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21 Savage I am > I was

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The word, Zombie, refers to the reanimation, or resurrection, of a dead human corpse.  Zombies are often referenced in fictional horror stories.  However, the reality of Zombies, and the symbolism associated with zombies, has a long history throughout antiquity.  The word, Zombie, came into the English language from Haitian folklore.  In Haitian Vodou, the high priest, or sorcerer, called a Bokor, is able to reanimate the dead using what is perceived as magical necromancy.  In reality, the sorcerer gives a living person a potion containing a poison extracted from a puffer fish, which causes the drinker to appear paralyzed as though they were dead.  The sorcerer then buries the person in a shallow grave.  When the paralyzing potion wears off, the person is able to crawl out of the shallow grave, and to onlookers, it appears that the dead have arisen.  The sorcerer then intercepts the newly risen zombie, and gives the person mind altering drugs called Datura, which makes the person act detached in a dreamlike state, and able to be mind-controlled by the sorcerer.  At this point, the person has been "reanimated" from the grave, and doing the bidding of the sorcerer, and can be termed a Zombie.  In Haitian Vodou, “Zombi” is another name for the Loa energy “Damballah”, who rules over life, animation, mind, and intellect.  Damballah is known as Obatallah in Nigeria.  In the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria, Obatallah is the creator, shaper, and animator of human bodies from clay, much like the Islamic God Allah, who animates lifeless clay, and the Ancient Egyptian deity Khnum, who also animates lifeless clay. In the Bible, Jesus creates a zombie when he resurrects Lazarus from the dead.  In fact, Jesus himself can be seen as a Zombie god, or dying and rising god, much like Osiris from Ancient Egypt.  The process of creating Zombies, Mummies, or reanimating the dead, can be found throughout Africa.  The word Zombie, from Haitian Vodou, comes from the Central African Congo word, zumbi, which means fetish, and, Nzambi, which refers to the life, vitality, and the energetic source of all creation, and movement.  The African Congo word Nzambi, is akin to other words found in a multitude of traditional African systems including, Njambe, Nyambe, Nyame, Nyamma, Amba, Amma, Ama, Amit, and the Ancient Egyptian deity, Amun.  The Ancient Egyptians also had a ceremony which was used to animate statues and deceased bodies, called the “Opening of the Mouth” ceremony.  In the year 2012, there was an epidemic called the, “Zombie Apocalypse,” due to a number of people using drugs laced with “bath salts,” which caused the person to act with mindless Zombie-like behaviors. In fiction, a Zombie Apocalypse occurs when a widespread rise of zombies, hostile to human life, engages in an assault on civilization.  The rise of Zombies, and the spread of Zombification in fiction, is usually spread by some illness, sickness, mental disease, or plague.  In recent years, the number of TV shows and movies about Zombies has also increased, including, Night of the Living Dead, The Mummy, I am Legend, i-Frankenstein, i-Zombie, and The Walking Dead.  As previously mentioned, the word Zombie, is related to the word Amun, which means “Hidden”.  The word, “Apocalypse,” means, to uncover, disclose, or reveal.  So, a Zombie Apocalypse actually means, “to reveal what is hidden.”  So let’s reveal the hidden symbolism of Zombies.  The three major monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, all promote the concept of Zombies, with the belief that one day, there will be a day of resurrection, where all the dead people will rise from their graves to be judged by God.  First of all, any intelligent person can reason out that there is no such thing that one day, the bodies of all physically dead people are going to rise from their graves and take on form and life again. That is against The Laws of Nature.  Furthermore, even if a physical resurrection could happen, there would not be enough room on Planet Earth to hold all human bodies that existed, going back to the beginning of the Evolution of Humanity, 10 million years ago. Therefore, since Zombies and resurrection cannot occur in reality, then this means it must be symbolic.  Much like Vampires, Zombies are undead, and are symbolic of people living during this current time of the moon cycle of death.  The sun cycle and moon cycle of time also represent different levels of mental activity.  Like day and night, you are more mentally active during the day when you are awake, and you are less mentally active at night when you sleep. Likewise, during the Sun Cycle, people are mentally alive, and, during the Moon Cycle, people are mentally dead. Zombies represent the mentally dead, this is why zombies are depicted as mindless.  This is also why Zombies want to “eat your brains,” because they need brains, because they lack brains, or are mentally dead.  Like Zombies in fiction, the Zombie virus of mental death can spread, and is infectious and contagious.   The mentally dead are all people who are sheeple, not conscious, not woke, and ignorant about the basic laws and Knowledge of Absolute Nature.  There are 3 kinds of Death, Mental Death, Spiritual Death, and Physical Death.  You can be resurrected from all the forms of death except for physical death.  Resurrection from the Zombie state of Mental death occurs when people mentally awake, and rise from the graves of ignorance, deception, and unconsciousness.  If you are indeed rising from the grave of Mental Death toward Mental Life, you will indeed survive the Zombie Apocalypse.  

