Earth Day

Amen Par Ankh Earthday

The Amen Par Ankh in Kansas City is celebrated Earthday during the Vernal Equinox! We also contribute to the Earth Day celebrations in April.

The Envisioning of New Life at Amen Par Ankh Earth Day Celebration Is held at the Freedom Fountain Amphitheatre

We gather from 10:00am for our Noon Libations and Festival of the Peret Seeds.

We will have an online presentation with workshops on Envisioning- Vision boards, Mandela Healing circles, Dream Catchers, Smudge sticks, and other Make and Take items for contributions. 

Earth Day is an annual celebration usually recognized in the spring. Many special events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for Ecology and environmental protection and stewardship. Mother Earth is a nurturing life-giving force. She responds to the season and elemental powers of the son and atmosphere.

Kemetic deities evolved over time. As the old kingdom gave way to the middle kingdom, Mut was transformed into Het-Heru (Hathor), and ultimately Auset (Isis). Auset is the goddess of the earth. This page describes her in her capacity as Mother Nature, the goddess progenitor of animals, and the inventors of new plant life. Ancient Greeks identified Auset with the goddess Aphrodite (foam-arisen) and the Romans as Venus. Both Aphrodite and Venus were considered goddesses of love, beauty, sex, fertility, prosperity and, through association as Earth Mother.

 

In Afrika and all over the world, many figurines of what appears to be an amply endowed and pregnant human female, have been unearthed during archaeological excavations. This Icon of the Great Queen Mother Goddess is symbolized to help us to embrace our planet and reconnect with life and all nature.

One of the most famous of these figurines, is the Venus of Willendorf. She is believed to have been carved somewhere between 24,000 to 22,000 BCE, in the Upper Paleolithic or late Stone Age. It is widely believed that these figurines represent the mother goddess of fertility.

These most ancient depictions of a mother goddess further suggest a more sophisticated and global view of a creator goddess or Earth Mother. This “Earth as Mother” motif is found in many mythologies around the planet. The goddess figure embodies or personifies a fertile earth. She is seen as the creative force, often giving birth to a myriad of other deities, or to the universe itself.

In Sumerian mythology, the earth goddess Ki (cuneiform ki is the sign for earth) as the consort of Anu, an earth god. It is Anu and Ki who give birth to the Anunnaki, recently made popular by proponents of Ancient Astronaut Theory. 

The notion of an earth mother Mut or Maut (Ma'at) is the ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) mother goddess. Mut was known as the “primal mother of all who was born of the sun.” As a creator deity, Mut was revered as the mother from whom the cosmos emerged. She is associated with the primordial waters of Amen, from which everything was born.  

Through parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction in which the development of embryos occur without fertilization- Immaculate Conception… (shades of the virgin birth mythos)

Just as Aphrodite is portrayed as emerging from the sea upon a scallop shell, so is the ancient title for the Blessed Virgin Mary the Star (Polaris or the North Star) of the Sea. With Mother Mary, the virgin birth motif is carried into Christian mythology. Although modern Christianity does not necessarily view Mother Mary as an Earth or Mother Goddess, early Christian sects, circa 300AD did.

Modern western culture has multiple representations of Earth Goddess. Most widespread is the Mother Nature motif. Another popular and more recent representation of Earth Goddess is Earth as Gaia. The ancient Greek earth goddess Gaia has in modern times become the name for Gaia philosophy, where it is postulated that organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a self-regulating, complex system that contributes to maintaining the conditions for life on the planet.

An intriguing psychedelic and shamanic mythology for Mother Nature is personified in the South American Mother Ayahuasca motif. Mother Ayahuasca is a benevolent and loving entity encountered by shamans.
In our modern world of climate change and renewed pressures placed upon our precious natural resources, a deeper understanding of “Goddess” or Queen Mother earth-based philosophy is vitally important. Let us not forget that our shared Mother Earth is but a tiny speck in the vastness of space.

Living consciously is not only about knowing the Glory of Our-Story and the heritage of our Ancient Ancestors. We must breathe new life back into our Children by cultivating living creative spiritual lifestyles!

*How many of our Indigo Families practice their own languages and disabused their US surnames- outside of US religion or cult indoctrination?
*How many of our families name their infants and newly born souls, after a spiritually conscious name that aligns with their destiny?

*How many have a relationship with a local Spiritual Elder, counselor or mentor, who can connect and share the Destiny, Health, Career, and Relationships of your family network? Many only depend on organized Indoctrinations of Religions or organizations from their oppressors, that function outside of their families for consultations and advice.

