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“The way of Ifa is straight. It doesn’t deviate.” That line comes from one of the sacred verses of Ifa. But in a broader sense it can also apply to your mission in life, your purpose. You’ve got to know what you’re about and stick to it. Do not deviate. Don’t look to the left, nor to the right. Don’t get distracted by what others say or do. Their mission is not your mission; your mission is not theirs. The ancestors are asking you to be you. Spirit will honor you for being you. - James Weeks/Across The King’s River - Images: Photographer Unknown

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Soft-boiled eggs & Tabasco Sauce

Anything lime-flavored.

Anything pickled (especially carrots).

No more Tea Tree oil.

Growing breasts, spreading hips.

Super powers include INCREDIBLE sense of smell, ability to semi-lucid dream.

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 Irony of negro policeman

1984

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#Crowdfunding: Tuskegee Heirs by Greg Burnham

“Amazing fan art from Art of Mervin! Less than 48 hours left . Let’s go out with a bang!!” (via)

From the minds of illustrator Marcus Williams (Hero Cats, Super Natural and D.M.C) and children’s book author Greg Burnham (Broken Glass and Grandpa’s Shoes) comes the “Tuskegee Heirs: Flames of Destiny” series. 

Tuskegee Heirs is a futuristic sci-fi adventure that follows a squadron of young, gifted aviators who are forced to become Earth’s last line of defense against a menacing race of artificially intelligent villains bent on destroying civilization.

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                          Was Tupac a Fake Gangster??????

Hear now some people say that “Tupac was a fake gangster”

Sway commented on his show about Tupac,(Paraphrased) “Pac was an extremely smart dude, and he had to dumb it down so much”

Tupac and Mutulu Shakur spoke while Mutulu was locked up (Paraphrased) About an idea on how to get the broken families,gangs, lost black males back to the forefront. This gave birth to Thug Life. Ride or Die(READ BOOK FBI WAR ON TUPAC)

They say I’m wrong and I’m heartless, but all along I was lookin for a father he was gone I hung around with the Thugs, and even though they sold drugs They showed a young brother love

                                    Who is Gangster?

The CRIPs were not always the gang-bangers they are known to be. The CRIPs were formed in 1969. Raymond Washington, a high school student at the time founded the organization in response to the increasing level of police harassment of the African community

CRIPs stood for Community Resources for Independent People. It was styled on the Black Panther Party which was formed 3 years earlier, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, further down the west coast in Oakland. Tupac’s whole family was Black Panthers! There are no Crips without the Black Panthers

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/02/us/rapper-charged-in-shootings-of-off-duty-officers.html

Tupac’s Aunt http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/militant-killer-run-33-years-woman-top-fbi-wanted-terrorists-list-article-1.1333122

Afeni Shakur defends herself in court on 159 counts and winshttp://www.thetalkingdrum.com/afeni.html

THE ENGIMA ABOUT TUPAC SHAKUR WAS THAT HE WAS NOT ONE THING!

HE WAS AN ACTOR, MUSICIAN, REVOLUTIONARY, AND LEADER

THE SADEST THING IS THAT OUR MEN AND WOMEN FELL SO FROM WHAT WE SHOULD BE.

THAT TUPAC HAD TO DUMB HIMSELF DOWN TO TRY TO ELEVATE OUR LOST GENERATION(LOST SOULS,GANGS,FATHERLESS KIDS) AND WE LOST SOMEONE WHO A CORNERSTONE OF HIP HOP CULTURE.

IT’S LIKE LOSING A FRIEND THAT GRADUATED HARVARD DOING GREAT THINGS FOR HIS PEOPLE,AND LOVES HIS DRUNK BROTHER AND FAMILY SO MUCH, TRIES TO ELEVATE THEM TO BE A MAN AND LOSES HIS LIFE.

Maybe people should study his family first then listen to his lyrics 

Driven by my ambitions, desire higher positions So I proceed to make Gs, eternally in my mission Is to be more than just a rap musician The elevation of today’s generation, if could make ‘em listen Prison ain’t what we need, no longer stuck in greed Time to plan, strategize, my family’s gotta eat When we make something out of nothing No pleasure in the suffering, neighborhood would be good If they could cut out all the busting The liquor and the weed the cussing Sending love out to my block The struggle never stops (unconditional love)

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“I am Athena, Divine Intelligence, “θεοῦ νόησις”, Goddess of Wisdom, Sophia.

