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Egbe Kilombo Vodun Isese

Itadogun Reading for January 13, 2010 from Êgbé Kilombo Vôdùn Ìşèşè

Ìtàdógún Reading for January 13, 2010 This is the Ifá reading/ceremony that is done every 16 days by qualified Ifá priests/esses for the community. This is the Ifá reading/ceremony that is done ever…

Started by Egbe Kilombo Vodun Isese in Lessons from Our Indigenous Afrikan Spiritual Systems Jan 13.

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Ifá/Òrìşà Worshippers and the U.S.'s Declaration of Nigeria as a Terrorist Nation: A New Afrikan Perspective

Ifá/Òrìşà Worshippers and the U.S.'s Declaration of Nigeria as a Terrorist Nation: A New Afrikan Perspective Last year I predicted that there would be an all-of-a-sudden increase in “Black” islamic…

Tagged: orisa-vodun, maroonage, nationalism, orisha, orisa

Started by Egbe Kilombo Vodun Isese in Information Jan 12.

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Afrikan Observation of the Winter Solstice 1 Reply

The solstice or ndìde dúró oòrùn (standing still of the sun in Èdè Yorùbá) reminds us of the importance of the fire of life and the maintainence thereof. It is the replenishment of our àşe – náà iná…

Started by Egbe Kilombo Vodun Isese in Information. Last reply by Egbe Kilombo Vodun Isese Dec. 22, 2009.

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Ancestral reading for the week if December 17, 2009 to December 24, 2009 by Êgbé Kilombo Vôdùn Ìşèşè.

Ancestral reading for the week if December 17, 2009 to December 24, 2009 by Êgbé Kilombo Vôdùn Ìşèşè. The ancestors speak of many “hidden” blessings. Many of these blessings are hidden in plain sigh…

Started by Egbe Kilombo Vodun Isese in Lessons from Our Indigenous Afrikan Spiritual Systems Dec. 18, 2009.

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Oluwo Ifa of Oyotunji - Chief Adenibi Ajamu Has Transitioned from Aiye

On yesterday, the day that Oyeku Meji says that the Ancestors come visit us from Orun, Chief Adenibi Ajamu, the Oluwo Ifa of Oyotunji Afrikan Village, transitioned from this earth. Forthright, determ…

Started by Egbe Kilombo Vodun Isese in Information Dec. 11, 2009.

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Why we go to Ifá every 5-5 days from the sacred Odù Ifá Ogbè Òwónrín

I thought I'd share this information with some and remind others of the authority source which sanctions what we call and perform as Ose Ifa (sacred Ifa day). Why we go to Ifá every 5-5 days from th…

Started by Egbe Kilombo Vodun Isese in Lessons from Our Indigenous Afrikan Spiritual Systems Dec. 9, 2009.

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WILL THE REAL ODUDUWA PLEASE STAND UP PART II: Questions Posed to the Orisa Community (II) 13 Replies

Will the Real Oduduwa Please Stand Up? Questions posed to the Orisa-Vodun-Ifa community for Consideration – Part II In part one of Questions posed to the Orisa-Vodun-Ifa community for Consideration,…

Started by Egbe Kilombo Vodun Isese in Lessons from Our Indigenous Afrikan Spiritual Systems. Last reply by Egbe Kilombo Vodun Isese Dec. 3, 2009.

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Maroonage: A Natural Phenomenon in Indigenous Afrikan Tradition 2 Replies

Maroonage: A Natural Phenomenon in Indigenous Afrikan Tradition Webster’s dictionary defines a maroon as “any of a group of blacks, descended from fugitive slaves of the 17th and 18th centuries, liv…

Tagged: oyo, oba-settlement, ekaladerhan, oduduwa, maroonage

Started by Egbe Kilombo Vodun Isese in Lessons from Our Indigenous Afrikan Spiritual Systems. Last reply by Egbe Kilombo Vodun Isese Dec. 3, 2009.

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KILOMBO NEW AFRIKAN MAROONS MEMBER OF THE MONTH 2 Replies

Our first member of the month award and recognition goes to Iya Ifalola Sangoyemi Olatunji - Arotesa. Known as "That Praying Woman", Iya Falola is recognized for her unwavering dedication to Afrik…

Tagged: phenomenal-woman, olatunji, sangoyemi, falola, member-of-the-month

Started by Egbe Kilombo Vodun Isese in Information. Last reply by Egbe Kilombo Vodun Isese Nov. 22, 2009.

