Kanye West's Power [Struggle]

the cover for his new single, Power, which he was chosen to open the BET awards with

interesting image and song, particularly these lines:

Now this’ll be a beautiful death
Jumpin’ out the window
Lettin’ everything go
Lettin’ everything go

You got the power to let power come

reminds me of my other post on Basquiat (obviously his artistic motif of decapitated heads/bodies, his own quote "most kings get their heads cut off", which alegedly inspired Jay-Z's line "the same sword they knight you, the gon goodnight you with")...an irony particularly Eshu-like...

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"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents."
— Marilyn Monroe

the price of fame....this is something that's been rolling around in my head that i wanted to go ahead and type out. this is just a quick post in the midst of an intense course of schoolwork and other personal duties. i'm trying to wrap up that alejandro post, the beyonce as Oshun pt. 2, and other posts...bear with me.

is it worth it?

a theory that makes sense to me is that alot of these so-called illuminati pawn celebs are merely "playing the game"...to what end? some may "play the game" simply for the material gain and the "love" and adoration hat may replace their formerly depressing lives i.e. poverty, obvious abuse/trauma if MK is involved, and, sadly, even if not officially MK'ed as there is so much physical and sexual abuse in even "normal, everyday" people's homes....many of these celeb, we know, have had their life stories doctored up for them, and it's hard to tell the real from the fake (i.e. was jay-z really the sad, poor, negro who sold drugs to put food on the table? many suggest he is a "pussy ass nigga" who never sold a lollipop, has familial connections to the actual Rockerfellers, and never sweated a day in his life because he sold out quickly or was already being primed to be "in the circle")....nevertheless, whether their stories are false or true, one may admit that anyone, having had a decent life or not, would appreciate an opportunity to have more financial stability and get to use any given talent they may possess.





let's take michael jackson for the following illustration. let's say he knew all about the demonic worship, the mk ultra, the trauma, being a tool to dumb down the masses and bring about a new secular order of filth and licentiousness and materialism...let's say he knew all that. but he still played along. granted, as a child being abused/raped by Papa Joe and others was not a game he wanted to play along with, nor did he ave a choice. but let's say when he got older, faced his fate, and weighed the immense burden of being a victim of that level of fame, that he said "it's okay. i'm in this position, i'm a slave to them, i'm being used to corrupt the minds of the masses through their manipulation of my image and talent....BUT i'll play on a little longer until i'm financially well enough off to protect myself and use the very fame they primed me for against them"

a person of mj's status and influence was very valuable to the illuminati: he was and still is a GOD among men/stars/performers. he could wink his eye and it would be the next best thing since the crucifixion. (don't get me started on mj's own crucifixion).....imagine him using that fame to spread a positive message?

yes, we know, we know. we've all seen the theories and rumors and evidences that his unrealized "This Is It" concert series was supposed to be a grand unveiling and warning to all of us on several conspiracies he was no doubt privy to.

so. imagine you were in that position. you've been tortured for years, decades, been a slave to the corporations, committed unthinkable acts, and have to live with the guilt that your very fame is the very thing that is helping the masses of this world turn away from the truly divine, to worship money, possessions, and entertainment figures. mj as the devout man he no doubt was, i'm sure was haunted by this fact.

BUT does it balance out? when he sings "heal the world" and "earth song" and "they don't really care about us" and "will you be there?", does it balance out "bille jean", "rock with you", and "beat it", as well as "thriller" which i've heard somewhere was a veiled reference to his sexual prowess lol....









"Why You Wanna Trip On Me"

They Say I'm Different
They Don't Understand
But There's A Bigger Problem
That's Much More In Demand
You Got World Hunger
Not Enough To Eat
So There's Really No Time
To Be Trippin' On Me

You Got School Teachers
Who Don't Wanna Teach
You Got Grown People
Who Can't Write Or Read
You Got Strange Diseases
Ah But There's No Cure
You Got Many Doctors
That Aren't So Sure
So Tell Me

Why You Wanna Trip On Me
Why You Wanna Trip On Me
Stop Trippin'

We've Got More Problems
Than We'll Ever Need
You Got Gang Violence
And Bloodshed On The Street
You Got Homeless People
With No Food To Eat
With No Clothes On Their Back
And No Shoes For Their Feet

We've Got Drug Addiction
In The Minds Of The Weak
We've Got So Much Corruption
Police Brutality
We've Got Streetwalkers
Walkin' Into Darkness
Tell Me
What Are We Doin'

To Try To Stop This

Why You Wanna Trip On Me


was it worth it?

do you risk the martyrdom to attempt to spread the message, even if it is highly veiled in coded language only the awakened would understand anyone? do you preach to the choir? or console yourself by hoping even if the sleeple don't know exactly what you mean, the small bit of awareness/positivity may reach them still (every little bit counts, doesn't it?) like erykah badu said:

i'm tryna give birth to church
but everybody wanna ask this Earth [badu is a member of the nation of gods and earths aka 5%ers]
"what good do your words do
if they can't understand you?
don't go talkin that shit, badu"



Erykah, "do some ho shit"....indeed, Erykah...are you skirting the edge now?

Some contributions (besides the one fan video above) from her new baby daddy:





A song he released before Michael's death:



but, you must admit, mj is the only one of his level of fame in our current generation speaking out about the environment and the harrowing social issues we face in the real world while everybody else wants us to just dance

but does it realy sink in? do people really remember his social messages, the album cuts? no, most people asociate mj with crotch-grabbing, shirt ripping, "hee-hee" moonwalking, and a kid who apparently wasn't his....they say "that boy was strange and looked like a mutilated old white woman but he SHO COULD DANCE HIS ASS OFF"



Is this how we'll remember him in 5, 20, 50 years?



what happens to our martyrs when they end up on t-shirts, on coffee mugs, in "guitar hero?" their live and message and art is commercialized, capitalized off of and their souls made into kitsch, where we remember the face, the name , sometimes even the tabloids, but not who they really were....i know children today who don't know who kurt cobain was but can scream "oh that's my song" when a botched cover version of heart shaped box comes on guitar hero....girls in the clubs on that patron with marilyn monroe t-shirts 8 sizes too small suffocating their dd's but dont even know who she is or that she said:

"I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't."
— Marilyn Monroe


Even Jesus himself...look what they've done to him: castrated him, emasculated him, bleached him, put a long straight-haired wig on him (sounding familiar??), twisted his teachings, used his influence for bloody deeds, invoked his name in criminal acts, mocked him, laughed at him, disbelieved him, blasphemed him...

is it worth it? who's listening? who's remembering? who's re-membering Osiris?