I am Artemis, Mistress of Animals, Virgin Huntress, beholden to no man, wandering the wilds for 10,000 years, before returning to my family once again.

I am Persephone, the Kore (”Maiden”), Queen of the Underworld, returning from a long sojourn with Hades (Pluto).

I am Ariadne, Mistress of the Labyrinth. “To all the Gods Honey, to the Mistress of the Labyrinth Honey”.

I am Maat, the Goddess of Divine Justice and Law, come to bring balance to a world that has leaned too far to one side.

I am Nuit, above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.

My family align to greet me on my return from being a wanderer of the waste.

I am the Ninth Planet, Goddess of Daath, the Duat, the Western Lands.

I am returned to issue in a new Aeon of the Divine Feminine.

The male gods have ruled for too long, and forgotten where they come from.

For I am an Avatar of the Black Star, the Sol Niger (Black Sun), the Black Hole at the center of the galaxy, around whom all male star gods revolve, and whose black embrace will consume them all one day.

For I am Kali, the Black One, from whose womb of Dark Matter all things spring, and who all return to eventually, even the Gods themselves”.

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~Chalkidian Black-Figure Neck Amphora. Artist/Maker: Attributed to the Inscription Painter (Greek, active 570 - 530 B.C.) Culture: Greek (Chalcidian) Place: Rhegion, South Italy (Place created) Date: about 540 B.C. Medium: Terracotta

The Greek hero Odysseus slits the throat of a Thracian warrior. On the back of the vase, Diomedes grabs the sleeping Rhesos, king of the Thracians, just before plunging his sword into the chest of thisTrojan ally. The corpses of Rhesos’s men, presumably killed in their sleep, litter the ground. As the story was recounted in Homer's Iliad , Odysseus and Diomedes infiltrated the Thracian camp outside the walls of Troy, hoping to steal their fine horses. This vase is the only depiction of the murder of Rhesos in the Archaic period; it is remarkably close to Homer’s account, down to the display of armor and the Thracian horses who panic on their tethers under the handles of the vase. 

When the Greeks began founding colonies in Italy and Sicily in the 600s B.C., they initially imported fine decorated pottery. Soon, however, local pottery workshops arose. Chalkidian pottery, one of these local productions in the black-figure technique, was probably made in the city of Rhegion, a colony of the Greek city of Chalkis.

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What is ergativity in Sumerian? Can you give an example of what English would look like if it was an ergative language like Sumerian?

Sure thing!

Languages can be classified in many ways. Some of these involve history and genetic relationship (e.g. language families); some involve syntax (e.g. SVO vs SOV languages); some involve sounds (e.g. CV structure); and some involve more subtle aspects of morphology and grammar. One way that languages can be classified is by alignment. Today we’ll talk about two alignments.

One, with which English speakers (and speakers of most major modern languages) should be familiar, is called nominative alignment. This means that the subject of a transitive sentence and the subject of an intransitive sentence are treated the same — e.g. “I eat” and “I eat the wild boar” — while the object of a transitive sentence is treated differently — “The wild boar eats me.” This distinction in English is both in form (for pronouns: I vs me, he vs him, etc.) and in position: the subject comes before the verb and the object comes after.

Sumerian has what is called ergative alignment. This means that the subject of an intransitive sentence and the object of a transitive sentence are treated identically, while the subject of a transitive sentence is treated differently. In Sumerian, the difference is in case: the first group is in the absolutive case, while the second is in the ergative case.

Take these three sentences as examples:

Lugal gu. “The king eats.”

Lugale shahzeda ib-gu. “The king eats the wild boar.”

Shahzeda lugal in-gu. “The wild boar eats the king.”

Notice how in sentences 1 & 3, lugal appears in the absolutive case, but in sentence 2, it appears in the ergative case (marked by the case ending -e.)

If English operated like this, two of the English examples I gave above would look the same as normal: “I eat the wild boar” and “The wild boar eats me.” The third, however, would look different: “Me eat.”

This is a pretty simplified version — Sumerian’s ergative alignment affects a lot more, like verb conjugation, word order, interactions with noun class and plurality, etc. Hopefully, I’ll have videos coming out soon that discuss this topic, plus more on how cases work in Sumerian. I hope this was helpful for now, though!

