sanctifying hoodoo haints: e.c. osundu and the caine prize, rickydoc in the woodshed

WEDNESDAY

i must have clocked 9 hours or more today
i feel like a real man, i feel like a big mac or a blt or something

quick commentaries and ima knock off some projects (manuscripts)

1) oprah backs obama, i feel you girl, i really do

2) rev al makes curious commentary:

“as for the one mormon running for office, those who really believe in god will defeat him anyways, so don’t worry about that; that’s a temporary situation”

beg pardon, i didnt quite get that

well rev al, your enemies gon crucify you for that one
painful to see you wiggling like you doing, i meant this and i meant that

you got busted
just make your apologies and move on

cant get your back on this one man, i aint in it
dont see where this one got nothing to do w/colored people

i got issues w/the mormons conservative bent but truth be told all you believers got
questionable dogma and i consider fundamentalists of all stripes problematic

its that fundamentalist flavor in this one delight your enemies
and dismay folk who want the best for you - and of you

just make your apologies and move on man
and look here dawg, might have to check yourself

on another note, first i started using in the name of the conqueror

in my bid to attribute the conqueror as zora did when she gave him
afroam folkloric attributes instead of john the baptist attributes

then i started using in the name of o killens, to sanctify john o

then i used in the name of gullahjack one time and im thinking
i should have a pantheon of hoodoo saints that i use according to need
and that im trying to ancestorfy (or deify as the case may be)

got that focus on ancestorfying from djenra windwalker
i had said something here about my relationship with god once and

windwalker pull my coat that it was more afrospiritual to consider
that a relationship with the ancestors and it was like a light
went on in my headod

god gods ancestors, all pretty interchangeable to my way of thinking
aint gon get caught up in no dogma if youg et my drift but ancestorfying
is a very afrospiritual approach to the spirit that i find useful in my attempt

to empower the african way of god
take it to higherground

so anyway ive decided to create my own ancestral hoodoo pantheon
for service according to the need

first the family ancestors im closest to

1 my father, dr arthur flowers sr
2 my maternal grandfather, grandaddy ross
3 my paternal grandmother, grandma flowers

4 john killens
5 david walker
6 harriet tubman
7 gullahjack
8   ida b
9  fred hudson

man, i wanted to do a solid hoodoo 9
but what about nat turner

and addison gayle - addison is one of my special folk
in terms of life influence, as is fred hudson

i would want to sanctify both of them, david earl jackson
and safiya and doris jean too, this list is going to get prohibitive

that drawing above for instance is john killens as a long distance runner
done by tom feelings, both of them deserve ancestorship

okay, two pantheons, a personal pantheon and a tribal pantheon

1 dr athur flowers
2 granddaddy ross
3 grandma flowers
4 aunt josie
5 aunt elise
6 doris jean austin
7 safiya henderson holmes
8 david earl jackson
9 fred hudson

and imogunla, sometimes i forget
imogunla actually dead

rickydocs tribal pantheon

1 john killens
2 zora neale
3 davidwalker
4 gullah jack
5 harriet tubman
6 marie leveau
7 nat turner
8 martin king
9 addison gayle

(what might be interesting is to have a descendents pantheon also
of 9 children/students/younger generations you keeping an eye on
this one problematic because they not ancestors/dead but a diff kind of spirit
one to be nurtured, will have to work this one out conceptually)

obviously these listings will be flexible, some folk coming on some dropping
and fred hudson for instance as much tribal as he is personal

but basically im saying that a hoodo pantheon will consist of 18 (possibly 27) folk
personal, tribal and destinic (this me laying paths for the hoodoo future - one of my own attributes)

9 personal/family haints and 9 tribal haints, i should have a full
pantheon of tribal haints for folk to choose from

attribute (give them powers and a narrative) them for different tasks
as needed, for instance for literary stuff i use in the name of o killens

for tribal guidance i use the conqueror

for warmaking i use gullahjack, for sanctuary i will use harriettubman
nat turner for the hard moral choices, and so forth along those lines

also i really have to come up with a hoodoo term for sanctifying folk
for the process of transforming them into loa/orisha/etc - what would
be a good hoodoo term for that be - use rest for the weary to attribute them (sorry ec)

could i rehabilitate haint maybe, hoodoo haints doesnt feel quite right
too close to saint and connotation too negative, but it is a spirit that hangs around

i will use hoodoo haints till i coin a better one
in the name of the conqueror

man this post started off as a quick comment on rev al
and went on and on and on on and on

gotta go, gotta clock some pages
in the name of o killens

word by trickmaster
wouldbe prophet of the hoodoo way

TUESDAY  6:46

2 days good work, thats a good sign
today will tell the tale

was reading over this weeks post and perhaps im obsessing
as i tend to do and will bore you dear regulators, i will restrain myself

had lunch yesterday with ec osondu
ec chastise me as he so often do

ec quick to tell me when im whining

arthur youre whining on your blog, you must be a lion arthur
you must roar arthur, roar all the time arthur

i tell him i cant roar all the time ec, i roar most of the time, most of
the time im huffing and puffing but sometime the blues run me down

havent been whining lately so he hit me on another sensitive spot

arthur i see on your blog that your novel continues to grow, arthur you must
restrain yourself and finish the thing

so now he basically accuse me of fitzing around w/my novel

i got defensive cause i fear he right and nobody will be
more pleased than arthur when this novel stop evolving

the implication is that i am going in circles but i know
this novel is not yet what it is to be - in my heart i know this

and i just got to be patient with it
this my masterpiece, i know it is, the novel i was born to write

i confess - i want this bad boy to be so complex folk dont ever figure it out
but i want to tell a good story too, one that last forever

im outta here, got pages to clock

arf

Comments

[Lesley-Ann Brown]

Finish that book Arthur! I am on the same road...
& ROAR!!! :-)