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Originally posted by Ideal08:
Ok, I have a question. I was watching the movie Foolish last night, and something Eddie said has me thinking and wondering if it is true.
He was telling a joke about how hurricanes are killing so many white people. He said that they all start at the southern most tip of Africa, where most slave ships left from. He said that the hurricanes follow the same path as slaveships did in traveling over here, and that the hurricanes now hit in the same places where slave ships landed, or whatever. Could there be some truth to this?? This is very interesting to me. Could our ancestors' spirits be bringing the wrath all like that? Things that make you go hmmmmm....
I'll be back later with my black history fact of the day.
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Well, most scientists would say that's crazy. However, a person of an Afrikan Centered perspective would say what is thrown out into the universe will come back through various forms.
Some traditional West African countries believed that one spiritually consecrates an action by blood. In fact the Vouduon, Yoruban (sp.) and Santa Rienas (sp.) still practice these ceremonies. The Bantus believed that once you call upon the 7 Afrikan Powers, one of them being that of the "storm", thru a blood baptism, it will follow your path to answer your call with destruction. That's why you are always careful as to what you call out from the universe...
The word "hurricane" is derived from the Carribe (or sometimes creole) tribe god, "Hurricano". So apparently, these severe weather disturbances occured before the Afrikan MAAFA (or the slave holocaust).
So the idea that hurricanes are the repercussions of non-payment or non-appeasement of Afrikan gods, may possibly lie in where these storms land--not the fact that they form because it may be seen from an Afrikan Centered perspective as a "necessary evil"...