I want to pour libations to our Nananom Nsamanfo. I've been involved in many libations in the area, so I'm familiar with the process and how its done here [Mpoano Tenten/Long Beach, Ca]. However, I was interested if the Akan followed a certain ritual process when pouring libations. If anyone has any information on the subject or knows of any resource that might be of any assistance please share. Meda ase pa ara
Akhu ne Obadele, meda mo ase
Akhu directed me to a post that Okyeame Kwame made on another forum that addressed my question about Akan libation, I hope you'll find this as enrichining and useful as I do!
"This is a sample libation in part as adapted from "Spirit of the dead Rise Up" as spoken by Nana Oscar Brown Jr.
i say in part because for any Akan libation to be complete there has to be 4 parts.
Ɔfrɛ- the call
Botaeɛ- the reason for the call
Nhyirasrɛ- asking for blessings
Nnome- asking for curses on all enemies
Akan Wartime Libation and Translation
Fochidi - Ewe Concept of 'Libation'
"The word 'chi' means the primal force, that which expresses itself as consciousness. The 'chi' manifests itself as mind. All embodied 'chi' can enter into a zone where the whole of creation flows into one life. So 'chi' is a creative force. And there are formulas by which we set the 'chi' into a state of vibration, and by so doing whatever we ask becomes. You use sound and water (alcohol in libation pouring symbolises water) because 'chi' is related to both. Both sound and water are the source of life. So libation pouring is simply setting your life-force into a state of vibration. Therefore, 'fochidi' means set your life force into vibration and let it sound so that other life forces may hear and heed your sound. You direct at the causes of all causes, and it will bring you what you want. Vibration is the mother of creation."
Dr. Dartey Kumodji
from "Sunsum as Conscious Energy: A Viable Scientific Postulate" by Martin Adjei
Water was used and white palm wine were used.
Mpaebɔ ne Mpaeyi = to call out to pae=to split/open
nsaguo - the pouring of spirits ne nsuguo- the pouring of water
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This is a translation/adaptation of Oscar Brown Jr.'s Spirit of the Dead from Haile Gerima's Sankofa and made into a libation...it was so powerful i was like y it cain't be powerful in the languages of Our Ancestors? ...stay BlackNificent!
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Mfitiaseε/Ɔfrε
__________________________________________________ _
Onyankopɔn Twereduampɔn Kwame,
[yaw]
Ɔdomankoma a wobɔɔ kuru bɔɔ krane krankye
[yaw]
Wokɔɔ ko anaa kɔɔ bata,
[yaw]
Na 'sono abubu dan,
[yaw]
Asase a wodi amu a wosan ma yɛn aduane die, due due due dammirifua due, due ne amanehunu!
[yaw]
Bosonopo, wo a wogyee afunu
[yaw]
Nseɛdo asiei mu prammiri
[yaw]
Abosom nnuasa nyinaa ara, due o!
[yaw]
Mmusuo
[yaw]
eurasiane
[yaw]
ɛhaw
[yaw]
Kɔkɔ damu
[yaw]
Mogyabum ne mogyaguo
[yaw]
Me Nananom, mo nyinaa firi atifi anafo apuei ne atɔe ee! Dammirifua due ne abodwokyɛre!
[yaw]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ ee! monsɔre ɛ!
[yaw]
Deɛ wawu asaman a ɛreka hɔ, monsɔre nkɔsi mo akwantu-'nomaa no soɔ
[yaw]
Abibifoɔ a wɔayi mo adwo, montu firi ɛpom' mfiri ahyɛn aseɛ, monni mo asɛm ho adanseɛ
[yaw]
Deɛ wawu asaman a ɛreka hɔ, monsɔre nkɔsi mo kokosofoɔ soɔ
[yaw]
Mo a wɔbɔɔ mo duam faa mo nnommum,
[yaw]
Montu mfiri ahwereɛ mfuo kɛseɛ ne asaawa mfuo kɛseɛ a ɛkɔɔ Twi kɔɔ Brɛman nni mo ho asɛm ho adanse
[yaw]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ, monsɔre o!
[yaw]
Deɛ wawu asaman a ɛreka hɔ, monsɔre nkɔsi mo akwantuo 'nomaa soɔ
[yaw]
Deɛ ɔɔmo sɛn mo mene odum kɛseɛ soɔ
[yaw]
Mo a mohinhim kisibirie dubaa soɔ
[yaw]
A moakɔdane Onyankopasakyie namprɔwe
[yaw]
Monsiane nkɔpɛ mo nsɛm nkɔka a ma emu da hɔ
[yaw]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ e! Monsɔre ɛ!
[yaw]
Deɛ wawu asaman a ɛretwɛn hɔ, monsɔre nkɔsi mo kokosofoɔ soɔ
[yaw]
Nkyehama-mu-foɔ, mo a wɔkyekyeree mo twaa mo mmaa firi Brasil kɔ
Mississippi
[yaw]
Montia adadeɛ so nkɔbɔ mo kaaseɛ
[yaw]
Deɛ ɛwɔ Jamaica mu,
[yaw]
Wɔ Cuba mu mfuo
[yaw]
Wɔ Florida mu baka
[yaw]
Mo Abibifoɔ a moretwɛn hɔ, montiam nkɔbɔ mo anom kaaseɛ
[yaw]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ ee! monsɔre ɛ!