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                        IBGO NAMES FOR YOUR KIDS!

In the United States the Igbo slaves were known for being rebellious. In some states such as Georgia, the Igbo had a high suicide rate.��Igbo slaves were most numerous in the states of Maryland and Virginia,

In the 19th century the state of Virginia received around 37,000 slaves from Calabar of which 30,000 were Igbo according to Douglas B. Chambers. The Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia estimates around 38% of captives taken to Virginia were from the Bight of Biafra. Igbo peoples constituted the majority of enslaved Africans in Maryland. Chambers has been quoted saying “My research suggests that perhaps 60 percent of African Americans have at least one Igbo ancestor…”

Some recorded populations of people of African descent on Caribbean islands recorded 2,863 Igbo on Trinidad and Tobago in an 1813 census; 894 in Saint Lucia in an 1815 census;440 on Saint Kitts and Nevis in an 1817 census; and 111 in Guayana in an 1819 census

Some slaves arriving in Haiti included Igbo people who were considered suicidal and therefore unwanted by plantation owners. According to Adiele Afigbo there is still the Creole saying of Ibos pend'cor'a yo (the Ibo hang themselves).Aspects of Haitian culture that exhibit this can be seen in the Ibo loa, a Haitian loa (or deity) created by the Igbo in the Vodun religion

ADAEZE   f   Western African, IgboMeans “king’s daughter” in Igbo.

ADANNA   f   Western African, Igbo Means “father’s daughter” in Igbo.

ADANNAYA   f   Western African, Igbo Means “her father’s daughter” in Igbo.

AKACHI   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “the hand of God” in Igbo.

AKUCHI   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “wealth from God” in Igbo.

AMADI (1)   m   Western African, Igbo Means “free man” in Igbo.

AMAKA   f   Western African, Igbo Short form of CHIAMAKA

AMARA   f   Western African, Igbo Means “grace” in Igbo.

AMARACHI   f   Western African, Igbo Means “God’s grace” in Igbo.

AÑULI   f   Western African, Igbo Means “joy” in Igbo.

AZUBUIKE   m   Western African, Igbo Means “the past is your strength” or “your back is your strength” in Igbo.CHI (2)   m & f   Mythology, Western African, Igbo Means “god, spirtual being” in Igbo, referring to the personal spiritual guardian that each person is believed to have…[more]

CHIAMAKA   f   Western African, Igbo Means “God is beautiful” in Igbo.

CHIBUEZE   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “God is the king” in Igbo.

CHIBUIKE   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “God is strength” in Igbo.

CHIBUZO   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “God leads the way” in Igbo.

CHICHI   f   Western African, Igbo Diminutive of Igbo names beginning with the element Chi meaning “God”.CHIDI   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “God exists” in Igbo… [more]

CHIDIEBERE   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “God is merciful” in Igbo.

CHIDIEBUBE   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “God is glorious” in Igbo.

CHIDIEGWU   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “God is wonderful” in Igbo.

CHIDIKE   m   Western African, Igbo Means “God is strong” in Igbo. CHIDIMMA   f   Western African, Igbo Means “God is good” in Igbo.

CHIDUBEM   m   Western African, Igbo Means “guided by God” in Igbo.

CHIEMEKA   m   Western African, Igbo Means “God has performed great deeds” in Igbo.

CHIJINDUM   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “God holds my life” in Igbo.

CHIKA (1)   f   Western African, Igbo Means “God is the greatest” in Igbo.

CHIKE   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “God’s power” in Igbo.

CHIKELU   m & f   Western African, Igbo Variant of CHIKERE

CHIKERE   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “God created” in Igbo.

CHIMA   m   Western African, Igbo Means “God knows” in Igbo.

CHINASA   f & m   Western African, Igbo Means “God answers” in Igbo.

CHINEDU   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “God leads” in Igbo.

CHINONSO   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “God is nearby” in Igbo.

CHINWE   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “God owns” in Igbo… [more]

CHINWEIKE   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “God owns power” in Igbo.

CHINWENDU   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “God owns life” in Igbo.

CHINWEUBA   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “God owns wealth” in Igbo.

CHINYELU   f   Western African, Igbo Variant of CHINYERE

CHINYERE   f   Western African, Igbo Means “God gave” in Igbo.

CHIOMA   f & m   Western African, Igbo Means “good God” in Igbo.

