The Sunday Mail
HOLIDAYS in the Rastafarian culture and calendar all occur for seven sonsecutive days and nights.
Ibo Foroma
Since there is no darkness in Zion, perfect and pure, Tafarians insist seven days and seven “lights”.
The drumming and chanting of Nyahbinghi is in full throttle. Saints and angels compete in vibrating melodious echoes to be heard by the Omnipotent who resides both within and without.
Shakers and tambourines placate the outer, mid and inner ear mollifying it with tranquilising sinusoidal harmonies.
The spectacle is mesmerising. Ancient sounds resonate in the modern arousing mystical powers to rise and ascend from the ground to infinite.
Warriors stamp the planet onto which they are earthed as if it has gradually grown molten. From zero energy Omega, as in the shape of the sphere and to positive or Alpha as in the shape of individuals chanting and skanking, synergies ascend and subside at will.
Clouds of incense scintillate the temple; both mechanical and biological brethrens prefer to call tabernacles of the Most High Omniscient with undeniable aroma therapic invigorating effects.
“I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there. And of Zion it shall be said, this and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah. As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.”
The springing has just been elucidated upon. The man who was born requires no elongation of juvenile matters.
He ruled the land from whence the River Nile begins. At one time, in antiquity, the territory had jurisdictional rights stretching further up through Arabia, Middle East, Mongolia, India, China, all Europe and America. Philistia, Palestine, Tyre, Syria, Yemen and all included.”
Egypt is the daughter and Ethiopia is the mother of civilisation. Many are puzzled by why we literary worship His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I as God.
Long hours of suckling easily comprehensible language and explanations precede; the wise and prudent suprisingly resist to comprehend. For unto us a Son was born from the root of David and he shall be called Mighty God.
Had it not been written, we would have had no judicial argument. He shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, and His Imperial Majesty was awarded an honourary Law degree.
The time period of his birth and growth is known in Abyssinia as the era of judges. From the scriptures; Samuel, David, Solomon, Samson among many more, were judges and had dreadlocks. They were black as well as Ethiopian.
Ethiopia is Grecian to be translated as black faced or sun burnt. Ancient Egyptian and Cushite judges wore their dreadlocks and Greeks robed the culture and replaced it with white wigs the same as those standard in our colonial context.
In ancient times, judges wore their dreadlocks obviously inviting victims to the dreadful reality they shall face if ever they are to transgress. It is a good thing inmates involuntarily receive haircuts free of charge. Staunch faced Rastafarians testify to the fact that they are always making graceful judgments throughout their righteous and holy lives.
Love is the architect of the Universe. God works in mystical ways. July 23 marks the exact date Tafari Makonnen was born and to Rastafarians this is more than Christians’ christmas. Prince Tafari’s birth is the second coming of Jesus the Christ (Anointed).
Only a chosen few fully comprehend this simple stubborn fact of both historical and Biblical astronomical values. The first and second World Wars obviously occurred during the time period when The Lion of Judah, Jesus Christ then and now, had returned to judge the world with a rod of iron.
Long live Jah Ras Tafari, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the Conquering Lion of the tribe of Judah, Elect of God and God Himself.
