One big component of world culture, and certainly of African culture, in ancient times and in the present, is the sharing of wisdom through proverbs. Proverbs can be defined as…
Adinkra are the traditional symbols of the Akan people found in Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and Togo. There are hundreds of these symbols that span all kinds of concepts, from cosmology…
It seems there is so much going on here on planet Earth these days. Global society is in the throes of a pandemic that seems to have succeeded in bringing…
A few days ago, my friend in Germany sent me the video, titled Ashanti Traditional Buildings, which shows the shrine of Tano, the river deity of the Akan people, and…
In a recent conversation I had with a friend who had just spent some time in the villages of the Faroe Islands in early 2020, I was struck when he…
Africa's great shaman, the calabash of ancestral spiritual link, the great elephant of wisdom, after many years of service to humanity, after 98 years of life on this planet (21…
The Ewe are an ethnic group found in present day Ghana and in parts of Togo and Benin. The youtube video below is an important one, pointing to the ancient…
In The Akan, other Africans & the Sirius star system, (section 7.6), I discuss how the Dagara people of West Africa perform secret ceremonies to maintain the planet and solar…
The feature photo of this post shows the Nubian king Taharqa making an offering to the falcon deity. Making offerings to spirit has been a common practice among the indigenous…
I pointed out in The Akan, Other Africans and the Sirius Star System (sections 5 and 7.4) that there are both avian (Pleiadian-Sirian) and reptilian (Sirian-Reptilian) influences in Akan DNA…