Toya, Woman Warrior of the Haiti Revolution | It's Bwa Kayiman 2017, 226 years later! We're Still HERE! Nou La!
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Aug 11, 2017, 9:41:17 PM8/11/17
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Gen Yon Lwa Ki Pwal Rantre
"Kote lonbrik mwen ye, kote premye san m antere..."
Haitian drumming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqP0s9MBuooPhoto Album/Bwa Kayiman 2016 - https://goo.gl/Dymhr1, Prospect Park NY
Photo Credit: Frantz Louis
"Boukman we call on you... we're don't wish to disturb you. But Papa Boukman o, we've had enough... You didn't fight at Bwa Kayiman for us to now serve the strangers."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv3_Mn-tAEg
♫♫Boukman o nan Bwa Kayiman
Nou lonmen non w
Nou pa denounen w, nan Bwa Kayiman
Papa Boukman o, nou wè ase
Papa Boukman o, nou rive nan tobout o
Peyi nou divize, lafanmi doz-a-do.
Nou pa te fè Bwa Kayiman
Pou n sèvi etranje.♫♫
Boukman O nan Bwa Kayiman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m1DIYiM-0I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m1DIYiM-0I
Bwa Kayiman was the Vodun war council and gathering, held on August 14, 1791, which began the great Haiti revolution that started August 22, 1791 and where Afrikans beat, in combat, the French, the Spanish and the English to abolish slavery, colonialism, forced assimilation and European Triangular Trade...
Video Clip: Èzili Dantò re-enactment of the The Bwa Kayiman Ceremony with late great
master Haiti drummer, Frisner Augustin at Prospect Park, Brooklyn NY...
The Bwa Kayiman Ceremony
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Èzili Jazzoetry - the story of Bwa Kayiman, by Èzili Dantò of HLLN
SEREMONI
BWA KAYIMAN, PART 1 -
https://goo.gl/D2WxAV
Hundreds of years ago, Africans in the plains and valleys, forced to be passive every second of the day in order to survive the European planter's lashes, would sneak out in the dead of night, up the rocky Maroons' mountain roads to secret forest caves and hidden clearings, for the Vodun ceremonies, where they would watch their kinfolks practicing the art of war, productively sloughing-off impacted rage to the Vodun drum's syncopated beats... Haitian children learned in Vodun ceremonies the uses of cutting and slicing a chicken and goat's throat, early on in life, for the time when the Petwo nations would come and mount them, so they would stop being the sacrificial lambs, the scapegoats whose blood was being lapped up by the white settlers.
So, in Vodun, there is the time before the Petwo nations arrived to the war dance to unify the cocktail of multilingual African tribes - and the time after.
The more temperate nations that were there before, subduing Petwo were called Rada. Originating like Petwo, from West and Central African peoples.
But the Africans who became Haitians in the land of the Taino Haitians had to pull hard for the psychic energy within themselves that would allow them to kill the current of negative European energies swallowing them whole.
And when these Blacks, on a hilltop at a wood clearing called "Bwa Kayiman," had reached back, past their divisions, past even the God making impulses that creates dictators. Way back. Past self-gratification. Past giving any one particular element - spirit or thought abstraction - omniscient sovereignty; way past these twilights and a thousand eternities. Then this, this spiritual consensus, this, a new psychic wave, was reached. The differing African groups in Haiti were then so quickened, that together as one PSYCHIC FORCE, they had passed Babylon's babbling towers, setting a new watercourse beyond forever: transmuting mental spasms and a cacophony of noises into ONE TONGUE, one powerful action - swearing to God and the Devil to be free or die.
