1. We are an ancient people from Afrika with
the oldest and most glorious heritage!
2. Who am I? Proper Knowledge of
Cultural-Historical Self as the Basis for
Proper Education
3. “The beginning of Wisdom is the accurate knowledge of
self” – Kemite (Egyptian) proverb
“However far the stream flows, it never forgets it source” –
Yoruba proverb
10. THE POWER OF THE WORD AND
HUMAN IDENTITY...
• STICKS AND STONES BREAK BONES...
BUT WORDS CAN REALLY SCAR YOU!
• AWARENESS OF “SPELLING WORDS”?
• THOUGHTS--WORDS--ACTIONS--HABITS--
CHARACTER=DESTINY
11. CULTURE
Defined by Dr. Maulana Karenga, culture is:
Thought:
cosmology/theology/mythology/ontology, etc.;
i.e., how one interprets the nature of his/her
relationship with the universe and its elements.
Behavior:
social ideals/values – human, race, gender, class,
etc., that are a reflection of the values associated
with the above defining aspects of the thought.
12. KEMET/KEMAU/ANU, MEDU NETER AND
IDENTITY
• THE BLACK PEOPLE’S COUNTRY/LAND
• DIVINE/SACRED WORDS/LANGUAGE/SPEECH
• HUMANITY’S OLDEST DECIPHERED LANGUAGE
21. The Legacy of the Ancient
Afrikan
Monolithic/Megalithic
Architecture in Africa, Asia
and
Western Hemisphere
22. The Ancient Afrikans
• Humanity’s original beings/first ancestors.
• The Ancient African culture is found worldwide, and has
certain features as the founders of:
Math
Science
Religion
Writing
Agriculture
Astronomy
Sacred Architecture
The Original Priesthood/Divine Nobility
The Original Laws teaching moral human
conduct to preserve the soul for
eternity/“religion”
23. Ancient Nile Valley Visions of the Galactic Core
In Kemet, this is the physical location of Amen-Ra, the Unseen Black
Consciousness of Creation. Amen-Ra, “The Only One, whose form is
One,” who “appeareth in the [event] horizon,” “whose skin is hidden,
whose form is secret.”
24. Scholarship Asserting Nile Valley Influence
in Redeeming Elements of Mesopotamian,
Western Asia, Mediterranean, and Arabian
Cultures
Drusilla Dunjee Houston, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire
George G.M. James, Stolen Legacy
W.E.B. DuBois, The World and Africa
Yosef ben-Jochannan, Africa: Mother of “Western Civilization”
Cheikh Anta Diop, African Origins of Civilization: Myth or Reality
Ivan Van Sertima, Nile Valley Civilizations
Runoko Rashidi, Introduction to the Study of African Classical Civilizations
Selections from The Husia
According to Dr. Maulana Karenga, ancient Nile Valley “sacred writings
predate Hebrew, Christian and Muslim ontology and ethics by thousands
of years and apparently contributed to them.”
25. Biblical Visions of the Galactic Core
Within Judeo-Christian tradition, the galactic core is referenced as the
“Edge of time”, “Under the Wings of the Lord”, “The Presence of God”,
“Secret Place of the Most High”, Home and throne of the “Ancient of
Days”.
26. Plato, 5th Century BCE (Greek Philosopher
of African Philosophy) on the Ancient
African
• “We Greeks are in reality, children compared with
these people with traditions ten times older…Egypt
has recorded and kept eternally the wisdom of old
times…all coming from time immemorial when
gods governed the earth in the dawn of
civilization.”
28. “The Metaphorein of Ausar in Spiritual Evolution of
Society” Metu Neter I,II, Ra Un Nefer Amen
• Ausar established order, harmony and prosperity, the higher moral
code…the great powers Kamit, Sumer, Kush Harappa, Mohenjo Daro and
Elam lived in relative peace with one another.
• Ausar brought civilization and spirituality to the people, enabling them
thus, to achieve prosperity. He gave them a body of laws to regulate their
conduct, settled their disputes justly, and instructed them in the science
of spiritual development. He shared the rulership of the land with the
Queen Mother Auset, who domesticated wild barley and wheat.
