We define something African by its . We find out what that footprint looks like by exercising the practice of Sankofa. Sankofa means look back to your past and bring something forward. That which you bring forward from the past is . Tradition is a very slow changing process. Explore Gaia today to stream over 7,000 exclusive titles to guide your conscious life.
Tradition is something that reoccurs over and over again throughout the life span of a culture and its people. The rest we can probably do without”. There are two ways to lose a secret either you tell and make it public or die before passing it on to someone else. Remember secrets are kept; the secrets not kept don’t exist. Question: What would you rather have?” . In each case the artist has relied on using some basic principles from Africa that are thousands of years old. In the first example, there are literally no tools and images to work from. The mountain containing information was far in the distance and years to come. Fortunately the mountain came to the artist by way of correspondence and African art trafficking. Welcome: To Our Calendar of Events. Scroll down for a Cornucopia of Cultural Happenings: We will watch the preside ntial debates,and the election results, weekly. EARTH SCIENCE TEACHING GUIDE 1. Teaching Guide for Senior High School EARTH SCIENCE CORE SUBJECT This Teaching Guide was collaboratively. The artists sees 4 carving demonstrations performed by a master woodcarver named Lamidi Fakeye; two hours each and without any lessons or help from the master he becomes an accomplished woodcarver on his own in 3 years. The artist starts his own collection of traditional African art brought in by traders and commission’s African blacksmiths to fashion steel blades for him to carve with; using correspondence. He completed his self training in woodcarving before ever setting foot in Africa. The artist had a beginning in his father’s interest to promote African art, but providing for the family came first and the same discipline of self support was passed on to the son. The son’s first work experience was to own his first business, a vegetable wagon at age eight, which he managed by himself. This father and son did not make a living doing art. They had by design figured out how to continue doing artwork without being forced to sell. The son was a teacher like his father and he had an import business. This family made good investments and they had one other important asset; longevity. The second example is about a fourth generation traditional African woodcarver. He wanted to make a living selling his work, but his training was interrupted by his father’s death. Fortunately there were relatives all around him carving sculptures and there were support systems near by to help him produce an international economic network of patronage. Blacksmiths that fashion steel tools, trees to carve from and carvings produced by master craftsmen provide a living museum environment for the young man. He was not alone. In a third example, an African American woman received her training in Western ceramics and pursued an interest in African pottery. She supported herself as a teacher. In this case the mountain wouldn’t come to her, so she had to go to the mountain. She becomes a master potter before age 3. She had the responsibility to help train young girls to become potters in one of the villages in Ghana. The last artist was born around the time his art form was invented. He has had a chance to be apart of the avant- garde in promoting his cultures’ new art heritage. He became a master pan maker; pan designer, master music teacher and an outstanding performing artist. He moved from his home in Trinidad to the continent and continued encouraged people to take an interest in the art while supporting himself and family as a journalist for a local newspaper, until he retired, then opened his own school for pan teaching. Claude Lockhart Clark - African American Woodcarver. My area is art and I have tried to explore much of the material I have had at hand. I specialize in African culture and I try to do most of the things that I am telling you to do so that you get information first hand from someone that has already been there. I can do many of the things that I point out in my online web lectures. I produce images; I have seen over several thousand African images from the homeland. I was not satisfied with seeing them in books or behind museum glass I had to have hands on. I need to know what some of the basic principles were behind African art so that I could rely on something else besides drums, masks and dance to continue the work. The cultural patrons were not there anymore, so one had to develop different reasons for doing the work. Many of the areas of the past used for images were gone, but new areas can develop. The items that are shown above and below are not familiar to most people living in Western society and shouldn’t. People living in Western countries don’t know what these things are or how they are used, so they have no use for such items. I purposely left out walking sticks, masks and drums in the first three rows of this display. The stool on the left side that I included I made sure that it would leave you in a quandary as to what else it might be besides a stool (see Talladega Post Renaissance). Your traditional art should be as private as your spoken language, as private as using the toilet and as private your bedroom at night. Your language and traditional art both should be private even when viewed or spoken in public. This makes it easy for you to distinguish it from other cultures. Positive identification should never be confusing, however your art should be as easy and comfortable to use and live with as your language is to speak. As an African, living in Africa or Diaspora, if that much cultural diversity bothers you, then you are not ready to take on the tasks that lie ahead. No one is going to praise you for what you are doing, so don’t look for admires. No one is going to hold your hand and guide you day by day though tasks that have to be done. You may find a hand full of people to work together and if you do, then consider yourself very, very, fortunate to have such company at hand. When it comes to art my first rule is “I do not believe in a democracy; my art work is the results of a dictatorship”. I make a very clear distinction between what is Western and what is African. An African can be both African and Western at the same time. That is not a cultural contradiction, but I just happen to have a bias, because I do not believe in cultural sharing concerning art. I barrow, rip it off and steal ideas from other people and their artwork all the time, but I don’t want you to know about it. I encourage getting ideas from other cultures. It is the only way your artwork will grow, or else it will become sterile if you don’t. When you steal just make sure no one else know you stole it. Chew it up and swallow. Do not integrate culture; dilute culture, decode it, dismantle, or miscegenate. Having ethnocentric ideas in regards to creative arts is normal and perfectly healthy, so enjoy. Such ideas come into conflict when it comes to human rights, sharing earth resources and national