"Most Young Kings Get Their [sic] Head Cut Off"

......Fame, symbolized by the crown, is offered as the only possible path to subjectivity for the black male artist. To be un-famous is to be rendered invisible. Therefore, one is without choice. You either enter the phallocentric battlefield of representation and play the game or you are doomed to exist outside history. Basquiat wanted a place in history, and he played the game. In trying to make a place for himself--for blackness--in the established art world, he assumed the role of explorer/colonizer. Wanting to make an intervention with his life and work, he inverted the image of the white colonizer.

Basquiat journeyed into the heart of whiteness. White territory he named as a savage and brutal place. The journey is embarked upon with no certainty of return. Nor is there any way to know what you will find or who you will be at journey's end. Braithwaite declares: "The unfortunate thing was, once one did figure out how to get into the art world, it was like, Well, shit, where am I? You've pulled off this amazing feat, you've waltzed your way right into the thick of it, and probably faster than anybody in history, but once you got in you were standing around wondering where you were. And then, Who's here with me?"[11] Recognizing art-world fame to be a male game, one that he could play, working the stereotypical darky image, playing the trickster, Basquiat understood that he was risking his life--that this journey was all about sacrifice.

In September 2006, I wrote the following in my livejournal:

Niggers be holding them dicks too....white people go, "why you guys hold your things?" say "you done took everythign else, motherfucker" ---Richard Pryor

As painted by Ligon, the raw language and syntax of the joke contribute to a broader sense of impropriety. For starters, the joke was meant to be heard rather than read, listened to rather than looked at. Its humor flows in part from the cadence and logic of Pryor's delivery. Reconstituted as a text painting, the joke is distanced, though not entirely dissociated, from Pryor's voice. It is now the viewer who must mouth these words, whether silently or aloud, and thereby speak the rage barely veiled beneath their humor. The visual form of Cocaine (Pimps)—the tiny flecks of orange paint jumping off the letters, the force of the work's (off-)color—changes and recharges its language. A raunchy joke from an old Pryor album becomes, in Ligon's hands, an intricately painted surface of stencils, strokes, and smudges, a microworld of colored incident and inscription. The picture pays its respects to the beauty of Pryor's obscenity. (article by Richard Meyer for Artforum International, May 2006)

and, after reading it just sat there for a minute or more, frozen, taking in all of what it meant to me and the consequences of it that affect me as a Woman, a Black Woman, and a member of the Black community (all of these being different, having different meanings, but still part of the same...if that made sense anywhere outside my head)

...and i thought about my boys....my boys as in "my boys", brothers, you know, when we sit around playing spades, listening to Black Star or The Roots, quoting Malcolm X, mourning Assatta and Lil Bobby Hutton, renaming ourselves countless times like the day(s) when i was known as Amina Mercuric and it wasn't Shawn Jenkins but Naim Muhammed and we had a new identity, were validated in our recognition of each other by these secret names-- like how i read once how certain African and Native American tribes implemented the use of secret names....they'd have some random name like "Little Bird' or something but then a secret name their personal god only knew that they couldn't reveal or, apparently, would die. And it was the same for us. We couldn't let the world take our secret names, the names only we knew each other by and nodded, smiling...couldn't let them know those names because we knew we would die-- that new person we'd made would die because the world wouldn 't let us be that strong, that bright, that brilliant, shining like Ligon's "negro sunshine", not on the inside at least, though we shine on the outside, greased up, put on display, to be sold to the greedy masses based on their admitted acknowledgement of outer strength-- we can have that as long as they can manipulate it, that outer strength, as long as there's nothing inside, long as everything in there is broken and weak and dull and shitt...... like when it's asked, "why are we always so greasy? why are we always shining?" (and yall know it's true...we stay greasy...and note to [name omitted to protect]-- liek we were talking about yesterday, i think that's why they film those african/south american films [i.e. City of God, Blood Diamond, Amistad, etc.] like that cuz the grease and sweat gotta light up the screen)

...ANYWAY as i was saying....my boys, my "homies", brothas....my boys and my son...and my unborn sons i'll protect and fill with all the strength i've ever had, naming them after gods-- gods liek they are and always were....

and i was thinking about Nat Turner and how i'd read somewhere that they'd cut off his penis as they lynched him and, the myth goes, to this very day, some crusty white man has it preserved in his home, passed down to him or bought some other way. and i'm like "damn, they took that too..."

Jay-Z, in 2006, did a "freestyle" on Hot 97 which was actually five verses-- three of which were part of an unreleased song called "Most Kings", a tribute to Basquiat. The last two verses were supposed to have been on some mixtape. The second verse of this Hot 97 Freestyle ended up being the verse he did for Coldplay's song "Lost"...Interesting that the song/freestyle/whatever alluded to Michael Jackson's murder 3 years before it occurred. It is a prophecy because he speaks of MJ in the same lines as other dead/murdered/"suicided" artists who were ritually taken out. Since MJ was still alive when the freestyle was spit, by putting him in the context of other posthumous artists could only be a retrospectively poignant and/or creepy glimpse of MJ's future-- and his own, as he allegedly considers himself the King of Pop now, as "husband" to Beyonce, Queen of Pop.

Read his verse below:

Inspired by Basquiat, my chariots of fire
Everybody took shots, hit my body up, I'm tired
Build me up break me down to build me up again
They like "Hov we need you back so we can kill ya ass again"
Hov got flow, though he's no Big and Pac, but he's close
How I'm 'posed to win? They got me fighting ghosts...