*How many conscious families Meditate, Venerate their Ancestors, Chant, Pray together?

*How many practice Breathing, Martial Arts, Exercise, Massage, Listen to music together, or even, play, sing, dance, exercise, draw or paint together?

*How many families constructively come together to assess growth and development and plan for generational wealth? Economics is a family-based system, our greatest economic success from our Ancestral past would last and accumulate for thousands of years! We practiced communal, family-based, gnome-driven Group economics. These structures provided generational and residual wealth.

*Do you have vision boards in common to envision a place together in your future?

*How many families home-school their children?

*Do you read to or with your children? What choices of books do you share?

*How many of our families EAT and drink together? What are we feeding our youth?

*Are we growing our own foods and healing herbs, and know that the Mind Soul and Body are connected?

*How many youth are involved with a rite of passage program?

*How many youth are directly connected to a Family elder or Mentor?

*How many families homestead, or hunt, fish, or create or produce together collectively?

*How many own their own land and resources

*How many manufacture and produce their own products that they need?

*How many create cultural and industrial Arts and crafts? There are now an abundance of Alternative healing resources available for people to live prosperously.

*Do we celebrate the seasons of life- The Equinoxes and Solstices?

*Do we take nature walks and commune with the universe like Birding, Plant Identification, Stargazing, Sun-watching, Moongazing visiting spiritual centers like mounds or caves?

 *Do we bless our homes and new businesses with a Spiritual Elder who can cleanse and bring good spirits to our environments? 

* Do we should employ and seek the counsel of our elders for accountability, in all-new matters and concerns...

We must encourage our youth to return to their neighborhoods and families to rebuild our own economies, outside of the Race supremacy system. Other cultural communities are successful because they Love and employ their own youth in a family-based economic system for accountability. We have cooperative economic systems based on culture, language, foods, and manufacturing/production.

 

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Afrikan Dance

In Afrika, dance is the worship of the Divine with the body. Our bodies are the temple of the most high. Our bodies are wonderfully made. Dance is much more than physical movement- it is a direct way to celebrate life and create healing for the dancer and the audience. Afrikan Dance is a healing tradition of expressive movements that are unique to Afrikans and their Cultural heritages found all over the diaspora of the planet. From the movements of nature and everyday life, Indigo people of Afrikan descent developed specific dances to summon the energy of the world around them into their bodies - the Temple of Life- for connection, communication, Cultural expression, and healing. We dance in a roundabout, where everyone is a participant. We thank the drummers for the tempo, polyrhythm, and vibrational energy.  Through dance, we become the Griots telling the stories of the hàunt, the harvest birds, the water, the wind, the fire, the plants and the giant creatures. 

These inceptions align with our chakra energy sites, glandular stimulation zones, and Circulatory system...

Dance is a proverb expressing the Elemental principals and Powers, The character, strength, and energy of a majestic animal, as well as the nurturing, meditative, relaxing, and transformative and organic nature of our environment.  Afrikan Dance is the recognition of our body's own inherent wisdom. Dance is a healing and spiritual endeavor and has become a creative force for transformation. Dancing told the stories of daily news and events as well as the histories of families and communities.

African Dance incorporates an understanding and value of culture deeply rooted in a community. Everyone respects each other, listens, is intuitively aware of space, and pays attention to breathing. We are connected to culture through dances, drumming, and songs that relate our rich Afrikan history. Dances from all of the Afrikan Diaspora are celebrated- From the Motherland of West Afrika: Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, and other Sub-Saharan countries as well as Arabic, Indian, Haitian, Caribbean, and the Americas. 

 Experiencing our own natural movements, spirit, and sense of humor through improvisation is also cultivated. Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, and Hip Hop have their own origins in the global Afrikan dance Diaspora.

Afro-Hip-Hop Dance

My vision is to garner the expression and energy of our community’s youth, with Amen Ankh Akademy and represent Kansas City metro in local, state and national competitions. I would like to create a variety of artistic expressions that will go on from adolescence into adulthood. Ultimately, I would like to foster a positive climate for Amen Ankh Akademy to become a Mecca that draws the interest, not only to create a sustainable community but a nation. https://amen-ankh.blogspot.com 

Dance Squads are team sport activities that use organized routines made from elements of dance, jumps and stunts to direct spectators to events and to cheer on sports teams at games and matches. The athletes involved are called dancers or a Dance Team. Currently, there are a variety of opportunities for a team to compete at Local, State, and National competitions.

