LAST POST SCRIPT JAN 8/2017
one, i abandoned this thread altogether
and now that im doing real revision
i see whare it was a dead end of sorts
what i have in draft was already more
sophisticated but it gave me more
material for cutting down to bone
so im still using it but its very damn
embarassing and temptation is to
take it down but this is supposed to
be an account of progression so ima
leave it up and take the hit
FURTHER FRIDAY ADDENDUM
it has become clear to me that i will
not be able to stop researching, i
got so much wisdom on my iphones
kindle, i got biblic studies and the koran,
i got griotic epics, afrospiritual, zen and
cosmologlical works, etc etc, i was just
looking thru, i got a stack of xeroxed
books by the bed thats over a foot high
i cant stop researching, so what i got to
do is just get started on text while doing it
one movement a day and work research
in as i go on, so this weekend
i will incorporate what ive taken from bible tonight
tomrrow i will start on text and maintain research
my schedule said text starts end f schoolyear and
i keep putting it back because there
is so much knowledge i could incorp
but by god i will never know all there
is to know, incorp what you already got
start tomorrow . .
FRIDAY ADDENDUM
ecclesiastes i like, reading two bibles now
reading NLT bible because tells story unadorned
then reading scofield bible to get feel for
biblic phrasing lightly touched for clarity
the song of solomon i skimmed very lightly
not going to bible for notes on courtship
so now im working thru prophets
i got a lot of bible to go, even skimming
lets say another week, likely rest of month
then im done i swear
FRIDAY
okay ive figured out how ima do god
reading these psalms is as boring as rest of bible
lord deliver me over and over and over and over
and im not down with the focus on the LORD as conceived in bible
and in other religions of the desert, even though i want the power
that idea of god conveys for folk but its a lie, i cant tell a lie as a core
part of my vision and i think of the iching which has no god work
and is about being an illuminated evolved individual/society
an approach i think more in keeping w/21st century sensibility
so this the way ima approach god, that constant search
for your greater self, seeking attunement w/universal grace
god, a state of divine being, or something like this
a concept of god i can live with
and hopefully provide folk w/a force they can call on
in times of need, a force they welcome to call god
proverbs proving tedious too, drawbacks of a historical patische
from many pens, same thing over and over and over, i will only
skim the new testament jesus parts, im bored w/the bible
but im glad i did this, so i am no longer intimidated by it
thinking i can never do something of that caliber
maybe not but im more confident my approach has value
its kinda amazing how all these wisdom traditions
basically say same thing, with different mythologies
the wisdom i can use, the mythology i brought my own
and now that i got a feel for how the conquerors arc is
going to work, i dont need to actually write it out and im
really eager to get to work on text, the bible has begun
to bore me, will still scan it but i got the point
ima print out my 1st movement: initiation
and get busy, anything else im stalling
be nice to do at least one a day
if that comes easy we will knock
it up to two, showtime . . . .
THURSDAY #37 stewardship
decided to keep doing the arc on here, ive kinda
gotten my groove on starting #29 eldership
the answer came t me when i realized for love
i should have the conqueror advising antar
legendary lover from the maghrib
you will notice perhaps i have for each movement
what i call a high haint from the cultural ancestors
choose because something abut them represent
to me so ima have conqueror riding them
(for folk wondering about repeated use of 'horse' imagery when a
loa/orisha comes down on you its called being a horse of the gods)
stil raw and rough and still no arc but im developing a storyilne for
the conqueror and i will arc it after i get the 1st draft, also clean up
poetry and history, kibiru for instance is the mganga
who told the masai not to throw their spears when the
euros came and took their highlands, he told them
the timing is not right, do not throw and remain a
people and our day will come - high haint of tiiming
ima have the conqueror tell him that in #32: timing
now that i got a grip and not so frustrated
got to see if i can clock my 9 a day
when i get my daily 9 today ima go back to
1 thru 29 and make them conqueror centric
once again evidence you got to just keep plowing forward
and the answers will come, just keep hammering away
im gone, im bone tired (5:54am, been working since
about 2 and i got a cold) usually i take a time out
between school out and woodshedding but this
time i hit the ground running and sometime when
you driving yourself above and beyond the body
calls a time out on you, this cold has knocked me
off my game, im going back to bed
(wake up and clock another 9)???