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Our Book Publications

E pele o Afrikans I have authored five books on our sacred indigenous Afrikan traditions. They are: Iwakiri: The Quest for Afrikan Spirituality (1998 first print 2003) 16.95; Ajo Inu: The Inner Jour…

Started by Egbe Kilombo Vodun Isese in Information Nov. 8, 2009.

Welcome to the KILOMBO!

E pele o awon Adulawo Tuntun

Kwabo ("welcome")


I want to thank the Afrikans who have shown an interest in the acceptance and practice of true maroonage in relation to Afrikan spirituality. What is a maroon? In short, the maroons are those Afrikans that voluntarily not only left and escaped the plantations of their so-called "slave masters", but were Afrikans who dedicated themselves unabashedly to the preservation and practice of Afrikan culture from a paradigm of SOVEREIGNTY. This means that these maroons very well new the reality of war, and used the tools from their own spiritual culture to execute and win their sovereignty (not just freedom).

We here wanted to provide a cyberspace atmosphere for the modern maroons, you and I, so that we can not only share knowledge of Afrikan traditions, thus improving our lives spiritually, but a place where we can amalgamate our various INDIGENOUS Afrikan traditions under the universal Afrikan concept of nationalism. In the spirit of the great Kilombo (a Bantu word meaning "encampment") Palmares of Brazil, I welcome all healthy discussion that is aimed at re-establishing our spiritual lines and shrines in addition to the reconciliation of our ANCESTRAL LINES which have been so broken, mutilated, and forgotten by many Afrikan descendants. We wish this place to be an "egbe" of those already on the path, and those that seek an overstanding of this vital necessity within our Afrikan traditions.

Finally, we seek to provide an alternative to the rampant buck-dancing and anti-Afrikan new age thought so prevalent in our traditions today. If Afrikan spirituality is not functional then it serves us no better than the fake traditions we left for it. Thus, we are about solutions. All indigenous Afrikan traditions are welcomed here for their knowledge, opinions, experience, and input in this mission as we grow. Contact our official Egbe at 404-914-7429

O dabo and remember this is a Kilombo Production!


NOTE: This group is for HETEROSEXUAL Afrikan ("black") males and females ONLY!

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Ancestral Reading Covering Thursday, February 4, 2010-Wednesday, February 10, 2010 from Êgbé Kilombo Vôdùn Ìsèsè.

Ancestral Reading Covering Thursday, February 4, 2010-Wednesday, February 10, 2010 from Êgbé Kilombo Vôdùn Ìsèsè.

The great Egúngún state that we have to allow the male and female ancestors to do separate but equally important work. This is for the community. They state that we need too parade our family Egúngún masquerades (if we haven’t) soon. Parade a masquerade for the maternal side of the family and one for the paternal side of the family. This will also bring you into a deeper overstandin… Continue

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WHose Ice is Colder

Whose Ice is Colder:
Initiations and Rituals in Relation to New Afrikans
and their Connection to the Afrikan Continent

Thoughts and considerations...

Strange stories (sometimes horror stories) relayed to me over the years by people initiated to various priesthoods in Afrika (particularly Nigeria) have prompted me to ask us to take a look at a “new” paradigm in relation to the approach we take in obtaining our spiritual rituals. I often hear of people say “If you want initiation done RIGHT, you gotta go to Afrika; the most sacred herbs are in Afrika and if you want to do this ritual right then…; you know you gotta finish your initiation up in Afrika…don’t you?”. This prompts me to want to ask these people “Do you think the ice in Afrika is colder than the New Afrikan’s ice (Afrikans in the Yepete – Akan for “diaspora”)?” Of course, the answer is an infallible NO!

Long before we returned to the full practice of our Afrikan traditions, New Afrikans have not only survived, but they have duly found and EMPLOYED the sacredness of the earth around them. One cannot discount the historical value of the Root Doctor and the Hoodoo Man/Woman represented mainly in the amerikkkan south. In their Ancestral DNA, they knew that sacredness did not and does not stop on one continent. This is not biblical religion. There are sacred herbs and new rituals in relation to those herbs. Our experiences in the Maafa necessitate this. How can one lie dependent on Afrika and claim to be spiritual? What if and WHEN the oyinbo levies the harshest sanctions against Nigeria and Afrika in general (and believe me it is coming) that won’t allow us to retrieve certain herbs, get certain initiations, kwk? Will we be so dependent on Afrika that we will have to stop our practice of indigenous culture until sanctions are lifted? I hope not. But if one can see that reality why not act now in a manner of spiritual freedom and sovereignty? Why wait until that time?

