#bakulu

[briefbestiary]

Found in abandoned rum bottles, baccoo are known for both their propensity to perform tasks or wishes of those who bring them home, as well as their trickster natures when they haven't been properly fed.

For those folks who find a baccoo more trouble than they are worth, they reseal the spirit in the bottle before tossing them back out into the sea. There the baccoo will remain until they are found by another person in the future.

[kemetic-dreams]

                 Africa’s the birthplace of burial

The most noteworthy find at Uan Muhuggiag is the well-preserved mummy of a young boy of approximately 2 1/2 years old. The child was in a fetal position, then embalmed, then placed in a sack made of antelope skin, which was insulated by a layer of leaves. The boy's organs were removed, as evidenced by incisions in his stomach and thorax, and an organic preservative was inserted to stop his body from decomposing. An ostrich eggshell necklace was also found around his neck. Radiocarbon dating determined the age of the mummy to be approximately 5600 years old, which makes it about 1000 years older than the earliest previously recorded mummy in ancient Egypt. However of similar or older age Egyptian mummy is now the Turin mummy dated to 5,600 years  In 1958-1959, an archaeological expedition led by Antonio Ascenzi conducted anthropological, radiological, histological and chemical analyses on the Uan Muhuggiag mummy. The specimen was determined to be that of a 30-month old child of uncertain sex, who possessed Negroid features. A long incision on the specimen's abdominal wall also indicated that the body had been initially mummified by evisceration and later underwent natural desiccation. One other individual, an adult, was found at Uan Muhuggiag, buried in a crouched position. However, the body showed no evidence of evisceration or any other method of preservation. The body was estimated to date from about 7500 BP

Some scholars argue that the sub-Saharan African population living there could have had an influence on the later process of mummification of Ancient Egypt. There is also considerable debate about whether the rock art found at Uan Muhuggiag, along with the two dead bodies, signify that the shelter was a burial place or otherwise sacred. Mori himself had been a strong advocate of this theory and believed that the site was a place where a cult of the dead took place

Mourning Customs Mourning rituals may continue for at least a week after the burial, notes Mourning Rituals and Practices in Contemporary South African Townships. During the formal mourning period traditional practices include:

Not leaving the house or socializing

Abstaining from sexual activity

Not talking or laughing loudly

Wearing black clothes, armbands or pinning pieces of black cloth to the mourner's clothing

Men and women of the family shaving their hair, including facial hair, which symbolizes death and new life

Widows are expected to mourn for six months to a year and children who lost a parent are expected to mourn for three months. After the formal mourning, the family can stop wearing black. The family may hold a ritual or create a shrine a few days or weeks after the funeral to honor and respect their dead. At some time later, the family may hold a ceremony to commemorate the deceased becoming an ancestor.

Ritual Cleansing Africans believe that anyone or anything that came in contact with the dead is unclean or polluted. According to Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, cleansing rituals start before burial and again about seven days or more after the funeral. Ritual cleansing may include:

Ritual cleansing of the dead before burial - In the Ashanti tribe of Ghana, for example, the oldest woman if the family washes the body three times, dries and dresses it.

Items that touched the deceased, including bedding and clothes, are washed.

Things the deceased used, such as chairs and utensils, are put away until the local traditional period of mourning is over.

The dead's clothing is bundled and stored until mourning ends, then the items are given to family members or burned.

After a time, according to community custom, the house and family members undergo a cleansing, usually involving herbs, to remove misfortune and "darkness."

An animal may be sacrificed at the time of the ritual cleansing of the home and family and again about a month later to put the dead's soul at rest.

Slaves brought burial customs from Africa to the United States On this date we celebrate the African American customs regarding cemeteries and funerals. One of the most direct and unaltered visual manifestations of African influence on the culture of African Americans in the United States is found in the social behaviors centered on funerals.

