How Africa Kept its Secrets for 6,000 Years
BRS 2.1: Where Blackroots Science Comes From
Youāve read The Summary and are probably wondering where the āsourceā of all this stems. Fundamentally, itās in the fine print, āBlack rootsā. But where better than the horseās mouth is accurate account found?
For the readers:
In bold are the questions seekers of that time posed to the Author.
His responses are in ordinary text.
Very interesting read where did you get all this information from? Who told you about it and who told the person who told you and etc (as in where did this all originate from?)
I was taught the ancient history of our people by the elders of my tribe. They have kept it in safe custody for many thousands of years, and pass it from generation to generation through oral teachings and initiation.
I may have missed it, but could you give us some indication of what part of Afrika your information comes from? Some of it is very familiar, other parts are completely foreign and donāt seem to correlate with any indigenous spiritual system in Afrika, of which I am aware. You also spoke of initiations. To what, by whom, and of what lineage?
Iām from the tribe called Batswana. My people live in different regions in southern Africa, in the countries of Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, and Namibia, but mostly in South Africa and Botswana. Our language is called Setswana, or Sechuana. The elders that I mentioned are the custodians of secret knowledge in my tribe. This type of secret dissemination of knowledge exists in many other tribes throughout Africa. It originated, or rather became secret, in ancient Egypt 6,000 years ago. Before then it was taught openly to all Black people starting at childhood.
You consider all of Batswana to be one tribe? Are your initiations considered āgeneral ritesā which are conveyed among Afrikan community members as they reach certain ages, or are you receiving specialized training as a Dingaka and/or Sagoma?
If you serve in one of these two capacities, please tell us how long you have been in training. Its rather exciting to think we have some Afrikan healers or priests from Southern Afrika living in the Americas.
Also, if you donāt consider it intrusive, please place more environmental context on your information. Tell us what the names of the Creator, Intermediary Gods and Ancestors are within your tradition. What are some of the rituals that are safe for general public to practice. Outside of oral history what are you authorized to share with Afrikans born in west?
If you donāt mind I want to put a small note on the first page of this post and in the title bar indicating that your spiritual knowledge is from Botswana.
Our tribe of Batswana is divided into many smaller clans. Iām from the clan called Bakhatla.
Iāll briefly outline our initiation system for those who are new to such information. There are three types of initiatory training among my people, as is the case among many Afrikan tribes. The first is āgeneral ritesā as you put it, which youths undergo at about puberty.
After that, a handful are selected to be trained as Dingaka (Ngaka - singular; Dingaka - plural). The term, Sangoma, belongs to the Zulu tribe, and is not used among us, but it means the same thing, as you probably know.
A second group, much smaller, is then selected at a later stage to be trained as griots. I am a griot - a tribal historian, and not a Ngaka. There are two types of griots. The first is called Moseki, or a āmemorizingā griot, for lack of a better word. Such initiates are trained usually from childhood in certain rites that vastly improve their powers of memory to exceed that of ordinary people. Then they are taught oral history, and memorize it word for word, so they can transmit it to following generations exactly as they received it. The second type of griot is called Motshidi. This word is difficult to translate. But it effectively means āone who lives with the ancestorsā. I am a Motshidi.
The central tenet of Afrikan initiation rites is that the lives of our ancestors, the Gods, are still as vibrant today as they were in their time. With this tenet as the foundation, we are trained to access that vibrancy, and transport our minds or spirit to their time.
We are guided to travel in spirit until we reach what we call Mojako (the Gate) and receive the blessings of the Gatekeeper. Then we are assigned a Custodian, through whose eyes and mind we see the past. We are thus enabled to research and investigate the lives of our ancestors exactly as if they were living right now. The time we live in in that state, we call Ditoro or āDreamtimeā. Itās not related to outside time. In just 3 nights we are able to live a thousand years or more in Ditoro. The experience of Ditoro has a vividness that far exceeds that of modern ordinary experiences. I was taught that our ancestors lived in that type of vivid consciousness as their normal everyday experience prior to 6,000 years ago. Our present minds have been severely āslowed downā, so to speak, due to the deterioration of our bodies, which are inferior to what our ancestors had then.
What we discover in that state becomes indelibly etched in our mind. It is just as vivid today in my mind as it was when I completed my first Ditoro 21 years ago.
Thatās a brief overview of the experience. The rites that are actually used to open it up for us, as well as the names of the Guardians, Custodians and Gods we meet are sacred. What little Iāve told is about as much as Iām allowed to tell.
The secrecy in which we are initiated today is only a temporary phenomenon. It started 6,000 years ago to keep certain knowledge from the present rulers of the world. Before then, all black people were taught as a matter of course using the same kind of rites and rituals. We have reached a point in this 6,000-year cycle when the empire of the white man is about to crumble. The secret initiations are about to be re-established as a common teaching method. Thatās the reason why Iāve prepared and posted these teachings.