Message to New Afrikan people: It is high time that we stop being the cultural children of ANYONE. For instance, why is it that I have heard more than enough people, “seasoned” in our traditions, state that they did not think one could be initiated to Ifá in amerikkka because THERE IS NO SACRED GROVE HERE? What?! However, they must be ignorant of the fact that the Holy Odù Ifá Otura Obara says that the whole world is Ifa’s grove. However, such statements are indicative of the state that we are STILLL in. It is a statement from a cultural/spiritual child wrapped in the garb of spiritual and cultural independence.

I hear validated stories of New Afrikans going all the way to Afrika to be initiated only to have paid christians chant and participate in their rituals – people who disdain the deities but will cash in on opportunity. This must stop immediately. We must stop going to Afrika with our hands out. Learn the language. Don’t let these types pull the wool over your eyes under the guise of language barriers. Realize the fact that many continental Afrikans are enjoying great benefits from the commercialization of our culture. They cash in on our innocent ignorance.

Let us remember OUR responsibility in this too. Take the necessary PREREQUISITE ritual and study steps before letting somebody tell you that you NEED to go to Afrika (or anywhere else) quickly to get initiated. Let us re-examine our reasons for coming to this tradition. Are we coming simply to get initiated? To gain some pseudo-sense of power? If so, you are setting yourself for all of the above and more. And we must admit that some of the stuff that happens is ALLOWED. Your ORI may have told you all the time that something was not quite right. At the same time we must hold the continentals (this article is mainly about them) who indulge in such behaviors highly accountable and call those to the table on this (contact me to obtain a copy of the letter I sent to the Ifá Council).

Word to the sisters…Oluwos (people who are overall responsible for your initiation and spiritual needs in the Ìsèsè Ifá tradition) and Adjubonas (the main people who do the work at your initiations and responsible for teaching you) are not supposed to sleep with their initiates in this culture. If they do this, they violate a big part of the pact they make with Ifá. They violate Odù the entity. Word to the Brothers…If you are spiritually in charge of a woman, there are certain rituals you simply need to find a woman to do in your stead. We are not in a time where we need to be giving women spiritual baths. In fact, from a New Afrikan perspective, there is no need for either of us (men in relation to women and vice versa) to have to see each other naked or with exposed private body parts.

Let’s be honest family. Many continentals, whether they stay here in amerikkka or in Afrika, see owo (money) when they see us coming. They often get over because many, whether knowingly or not, go to them as cultural children with their hands out only to receive fists full of wasps! There are too many well-intending New Afrikans going over there to the continent only to receive partial (if any of) service in relation to what they are paying for. And often when they do get what they are supposed to get, they catch hell and high water trying to get taught something. Somehow, this turns into extra money that needs to be paid. Thus, they are left in a strange quagmire: caught between honestly thinking that the continental Afrikans’ ice is colder than ours, while finding themselves having to get their PERTINENT information from the New Afrikan. Though we are here to help ALL New Afrikan (BLACK ONLY) people, we do ask that due respect is given to our Ancestors for the work they do THROUGH us.

Every group of people has a clanic Ancestral pool that is close to them and from where they operate from often. We must honor and respect our Ancestral pool that has honestly been here for us BEFORE ANY continental Afrikan thought it a good idea to come over here to try to validate us and/or what we are doing. Let us love and respect them thoroughly. Let us go to them so they can tell us about the sacred herbs and areas of THIS land. Is not the Mississippi River as sacred as the Ôsun or Oya rivers in Nigeria? Are there not areas of rivers in South Carolina as sacred and powerful as the rivers in Ghana where Nana Asuogebi and Nana Tigare dwell? What about the NEW deities that have manifested in the sacred forests, rivers, COTTON FIELDS, mountains, kwk here in amerikkka simply due to our presence? It would behoove us to go to our oracles and our direct Ancestral pools so they can inform us on such things; lest we become spiritually stagnant and our culture loses validity for us in our historical and geographical circumstances. This process is no different than what we see in the sacred Odù Ifá in its Itans (stories). There are new itan and verses that evolved throughout the history of the West Afrikans as new circumstances came up. Certain towns would develop and they would cast Odù to see what Odù governs that town. At that point, that town, the people, and some story associated with its founding would become permanently a part of that Odù. This only shows that Odù and Afrikan spirituality in general is dynamic; it does not stop like the false religions of the bible and quran. At what point to we take control of our spiritual direction and divinity of self?

Unapologetically submitted to the New Afrikan community. To be continued…
Áwotúndé Dòsúnmú Fáséèyin Ágbôsi
 

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