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Goddamn dude, don't make me cry. I've cried enough today
I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today.
It's right-handed
I am right-handed
There are grooves for the thumb and knuckle to grip that fit my hand perfectly
I have calluses there from holding my stylus and pencils and the gardening tools.
There are sharper and blunter parts of the edge, for different types of cutting, as well as a point for piercing.
I know exactly how to use this to butcher a carcass.
A homo erectus made it
Some ancestor of mine, three species ago, made a tool that fits my hand perfectly, and that I still know how to use.
Who were you
A man? A woman? Did you even use those words?
Did you craft alone or were you with friends? Did you sing while you worked?
Did you find this stone yourself, or did you trade for it? Was it a gift?
Did you make it for yourself, or someone else, or does the distinction of personal property not really apply here?
Who were you?
What would you think today, seeing your descendant hold your tool and sob because it fits her hands as well?
What about your other descendant, the docent and caretaker of your tool, holding her hands under it the way you hold your hands under your baby's head when a stranger holds them.
Is it bizarre to you, that your most utilitarian object is now revered as holy?
Or has it always been divine?
Or is the divine in how I am watching videos on how to knap stone made by your other descendants, learning by example the way you did?
Tomorrow morning I am going to the local riverbed in search of the appropriate stones, and I will follow your example.
The first blood spilled on it will almost certainly be my own, as I learn the textures and rhythm of how it's done.
Did you have cuss words back then? Gods to blaspheme when the rock slips and you almost take your thumbnail off instead? Or did you just scream?
I'm not religious.
But if spilling my own blood to connect with a stranger who shared it isn't partaking in the divine
I don't know what is.
Updated Results since September on AncestryDNA:
You can tell this shows that my father's side is fully Nigerian, while my mother's side is Benin and Togo along with the African ethnicities.
I am so proud of how these came out. Love these!
I am so proud of how these came out. Love these!
Time Loops ⌛ Our planet is a school and we are here to learn its lessons. This is why some of us keep coming back to the same families where we get another chance to overcome the same challenges, make the same choices, and deal with the same issues that happened in the past.
Finally had time to send this in!!!! Now I have wait for my results. Now the time is probably gonna move slower than ever! #23andme #ancestry #thanksmom #birthdaysurprise #exited #dna #myfamilytree (at Orange County, Florida)
Texas Ruins - Red and the Rebels (2022)🌞✨
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Rolling hills and endless caverns
Got me all up in my head
Never knowing where I’m going
Crystal skies are up ahead
There’s orange sun on the horizon
I head south to Hidalgo
I’m gonna find myself in my father
In the deserts of Weslaco
I can hear you begging me
Release it all again
Put out the fire, set it free
Your dreams are heaven-sent
Haunting creeks and grassy plains
I head east down to Shiner
I’m gonna find myself in my mother
In the ruins of Moravia
I can hear you begging me
Release it all again
Put out the fire, set it free
Your dreams are heaven-sent
I can hear you begging me
Release it all again
Put out the fire, set it free
Your dreams are heaven-sent
Repost from @moyoafrika
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#repost• @whatsculture History Class: Tracing the roots of Capoeira. The Afro-Brazilian martial art form incorporates acrobatics, dance, folklore, and music. Two opponents play each other inside a circle (Roda) formed by the other players, who create rhythm for the game by clapping, singing, and playing traditional instruments. It’s the second most popular sport in Brazil and is practiced in different parts of the world today. To understand the significance, we look at how it is a phenomenon born out of migration.
“Capoeira was conceived in Africa and born in Brazil,’’ Mestre Jelon Vieira once said. As a colony of the Portuguese Crown, millions of Africans were shipped and sold in Brazil. There, enslaved Africans shared their cultural traditions, including dances, rituals, and fighting techniques, which eventually evolved into capoeira. Many elements and traditions that would inform capoeira are said to have originated in Angola. At that time, 80% of all enslaved Africans in Rio de Janeiro came from Central West Africa from countries that are now known as Gabon, Angola and both Congos.
People from Angola were prominent among the enslaved Africans who played the game on the streets and squares of Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and other Brazilian port cities at the beginning of the nineteenth century. With many enslaved Africans revolting against slavery, they would soon form communities in villages called quilombos in which they could sustain different expressions of African culture. They used capoeira to defend themselves and resist capture, disguising its martial intent with music, song, and dance.
Capoeira became illegal after the abolition of slavery in 1888. Practitioners were socially ostracised for more 40 years, until the legendary capoeira master, Mestre Bimba, opened the first capoeira school in Bahia in 1932. From there, the martial art would reach all parts of the world. At its core, capoeira is born out of a mix of African and Brazilian indigenous cultures and it represents resistance and resilience 🇧🇷🌍
#moyoafrika #brazil #angola🇦🇴 #africanculture #africanculture #africandiaspora #african
AW HELL NAH JUST FOUND OUT THIS GUY IM DIRECTLY RELATED TO OWNED A SHIT TO OF SLAVES!? HE'S MY GREAT-SOMETHING GRANDFATHER HELP
UHHHHH WHAT THE FUCK MAN
In the name of our #ancestors #readmore #ancestry #knowyourworth #knowledgeispower #osun #chango #yemaya