SUMMARYDark princes, hoodoo and the magical rewrite (Nov 3)
RECORDAfrican rulers took part in the Atlantic slave trade as sellers and partners (Dahomey, Oyo, Asante, Kongo elites, among others), even as others resisted (Afonso I of Kongo protested in 1526): colonizers and collaborators were not one color. "Black Nobility" in the historical record names Rome's papal noble families (loyal to the Pope after 1870), a title, not a skin color. Hoodoo (rootwork, conjure) is the U.S. Southern tradition, distinct from Haitian Vodou; scholars note its Native American plant and medicine knowledge alongside Ginen roots. Haitian Vodou is many rites (nanchons: Rada, Petwo, Kongo, Nago, Ibo and more), not one; Vodou practice keeps Taíno stone axes and celts as sacred "pierres tonnerre" (thunderstones) on its altars (Métraux), a living Taíno thread inside it
LENSsome Ginen royalty joined the takeover of the Americas, and that partnership is where the rewrite of the Aboriginal Americans as "Africans" begins; the culture (dance, song, spirit, style) is Aboriginal at the root, and the magical spaces were rewritten too (Pattern / theory). WW9 GUARDRAIL (Tito's own rules): name actors by what they did, never by a whole people; WW9 avoids lineage wars as merch (Before Borders).