Kwanzaa: Celebration of All Year Round Cultivation Through Observance Cycles

The superlative genius of the Afrikan gifted by the Creator Supreme brought forth the profound excellence in the essential spiritual cultural substance of their pinnacle way of life. This magnificent people have cultivated themselves from the beginning to unique and exceptional heights well beyond the attainment of any others. As such Afrikan souls are not only the first of humanity but also the natural leaders in the world from whom other latecomers have felt compelled to steal. The story of Ausar, Auset and Heru is a story of Afrikan pioneering leadership and victory. It is a story that continues to inspire and lift the Afrikan souls of the world to their rightful and proper place of centrality in the sacred universe. During the wonderful observance of Kwanzaa Ausar, Auset and Heru are deific standards for manhood, womanhood, childhood and familyhood that are celebrated as successful harvest. Cycles of living the Afrikan way produce the cultivation results of magnificence in the growing, nurturing and development that comes from spiritual and cultural ground.

Of such wonderfulness is the Afrikan spiritual and cultural way that within the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation life is profoundly cultivated at the observance level. Here, the divine qualities of Ausar, Auset and Heru are enshrined in observances throughout the year for contemporary and future Afrikan maximal living ascension.

Ausar as pioneering, monarch and father of Afrikan nationhood is explicitly brought to the fore during the observance of Musa Msimu (Marcus Garvey Season). Marcus Garvey is the supreme example of organised Afrikan nationhood in the thrust for global Afrikan ascendancy. Marcus Garvey, the royal emperor of Afrikan nationalism is father to an entire people in the imperative thrust of global Afrikan ascendancy.

Auset as pioneering monarch and mother of Afrikan nationhood is explicitly brought to the fore during the observance of Yemanja Siku (Yemanja Day) and throughout the subsequent Malkia wa Uhuru (Queens of Liberty) observance. Yemanja is supreme mother, nurturer, sustainer, protector and bringer forth of life. The Afrikan warrior queens of liberty imbibed with the strength of Yemanja are the royal pioneers in the fight for the attainment and maintenance of Afrikan liberty and nationhood throughout the world.

Heru as pioneering victorious warrior birthed and raised to restore Ukweli (Truth), Jaji (Justice), Haki (Righteousness) and Ili (Order) is explicitly brought to the fore during the observances of Omowale Malcolm X Kukumbuko (Remembrance) and Omowale Malcolm X Siku (Day). Born of a forthright and progressive Garveyite family, this child was destined to become an exceptional leader to lift the Afrikan world to restored divine order.

Each of these powerful Afrikan divine manifestations are fundamental to the celebration of Kwanzaa.

The powerful influence of the mighty Marcus Garvey as Ausar is replete throughout the Kwanzaa observance. The Red, Black and Green colouration of the Mishuuma Saba (Seven Candles) and the Bendara Ya Taifa (Flag of the Nation) are immediately identifiable. Deeper still, the thrust of nationhood, liberty and total Afrikan elevation that emanate from Garvey’s pinnacle example in Kwanzaa’s manifestation and values can be gleaned in part from a verse Garvey had eloquently scribed:

Your Duty To-day

BELIEVE IN [THE CREATOR SUPREME]

LIFT YOURSELF

LIFT YOUR FAMILY

LIFT YOUR CLAN

LIFT YOUR RACE

LIFT YOUR COUNTRY

LIFT YOUR NATION AND BE AN IMPERIAL WHOLE

Your Duty Tomorrow

WITH [THE GRACE OF THE CREATOR SUPREME]

Look back and help for [the Afrikan’s] sake
Measure your charity by the acts of others towards you while you were climbing
Forget not the past with all its good and ill reports
Contemplate your future by the experiences you have had
If you must strike to live, strike hard and sure

Yemanja represents the divine flow of water. The pouring of Tambiko (Libation) during the Kwanzaa celebration and throughout Afrikan life is honour to her. Water is the most prevalent substance on the face of the Earth. Water is the most prevalent substance in the Afrikan body. Thus, divine water flow is essential to Afrikan life cultivation. Yemanja as Auset is divine motherhood giving and safeguarding Afrikan life. The Afrikan young are birthed from the divine waters of sacred womb and so new life is most profound celebration.

The warrior queens of liberty as Auset are the courageous, bold and uncompromising restorers of Afrikan liberty and nationhood. These grand and royal monarchs dedicate their living spirit to the ascendancy of Afrikan people in order to restore and maintain Afrikan souls of the world in their rightful proper place of centrality within the sacred universe.

Omowale Malcolm X as Heru called for the cultural revolution that gave rise to the organised thrust for the creative restoration of Kwanzaa in the so-called 1960s. This courageous, gallant and uncompromising warrior ancestor of the great boldly leads Afrikans of the world to the pinnacle heights of global Afrikan ascendancy in the magnificent spirit of Garvey, the father before him. Despite despicable enemy onslaught, he is the Afrikan child matured to fully expressed royal adulthood. He is forever victorious. This is the ever ascending substance energised in the Afrikan during the Kwanzaa observance.

With all of the challenges heaped upon Afrikan souls as result of the foreign enemy imposed Maafa of recent centuries, the Afrikan spiritual and cultural way is vital and equipped with the fabric of victorious elevation. Celebrate Kwanzaa ! Celebrate Afrikan life ! Celebrate victory eternal !