• Along with Ausar, who taught men the art of agriculture – the tilling of the
soil, cultivation of grains, and of fruit trees – they also laid the material
foundations for the development and growth of civilization. Brothers no
longer lifted their hands against each other. There was prosperity and
peace throughout the land of Kamit. Having civilized Kamit, he turned the
government of his native land to Auset, and traveled around the world to
spread the same instructions
29. • While he was away, Auset ruled the
land so expertly, that her brother Set
who was consumed with jealousy over
Ausar’s success, was unable to realize
his main desire. He sought in vain to
stir up rebellion in the kingdom, so he
plotted to overcome Ausar by
deception – his chief characteristic –
with the help of 72 followers.
• As Auset represents the personality that
is devoted to following Ausar (God in
manifestation), it cannot be overcome
by the forces of evil.
• When Ausar returned from his mission,
he was greeted with a royal feast. Set
came with his 72 conspirators,
supposedly to honor Ausar and to
make merry, but instead murdered
Ausar.
32. Grown to full manhood, Heru/Horus (literary
traditions’ original Hero) challenges his wicked Uncle
Set (theology’s original Satan) for the throne, but
cannot defeat him without the help of his wise uncle
Tehuti.
34. • With Tehuti’s assistance, Heru
is able to defeat Set, and re-
establishes The Creator’s
kingdom under the sacred
principles of Ma’at.
35. Ma’at is the standard measure of supreme excellence by which all ancient Nile Valley Divine
Africans strove to live their lives. Ma’at represents the collective Divine principles: truth,
justice, reciprocity, balance, order, harmony, propriety, righteousness. Most often depicted as a
winged African goddess wearing an ostrich feather in her hair, it was the highest desire to live in
harmony with the principles of Ma’at. These declarations are quite similar to Moses’ ten
commandments.
Bible (Acts 7:22): Moses was “learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians.”
• I have done no wrong.
• I have not robbed.
• I have not acted with violence.
• I have not killed.
• I have not caused pain.
• I have not desecrated holy places.
• I have not lied.
• I have not wasted food.
• I have not spoken evil.
• I have not committed sodomy.
• I have not caused the shedding of tears.
• I have not sown seeds of regret.
• I have not been an aggressor.
• I have not acted guilefully.
• I have not laid waste the ploughed land.
• I have not entered into a conspiracy.
• I did not bear false witness.
• I have not been wrathful or angry except for just
cause.
• I have not committed adultery.
• I have not polluted myself.
• I have not caused terror.
• I have not spoken in anger.
• I have not turned from words of right and truth.
• I have not uttered curses except against evil.
• I have not initiated a quarrel.
• I have not been excitable or contentious.
• I have not prejudiced.
• I have not been an eavesdropper.
• I have not spoken overmuch.
• I have not committed treason against my
ancestors.
• I have not wasted water.
• I have not done evil.
• I have not been arrogant.
• I have not blasphemed the on most high.
• I have not committed fraud.
• I have not defrauded temple offerings.
• I have not plundered the dead.
• I have not mistreated children.
• I have not mistreated animals.
36. The Ankh and Ancient Gender
principles
Elevation of the feminine principle.
37. ANCIENT AFRIKAN NILE VALLEY VALUES
MA’AT/7 AFRIKAN WORLDVIEW VIRTURES FOR RIGHTEOUS CONDUCT (COMPOSED BY WADE NOBLES, PH.D.)
TRUTH
KNOWING THE TRUTH OF SELF, SOCIETY, THE WORLD, THE UNIVERSE.
JUSTICE
GIVING AND DOING THAT WHICH IS DUE, CORRECT AND RIGHT.
PROPRIETY
DOING THAT WHICH IS JUST/PROPER AND GIVING ONE’S BEST IN GRATEFULNESS, COURTESY, AND WITH RESPECT
TO ALL.
HARMONY
LIVING WITH A CONSCIOUS/STEADY OVERSTANDING/INNERSTANDING AND AWARENESS THAT ALL (THE CREATOR,
HUMANS AND NATURE) ARE ONE.
BALANCE
WALKING THE MIDDLE PATH; THE BALANCING OF EMOTIONS WITH THE HEART AND MIND.
