Repairing the African Spirit starts with pouring Libation to the Ancestos
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Libation ….Start the healing
[Water libation]

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The world’s oldest telephone……… Make the call

By: Tobgi Kofi

When one pours Libation they are invoking, summoning, awaking the Ancestors and the Vodou....

There are many reasons why we Pour libation in African traditional Religions, honoring the ancestors and Vodou, asking for knowledge, protection, guidance and more. Before I embark on a long trip, I pour libation so that I am kept safe and so that my trip goes well, successful.....

Libation is the same as making a long distance call. The Ancestors are in the ancestral realm, They have lives much the same as we do. They are a considerable distance from us here on Earth. This system has been put in place by the creator so that we can at all times have immediate access to the Vodou and the ancestors.....

Have you ever been in your garden or basement and the phone rings? Generally you will stop what you are doing and answer the call, especially if you have reason to believe it’s coming from a loved one. Ever been sitting around waiting for an important call …..man, that can be torture when it either doesn’t come or it takes too long. ....

The ancestors are our family and they have been divinely entrusted with our spiritual development. They have a divine directive to watch over us and guide us but, How can they do so( guide us) if we don’t make the call. ....

We are not like the whites, we are divine beings who carry an actual piece of the supreme being inside of us, and that’s our Soul. Whites and non Africans don’t have a soul although they would like us to believe they do. We know different, the Vodou tell us the truth about the whites, that is why there is absolutely no excuse for Africans to be marrying or initiating whites into African religions not even allowing them to attend our ceremonies.....

The ancestors are tied to us in the same way a mother is tied to the child through the umbilical cord during pregnancy . The child is developing and needs the mother’s nurturing, feeding and so on.....

We are just like that child, we are still developing and we feed of the guidance we receive from our ancestors. A child developing inside the mother becomes malformed when the mother ingests foreign agents such as illicit drugs and bad food but a good diet keeps the growing fetus in balance. So does the African become mentally malformed or sick when we don’t commune by calling our ancestors through libation for balance.....

When balance is lost we are open to any and all sorts of mental illness ....

Having mental seizures trying to be like whites …marrying them, white thinking, materialism, family strife, lovers of porn, drugs…etc.....

Libation is the means by which we call the ancestors and the Vodou, thus allowing the family elders and Vodou to begin restoring balance to the individual or the community.....

I remember I once told a women that I was a Vodoun priest and she said ,” Oh you mean, that you worship Idols, fetish…oh my god” You like that?....

I responded by saying, I don’t worship Idols and the word fetish is a word the whites gave to our ancestral religious practice. The woman said, “ don’t you have carved images”? I said, Yes we carve images sometimes and sometimes the Vodou are in a pot or carved sticks figures or some other form but, I don’t worship any carved images. I know that when I go to that image or whatever form the Vodou wish to use to manifest their presence, I can pour libation on or before it and call the Vodou.....

It’s no different from you picking up a cell phone and calling your friend …the friend hears the call and responds by answering back.....

If you lived 200 years ago and were caught talking to a square 2x4 inch piece of plastic people would be afraid and think you were mad but, if they heard a voice come out of that piece of plastic they would burn you for being a witch. They just would not have understood the science behind the method of communication being used. Likewise those who criticize shrine veneration and libation don’t understand that we don’t worship the thing , we recognize it to be just that……. a thing , a tool, a phone if you will to call on our Vodou and ancestors.....

Our traditional phone’s technology (Science) however, is more sophisticated than modern phones ……..our technology is timeless.....

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libation can be poured on:

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The ground....

On to a shrine....

On the ground in front of a shrine....

At the doorstep to a building....

On a living plant....

Into a receptable which on the floor symbolizing the ground....

On the street in front a venue....

OlOrisa_Olokun: Pouring libation....

Junior Member....

Pour libation, Talk to your ancestors.....

Tell them what’s on your mind.....

Tell them what you need....

Do it during times when you feel the urge.....

Stand outside alone and pour libation on the soil....