all my love
rdoc
WEDNESDAY #30 healing
well ive figured out how to do the arc of the conqueror
got to connect it to historical actions for instance in love
im have him advising and inspiring antar
also im considering degendering the conqueror
sometimes he/him sometimes she/her but that
just might be a bridge too far even for me
ima try it, see what it feels like
my concern is denaturing her
also it becomes increasingly clear
this project will eat up most of my
leave, fucking bummer, i desperately
want to get back on my novel but ive
invested too miuch into this not to do it
the very challenge of writing a viable
holybook just thrills my literary soul
ima have to make it happen
TUESDAY #30 healing
its getting better, im on #30 HEALING now
and its a little more conqueror centric
a little less preachy/teachy
but ima abandon doing it publicly, too much
added pressure, maybe when its cleaner
but you know something, im basically on schedule
got to do 9 a day to be done in about a week
thats about a week i can use to finish the bible
and whatever griotic research fragments i got
left to do, i had hoped to put the research down but
when i burn out on text might as well keep roling
all my love
rdoc
SATURDAY: FINALLY GOT A CHANCE TO DO ANOTHER
HIT, SCHOOLHOUSE DONE, THIS IS LIKE A FRAME OF
WHATS TO BE DONE, DAMN NEAR AN OUTLINE
i got to go, supposed to be on my way to the city . . .
1M:INITIATION
01: CONCIOUSNESS: ekpe abioto
so one day I man pondering the condition of the black people,
wherever in the world you got black people they are on the bottom
of their respective society, no no no say the conqueror, this will not
do, somehow someway we must transform into strengths the
weaknesses that have crippled us in global competition
ima have to work the souls of blackfolk
gon have to shape the generations
first best i see what i got to work with, just what is the condition
of the black people, best we start at the beginning
first thing i do is ask de monkey people to stand on two feet
and rickydoc de monkey doctor is my horse in this regard
and when they was ready i told them, look its time to go
let us begin the great journey. . .
02: SURVIVAL/ptah/nilevalley/
the challenge of the nile stump me for a while but soon enuf
i figure out the rhythms and gather together groups scattered
along the nile thru menes of memphis, who made egypt one, or
was it ptah of memphis who thought the world and it was so
o manetheo, o scribe in the house of life,
please name these gods for me
03: ACTION/piankhi&memphis
and the black countries of the holyland flourish
egypt, nubia, and kush, in da center of da world
i am in my prime in this the age of the nile and
a founding of civilization, doing what I do best
who am I to think I could found a way
a better way or whats the point
if I am the hope of the race we in
bigger trouble than we thought
and yet piankhi, horse of the conqueror
comes up from the sudan when called
and I am once again heartened
once again I am not alone
05: TRIAL/dedun/thefall
but the black tribes are soon driven from the coast
and egypt falls to the invaders, and in this the
land of the blacks a stele is raised that
says no black man shall pass by here
but nubia continues to resist under de call of dedun,
wargod of de Nubians, what reside on de top of
jebal barkal and make do in the hearts of all
here the kandakes say to rome, here you will not pass, consorts
of the conqueror, one eyed and bold, the wall that will not fall
04: WILL/kandakes/theageofempire
the age of empire, the rise of ghana, songhay and mali
all of them fed by gold and the mounted spears of warriors
one would rise and rule for a while then be ruled by another
here griots and scribes meet in the shadows of the university
de sankore, hidden behind the mythlated walls of timbuctu
words of power and myth and legend
I am the master of my game
06: LAW/mulsolitude/bantu&mfecane
playing for finesse on the hoodoo board of destiny
I call for the march of the bantu, listen don't you hear
the call of the conquerors conch, again it seems we march
