Africa & America Goddess Meteorology & The Holly Tree

I visited New Orleans for the first time about a decade ago. It was a time during which I was not a drinker of alcohol. Never drank and stayed away from it. My step-father was an alcoholic. So, I decided at an early age it wasn't something I wanted to include in my future. There was a man in New Orleans who pulled me aside while I was walking to make sure that I knew about the “Hurricane”drink and not just the drink but its historical importance to New Orleans. I pretty much was tuned out and don't remember much of what he said, but I listened to be nice. It did make an impression upon me as on my subsequent visits to New Orleans I always wondered what it taste like and what was so special about it.

Today, while developing the wet-nurse character for my version of the Medea play, I started reading about Santo Domingo and Columbus who encountered a hurricane. The Taino attributed it to the goddess “Hurican”. This goddess was a goddess of storms; water, winds, and lightening. Her legend is where we get the current name hurricane from. So, I wanted to learn more about what the ancients said about this goddess. I conceptualize their legends as a story to describe what their scientists knew about weather patterns, but in laymen’s colorful storytelling terms. It was intriguing that they used this spiral symbol that looks like a hurricane from a satellite image. But how did they perceive this extra terrestrial view of this "goddess" or divine power? This is described by Africans in the West and in the East. The similarities of the science of Seshat are found in West Africa, in the Goddess they term Mami Wata, her importance to the Atlantic slave trade and the people of the Caribbean is well documented. I thought about the stories they carried with them from West Africa to the Caribbean.

Connecting America to West African storms by science, art and oral tradition:

This video explains how most hurricanes that impact the United States come from the exact same spot in the world, Cape Verde off the coast of West Africa via the Ethiopian highlands. It is a place where hot dry and cold moist air mix. The dry Sahara Desert clashes with the cooler wetter region of the south at this point. There is a "river" in the Atlantic Ocean, called the tradewinds that creates a direct pathway connecting the two continents. This edge is where it begins, from one coast to the next. Hurricanes that hit America actually come from the Sahara Desert, beginning as far east as the Ethiopian Highlands and the Red Sea rift zone, where Africa is splitting apart very slowly. A ripple is developed here and in low pressure areas waves are created that develop spin, African Easterly Waves. Hurricanes don't come off the Indian or Arctic and rarely the Pacific. They come from the Nile Valley region of the Highlands of Ethiopia and follow the same trail as the slave trade.

South America: Hurican, dance, columbus maya, aztec,

Turtle Mother and biogenic magnetite

What did our ancestors know about turtles and thier ability to navigate the Atlantic Ocean's tradewinds from Africa to the Americas? They are a part of important Central America myths. Magic rock normally facing sea, it would turn around, the turtles appear. the turtle mother would turn back and direct the turtles to go to different parts of the world. It turns out that turtles have biogenic magnetite in their noses and follow the earths magnetic field. The rock could symbolize a compass. They knew to carve the nose with the magnetic field. When I was a child a popular cartoon was Ninja Turtles.

Tezcatlipoca, Codex Rios

One day the god instructed a black wind god to go to the sun and fetch some music. The wind god needed help for such a dangerous mission and so he enrolled Tezcatlipoca’s assistants - a turtle, mermaid and a whale - these he put together to make a bridge so that he might cross the ocean. The sun saw the wind god arriving and warned his entourage of musicians not to answer any demands the wind might make, otherwise, they would be sent back to earth with the wind. However, the wind god started singing in such an irresistible manner that one of the musicians felt compelled to answer and so he was punished by the sun and made to return to earth, bringing with him the gift of music. The god’s love of music was also displayed during the ceremony in Tóxcatl where the Tezcatlipoca impersonator broke a flute every step of the pyramid he climbed on his way to being sacrificed.

West Africa & Egypt: Goddesses of Storms

In the Yoruba tradition they have a goddess called Oya (Oyá or Oiá; Yansá or Yansã; and Iansá or Iansã) meaning she tore, sister/wife/feminine counter to Shango. She is an orisha of winds, lightning, and violent storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, thunder, intuition, clairvoyance, death and rebirth. The Haitian god Maman Brigitte who is syncretised with the Catholic Saint Brigit is similar. An Orisha (òrìṣà orichá or orixá) are spirits sent by higher divinities for the guidance of all creation on how to live and be successful on earth. In Candomblé, Oya is known as Oiá, lyá Mésàn, or most commonly, Iansã, from the Yoruba Yánsán. Iansã, as in Yoruba religion, commands winds, storms, and lightning. She is the queen of the river Niger, and the mother of nine. Iansã is syncretized with Saint Barbara. In the Candomblé nação (association) of Angola Congo, Iansã is associated with the colour red. Her number is 9.
North America: Gorgets, Symbols, Rituals, Black Drink, Fabernacci, Diamond Eyes
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After researching the “goddess” Hunraken/Juracán /Huracon (U Kʼux Kaj, the "Heart of Sky" furacan, furican, haurachan, herycano, hurachano, hurricano) where we get the term Hurricane I find it interesting that this symbol is found in Nashville and other “tornado alley” regions of America. The shell “Nashville Gorgets” were found in abundance in Bordeaux mounds from the Mississippian time period. 200BCE-500CE They used conch or lightening whelk to make the charms.
The Africans who met Columbus in the America’s shared knowledge of this storm goddess. They wrote about encountering these storms on their boats and the tradewind routes in the Atlantic Ocean. The vortical nature of hurricanes was well established hundreds of years prior to the arrival of European settlers. The spiral rain bands known to us from satellite pictures were not discovered until meteorological radar was developed during recent times.
The Fibonacci shape is shared by things as diverse as our Milky Way, hurricanes, a seashell, water going down a drain and the path of a falcon on the hunt.
#conch #seshat #mamiwata #huracon #hurricane #huracan #goddess #nashville #nashvillegorget #Fibonacci #tradewinds #aztec #mayan #taino #America #yinyang