And when Agaou's thunder clapped next, the cosmic sea - home of the ancestral deities, of all the lwa yo who had become abstracted over many generations - that sea opened; Africa's sacred abstractions had come to life. A new nation called Haitian was formed, where unity lives in veins reaching the cosmic center - that nexus between the spheres of the living and dead, between action and reflection. Then, the Haitian Revolution came, beating back Napoleon's forces, then the English, Spanish and French again. Twice. This, Petwo's multi-nation red force and strength, works when Rada is its base. Rada and Petwo, they spewed forth together as one, each making way for the stronger. They are the Lovers-of-Liberty, economic democracy-in-action. And their strongest symbol was Èzili Dantò - the warrior mother, love and Go(o)d principle who carries a dagger. She cuts out evil with good.
https://goo.gl/D2WxAV
Hundreds of years ago, Africans in the plains and valleys, forced to be passive every second of the day in order to survive the European planter's lashes, would sneak out in the dead of night, up the rocky Maroons' mountain roads to secret forest caves and hidden clearings, for the Vodun ceremonies, where they would watch their kinfolks practicing the art of war, productively sloughing-off impacted rage to the Vodun drum's syncopated beats... Haitian children learned in Vodun ceremonies the uses of cutting and slicing a chicken and goat's throat, early on in life, for the time when the Petwo nations would come and mount them, so they would stop being the sacrificial lambs, the scapegoats whose blood was being lapped up by the white settlers.
So, in Vodun, there is the time before the Petwo nations arrived to the war dance to unify the cocktail of multilingual African tribes - and the time after.
The more temperate nations that were there before, subduing Petwo were called Rada. Originating like Petwo, from West and Central African peoples.
But the Africans who became Haitians in the land of the Taino Haitians had to pull hard for the psychic energy within themselves that would allow them to kill the current of negative European energies swallowing them whole.
And when these Blacks, on a hilltop at a wood clearing called "Bwa Kayiman," had reached back, past their divisions, past even the God making impulses that creates dictators. Way back. Past self-gratification. Past giving any one particular element - spirit or thought abstraction - omniscient sovereignty; way past these twilights and a thousand eternities. Then this, this spiritual consensus, this, a new psychic wave, was reached. The differing African groups in Haiti were then so quickened, that together as one PSYCHIC FORCE, they had passed Babylon's babbling towers, setting a new watercourse beyond forever: transmuting mental spasms and a cacophony of noises into ONE TONGUE, one powerful action - swearing to God and the Devil to be free or die.
And when Agaou's thunder clapped next, the cosmic sea - home of the ancestral deities, of all the lwa yo who had become abstracted over many generations - that sea opened; Africa's sacred abstractions had come to life. A new nation called Haitian was formed, where unity lives in veins reaching the cosmic center - that nexus between the spheres of the living and dead, between action and reflection. Then, the Haitian Revolution came, beating back Napoleon's forces, then the English, Spanish and French again. Twice. This, Petwo's multi-nation red force and strength, works when Rada is its base. Rada and Petwo, they spewed forth together as one, each making way for the stronger. They are the Lovers-of-Liberty, economic democracy-in-action. And their strongest symbol was Èzili Dantò - the warrior mother, love and Go(o)d principle who carries a dagger. She cuts out evil with good.
I didn't know what
i was. How i came to be created
Kreyòl or much about Vodun until after i had returned
from Haiti and started feeling the tones of Red, textures of Black and
cold distance of the Moonlight.
But, it is the unified Petwo/Rada nations, living within my psychic
heritage, that call to me with this vision of a world that's reached
past its divisions, angers, hatreds and envies to where many "nations"
coexist. I'm practicing remembering that the amalgamated Africans in
Haiti had no money to bribe or amass and wield power with; no gun arsenals
for shows of force to control or subjugate the masses and classes with;
no laws to shoot hope and dreams, forever deferred.
No.
The Africans, who became African-Ayisyen, in the land of the Taino-Ayisyen expected the tools of combat to crawl from their bodies and mind, and it did. Their veins are the vortexes for a unified African PSYCHIC FORCE: and they surrendered to that.
No.
The Africans, who became African-Ayisyen, in the land of the Taino-Ayisyen expected the tools of combat to crawl from their bodies and mind, and it did. Their veins are the vortexes for a unified African PSYCHIC FORCE: and they surrendered to that.
****END
OF CEREMONY BWA KAYIMAN, PART 1 MONOLOGUE****
Beyond 2004: Bwa Kayiman Ceremony, Part 2 (c) 2000 by Èzili Dantò
August 14, 2017 marks the 226-year anniversary of Bwa Kayiman.