the ravages of the mfecane must be endured,
a move that hurts the most jaded conjuror,
but lord see how the board it shifts
four, five six generations see how the board shift
or is that 6, 60, even 600, see how the board shift
07: CHARACTER/ladydouthet/westafr&swahilicoast/dignity
the challenges of the swahili coast
lessons the conjuror must learn
waves of invaders change the character
once again how do we finesse it
this cultural hybrid, this linga franca
how do we make it sing
08: SPIRITWORK/chillyb/jihad&crusades
the african way of god reels before the onslaught of the crescent
when the cross, an even stronger predator, captures them both
i see what must be done and call on the elders of jebal barkal
I have been told
the way of the desert must be made to understand
you are a guest in Africa and not a conqueror
the afrospiritual way must be made to understand,
when you come to the crossroads always strive to
be greater than you are
in de geas of rickydoc you
must be a better way
09: PURPOSE/shangoencircmnt&diprsion&passage&doorno
the encirclement, african culture devastated under
assault from north, east, west and south, with
slavery and contempt the thread, the conqueror
is defeated and has to lay low
(until i find myself once again ascendant in afroam)
DEEP, FIRST HIT WAS 3RD PERSON, JUST WENT IN AND MADE IT 1ST
A LOT OF POTENTIAL IN THAT VOICE, DECISIONS DECISIONS DECISIONS)
2M:STRUGGLE harriet tubman
10: ADVERSITY/imogunla/slavery&blcodes/rdsmmr/jcrow
remember this, say the conqueror, o ye
generations, affliction is the lot of us all
into each life there must be trouble,
into each life there must be rain
and so then were the days of slavery, when the conqueror
was most worn thru, but the elders of jebal barkal have said
you must be scattered to the 4 corners of the earth
scourged and forged in preparation of the great work
you and all your generations must be the best that you can be
to those who could not endure the conqueror gave wings
and allowed them to fly back to guinealand but for
those who choose to stay I will give you a mission
great than your adversity, I will give you a destiny
11: STRUGGLE/frdouglass/gupmorning/aprthd
I will give you struggle
In preparation of the great gitting up morning
I will give yu struggle, from the day youre born
Till the day you die I will give you struggle
And you will grow strong in struggle
you will know the way of things
you will contribute to the enhancement o
of the human condition, im my name
striving always to be
greater than you are
de geas of rickydoc
12: BLUESWORK/ekpe/jimihendrix/rootwork/delta/memphis
I find the blues congenial to my needs
and the needs of my people, some folk
think the blues about feeling bad, au
contrary, the blues about getting thru
the blues, transforming trial and tribulation
Into strength, perspective, power
the blues are a text
a healing only the
Initiated can hear
13: FORTITUDE/qmmaxine/freedom
once de blues give him a little breathing room
the conqueror decide fortitude a critical attribute
of a well rounded generational mix
being able to take the hammer and finesse it
cause the hammer gon fall, always do
o I would my generations meet any challenge, finesse
any condition, flourish under any circumstance
no system can hold down a person determined to make a way
willing and able to beat a straight lick with a very crooked stick
yes yes I know, easier said than done and
yes yes I kbow, the system the system but you
can always make progress, you can always maintain
if you walk the hoodoo path you will never accept defeat
there is always a way – and if there is none make one
slavery there were two modes, defiance and accommodation
the conqueror do like the defiant ones but it's the ones who
make a way, who forge lives, raise families, build institutions,
make a way out of no way, slavery be damned
whose to say who showed the most courage
14: ACHIEVEMENT/drbuzzard/reconstruction
civil war blackfolk did what thy could
joining the army when they could running away
to contraband camps and the cities of sanctuary
their 1st taste of this thing feedom, what does it