RECIPROCITY
KNOWING THAT ALL ACTIONS PROVOKE A REACTION; GIVING FAIR AND ADEQUATE RESPONSE AND COMPENSATION
FOR TIME AND ENERGY SHARED.
ORDER
CREATING STRUCTURES, SYSTEMS AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT HELP HUMANS MAINTAIN HARMONY WITH NATURE,
WHILE PROMOTING AND PROTECTING NATURE AND ADVANCING HUMANITY TO FULFILL OUR GREATEST
COLLECTIVE POTENTIAL.
38. Ancient Afrikan Nile Valley Alignment/Mission:
Spiritual Connection to The Universal Creator/
Creating Heaven on Earth
39. Black Biblical presence and Divine Identity
• Psalms 82, “A Psalm of A’-saph” (aka Aesop the
Ethiopian):
“God standeth in the congregation of the
mighty; He judgeth among the gods...
I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are
children of The Most High...”
40. More Black Biblical Presence
• Genesis (2:13)/The Garden of Eden extends
from a river “that compasseth the whole land
of Ethiopia...”
• Amos (9:7)/“Are ye not as children of the
Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? Saith
the Lord.”
• Jeremiah (13:23)/“Can an Ethiopian change
his skin, or the leopard his spots?”
41. “Can the Ethiopian change his skin?
Neither the leapord his spots”
(Jeremiah, 13:23)
42. Bible (Acts:8-27-39): After visiting Jerusalem, an Ethiopian
Israelite-Priest, under the Ethiopian Queen Candace,
encouraged her to merge Christianity with the Solomonic
Ethiopian-Israelite nation’s tradition in 1st century C.E.
43. Biblical prophecy to Abram/
Genesis (15:13-15)
“And he [the Lord God] said to Abram, ‘Know of a
surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land
that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they
shall afflict them four hundred years;
And also that nation, whom they shall serve will I
judge: and afterward shall they come out with
great substance”
46. Modern Western Education’s View of
the African
Social Darwinism (Pseudo-theoretical
“science”)
• As species evolve they become intellectually more
advanced
• Caucasian
• Eurasian
• Asian
• African (primitive culture)
• Proto-hominid (pre-human/missing link)
• Primate
47. Georg Hegel: Europe’s 19th Century
Modern Father of History
• “At this point we leave Africa, not to mention it again. For
it is no historical part of the World; it has no movement or
development to exhibit. Historical movements in it—that
is in its northern part—belong to the Asiatic or European
World. Carthage displayed there an important transitionary
phase of civilization; but, as a Phoenician colony, it belongs
to Asia. Egypt will be considered in reference to the
passage of the human mind from its Eastern to its Western
phase, but it does not belong to the African Spirit. What we
properly understand by Africa, is the Unhistorical,
Undeveloped Spirit, still involved in the conditions of
mere nature, and which had to be presented here only as
on the threshold of the World’s History.”
48. Plato, 5th Century BCE (Greek
Philosopher of African Philosophy) on
the Ancient African
• “We Greeks are in reality, children compared
with these people with traditions ten times
older…Egypt has recorded and kept eternally
the wisdom of old times…all coming from time
immemorial when gods governed the earth in
the dawn of civilization.”
49. Biblical prophecy to Abram/
Genesis (15:13-15)
“And he [the Lord God] said to Abram, ‘Know of a
surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land
that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they
shall afflict them four hundred years;
And also that nation, whom they shall serve will I
judge: and afterward shall they come out with
great substance”
50. The Ancient Nile Valley Star-Clock, the Mayan Calendar &
Circumpolar Mythology/Cosmic Astrology point to
the Return of the Reign of the Black King.
51. Piscean Circumpolar
Stars
The 1st decan of pisces is
Cetus the water beast
The 2nd decan of pisces is
Andromeda, daughter and
Cepheus and Cassiopeia
weeping in bondage of
chains.
The 3rd decan is Cepheus
the Crowned King with
the pole star Polaris
residing between his feet
Cepheus
Andromeda
Pisces
52. Andromeda
Daughter of Cepheus and Cassieopia.
Punished for parents haughtiness.