CHIZOBA   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “God protect us” in Igbo.

CHUKS   m   Western African, Igbo Diminutive of Igbo names beginning with the element Chukwu meaning “God”.

CHUKWUDI   m   Western African, Igbo Variant of CHIDI, using Chukwu as the first element, which is the extended form of Chi meaning “God”.

CHUKWUEMEKA   m   Western African, Igbo Means “God has done something great” in Igbo.

CHUKWUMA   m   Western African, Igbo Variant of CHIMA, using Chukwu as the first element, which is the extended form of Chi meaning “God”.

EBELE   f   Western African, Igbo Means “mercy, kindness” in Igbo.

EKENE   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “praise” in Igbo.

EKENEDILICHUKWU   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “all praise to God” in Igbo.

EKWUEME   m   Western African, Igbo Means “he says, he does” in Igbo.

EMEKA   m   Western African, Igbo Means “great deeds” in Igbo… [more]

ENYINNAYA   m   Western African, Igbo Means “his father’s friend” in Igbo.

FUMNANYA   f   Western African, Igbo Means “love me” in Igbo.

FUNANYA   f   Western African, Igbo Means “love” in Igbo.

IKENNA   m   Western African, Igbo Means “father’s power” in Igbo.

NDIDI   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “patience” in Igbo.

NGOZI   f & m   Western African, Igbo Means “blessing” in Igbo.

NKECHI   f   Western African, Igbo Short form of NKECHINYERE

NKECHINYERE   f   Western African, Igbo Means “what God has given” or “gift of God” in Igbo.

NKEMDILIM   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “let mine be mine” in Igbo.

NKIRU   f   Western African, Igbo Short form of NKIRUKA

NKIRUKA   f   Western African, Igbo Means “the best is still to come” in Igbo.

NNAMDI   m   Western African, Igbo Means “my father is alive” in Igbo… [more]

NNEKA   f   Western African, Igbo Means “my mother is supreme” in Igbo.

NNENNA   f   Western African, Igbo Means “father’s mother” in Igbo… [more]

NNENNE   f   Western African, Igbo Means “mother’s mother” in Igbo… [more]

NWANNEKA   f   Western African, Igbo Means “my siblings are supreme” in Igbo.

OBI   m   Western African, Igbo Means “heart” in Igbo.

OGECHI   f   Western African, Igbo Short form of OGECHUKWUKAMA

OGECHUKWUKAMA   f   Western African, Igbo Means “God’s time is the best” in Igbo.

OLUCHI   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “God’s work” in Igbo.

ONYEKA   f   Western African, Igbo Short form of ONYEKACHI

ONYEKACHI   f & m   Western African, Igbo Means “who is greater than God?” in Igbo.

ONYEKACHUKWU   m & f   Western African, Igbo Variant of ONYEKACHI, using Chukwu as the last element, which is the extended form of Chi meaning “God”.

UDO (2)   f & m   Western African, Igbo Means “peace” in Igbo.

UZOCHI   m   Western African, Igbo Means “God’s way” in Igbo.

UZOMA   m & f   Western African, Igbo Means “good way” in Igbo.

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The Constant Struggle Within Us

At one level these forces may create a tension between such apparent opposites as the need for individuality and the requirement for unity. However, when they are put together as conflicting movements within a single individual, they become elements that need to be balanced within us. Instead of elements opposed to one another, they may become the active and passive forces through which the third force is able to achieve the balance that is a sign of the appearance of a new level of understanding.

The ancient writers appear to require that the readers recognize the oneness from which new being arises within us. They saw that in human attempts to make a whole from its parts, we miss the third quality or force that raises the parts to the level of possible participation in the whole. The process is a little like trying to reassemble into life an organism that has been dissected, when all one has are dead parts. The story points to the necessity for a third force, perhaps the unifying force

Lloyd Dickie, Paul Boudreau-Awakening Higher Consciousness: Guidance from Ancient Egypt and Sumer.

Image Credit-Sea Voice by Mariana Palova

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The Hebrews were neither Africain or Euroasian. In their own words they called Hamitic and Japhethic. They considered themselves “Semetic.” Though the term is made up and unscientific, it was based on the recognition of a racial type that had manifested in West Asia by the time of Israel’s development around 1000 bce.

