To answer you directly King, The Holy Piby is not a historical book, it is a book written on the interpretations of a black man in the time, for liberation of self from the clutches of white supremacy. Similar to The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy. We KNOW these books are not historical chronological FACT. BUT they are still very important, to understand the mindset, and the mission at hand. And they do mention many indigenous African concepts like the recognition of the Man Woman and Child as Divine (which YOU know was practiced in Kemet LONGtime). Nah put them books down.
The Kebra Negast is similar to a bible book - written in the same allegorical way. The Kebra Negast is a mixture of Ethiopian History, Ethiopian spirituality and Ethiopian mythology or folk-law. Again, that doesnt mean we should put it down. Just like a Roman shouldnt put down his bible (a joke we a make).
I want to say every piece of knowledge has value whether correct or incorrect, as long as you can critically appraise the two. When i read bible I want to know What the text is saying.... But equally where that doctrine is coming from and originates, who gave it and WHY it was given to the people. Rather than look at it LITERALLY and STOP there. I want to know all aspects of this unreferenced historically inaccurate book collection which my people have sworn by for centuries. And ANY negative or anti-african text or under-text or sub-plot I have to Investigate before I BURN it from creation. No more attacks on Africa, Africans and African Practice. And after I read the christian book, I may need some Kemetic Science or Obeah / Voodoo knowledge to refresh myself in some African tradition which we love.....
People will see Bible a say 'God will Punish Ethiopia' in Isiah and come up with all sorts of far-stretched out there interpretations to suit them in accordance to gods word. On Face value, i want to know why a MAN has written and Published that Ethiopia has or had a Divine Punishment? Was it because the Ethiopians were so wicked? Or the wicked intentions of the man writing it?
I hear MANY rasta scared a say if we put down the bible then what can we have? To quote SARASUTENSETI, we dont need an instruction manual from a personified God to tell us what is already in our nature.
To hammer home this point to all rasta...
If Haile Selassie is crowned King of Ethiopia from 1930, and nobody has been crowned since, no replacement king, no successor to this day today. Then WHY do we need Bible or Kebra Negast references to validate him? He is already deh ya! I dont need reference to validate me, im here and i know it. .... NO OTHER African country or African leader can claim such an African Originality. They all had their so called 'independence' given to them recently by a European or Arab. Before that they were under rule. Chancellor Williams theorised the many different tribes and >2000 languages in Africa, is mainly due to the effect of thousands of years of this kind of foreign invasion - some Africans died, some stayed in their native land under foreign rule and foreign religious rule, but some Africans refused this life - and were forced to the many uninhabitable areas of africa, bush-lands, desert land and such, to escape the invader (and his cross or half moon)..... and this is a major factor in the many different isolated secluded but ANCIENT tribes. For example the DOGON.... Indigenous tribe people on the run from babylon for centuries and millennia. Ok. Now we love all of AFRICA but when we compare this history to that of ETHIOPIA. There is no higher inspiration for African survival.
If you really want a reference for Jah, then Rasta, go to the HISTORY books of Ethiopia PRE-Makeda and Pre-SOLOMON. Go to books and references you know as FACT. Ethiopians can be traced 2.5 million years (or did they go to 3 million with a recent find?), and we still no so little pre-people mentioned in the bible.
The knowledge of the pure blooded unconquerable Kingdom, and its King's status as the lead of the African Union and proposed President of the United States of Africa and the Diaspora as one (if you Google/Research - this was REALLY going to happen under HIM).....and the facts based on his life, then this isnt reference enough?
To finish, YOU ARE THE REFERENCE. Anytime you stand up in a nobility and in the name of indigenous African justice, then that no Haile Selassie in the I? Unconquerable African kingly character.
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