mean, what does it do, does it feed you, cloth you
does it make you feel good about who you are
there have always been racial uplift folk
who think achievement is the answer
not just the talented tenth achievement
but all of us in all walks of life, a race of
doersm facile in the dynamics of conjuration
making real into the world that which was not
reconstruction was a time that blackfolk made a move
the conjuror seen opportunity and he took it
demoja he call demoja and black folk made a move
running for office, building public schools, voting
uplifting hard as they could until abandoned by
the gov and at mercy of their enemies they were
pushed back and the conqueror had to call a time out
defense defense, hunker down, defend what we got
same thing in the age of trunk, circle the wagons
15: FORTUNE/lanunez/
fortune fortune, the vissicitudes thereof
the pendulum swings and swings again
this say the conqueror is how one finesses fortune
preparation is everything, and a sensivity to the flow
an ability to know before it is known and
position yourself accordingly
look say the conqueror,
these visions I give to you
16: TRANSGRESSION/staggerlee/gangsters/cthomas
a life w/o transgression is pretty much impossible
transgression against your greater self, to strive
admits the posssibilty to failure, indeed its likelihood
but strive and strive and strive we must
slaves would not have been sold to the arabs, the
europeons without the complicyt of other Africans
the buffalo soldiers, were they heros or fools
when was the last time you fell prey to some obsession
some I will never do that again, I swear this time, never again
it it's the human nature to transgress
an action for which we wil always need redemption
and so the conqueror, congnizent of his own weaknesses
said the process of redemptiuon must be a critical part
of my vision, I must provide a way for the truly reprentant
17: REDEMPTION/uncletom/empowerment
transgression once acknowledged, does not have to cripple
if you freak over it it will only grow stronger, accept that it
happened, determine the lessons to be learned, the spiritual
alchemy, make restitution to anybody who has been harmed,
said the conqueror and you will be good w/me
PROBLEM IS THAT ITS GOTTEN SELFHELP PERSONAL
ADDING BUFF SOLDIERS ETC WORKED BUT I GOT TO
MAKE THIS A CULTURAL CODING, GOT TO WORK THIS . ..
18: VICTORY/adero/longgame&anticolonial
so victory he let them enjoy themselves for a moment
before he call them down to earth, the struggle is forever
he said, this victory just the attleground for the next one
if we are not viligant this victory will soon turn sour
a luta continua the conqueror told the festive Angolans,
the struggle continues
ALSO I NOTICE DOING IT 3RD,, NOT CERTAIN
BETWEEN 1ST AND 3RD, KEEP TRYING BOTH, THEN
DETERMINE WHICH ONE I WANT TO DANCE WITH
ALSO SOME OF THE STUFF IM SAYING IMA WANT TO
USE IN LATER RIFFS, JUST USE WHATEVER COME TO MIND
NOW AND DETERMINE LATER WHAT WRKS BEST WHERE
ALSO APPARENTLY HAVE ABANDONED ATTEMPT AT GRIOTIC TONE,
WORK ON POETRY LATER, RIGHT NOW I NEED A STORYLINE, KEEP
REMINDING MYSELF, ARC OF THE CONQUERORS, GRIOTIC FLAVOR
ALSO HAVING TROUBLE MOVING FORWARD CAUSE THE
MATERIAL SO BAD BUT I TELL MY STUDENTS ALL THE TIME
LET IT BE BAD, GET THRU THAT DRAFT, LET IT BE BAD,
KEEP MOVING
3M:LIFEWORKS aunt caroline dye
19: YOUTH/zanjibarney/panafricandiaspasnewpeople
in the afrospiritual traditions that grew up in the americas
the conqueror found new life, a bastard people, a bastard tradition
stripped of their cultures and forged into a fusion of them all
a brand new peopled ruled by the hoodoo call: anytmethod anytime
and the conqueror begin building a new culture for the longhaul
the ravages of slavery will be with us for a whle but you don't
let your beginnings, no matter how difficult become an escuse
for not being the best you can be, if you gotta limp limp, if you
got to crawl crawl but like conjuror had mlk say, keep moving
20: FAMILY/deltaclanflowers/slvfam&assimi
core organizer, reality’s incubator, always got to be family 1st
