The Black God's Drums

The Black God's Drums PDF Author: P. Djèlí Clark
Publisher: Tordotcom
ISBN: 1250294703
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
Rising science fiction and fantasy star P. Djèlí Clark brings an alternate New Orleans of orisha, airships, and adventure to life in his immersive debut novella The Black God's Drums. Alex Award Winner! In an alternate New Orleans caught in the tangle of the American Civil War, the wall-scaling girl named Creeper yearns to escape the streets for the air--in particular, by earning a spot on-board the airship Midnight Robber. Creeper plans to earn Captain Ann-Marie’s trust with information she discovers about a Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls The Black God’s Drums. But Creeper also has a secret herself: Oya, the African orisha of the wind and storms, speaks inside her head, and may have her own ulterior motivations. Soon, Creeper, Oya, and the crew of the Midnight Robber are pulled into a perilous mission aimed to stop the Black God’s Drums from being unleashed and wiping out the entirety of New Orleans. “A sinewy mosaic of Haitian sky pirates, wily street urchins, and orisha magic. Beguiling and bombastic!”—New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Drums and Shadows

Drums and Shadows PDF Author: Writers' Program (U.S.). Georgia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
This collection of oral folklore from coastal Georgia was assembled during the 1930s as part of a WPA writers' program, under the supervision of Mary Granger. The accounts in this book, framed by colorful descriptions of the rural locales where they were collected, were principally from elderly African-Americans, some of them centarians. Most had been slaves. In some cases they had known first generation slaves who had been born in Africa. This book focuses on a set of beliefs and magical practices (some of which are today known as 'Hoodoo'), including root doctoring, the existence of spirits, talismans, lucky and unlucky acts and omens and more. The interviewer also investigates the use of drums and dancing during celebrations, funeral and baptism rituals, food taboos, and other aspects of folklore and ethnology. This study dispels any lingering doubt that these beliefs are derived directly from Africa--it exhaustively cross-references the narratives with an appendix of quotes from African ethnographers, folklorists and explorers. Do not be put off by the use of phonetic dialect spelling. This is not being used here to belittle the speakers or cast them as ignorant. Rather, this book is scrupulously non-judgmental. This is simply how oral accounts were transcribed before there were portable tape recorders or camcorders. It takes a bit of work, but after a few pages, these potent and long-dead voices come to life.

Drums and Shadows

Drums and Shadows PDF Author: Georgia Writer's Project
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781612790558
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description

Legacy of the Black Gods in Time Before Time, Coming Forth from the Akashic Records

Legacy of the Black Gods in Time Before Time, Coming Forth from the Akashic Records PDF Author: Paul Simons
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906169480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
THERE WAS A TIME BEFORE time, when the Blackman knew everything that there was to know. He was in tune with the Forces of Nature - his Ancestors, the spirits of the Black Gods; he was in tune with the Universe; and, he was thus in tune with his Creator, - the Aum-nipotent, the Aum-niscient, and the Aum-nipresent. He has since forgotten that his DNA holds the knowledge of All things; he has forgotten that the knowledge of the Universe is stored within his genetic makeup; and, he has forgotten his intimate connection with the Mentality of his Creator. It is time for him to remember; the time is Now; and he must reconnect with the Universal Mind of the Creator, for this is the ultimate Rapture. This book, the most compelling thus far of the works of Paul Simons, gives us a History of the Ancient Peoples, and the seven root-races of the Earth, in such detail and in a way that has never been written or narrated by anyone of modern times. He draws from the works of the most profound scholars and historians and skillfully interpolates these findings into a context that deligently spells out 'The Legacy of the Black Gods - In Time before time; Coming Forth From the Akashic Records. The work also gives us a history of the Evolution of Mankind from Ganawah, to the Lemurian, to the Atlantean and to the Aryan Epochs. The book is therefore designed to resurrect the Souls of the most ancient Peoples of the Earth - the Afrokhan

African Drums

African Drums PDF Author: Fred Puleston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258833329
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.

Drums and Shadows

Drums and Shadows PDF Author: Mary Granger
Publisher:
ISBN: 1605060186
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
Set against the background of the antebellum slave trade, Drums and Shadows traces the persistence of African heritage in the culture of blacks living on the Georgia coast in the 1930s. In the later years of the depression, members of the Georgia Writers' Project visited and interviewed blacks, many of whose grandparents, smuggled into slavery as late as 1858, had passed on the customs and beliefs of their African past. Seeking evidence of African traditions, the project's workers questioned the blacks about conjure--the curses and potions responsible for turns of luck, illnesses, and even death--about dreams that often determine the course of daily life, and about spirits and other apparitions as real as walking, breathing people. --Back cover.

The New Black Gods

The New Black Gods PDF Author: Edward E. Curtis IV
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025300408X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
Taking the influential work of Arthur Huff Fauset as a starting point to break down the false dichotomy that exists between mainstream and marginal, a new generation of scholars offers fresh ideas for understanding the religious expressions of African Americans in the United States. Fauset's 1944 classic, Black Gods of the Metropolis, launched original methods and theories for thinking about African American religions as modern, cosmopolitan, and democratic. The essays in this collection show the diversity of African American religion in the wake of the Great Migration and consider the full field of African American religion from Pentecostalism to Black Judaism, Black Islam, and Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement. As a whole, they create a dynamic, humanistic, and thoroughly interdisciplinary understanding of African American religious history and life. This book is essential reading for anyone who studies the African American experience.
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