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Spawn’s name is Al Simmons.  The name Al, is related to the Hebrew word, El, which is found in the names of the Angels and Demons soldiers, in the war of Heaven and Hell like, Gabri’El, Micha’El, and Sama’El.  In life, Al Simmons was an atheist and highly trained black-ops soldier and assassin for the CIA.  Once he begins to question the justification for the missions he is being sent on, his boss betrays him, and orders Al to be killed.  Al is killed by being burned alive by his friend and co-worker named Bruce Stinson, code-named, Chapel, who paints his face in the same manner as a voodoo priest who creates zombies.  Little do they know, this action by Chapel will lead to Al becoming a reanimated corpse, or Zombie, with superpowers, named Spawn.  The Spawn Comics were published by Image Comics, which also published another popular comic about Zombies called, “The Walking Dead”.  After death, Al goes to hell because he was an atheist, and because of all the killing he did as a soldier and assassin in life.  Once in hell, Al makes a deal with the devil where he promises to lead the devil’s army in return for the opportunity to see his wife Wanda, one more time.  Once Al acquiesces to the devil’s deal, he is resurrected as a hellspawn, or Spawn, infused with dark energy matter, called necroplasm, and a symbiotic suit bonded with his central nervous system, which grants him the powers of, super strength, super speed, super agility, endurance, the ability to heal, immortality, teleportation, shapeshifting, the ability to resurrect the dead, and the ability to project necroplasmic energy blasts.  Once resurrected, Spawn functions as an anti-hero.  Ultimately, Spawn refuses to lead the army of Hell against Heaven, and turns away from evil.  But also, Spawn refuses to be a pawn used by Heaven, in the war against Hell, as he realizes that both sides have “blood on their hands”.  He decides to be a holy warrior on the middle path, and fights against the forces of heaven and hell.  In one issue, Spawn fights against God and Satan, and was able to transport them to another dimension.  The colors of Spawn’s suit, red, black, and white, are the colors of the Vodun Orisha named Elegua, Esu, or Papa legba, the guard of the crossroads between life and death.  The primary color of Spawn’s suit is black, and the story of Spawn mirrors the Ancient Egyptian Osiris myth, with Osiris being known as, “the lord of the perfect Black”.  Osiris is also depicted as the color green, which is the color of Spawn’s necroplasmic energy.  In the Osiris myth, the wife of Osiris, named Isis, is the cause for his resurrection, and Al Simmons wife, name Wanda, is the cause for Spawn’s resurrection.  In the story of Osiris, he did not impregnate his wife in life, and in the story of Spawn, he also was unable to impregnate his wife in life.  The creator of the Spawn comic book character said that he originally envisioned Spawn to be from outer space, rather than the underworld.  The Ancient Egyptians, who worshipped Osiris, used the star symbol to indicate both outer space and the underworld, which they called the Duat.  In outer space, Osiris was symbolized by the constellation of Orion, which the Ancient Egyptians called, Sahu.  The Ancient Egyptians believed that the stars did not just inhabit this world, but the stars also existed in the land of the afterlife, as well. The Ancient Egyptians believed that your soul could ascend to the sky to live as a star in heaven.  The story of Spawn, from life, death, and resurrection, mirrors many other myths from antiquity of, zombie gods, or dying-and-rising deities, including, Osiris, Tammuz, and Jesus Christ.  