sovereignty, so you will need cooperate and share in those areas. I will let you in on one little secret. Do you see those two turtle boxes in the photographs above? I did not carve those boxes from tree timber. I carved them from lumber that I purchased at the lumberyard, but you are not supposed to know that. Always be conscious of everything in your environment and immediate surroundings. A small amount of paranoia and suspicion is very healthy when it comes to your personal welfare and your culture. I do not carve wood or timber from trees that I do not know anything about. I leave other people’s trees alone. I was not born or raised in Africa so I leave trees from home and other tropical forest alone. Tropical trees are for the people that are born there or live there. If you were not born and raised in Africa, then those are not your trees unless you live there. Leave African trees alone. Those are not your trees. Anything that Africans make and I buy belongs to me, but the natural resources do not belong to me. When it comes to art my first rule is “I do not believe in a democracy; my art work is the results of a dictatorship”. I make a very clear distinction between what is Western and what is African. An African can be both African and Western at the same time. That is not a cultural contradiction, but I just happen to have a bias, because I do not believe in cultural sharing concerning art. I barrow, rip it off and steal ideas from other people and their artwork all the time, but I don’t want you to know about it. I encourage getting ideas from other cultures. It is the only way your artwork will grow, or else it will become sterile if you don’t. When you steal just make sure no one else know you stole it. Chew it up and swallow. Do not integrate culture; dilute culture, decode it, dismantle, or miscegenate. Having ethnocentric ideas in regards to creative arts is normal and perfectly healthy, so enjoy. Do you see those two turtle boxes in the photographs above? I did not carve those boxes from tree timber. I carved them from lumber that I purchased at the lumber yard, but you are not supposed to know that. Always be conscious of everything in your environment and immediate surroundings. A small amount of paranoia and suspicion is very healthy when it comes to your personal welfare and your culture. I do not carve wood or timber from trees that I do not know anything about. I leave other people’s trees alone. I was not born or raised in Africa so I leave trees from home and other tropical forest alone. Tropical trees are for the people that are born there or live there. If you are not born and raised in Africa, then those are not your trees unless you live there. Leave African trees alone. Those are not your trees. Anything that Africans make and I buy belongs to me, but the natural resources do not belong to me. THE SYMBOLISM AND SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF 1. THE 1. 2 SIGNS OF THE END OF THE WORLDALL PROPHECIES HAVE TO OCCUR AT THE SAME TIMETHE. SEALS AND TRUMPET CHART1. A well known prophecy in Daniel pertaining to the. God's Law, the standard of morality is degraded and ignored by. Christendom since most preachers refuse to obey or teach the fourth. Sabbath and thus have to throw out. Ten. This was prophesied to come to pass at the end of time. The actual. Mark of the Beast (ID cards/marks not withstanding) is a . From the 1. 0 characteristic identifiers of the Beast (also. Daniel), any elementary student can identify. Beast as the Roman Catholic Church. Its Mark of Authority is its stated. Seventh- day Sabbath to Sunday. The scriptures. enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify. And so all Israel will. The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn. Jacob. And this is my covenant with them when I take. As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies on. God's gifts and his call are irrevocable. And I will pour out on the house of David and the. Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look. on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns. The re- discovery of. Noah's ark. Sodom &. Gomorrah, the actual. Red Sea crossing. Mt. Sinai (Jabel el Laws in Saudi Arabia), and many other archeological. Bible. It's a commonly. Christians, which was also held by certain Jewish. God allocated one week of seven 1. Revelation. indicates that the seventh 1,0. Isaiah 2. 0). ALL time. Sabbatical or Jubilee year! The total of 7. 0 x 7 x 7 cycles ended in the Spring of 1. Jubilee year ending in the Spring of 1. FROM. http: //www. Gordon- Michael Scallion predicts major catastrophic earth. A planet will move close to the earth and will cause . In early May, they set up a camp on a mountain road 1. Tokyo. They covered their vehicles with white cloths, which. As a warning. sign, a cross will appear in the heavens so that all can see. The family. and society will fall apart. There will be complete darkness for three days. In early 1. 99. 9, it reached 6. A violent and sudden end would terminate all life on earth; Major social. The war of Armageddon. Middle East; God would pour horrendous wrath on most. Christ would return in the second coming. OCT- 1. 7: Clay Cantrell computes the date of the Rapture from size. Noah's Ark with particular attention to the precise location of the . Annie Stanton predicts that a 1. Jesus will arrive and a 1. According to the Weekly world News for 2. FEB- 1. 3, the rapture. Hebrew. calendar year that corresponds to 2. CE. Jesus will appear simultaneously. Jerusalem, Baghdad, Washington, Moscow and in every other capital city. APR- 6: Philip B. Brown incorrectly predicted that the Great Tribulation. APR- 7, with the appearance of the the two witnesses described. Revelation. He also predicted that the start of Jesus' millennial reign. APR- 6. 2. 01. 2: Kev Peacock predicts that the Sun's magnetic field will reverse. Earth's field. This will cause massive geothermal. At first. scientists were concerned that there was a small probability that it might. However, data from 1. Before 2. 03. 8: Greenpeace predicts massive starvation due to population. Global warning will melt the polar ice caps and cause massive coastal. Thousands of plant and animal species become extinct. Signs of the Approaching End of the World from. The Quran? All the signs. Once the Hour comes to them, how will they benefit. People on earth can go. The Creature (2. 7: 8. The Quran has predicted that at the right time. God will produce a creature that will be instrumental in unveiling God's. This was fulfilled, the creature was the computer which was instrumental. Quran's numerical code, and proclaiming that the world has. God's message. This prophecy. Ramadan 1. 40. 8. Afterwards, a messenger will come to confirm all existing scriptures. You shall believe in him and support him.' He said, 'Do you agree with this. They said, 'We agree.' He said, 'You. I bear witness along with you. Gog and Magog are mentioned in 1. If. you count the verses from 1. Sura 1. 8, you find them 1. This is the Quran's sign that Gog and Magog will re- appear in 1. AH. The earth and the mountains will be carried. That is the day when the inevitable event.
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