The pyramid cultures of America used the conch shell to create gorgets with symbols on them that were astronomical and similar to what we see when we look at hurricanes from satellite.

Hollywood:

Magic Wands were made from Holly wood. #hollywood #etymology

Term coined by Freemason Hobart Johnstone Whitley. 1886 #HJWhitley
Besides his land developments, he was also the President of the National Loan & Trust Company, Guthrie, Oklahoma, Vice President of Home Savings Bank, President of First National Bank of Van Nuys, State Bank of Owensmouth and Bank of Lankershim; General Manager of the Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company, principal in the Bank of Hollywood, The Whitley Land Company and owner of the H.J. Whitley Company jewelry store. He was New Jersey born. In his new land in CA he could evade New Jersey’s Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company laws and film under His company Nestor as he pleased. His home was the first film studio in the world. He was Governor and surveyor of Oklahoma, a the trade of Seshat’s legacy.

Holly is the whitest of all woods, and has been used in making piano keys. It was considered sacred by the druids, and played a part in the magic of the Greeks and Romans. It was especially suitable for divination. In early Europe, holly and other thorny plants were believed to repel all evil spirits. (Gale, p. 2.) The same apotropaic properties were noted by Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE). It is an evergreen

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Holly Conch Shell Native coffee/cacao drink
"Black drink" was prepared in conch shell cups. A prominent ingredient is the roasted leaves and stems of Ilex vomitoria (commonly known as yaupon holly).
Three main species of marine shells have been identified as being used as cups for the black drink, lightning whelk, emperor helmet, and the horse conch. The most common was the lightning whelk, which has a left-handed or sinistral spiral.
In the archaeological record columnella pendants are usually found in conjunction with bi-lobed arrows, stone maces, earspools, and necklace beads (all of which are motifs identified with the falcon dancer/warrior/chunkey player mythological figure)
Pottery samples recovered from sites in modern Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico have tested positive for the ratio of methylxanthines associated with those produced by Ilex vomitoria. The same study also identified methylxanthines ratios associated with Theobroma cacao. Neither plants are native to the areas from which the pottery samples were recovered, which suggests trading between areas where those plants are native. The chemical analysis also suggests a possible increase in drinks prepared from cacao after the year 1200, and a decrease in the use of drinks prepared from Ilex vomitoria.
Freshwater shells from Texas and Arkansas have been recovered from Pueblo Bonito, which have been used as possible evidence for the trade of Ilex vomitoria from the east. There are also some stands of Ilex vomitoria in Mesoamerica, so the exact origins of the Ilex vomitoria used to prepare the drinks is currently unknown
#turtle motifs were also found at spiro mound. Turtles could tell the magnetic frequency of the earth.
This behavior sounds so African to me. This is how the Ethiopians drink coffee. The drum and rattle.

I dont understand how people think these cultures are not related.
In 1696, Jonathan Dickinson witnessed the use of a beverage brewed from the Yaupon Holly among the Ais of Florida. Dickinson later learned that the Spanish called the plant casseena. The Ais parched the leaves in a pot, and then boiled them. The resulting liquid was then transferred to a large bowl using a gourd that had a long neck with a small hole at the top, and a 2-inch-wide (51 mm) hole in the side. On the occasion Dickinson witnessed, he estimated that there were nearly three gallons of the beverage in the bowl. After the liquid had cooled, the chief was presented with a conch-shell of the beverage. The chief threw part of it on the ground as a blessing and drank the rest, a libation in Africa. The chief's associates were then served in turn. Lower status men, women, and children were not allowed to touch or taste the beverage. The chief and his associates sat drinking this brew, smoking and talking for most of the day. In the evening, the bowl that had held the beverage was covered with a skin to make a drum. The Ais, accompanied by the drum and some rattles, sang and danced until the middle of the night.
#conch #hurricane #seshat #holly #christmas #spiral