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Bamboo, St Ann, Jamaica

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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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St. Ann's Bay in Jamaica

British vintage postcard

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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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#OTD in 1720 – One of the most successful pirates, a feisty Cork-born red-head, called Anne Bonny, avoided execution after Calico Jack’s ship was captured by a band of pirate-hunters.

Anne Bonny was the illegitimate daughter of lawyer William Cormac and his housemaid. They immigrated to America after Anne’s birth and settled on a plantation near Charleston, South Carolina. A headstrong young woman ‘with a fierce and courageous temper’, she eloped with James Bonny against her father’s wishes. James took her to a pirates’ lair in New Providence in the Bahamas, but in 1718, when…

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Seville Greathouse (Seville Heritage Park), St. Ann, Jamaica

Mark Phinn Photography

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Ready for Some Fun? Video Call Quinn Watson in St. Ann’s Bay Today

Ready for Some Fun? Video Call Quinn Watson in St. Ann’s Bay Today Who’s looking for a free video call with Quinn Watson from St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. She’s looking for someone who’s in to some kinks as joi, cei and a little bit cbt. If you’re nearby and interested in something exciting and fun, She’d love to get to know you better. You can test the the water by a free video call from here. You…

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Singles night St. Ann’s Bay: Isabella Reed seeking casual meetup

Singles night St. Ann’s Bay: Isabella Reed seeking casual meetup Hey all, I’m Isabella Reed from St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica and I’m looking for a local connection, who’s near by me and want a good date with me. Are you seeking someone special in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica? Meet Isabella Reed, a vibrant 38-year-old who’s ready to blend her passion for travel with the excitement of finding a new…

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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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Moneague Hotel in St. Ann, Jamaica

British vintage postcard

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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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