[yaw]
Deɛ wawu asaman a ɛreka hɔ, monsɔre nsi mo sankɔfa'nomaa soɔ
[yaw]
ɛfiri Alabama kɔ Suriname,
[yaw]
kɔpem Louisiana mu abodan,
[yaw]
Firi hɔ o! Mo Abibifoɔ Nsamanfoɔ,
[yaw]
Tu firi hɔ! Monkɔpɛ mo kaaseɛ nkɔbɔ o!
[yaw]
Mmaa a wɔtoo mo mmonaa
[yaw]
Nhyɛsoɔ dwamannorɔ frafoɔ,
[yaw]
Asae,
[yaw]
A wɔhyehye mo ho dwerebee,
[yaw]
Sraa mo ho amane de ntakra fam hɔ,
[yaw]
Honamto, Nipaduatwa, Adwenetuo,
[yaw]
Akyerehama-kyere ne anosiw,
[yaw]
Mo Abibifoɔ Nsamanfoɔ a!
[yaw]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ monsɔre ɛ!
[yaw]
Deɛ wawu asaman monsɔre nkɔsi mo sankɔfa-anomaa soɔ
[yaw]
Mo nyinaa mmra mmεgye nsuo
[yaw]
Botaeε/Aseε
__________________________________________________ ______________
Na εne deεn? Ɛne sε, εnnε da yi na yεbεko!
[yaw]
Saa Memeneda yi ara na yεbεgye awere wɔ atamfoɔ nsa mu
[yaw]
Nsakrae ntira
[yaw]
Treneesεm ntira
[yaw]
Adεnnεnye ntira
[yaw]
Nkwa ntira
Nhyirasrε
__________________________________________________ _____________
Yεsrε mo nkwa ne akwahosan
[yaw]
Nyansa
[yaw]
Akokoduru
[yaw]
Ahoɔden
[yaw]
Anihutumi
[yaw]
Asotetumi
[yaw]
Ɔmandɔree
[yaw]
Duabɔ
__________________________________________________ __________
Na ɔtamfoɔ biara a ɔmpε yεn nkɔsoɔ biara no deε, ɔnwu awia ketekete
[yaw]
ɔbɔ bra biara a, mommma no nnyε yie
[yaw]
Ɔnhwe aseε pɔtɔɔ na yεnkɔfo n'agyapadeε nyinaa
[yaw]
N'asefoɔ nyinaa aseε nhye na εrenka baako koraa!
[yaw]
Ogya nhye, ogya nhye, ogya nhye wɔn dwerebee!
[yaw]
Awieε
__________________________________________________ ______________
Mommεhyira yεn a yεahyia ha yi nyinaa
[yaw]
Mommεgye nsa yi nnom no prεko
[yaw]
Momma mmusuo biara nka yεn
[yaw]
Yεn a yεahyia ha yi nyinaa nkwa so.
[Mo ne kasa]
Beginning/Invocation
__________________________________________________ _____________
Great Shining One, Great-Tree-That-One-Leans-Upon-That-Does-Not-Fall, Saturday Born
[yaw]
The Benefactor to the Masses who created all
[yaw]
Have you gone to war or on an expedition,
[yaw]
Because an elephant has destroyed the house,
[yaw]
The earth who swallows the corpse who turns around and gives us food to eat,
[yaw]
Consolations, consolations, consolations, for the catastrophe!
[yaw]
Great Ocean who receives the corpses
[yaw]
Abyss-dwelling spitting cobra
[yaw]
All thirty Abosom, consolations o!
[yaw]
Evil!
[yaw]
Misfortune!
[yaw]
Pain
Bloodletting and Slaughter!
[yaw]
My ancestors, all of you from the north south east and west! Consolations for long-suffering and restlessness for not being avenged!
[yaw]
Ancestral Spirits Arise!
[yaw]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your bird of passage.
[yaw]
Those stolen Kmtyws step out of the ocean from the wombs of the ships and claim your story.
[yaw]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[yaw]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your vessel.
[yaw]
Those Kmtyws shackled in leg irons and enslaved,
[yaw]
Step out of the acres of cane fields and cotton fields and tell your story.
[yaw]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[yaw]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your bird of passage.
[yaw]
Those lynched in the magnolias,
[yaw]
swinging on the limbs of the weeping willows,
[yaw]
who became vultures rotten meat,
[yaw]
Step down and claim your story.
[yaw]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[yaw]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your vessel.
[yaw]
Those tied, bound, and whipped from Brazil to Mississippi
[yaw]
Step out and tell your story.
