The Origin Behind The God & Devil Concept ( There is No Devil in Indigenous Afrikan Spiritual Science-Spirituality ) – Haki Kweli Shakur
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WITHOUT THE DEVIL, THERE IS NO CHRISTIANITY
Without the devil, there is no Judaism, Christianity or Islam. Neither sin nor the devil are native Africanconcepts. ‘Devil’ as expounded by the alien unAfrican, anti-African and non-African Judeo-Christian &Islamic religions, does not exist in traditional African spirituality. We don’t condemn, much less demonize anyone who believes in the “the Devil” or even “the Devil” himself. One is free to believe in anything onewishes. The only case we make is, ITS NOT AFRICAN.
Odinani/Omenala/Afa The Sacred Science S.E.L.F. – Haki Kweli Shakur
“African Religion doesn’t know a cosmic principle of evil like the devil in the Christian and Muslim faith.”Gregor Schmidt, MCCJ Contemporary Beliefs about Witches and Witchcraft in Kenya, p.3
“Within the African worldview there is no concept of a devil that is in constant battle with God. Onlythrough colonization and enslavement have Africans adopted such a notion, and in some instances theyhave infused it into their own indigenous belief systems.” The African Concept of God,p. 6 (Unattributed)
“African spirituality does not recognize any all-powerful supernatural being that is hell bent on deposingthe creator as master of the universe. Consequently thereis no word for ‘Devil’ in most African languages. In their pathetic disingenuous attempt to translate the alien concept of ‘devil’ into African languages, the unimaginative purveyors of the intolerant alien creeds (Islam,Christianity) distorted, mangled anddemonized otherwise reputable African deities like Esu & Ekwensu. ‘Devil’ is a figment of superstitiousJudeo-Christian/Islamic imagination; a convenient fall-guy to explain their moral failing .” Esu: The Revenge Of Bishop Ajayi Crowther, By Remi Oyeyemi, Nigeria Village Square”
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the missionary agenda had had a number of effects to declare ethno- spirituality unworthy; to declareimagery as idolatry, and visualisation as superstition. Also, by identifying indigenous deities with the devil,missionaries validated belief in a devil with all the power and attractiveness of the indigenous deity.”Stephen Bigger Ethno-spirituality: A Postcolonial Problematic? Alternation Special Edition 3(2009):233
The African Presence in North America, Ogam, Ichi Petroglyphs, Igbo Ideograms – Haki Kweli Shakur
“Enyeribe Onuoha refutes the idea that Ekwensu is Satan or anti-God. For him, Igbo religion has notranslated word for “evil incarnate” and there are no such spirits called the “Devil” who does nothing butevil. Rather for him, Ekwensu is one of the minor spirits of Igbo spiritology.
According to him, the term is a
borrowed one transported directly from Christian theology and knowledge of the Satan.” MatthewMaduabuchi Nsomma Anyanwu, The Doctrine of Resurrection and the Challenge of TraditionalI
igbo(African) Eschatology: 313
There is no “devil”or adversary against God in the African Traditional Religion of the Igbo“…
in the indigenous cosmology the deities do not contest the power of the Supreme God (Chukwu), butrather work in concert with humans for realization of individual and communal destiny.” Elochukwu Uzukwu, InterfaceBetween Igbo Theology and Christianity, p.87 Ref Source NGa Sidney Davis
“For example, Capuchin missionaries made numerous and sometimes detailed assessments of local religious life during their evangelical work in Kongo. Much of this work takes the form of denunciations of local customs,thus revealing a strong Christian bias. This bias is reflected, for example, in their tendency to identify all supernatural beings worshipped in Kongo as manifestations of the Devil. Their accounts are never quite clear as to whether the Kongolese truly were worshipping a figure they regarded as wicked and evilin the same way Christians regard the Devil, or even whether Kongolese cosmology included a figure who served as an opponent for God, or whether the missionaries were simply assigning all supernatural beliefs to the Devil. Most historians address this difficulty by studying modern anthropological accounts or the testimony of modern Kongolese and hoping that they can see the local cosmology more fully.Nonetheless, the missionaries were contemporary eyewitnesses and thus can never be discounted as a source of information,whatever problems their bias creates.” Writing African history, edited by John Edward Philips: 268
Vodou ( Voodoo ) The Misunderstanding of The Universals systetm of Nature -Haki Kweli Shakur
In Tanzania lie Lake Victoria, the Ngorongoro Crater and the Olduvai Gorge where the oldest known
remains of the human species have been found. The north-south line of lakes, Albert, Ruranzige, Kivu, and Tanganyika, make the eastern edge of the Ituri Forest in Congo. The Efe Pygmies who live on the Ituri Forest called the Towering massif of Ruwenzori Baba Tiba, the Mountains of the Moon. In Efe theology the first man ascended to the heavens after serving as a benevolent governor of the primordial Pygmy nation.