Doomed by Gods to being
chained at seashore to be eaten by
sea beast.
53. King Cepheus
• Circumpolar constellation
aligned within Pisces.
• Ethiopian King whose name
means “the Head”.
54. Ras Tafari is the Ethiopian King Cepheus
King Cepheus, “Head, Crowned who holds the
axis of the world and the Pole Star of the
North rests at his feet.”
Ethiopia’s children were chained and put into
bondage by a sea-beast (Maafa) because of
her parent’s haughtiness. But a redemption
by a Black King is prophesized in the
circumpolar constellations.…
55. Constellations align reigning of Black King
with end of Piscean Age.
• First 3rd of Piscean Age –
Rise of Water-Beast
(Rome & Arabism).
• Second 3rd of Piscean age
– daughters/children of
Ethiopia in bondage
waiting to be carried off
by sea beast due to
haughtiness of parents.
• Last third of Piscean Age
culminates in return of
Ethiopian King’s reign on
Earth.
56. Age of Aquarius -
According to the Ancient Nile Valley
Star Clock,
A Lion-King is the Avatar to usher in
Anu Age of Aquarius
57. “Reincarnated Souls”
Bunny Wailer
“We are reincarnated souls from
that time
Living on earth, heat air and
water in this time …
In the beginning was the word
And the word manifested itself in
flesh
Which even became man
All because of the Divine plan…
He who is thirsty let them drink
clear water, drink water children
Cause it’s the age of Aquarius,
can’t you see it’s dawning...
Keep your love light burning…
Don’t be afraid of the thunder and
lightening.”
58. Ras Tafari is the Black Lion King of the
Ancient Nile Valley Star-Clock
As the Conquering Lion
of Judah, Haile
Selassie embodies
the symbol of the
opposing sign (Leo)
of the Aquarian Age
dawning within the
Ancient Nile Valley
Star Clock.
59. Olmec/Mayan Calendar
The Mayan calendar is inherited from the
Olmec – it is part of the legacy of the Anu of
AncientAfrica.
The Olmec left the Maya:
• Divine nobility and priesthood
• Sacrificed Fish Saviour theology
• Agricultural Science
• Hieroglyphic writings
• Monolithic/megalithic architecture
• Intricate calendar system
60. Step Pyramids and Plumed Serpents are
associated with Imhotep and ancient Nile
Valley priesthood!
62. RasTafari is Quetzlcoatl
As King of Kings
Lord of Lords,
His Imperial
Majesty bore
the title Negus
Nagast. Negus
is an ancient
title of the Anu
of Indus-Kush
that means
Serpent-King –
Nagas.
Quetzcoatl Priesthood=
Imhotep/Nile Valley
Priesthood=
Melchizedek Order
63. Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I
•Only Sovereign African leader able to
avoid European colonialism
•Founded the Organization of African
Unity with Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah
•Drafted the United Nations
Declaration of Human Rights
•Conceived and championed the
principles of international morality,
collective security and global
disarmament
•The only World leader to address both
the League of Nations and the United
Nations
•Abolished enslavement in Ethiopia
•Turned his palace into the first
University in Ethiopia!
Emperor of Ethiopia
1892 -1975
64. Mankind’s Moral Trial of this Era
»“Until the philosophy which
holds one race superior and
another inferior is finally and
totally discredited and
abandoned...We Africans will
fight, we find it necessary...And
we know we shall win as we are
confident in the victory of good
over evil.”
65. Marcus Garvey:
Champion of Pan-Africanism
Pan-African: ‘all Africans together worldwide’; a social-
political worldview, as well as a movement that seeks to
unify and uplift both Africans on the continent and those of
the African Diaspora, as part of one "global African
community.”
Africans Worldwide have
One God
One Aim
One Destiny!
66. Marcus Mosiah Garvey: 1887-1940
The only African in recorded history who was able to unite
and mobilize over 22 million Africans worldwide in one
unified social-political-economic effort. This was
accomplished in the
1920s in the name of the
UNIVERSAL NEGRO
IMPROVEMENT
ASSOCIATION!
“Africa for Africans at home and abroad!”
“A people without a knowledge of their
history and culture is like a tree
without roots.”