[yaw]
Those in Jamaica,
[yaw]
in the fields of Cuba,
[yaw]
in the swamps of Florida,
[yaw]
the rice fields of South Carolina
[yaw]
You waiting Kmtyws step out and tell your story.
[yaw]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[yaw]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your bird of passage.
[yaw]
From Alabama to Suriname,
[yaw]
Up to the caves of Louisiana.
[yaw]
Come out! You Kmtyw Spirits,
[yaw]
Step out! And claim your stories.
[yaw]
You raped,
[yaw]
Slave bred,
[yaw]
Castrated,
[yaw]
Burned,
[yaw]
Tarred and feathered,
[yaw]
Roasted, chopped, lobotomized,
[yaw]
Bound and gagged.
[yaw]
You Kmtyw Spirits!
[yaw]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[yaw]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your bird of passage.
[yaw]
Aim/Reason for Invoking
__________________________________________________ ________________
What is it? It is that today on this day WE will fight!
[yaw]
On this very Saturday WE will avenge Ourselves on Our enemies
[yaw]
For Change
[yaw]
For Justice
[yaw]
For Balance
[yaw]
For Life!
[yaw]
Asking for Blessings
__________________________________________________ _____________
WE beg y'all for life and good health
[yaw]
Wisdom
[yaw]
Courage
[yaw]
Strength
[yaw]
Vision
[yaw]
Hearing
[yaw]
The expansion of the nation
[yaw]
The Curse (my favorite section)
__________________________________________________ __________
And any enemy who doesn't want US to progress, let him or her die in the scorching sun
[yaw]
if he or she attempts to live any life, don't let them do well
[yaw]
Let them fall down utterly that WE may expropriate all their possessions
[yaw]
Let all of their descendants burn without leaving a single one at all!
[yaw]
Fire burn, fire burn, fire burn them utterly!
[yaw]
The End
__________________________________________________ _______________
Y'all bless all of US who are gathered here
[yaw]
Y'all receive this drink and drink all at once
[yaw]
Y'all don't let any evil fall upon US
[yaw]
All of US who are gathered here, life!
[Congratulations for speaking]"
Obadele-Mo! Mo ne adwuma! WoayE adeE pa ara!
M'ani agye sE woahu mpaeE a metwerEE no. YEregu so!
Prayer
Prayer is a common feature of Akan worship, offered in libation, during which seven virtues of grace are usually requested. These are:
(1) Life and good health- Nkwa
(2) Grace- Adom
(3) Peace- Asomdwoe
(4) Fertility of sex, potency, and procreativity- Abawotumi
(5) Power of good eyesight- Anihutumi
(6) Power of good hearing- Asotetumi
(7) Prosperity of land and state- AmandOree
excerpt from The Akans of Ghana: Their History & Culture by K. Nkansa Kyeremateng available @ Abibitumi Kasa bookstore for $10
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Nwoma yi boaa me pa ara. Meda ase sE worema AbibifoO aso ate sE EyE papa pa ara!
Libation in the Akan World
The Akan Wartime Libation & Translation (below) is super-serious! Man! Me da ase to Okyeame Kwame for making it available in the first place, and to brothers Akhu and Sundiata Olugbala for bringing it onto this forum.
I am attaching a book entitled "Libation in the Old Testament and Akan Life and Thought: A Critique" that was written by K. K. Amos Anti in 1987. It used to be on the web but the website is no longer actively available. Chapter 4 of this book is particularly useful, since it gives 14 samples of libation prayers, many of which Amos recorded from source. Unfortunately he only gives the English translations of the Akan but these can be adapted and translated back to Akan or back to other Kmtyw languages for use. Prayer 11 should be used with care :)
The 14 prayers are:
PRAYER 1 PRAYER OF INVOCATION TO COMMENCE WORK•
PRAYER 2 PRAYER OF INVOCATION TO COMMENCE THE OGUAA HALL WEEK CELEBRATIONS•
PRAYER 3 PRAYER OF INVOCATION TO COMMENCE COCOA EVACUATION •
PRAYER 4 PRAYER OF PETITION FOR A CHILD •
PRAYER 5 PRAYER AT A NAMING CEREMONY •
PRAYER 6 PRAYER AT A FIRST MENSTRUATION CEREMONY •
PRAYER 7 PRAYER IN CONNECTION WITH A MARRIAGE CEREMONY •
PRAYER 8 PRAYER AT GRAVE-DIGGING •
PRAYER 9 THANKSGIVING PRAYER FOR RECOVERY FROM SICKNESS •
PRAYER 10 THANKSGIVING PRAYER FOR SAFE DELIVERY AT NTOA BEA SHRINE - ABURI •
PRAYER 11 PRAYER INVOKING DAMNATION ON ILL-WISHERS •
PRAYER 12 PRAYER OF BLESSING FOR THE STATE•
PRAYER 13 PRAYER FOR PEACE AND HARMONY•
PRAYER 14 PRAYER IN CONNECTION WITH AN ADAE FESTIVAL •
The book contents are shown below:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: The Akan and their Worldview
CHAPTER TWO: Libation in the Old Testament
CHAPTER THREE: Akan concept of Libation
CHAPTER FOUR: Analysis of some Libation Prayers
CHAPTER FIVE: The Libation Debate: Toward a Conclusion
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Attached files Libation-in-Akan-life-and-thought.pdf (https://www.abibitumi.com/wp-content/uploads/ppMigration/38951=1489-Libation-in-Akan-life-and-thought.pdf) (259.4 KB)
@KwameD
This text is highly misleading.