He then established residence on the moon where he still assists God by serving as the angel-of-the-
moon. For tropical Black Africa the moon was, and still is, the favorite object of veneration, not the sun.
Egyptian texts from around 2500 BC refer to the Pygmies as little men from the land of trees and spirits at the foot of the Mountains of the Moon. Egyptian king Nefrikare sent an expedition into central Africa and it returned with a dancing dwarf known as Akka. In the pyramid text of the sixth-dynasty monarch Pepi I it is declared that, “He who is between the thighs of Nut is the Pygmy who danceth like the god and who pleaseth the heart of the god before his great throne.” Nut was the goddess of heaven and the mother of Osiris. This Pygmy was called Bes. ( Courtesy Shahar Harari)
There is no Devil or demonizing or Intra- and inter-religious hate and violence or human right violations among, between or against practishioners of African Spirituality, African Traditional Religion (ATR), Indigenous (Igbo) Traditional (or Tribal) Religions (ITR), or among practitioners of Voodoo, Verdun, Juju, Obeah, Ifa, Afa, Shamanism, Wicca, etc or among Atheists or of any human being. Because of their belief in the Devil the Abrahamic religions terrorize and demonize each other and all these religions terrorize and demonize among and within themselves (Intra- and Inter), Sunni against Shia, Protestant against Catholic, also among and within Jewish sectarians (especially along ethnic and racial lines) and so on ad nauseum.
“The Book” religions have within their Holy Texts justification for religious and human violence and the demonization of others. However the Abrahamic Religions and/or “Book Religions” all agree together in one thing, they are all together and united in terrorizing and demonizing ATR or ITR. To these religionists African indigenous culture and spirituality (ATR and ITR) was seen and is still seen as “barbaric,” “brutish,” “bestial,” “black magic,” “cannibalistic,” “devilish,” “demonic,” “dispensable,” “despicable,” “heathen,” “illiterate,” “immoral,” “inferior,” “primitive,” “pagan,” “promiscuous,” “satanic,” “savage,” “sensual,” “sexual,” “superstitious,” “uncivilized,” “witchcraft”, inter alia, etcetera, ad infinitum, ad nauseum and so on. What is so ironic is they as Devil believers and demonizers accuse us of worshipping the Devil and demons when we demonize no one!
The Demonization of Afriqan People First Took Place With The God Bes
The God Bes
A guardian god. Bes was a foreign god, an import from the land of Nubia. He was jolly, fond of music, and dancing. He was a popular god who was adopted by the middle classes; he was considered a tutelary god of childbirth and, strangely enough, of cosmetics and female adornments. Bes chased away demons of the night and guarded men from dangerous animals. His image was carved on bedpost. He eventually became a protector of the dead and, amazingly, competed with even the refined and magnificent god Osiris for the attentions of men. He was originally the protective deity of the royal house of Egypt, but came to be a popular household deity throughout Egypt. Archeology Findings The oldest known fossil remains, according to Dr. Louis Leakey, were found in the Olduvai Gorge region in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. These first “small stature” people were known as the “Twa”, who worshipped the God Bes, a primitive human form of Horus I, being the earliest form of Ptah the God of Gods. The Twa, are modern humans or Homo sapiens sapiens. They are a diminutive Africoid people residing in the rain forests of Central Africa. Related groups live in South and Southeast Asia. We also find this same black God, Ptah, symbolized in the mystery system in Egypt. The Twa are said to have migrated the four thousand one hundred miles of the Nile river, establishing what was later to become the Egyptian civilization. A Modern Theory of Language Evolution, by Carl J. Becker, 2004, p. 164
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john collins said:
Christianity also demonised the trickster gods that abound in old religions such as the African Legba, the Nordic Loki, the Greek Hermes, the Roman Mercury and even the fallen angel Lucifer – JC
Aliyah said:
There are devils that abound in so many of the hundred thousand different communities of Africa. Please do not assume that one idea of ‘Africa’ covers Africa in all its variety. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church, a Christian church is older than any Christianity that happened upon Europe. They are the only Christian community that pray for the devil’s repentance. The Luo people of East and Central Africa have known of and explained the concept of ‘Jachien’, the one who haunts who is direct opposition to Nyasaye Nyakalaga. I have not yet gone to the land and lives of the peoples of the East African Indian Ocean. Binaries and simplifications are appalling and irritating and do nobody any favours. And stop calling Christianity a western religion–that is appropriation of the worst order, and in its essence it has more connection with our assorted African lives than it has others.
newafrikan77 said:
What u talking about is garbage the fact u using christianity shows your lack of research in indigenous Afrikan Spirituality There is no Devil in Afrika!! Period Bye!
Heru said:
False , stop spreading lies. Apep was known to be an evil spirit.
VI_Jem said:
Demons are everywhere
Rodney Kendrick said:
That original African belief system was high jacked by the Greeks & Romans and then recreated into the counterfeit perversion that is now being practiced today.
