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HOODOO is the Akan (ah-kahn') term Ndu (oohn-dooh') meaning 'medicine' from roots, trees, plant life. The Akan term Ndu also means to become 'heavy' with the spirit through spirit-possession and spirit-communication. Hoodoo is Akan Ancestral Religion preserved in the blood-circles of our Akan Ancestresses and Ancestors who were forced from the regions of contemporary Ghana and Ivory Coast, West Afuraka/Afuraitkait (Africa) into North America during the Mmusuo Kese (Great Perversity/Enslavement era). We have preserved and passed down our Akan Ancestral Religious traditions as Hoodoo for over three centuries in North America. This cultural and religious transmission is intergenerational and transcarnational - passed down through successive reincarnations (bebra) within our Akan matriclans and patriclans.
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The unique ritual processes wherein we as Akan people affect alignment with Nyamewaa and Nyame, the Great Mother and Great Father Supreme Being, through the agency of the Abosom and Nananom Nsamanfo, the Deities/Divine Spirit-Forces in Creation and our Spiritually Cultivated Ancestresses and Ancestors, is what defines our Ancestral Religious practice. As Akan people we are born of one of seven mmusuakuw or matriclans and one of twelve ntoro or patriclans. The seven mmusuakuw or matriclans are governed by seven female Abosom (Deities). The twelve ntoro (ntorokuw) or patriclans are governed by twelve male Abosom (Deities).
Odenkyem (alligator) in Dismal Swamp, Virginia. Sacred akyeneboa (animal totem) of Afram ntorokuw (patriclan).
Our Abusuabosom or matriclan Deity and Ntorobosom or patriclan Deity is assigned to each one of us pre-incarnation and we are thus born into the world with both of these Abosom (Deities). Their energy literally animates our mitochondrial DNA (received from the mother) and y-chromosomal DNA (received from the father).
Kwaakwaadabi (crow). Sacred akyeneboa (animal totem) of the Asona abusuakuw (matriclan).
Moreover, each Akan person is sent into the world on the day of the week which is governed by the particular Obosom (Deity) who governs the person's Okra or Okraa (Soul - Divinity in the head-region). There are eleven male and female Abosom (Deities) called the Akradinbosom who animate the solar, lunar and planetary bodies which govern the seven-day Akan week. One of these Akradinbosom is assigned to the Okra/Okraa (Soul - Inner Spiritual Head) of each Akan individual pre-incarnation by Nyamewaa-Nyame, the Supreme Being. We are thus born into the world with an Obosom (Deity) governing our head and hence our unique path in life. This Divine Force governing our spiritual head is supported by the matriclan and patriclan Abosom (Deities) who protect and guide us on the usage of our inherent spiritual power as we execute our Divine function in the world.
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We are guided by our direct spiri-genetic Ancestresses and Ancestors, our Nananom Nsamanfo, who lived in the world as part of these very same clans, governed by these very same Abosom (Deities) and who mastered life upon Asaase (Earth). Our Nananom Nsamanfo thus give us guidance rooted in accumulated life-experience on how to navigate our way in the world.
This guidance is based upon our unique energic (spirit-genetic) makeup as Akan people who have reincarnated once again through our specific matriclans and patriclans operant within this region of Asaase (Earth).
Dismal Swamp in Virginia where we established an independent nation after liberating ourselves from the plantations of enslavement.
It was the guidance of our Nananom Nsamanfo, our Spiritually Cultivated Ancestresses and Ancestors, which directed us on the best means by which to harmonize with the plant life, animal life and mineral life in this region of Asaase Afua and Asaase Yaa, the two Earth Mother Divinities. We aligned with the unique expression of the Abosom (Deities) in this region, the western hemisphere, of Asaase Afua and Asaase Yaa for learning, empowerment, healing as well as defense. We blended Ancestral blood-circles to facilitate the return of our Akan Ancestresses and Ancestors back into the world through the clans we preserved here in North America. We blended the properties of plant life and mineral life for healing, medicine as well as defense - creating poisons in the form of chemical and biological warfare to exterminate our enemies the whites and their offspring.
We carried the sacred akyeneboa, animal totems, of our Abosom (Deities) and mmusuakuw and ntorokuw, matriclans and patriclans in our blood-circles to North America. We were also guided by the Abosom and Nananom Nsamanfo regarding which animals that do not exist in West Afuraka/Afuraitkait (Africa) yet discovered in North America (e.g. possum and black bear) are totemic to the Abosom and Nananom Nsamanfo. The same was true of learning which species of plant life and mineral life discovered in North America are totemic to the Abosom and Nananom Nsamanfo. We thus integrated animal totems, plant totems and mineral totems from North America into our ritual practice harmoniously. This expanded profile of Akan identity in North America is central to Hoodoo.