Quote Posted by: @mansa_kankan_munited snakes
@KwameD
This text is highly misleading.
To say the least.
For example, every sentence.is punctuated with wie! and ampa! meaning "it
is true!" and "let it be!", the Twi equivalent of "amen Equal sign killing us
Quote Posted by: @kevlew
For example, every sentence.is punctuated with wie! and ampa! meaning "it
is true!" and "let it be!", the Twi equivalent of "amen Equal sign killing us
I get the sense that you're not down with the indiscriminate use of the equal sign between eureurasian and Kmtyw=Black conceptions of reality.
Nah...
QuoteThis is a very interesting thread. I am grateful that we have the opportunity to review it. Meda ase!?
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Posted by: @Oluwole
Akhu ne Obadele, meda mo ase
Akhu directed me to a post that Okyeame Kwame made on another forum that addressed my question about Akan libation, I hope you'll find this as enrichining and useful as I do!
"This is a sample libation in part as adapted from "Spirit of the dead Rise Up" as spoken by Nana Oscar Brown Jr.
i say in part because for any Akan libation to be complete there has to be 4 parts.
Ɔfrɛ- the call
Botaeɛ- the reason for the call
Nhyirasrɛ- asking for blessings
Nnome- asking for curses on all enemies
Akan Wartime Libation and Translation
Fochidi - Ewe Concept of 'Libation'
"The word 'chi' means the primal force, that which expresses itself as consciousness. The 'chi' manifests itself as mind. All embodied 'chi' can enter into a zone where the whole of creation flows into one life. So 'chi' is a creative force. And there are formulas by which we set the 'chi' into a state of vibration, and by so doing whatever we ask becomes. You use sound and water (alcohol in libation pouring symbolises water) because 'chi' is related to both. Both sound and water are the source of life. So libation pouring is simply setting your life-force into a state of vibration. Therefore, 'fochidi' means set your life force into vibration and let it sound so that other life forces may hear and heed your sound. You direct at the causes of all causes, and it will bring you what you want. Vibration is the mother of creation."
Dr. Dartey Kumodji
from "Sunsum as Conscious Energy: A Viable Scientific Postulate" by Martin Adjei
Water was used and white palm wine were used.
Mpaebɔ ne Mpaeyi = to call out to pae=to split/open
nsaguo - the pouring of spirits ne nsuguo- the pouring of water
================================================== =========
This is a translation/adaptation of Oscar Brown Jr.'s Spirit of the Dead from Haile Gerima's Sankofa and made into a libation...it was so powerful i was like y it cain't be powerful in the languages of Our Ancestors? ...stay BlackNificent!
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Mfitiaseε/Ɔfrε
__________________________________________________ _
Onyankopɔn Twereduampɔn Kwame,
[yaw]
Ɔdomankoma a wobɔɔ kuru bɔɔ krane krankye
[yaw]
Wokɔɔ ko anaa kɔɔ bata,
[yaw]
Na 'sono abubu dan,
[yaw]
Asase a wodi amu a wosan ma yɛn aduane die, due due due dammirifua due, due ne amanehunu!
[yaw]
Bosonopo, wo a wogyee afunu
[yaw]
Nseɛdo asiei mu prammiri
[yaw]
Abosom nnuasa nyinaa ara, due o!
[yaw]
Mmusuo
[yaw]
eurasiane
[yaw]
ɛhaw
[yaw]
Kɔkɔ damu
[yaw]
Mogyabum ne mogyaguo
[yaw]
Me Nananom, mo nyinaa firi atifi anafo apuei ne atɔe ee! Dammirifua due ne abodwokyɛre!
[yaw]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ ee! monsɔre ɛ!
[yaw]
Deɛ wawu asaman a ɛreka hɔ, monsɔre nkɔsi mo akwantu-'nomaa no soɔ
[yaw]
Abibifoɔ a wɔayi mo adwo, montu firi ɛpom' mfiri ahyɛn aseɛ, monni mo asɛm ho adanseɛ
[yaw]
Deɛ wawu asaman a ɛreka hɔ, monsɔre nkɔsi mo kokosofoɔ soɔ
[yaw]
Mo a wɔbɔɔ mo duam faa mo nnommum,
[yaw]
Montu mfiri ahwereɛ mfuo kɛseɛ ne asaawa mfuo kɛseɛ a ɛkɔɔ Twi kɔɔ Brɛman nni mo ho asɛm ho adanse
[yaw]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ, monsɔre o!
