The Boabab Tree – Ancestral Tree of Life (And Parts) – Reiterated

The great Baobab tree of Afrika is a powerful living symbol of Afrikan sacred history. A history sacred because it is the history of a people divine who are the first born of human creation. The Baobab tree is a tree that was present at the time of this marvellous birth and has been with the Afrikan ever since. It lived with the Afrikan as the Afrikan developed and built the world’s most magnificent civilisations and longest-lived civilisations. It was there through all of the pioneering expressions of excellence that came from the Afrikan soul throughout the panorama of life. A natural living presence in the sacred universe that journeyed with the grand royal majestic monarchs of humanity from the beginning.

As Afrikan souls completed their physical journey in life and were laid to rest in the soil, the soil became enriched with the nutrients of each life’s experience allowing the tree to grow and thrive from evermore fertile ground. As each generation of Afrikan people marvellously flowed from the beginning, physical life experience became augmented to greater magnificence. So too, upon the passing of each physical life the soil became augmented with the Afrikan soul from which the tree flourishes.  

Above the soil the Baobab grows into majestic splendour and provides much to Afrikan life from food to shelter. This is divine cyclical reciprocity orchestrated by the Creator Supreme. Beyond the physical the Baobab carries ever-expansive living energy from its beginnings as a superlative gift of the Creator Supreme. Age after age its energy flow grew and with the coming of the Afrikan connection its place within the spirit life of this marvellous people became sacralised.

This real tree of life is (amongst much else) a profound symbol of connectivity to the Great Ancestors of the Afrikan soul. Each tree can live up to around five thousand years and with the longevity of its beingness from the time of its emergence as the Baoabab, it is seen as the tree of great and uniquely special ancestral link.  

As Afrikans from the most ancient of times built grand and magnificent temples and monuments with the awesome columns reflecting plant life. It was more than a statement of exceptional beauty. It was a testament of profound knowingness of the sacred universe, nature and self. The Baobab tree is indeed a mighty link to the ancestral realm and an empowering feature of Afrikan life highlighted during the observance of Afrikan Historia Msimu. The Kiswahili phrase for ancestral tree of life is: Mti wa Mabibi na Mababu ya Uzima.

The following details the symbolic meanings for the parts of the tree as elucidated and synthesised by this author with Kiswahili identifiers. The Kishwali phrase for parts of the tree is Sehemu Za Mti:

Sehemu Za Mti

Mzizi (Roots) – The roots of the tree are vastly expansive and reach into the imperative of sacred soil. Thus, the Afrikan is inextricably linked and rooted to the sacred soil of their magnificent land of origin. Afrika and its people are one. The roots symbolise the most intimate and direct connection to the Ancestral realm.

Shina (Trunk) – This is the vital strength of the tree that supports its crown. As the tree supports its crown Afrikan people lift and maintain themselves in their rightful and proper place as the grand monarchs of humanity.

Tawi (Branch)  - Branches expand outwardly into different space necessarily spanning all directions of life expression. Yet they are all a firm part of the same tree. Likewise the Afrikan soul is present throughout the world in various climes yet is a firm part of the same body in the oneness of mission for global Afrikan ascendancy.

Majani (Leaves) - The leaves on the tree highlight the imperative of life transitions. This is the life-long process of grooming and shaping life to become a Great Ancestor.  The leaving of physical presence at the time of passing marks the journey into the Ancestral realm. Physical passing is yet another beginning in the Afrikan cycle of life.

Matunda (Fruit) - The fruit of the tree represent the generation of new life. It contains the seed of inception. Growth, nurturing and birthing of new life is vital in the Afrikan cycle as the fruit (first fruits) hold a special divine place.

The vicious genocidal onslaught of foreign enemy forces during the Maafa of recent centuries has been a devastating disruption of Afrikan life. Severed from Afrikan soil and stripped of their own spiritual and cultural way, the Afrikan has been hurled into the dire pit of unknowingness of self.

Wonderfully and despite the murderous criminal interruptions Afrikans are in ever greater numbers are restoring their way and their oneness with the natural order. The Boabab continues to flourish upon Afrikan soil in grand majesty of plant life and trees flourish throughout the world wherever the Afrikan soul resides. The symbolic connection to the powerful might of the ancestral realm is ever-present and ever-living whether in a forest, wood, garden or a park. On most journeys the Afrikan is reminded of his or her imperative and divine responsibility to the great ones of the Afrikan experience to claim righteous inheritance and pick up the mantle of ascendancy.

In celebrating Afrikan Historia Msimu the symbol of the Baobab tree and trees in general are an empowering feature of life.  The Afrikan tree of life is for the living Afrikan. It is for the Afrikan to live.

Afrikan Historia Msimu is an observance period for the duration of the tenth month of the year (so-called October). This is a special time for learning, growth and development of the Afrikan experience in the world. It is a time of spiritual and cultural elevation as Afrikan history is restored to fabric of life in the living knowingness of the then, the now and tomorrow. Great ones of the Afrikan journey are highlighted and the symbols relevant to the time invigorate life in the imperative onward flow of global Afrikan ascendancy.  This wonderful observance is a part of the cultural calendar of the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN).

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