In many rural graveyards across the south and many urban cemeteries in the north and far west, too, African Americans mark final resting places of loved ones in a distinctive manner. While standard markers or floral arrangements are used, the personal property of the deceased is often placed on top of the grave. This can range from a single emblematic item like a pitcher or vase, to an inventory of the dead person’s household goods. One can find clocks, cups, saucers, toothbrushes, marbles, piggy banks, and more.

Such material collections of honor contrast with the usual contemporary European-American ideal of a burial landscape. Such a collection establishes a connection to customs and practices known not only on southern plantations but also in West and Central Africa.

African graves in Georgia were always decorated with the last article used by the departed, according to Documents from 1843. Historians traveling throughout Zaire in 1884 noted that natives mark the final resting places of their friends by decorating graves with such items as old cooking pots, made useless by penetrating them with holes. Another traveler in nearby Gabon observed over or near the graves of the rich are built small huts, where mourners laid the common articles used by them in their life--pieces of cookery, knives, and sometimes a table.

In early American slavery, funeral customs were one of the few areas of African life into which slave owners tended not to intrude. Despite the massive conversion of Africans to Christian faiths, they retained many of their former rituals associated with the respect of the dead. Placing personal items on graves is more than an emotional gesture. One resident of the Georgia Sea Islands testified, “Spirits need these [things] same as the man. Then the spirit rest and don’t wander.” In addition to personal objects, some African American graves in the South are decorated with white seashells and pebbles, suggesting the watering environment at the bottom of either the ocean or a lake or river.

Such material items are not associated with the Christian belief of salvation; they are more likely signs of the remembrance of African custom. In South Carolina, nearly 40 percent of all slaves imported between 1733 and 1807 were from the Kongo-speaking region; their world of the dead is known to be underground but under water. This place is the realm of the bakulu, creatures whose white color marks them as deceased. Shells and stones signal the boundary of this realm, which can only be reached by penetrating beneath the two physical barriers. Their whiteness remembers that in Central Africa white, not black, is the color of death.

Also found in African cemeteries are pipes driven into burial mounds to serve as speaking tubes that may allow communication with the deceased and mirrors that are said to catch the flashing light of the spirit and hold it there. These same customs are found in burial sites in the Bay Area of California. When given the opportunity, any people will carry a heartfelt custom and tradition from place to place as essential cultural property.

[primitive-roots-conjure]

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[starrymothwings]

Hey remember when I said Lulu was a monster clown? well here’s what she looks like under that colorful design of hers!! the baku was a heavy inspiration for this but she’s basically a big ol’ monster tapir :v I call this form ‘Bakulu’

Just for the record, she HATES how she looks like this, hence why she’s pretty much always in her clown form. Lulu doesn’t like how plain she is (ugly in her own words) and most humans (kids mostly) are either scared of her. Since she doesn’t actually harm people and actually has a somewhat positive view on them, you can see why she wanted to look like someone else.

She’s just lonely, that’s all 

(btw she isn’t a deadlight, so while she is a monster clown, it’s not in the same sense as Pennywise)

[momaie]

Kotuswa mu Bukulu: a ancestralização de Tata Kimbandwe Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau

Kotuswa mu Bukulu: a ancestralização de Tata Kimbandwe Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau

Por Mark A. Bolden, Phd, Washington DC . Metro Chapter ABPsi The Fanon Project . Trinity Washington University A passagem de um ancião é como uma biblioteca que incendeia, como nos diz Hampaté Ba.  Tata (baba/pai) Fu Kiau nos informa que o processo de transição é o pôr do sol do mundo superior dos vivos, Ku Nseke, para o mundo interior de Ku Mpemba (Fu Kiau, 1991, p. 8). Uma pessoa,…

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[primitive-roots-conjure]

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[primitive-roots-conjure]

A lesson learned today about staying calm, in control and grounding. Thank you my #ancestors #bakulu #eggun #egun #spiritualwarrior #spirits #spiritualawakening #africanreligion #africantradition #atr #africanspirituality