[yaw]
Deɛ wawu asaman a ɛreka hɔ, monsɔre nkɔsi mo akwantuo 'nomaa soɔ
[yaw]
Deɛ ɔɔmo sɛn mo mene odum kɛseɛ soɔ
[yaw]
Mo a mohinhim kisibirie dubaa soɔ
[yaw]
A moakɔdane Onyankopasakyie namprɔwe
[yaw]
Monsiane nkɔpɛ mo nsɛm nkɔka a ma emu da hɔ
[yaw]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ e! Monsɔre ɛ!
[yaw]
Deɛ wawu asaman a ɛretwɛn hɔ, monsɔre nkɔsi mo kokosofoɔ soɔ
[yaw]
Nkyehama-mu-foɔ, mo a wɔkyekyeree mo twaa mo mmaa firi Brasil kɔ
Mississippi
[yaw]
Montia adadeɛ so nkɔbɔ mo kaaseɛ
[yaw]
Deɛ ɛwɔ Jamaica mu,
[yaw]
Wɔ Cuba mu mfuo
[yaw]
Wɔ Florida mu baka
[yaw]
Mo Abibifoɔ a moretwɛn hɔ, montiam nkɔbɔ mo anom kaaseɛ
[yaw]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ ee! monsɔre ɛ!
[yaw]
Deɛ wawu asaman a ɛreka hɔ, monsɔre nsi mo sankɔfa'nomaa soɔ
[yaw]
ɛfiri Alabama kɔ Suriname,
[yaw]
kɔpem Louisiana mu abodan,
[yaw]
Firi hɔ o! Mo Abibifoɔ Nsamanfoɔ,
[yaw]
Tu firi hɔ! Monkɔpɛ mo kaaseɛ nkɔbɔ o!
[yaw]
Mmaa a wɔtoo mo mmonaa
[yaw]
Nhyɛsoɔ dwamannorɔ frafoɔ,
[yaw]
Asae,
[yaw]
A wɔhyehye mo ho dwerebee,
[yaw]
Sraa mo ho amane de ntakra fam hɔ,
[yaw]
Honamto, Nipaduatwa, Adwenetuo,
[yaw]
Akyerehama-kyere ne anosiw,
[yaw]
Mo Abibifoɔ Nsamanfoɔ a!
[yaw]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ monsɔre ɛ!
[yaw]
Deɛ wawu asaman monsɔre nkɔsi mo sankɔfa-anomaa soɔ
[yaw]
Mo nyinaa mmra mmεgye nsuo
[yaw]
Botaeε/Aseε
__________________________________________________ ______________
Na εne deεn? Ɛne sε, εnnε da yi na yεbεko!
[yaw]
Saa Memeneda yi ara na yεbεgye awere wɔ atamfoɔ nsa mu
[yaw]
Nsakrae ntira
[yaw]
Treneesεm ntira
[yaw]
Adεnnεnye ntira
[yaw]
Nkwa ntira
Nhyirasrε
__________________________________________________ _____________
Yεsrε mo nkwa ne akwahosan
[yaw]
Nyansa
[yaw]
Akokoduru
[yaw]
Ahoɔden
[yaw]
Anihutumi
[yaw]
Asotetumi
[yaw]
Ɔmandɔree
[yaw]
Duabɔ
__________________________________________________ __________
Na ɔtamfoɔ biara a ɔmpε yεn nkɔsoɔ biara no deε, ɔnwu awia ketekete
[yaw]
ɔbɔ bra biara a, mommma no nnyε yie
[yaw]
Ɔnhwe aseε pɔtɔɔ na yεnkɔfo n'agyapadeε nyinaa
[yaw]
N'asefoɔ nyinaa aseε nhye na εrenka baako koraa!
[yaw]
Ogya nhye, ogya nhye, ogya nhye wɔn dwerebee!
[yaw]
Awieε
__________________________________________________ ______________
Mommεhyira yεn a yεahyia ha yi nyinaa
[yaw]
Mommεgye nsa yi nnom no prεko
[yaw]
Momma mmusuo biara nka yεn
[yaw]
Yεn a yεahyia ha yi nyinaa nkwa so.
[Mo ne kasa]
Beginning/Invocation
__________________________________________________ _____________
Great Shining One, Great-Tree-That-One-Leans-Upon-That-Does-Not-Fall, Saturday Born
[yaw]
The Benefactor to the Masses who created all
[yaw]
Have you gone to war or on an expedition,
[yaw]
Because an elephant has destroyed the house,
[yaw]
The earth who swallows the corpse who turns around and gives us food to eat,
[yaw]
Consolations, consolations, consolations, for the catastrophe!
[yaw]
Great Ocean who receives the corpses
[yaw]
Abyss-dwelling spitting cobra
[yaw]
All thirty Abosom, consolations o!
[yaw]
Evil!
[yaw]
Misfortune!
[yaw]
Pain
Bloodletting and Slaughter!
[yaw]
My ancestors, all of you from the north south east and west! Consolations for long-suffering and restlessness for not being avenged!
