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Jun 03

@action_jaxsynn & @nikki_rush (Taken with instagram)

@action_jaxsynn & @nikki_rush (Taken with instagram)

Jun 02

Tonite we are young!!! @action_jaxsynn @briiilove @xoxfree (Taken with instagram)

Tonite we are young!!! @action_jaxsynn @briiilove @xoxfree (Taken with instagram)

soulpicnic: mikey dread at the controls

soulpicnic:

mikey dread at the controls

(via funkyossy)

(Source: k4ys, via nafesaaye)

(Source: lolzoom, via rasdivine)

cindymusbuss: Cindy Wright (former miss Jamaica) rockin the RepJA x Chi-Ching collab ONE KNOCK shirt

cindymusbuss:

Cindy Wright (former miss Jamaica) rockin the RepJA x Chi-Ching collab ONE KNOCK shirt

(Source: repja, via rasdivine)

unabellaanima: it matters.

unabellaanima:

it matters.

supamuthafuckinvillain: Phife Dawg (ATCQ) “the Shorty Phife Dawg is ya Favorite MC”

supamuthafuckinvillain:

Phife Dawg (ATCQ)

“the Shorty Phife Dawg is ya Favorite MC”

(Source: weedonot, via thesenseamongthecommon)

manchannel: Mos Def.

manchannel:

Mos Def.

(Source: soul-is-amazing, via connected2you)

bluehourly: preserve the light

bluehourly:

preserve the light

#tupac (Taken with instagram)

#tupac (Taken with instagram)

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buttondownmoda: Allen Toussaint, Life, Love and Faith 1972

buttondownmoda:

Allen Toussaint, Life, Love and Faith 1972

nigerianculture: Obàtálá is the creator of human bodies, which were supposedly brought to life by Olorun’s breath. Obàtálá is also the owner of all ori or heads. Any orisha may lay claim to an individual, but until that individual is initiated into the priesthood of that orisha, Obàtálá still owns that head. This stems from the belief that the soul resides in the head. Obatala (king of White Cloth) is said to be the Olorun’s second son, by others to be merely one of Olorun’s favorite Orisha. He is the one authorized by Olorun to create land over the water beneath the sky, and it is he who founds the first Yoruba city, Ife. Obatala is Olorun’s representative on earth and the shaper of human beings. He is known to some Yoruba as Orisha-Nla or Olufon. According to mythical stories Obatala is the eldest of all orisha and was granted authority to create the earth. Before he could return to heaven and report to Olodumare however, his rival Oduduwa (also called Oduwa, Oodua, Odudua or Eleduwa) and younger brother usurped his position by taking the satchel and created in his stead the earth on the Primeval Ocean. A great feud ensued between the two that is re-enacted every year in the Itapa festival in Ile Ife, Nigeria. Ultimately, Oduduwa and his sons were able to rule with Obatala’s reluctant consent. It appears from the cult dramas of the Itapa festival that Obatala was a dying and rising god. He left his Temple in the town on the seventh day of the festival, stayed in his grove outside the town on the eighth day and returned in a great procession to his Temple on the ninth day. The three-day rhythm of descent into the netherworld and subsequent resurrection on the third day shows the closeness of Obatala to the pre-canonical Israelite Yahweh and the figure of Jesus.

nigerianculture:

Obàtálá is the creator of human bodies, which were supposedly brought to life by Olorun’s breath. Obàtálá is also the owner of all ori or heads. Any orisha may lay claim to an individual, but until that individual is initiated into the priesthood of that orisha, Obàtálá still owns that head. This stems from the belief that the soul resides in the head.

Obatala (king of White Cloth) is said to be the Olorun’s second son, by others to be merely one of Olorun’s favorite Orisha. He is the one authorized by Olorun to create land over the water beneath the sky, and it is he who founds the first Yoruba city, Ife. Obatala is Olorun’s representative on earth and the shaper of human beings. He is known to some Yoruba as Orisha-Nla or Olufon.

According to mythical stories Obatala is the eldest of all orisha and was granted authority to create the earth. Before he could return to heaven and report to Olodumare however, his rival Oduduwa (also called Oduwa, Oodua, Odudua or Eleduwa) and younger brother usurped his position by taking the satchel and created in his stead the earth on the Primeval Ocean. A great feud ensued between the two that is re-enacted every year in the Itapa festival in Ile Ife, Nigeria. Ultimately, Oduduwa and his sons were able to rule with Obatala’s reluctant consent.

It appears from the cult dramas of the Itapa festival that Obatala was a dying and rising god. He left his Temple in the town on the seventh day of the festival, stayed in his grove outside the town on the eighth day and returned in a great procession to his Temple on the ninth day. The three-day rhythm of descent into the netherworld and subsequent resurrection on the third day shows the closeness of Obatala to the pre-canonical Israelite Yahweh and the figure of Jesus.

(via thesenseamongthecommon)