me and mine against my cousins, me and my cousins
against the world, but then of course we are all of us family
every person everything say the conqueror and even in
the midst of slavery he start forging families that endured
those folk making a way out of no way they found that it
is family upon which you must buid your rock, that initial
union that is more impo than your birth family, those
children upon which the future rides, those elders upon
which you all stand, the community, the nation, the world
the universe, its planets, its galaxies, the conqueror wondered
how do I prioritize family when slavery precludes it and so he
decided I have to be flexible in my idea of what a family is
and whatever it is I got to get blackfolk to treasure it, sacrifice
for it, learn how to be tolerants of its flaws and weaknesses
while always calling on its members to be the best they an be
and so he came up with the keeper of the line, in each generation
say the conqueror one person will have to take on the responsibility
on one person the burden must be laid - the keeper of the line,
the rest must help and respect any way that they can – only
the best need apply, responsibility to the responsible – you
are the keeper of the line – my condolences, my blessings
21: EDUCATION/sjnrtruth/education/timbuctu
the one factor most determinant for our rise in this society
or any other, education, learning, I cannot emphasize this enuf,
formal, informal, the conqueror institute an appreciation for
lifelong learning, during reconstruction he came up with public
schooling for everybody, during slavery when it was against
the law for blackfolk to read and write the leaders of the
most significant revolts were artisans who had learned
the power of the word
get as much of it as you can, go as high in formal education
as you can possible go, I want you to be achievers, I want you
to value education as the hammer that break chains, but it is
against the law the slaves replied, not my law say the conqueror
lifelong learning, learning for learning sake, that's me
22: WORK/johnhenry/blaeco&prideofpro&workhabits/shrcrop
work hard, work smart, that's what the conqueror say
always do a little more than anybody else would, that's what the conqueror say
the slaves were hard workers, they had to be, but the fruit of their labor
contribute to their own degradation, and there is no pride of product
now that you working for yourself I want you to be the best worker
anybody could ever be, specially when you working for yourself
make yourself indispensable to your cohort, your unit, your institution
gain the skills you need to assert yourself in your society, to provide
security and even prosperity for you and yours, everybody got to
have a skill that's valued say the conqueror, everybody got to retool
as necessary, everybody he say, got to root out that slavery slack
have pride of product in everything we do
demoja demoja demoja, pride of product in
everything you do, that's what de conqueror say
PROBLEM IS THAT I WANT THE CONQUEROR TO HAVE
MORE AGENCY IN THE MARCH OF HISTORY/DESTINY
A LAYING ON OF THE HANDS SO TO SPEAK, KEEP
THAT IN MIND AS I MOVE FORWARD/REVISE
LOOKING OVER IT I SEE IVE LOST THE POETRY OF
EARLIER BEATS, LOOKING FOR TH STORY, GO BACK
OVER AND DO AS POETRY WHEN IM DONE W/DRAFT
23: LOVE/oshun/antar&Frnk&Jnn
of all the conquerors works, none more impo than love
love is a gift to all humanity, nothing works as it should
without love, the conqueror move to . . .(I have no idea)
love, ima assign my strongest folk to love
oshun and antar, I need you to take care of this
and all my lovers, watch over them, protect
the vulnerabilities, make them strong, give
them courage to love others, love themselves
learn to love
this when the conqueror modality
some things you just cant conquer
some powers you must submit
ALSO WONDERING IF MY EMBARRASSMENT PRECLUDES
ME DOING ANY MORE OF THIS PROTODRAFT ONLINE
WHEN THIS BOOK DROP I WANT TO HAVE CONVINCED A
FOLLOWSHIP I KNOW WHAT IM DOING, THIS THE REAL THING
SO I GOTTA LET YOU SEE THE PROCESS, BUT IT HURTS .. . .