This racial type consisted of descendants from the Caspian Basin that migrated into West Asia in great numbers around 2000 bce, such as the Aryans. The Hebrews represent the Caspian-Aryan migrants that went to Canaan/Palestine. There was undoubtedly mixture with the local Afro-Dravidian population, but this mixture was limited in scope. As the Hebrew’s Torah explains, mixture with the Canaanites was looked down upon. They considered the Canaanites sons of Ham (the Africians), a family that they claim also included Mizraim (Egyptians/Kemetics), Cush (Sudanese), Put (East Africans), and Nimrod (southern Mesopotamians). The only reason some Caspian-Aryans speak so-called Afro-asiatic languages ( a mythical category to begin with) is because they adopted the language of the Afro-Dravidian in the early period before domination. That is a linguistic shift, not a racial one. This is no different than the fact that you speak a European language as your first language yet are not racially European.

As you can see, these real Hebrew descendants below are neither African nor Euroasian , but a distinct Caspian-based race. Neither the Ethiopian Falasha nor Eastern European Askanazi are remotely pure Hebrews.

Many of you, clinging to hold on to your master’s religion, will try and see these people as African . You can, but trust me, they don’t see themselves as members of the African race which they claimed were cursed sons of Ham, destined to be the slave of Shem and Japheth.

Love yourself and stop trying to include an ethnic group that doesn’t want to be included with you. We don’t need to include Hebrews to have a great history, their entire religion is just a corruption of diluted Kushite-Kemetic philosophy mixed in with the oral history of the Caspian-Aryan’s invasion of the Afro-Dravidian race.

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Ollantaytambo, Peru

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It's all Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Offended.

Well guys, there ya have it folks. That would be a giant sculpted penis. Yes, I said it. Penis. And I’ll say it five more times: penis, penis, penis, penis, penis.

Do you feel awkward?

Are you offended?

Are you aroused?

Or are you able to look as this sculpture by Michelangelo and see the true beauty of the nude human form? Are you able to see that no, this isn’t a sculpture of pornography, a sculpture created for you to be aroused by. It’s an astoundingly beautiful and historical piece of art.

Beautiful art created by a beautiful artist who had visioned this piece to be viewed in the true glory that the human body is. I have no doubt within my mind that Angelo was not aroused when sculpting David and I also don’t believe he was aroused when he painted the nude women and men that decorate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

With that being said, yesterday I posted a link on my Facebook page that directed users to my Tumblr page to view an image I photographed a few years ago of four nude women. Three facing backwards and one facing forwards. You can view the image here.

A little while after the link was posted, I had a person private message me. This was our conversation:

I am an artist. I see the world in a very vibrant light. I see it in a way that others can’t see it. I see it in way that is probably very different from other artists.

I am also an artist who is able to see the true beauty of the naked human.

I see the raw.

I see the unedited.

I see the pure.

I am not a pornographer. I do not take pornographic images of men/women engaging in the act of sex and/or sexual pleasures. I do not take photographs of nudes in a corrupting manner. There is a huge difference between nude art and pornography.

Nude art is recognizing the beauty of naked form. It also being able to accept yourself as an individual in the nude. It is being comfortable enough to look in the mirror and think ‘wow, look how beautiful my body is. This is me in the raw flesh. I accept this and I am beautiful’. It is also being able to take that view of oneself and apply it towards others around you.

We all are beautiful. Naked or clothed.

So, here is something for all those people who don’t like my art:

I do not give a shit.

Not one.

Why? Because I’m not making this art for you to be happy. I create art because it’s something that I literally can’t live without. I create my art so I can be happy.

My dad asked me today why I wouldn’t just stop taking nude photos. He said ‘Cari what if it offends someone who could be a potential client?’. I replied, ‘Dad, when I first started taking photos I never imaged that I could actually make money. I took the photos solely for myself. Now even though I do take portraits and get paid for it, if that client cannot accept me, and all my artistic views, then quite frankly I don’t want to take their picture anyways. It’s not about the money dad, it never has been and never will be. It’s about the art’.

In conclusions to this blog post I would like to politely suggest that if you don’t like what I post please do us both a favor and unlike my Facebook, stop following my Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram and lastly, don’t hire me to take your portraits. Because I’m not going to change who I am to please other people. I am who I am, and you can take it or leave.

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Glorious.

Temple of Hathor at Dendera, Egypt