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Doctor Brother Voodoo – Black Magic vs White Magic

Yo. I call on the spirits to open the way.  I call on the ancestors to clear the path.  And, I call on  you, to make yourself receptive, to the message which is being delivered.  You must know that Spirit Magic exists in opposites, called White Magic and Black Magic.  Practitioners of White magic usually describe Black Magic as negative.  And, practitioners of Black magic, usually describe White Magic as negative.  The reality is, Magic is Magic.  What makes it positive or negative is based on the intentions of the practitioner.  Both White Magic and Black Magic have their right hand paths, and left hand paths.  The right hand path is used to describe magic with positive intentions, and the left hand path is used to describe magic with negative intentions.  Like White Light and Black Light, both White Magic and Black Magic come from a common source, Ancient Egypt.  White Magic was perfected by the European Witches, Warlocks, Wiccans, and Druids, and eventually gave rise to modern religions like Christianity.  In white magic, the letter K is added to the word Magick to discriminate between Magic for the purpose of entertainment, versus Magick used for harnessing energies to alter self, others, or the environment.   Black Magic was perfected by the people of Africa and their descendants, and eventually gave rise to various animistic traditions throughout Africa and in the Caribbean and the Americas.  In Marvel Comics, Doctor Strange represents White Magic, and Doctor Brother Voodoo represents Black Magic.  Both characters held the title of Sorcerer Supreme at different points in time.  In Ancient Egypt, Black Magic had two distinctions known by the names Heka and Aakhu.  Much like Magick and Magic respectively, Heka was magic used for the purpose of healing, and Aakhu was magic used for the purpose of trickery and entertainment.  When the Magical practices left Ancient Egypt, they diverged into Black Magic and White Magic.  In South and Central Africa, Black Magic is called ngoma or “gang”, and relates to wisdom, knowledge, and skill.  The root, “ang”, can be seen in the name for the practitioners of Black Magic in South and Central Africa.  In South Africa, the practitioner of Black Magic is called a Sangoma or Iyanga.  In Swahili, mganga refers to a traditional healer, or African witchdoctor.  Among the Shona people of Zimbabwe, a N'anga is a traditional healer who uses a combination of herbs and spiritual advice to heal people.  The Bantu people use the word Nganga for a herbalist or spiritual healer, and this word is also used by their descendants in Haiti, Brazil, and Cuba who were taken during the transatlantic slave trade.  This can also be seen in the manifestation of Black Magic in West Africa known as Vodun.  West African descendants who were brought to the Americas and the Caribbean during the transatlantic slave trade use various versions of the word Vodun to describe their Black Magic, including  Cuban Vodú, Puerto Rican and Dominican Vudú, Haitian Vodou, New Orleans Louisiana Voodoo, deep southern Hoodoo, and Brazilian Vodum, also called  Candomblé Jejé.  In these traditions, the spirits are known as loa or Orisha.  In modern times, the systems of Palo, Santeria, and Lucumí aim to reunite Black Magic with White magic through the combination of synchronizing the Black Magic loa or Orisha spirits, with the White Magic Catholic saints.  The pantheon of Orisha can also be found in the traditional practices of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, where the male spiritual priest is called a Babaaláwo and the female spiritual priestess is called a Iyalawo, meaning father and mother of mysteries, respectively.  In Vodun, the female priestess is called Vodunsi, and the male priest is called Vodunon.  In Ghana, the spiritual priest is called Okomfo, and one such powerful African shaman was named Okomfo Anokye, who helped establish the Ashanti Kingdom.  Haitian Vodou also helped Toussaint Louverture during the Haitian Revolution.  In Haitian Vodou, the female priestess is called a mambo, and the male priest is called a Houngan, which is derived from the word Hounnongan of the Fon people of Dahomey in the country of Benin in Africa, and is similar to the word Hogon, the name for a spiritual leader amongst the Dogon people of Mali.  While each of these systems are separate and distinct, they share common practices and syncretic traditions.  Another Black Magic occult science from the African Congo is called Bò, or O bò , whose priests are called Bòkônon or Bòkôtônon.  The occult science of Bò is not Vodun but elements of Vodun can be seen in the rituals of Bò, and it summons spirits from the Vodun pantheon.  In Haitian Vodou and Puerto Rican and Dominican Vudú, the highest initiation rank is to become a high priest called a Bokor, or priestess called a Caplata, who are said to serve the loa spirits “with both hands”.  The Black magic of Bokors includes the creation of zombies, and the creation of talismans called Ouangas which house spirits.  Other names for these talismans which house spirits are N’Kondi, Nkisi, Nail Fetishes, Gris-Gris, Mojo, Juju, Voodoo Dolls, and Hoodoo poppets.  The term Obia is also used to refer to a talisman or object which houses a spirit, and has roots to the Ashanti word “Obayifo” meaning “witchcraft”, and the Igbo word “dibia” meaning healer.  These talismans are also sometimes called “medicine bags” as they may be small bags containing one or more magical items.  The fact that words like doctor, healer, herbalist, and medicine come up so frequently when discussing Black magic has to do with the fact that Black Magic had its origins in Ancient Egypt with Heka, which was used for the purpose of healing.  As it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end.