“Dance Squads” first appeared in the form of traditional customs and rituals of indigenous cultures for ceremonial rites, (Hunting and fishing parties, funerals, weddings etc.) as a display of respect for the community elders and rulers, and to encourage the hunters or warriors, as they embarked on their missions. This was important, as the Hunter/Warrior represented the very survival of the community. In many cases, drum, dance and oral culture have played a more central role than written communication particularly in the communication of history, tradition and culture between generations.

Placing great value on improvisation, Afrikan American vernacular dances are characterized by ongoing change and development. Because they exist in social spaces and their main 'purpose' is self-expression, they are continually changing to reflect the needs, interests and personalities of their participants. They are also often characterized by their 'stealing' or 'borrowing' from other dance traditions and any particular Afrikan American vernacular dance shows clear evidence of its relationship to other, earlier dances.

Afrikan and American Laborers, incarcerated, and Military, expressed their anguish and pain through work chants and dances.

The phrase 'Afrikan American vernacular dance' is commonly used to refer to those dances which have developed within the Afrikan American communities of the United States from the 1600s. Afrikan people who were captured, enslaved and brought to American and European diaspora, from the  were representative of a wide range of ethnic groups, and their dances and cultural lives were similarly diverse. To speak of an 'African American vernacular dance' without qualification is to ignore the vast range of dance practices and traditions which developed from these African roots in communities across the United States. Afro-American dance in the earliest days was a response to the conditions of Colonialism and the capitalization of everything in the perview of European colonizers. Cultural life for Afrikan enslaved in America was controlled by land owners and varied between individual enslavers, local communities and the work in which laborers were employed. In general terms, though, we can say that much of the rich cultural and social life of Afrikan slaves in America was forbidden  (for a range of reasons, including social, religious, spite, misunderstanding or simple cruelty), compromised by strict rules, replaced by the culture and climate of the enslavers, or combined with this culture of the enslavers, to produce new hybrid forms. New and different cultural traditions developed not only in different cities across America, but on the properties of different slave owners. There were distinct regional variations in dance in Afrikan American communities, developing as a combination of traditions from different Afrikan ethnic groups, the religious and social predicates of enslavers, and other groups within the immediate society, as responses to the musical and social lives of individuals in that community, and in response to different experiences under slavery.

The idea of dividing performance, competitive and social dance, in Afrikan American vernacular dance, is largely an imposition of Western-European class and cultural values. Now, competition plays an important role in social dance in Afrikan and Afrikan American communities. From the cake walk and lindy hop to 'battles' of hip hop, performances have also been integrated into everyday dance life. Here are contemporary examples; Harlem Shake, Krumping, Hyphy, Snap dance, Cha Cha Slide, Line Dance (Booty Call), Lean wit It, Rock wit It, Walk It Out, footworkin, Chicken Noodle Soup, Crip Walk, Gangsta Walk, Tootsee Roll, The Roosevelt, Getting Lite Poole Palace, Butterfly Dance, Jocin, Tone Wop, Crank Dat Soulja Boy, and A-Town Stomp, and Twerk. Many of these moves can be traced directly to Afrika, South America, and the Caribbean. Like Lin-gin and ka ki Lamba

Initially, percussionists established the rhythm background for our performances. Music is always a preference. Acoustic music is a preference, due to the availability of electricity and audio systems.

Afrakan Survival Arts of Capoeira!

 AfRaKan Survival Arts of Capoeira!

Africans who migrated to Brazil brought with them the practice of a combat skill or science (martial art) now called Capoeira. Its methods are acrobatic dances, with the results often brutal, and when needed, deadly.

Born from the ever-present need to protect themselves in a hostile environment, Capoeira was and is composed of feline-like movements, where participants may use cartwheels, flips, handstands and many other acrobatic moves to avoid strikes and injury by opponents. Practitioners use sweeps, kicks, head butts, gouges, and punches in order to strike their opponent. All of these actions are combined to compose a beautiful, yet devastating form of combat art for self-defense, which protected its ancient families and participants from opponents and at time enslavers.

Practitioners of Capoeira gather in a circle, called a Roda, and those who surround the contestants sing, clap and play sacred, very specialized and handmade musical instruments such as the berimbau (string instrument) and drums. This music puts everyone into a meditative trance. Then the contestants perform a movement called the Ginga (Jinga), where they move around each other, almost like a dance, in order to disorient their opponent. After this point, it is open season on both opponents, as contestants leap into an array of deceptive offensive and defensive movements against each other. As one contestant leaves the circle another immediately takes his place. This interaction between the group continues until the group decides to disband.

