WHO DID WE PRAY TO BEFORE SLAVERY?
"Maybe blacks people suffered/suffering because we were praying to a god that is not ours"- Anonymous
Fact is that the entire history prior to the slavery of the Blacks had been taken away and mutilated. The actual events of pre-slavery era of Africans had been erased from history and all we have left are just mere pulp fictions!
A brief digging into the history of Blacks by some Theologians who claimed and stated that there was never Black People in Africa before Noah and the Flood. The accuracy of this reports is not conclusive as the real and true origin of Black people would remain a mystery irrespective of what different findings and research have claimed and documented. But it was a known fact that our ancestors worship idols, deities before the introduction of the European beliefs which was radically programmed into the minds of Blacks- African Blacks!
Some studies claimed they prayed to God but in a different form which probably requires sacrifices and alters setups. Other researchers stipulated that we prayed to the Ancestral beings because these ancestors assume the role of intermediary between the Heavens and the Earth These ancestral beings were part of the divine order of things i.e we were born into this realm by our parents,
and so our parents from theirs in a continuous order which is referred to the "Order of All Things."
We prayed to our ancestors who acts as our "conduit to God". Studies had shown that Blacks, Africans worship of Ancestral Spirits is the Most original traditional religion, but the hardest part is the clarification on which part of Africa slavery originated from to the rest of the World. Sadly, majority of the relics that could serve as evidence had been destroyed by crusading Christian Knights and Muslims in their quest to dominate Africa and down went our cultural values!
Whoever we prayed to never saved us from slavery, that's for sure; whether Idols or Ancestors we are still in the conflict of historical imbalance which had made millions forget their root and claimed another man's belief and logic.
Quoting from a black movement book, the author strongly believe we have been misled and stated further:
"It was the missionaries who confused our people both dead in history and alive with their new religion. By some strange logic. they argued that theirs was a scientific religion and ours was a mere superstition in spite of the biological discrepancies which is so obvious on the basis of their religion. They further went to preach a theology of the existence of hell, scaring our fathers and mothers with stories about burning in Eternal flames and gnashing of teeth with the grinding of Bones. This cold cruel religion was strange to us but our for forefathers sufficiently scared of the unknown impending anger to believe that it was worthy to give a try- Then our cultural values disappeared!"
CONCLUSION
The writer as quoted above may have made some points, sounds like a proud author who had cherished and missed his or her cultural heritage. Each of the ancestors' black people prayed to are either portrayed as the Sun, Moon, Rain, and Thunder, Planets, the Stars etc and all these were created by the God who created Heaven and Earth as the Europeans had made us believe which science itself finds it hard to dispute.
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The black Africans before slavery prayed to there ancestors and their ancestors prayed to the ancestor before them and it kept going on in that order. Here,
I think i may want to disagree with you cos i still believe that even in slavery, not every one made it back, yes. But at the same time, not everyone died.
Remember the story of the Israelites in the hands of the Egyptians, it is pertinent to say that they suffered, died, yet a good number made it alive into the promised land that they built there new nation and amidst all the difficulties, they still believed that the gods they prayed to was the one that has taken them out of Egypt. I think that was why it was easy for them to mould and start worshiping those gods and ancestors again while Moses went to get the ten commandments.
I don't know Bible that much anyway and might have quoted wrongly but the point i want to make is that, there is one true living God and there were ancestors who saw to the plights of the people before Christ.
That's why you have names like "amdioha god of thunder" and so on and so forth.
Thanks for sharing this thought provoking piece brother.
This Blog is about Black people not the Israelite brother, thanks for the Input still!
Yea. I used them to site instance on the commitment they had in who they prayed to in relation to Africans before slavery, ancestors.
If you just dig some deeper , some history tells about the original Israelites being black people . Your site to instance might be spot on .
have a nice day lady ;-)
great to share..
nice to share
Really great article, well done, my dear friend
I think it idols made by man and spirit of the dead
Rephrase?...Idols right?
Yes lemme edit
In my own view to this post; I assumed it from my own side of view that we in most black countries pray to idols and to our superior.... We all know idols, what I mean by superior are the kings, chiefs, charismatic leadership, feudalism, and other such of leadership withing our visibility.....
As time goes on, the unbelievers and those that can't stand alone move ahead to worship there pastors, prophets, Evangelist and others that called themselves God servants thou serving themselves in the house of God.
What I'm trying to fetch out from my comment is that if you don't worship God, you worship gods.
The gods in here are those things I mentioned above.
Ire o!
Thank you for this article.
Speaking as a descendant of those who were enslaved and forced to adopt the religion of their enslavers, I have seen that this is actually the most destructive thing about slavery. To imprison a person's body is terrible, but to cut them off their spiritual traditions hurts them more.
So much of the harm from especially the Christian religion is this idea of original sin and the need to earn the right to happiness through suffering and sacrifice. Yet the deck is stacked and the black person can never do enough to earn this elusive "right to happiness." Meanwhile the "masters" seem to be born deserving.
So much of my work with people of color is helping them to reconnect with their ancestral lines and that wisdom and loving power and come to see themselves with those same loving eyes. It is vital to release the teachings that were imposed because they served the interests of those in power.
This really made my day already dear @indigoocean . I think you really grasp the concept of the question rather some other comments about Isrealites and the Red Sea...You have my follow my friend.
Great to find you, and to be seen by you.