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This is going to be short. One reason, it is a topic I am still studying and writing about but I find it very interesting. As for the topic itself - even though I am still researching and writing - I honestly believe spirituality/religion is a predominately Black system. I.E., Blacks are more able to connect with nature on a deeper level.
That consciousness that we call "instinct" or "spiritual awareness", etc... has more to do with how our ancestors thought and behaved and as time went along, such ways of life that were predicated on certain forms of thought, we would just inherit.
I know that sounds crazy but I honestly believe that instinctual memory (knowing to breathe, know your senses, or even crawl/walk) is not relegated to just those specific instincts for humans.
But I am still developing this idea so I will end that portion here. How does this connect with the title?
I was reading about the Shilluk people and their way of life in some old texts and read about how they saw their King as being a man that is between death and the heavens. I.E. the King was not merely man but more than man. And so as long as the King was in good standing with the divine, the people would live relatively comfortably.
Now to a Eurocentric minded person, this will seem backward. But it isn't necessarily for the practice of the King was to perform sacrifices or rituals. "Rituals" are encoded with the very fabric of our world - the New Years celebration is a ritual, marriage is a ritual that formed out of two deities forming into one that was represented by the wedding of royalty of old but extended to those not of royalty.
The Shilluk kings rituals were community based, as all rituals of religion are community based. It connects the people together and focuses their energies on something higher than themselves. That gives people, a community, purpose. That purpose is to be like the deities in which they come together to perform rituals for; that community - or mostly King, attempts to relate himself to what he considers supernatural or greater, or G-d. So that King orders the construction of temples, buildings, and directs societies energy to bringing itself to that of G-d. Being G-d like.
I also found it interesting that the Shilluk bloodline is directly connected with the Kemet and the ritualistic practices of the Shilluk were mirrored in Kemet. Those practices mirtored in Greece and are mirrored in today's society. Interesting to say the least.
But like I said, I'd keep it short.
What do y'all think?
That consciousness that we call "instinct" or "spiritual awareness", etc... has more to do with how our ancestors thought and behaved and as time went along, such ways of life that were predicated on certain forms of thought, we would just inherit.
I know that sounds crazy but I honestly believe that instinctual memory (knowing to breathe, know your senses, or even crawl/walk) is not relegated to just those specific instincts for humans.
But I am still developing this idea so I will end that portion here. How does this connect with the title?
I was reading about the Shilluk people and their way of life in some old texts and read about how they saw their King as being a man that is between death and the heavens. I.E. the King was not merely man but more than man. And so as long as the King was in good standing with the divine, the people would live relatively comfortably.
Now to a Eurocentric minded person, this will seem backward. But it isn't necessarily for the practice of the King was to perform sacrifices or rituals. "Rituals" are encoded with the very fabric of our world - the New Years celebration is a ritual, marriage is a ritual that formed out of two deities forming into one that was represented by the wedding of royalty of old but extended to those not of royalty.
The Shilluk kings rituals were community based, as all rituals of religion are community based. It connects the people together and focuses their energies on something higher than themselves. That gives people, a community, purpose. That purpose is to be like the deities in which they come together to perform rituals for; that community - or mostly King, attempts to relate himself to what he considers supernatural or greater, or G-d. So that King orders the construction of temples, buildings, and directs societies energy to bringing itself to that of G-d. Being G-d like.
I also found it interesting that the Shilluk bloodline is directly connected with the Kemet and the ritualistic practices of the Shilluk were mirrored in Kemet. Those practices mirtored in Greece and are mirrored in today's society. Interesting to say the least.
But like I said, I'd keep it short.
What do y'all think?