped Africa as we know it—years and years ago. . . .(Mutwa 1964: xiii).

Dr. Kykosa Kajangu is one of Credo Mutwa’s students, who like Mutwa, travelled on the super highway of wisdom in which South Africa was one of his stops. He informs us in his work Beyond the Colonial Gaze about how Mutwa constructed the stories for Indaba My Children.

Drawing from these teachings, Mutwa was able to craft a cosmological poem with which he starts his book Indaba My Children. He wrote an initiatory text called The Sacred Story of the Tree of Life. This text is not a Zulu cosmological poem; rather, it is Mutwa‘s rendition of the ideas about creation from the Tonga and Tonga Ila wisdom traditions. During his initiation in pre-Western modes of thought and being in these wisdom traditions, Mutwa memorized certain symbols and initiatory texts that he used as a background to craft a cosmological poem.

This is very important information to digest, because just as Credo Mutwa (one man) was able to travel along the super highway of wisdom, collect information, and retell it in a manner that is relevant to him and his people, this was/is the exact practice of ancient and modern African people (and in fact the world over).

If you are to travel along the African super highway of wisdom, one of the first things that African sages will tell you is to “Speak in your own name, never in mind [sic].” Dr. Kajangu puts this concept into perspective in his work Wisdom Poetry. He explains this philosophy as such (2006:135):

The second fundamental principle about traveling on the superhighway of wisdom is speaking in one’s name. Every sage that I have so far encountered on my journey to wisdom has told me as he/she was told by their mentors: “Speak in your name, never in mine.” What does this mean? Sages will tell you to nourish your mind with teachings that have been enriched by countless generations of sages, but they insist that you must remain truthful to the voice that brought you into life or the voice of your destiny. (Emphasis mine)

It is vitally important for any student of Africa, its philosophy and traditions to understand what has just been said. It is the very reason why you find similarities in symbolism, but not exact replicas across the continent. Historians have been of the belief that in order for something to be “Egyptian” that it has to look EXACTLY like how the ancient Egyptians did it. That is not keeping with African tradition. African tradition discourages direct copying of ideas. The goal is critical analysis. Sages who dwell in wisdom centers across the continent do not want to make robots out of human beings (where they spit back what has been programmed into them). The goal is to integrate the knowledge obtained in one’s own life in a way that new revelations and techniques come out of YOUR own unique experiences.

This cannot happen if you are spoon-fed all there is to know. This is why African sages rarely answer a question directly. They will ask you a question in return and force you to come up with your own answers. This fosters critical thinking and discourages dogma as a paradigm. As Jordan Ngubane would often say, “Dogma is a prison of the mind.” So speaking in your own name allows you to be different and to come with your own conclusions. This is in alignment with the African concept of simultaneous validity which states that human beings cluster together in response to the challenges of their environment. How they choose to identify themselves, in response to those challenges, is their right as divine beings. Their philosophies, their customs and traditions are valid, important and legitimate. No people can prescribe destiny for other human beings and it is their duty to shape their reality in a manner that meets the challenges of their environment.

It is with this philosophy of “speaking in one’s own name” and “simultaneous validity” that Iten of Egypt becomes Itongo of South Africa. It is how Esu of the Yoruba’s become Yeshua (Jesus) of the Christian faith. It is how the pyramids of the Nile Valley become the Pyramids of Mexico (with different styles). It is how the spiritual customs of the Mande become the motifs we see in Olmec civilization in Mexico. It is how Amen of the Egyptians becomes Imana of Rwanda. It is how the Egyptian Skhai (meaning to celebrate a festival) becomes the Dogon Sigui festival. This exchange of ideas has been going on since before written records and it is this African social practice that makes it difficult for Africanists to pinpoint the origins of ideas without being initiated into African educational systems where they can find out.