I DONT GENERALLY PUT THE FINAL PRODUCT ONLINE, I FIGURE
IF SOMEBODY STEALS DRAFTWORK THEY STEALING TRASH
I MIGHT HAVE TO RECONSIDER HERE JUST TO PROVE THIS AINT
WHAT IM TO BE JUDGED BY, BUT OBVIOUSLY I DONT CONSIDER IT
BAD ENUF TO BE HID, SO I GUESS ALL THE ANGST JUST FRONT . . .
24: FINANCE/mamabigmoney/poverty
the conqueror decide nthing can be done wo finance, not
just getting money but using it wisely, capital formation
he find blackfolk spending they money on clothes and such
on looking good before they take care of their fundamentals
fundamentals 1st say the conqueror, investment, capital formation
master the intricacs of finance, both personal and the sophisticated
just enuf to provide security, prosperity, agency
using your money wisely more impo than making it
OKAY THAT'S IT, I CANT HACK DOING IT ONLINE
NO MORE, ITS JUST TOO RAW, ITS JUST TOO RAW
QUIT WHINING RICK, KEEP ROLLING . . .
DONT JUDGE TILL YOU DONE, ONLY THEN WILL
WILL KNOW IF YOU HAVE WON OR FAILED
25: MATURITY/msturbee/
maturity in all things, say the conqueror, in all things
In all stages conduct yourself in a manner mature for your age
aspire to be an old soul
PROBLEM IS GIVING ALL THIS TO THE CONQUEROR
JUST GIVING MY VISION OF THESE MOVEMENT DOES
NOT SUFFICE, MOVING TOO FAST, HAVE TO BACKTRACK . .
FUCK . . . .
26: ELDERSHIP/gmmorrison/
de babas and de mambos
age plus wisdom equal respect
and me say the conqueror im
de oldest one of them all
de queen mother morrison is such a diva
de conqueror love her divas so, specially
when they reach that fusion of wisdom
and heart that make a queen mother
queen mother morrison, queen mother
moore, baba john and baba amiri and them
the queen mothers of memphis, miram
and maxine and elise and eloise and them
don't nothing please the conqueror more
than annointing a welldeserved eldership
one day might I count myself
amongst the august company
27: DEATH/dabaron/congo
the conjuror does not believe that death is to be feared
and/or final, we are all of us immortal in the hoodoo way
when the conjuror come to America he find death
waiting in many guises de baron walk among us
but the conqueror does not fear death
da baron come for us all, the conqueror
Require you live a good life, one rich in
grace and service, and then death will
not sting, all things in their time
the conqueror ask you go easy
with the assurance of a job well done
and if you find yourself checking out
early such is the gamble of life, hopefully
you have made a contribution, no matter
how modest, hopefully you have spent your
limited time on the planet well
that's all I ask
4M:CHANGES ida b wells
changes are inevitable, the only rule that
does not change is that everything else will
everything is in a state of being and if you
can position yourself w/some rootwork
you can work the roots of things
the conqueror ask my lady ida b
if she will watch over the changes
give folk what they need to finesse them
an ability to see what is not seen, know
what is not known and to ride the changes
before they fully assert themselves and can
still be shaped to your benefit, once they
settle its much harder to finesse them
28: REBIRTH/macandal
once the conqueror understand the death
that is slavery, that is underclass, the
conqueror have to figure out how to
finesse the hammer and be born again
the hammer is never the end for the
dedicated conjure, just a stepping stone
thats where the conqueror get to play
got to work the souls of blackfolk
get them past this historical trickbag
the conqueror pulled macandal from the fire
the blacks had been called to see their wanga man die
when macandal leaped from the flames the cry went up
macandal lives, macandal lives, and conqueror had his way
and the babajohn was born in
waycross Georgia, holyground
29: MOJO/sekousundiata
that's when the conqueror call on the mojo
spreading mojo like holy goober dust
he spread the mojo liberally, make sure
there are many ways of refreshing your mojo
the easiest one is the high john de conquer root
the soul of the conqueror reside there
to come when called
the conqueror come to sekou bearing mojo, sekou sundiata, de
leader of the pack and what a pack, there will never be another like
it the conqueror is pleased, our generation has known struggle
30: HEALING/drflowers/aids
I walk in my fathers footsteps, he felt responsibility
for the health of the colored folk of south memphis
he took care of their bodies, I take care of their souls
I would my way be a healing way, In every
way every word I want to be healing things
Healing folk, healing things the conjuror muse