Ayiti: Tankou Isit/So Much like here - http://bit.ly/czKkH8
Remembering the women warriors of the Haiti revolution. Remembering Abaraya Toya (Victoria Montou) https://goo.gl/H1wtSi)
The warrior mother actively participated as chief of her own fighting troops during the Haiti revolution. Although Abarya Toya was aged in her sixties during the revolution, she fought until her last breath. In fact, Grann Toya was so fierce that at the final battle in which she participated, she single-handedly fought off three colonizers before she was finally subdued. But even wounded, she managed to live long enough and was able to witness the proclamation of the independence of Haiti in 1804. Desalin brought her to his home to take care of her and have her live out her final days when he became emperor of Haiti. Grann Toya is the fierce Haiti warrior who raised Haiti's founding father, Janjak Desalin. Grann Toya taught Desalin how to conduct guerrila warfare. She taught Desalin how to fight in hand to hand combat, shoot, throw a knife, use his environment in warfare and heal. General Janjak Desalin became the greatest warrior to ever live, beating three of the greatest European armies - the French/British, Spanish and a US embargo to create the only nation in world history created from the enslaved. Ayibobo to Abaraya Toya! :
"The only thoroughly documented Amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomey, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western African kingdom. Once dubbed a ‘small black Sparta,’ residents of Dahomey shared with the Spartans an intense militarism and sense of collectivism. Moreover, the women of both kingdoms prided themselves on bodies hardened from childhood by rigorous physical exercise. But Spartan women kept in shape to breed male warriors, Dahomean Amazons to kill them..." -- https://goo.gl/ZmmEr6
The warrior mother actively participated as chief of her own fighting troops during the Haiti revolution. Although Abarya Toya was aged in her sixties during the revolution, she fought until her last breath. In fact, Grann Toya was so fierce that at the final battle in which she participated, she single-handedly fought off three colonizers before she was finally subdued. But even wounded, she managed to live long enough and was able to witness the proclamation of the independence of Haiti in 1804. Desalin brought her to his home to take care of her and have her live out her final days when he became emperor of Haiti. Grann Toya is the fierce Haiti warrior who raised Haiti's founding father, Janjak Desalin. Grann Toya taught Desalin how to conduct guerrila warfare. She taught Desalin how to fight in hand to hand combat, shoot, throw a knife, use his environment in warfare and heal. General Janjak Desalin became the greatest warrior to ever live, beating three of the greatest European armies - the French/British, Spanish and a US embargo to create the only nation in world history created from the enslaved. Ayibobo to Abaraya Toya! :
"The only thoroughly documented Amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomey, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western African kingdom. Once dubbed a ‘small black Sparta,’ residents of Dahomey shared with the Spartans an intense militarism and sense of collectivism. Moreover, the women of both kingdoms prided themselves on bodies hardened from childhood by rigorous physical exercise. But Spartan women kept in shape to breed male warriors, Dahomean Amazons to kill them..." -- https://goo.gl/ZmmEr6
Beyond 2004: Bwa Kayiman Ceremony, Part 2 (c) 2000 by Èzili Dantò
Celebrate Bwa Kayiman 2017 with Ougan Gran Bwa (Deenps Bazile ) August 12, 2017 at Prospect Park New York, 1 to 6pm
August 14, 2017 marks the 226-year anniversary of Bwa Kayiman.
The Afrikan warriors at Bwa Kayiman did
what Spartacus could not do. What the Biblical Jesus Christ never even
tried to do. The Haitian warriors at Bwa Kayiman led a revolution that
abolished slavery after 1200 years of Arab enslavement on the African
continent and 300 years of European slavery in Haiti.
Scholars debate and duly question if there ever was a historical
Jesus as today depicted by the Cesare Borgia photo, Council of Nicea
deep state manipulators and Machiavellian propagandist echo chambers?