To underscore just how prevalent this ancient practice was, recall the story of Makeda Queen of Sheba and King Solomon of the Bible. There are two records of their interaction: The Bible and the Kebra Nagast. The Bible focuses on their relationship on a meeting of the minds and exchanging gifts. The Kebra Negast or the Book of the Glory of the Kings (of Ethiopia) goes a little bit further and speaks on an intimate relationship that resulted in the birth of Menelik. For those that recall the story, Makeda sent her servant Tamrin to King Solomon of Israel to secure trade routes between the two kingdoms. Upon Tamrin’s return, he told her about Solomon’s wealth and power. After much thought, Makeda decides to make the long and arduous trip to Isreal to “prove him with hard questions” (Kebra Nagast Chapter 24; African Heritage Study Bible 1 King 10:1;2). King Solomon was famous for his wisdom through proverbs and parables. The hard questions Makeda wanted to “prove him” referred to the uncovering of the meaning of his parables and proverbs. In other words, she travelled from Ethiopia to Israel to experience the wisdom of a master teacher named Solomon. Nowhere in the book did it state that Israel was too far. The unquenchable thirst for knowledge made the journey worth while.

What should be apparent from this example is in the fact that this had to be a common practice for the Queen to just up and leave with the objective of obtaining wisdom. Makeda, Queen of Sheba, was following an ancient tradition of travelling the super highway of wisdom.

My last example of this practice comes from the year 2009 in Ghana. In March of 2009, on a Blog Talk Radio program (www.blogtalkradio.com) titled The Ancestral Study Group hosted by Abongo, Sister Nikki and Brother Ankha out of New York and Atlanta, they interviewed a master teacher by the name of Apetu who is the advisor to a group called MAMA out of Atlanta, GA. Apetu lives in Kuko village in Yendi in Northern Ghana. Apetu is of the royal lineage and a very powerful priest among the Dagomba people. Yendi is the capital for all of the Dagomba people of Northern Ghana.

During the radio interview Apetu talks about his education in various African wisdom traditions. He noted that his studies started in his home of Yendi as a young child. After completing his education in his village, he felt that there was more to know, so he left his village to go study for 3 years in Togo. From Togo he went to Benin and Dahomy to learn the spirits and Gods of those people. He stayed in Benin for 7 years. He said he had to stay long there because it was really tough having to learn all of the deities that reside there. He mentioned that the elders really liked him because he stayed a long time, so they dispensed a lot of information upon him. From there he went to Nigeria to study for two years. This is where he learned English. From Nigeria he went to Senegal to study for 3 years, where he learned that language and French. From Senegal he went back home to Ghana to become family head of his father’s house.

What’s important for our purposes here is that he is considered a very powerful shaman in his village because he travelled so extensively and learned so many secrets from various ethnic groups. Again one has to ask, how did he know where to go after each initiation to learn more? There had to be an already established system in place for him to partake of. Brother Abongo, one of the hosts of the show, is one of his students out of Atlanta. Those very teachings have made its way from Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Senegal to the United States. This same practice, as has already been established, is just part of an ancient tradition that believes one must travel and study amongst other human beings to gain knowledge. Not only that, but that one must integrate it and make it unique and applicable for your family and people back home.

Conclusion

What I have attempted to establish here is the knowledge of a super highway of wisdom that is responsible for the mutual sharing of signs, symbols, ideas and customs from initiated scholars who have themselves travelled along these roads. This practice is as old as Africa itself and it is this practice that wreaks havoc on the comparative method as the primary tool for establishing the relatedness of peoples and cultures. By a careful examination of what has been presented here today, we should be able to understand better why you have so many ideas that are present in the rest of Black Africa in ancient Egypt and vice versa. Dr. Yosef Ben Jochannan, another initiated scholar, talks about the Free Mason type lodge system that existed in ancient Ta-Meri (1990:67) and still exists to this date. Now we have added support to substantiate his claims of the Egyptian priesthood with “lodges” stretching from Egypt, to Palestine, Rome to Monomotapa to Zimbabwe.

Language contact makes it difficult for philologists to compare languages because it makes it harder to establish what is loan and what is indigenous. With our knowledge of the superhighway of wisdom, those may not even be relevant questions any more. The African Super Highway of Wisdom also dispels the concept of “chance” resemblance. Although a culture may be separated by thousands of miles, they still could have had contact with each other by way of mutual enrichment which makes possible the shared lexical items and motifs; without adopting a whole language system. This also explains why you do not find a full language cognate with ancient Egyptian: it is a written language only used to write the many languages of Africa for communication.

Below I have displayed evidence of a shared spiritual system that goes back hundreds of thousands of years. Examine these motifs below and see how the philosophy of simultaneous validity and “speaking in your own name” is translated into experience for African people”.

Source

Asar Imhotep