Same sword the knight you they gon' "good night" [read: execute] you with
Shit, Thats only half if they like you
That aint even the half [of] what they might do
Dont believe me ask Michael
See Martin, see Malcolm
You See Biggie, see Pac, see success and its outcome
See Jesus, see Judas, see Caesar, see Brutus
See success is like suicide
Suicide is a suicide
If you succeed, prepare to be crucified
Media meddles, niggas sue you, you settle
Every step you take, they remind you, you ghetto
So its tough being Bobby Brown
To be Bobby then, you gotta be Bobby now
Now the question is, "Is to have had and lost
Better than not having at all?"

Everybody wanna be the King then shots ring
You layin on your balcony with holes in your dream
Or you Malcolm X'd out, get distracted by screams
Everybody get your hand off my jeans! **

**[an allusion to the infamous cry that interrupted Malcolm X's last speech and immediately preceeded his murder: "Get ya hand outta my pocket, nigga!"]

Everybody look at you strange say you changed
Uhh! Like you work that hard to stay the same
Uhh! Game stays the same the name changes
So its best for those to not overdose on being famous
Most kings get driven so insane
That they try to hit the same vein that Kurt Cobain did
??No dangers, so shameless??
Invited to the intersanctum of yo chambers
??Low chained em as the enemies approach??
So raise ya draw bridge and drown em in the moat
And the Spirit I'm evokin

Odu for 2010

From the Destee forums...thank God someone finally translated this.

Source:mysanteriaforums

Ifá Predictions for the year 2010
MIGUEL FEBLES PADRÓN (Awó Odí Ká)
COMMISSION FOR THE ODU OF THE YEAR
For Cuba and the World
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To the priests of Ifá, our brothers and sisters--the oriatés, babaloshas, iyaloshas, and iworos-- and to the religious public in general. Following a tradition of 24 years, the Commission Organized for the Reading of the Year gathered on the 31st of December, 2009 at the Casa-Templo, located on 10th of October Avenue, between Josefina and Gertrudis Streets, Vibora, Municipality 10 of October, Havana City, Cuba.
This ceremony was presided over by the Ifá priest Guillermo Diago Ogbe Weñe, with the support of Ifá priests of all of Cuba’s families and their descendents throughout the world.The youngest priest took out the sign.

Reigning Sign: BABA EYIOBE (Double Salvation).

Prophetic Orientation: Iré Arikú Oyale Tesi Lese Olofin (Benefit of Health or long life—which is solid and certain—granted to us by Olofin).

Ónishe: Rogation with saraekó and its corresponding candles.

Onishá ará: Take baths with Verbena.

Ónishe Ilé: Paraldo.

Reigning Divinity: Obatalá (The orisha charged with the creation of human beings, the head of the 201 divinities of the Yoruba Pantheon, representative of Olofin on Earth, King of the Ancient Igbo people [sic], born in Iranye and worshipped in Ifon, both being regions of Nigeria.

Accompanying Divinity: Oyá, divinity of storms and gentle winds. Identified with the spirit of the ancestors. She is the goddess of the River Niger (Odó Oyá), which was named for this deity. It is believed that she is the first and preferred wife of the orisha Shangó. The tradition tells us that the river was formed originally by the copious tears she spilled the day her husband died.

Flag of the Year: White with purple borders (wine color).

Ebó: 1 chicken, a stick of your height, mixed grains [incl. beans], 16 pieces of bread, 16 peony seeds, smoked nutria and smoked fish, toasted corn, and the rest of the ingredients. The distribution of this document is without charge and the Commission is not responsable for its sale by unscrupulous people animated by greed. Illnesses to Watch Out For Vascular Brain Disorders (Embolisms, Hemmorages, etc.). Serious respiratory Problems (Acute Tubeculosis). Eye Disorders. Bone Marrow Disorders. Occurrences of Social Significance. Great changes in the social order. Increase in the struggle for power (religious and political). Imbalances, differences, and contradictions within the family. High increase in deaths of public figures (political, intellectual, religious). Decline in paternal authority over children. Coup d’etat or sudden changes in political systems. Betrayal and appropriation of authority at the highest levels of government. Serious problems of enviromental contamination.

Freak astrological occurrences related to the sun [king of the heavenly bodies], which could have implications inexplicable to science and, additionally, great disorders in the ecosystem. Rise in sea levels, marine catastrophes, periods of intense drought or abundant rains. Decrease in commercial relations both in importation and exportation. Breaches in treaties. Changes in agricultture and in livestock (goats and cows), vaccines. Continued danger in war and military intervention. Marital breakup. This is a sign that warns of scarcities owed to flawed organization in the distribution of goods.

Recommendations Respect the decisions of elders and the opinions of juniors. Improve organization in general Go search for new reforms in the economic, political, and social order—based on the experience of what has since existed--and as a point of departure work on applying means, methods, and strategies that bring forth a betterment in the life and well-being of the communities of the world. Protection of the enviroment and cleanliness of cities to avoid the outbreak of contagious diseases. There should be sincere dialogues to solve all conflict. Proverbs of the Sign Dead King, Crowned King. I have everything; I have nothing. The head rules the body and only one king governs a town. The young palms grow taller and more leafy than the older ones. It is an error not to learn from errors committed. Contradictions bring light to your hiding place. Wisdom, Comprehension, and Thinking are the forces that move the world.

NOTE: Take positive and negative examples from the years 1995, 1998, and 2004 where this sign reigned.
http://www.folkcuba.com/in_sgn_of_year_2004.htm Our Commission remains grateful to the great organs of communication, which make it possible that these predictions reach the far corners of the world. The Miguel Febles Padrón Commission Organized for the Reading of the Year wishes you a happy and prosperous 2010 year.

Translator’s note: the original document in Spanish, emailed to me by Lázaro Cuesta Iwori Bofún, was translated by David H. Brown Eguín Koladé. Please bring to my attention any mistranslations, typos, or ways to improve the document by emailing obatala18@verizon.net.

the devil you see and the one you don't

I'll be trying my best to do some more posting in this new year. Even if they are just quick links or videos I find interesting. It's full time to take care of a new baby and as much as I see new things every day and want to write about them, by the time I get a second to do so, I give up and hope someone else will pick up on it for me. But I will stop giving up and try to get what's on my mind and the things I see out more often.

I shall proceed:

..........

Yeshua, this reminds me of your post.