when he realize aids had an affinity for the black soul
When aids came along the conjuror was thrown
why us lord, don't we have enuf problems, demoja
demoja, the conchorn called demoja but no one answer
and the conqueror muse that a culture that does
Not respond to cultural dangers and adjust itself
In a timely manner is not a viable culture, surely
there must be some way of indicating a cultural challenge
and necessary change, something the culture trust,
demoja demoja
shortgame should have been to immediately change destructive
behavior, fidelity, health practice, policies, etc, longgame finesse
the hammer by turning it into strength, making healthy practice a
cultural trope, ital living, ital diet, all tings ital, then we will have
finessed the hammer, otherwise its just a cultural tragedy,
finesse it and we stronger for it
demoja demoja demoja
31: JOURNEYS/htubman/mansamusa/migrations7points/URR
whenever I travel I ask high haint harriet tubman
to see me thru, to see my safely home
the conqueror was not as first convinced she would
be the horse that he needed to give all the blacks fleeing
into the woods and following the north star what they
needed to survive that challenge but harriet stepped up
when she got herself free she went back for the rest of her
family and always brought her charges thru, never lost
a passenger she told the conqueror when he inqujired
never have, never will
that made the conqueror smile, would that all her horses
came on that strong, ima put you in charge of all my travelers
she told her, I want you to get them where they going
I want you to get them safely home - demoja demoja demoja
32: TIMING/kibiru
its all in the timing, the conqueror told kibiru
high mganga of the masai when the euros came
and took the highlands of kenya from them, when
the warriors came for their blessings the conqueror
advised him to tell them do no throw their spears
the timing is not right, hold back the spears and
remain a functioning peoples and we will mau mau
our way back, throw now and we will be destroyed
as a people
ita always in the timing, the conqueror says, the right
move for one time might be the wrong one for another,
always move in concert with time
33: KNOWLEDGE/webdubois/secrets
from experience knowledge
from knowledge wisdom
from wisdom grace
there is no power like knowledge
the conqueror once told dubois
with knowledge you can move mountains
seek it for all the rest of your days
knowledge that knows the heart of power
the knowledge that changes things
34: RESPONSIBILITY&DUTY/bababoykin
baba boykin, he who has always had my back
he who has never let me down, in the name of the
conqueror, he who always comes thru
he who does the hard things
and fills them all w/grace
love thy duty
35: GROWTH/ragadasi/
I have known ragadasi as robin the wild and free
I have known her as makeda the queen of struggle
and I have known her as ragadasi, she who seeks
each time she has been in search of a greater self
guided at all time by the conqueror
without growth what the point adversity other than suffering
it is because you use the hammer to grow that it has value
grow or fall behind
36: TRANSFORMATION/ladyoya/estevan
when estevan found himself stranded in the
americas, slave to one of 3 spaniards, lone survivors of
an expedition making their way across the continent
it was the conqueror advised him to take on
the role of rain maker, the kachina estevan, black and
strange and dazzling furs and feathers, beads and turquiose
gathering followers who followed him from here to there,
as the kachina _________, still called on to this very day
here the conqueror told Estevan, draw on the power of oya here
goddess of wind and storm and transformations, call on oya
to do what must be done, we are all of us in the making
and those of us not in transition are the walking dead
conduct yourself as you aspire to be and
you are – this is the essence of conjuration
5M:SERVICE martin luther king
37: STEWARDSHIP/rashuiI/rasta
LAST SUNDAY I BELIEVE, I BEEN CRUNCHING SCHOOLHOUSE
so this is the outline of my text, my 81 movements
this is like the 1st 9
i need an arc of the conqueror that provides a narrative thread
so ima do it here unless it turns out too embarrassing, beause
this will be raw speculation that will be awful but i need a draft
if i am going to polish something worthwhile by end of the year
i just need something to work with, be nice to do 9 a day but
im still in schoolhouse clearance, 9 a day is likely impossible
whatever, i need a thread so i got to do one . . .