[yaw]
Ancestral Spirits Arise!
[yaw]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your bird of passage.
[yaw]
Those stolen Kmtyws step out of the ocean from the wombs of the ships and claim your story.
[yaw]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[yaw]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your vessel.
[yaw]
Those Kmtyws shackled in leg irons and enslaved,
[yaw]
Step out of the acres of cane fields and cotton fields and tell your story.
[yaw]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[yaw]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your bird of passage.
[yaw]
Those lynched in the magnolias,
[yaw]
swinging on the limbs of the weeping willows,
[yaw]
who became vultures rotten meat,
[yaw]
Step down and claim your story.
[yaw]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[yaw]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your vessel.
[yaw]
Those tied, bound, and whipped from Brazil to Mississippi
[yaw]
Step out and tell your story.
[yaw]
Those in Jamaica,
[yaw]
in the fields of Cuba,
[yaw]
in the swamps of Florida,
[yaw]
the rice fields of South Carolina
[yaw]
You waiting Kmtyws step out and tell your story.
[yaw]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[yaw]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your bird of passage.
[yaw]
From Alabama to Suriname,
[yaw]
Up to the caves of Louisiana.
[yaw]
Come out! You Kmtyw Spirits,
[yaw]
Step out! And claim your stories.
[yaw]
You raped,
[yaw]
Slave bred,
[yaw]
Castrated,
[yaw]
Burned,
[yaw]
Tarred and feathered,
[yaw]
Roasted, chopped, lobotomized,
[yaw]
Bound and gagged.
[yaw]
You Kmtyw Spirits!
[yaw]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[yaw]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your bird of passage.
[yaw]
Aim/Reason for Invoking
__________________________________________________ ________________
What is it? It is that today on this day WE will fight!
[yaw]
On this very Saturday WE will avenge Ourselves on Our enemies
[yaw]
For Change
[yaw]
For Justice
[yaw]
For Balance
[yaw]
For Life!
[yaw]
Asking for Blessings
__________________________________________________ _____________
WE beg y'all for life and good health
[yaw]
Wisdom
[yaw]
Courage
[yaw]
Strength
[yaw]
Vision
[yaw]
Hearing
[yaw]
The expansion of the nation
[yaw]
The Curse (my favorite section)
__________________________________________________ __________
And any enemy who doesn't want US to progress, let him or her die in the scorching sun
[yaw]
if he or she attempts to live any life, don't let them do well
[yaw]
Let them fall down utterly that WE may expropriate all their possessions
[yaw]
Let all of their descendants burn without leaving a single one at all!
[yaw]
Fire burn, fire burn, fire burn them utterly!
[yaw]
The End
__________________________________________________ _______________
Y'all bless all of US who are gathered here
[yaw]
Y'all receive this drink and drink all at once
[yaw]
Y'all don't let any evil fall upon US
[yaw]
All of US who are gathered here, life!
[Congratulations for speaking]"
Obadele-Mo! Mo ne adwuma! WoayE adeE pa ara!
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Posted by: @Ɔyere Ani-Ra Ama Nyamewa Amanitore
QuoteThis is a very interesting thread. I am grateful that we have the opportunity to review it. Meda ase!?
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Posted by: @Oluwole
Akhu ne Obadele, meda mo ase
Akhu directed me to a post that Okyeame Kwame made on another forum that addressed my question about Akan libation, I hope you'll find this as enrichining and useful as I do!
"This is a sample libation in part as adapted from "Spirit of the dead Rise Up" as spoken by Nana Oscar Brown Jr.
i say in part because for any Akan libation to be complete there has to be 4 parts.
Ɔfrɛ- the call
Botaeɛ- the reason for the call
Nhyirasrɛ- asking for blessings
Nnome- asking for curses on all enemies
Akan Wartime Libation and Translation
Fochidi - Ewe Concept of 'Libation'
"The word 'chi' means the primal force, that which expresses itself as consciousness. The 'chi' manifests itself as mind. All embodied 'chi' can enter into a zone where the whole of creation flows into one life. So 'chi' is a creative force. And there are formulas by which we set the 'chi' into a state of vibration, and by so doing whatever we ask becomes. You use sound and water (alcohol in libation pouring symbolises water) because 'chi' is related to both. Both sound and water are the source of life. So libation pouring is simply setting your life-force into a state of vibration. Therefore, 'fochidi' means set your life force into vibration and let it sound so that other life forces may hear and heed your sound. You direct at the causes of all causes, and it will bring you what you want. Vibration is the mother of creation."
Dr. Dartey Kumodji
from "Sunsum as Conscious Energy: A Viable Scientific Postulate" by Martin Adjei
Water was used and white palm wine were used.
Mpaebɔ ne Mpaeyi = to call out to pae=to split/open
nsaguo - the pouring of spirits ne nsuguo- the pouring of water
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This is a translation/adaptation of Oscar Brown Jr.'s Spirit of the Dead from Haile Gerima's Sankofa and made into a libation...it was so powerful i was like y it cain't be powerful in the languages of Our Ancestors? ...stay BlackNificent!