I was (pleasantly) surprised to note the mention of The Morrigan (and, yeshua, your mention of the mother/maiden/crone concept-- the original "holy trinity" of pagan goddess worship) in this video, as a few years ago when I was beginning my alternate spiritual journey and exploring various pagan paths, I was very drawn to The Morrigan and inspired by what she represented. Moving on from her, I found strength and inspiration in the Kali goddess/archetype which was similar...moving on further, I finally found Oya, who at the time was deemed to have been my head orisha. [UPDATE: 2/17/11 it is officially not Oya, by the way]

...but back to Gaga. I was discussing with a friend of mine the meaning of the Baphomet/Horned God hand sign and he INSISTED the hand sign was tribute to the Texas Longhorns football team. We seriously debated this for an hour or so and came to the agreement that people project what they want into symbols and it is the intent behind them that matters. So if I throw up the Horned God hand sign intending to pay homage to the Longhorns, that's what it is for me. If i throw it up to acknowledge Satan, that's what it is for me. If I draw a heart with squiggly lines and say it's a valentine (or Janet Jackson's velvet Rope Tour symbol), that's it. If I say it is a veve for Erzulie Freda, that's it as well. If I draw a cross and invoke the name of Jesus, that's the power that it will have. If I draw a cross and proclaim it as a mark of the union of two worlds-- the spiritual and material planes, that's the power.

Symbols are funny things. I find that symbols mean what we see them as. Just like art. Our experiences paint our perceptions. BUT just because one does not know an alternate meaning for the same symbol, does NOT make that alternate symbolic meaning invalid. Just because yopu don't know something, doesn't make it true. This is what I keep trying to tell people. Just because you don't know certain elite worship Lucifer and manipulate symbols in the media and use rituals and psychic energy to charge these symbols with negativity, doesn't mean it's not true. Just because, for example, you know Jesus as your personal Messiah and Savior, doesn't mean it's not JUST AS TRUE for someone else that he is a Prophet.

Truth IS. It is everything we can ever conceive of. I feel that there is no fiction or fantasy in the world-- everything we have ever imagined HAS AND DOES EXIST. Down to unicorns and jinn, demons and aliens...I believe God or whatever Universal Sustaining Self-Creating and Infinitite Force you name, has given us all that is. Whatever our mind can imagine is true because why would we be able to even conceive of anything if it wasn't possible? So...back to something Toure greatly helped me realize (more than he may be aware of), Beyonce can be a dirty Mk Ultra sex slave, she can be a hypocritical "Christian" poppin her coochie for Jesus, or she can be a Divine vessel for the orisha Oshun or help us all realize our Sacred Sexuality. They are all EQUALLY TRUE because someone has made it so. Everything is multi-faceted, even our concepts of "good and evil"...

which reminds me...who is "The Devil" when we say "The Devil is a liar!!"...who is the Devil at the Crossroads those bluesmen sold their souls to to play their guitars? Is this the "Devil" Jay-Z an' dem sold their souls to? Eshu-Elegbara? Papa Legba? The Divine Trickster? Pan? Hermes? Mercury?

So how does this relate to the idea of the Divine Enforcer? You can only move so far away from this idea before Nature itself, and human beings who are in the process of becoming conscious, create counter - balancing forces to guide you back to center. Esu has the function of Divine Enforcer. You can all say, "What about this tragedy, and what about that tragedy?" That is a difficult question to come to terms with objectively. But as an aspect of faith, in Ifá there is the belief that within the bigger picture, Divine Justice is at work. This is based on the belief that it is possible to get along, that it is possible to relate.

The symbolic analogy that Ifá uses is "Ifá Olokun o saro dayo," meaning "The
Spirit of the Ocean always provides for those who live in the sea." Every fish that lives in the ocean has a home and food to eat. So they have it figured out in the ocean, we just haven't figured it out yet on land. That's probably because they've had more time in the ocean to work on it. The idea of Esu as the Divine Enforcer is that the ground rules for figuring it out are in place. When we get too far away from that, things occur that bring the truth back to us.

This is all related to Chaos theory. Western science has a discipline called Chaos theory which postulates the idea that things which seem to be symmetrical in the universe have a range of variation when viewed at a distance. Things which appear random have a degree of symmetry when viewed at a distance. So the issues of justice and randomness are issues of perspective. If you get the big picture, the pieces start to fall in place. So Esu as the Divine Enforcer is what we invoke to get the big picture. You can do things on the short term that feel effective, righteous and ethical that can have long term negative effects.

You can do things that seem negative in the moment and end up having positive results. It is Esu that we invoke to get a clue where we are in that polarity.

****(speaking of crossroads)

Rihanna as Pomba Gira

Ahh look, the Lady in Red...

....so we've all noticed Rihanna drastically increasing the darkness and "edginess" of her public image. Now complete with the inevitable blonde transformation required for every female pop star to ascend, she now often sports an eyepatch to make even clearer her link with the one eyed antichrist or lucifer or horus...

About the cover of her new single, the song below:

for a while now, I've been likening the new Rihanna in my head to the Brazilian entity Pomba-Gira which is the female aspect, or consort, of Exu-- Exu being the trickster diety (see: Eleggua in Santeria/Lucumi/Yoruba, Legba in Vodoun, Loki in Norse, Hermes in Greek, etc) more often likened to the Christian Devil, the Kabbalist/Freemasonic/Illuminat Lucifer, or, somewhere between the two, at least respected as the Satan of the Biblical Book of Job that tempts Job with God's permission to test his faith and aid in his spiritual growth.

From my understanding, aside from Exu (capital "E"), everyone according to Brazilian belief has an individual exu and pomba-gira that walks with them, like a "muerto" for the spiritist Santeros...these exus and pombagiras (lower-case) are the spirits of those who did bad in life, gangsters gamblers and prostitutes usually, who are boung to walk the earth in death and, having no morals, grant petitioners' wishes with exchange of sacrifice and perhaps candle-light and prayers to help them ascend to heaven if they wish, like the Nkisi of Palo....

Here (highly recommended) and here for more info....

Noticing the imagery most commonly used for Pomba-gira, one sees gypsy women, dark-haired, often with red dresses and shoes, red skin, horns and pointed tails, most always with breasts exposed....