1M:INITIATION ekpe aboito
01: CONSCIOUSNESS /legba/dawnpeople/monkeydoc
so one day the conqueror pondering the condition of the black
people, wherever in the world you got black people they are
on the bottom of their respective society, no no no say the conqueror
this will not do, somehow someway we must transform into
strengths the weaknesses that have crippled us in global competition
ima have to work the souls of blackfolk
gon have to shape the generations
first best i see what i got to work with, just what is the condition
of the black people, best we start at the beginning
first thing i do is ask the monkey people to stand on two feet
the monkey doctor is my horse in this regard
and when they were ready i told them it was time to go
let us begin the great journey. . .
02: SURVIVAL/ptah/nilevalley/
the challenge of the nile stump me for a while but soon enuf
i figure out the rhytms and gather together the scattered
groups thru menes of memphis, who made egypt one
03: ACTION/piankhi&memphis
and the black countries of the holyland flourished
egypt, nubia, and kush, the center of the world
i am in my prime in the age of the nile, flourishing
piankhi, horse of the conqueror came
up from the sudan when called
05: TRIAL/dedun/thefall
the black tribes driven from the coast
egypt falls to the invaders, nubia resists
under the call of dedun, wargod of de nubians
and horse of the conqueror
04: WILL/kandakes/theageofempire
the age of empire, the rise of ghana, songhay and mali
the i revel in the mastery of my game
06: LAW/mulsolitude/bantu&mfecane
playing for finesse on the hoodoo board of destiny the conqueror call for the march of the bantu
the ravages of the mfecane must be endured, a move that hurts the most jaded conjuror, the board shifts
07: CHARACTER/ladydouthet/westafr&swahilicoast/dignity
the challenges of the swahili coast
lessons the conjuror must learn
08: SPIRITWORK/chillyb/jihad&crusades
the african way of god reeling before the onslaught of islam
when even stronger predator captures both
i see what must be done and call on the elders of jebal barkal
09: PURPOSE/shangoencircmnt&diprsion&passage&doorno
the encirclement, african culture devasted under
assault from north, east, west and south, with
slavery and contempt the thread, the conqueror
is defeated and has to lay low
(untili find myself once again ascendent in afroam)
DEEP, FIRST HIT WAS 3RD PERSON, JUST WENT IN AND MADE IT 1ST
A LOT OF POTENTIAL IN THAT VOICE, DECISIONS DECISIONS DECISIONS)
I HAVE GOT TO QUIT, I GOT TO GET MY SCHOOLWORK DONE
I HAVE PUSHED THAT TO THE VERY LAST MINUTE I CAN STILL DO IT
OBVIOUSLY WILL HAVE TO CHECK THE HISTORY, DOING IT FROM
MEMORY AND TRYING TO MAKE IT FIT THE CHRONO FORMAT -
(HAD TO MOVE 4/5 AROUND, LEFT # TO REMIND ME DO IT IN TEXT)
THEN I GOT TO FIGURE OUT THE ARC OF THE CONQUEROR FOR EACH BEAT
AND MAKE THEM ALL WORK, THATS WHAT I GOT TO DO, BUT RIGHT NOW
I GOT TO GO . . .
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