Its practitioners were able to create such force through their movements and surprise tactics that it was not uncommon for victims to be knocked out suddenly or die from it's blows. Users of this combat art might also place razors between their toes or used hidden knives to unmercifully deal with those who chose to cross their paths.

Capoeira's origins are often disputed. There are many who disagree on whether it arrived with enslaved Africans or whether Africans created it once they reached Brazil. One theory suggest that it was a courtship dance in Angola used by suitors of young women. Another suggests that it was a fighting system that was refined and evolved by Africans to its dancing form in the Brazilian enslavement era. Regardless, of these disagreements, the ultimate truth is that no one disputes that it is an original African creation.

On the numerous plantations of the Brazilian countryside, Africans practiced and used these methods. They would be able to practice this combat art, and refine their skills, in plain sight of their enslavers, because the beautiful songs, chants, specialized instruments and percussion that were played, surrounded and accompanied their "dances."

Much like our Ancestors' practice of Santeria, where, they were not allowed to practice the health and healing practices of their ancient societies of the Voodun and Ifa, they hid their spiritual practice in plain site, using the very Catholic Saint icons and symbols of their enslavers .

Brazilian Maroons, who were Africans who escaped enslavement and formed alliances with "Native Americans", were notorious for using Capoeira against hunters, trackers and soldiers who were attempting to return them to a state of slavery. Survivors of ambushes with Maroons that involved hand-to-hand combat described scenes of mayhem, stating that the Maroons appeared from nowhere striking them with blows from angles that they could not fathom. It was not uncommon to hear of these enslavers running away in an attempt to escape these vicious attacks.

As a result of these deadly interactions that were occurring between Africans and colonialists, Capoeira was banned by "slave owners" and other leading authorities. However, always creative, the community found ways to keep it alive. As Capoeira was incorporated into dance movements in public, secret times and locations were arranged for its practice in private. The actions of the Africans practicing their combat art whenever and however they could ensured the survival of Capoeira throughout Brazil's history of African enslavement.

After the banning of slavery in 1888, Brazil continued to ban the practice of Capoeira and it was widely viewed as base practice by "thugs" and "criminals". Despite restrictions, the official ban of Capoeira could not last and the will of the people defeated the will of the state. Fortunately, many African Brazilians who realized its true value and history did not allow the criminalizing of their combat art and continued to practice Capoeira. Without such restrictions, the martial art of Capoeira has evolved into the form which is practiced today. Elements of the Cultural Arts, dance and combat art have both survived to create an experience which is both mesmerizing as well as instructive.

In conclusion, it is my intention that the role of Africans in Capoeira and in the evolution of combat arts should not be ignored, forgotten or denied. The bravery of its practitioners in the past to protect their freedom and in the present to maintain their traditions is a testament to the fact that true greatness cannot be suppressed and never destroyed.


(source: http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/capoeira.html)



In 1991, Adenike’s Arts opened specializing in Original People's handcrafted notions and accessories. We make Red Black and Green - Fags in honor of AfRaKan AmeRaKan Culture and heritage, Creating is a healing holistic therapy for the wellness of our Gnomes and Klans! We celebrate the circles of life as Kemetic Aboriginal Ministers, Officiating in Weddings, African Consultations and Namings, Home Blessings, Seasonal Events and Performance Arts. We practice color, light, sound and aromatherapy as well as the study of Crystals and electromagnetic energy healing. There is food, color, aroma elemental essence in every venture to empower the Aku to assist in advancing Abundance, Wealth, and Prosperity. I hope you enjoy our Discussions on Arts and Crafts, Health, Mandala Healing, Native Aboriginal and American Cultures unlimited. We will explore the Sol-Feggio, Fractal Energy and the Secret Life of Plants. Helpful Hints, and Aboriginal philosophy. We Welcome your contributions to the discussions. Please Contact us for Arts, Healing, Ceremony & Classes adenike.arts@gmail.com , amen.parankh@gmail.com , amen.ankh@live.com , Call: 816-281-7075 Please like our facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/Green.Griot https://www.facebook.com/PARANKH , https://www.facebook.com/Amen.Ankh.Farm , https://www.facebook.com/Adenike.Art , https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ankh-The-Way-of-Life-Communities