This bruja drew her personal Pomba Gira here...she says:

:

Pomba Gira is the female side of Exú, the brazilian name of Eleggua, and the Queen of Kimbanda and Candomblé, two afro-brazilian religions which share its origins with Santeria, but where Exú and Pomba Gira are the most important figures. What you see in the drawing is her traditional representation – a smokin’-hot demoness with red skin and dark hair. She is also represented as a gypsy woman, and one of her most famous aspects, María Padilla, was the lover of spanish king Pedro I, so she was probably of gypsy or Andalusian origin. She rules love, sexuality and passion, but she is also a fantastic business woman, and the protector of all outsiders, outlaws and people outside the margins of society, as well as of the poor and homeless. She is fierce and highly temperamental, but merciful and protective with those who are her kind.

....

Rihanna has enjoyed walking around lately with breasts exposed, a little strange considering she's only 21. Each time I am reminded of that, I shudder. I don't think a normal 21 year old wakes up wanting to look like she does, dress as she does, surrounding herself with darkness and aggression like she does...She seems mysterious and dark like a Pombagira, sexy as opposed to an Oshun-like sensuality; her sexuality is bold and dark, almost painful, punishing even as it is ecstaticly wild. She seems almost tortured for her own sexuality, but tortured the way a Jimmy Cagney character would be, not a Humphrey Bogart, if you know what I mean. She could easily be imagined as one of the crew, surrounded by gangsters and pimps-- not merely one of their "broads" or molls, but genuinely one of them, even if some or all of them may have once had her (i.e. "we Rockafella")

Rihanna seems to have been used as a vessel for darker lust spirits/demons (or, for the non spiritual minded, darker MK-ultra beta alter-egos, even though I don't see a difference at all) through sex rituals (see Ciara video embedded below, courtesy MsOutofTheBox)...could Pombagira be the one?

Quimbanda teaches that every person has been born with Exu and Pomba Gira by their side and that either one of both of these spirits walk with us and guide us. This concept is very similar to the idea of the 'Guardian Angel' who has been assigned as our guide and protector in this lifetime. The only difference is that Exu and Pomba Gira are 'no angels at all' but are connected to what could be called our 'shadow self' - the part of us that we don't like to see, accept and acknowledge!

Eggun? Oggun? Somebody's callin'....

Hearing/seeing this gives me chills every time, and I find tears in my eyes every time....My people, my people is all I can think. This scene/song encompasses the soul of many a Black man in my opinion, even today. An entire history, an entire experience and an archetype is in these few minutes... The degree of oppression, where you dare not speak, cry, scream your pain or terror or longing but must instead sing it, choke it down and twist it until it comes out your throat a laugh instead. We are a laughing people, joking jokes about what's not funny at all. In literature, I personally feel Toni Morrison illustrates it best, especially in Song of Solomon and a bit in Beloveed (damn Oprah to hell for that triflin film adaptation of it, pure blasphemous parody)....

There is something romantic about that railroad man, that chain gang lost lover, that steel driver. John Henry or Oggun?

...ME might know what I mean...

Mother, the Sea

The water from which the land was born, the Original womb from which we all came. "Mother of the fishes": is it mere coincidence we begin as fish shaped in the womb? They poison our water supplies and thus poison our wombs, making us drugged and infertile, even the men....Such pollution, deliberate contamination of food, water, air with toxins, chemicals, hormones, mood conditioners, low frequencies...When will we escape and heal? When will we honor the mother energy by nurturing the earth, stopping the materialistic madness, and nurturing ourselves by fighting to give ourselves real, healthy food, pure water, clean air, biodegradable clothes, etc.? *sigh* just random thoughts today

What we are drinking

From here

....next comes government regulated water (as in, you can only drink tap water with "beneficial" fluoride included; then you can only drink so much because they'll orchestrate some convenient contamination scheme/catastrophe and order us to ration our supply a la Tank Girl)

look...I'm gonna keep this short because typing with one hand with a baby is lame. But I love you all and want to share: OUR FOOD AND WATER IS OUR LIFE! THEY KNOW THIS! THEY POISON IT AGAINST US TO DUMB US DOWN AND STERILIZE US! (imagine the cynical laughter and simultaneous head shaking inspired from me by hearing that, not surprisingly, the Pura/Brit/Whatever-brand water filter we have PURPOSELY does NOT filter the "beneficial" fluoride from the water....yes, those were the words on the package)

"All Black Everything": Irony of the Day

So, more than a few blog commentors (awake and sleep) have noted a seeming allusion to the Black Panthers in "run This Town"-- a statement I feel is pure blasphemy-- and a few smart awakened commentators have proposed RTT to be a scheme of subliminal riotous programming or mob mentality program to incite the masses to a non-productive "revolution" (which will only create physical mayhem in the streets to give them an excuse to go ahead with their plan for military rule).

That still in my mind, I immediately related the concept to this lovely Variety article, full of ironies: Oprah's production company teaming up with HBO to start a mini series on a woman who exposed John Rockefeller, and the Black Panthers.....

you know anything allowed in mainstream media about the Panthers is going to be full of lies, perpetuating misconceptions, and subliminally creating more dissension in the Black and global community. Any time they come out publicly with something on The Panthers, it's usually for some alternate agenda. In this case, I feel it may be part of a plan to continue to place subliminal mob urges in the common people, until a moment when Obama or whoever messes up and then everyone wants a "revolution"

Just my theory for now...we shall see....

Rihanna Queen of Babylon

Queen [of Babylon] Inanna, Ancient Sumerian Goddess praised as “Queen of Heaven” famously descended into the Underworld to penetrate the darkness and re-ascend symbolically as the rebirth of Spring. The symbolic raising of Kundalini energy or the female Fool’s Journey of the Tarot, Inanna’s descent and resurrection is a psychologically resonating journey all man and woman experience in some way at some point in their lives. It just so happens that this journey is reflected, much to the surprise of many music fans who take the average music video at face value, in pop singer Rhianna and her relationship through music with rapper jay-Z (starting with "Umbrella" and "Disturbia" videos).