The main reason for our sickness is that we are a dis-eased people. There is a cancer growing in our people and it is consuming the culture from the inside out. In order to cure the cancer we must take medicine. The medicine for black folks spirit comes in the form of melanin the food of the gods. Our African bodies produce melanin every day. A healthy spirit produces healthy melanin. If the African spirit is polluted with the white man’s world view this will be manifest in the rejection of the nurturing African culture or in a corruption of the once clean traditions and a rejection of the ancestors. This is what has happened in African societies around the world. We have rejected Nanasom Nana meaning a venerated ancestor and som meaning to serve ( see: Nhoma, odwirafo.com). Returning to our ancestors and pouring libation is the first step to reversing the damage to ourselves and our Societies. Our Ancestors will then make sure that our melanin is clean ………unadulterated . Although we have had at least a 200 year disconnect in the phone line. We have the tools to reestablish the connection free of any charges. Once we start pouring libation to the ancestors we are in effect, re mending the broken lines that were severed during slavery and for the African still on the continent the lines were severed during colonialism. It’s simply. We do our part by waking the ancestors by calling on them and they will come and work on our behalf. We have only to make the call. In my personal case, I started calling them (via libation) and things started happening in my house like lights going on in a room as I walked towards the entrance. Other things happened like every night my TV down stairs would turn on at 10: O'clock PM

The ancestors will not hurt us, they will show us that they are there, that they have heard our calls. Once I mentioned to them that I recognized their presence during communication, the phenomena stopped. Things changed dramatically for me. I had previously been abusing drugs and could not stop. My ancestors came to me and performed a cleansing ceremony for me and I have been drug free ever since. They will do ritual in the ancestral realm that will impact on us in this physical realm. There is no problem that they can't help us with. The African comes equipted with all of the tools to keep balance in our lives. We have only to use them. Make the call.

The following is a libation I have used for years. I got it from Kwesi Ra Nehem Ptah Akan of odwirafo.com :

Nana Nyame, I show you this drink, but I do not attempt to offer it to you

Nana Nyamewaa, I show you this drink, but I do not attempt to offer it to you

Obosom of Sky/Thunder, accept this water and drink

Earth Mother, accept this water and drink

All of the Abosom, accept this water and drink 56

Matrilineal clan Ancestresses and Ancestors, accept this water and drink

Patrilineal clan protective Obosom, accept this water and drink

Spiritually Cultivated Ancestresses and Ancestors, accept this water and drink

Good Ancestral Spirits, accept this water and drink

I greet you all

I give you this offering

Please, show me truth

Yoooo.

Although the focus here is on Akan culture, the principles addressed

in this writing apply to all Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit people and can

be translated into the various Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit languages no

matter what group you are from. If you do not yet know your specific

abusua (clan) use the language of Kamit, for all

Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut are connected to this ancient language in

some manner. At length you will be guided to the knowledge of your

specific abusua by your own Nananom Nsamanfo. When you find out your

abusua you can then embrace your Ancestral language, study it and

utilize it in ritual.

Always use an Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit language with ohwie and other

mpaebo (prayer/provocation), even if it is only a one-line mpaebo.

Your Nananom Nsamanfo know your desires, They see you, and understand

why you are coming to Them. Just as if you went to Ghana or any Afurakani country you me originally be from and did not

speak a word of the language, yet through body language and sincerity

the family you stayed with would be able to feel your spirit and get

you what you need – the Nananom Nsamanfo operate in the same manner.

They will effectively communicate with you through images, feelings

and you will effectively communicate with Them through thought-images

and feelings. They will speak to you in your/Their Ancestral language

and you will understand Them. They will also direct you to resources

so that you can learn the language. If you only know seven

Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit words, use those as your ohwie and as your

mpaebo. Using the language of the akyiwadefo is projecting disordered

vibrations/energy to the Nananom Nsamanfo, and also back to yourself.

Recognize that we are not confined by the language of the akyiwadefo.

Your Nananom Nsamanfo will guide you, show you who you are and get you

what you need. Your Nananom Nsamanfo and the Abosom can and will

communicate with you by coming into your presence, to your spirit and

to your nkommere.

Make the call.........Let the healing begin....

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