It was the Nananom Nsamanfo and Abosom who guided and empowered us through our incessant wars against the whites and their offspring wherein we ultimately forced the end of enslavement in North America.
Akofo, warriors, executing the whites and their offspring and liberating our people from enslavement
Akan language and cosmology is preserved in the terms defining our Ancestral Religious practice as Hoodoo in North America including: hoodoo (ndu), mojo (mogya), jack and jackball (gya and gyapade) conjure (kankye), haint (hintin), shout (dwo), goofa (komfo), Johnny Conqueroo (Nyamma Kakadu/Jama Kakadu), come (akom) and more. These terms are phonetically and cosmologically Akan terms defining our ritual practices preserved in North America.
We note that the term Hoodoo is also used to describe the Abosom (Deities), i.e. the Obosom (Deity) of the river or Obosom (Deity) of the mountain is also the Hoodoo Spirit of the river or the Hoodoo Spirit of the mountain. Hoodoo is used as a noun, adjective and a verb. The same definitions found in the Akan language and the language of the medutu (hieroglyphs) of Khanit and Kamit (Nubia and Egypt) for the term Hoodoo are preserved intact in the Hoodoo tradition in North America.
Hoodoo is not the mixture or amalgamation of various African traditions as African-American folk magic preserved during the enslavement era. Hoodoo is not a mixture of African and european pseudo-folk magic traditions or pseudo-'native'-american medicine and folk traditions. Hoodoo is purely Akan Ancestral Religion carried directly from Afuraka/Afuraitkait (Africa) by our Akan Ancestresses and Ancestors to North America and transmitted directly to us - their spiri-genetic descendants.
Moreover, Akan Ancestral Religion in West Afuraka/Afuraitkait (Africa) was carried to that region by our Ancient Akan Ancestresses and Ancestors from ancient Khanit and Kamit (Nubia and Egypt) over two thousand years ago as we have proven linguistically and cosmologically in our numerous books.
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Gyaase [jah'-say] is an Akan term meaning the hearth. The term ase [ah-say'] means base or under. The term ogya [oh-jah'] means fire. The term gyaase means under the fire, the foundation of the fireplace. The Akan term odan [aw-dah'-een] means room, house, dwelling. It also references the shrine room or building. The verb dan means to place oneself under the protection of and also to transform into another state of being.
Above: Gyaase. Left: Fire pit found in Dismal Swamp, Virginia from the enslavement era. Right: Medutu (hieroglyphs) of Nehem referencing the ritual function of gyaase.
HOODOO GYAASEDAN
Shrine space, protective, transformative (dan) dwelling (odan) of the hearth (gyaase) of Hoodoo.
HOODOO GYAASEDAN as a description of our Hoodoo Shrine-house ('temple') describes our journey in North America. When we liberated ourselves from enslavement and cleared out independent settlements in the swamps and forests, we would first establish a shrine space. It revolved around gya, fire and purificatory nsuo, water. We invoked the Abosom, evoked the Nananom Nsamanfo, purified ourselves and commenced the Nationbuilding/Restoration process at the shrine space, the physical and spiritual hearth, in the new settlement. As others who escaped enslavement came to the free territory they would first be purified at the Hoodoo Gyaase, the hearth of the Hoodoo Spirits, and subsequently incorporated into the community. Our Nationbuilding/Restoration process revolved around the Hoodoo Gyaase. We placed ourselves under the protection of the Abosom and Nananom Nsamanfo and transformed into another state of being - liberated beings. The same is true today.
Our Amansesew-Nationbuilding/Restoration process revolves around our alignment with Nyamewaa-Nyame, the Abosom and Nananom Nsamanfo, the Mother and Father Supreme Being, the Deities and Spiritually Cultivated Ancestresses and Ancestors of our direct spiri-genetic blood-circles. We become grounded and renewed in our Ancestral Religious values through the Hoodoo Gyaase which guides every aspect of our lives.
HOODOO GYAASEDAN - Hearth-Shrine of Akan Ancestral Religion in North America is the perpetuation of our spiri-genetic inheritance. We are not dependent on anyone outside of our Ancestral blood-circles for initiation into our own transcarnational inheritance. We have maintained our various priesthoods and priestesshoods intact within Hoodoo for over three centuries in North America. This includes the komfo (goofa), odumani or odumafo (hoodooman/hoodoowoman), odunsinifo (rootdoctor), oduyefo (rootworker), asumanfo (maker of talismans, mojo and jack/mogya and gya) and more.
Ndu (oohn-dooh') vocalized by our people as Hoodoo. Authentic Hoodoo - Ancient Authentic Akan Ancestral Religion in North America - is enshrined within HOODOO GYAASEDAN.