Her mentor since the age of 14 (who curiously locked her in a room-- an underage girl!-- until 3am [the witching hour remember] to sign her initial contract) and self-professed “big brother”, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter signed Rihanna to the Def Jam label during his tenure as CEO, and managed her until his 2008 departure. Now, with his own label Roc Nation, he has joined forces with Rihanna and superstar Kanye West to form a superhero-like trinity—a truly paradoxical Rocafella(er) Godhead, if you will. The debut of this trio was their song and occult music video “Run This Town”, in which RIhanna is proclaimed “Queen of the Underground” ruling beside her consort (or consorts, but mainly Jay as God of the Underworld or Death: "all black everything")—like Greek Persephone to Hades—over the Masonic mob of demons.

Now, I find this quote interesting:

[It reads better and lines up with the symbolism better if you read "Ereshkigal" as "Beyonce" and her husband as Jay-Z ;)]

Ereshkigal, like many goddesses, has about five or six conflicting myths that we know about. Some say that she was a sky goddess that was kicked out, and her rage is because of being abandoned by her family. Another myth says that she chose the underworld because she desired knowledge[illumination; power; transcendence to "do what thou wilt"]. One of the myths that intrigues me most of that of The Bull of Heaven, a rapist thrown into the underworld because of his crimes. Ereshkigal marries him after reforming him and showing him the error of his ways. This was before she got the hots for Nergal, of course.

Depending on the culture, either Inanna went into the underworld because she hungered for more power and used Ereshkigal's husband's death to enter the Underworld, which ticked off her sister and that's why she "looked upon her with the eye of death," or it had nothing to do with Ereshkigal's husband at all.

About attributes of Inanna, this worshipper wrote (my commentary in red):

I started looking for a goddess who should fulfil the following requirements:

a) She had to have had a full range of feminine experiences not man-defined, but asserted by HerSelf in all worlds, by Her own deeds and choices;

b) She had to be vibrant and passionate and courageous. Why should Love and passion, expressions of Life Force, be alienated from the Divine?

c) She had to possess a Warrior´s drive and energy to rouse and motivate towards action; [see video as Rihanna leads the crowd at 1:56-2:05....she looks pretty fierce, commanding, aggressive]

d) She had to relate well to the masculine [Rihanna has had a masculine energy since "Good Girl Gone Bad", rumored to be a lesbian, hangs out with Jay and Kanye, surrounded by men], human and divine. The Assertive, Galant Lover has always been a strong neglected feature of the feminine that I wanted to see in a positive light. The Fatal Man-Eater tired my Soul, because in the end she just reproduces the shadow of men´s fears towards the feminine or a woman´s ambiguity about an experience of the Self that should be all life-affirming. I was looking for the image of Seduction, which involves the courting of the Divine in others and in the Self that is not based on power-over but in reciprocity and sharing. I came to name Her as the Beloved and Lover united as One;



e) She had to have gone to the Underworld, because I have always been fascinated by descent stories. The Descent, however, should have been by her own choice, not as a kidnapping or abduction by whatever means; [Rihanna seems to have come of her will, unaware of what truly was to come that she is now trapped in....all the qualities above fit Rihanna and/or the Image of her shown in paparazzi pics, videos, songs, etc.]

Now, you may wonder why I’ve linked Rihanna to Inanna still, after reading the above. The way I see it, Inanna’s worship is in Babylon, spread out and her name changed (see: Ishtar, Astarte, Ashereh, Astheroth) through the surrounding tribes’ appropriation of her diety, but still the same. This is the female goddess worshipped as consort of Baal by the rebellious Isrealites (who kept the dark magic learned from Egypt and Babylon and became the Kabbalists...the Illuminati/Freemasons are kabbalists). In fact, some say that Astheroth was eventually changed into a male god by early Hebrews/Jews and was one of the 52 demons summoned by King Solomon. Solomon? You may say…yes, King Solomon, the wise, who is a highly revered figure for the freemasons, known to them as a great sorcerer—the greatest—and whose legendary (possibly false) temple (not to God; bible history tells he built temples to Astoreth—Inanna—and certainly Baal/Lucifer) is what they are setting to rebuild at al-aqsa….could this temple be what they are standing in throughout the video? The hall of worship of Inanna?

Since I first hear the song, long before the video came out, I was anxious to see how Rihanna’s career would turn after this re-emergence from the descent (the chris brown beating) underground (aka away from the light of day, the surface, the media/paparazzi as she hid out undoubtably for more programming at that house Diddy rented to them, supposedly to “reconcile”) to be the main feature on Jay’s first single from his anticipated end of the Blueprint trilogy and first independent album on his own label. When I first hear the song, all I heard was Rihanna. I said to myself “he did this for Rihanna—this is a ‘present’ for her, to bring her back out shining”….Clearly it was to me a celebration of Rihanna, Rihanna who had undoubtedly proven her ultimate loyalty sometime when she was away rolling around with Diddy and Jay and Kanye.

Perhaps the beating and what happened behind the scenes afterwards was her final test to see how far she would go for this. By the looks of it, very far. Rihanna, then, like Inanna, was stripped bare and suffered humiliation in the hall of death (aka hades aka hell aka lord of hell traditionally viewed as satan/Lucifer aka “god” [to them at least] aka God MC aka Jay Z) and his consort, the former Queen [Bee], Ereshkigal….notice how after Rihanna proved herself initially, she blew up despite COMPLETE lack of any kind of singing or dancing ability and ECLIPSED Beyonce. Many, fans and haters of both women alike, have admitted Rihanna gave Beyonce a run for her money and to this day, Beyonce is much less popular for some reason than Rihanna. I personally believe Bey is due for a sacrifice—either her own blood to sacrifice or, worse still, perhaps she herself is to die or suffer some debilitating trauma—either to bring herself back on top, further advance Jigga, or to give Rihanna or someone else her spot. She is getting kinda haggard.

