🏺🛖 It's Saturday O'Clock!!!🔥 As promised; a short thread of how...
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🏺🛖 It's Saturday O'Clock!!!🔥
As promised; a short thread of how Africans worshipped, prayed, and used medication before colonisation
As promised; a short thread of how Africans worshipped, prayed, and used medication before colonisation
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Disclaimer:
You might have a different version; history; understanding etc good for you; please do share in comments or do a thread- good for knowledge
The following thread is based on books by African historians, research and generational history
Ok, let's get into it 😊🛖🏺
You might have a different version; history; understanding etc good for you; please do share in comments or do a thread- good for knowledge
The following thread is based on books by African historians, research and generational history
Ok, let's get into it 😊🛖🏺
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Africans had always known there is "God" It's not something which was discovered through the "bible" (post colonisation)
They knew there is a creator watching over them, created the earth, sun, oceans, food to eat, and everything else
Who was God in the eyes of Africans?
They knew there is a creator watching over them, created the earth, sun, oceans, food to eat, and everything else
Who was God in the eyes of Africans?
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Firstly, they used terms such as "uMvelinqangi" (ovele kuqala) "He who was created first"
Or
uNkulunkulu (omkhulu kakhulu) "The Mighty one/ the Greatest one"
People would go to the Mountains to pray very early in the morning, just before sunrise
Why the Mountains?
Or
uNkulunkulu (omkhulu kakhulu) "The Mighty one/ the Greatest one"
People would go to the Mountains to pray very early in the morning, just before sunrise
Why the Mountains?
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Then; Mountains were seen to be "closer" to God/Heaven; they believed that whatever that they prayed for; God would hear their prayers; hence they had to climb the Mountains
Even when they prayed in their huts; they would go to the steep part of it as it was "higher"
Even when they prayed in their huts; they would go to the steep part of it as it was "higher"
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It wasn't everyone that went to pray; it would usually be chiefs; traditional healers and those chosen to be part of the entourage that goes to pray
They prayed for rain, food, healing etc
If, for instance, there was drought that had affected their crop and cattle, they prayed
They prayed for rain, food, healing etc
If, for instance, there was drought that had affected their crop and cattle, they prayed
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They would even sleep on the Mountains praying for rain, making drum beat sounds 🥁 🪘 until the weather started to change 🌧
Not long after that, it would start to rain and everything would start growing again for them to have food.
Heard of uNomkhubulwane? (Rain Goddess)?
Not long after that, it would start to rain and everything would start growing again for them to have food.
Heard of uNomkhubulwane? (Rain Goddess)?
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Healing/Medicine:
Africans were very healthy before colonisation; used herbs for any illness
There is a book that wrote about a "pandemic" which had happened kwesinye isigodi where people got sick; others dying
There were always people who could identify healing plants☘️🍀🪴
Africans were very healthy before colonisation; used herbs for any illness
There is a book that wrote about a "pandemic" which had happened kwesinye isigodi where people got sick; others dying
There were always people who could identify healing plants☘️🍀🪴
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It was traditional healers for others it came in a form of a dream
Herbs were picked early in the morning on the Mountains; they knew the soil & what it☘️did in a person's body if they had a headache, tummy bug, soars, etc
They boiled and grinded herbs for people to take/drink
Herbs were picked early in the morning on the Mountains; they knew the soil & what it☘️did in a person's body if they had a headache, tummy bug, soars, etc
They boiled and grinded herbs for people to take/drink
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In instances where there was a "pandemic" or an illness that affected isgodi, or even people getting sick; there were traditional doctors who got medication as stated in previous tweet
People would go to their hut; get medicine (bottled or crushed herbs) and they would be healed
People would go to their hut; get medicine (bottled or crushed herbs) and they would be healed
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The End - On Prayer and Healing
Hope you learned something interesting about your history ✌🏽Other topics some other time😉
Here is a photo from the archives. This picture was taken in 1912 in KwaZulu-Natal, Zulu women making umgqombothi (traditional porridge and beer)🍯🏺
Hope you learned something interesting about your history ✌🏽Other topics some other time😉
Here is a photo from the archives. This picture was taken in 1912 in KwaZulu-Natal, Zulu women making umgqombothi (traditional porridge and beer)🍯🏺
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📚 Books recommended to read:
🛖🏺🪘African culture and traditions
🛖🏺🪘African culture and traditions
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Pandemic and Epidemic means the same thing; the pandemic is more widespread from one area to another where an epidemic it's a contagious deadly disease in one area
Used the word pandemic in thread intentionally for people to understand
🏺Epidemic/Pandemic in Nguni = Ubhubhane
Used the word pandemic in thread intentionally for people to understand
🏺Epidemic/Pandemic in Nguni = Ubhubhane