#ananse

[nogetron]

Here’s my redesign of my Anansi! I hope you like it!

Check out his original design and profile HERE

[slimmwrites]

The Marriage of Anansewa: Reimagined

[mafalon]

Edit of Orlando Jones as Ananse in American Gods

I don't support Gaimen or his work, but I always support black folx.

[wordslikesilver]

Question for my black trans sisters on here, I’m reading a book on Anansi (incredible book btw by prof Emily zobel Marshall and Ivana Akotowaa Ofori, PLEASE consider picking it up) and I was wondering if any of you have written, made art of, or know any stories about Anansi in a liberating/rebellious trans themed tale. Reading the history of both the new and old mythology, he’s always been a liberating and cunning figure, used in stories to reflect struggles of the times they were told in including famine, slavery, segregation and more.

Knowing that black trans women and transmisogynoir are some of the biggest and most relevant topics I read about these days, I’ve been thinking to myself this whole time reading this book that Anansi, the arachnid trickster god, keeper of all stories and genderfluid liberator of the black diaspora who lives and breathes in new and old stories told by each generation absolutely and without question belongs in a tale where, perhaps in her Aunt Nancy incarnation, outsmarts cops, the government, the system itself in an act of liberation to her trans sisters.

As someone who is as white as a sheet of A4 paper and hasn’t even finished reading the book she’s praising, I am so acutely aware of how it is universes away from my place to write such a thing. This is a figure whose entire existence belongs to the black diaspora and even if I’m actively interested in dismantling it, I’m still a beneficiary of the very system he time and time again is antagonistic of. Thats why I’m hoping someone, anyone else could write this proposed story, because I go weak in the knees for cultural figures like this that inspire generational hope and would literally kill to know and be able to tell others a trans themed story of a gender fucky mythological figure who throws bricks at cops and gets away with it, who liberates and inspires hope in black trans women, who tricks bigots into attacking each other and making fools of themselves and get to see it added to the living, growing, beautifully modern canon of the black diaspora’s story telling tradition.

[akan-institute]

Ku, Aku or Wuku.

In the original days of the week. Wednesday is governed by the divinity known as Ku, the master teacher. A child born on this day automatically assumes the name; Kwaku for a boy and Akua for a girl (the incarnations of Ku.)

Ku is anthropomorphised by the spider Ananse and Ku-Ananse journeys (nan) to disseminate (se) the knowledge of the creator.

If you say the name mer-ku-ry (mercury), you are actually saying the name of the original divinity, Ku. The European knowledge systems are merely a duplication of an already existing knowledge system. They merely duplicated the knowledge without attribution or with false attribution.

Who then is Hermes Trismegistus? Just a mere duplication of the original Ku.

Ku Ananse is a master teacher who specialises in technology and will always have a tablet in hand (kurabata.)

Kura - to hold. Bata - the word tablet will come from here. In ancient Egypt, they called this Thoth (which is probably a misnomer). The reason you say the World Wide Web. Ku Ananse, the spider. Ntentan (web). Nte (net). Ntan (inter). Nta (twin, two or more) actually originates the word inter in the English language.

[heartmindalignedspirit]

AWUKU (ah-woo’-koo) is the Obosom … referred to as the Divine Messenger, Communicator. He is also known as Ananse - the Great Spider, Owner of all of the stories of the Supreme Being.

One of the definitions of the word ‘se’ in Akan is: to say, speak, tell. The title ‘esen’ means: messenger, herald, court crier. Awuku as Anan-se or Anan-sen is the messenger, herald, Divine Court Crier of Nyamewaa-Nyame. He is the swift messenger. Ananse also means spider in Akan. The term ‘anan’ means foot in Akan. Ananse is the Esen, messenger. The One who tells (se). He is the foot (anan) or travelling messenger (esen).

A spider resting upon a window sill can later be found to have woven a web which spans the entire empty space of the open window. The spider can now move to any region of the open space by navigating its web.

Awuku Ananse, the Great Spider, weaves a web of tumi (Divine Power) that permeates the Black Substance of Space and all of Abode (ah-baw’-deh - Creation). Each created entity has an okra (aw-krah’) - soul and we each have a thread of Ananse's web linking us from our okra directly to Nyamewaa-Nyame.

As Owner of the web, Ananse is able to travel from Nyamewaa-Nyame to us and back carrying our messages/desires along the web.

-Odwirafo Kwesi Ra Nehem Ptah Akhan-

[hippovampus]

Sum sketches

[thenightling]

Well, The Corinthian has just discovered The House of Watchers.   The House of Whispers is finally getting fun!

First Ananse and The Corinthian and now a new House.  The House of Whispers is finally getting good.

Note: I’m not used to this spelling.  I’m used to Anansi.   I keep wanting to type Anansi. Ananse feels awkward to me.  But still, the story is finally picking up momentum.  It took them a year but it’s finally shedding that predictable lag.