But we do know, for sure, the Haiti warriors changed moral history on
slavery; that the first ship transporting kidnapped Africans to the
Americas was called “the good ship Jesus” and that slave makers used the bible to exhort:
“Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.”-Ephesians 6:5. See also Peter 2:18
226 years ago, on August 14, 1791,
Haitian men and women at Bwa Kayiman held the Vodun ceremony and war
council that began the Haiti revolution. The Haitian Revolution
challenged, condemned and abolished the practice of slavery, a feat not
even the Christians’ most revered Jesus, ever did. This, set a new moral
path for humanity on planet earth.
The men, women and children fought the Haiti revolution where the first to bring liberty into application in nation form after the Christian destroyers had begun their genocide rampage in the Americas....." --- Celebrating Bwa Kayiman 2017 http://www.ezilidanto.com/2017/08/celebrating-bwa-kayiman-2017/
The men, women and children fought the Haiti revolution where the first to bring liberty into application in nation form after the Christian destroyers had begun their genocide rampage in the Americas....." --- Celebrating Bwa Kayiman 2017 http://www.ezilidanto.com/2017/08/celebrating-bwa-kayiman-2017/
Èzili Dantò performs at Carnegie Hall
Èzili Dantò live in Miami with Sanba Yatande, TiRouj & Manno
Èzili Dantò live in Miami with Sanba Yatande, TiRouj & Manno
Èzili Dantò live in Miami with Sanba Yatande, TiRouj & Manno
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The Sacred Heart Vèvè of Dantò- Celebrating Bwa Kayiman, 2014 archive
https://goo.gl/cFjt4B --- https://goo.gl/3iY2Rj
https://goo.gl/cFjt4B --- https://goo.gl/3iY2Rj
Èzili Dantò's Performance
ritual for re-membering Boukman, Dantò, Lwa yo, tout Zanset e
Ti Moun yo in August for Bwa Kayiman:
http://on.fb.me/1lnt26H
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The Bwa Kayiman War Cry
Spoken in the KiKongo language on August 14, 1791 - The Bwa Kayiman
gathering was officiated by high priestess, Cecile Fatiman, the
historical Èzili Dantò of August 14, 1791. After 300 years of European
enslament, the Blacks in Haiti at Bwa Kayiman swore to live free. This
gathering began the continuing Haiti revolution, and the war cry then, is the same for today: E, e, Mbomba, e, e! Kanga Bafyòti, Kanga Mundele, Kanga Ndòki. Kanga yo! http://bit.ly/1gN7Dn9 - "Stop the stranger (Mundele=white men), stop his Black
collaborators, stop all their evil forces now!
English: "The Supreme Creator (E, e, Mbomba, e, e!), Master of Breath shall foil the black collaborators/traitors (kanga bafyòti). Kill/tie up/stop the tyrannical white settlers/colonists, strangers (kanga mundele). Bind all their evil forces/sorcerers (kanga Ndòki). Stop them!"
Evil Forces - Ndòki - back then as now are the same: The imperialists/genocidal maniacs' pretending to love Go(o)d, their weaponized religion, education, entertainment, legal system, history, media, deceptive charity systems, their military, monopolistic economic system, and rapacious profit-over-people culture....
Listen to the Welfare Poets' song Sak Pase and their reciting (2:05) of the Bwa Kayiman invocation: E, e, Mbomba! Kanga Bafyòti. Kanga Mundele. Kanga Ndòki. Kanga li! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1DnBmvMjkU
English: "The Supreme Creator (E, e, Mbomba, e, e!), Master of Breath shall foil the black collaborators/traitors (kanga bafyòti). Kill/tie up/stop the tyrannical white settlers/colonists, strangers (kanga mundele). Bind all their evil forces/sorcerers (kanga Ndòki). Stop them!"
Evil Forces - Ndòki - back then as now are the same: The imperialists/genocidal maniacs' pretending to love Go(o)d, their weaponized religion, education, entertainment, legal system, history, media, deceptive charity systems, their military, monopolistic economic system, and rapacious profit-over-people culture....
Listen to the Welfare Poets' song Sak Pase and their reciting (2:05) of the Bwa Kayiman invocation: E, e, Mbomba! Kanga Bafyòti. Kanga Mundele. Kanga Ndòki. Kanga li! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1DnBmvMjkU
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