67. Garveyites
Most Rastafari don’t know
that it was a Garveyite,
and not Garvey himself,
but the Rev. James Webb
that prophesied the
revelation of Ras Tafari at
a 1924 UNIA convention,
a reiteration of his thesis
from his 1919 text, A
Black Man Will Be the
Coming Universal King,
Proven by Biblical
History.
68. Rev. James Webb, an Afrikan- “American” Garveyite from
Seattle, Washington, prophesizes at a 1924 UNIA Convention,
and earlier in his 1919 book entitled, A Black Will be the
Coming Universal King :
'Look to Africa,
when a Black
king shall be
crowned, for
the day of
deliverance is
at hand'
69. Bible: Revelations 5:2-5
• “And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with
a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the
book and to loose the seals thereof?
• And no man in heaven, nor earth, neither
under the earth, was able to open the
book, neither to look thereon…
• And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep
not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda,
the Root of David, hath prevailed to open
the book, and to loose the seven seals
thereof.”
70. In Jamaica, many held fast to
Garvey’s Black prophetic
movement and felt fulfilled
in 1930 when Ras Tafari was
crowned King and Emperor
of Ethiopia.
At his coronation, he received
the throne name: HAILE
SELASSIE I,
“KING OF KINGS, LORD OF LORDS,
CONQUERING LION OF THE TRIBE
OF JUDAH, ELECT OF GOD,
DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, &
LIGHT OF THE WORLD”
1930 - Prophecy Fulfilled
71. Leonard P. Howell – MOST SUCCESSFUL FOUNDER OF
THE RASTAFARI DOCTRINE
-Leonard P. Howell was a Garveyite in Harlem.
-Interpreted the Biblical meaning of King Selassie’s 1930 coronation as
fulfillment of prophecy (Revelations 5:5), and gave birth to Rasta livity
with an agricultural commune @ Pinnacle in St. Catherine, Ja. in 1940.
-Christian hymns and Kongo, African Kumina drumming provided the
musical inspiration for the early Rastafari.
72. “Since nobody can interfere in the
realm of God we should tolerate and
live side by side with those of other
faiths. In the mystic traditions of the
different religions we have a
remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever
religion they may profess, they are
spiritual kinsmen. While the different
religions in their historic forms bind
us to limited groups and militate
against the development of loyalty to
the world community, the mystics
have already stood for the fellowship
of humanity in harmony with the
spirit of the mystics of ages gone by.”
73. “No one should
question the faith
of others, for no
human being can
judge of the ways
of God.”
81. Proper Knowledge of Cultural-
Historical Self as the Basis for Proper
Black Education: Self, Public and/or
Private Education/What we must do…
• Read/support African-centered education in Books
• Create a personal library
• Study African heritage on the outernet/internet
• Listen to affirming/positive Black music based on redeeming Black values
• Watch affirming/positive Black film based on redeeming Black values
• Create study centers and study groups to review affirming Black literature
• Master your thoughts/words and break the spell; “Ye are gods...” (82nd Psalm)
• Study and live Kwanzaa’s Nguzo Saba (Seven Principles) African-centered
values
• Study and live the Ancient Nile Valley’s principles of Ma’at
• Coordinate Rites of Passage Groups to pass our rich heritage to the children!!!!
82. “SANKOFA: Go Black and fetch what was left behind” – Akan
(Ghana)
“A wise person who does not learn ceases to be wise” –
Asante (Ghana)
“The one eyed man doesn’t thank God until he sees a blind
man” – Fulani (West Africa)
“One should keep their eye on their destination, not where
they stumbled” – Yoruba (Nigeria)
It is not rushing that is important, it is making sure” – Maasai
(East Africa)
83. Above all,
Ethiopia is
dedicated to the
principle of the
equality of all
men, irrespective
of differences of
race, color or
creed.
84. This then is the ultimate
challenge. Where are we to
look for our survival, or the
answers to questions which
have never before been
posed? We must look first to
Almighty God, who has raised
man above the animals and
endowed him with
intelligence and reason. We
must put our faith in Him,
that He will not desert us or
permit us to destroy
humanity which He created in
His image. And we must look
into ourselves, into the
depths of our souls.