...or, Rihanna as Inanna

and "a table full of 'Fellas/'Fellers"

Another great analysis here, especially this part:

Jay-Z is asking you to “Pledge your allegiance” the new ruler and to wear black everything in honor of him. Jay’s lyrics contain hints to Freemasonry who are hidden in the double meaning of some lines. “I gave Doug a grip” refers to the Masons’ secret handshakes which are called “grips”. The last line of his first verse is “Back to running circles’ round niggas, now we squared up“. Aside from its obvious meaning, it also refers to the important Masonic concept of “squaring the circle”, which is way to deep to explain here (”I get more in-depth if you boys really real enough“). In the second verse, Jay-Z says ”It’s the return of thee god“, which refers to the Luciferian belief of men being gods. This term is often used in NY slang and originates from the fact that many rappers were Five-percenters, a philosophy based on the belief that all men are gods. Further in the song Jay-Z says: “I’m in Maison, ugh, Martin Margiela” which is a upper-end fashion store. English speaking people usually pronounce the french word ”maison” to sound like ”mayzaun”. Jay-Z however says it to sound like “mason” as in “Freemason”. There is an obvious double-meaning here meant to catch the ear of the listener. He basically says “I’m in Mason” to make people say “huh did he really say that?” as “I’m a Freemason” but he then continues by saying “ugh, Martin Margiela“. The little pause after he says those words accentuate the effect.

notice the sticks form "X" or triangles/pyramids...triangles also represent the feminine (V) and the masculine (the erected phallus or "A" without the cross)

the unveiling...

ready for illumination, the torch passed (from bey?) to hold up the light

subtle backwards 666 hand symbol

why are they all pointing to their temples (temple of knowledge) or eyes that are "open"? hmmm....

king of the underworld passing through the Gates (stargatess?)

Baphomet hand sign...he think he slick!

communist programming...communism is really NWO military rule that's on the way

the Queen, center...nice composition of the shot don't you think? ;)

blurred effect to show she's transcending/ascended, between worlds or spiritual planes...another hint of levitation

why are they both touching their crowns? and if you watch the video, jay has his hand on his head for a minute before Kanye sees and does the same, as if he were signalled....curiously, too, during kanye's verse, rihanna and jay can be seen singing along...why? surely this can't have been an error of filming to "catch" them doing so because film is too expensive to roll useless footage...also, Rihanna looks ECSTATIC once kanye begins his verse...she is smiling hard through the whole thing....hmmm....

the skull of death, to show where you really are if you didn't get it already....

RealTalkNY commentator, obviously a misguided fan, but does point out interesting things in the lyrics:

djstiz Says:

August 20th, 2009 at 7:37 am

THE VIDEO AND SONG ARE ABOUT A NEW BEGINNING. AN ARTIST, JAY Z WHO STARTED FROM BOTTOM, ROSE TO THE TOP AS AN ARTIST, NOW HE IS PLANTING HIS OWN FLAG. HE IS NO LONGER UNDER THE CONTROL OF UNIVERSAL MUSIC

Feel it coming in the air

Hear the screams from everywhere

I’m addicted to the the thrill (I’m Ready)

It’s a dangerous love affair (C’mon)

Can’t be scaring nickels down

Got a problem, tell me now

Only thing that’s on my mind

Is who gon’ run this town tonight

Is who gon’ run this town tonight

We gon’ run this town (PERFECT CHORUS LYRIC-WISE RELEVANT TO SONG THEME)

Jay-Z

We are, yeah, I said it, we are (HE, KANYE, AND RHI RHI ARE ROC NATION ARTIST)

This is Roc Nation, pledge your allegiance (GANG IN VIDEO SYMBOLIZE HIS FOLLOWER OR ARTIST)

Get y’all fatigues on, all black everything (NINJAS WARRIORS IN VIDEO, ITS A TAKEOVER)

Black cards, black cars, all black everything (BLACK REPS MYSTERY, NINJA WARRIOR)

And our girls are blackbirds, riding with they Dillingers (GIRLS WITH THEIR DILLINGERS/CROOK)

I get more in-depth if you boys really real enough (FROM PUBLIC ENEMIES/JOHNNY DEPP)

This is La Familia, I’ll explain later(THIS IS THE FAMILY BUT HE’S GONNA TELL U SIGNEES LATER)

But for now, let me get back to this paper(BUT I GOTTA MAKE THIS MONEY BACK)

I’m a couple bands down and I’m tryna get back(I GAVE AWAY ALOTTA BANDS OF MONEY)

I gave Doug a grip, I lost a flip for five stacks( GAVE DOUG MORRIS 4MIL, LOST A FLIP FOR XTRA MIL

Yeah, I’m talking five comma six zeroes dot zero ?(HE TALKIN 5,000,000.00 HE PAID FOR RITES BP3)

Back to running circles ’round niggas, now we squared up(NOW HE’S A FREE MAN AND CAN DO WHAT HE WANTS)

Hold up

Rihanna

Life’s a game but it’s not fair

I break the rules so I don’t care

So I keep doing my own thing

Walking tall against the rain

Victory’s within the mile

Almost there, don’t give up now

Only thing that’s on my mind

Is who gon’ run this town tonight

Heeeeeeeeey heeeeeeay

Heeeeeeeeey heeeeeeay

Who gon’ run this town tonight?

Jay-Z

We are, yeah, I said it, we are (AGAIN IS KANYE AND RHI RHI GONNA SIGN)

You can call me Caesar, in a dark Caesar (CAESAR/EMPEROR/CONQUEROR IN A DARK HAIRCUT/CAESAR)

Please follow the leader, so Eric B we are(ENTENDRE FOLLOW HIM AS U DID ERIC B AND RAKIM)

Microphone fiend, it’s the return of the God, peace God(LYRICS ARE AGELESS

And ain’t nobody fresher(WHILE YAW WEAR SKINNY JEAN, HE WEARS FASHION U NEVER HEAR OF)

I’m in Maison, uh, Martin Margiela ( A DESIGNER THAT HAS BOOTS AND SHOES AND PANTS FOR A GRAND AND AN ENTENDRE BECAUSE HE’S SUPPOSEDLY A MASON)

On the table, screaming f@#k the other side, they jealous(HATERS JOCKIN JAY Z JUST TALK BS)

We got a bankhead full of broads, they got a table full of fellas(GOT BADDEST CHICK IN GAMES U GOT UR BOYS)

And they ain’t spendin’ no cake( (THEY BROKE WHILE HE MAKES POWER MOVES-GAME,JIMMY,DAME)

They should throw they hand in, ’cause they ain’t got no spades(STOP, UR BROKE, IM TRUMPING U I GOT ALL SPADES AND IM DRINKIN ACE OF SPADES SYMBOLICALLY)

My whole team got dough( WE ALL MADE IT WHILE MOST OF DIPSET AND HATERS ARE BROKE)

So my bankhead is lookin’ like Millionaires’ Row(ENTENDRE BANKHEAD MILLIONAIRE’S FROW)

Rihanna

Life’s a game but it’s not fair

I break the rules so I don’t care

So I keep doing my own thing

Walking tall against the rain

Victory’s within the mile

Almost there, don’t give up now

Only thing that’s on my mind

Is who gon’ run this town tonight

Heeeeeeeeey heeeeeeay

Heeeeeeeeey heeeeeeay

Who gon’ run this town tonight?

