Yemanja –  Maji ya Mababu (Ancestral Waters)

The primeval waters of Creation are ancestral to the flow of nature and of sacred Afrikan life. It is the water of the beginnings that brought forth the world. The abundance of hydrogen throughout space became at one with oxygen in the grand creation of life’s becoming as orchestrated by the Creator Supreme. This is water of the heavens, the great antecedent of all water flow that is manifest on earth. In the worldview of the magnificent primary people of creation water is revered as vital flow cosmologically, spiritually, culturally and physically. The magnificent deity Yemanja represents ancestral waters in its grand continual flow of then, now and the eternal tomorrows to come. In the ocean, seas, rivers, lakes, streams, waterfalls and rain – ancestral waters flow. As male and female energies harmonise to facilitate the coming of sacred new life – ancestral waters flow. As the Afrikan heart pumps blood throughout the body – ancestral waters flow. When tears are emitted from the windows of the soul (Afrikan eyes) – ancestral waters flow.  In spiritual and cultural practice the Afrikan soul of water honours eternal continuum with the pouring of tambiko (libation) -ancestral waters flow. The ancestral flow of Yemanja is ever present throughout divine Afrikan life. The Kiswahili phrase for Ancestral Waters is Maji ya Mababu.

The genocidal Maafa of recent centuries inflicted upon Afrikan souls by brute alien enemy forces has been a foul litany of desecration of ancestral water flow. The foreign savage has murderously torn into Afrikan flesh and spilled rivers of Afrikan blood; He has drowned countless Afrikan souls throughout the world. He has fed Afrikan children to reptiles of the water for his pleasure.  He has cursed the Afrikan soul with multitudinous dippings in baptismal practices of his alien doctrine to castrate and obtain dominion over sacred life. He has set sail in his pirate vessels of doom and destruction in a viral abominable scourge across seas to kidnap, terrorise the primary people of creation into the hell of the so-called plantation. It is from these same ships of horror that many Afrikans felt compelled to release themselves from the most heinous alien tortures by jumping overboard in order to return to the sanctity of the natural waters of the sea’s womb. Generation upon generation suffered these criminal atrocities. The foreign enemy brute continues his tirade of savagery and his incessant intent to spill Afrikan blood, terrorise and desecrate ancestral water flow as chief odious parasite.

Sacred places of ancestral water flow where focussed reverence, honour and celebration energises the Afrikan soul include rivers, lakes and falls. There is a plethora of such examples, throughout the Afrikan world. On the sacred continent itself the Nile River of the east holds reverence, the Ogun River of the west holds reverence and so on. In the Southern region places such as Mosi oa Tunya (the Smoke that Thunders) are of great spiritual and cultural significance in Afrikan life and ought to be purged of any alien curse or mislabelling (in this case Victoria Falls). Whether on the continent or in the diaspora, these are water shrines of ancestral water flow all intertwined with the shrine of the Afrikan self and destinations of sacred pilgrimage rather than simply the exclusive aesthetic of a tourist visit. Yemanja lives and flows.

Wonderfully, ever increasing numbers of Afrikan souls are restoring the deep and profound meaning of ancestral water flow throughout their lives. The restoration of the Afrikan spiritual and cultural way necessities sacred places of ancestral water flow are returned to their rightful place of honour and the magnificent deity of Yemanja is exhalted to empower Afrikan life. Life occurrences and phenomena of the sacred universe are brought into the ethereal and physical oneness of living-knowing. For, ancestral water is vital substance. Maji ya Mababu is eternal continuum of sacred flow.

The observance of Yemanja Siku is marked by the seventh day of ninth month (so-called September) with celebrations taking place on Sunday 7th or nearest Sunday to that date. This is a wonderful time of spiritual and cultural ascendancy in honour and celebration of this mighty water deity and her deep, profound and progressive meaning to Afrikan life. This is an important time in imperative mission for global Afrikan ascendancy. Yemanja Siku is a part of the Afrikan Cultural calendar of the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN).

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