Firstly, the original belief system wasn’t even called Christianity. Its original doctrine didn’t honor a singular individual, (such as Jesus Christ thus giving us the term Christianity) because the original system would never honor a singular individual in such a way, because it taught that no individual is higher than the next. And that therefore every individual could establish an equal connection with the most high God.
dmynott2 said:
Makes perfect sense. The ‘Devil’ is a myth (Christian superstition), though—of course—there is ‘evil’ in the world. There’s the ‘Lords of Materiality’, aka the ‘forces of evil’, (familiar to those students of the ‘Ageless Wisdom Teaching’) which are the antithesis to the World Teacher Maitreya & his group the Masters of Wisdom, but other than that, there’s nothing.
Khaba Sahure said:
There is no devil in Judaism the Gentiles of Europe invented that. And based it partially on the template of the Greek god Pan ( who was not evil )
imam aljeddii said:
Excellent article, I applaud the work. The one area I disagree on is the concept of the devil as it relates to Islaam. The word “Shaytaan” originates from the Kamitian word “Set, ” and shares all that character traits of the personification of Set. (Satan comes from Set as well.)
Since Shaytaan was first Iblis, and Ibkis was a Jinn, the nature of the jinn is smokeless fire… You can’t see the flame but it’s there and it Burns… Which is the nature of our uncontrollable lower selves in jealousy, anger, envy, lust, etc…
Just a little incite, yet I truly love the article. Good work, please keep enlightening the people. Hetef.
Frank said:
Stop tryn to relate everything from the Quran please…both books are irrelevant when talking Africans n there orgin
Gert said:
This is absolute nonsense. Africa is very diverse so please do not speak of a people’s with thousands of different ethnicities, cultures,religious beliefs and languages as though they are all one. This is what non-Africans typically do and it’s sooooo ignorant. Let’s not share things unless you have facts right
Heru Ra Maat said:
Exactly.. these Quasi Secular Necros keep pushing Misinformation.
Khepri Neteru said:
Great reading. Same thing Africans never had terms that co response to Africans believing in 1000s gods Africans never had a word that co respond to that
Isaac David said:
I need proof of African
Paton said:
This article is too much generalised. It does not resonate my life and living concept ftom my cultural perspective. This will make no sense to understanding of the people j belong to. Please check it. Thanks
Hal said:
FYI there is no belief in Judaism in a “devil that is in constant battle with God.” There is an idea of forces of evil inclination and of a prosecuting angel in the afterlife sometimes referred to as the Satan (pronounced sah-tahn), but those are all God-created manifests for man (not God) to struggle with and overcome.
Khnemsaa said:
It is a misstep to compare Satan or Shaytan to Set. Set is a Neter, which makes the deity perfect and fee of corruption. Set has a divine purpose to gain more territory and is immortal. Set is part of the many deities created that together manifest divine harmony. Therefore, a jinn or former angel cannot be compared to a Neter. Dua
From a minor kemetic spiritual initiate
Khnemsaa said:
It is a misstep to compare Satan or Shaytan to Set. Set is a Neter, which makes the deity perfect and free of corruption. Set has a divine purpose to gain more territory and is immortal. Set is part of the many deities created that together manifest divine harmony. Therefore, a jinn or former angel cannot be compared to a Neter. Dua
From a minor kemetic spiritual initiate
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Rodney said:
Sounds like or polytheism and complete confusion. That is what happens when humans just believe in the “natural spirits”. No different than any other false religions that try to explain away God with other gods that we don’t need to be accountable to. Even with all the concepts that are being described in the previous presentations there is still the issue of the inability of all humans to save themselves. The devil is the father of lies and he has many names and so do his followers. His tactics are the same even though he calls himself by a different. Create confusion by using lies coupled with our desire to be free of accountability and responsibility for our own actions. Thanks for the information but there is only one God and creator of mankind and it is to him that we are accountable.
Solomzi said:
Eye opening vital information will go through it thoroughl after this loadshedding .
Heru Ra Maat said:
This article is filled with Misinformation.. Apep is what we call the Devil today..
jayheezy said:
Great great read that has my wheels spinning! It sparks a question in my mind. I believe the original Israelites are African in origin. The question I have is :if this is true does that mean that the original teachings were perverted by the imposters? The belief in the devil gives the devil power. I’d love to learn more, could you give me some links so I may dig deeper? Thank you for shedding this light
Pato Banton said:
The Devil, Satan & Lucifer are three very real personalities in our universe. The fact that a few primitive tribes scattered here and there are unaware of this reality has no bearing on the religious progress of the rest of the world. The vast majority of Africa is composed of Christians & Muslims, who are very aware of the reality of fallen angels and their activities on our world. It would seem that the writer of this article needs to dig a little deeper and educate himself about celestial visitations on this planet, that can also be found in Hinduism, Buddhism & eastern traditions. ❤
https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-67-planetary-rebellion