��� Concept of Deity
by John Henrik Clarke
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed. When the European comes to a country, the first thing he does is to laugh at your God and your God concept. And the next thing is to make you laugh at your own God concept. Then he don't have to build no jails for you then, cause he's got you in a jail more binding than iron can ever put you. Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind. Anytime someone say's your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.' And that's how we're trapped. We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.
Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world. Anything that you get from Europe that you are going to use for yourself, remake it to suit yourself.
Where did we go wrong educationally? After the Civil War, the period called reconstruction, a period of pseudo-democracy, we began to have our own institutions, our own schools. We had no role model for a school, ... our own role model. So we began to imitate White schools.
Our church was an imitation of the White church. All we did is to modify the old trap. We didn't change the images, we became more comfortable within the trap. We didn't change the images, we changed some of the concepts of the images, but the images remained the same. So the mis-education that gave us a slave mentality had been altered. But it remained basically the same.'
WHAT DOES THE BIBLE TELL THE ISRAELITES TO DO IF SOME TRY TO CONVERT THEM?
If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)
List of Gods and Goddesses from Africa 195 African deities currently in database.(Some Gods have several names. This page lists 293 names in total.)
AFRICAN GODS: AAbassi, Abiku, Abuk, Achimi, Adriambahomanana, Adro, Adroa, Adroanzi, Age, Aha Njoku, Aho Njoku, Aigamuxa, Ajok, Akongo, Ala, Ale, Alla, Alouroua, Amma, Ananse, Anansi, Andriamahilala, Andriambahomanani, Andumbulu, Ane, Anotchi, Asa, Atai, Ataokoloinona, Aunt Nancy, Azra'il, Azrail, AFRICAN GODS: BBa Dimo, Babalu Aye, Babaluaye, Babayanmi, Badimo, Banga, Bayani, Bayanni, Bomazi, Buk, Buku, Bumba, AFRICAN GODS: CCagn, Candit, Cghene, Chango, Chedi Bumba, Chiuta, Chonganda, Chuku, AFRICAN GODS: DDa, Deng, Ditaolane, Domfe, Dongo, Dubiaku, Dxui, Dyinyinga, Dziva, AFRICAN GODS: EEbore, Edinkira, Egungun Oya, Ekurana, Elegua, En Kai, Enekpe, Engai, Enkai, Eseasar, Eshu, Esu, Evus, AFRICAN GODS: FFa, Faro, AFRICAN GODS: GGa Gorib, Gamab, Gaunab, Ghekre, Gu, Gunab, AFRICAN GODS: HHaitse Aibeb, Haitsi Aibeb, Haiuri, Hare, Heitsi, Heitsi Eibib, Huntin, Huveane, Hyel, Hyel Taku, AFRICAN GODS: IIamanjie, Imana, Itherther, Iyakare, AFRICAN GODS: JJakuta, Jok, Jok Odudu, Juok, AFRICAN GODS: KKaang, Kabundungulu, Kaka Guie, Kalumba, Kammapa, Kamonou, Kamunu, Kanu, Katonda, Khakhabaisaywa, Khodumodurno, Khonvoum, Khuzwane, Kintu, Kumunu, Kwoth, AFRICAN GODS: LLe Eyo, Legba, Lela, Leza, Libanza, Lisa, AFRICAN GODS: MMaori, Massassi, Massim Biambe, Mawu, Mawu Lisa, Mbaba Mwanna Waresa, Mbere, Mbokomu, Mbombo, Mbongo, Mboya, Mebege, Mebeghe, Mebere, Minga Bengale, Minona, Mo Dimo, Mobokomu, Modimo, Morimi, Morongo, Moshanyana, Mugai, Mukunga M'bura, Mukunga Mbura, Mukuru, Muluku, Mulungu, Musso Koroni, Mwambu, Mwambwa, Mwari, Mwuetsi, AFRICAN GODS: NNaiteru Kop, Nana Buluku, Nasilele, Natero Kop, Naz, Ndjambi, Ndrian, Ndriananahary, Ndriananhary, Neiterkob, Neiternkob, Neiterogob, Ngai, Ngewo Wa, Nialith, Nimba, Ninepone, Ninepone Mebeghe, Njambe, Njambi, Njambi Karunga, Njemakati, Nkwa, Nommo, None, None Mebeghe, Nummo, Nyaliep, Nyalitch, Nyambe, Nyambe(2), Nyame, Nyaminyami, Nyankopon, Nyikang, Nyiko, Nyingone Mebeghe, Nyokonan, Nyonye Ngana, Nzambi, Nzame, Nzame Mebeghe, AFRICAN GODS: OObambo, Obambou, Obassi Osaw, Obatala, Ochosi, Odomankomo, Odua, Odudu, Odudua, Oduduwa, Ofo, Oghene, Ogo, Ogun, Olodumare, Olokun, Olorun, Olufon, Olurun, Omukuru, Omumborombanga, Omumborombonga, Onyame, Onyankopon, Orisa, Orisala, Orishala, Orishas, Orixa, Oromila, Orula, Orunmila, Osanyin, Oshe, Oshun, Oshunmare, Osun, Oya, AFRICAN GODS: PPale Fox, Pemba, AFRICAN GODS: QQamata, Qamta, Quamta, AFRICAN GODS: RRada, Raluvumbha, Rugaba, Rugira, Ruhanga, Rurema, Ruwa, AFRICAN GODS: SSagbata, Sakarabru, Sakpata, Shadipinyi, Shakpana, Shango, She, Soko, Somtup, Sopona, Sudika Mbambi, AFRICAN GODS: TThixo, Tilo, Tore, Tsetse Bumba, Tsui, Tsui //goab, Tsui Goab, AFRICAN GODS: UUhlanga, Umvelinqangi, Unkul, Unkulunkulu, Uthlanga, AFRICAN GODS: V- No entries found.AFRICAN GODS: WWaaqa, Waaqa Tokkichaa, Wak, Waq, Wele, Were, Woyengi, Wulbari, Wuni, Wuona, Wuonji, Wuonkwere, Wuonoru, AFRICAN GODS: XXango, AFRICAN GODS: YYansan, Yasigi, Yeban, Yemanja, Yemaya, Yemayah, Yemonja, Yurugu, AFRICAN GODS: ZZanahary,
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