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Malcolm X is Magneto and Professor X is Dr. King! And mutants are black folk

Martin Luther King, AKA MLK, AKA Professor MLK was much like the Professor X many have read in the comics or watched in the movies. Like the vast majority again though, most only knew of the pacifist MLK they like to push in our history books. His views turned more radical and ultimately led to his assassination.

Malcolm X, AKA Magneto X was a brother in arms for MLK. Their views widely differed for some time. You have X who believed we blacks as a people should not only come together, but get things done by any means necessary when we do.

The American Civil Rights movement inspired many people, including Marvel Comic’s mastermind writers Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. They have created some of the most powerful superheroes in the comic universe but did you know some of these characters were influenced by actual real life heroes in history? Lee and Kirby used the iconic civil rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X as the inspiration behind the characters Charles Xavier aka Professor X and Erik Lehnsherr aka Magneto, the creators of the X-Men. Rather than fighting aliens and criminals, they fought against the oppression mutants faced on a daily basis in society, albeit by different methods. Much like MLK Jr. and Malcolm X, Professor X chose a non-violent approach and Magneto took more of a defensive stance against violent oppression and prejudice.

It’s presumed in comic book lore that Magneto is a villain but Stan Lee had a different perspective when he created the character. Stan Lee says about the metal warping mutant, “I did not think of Magneto as a bad guy. He was just trying to strike back at the people who were so bigoted and racist. He was trying to defend mutants, and because society was not treating them fairly, he decided to teach society a lesson. He was a danger of course, but I never thought of him as a villain.”

Even in the film adaptations of the X-Men series, Michael Fassbender who plays the role of Magneto, admits the iconic figures were inspiration for their on-screen portrayals.  “It came up early on in the rehearsal period and that was the path we took”, says Michael Fassbender, “These two brilliant minds coming together and their views aren’t that different on some key things. As you watch them you know that if their understanding, ability and intelligence could somehow come together it would be really special. But the split is what makes them even more interesting and tragic.” The Hero Complex, LA Times

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created the powerful mutant during the height of American civil rights movement and used famed civil rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X as the inspiration behind the Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr. Both men openly fought against the oppression mutants experienced on a daily basis, but while Professor X chose a more peaceful and diplomatic approach, Magneto thought a more forceful and aggressive tone was needed. Said Stan Lee about Magento: [I] did not think of Magneto as a bad guy. He was just trying to strike back at the people who were so bigoted and racist. He was trying to defend mutants, and because society was not treating them fairly, he decided to teach society a lesson. He was a danger of course, but I never thought of him as a villain.