[Archived] AKYENENIPA: Human Totems - Group Healing Ritual

AKYENENIPA: Human Totems - Group Healing Ritual

Sunday - November 16th at 11am est - virtual

In Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) Ancestral Religion in all expressions, It is customary to engage in group ritual on a periodic basis. Group ritual not only enhances awareness, it also affects healing physiologically and spiritually (including mentally and emotionally).

Healing in this context is defined as ritual recalibration - aligning your sunsum (spirit) with your Okra/Okraa (Soul/Divine Consciousness - Deity governing the spiritual head).

Every sixth Sunday, Awusida, is a sacred Awusidae in Akan culture. This 42-day cycle (six weeks) is half of our seasonal cycle of 84 days plus one ritual week (91 days or 13 weeks - one full season). This acknowledgment is how we adhered to our sacred cycles in Hoodoo - Akan Ancestral Religion in North America, calibrating our adaduanan cycles (42-day cycles) to the changing of the seasons - equinoxes and solstices in this region of the world.

Our Akan New Year, also the Hoodoo New Year, Odwira, in North America is thus a seven-week ritual observance culminating in the day of the fall equinox, September 22nd or September 23rd depending upon the year.

Three weeks after our Odwira or New Year we have our HOODOO MAYN: Hoodoo Nation Festival. This year we will be hosting our fourth group ritual of our year 13026 in our calendar (November, 2025 in the gregorian calendar) four weeks after HOODOO MAYN, November 16th at 11am est. This will be a virtual event.

This ritual event is a group healing service for Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African~Black) people.

We will engage in susuw, Akan term for ritual meditation, to invoke the Abosom (Deities) and Nananom Nsamanfo (Spiritually Cultivated Ancestresses and Ancestors) via what we call Akyenenipa. This is a term referencing human totems.

Just as the Abosom (Deities) have sacred plant totems, so do they have sacred animal totems, sacred mineral totems and sacred human totems (Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit people only - of specified clans). Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African~Black) people are born of and bring the tumi (Divine energy) of specific Abosom (Deities) into the human sphere. Some Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) people have the responsibility of employing this tumi as vessels of akom and nkom - spirit-possession and spirit-communication. This time of year and Earth-cycle is auspicious for akyenenipa work.

We will first examine the cosmology of the Abosom and Nsamanfo in the context of akyenenipa, human totems and then move forward and engage in the guided ritual.

Registration is required and as always is open to Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African~Black) people exclusively.

We will send a separate email with the private zoom link.

While we do not charge for group ritual we do accept akyede (donation) just as it is custom that when one visits a traditional shrine an offering is placed on the shrine for the Abosom or Nsamanfo. Typically, that akyede (donation) would be an aforebo (offering) from the animal realm, mineral realm or plant realm. The tumi (energy) of the aforebo would then be released via ritual invocation. In our virtual context we exchange the same tumi (energy) with making akyede (donation) online which helps to purchase aforebo (offerings) for ritual invocation and to maintain the shrines and festivals.

In return for your akyede (donation) you can opt also to receive access to one or more of our 42 online archived courses shown below and found on our AKONGUASUA Institution page: www.odwirafo.com/akonguasuapage.html

Just let us know which course(s) you are interested in..

We look forward to connecting with you all..

Odwirafo