Ancient Ways of Knowing Saves Peoples Live

Enen Tchaas Maa

On January 11, 2005, a few days after the Great Tsunami of 2005, I saw the most revealing and remarkable news articles on the Internet, which seem to depict a very much-deserved tribute to the Wisdom of African People and their culture and traditions. These articles that I am speaking about were actually in response to the tragic occurrence of the Great Tsunami of 2005 that ravaged parts of Africa and Asia just a few days ago. The articles were from the Boston Globe's website, Boston.com and the other was from the CBS NEWS.com website.

As you know, they are both very well respected newspapers that many people in those areas of the country rely on for trustworthy reports, respecting current events. In other words, these two papers and their websites have very large readerships and reputations, and quite tremendous advertising budgets. Also, on hand were two reporters and their photographers from the Associated Press, who were allowed to accompany the area government officials into an outpost in some of the isolated areas.

In the articles, the reporters seemed quite baffled that some of the survivors from these areas around Southern Indonesia , who were defined as the “tribesman” and “tribes who live the most ancient, nomadic lifestyles known to man, frozen in their Paleolithic past” were able to survive such devastation from the Great Tsunami of 2005.

According to some varying estimates, there are only about 400 to 1,000 members alive from the Great Andamanese, Onges, Jarawas, Sentinelese, and Shompens tribes left in those areas. Some of the anthropological DNA studies were said to have indicated that the generations of tribes might have spanned back 70,000 years. They stated that, “these people originated from Africa and migrated to India through Indonesia ”.

Well, we have all seen the live video recordings on the Internet, TV Reports, newspaper articles, and all of the pictures on the televised news reports of hundreds or maybe even thousands of people being helplessly swept away by the huge tidal waves from the Great Tsunami of 2005 that were said to have been generated by an earthquake under the Indian Ocean which killed at least 150,000 people. With all of this devastation, we were shocked and definitely reminded of our physical and human mortality and the tremendous power of God and Nature.

However, I bet most of us never gave a second thought about the Wisdom of the Ancient Africans who still live in those areas and who continue to practice the teachings of their Ancestors. However, being realistic about the local news reporting of today, we were not even given many details about the people that survived this tragedy. Most of the coverage on the survivors seemed limited to the few Americans living or vacationing in the region and the animals that escaped the destruction, not the indigenous people. Sometimes, even when we get a glimpse of the reality of the situation, in the midst of such tragedy, our emotional reactions simply blind us to some very life saving facts and simple revelations. It is evident, as an observer and a participant in the Legacy of the African Wisdom and the Ancient Teachings, that many of us have missed or failed to reflect on the fact that those who were holding onto their culture were able to get their forewarnings from their Elders and fortunately be able to escape the tragedy of the Great Tsunami of 2005.

That is why, I have taken this time to try and reflect on this revelation and to make sure that those of us who are steadfast in holding onto the Ancient Culture and Traditions take time to acknowledge the Wisdom and Culture of the Ancestors. They will smile on us for our remembrance of them, and more so, on our continuation to live and to rely on their ways of knowing. We should celebrate those survivors as “Keepers of the Ways of Knowing”.

The major realization that was emphasized and stated by the articles was that the people of those tribes must have had a way of knowing that the Great Tsunami of 2005 was coming, because they were able to retreat into bush and the temples for shelter. The reporters even mentioned that one young lady, from one of the tribes, told them that the Elders gave them the word to watch for the initial movement of the waves of the Tsunami and then to gather the fish that washed up on the shore. After gathering the fish, delivered from the Great Tsunami of 2005, they were told to head for higher grounds. Was that the truth?

How could they have known this truth or knowledge? The Anthropologist said that, “because they were so primitive in their culture and lifestyle, they just felt the wind and the fishermen were able to know based on the sound of the oars of their boats in the Indian Oceans”. In other words, they had some primitive knowledge that cannot be learned or cultivated by the so-called modern man. They were special or uncivilized.

They also suggested that these people relied on the movement of the animals who were incidentally able to retreat from the waves in time to avoid the disaster. However, the reporters and scientists either did not know or failed to state that these people like most, non-western oriented people have ways of knowing through their communications with God/Neter/Great Spirit/Jah/Tehuti/Orumila/Ifa/etc. This is one of the many contributions that African People have left for the world to benefit from their thousands of years of study and development.

It was alluded to that many of the people who died in the Great Tsunami of 2005 had become more westernized than these people of the tribes. Could there be a hidden or an implicit connection to the western educational system and its ways of knowing? Without the use of modern technology, what could they have relied on to determine their fate? Could they have relied on the Wisdom of Africa that resided in the remote areas of Southern Indonesia ? Let us learn everything that we can from life's experiences even when they happen to others of us?

Well, those people may have had a sixth, and maybe even a seventh sense, but I bet you, that their Elders used a very accurate Oracular System or they were extremely fortunate enough to still have a Sage among them to receive the forewarning of that very tragic life threatening disaster. What do you think or know? It seems obvious that God and their Ancient African Culture and Tradition blessed them.

As a Priest of the Ausar Auset Society for thirteen years, who has been trained in the use and the Ways of the Ancestors via the use of the Oracles and Meditations, I can tell you many things that you may want and need to know about your life, just by asking via the Ancient Egyptian or Kamitic High Oracular System, the Metu Neter, that was returned to us by Ra Un Nefer Amen of the Ausar Auset Society based in New York. These ways of knowing were left for us via the Africans to discover what to do in important situations.

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Until we meet again, may God/Neter smile upon those people who have their Own Way of Knowing? Never let it be said, that you made a major decision in your life without really knowing whether it was divinely destined or inspired for you to make it. You can always know what you should do in all situations. Just ask the God that lives inside or one who knows?

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