RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series -equiano the african?

in my response I erroneously referred to the Sinai sojourn as 40 days and nights.  This was unintentional.  its well known the sojourn lasted years rather than days. 

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Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series -equiano the african?
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:17:52 -0500
From: MFenyo@bowiestate.edu
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com

Dear Professor:

 

you might add, if you agree, that there was a time when the god of the sundisc (aten)  was the only god.   That notion may seem heretical to some but not to Jews, Muslims  or most Christians

 

Dr. Mario D. Fenyo

University Professor of American History

Department of History and Government

Bowie State University

Bowie, MD 20715

USA

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Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series -equiano the african?

Ken:

As unbelievable as it may sound, the Egyptians during a period of royal heresy worshipped a God in the sun disc itself.

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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:57:27 -0500
From: harrow@msu.edu
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series -equiano the african?

thanks kwabena
i don't have any trouble believing the statement about chukwu residing in the heavens, where the sun and stars etc are located. but in the sun itself?
i wonder about that part of it
ken

On 1/28/13 2:42 PM, Akurang-Parry, Kwabena wrote:

Ken:
 
The religious cosmology or mythological cosmology of the Akans of Ghana teaches that Onyankopong (God, the Creator) inhabits "soro" or space and sky where the sun, moon, stars, etc. reside. I have not studied Igbo religious and mythological cosmologies, ontology, and worldview, but from a comparative standpoint, Equiano's statement that the Igbos have a "god who dwells in the sun" is true and speaks to the religious beliefs of many precolonial African states and societies. See the classic African Religions and Philosophy by John S. Mbiti.
 
Kwabena

 

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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] on behalf of kenneth harrow [harrow@msu.edu]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 1:04 PM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series -equiano the african?

i should add that in reading equiano's account, intuitively speaking, and not as a specialist in 18th c igbo, i found his account not credible when describing africa. i know there is a big polemic about this; but i wonder if anyone on this list could also chime in on their intuitive reaction to his account.
ken

On 1/28/13 4:24 AM, ChidiAnthonyOparaPoetry/Quotes wrote:

(Poem By: Chidi Anthony Opara)

 

I come before you

This hour before dawn

Chukwu.

You, who dwell above,

Below

Is your foot stool.

You, whom the gods

Genuflect in his presence,

Before you I come

Clean,

Devoid of dirt.

 

Your covenant with my forebears

Bound me to come before you

On this market day,

At this hour

To purge my soul of impurities

Of the period past.

I have washed my body

And rinsed my mouth

With the waters of onu ngara.

 

No human is worthy

To present sacrifices

And libations in your presence.

My sacrifices

I have presented to the good gods,

My libations

To my ancestors.

 

I stand before you in awe,

Yet

I must make my confessions

Before the din of dawn.

 

 

 

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