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Mfitiaseε/Ɔfrε
__________________________________________________ _
Onyankopɔn Twereduampɔn Kwame,
[yaw]
Ɔdomankoma a wobɔɔ kuru bɔɔ krane krankye
[yaw]
Wokɔɔ ko anaa kɔɔ bata,
[yaw]
Na 'sono abubu dan,
[yaw]
Asase a wodi amu a wosan ma yɛn aduane die, due due due dammirifua due, due ne amanehunu!
[yaw]
Bosonopo, wo a wogyee afunu
[yaw]
Nseɛdo asiei mu prammiri
[yaw]
Abosom nnuasa nyinaa ara, due o!
[yaw]
Mmusuo
[yaw]
eurasiane
[yaw]
ɛhaw
[yaw]
Kɔkɔ damu
[yaw]
Mogyabum ne mogyaguo
[yaw]
Me Nananom, mo nyinaa firi atifi anafo apuei ne atɔe ee! Dammirifua due ne abodwokyɛre!
[yaw]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ ee! monsɔre ɛ!
[yaw]
Deɛ wawu asaman a ɛreka hɔ, monsɔre nkɔsi mo akwantu-'nomaa no soɔ
[yaw]
Abibifoɔ a wɔayi mo adwo, montu firi ɛpom' mfiri ahyɛn aseɛ, monni mo asɛm ho adanseɛ
[yaw]
Deɛ wawu asaman a ɛreka hɔ, monsɔre nkɔsi mo kokosofoɔ soɔ
[yaw]
Mo a wɔbɔɔ mo duam faa mo nnommum,
[yaw]
Montu mfiri ahwereɛ mfuo kɛseɛ ne asaawa mfuo kɛseɛ a ɛkɔɔ Twi kɔɔ Brɛman nni mo ho asɛm ho adanse
[yaw]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ, monsɔre o!
[yaw]
Deɛ wawu asaman a ɛreka hɔ, monsɔre nkɔsi mo akwantuo 'nomaa soɔ
[yaw]
Deɛ ɔɔmo sɛn mo mene odum kɛseɛ soɔ
[yaw]
Mo a mohinhim kisibirie dubaa soɔ
[yaw]
A moakɔdane Onyankopasakyie namprɔwe
[yaw]
Monsiane nkɔpɛ mo nsɛm nkɔka a ma emu da hɔ
[yaw]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ e! Monsɔre ɛ!
[yaw]
Deɛ wawu asaman a ɛretwɛn hɔ, monsɔre nkɔsi mo kokosofoɔ soɔ
[yaw]
Nkyehama-mu-foɔ, mo a wɔkyekyeree mo twaa mo mmaa firi Brasil kɔ
Mississippi
[yaw]
Montia adadeɛ so nkɔbɔ mo kaaseɛ
[yaw]
Deɛ ɛwɔ Jamaica mu,
[yaw]
Wɔ Cuba mu mfuo
[yaw]
Wɔ Florida mu baka
[yaw]
Mo Abibifoɔ a moretwɛn hɔ, montiam nkɔbɔ mo anom kaaseɛ
[yaw]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ ee! monsɔre ɛ!
[yaw]
Deɛ wawu asaman a ɛreka hɔ, monsɔre nsi mo sankɔfa'nomaa soɔ
[yaw]
ɛfiri Alabama kɔ Suriname,
[yaw]
kɔpem Louisiana mu abodan,
[yaw]
Firi hɔ o! Mo Abibifoɔ Nsamanfoɔ,
[yaw]
Tu firi hɔ! Monkɔpɛ mo kaaseɛ nkɔbɔ o!
[yaw]
Mmaa a wɔtoo mo mmonaa
[yaw]
Nhyɛsoɔ dwamannorɔ frafoɔ,
[yaw]
Asae,
[yaw]
A wɔhyehye mo ho dwerebee,
[yaw]
Sraa mo ho amane de ntakra fam hɔ,
[yaw]
Honamto, Nipaduatwa, Adwenetuo,
[yaw]
Akyerehama-kyere ne anosiw,
[yaw]
Mo Abibifoɔ Nsamanfoɔ a!
[yaw]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ monsɔre ɛ!
[yaw]
Deɛ wawu asaman monsɔre nkɔsi mo sankɔfa-anomaa soɔ
[yaw]
Mo nyinaa mmra mmεgye nsuo
[yaw]
Botaeε/Aseε
__________________________________________________ ______________
Na εne deεn? Ɛne sε, εnnε da yi na yεbεko!