Our forms of spirit-possession (akom), oracular divination (adebisa), ritual song (edwom), ritual prayer (apae), ritual dance (asaw), ritual drumming (ka kyene) the use of talismans and amulets (asuman), sacred animal totems (akyeneboa), ritual naming practices (dinto), ritual funerary practices (ayie), ritual medicine and communion with the spirits (ndu and nkom) and more are fully functional within Hoodoo Religion through our matriclans (mmusuakuw) and patriclans (ntorokuw) and the full pantheon of Abosom (Deities) who we have continued to invoke for centuries to this day.
The whites and their offspring [all non-Black individuals] - all of whom incarnate as spirits of disorder without exception - are racially and spiritually incapable of practicing Hoodoo or any other expression of Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) Ancestral Religion. All who claim otherwise are 100% frauds. This includes all white americans, white europeans, white asians, white arabs, white hindus, white hispanics/latinos, white pseudo-'native'-americans (migrant asians), etc. without exception. All of their products and practices have no connection to any Obosom (Deity) or Akan Ancestral clan-filiation. The whites and their offspring are parasites who always seek a host. Parasites are not entertained. Parasites are exterminated by the former host.
When we were forced into North America during the Mmusuo Kese (Great Perversity/Enslavement era) three hundred years ago, the manner in which we were practicing our Ancestral Religion at that moment was fossilized in our bones and blood. It is this pristine expression of Ancestral Religion that we passed down to our descendants in North America intergenerationally and transcarnationally - through successive reincarnations (bebra) within our matriclans and patriclans.
Hoodoo (Akan), Voodoo (Ewe), Juju (Yoruba), Ngengang (Fang), Wanga (Ovambo), Grisgris (Mende) and more are various Ancestral Religious practices preserved by those specific ethnic groups in North America fully intact for over three hundred years. No individual in Afuraka/Afuraitkait (Africa), the Caribbean or South America can initiate our people in North America into the priesthoods or priestesshoods of our very own transcarnationally-inherited Ancestral Religious traditions. Only we can do so. We have never been lost. We are resilient and have preserved ourselves and our spirituality inclusive of our priesthoods and priestesshoods.
We are also unbound the the pseudo-religions and their related fictional characters who never existed of any race or in any form whatsoever including: jesus/yeshua, allah, yahweh, muhammad, buddha, brahmin and all others. The fraudulent writings of the bible, quran, talmud, kabbalah, vedas, dhammapadas, et.al. are vulgar, corrupted fragments of texts from ancient Kamit and have no value nor place in Hoodoo or any Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) Ancestral Religion. We do not compromise with fraud.
The path to Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African~Black) independence, self-rule on our own territory, secure in and defending our sovereignty, is guided only through our Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) Ancestral Religious practices. We engage Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) Ancestral Religion - the Ritual incorporation of Divine Law and the Ritual restoration of Divine Balance - for individual healing, education and empowerment as well as communal healing, education and empowerment. This is the foundation for Revolution-Resolution and Amanne - Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African~Black) Nationism - Purification of Nationalism, Nationbuilding/Restoration rooted in our Ancestral Religious values.
Members of the Asona, Bretuo, Asenie and Ekoona mmusuakuw (matriclans) are the founding members of HOODOO GYAASEDAN.
HOODOO MAYN: Hoodoo Nation Festival - 8th Annual - October 15, 13023 (2022)
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ADEBISA - Divination Services
Adebisa service is open to Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut (Africans~Black People) only. Learn about the nature and function of divination on our page Adebisa.
Amma Ma'at Kheru Aberewa Maati - Osomfo ne Okyerefo
You do not need to be present for adebisa (divination). We engage the ritual process and call you afterword to share what came forth.
Amma Ma'at Kheru Aberewa Maati does not have a set price for adebisa (divination). Clients donate according to their capacity in support of her institutional work.
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Amma is an Osomfo, traditional Shrine Attendant and Diviner and Okyerefo, Instructor within the Hoodoo tradition passed down through the blood-circles of her Akan Ancestresses and Ancestors for centuries in North Carolina and South Carolina. Amma is also the Owner of Amma Kraftz:
You do not need to be present for adebisa (divination). We engage the ritual process and call you afterword to share what came forth.
Odwirafo does not charge for adebisa (divination). We do allow querents to donate whatever you feel drawn to contribute in support of our institutional work.
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Odwirafo is an Odumafo, traditional Adebisafo - Diviner within the Hoodoo tradition passed down through the blood-circles of his Akan Ancestresses and Ancestors for centuries in Mississippi, Alabama and Chicago. Odwirafo is the author of 31 books and producer of the documentary film AMARUKAFO ADEBISA: African-American Ancestral Divination.
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