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APRIL Birthstone Rosary // St. Ann

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“The Ordinance of Baptism at Brownstown Jamaica"

George Baxter, after Joseph Bartholomew Kidd. “The Ordinance of Baptism as administered by the missionaries connected with the Baptist Missionary Society to 135 persons near Brown’s Town, in Jamaica, in 1843,” colored wood engraving. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

The Jesuit priest Abraham J. Emerick, who served as a missionary in Jamaica (1895–1905), indicated that “Mialists” wore white robes during their ceremonies, and he linked this feature to the white robes donned by Revivalists and Bedwardites during the early twentieth century. White was and remains the most prominent color symbolizing the world of invisible powers (deities,spirits, ancestors, etc.) in West and Central Africa.

Witnessing or undergoing the baptism ritual likely would have reinforced the numinosity of the color white and the involvement of invisible entities beyond the Christian Trinity in a transformative initiatory experience for African converts, whether of Igbo, Asante, or Kongo heritage. These three groups and their neighbors composed the largest percentage of Africans to enter Jamaica during the entire transatlantic slave trade. In particular, the Kongo kingdom, which had come under Catholic influence beginning in the late fifteenth century, gave Jamaica’s Myal tradition its name and purpose.

BaKongo groups interpreted bodies of water as a boundary between the visible and invisible worlds. Moreover, the Simbi, a class of guardian spirits associated with waterfalls, springs, rock formations, and other phenomena in nature, might have edged their way into the theological imagination of some candidates as they waded and were washed in the water.

In Kongo, those initiated into the societies of ritual and healing experts were capable of contacting invisible forces that could remedy social and personal afflictions. Myal societies in effect were reconstituted ritual societies of Kongo persuasion mirroring the healing activities of Lemba, Nkimba, Kimpasi, and Ndembo custodians in Central Africa.

The baptismal death and resurrection purification rite performed through candidates’ immersion into and rising from the water had a counterpart in Jamaica’s African spiritual traditions. The Myal death and resurrection rituals in which novitiates would appear lifeless until ceremonial experts resurrected them into a new life of knowledge and ritual leadership within the society are perhaps the most tangible examples we have on record today. If Myal members wore flowing white robes before the Baptist tradition came to Jamaica, extant pre emancipation descriptions of the society do not make any mention of it.

The Christian rite of baptism, in which candidates — adorned in ankle-length white robes — encountered the numinous in the natural environment, would have cemented the connections that Africans seeking to belong to two over-lapping worlds (the Baptist and the Myal) were bound to draw between them.

In the Victorian universe of Christian denominations, the Baptist tradition bended most pliably toward African modes of religious apprehension. Initiation into this legitimate society offered converts access to knowledge, power, enhanced training, and status — all social goods that allowed them the best chances to prosper in post emancipation Jamaica. For Baptist converts with comparable commitments to Myal denominations, the same social goods obtained within the private cosmos they constructed among themselves, a world they understood as theologically and spiritually conversant with some of the central symbols and rituals of the Baptist faith.

From the Book - Victorian Jamaica:

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JAMAICA VLOG PINNED 🖤💛💚🇯🇲

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Troy Ellis, 27, was formally charged for the rape and murder of Talia Thompson, 8.

https://youtu.be/LGyDvMVw-wc

Then acted shy and innocent — even pulled his lips in. Naked!!

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Y’all would NOT BELIEVE what I found in a random store today

Best $10 I ever spent

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Bamboo, St Ann, Jamaica

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🌼 poems (and a love letter) that helped me live through july 🌼

One Or Two Things, Mary Oliver

Kitchen Song, Laura Kasischke

The Breathing, Denise Levertov

Trapped, Charles Bukowski

Precognition, Margaret Atwood

Rain, John Burnside

Looking, Walking, Being, Denise Levertov

At Joan's, Frank O'Hara

You, Carol Ann Duffy

Time, Louise Gluck

Effort at Speech Between Two People, Muriel Rukeyser

Still, A. R. Ammons

Sonnet XL, Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sonnet XLIII, Edna St. Vincent Millay

Listen, W. S. Merwin

A Thin Line, Ryuichi Tamura (translated by Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko Tsumura)

Driveway, Richard Siken

The Sentence, Anna Akhmatova

Wanting to Die, Anne Sexton

Eating Together, Kim Addonizio

The Look, Sara Teasdale

The Starry Night, Anne Sexton

Hammond B3 Organ Cistern, Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946

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Church of St. Anne, Kraków, Poland | Michał Skarbiński

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THEY ARE MY ROMAN EMPIRE ⭐️🎉🎟

(( also my first patre♥n voted fan art! :D!!!! ))

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Star Trek: The Next Generation // S03E03: The Survivors

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I WILL LOVE YOU IF I NEVER SEE YOU AGAIN, AND I WILL LOVE YOU IF I SEE YOU EVERY TUESDAY // ON LOVE IN BETTER DAYS

Mary Haskell // 少年的你 Better Days (2019) dir. Derek Tsang // Anne Sexton A Self-Portrait in Letters (via @flowerytale) // 少年的你 Better Days (2019) dir. Derek Tsang // Sylvain Reynard Gabriel's Inferno // Sue Zhao // Edna St. Vincent Millay Iterim Poem // 少年的你 Better Days (2019) dir. Derek Tsang // 엔하이픈 ENHYPEN Fate // Sam Sax // 少年的你 Better Days (2019) dir. Derek Tsang // Taylor Swift Say Don't Go (Taylor's Version) [From the Vault]

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Blue Hole, St. Ann, Ocho Rios, Jamaica: The Blue Hole is 25 minutes drive from Ocho Rios, A place where the fun never ends. Local and tourist visit this beautiful place to swim, jump and rope swing... Ocho Rios means Eight Rivers is a town in the parish of Saint Ann on the north coast of Jamaica, and is more widely referred to as Ochi by locals. Beginning as a sleepy fishing village, Ocho Rios has seen explosive growth in recent decades to become a popular tourist destination featuring duty-free shopping, a cruise-ship terminal, world-renowned tourist attractions and several beaches and acclaimed resorts. Wikipedia

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It's fall, which means I need my emotional support vampire books.