[yaw]
Saa Memeneda yi ara na yεbεgye awere wɔ atamfoɔ nsa mu
[yaw]
Nsakrae ntira
[yaw]
Treneesεm ntira
[yaw]
Adεnnεnye ntira
[yaw]
Nkwa ntira
Nhyirasrε
__________________________________________________ _____________
Yεsrε mo nkwa ne akwahosan
[yaw]
Nyansa
[yaw]
Akokoduru
[yaw]
Ahoɔden
[yaw]
Anihutumi
[yaw]
Asotetumi
[yaw]
Ɔmandɔree
[yaw]
Duabɔ
__________________________________________________ __________
Na ɔtamfoɔ biara a ɔmpε yεn nkɔsoɔ biara no deε, ɔnwu awia ketekete
[yaw]
ɔbɔ bra biara a, mommma no nnyε yie
[yaw]
Ɔnhwe aseε pɔtɔɔ na yεnkɔfo n'agyapadeε nyinaa
[yaw]
N'asefoɔ nyinaa aseε nhye na εrenka baako koraa!
[yaw]
Ogya nhye, ogya nhye, ogya nhye wɔn dwerebee!
[yaw]
Awieε
__________________________________________________ ______________
Mommεhyira yεn a yεahyia ha yi nyinaa
[yaw]
Mommεgye nsa yi nnom no prεko
[yaw]
Momma mmusuo biara nka yεn
[yaw]
Yεn a yεahyia ha yi nyinaa nkwa so.
[Mo ne kasa]
Beginning/Invocation
__________________________________________________ _____________
Great Shining One, Great-Tree-That-One-Leans-Upon-That-Does-Not-Fall, Saturday Born
[yaw]
The Benefactor to the Masses who created all
[yaw]
Have you gone to war or on an expedition,
[yaw]
Because an elephant has destroyed the house,
[yaw]
The earth who swallows the corpse who turns around and gives us food to eat,
[yaw]
Consolations, consolations, consolations, for the catastrophe!
[yaw]
Great Ocean who receives the corpses
[yaw]
Abyss-dwelling spitting cobra
[yaw]
All thirty Abosom, consolations o!
[yaw]
Evil!
[yaw]
Misfortune!
[yaw]
Pain
Bloodletting and Slaughter!
[yaw]
My ancestors, all of you from the north south east and west! Consolations for long-suffering and restlessness for not being avenged!
[yaw]
Ancestral Spirits Arise!
[yaw]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your bird of passage.
[yaw]
Those stolen Kmtyws step out of the ocean from the wombs of the ships and claim your story.
[yaw]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[yaw]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your vessel.
[yaw]
Those Kmtyws shackled in leg irons and enslaved,
[yaw]
Step out of the acres of cane fields and cotton fields and tell your story.
[yaw]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[yaw]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your bird of passage.
[yaw]
Those lynched in the magnolias,
[yaw]
swinging on the limbs of the weeping willows,
[yaw]
who became vultures rotten meat,
[yaw]
Step down and claim your story.
[yaw]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[yaw]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your vessel.
[yaw]
Those tied, bound, and whipped from Brazil to Mississippi
[yaw]
Step out and tell your story.
[yaw]
Those in Jamaica,
[yaw]
in the fields of Cuba,
[yaw]
in the swamps of Florida,
[yaw]
the rice fields of South Carolina
[yaw]
You waiting Kmtyws step out and tell your story.
[yaw]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[yaw]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your bird of passage.
[yaw]
From Alabama to Suriname,
[yaw]
Up to the caves of Louisiana.
[yaw]
Come out! You Kmtyw Spirits,
[yaw]
Step out! And claim your stories.
[yaw]
You raped,
[yaw]
Slave bred,
[yaw]
Castrated,
[yaw]
Burned,
[yaw]
Tarred and feathered,
[yaw]
Roasted, chopped, lobotomized,
[yaw]
Bound and gagged.
[yaw]
You Kmtyw Spirits!
[yaw]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[yaw]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your bird of passage.
[yaw]
Aim/Reason for Invoking
__________________________________________________ ________________
What is it? It is that today on this day WE will fight!
[yaw]
On this very Saturday WE will avenge Ourselves on Our enemies
[yaw]
For Change
[yaw]
For Justice
[yaw]
For Balance
[yaw]
For Life!
[yaw]
Asking for Blessings
__________________________________________________ _____________
WE beg y'all for life and good health
[yaw]
Wisdom
[yaw]
Courage
[yaw]
Strength
[yaw]
Vision
[yaw]
Hearing
[yaw]
The expansion of the nation
[yaw]
The Curse (my favorite section)
__________________________________________________ __________
And any enemy who doesn't want US to progress, let him or her die in the scorching sun
[yaw]
if he or she attempts to live any life, don't let them do well
[yaw]
Let them fall down utterly that WE may expropriate all their possessions
[yaw]
Let all of their descendants burn without leaving a single one at all!
[yaw]
Fire burn, fire burn, fire burn them utterly!
[yaw]
The End
__________________________________________________ _______________
Y'all bless all of US who are gathered here
[yaw]
Y'all receive this drink and drink all at once
[yaw]
Y'all don't let any evil fall upon US
[yaw]
All of US who are gathered here, life!
[Congratulations for speaking]"
Obadele-Mo! Mo ne adwuma! WoayE adeE pa ara!
O:-)