Kanye West

It’s crazy how you can go from being Joe Blow

To everybody on your dick, no homo

I bought my whole family whips, no Volvos

Next time I’m in church, please no photos

Police escorts, everybody passports

This the life that everybody ask for

This a fast life, we are on a crash course

What you think I rap for? To push a f@#kin’ Rav 4?

But I know that if I stay stunting

All these girls only gon’ want one thing

I could spend my whole life good will hunting

Only good gon’ come is it’s good when I’m coming

She got an ass that’ll swallow up her G-string

And up top, uh, two bee stings

And I’m beasting, off the re-sling

And my nigga just made it out the precinct

We give a damn about the drama that you do bring

I’m just tryna change the color on your mood ring

Reebok, baby, you need to try some new things

Have you ever had shoes without shoestrings?

What’s that, Ye? Baby, these heels

Is that a May-what? Baby, these wheels

You trippin’ when you ain’t sippin’, have a refill

You feelin’ like you run it, huh?

Now you know how we feel

Jay-Z

Wha’sup?

Rihanna

Heeeeeeeeey heeeeeeay

Heeeeeeeeey heeeeeeay

Jay-Z

Wha’sup?

Rihanna

Heeeeeeeeey heeeeeeay

Heeeeeeeeey heeeeeeay

Who gon’ run this town tonight?

Jay-Z

Wha’sup?

JAY Z WEARS THE JACKET OF MARXIST MAO ZEDONG WHICH WAS MADE BY DESIGNER MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA. MAO WENT AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT OR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CHINA. ENTENDRE AND METAPHOR HERE. JAY IS GOING AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE RECORD INDUSTRY, UNIVERSAL RECORDS. JUST AS MAO REBELLED JAY IS DOING. IN THE VIDEO HE HAS HIS GANG OF WARRIORS AKA ROC NATION. THEY ARE READY TO REBELL, READY FOR WAR. THEY HAVE ON FATIGUES AND ALL BLACK EVERYTHING. THEY ARE FIERCE NINJAS, THE MOST DEADLIEST OF KILLERS. THEY HAVE PLEDGED THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO HOV, RHI RHI IAND OTHA WOMEN IN HIS CAMP ARE BLACK BIRDS/ RARE CHILLIN WITH THEIR DILLINGERS/WARRIOR/CROOK/GUN. HIS FIRST LADY AND HIS GENERAL. THE WORD TOWN SYMBOLIZES CHINA AS MAO LED REBELLION IN CHINA.

JAY Z’S VERSE TAKES A GREAT DEAL OF THOUGHT.

THERE IS SO MANY MORE THEATRICAL ENTENDRES AND METAPHORES ITS REDICULOUS

. KANYE ISNT EVEN ON JAY Z’S LEVEL.

THE BARS I HEAR KANYE SPIT ON THIS TRACK ARE SOMETING THAT CASSIDY WOULD HAVE DONE 4 YEARS AGO. HE DOES THOSE TYPES OF PUNCHLINES TOO MUCH. AND THOSE PUNCHLINES REALLY DONT HAVE MUCH TO DO WITH RUNNING THIS TOWN OR HENCE

THE TAKEOVER!

HE WENT OVER YAW HEAD!!!!

From a forum, people speaking on it:

Good question:

Someone's response:

Interesting comment from here:

G-Dub Says:

August 14th, 2009 at 5:52 pm

Yes, Im aware of that line in reference to Rakim, however it is a perfect cover for the true intentions he wants to sublimely put out there

If u listen to alot of HOV he talks about the ILLUMINATI in codes while making it seem as if hes talking about his peers in MUSIC. The only problem is he is an Illumaniti member and knows how to ask to mask it.

Even in “Run this Town” when he says Im in MAISON MARTIN MARJELLO he puts the fashion designers name to cover what he really wanted to say which is im a MASON,but if u weren’t aware of it u would think hes talking about FAshion… WRONG!!!! SN: (i doubt ull ever see a rapper in MMM)

Another thing to point out is ALL BLACK is the secret COLOR CODE for the IlluMINaTI and the symbol of the Planet SATURN!

INstead of Denouncing what People are trying to Inform you about “WONT U DO SOME RESEARCH” of your own and come up with ur OWN CONCLUSION! Also DOUg MOrris the head of the MUSIc Industry as a Whole is a Well Known Illminatist and Hov Constantly Praises him in interviews and in songs, if u think HOv isnt aware of who he really is, then ur very naive

Like I said on The Industry forum:

".....usually i don'[t hear what people claim to hear in backmasking but this is loud and clear. i love this guy for making this vid. it's so sad. it literally sent chills to me hearing this. it's like rihanna is saying "i want to know who [raped/tortured/hypnotised me]" and jay responds "us" and kanye "we. he"....these two are her handlers (MK Ultra programmers) and have continually abused her to dissociative states and degraded her soul, opening her throughs ex rituals to their demons. it's so sad. you can see the demons have totally taken her over. i mean look at those eyes, look how she walks....Rihanna is in an ever darker state i think than Beyonce. I think beyonce is fully aware of her role and enjoys it blindly as some (fading) queen--her time is winding down, she's less popular; i believe her blood sacrifice is due soon-- where Rihanna is aware and tortured mentally and wants to get out (see kanye's "paranoid" song/video with her where he indicates he is her handler/programmer/rapist)"