Global Dreadlock

"Hair are our aerials, man. It is through them we receive messages from the cosmos." 

Danny, Withnail & I 

The Global Dreadlock is One Dreadlock. We are all connected.

I have got around to researching some evidence that Dreadlocks are not a uniquely African hairstyle reserved only for African people, but are in fact found all over the world in many different civilisations.  As far as archeological evidence goes to prove anything much at all, some of that even predates African use of dreadlocks. It also reveals how different peoples wear dreadlocks for different purposes.

I am asking you to think about all of our common ancestors who did not yet have the technology combs.

Blogger is not uploading any pictures for me at this time so I will have to put the links instead. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadlocks

https://www.noireonaturel.com/le-blog/hair/the-history-of-dreadlocks-a-journey-through-time-and-culture/

https://icareifyoulisten.com/2020/04/out-of-context-4-muddy-ownership-dreadlocks/

https://www.esquire.com/uk/style/grooming/a34465402/history-of-dreadlocks/

https://www.dreadlab.co.uk/pages/dreadlocks-history

https://lionlocs.com/blogs/dreadlocks/history-of-dreadlocks

dreadlocks-myths

https://lionlocs.com/blogs/dreadlocks/what-is-the-spiritual-meaning-of-dreadlocks

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/greece/articles/does-the-origin-of-dreadlocks-stem-from-ancient-greece

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australians

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Twmbla

TWMBLA

There is a mountain in Wales which the Welsh call a hill, the way mountain people do do. It is tall enough to be seen above the city from many leagues around. On top of the mountain is a man-made hill which also can be seen standing proud like a pimple from many leagues around. The tribes who built it were known to the Romans whose capitol city in Briton, Caerleon, fort of the legion, is in the shadow of the mountain. 

The hill on top of the mountain is a 'twmp', Welsh for 'little hill' but more directly relating to the English word 'tomb' given that tumps are man-made, artificial mounds, Barrows like the ones in Skyrim, a burial chamber predating the Bronze Age. I have been up there, of course. The ancestors would put the bodies of the dead as high in the sky as they could, unlike we postmodern people who typically burn them. The mountain is called Twmbarlwm, ‘an ancient Welsh word’, quite unlike most modern Welsh words which the elder Welsh called ‘English’. Modern Welsh is like English, a creole language. Some of its roots go deep enough to remain and retain their poetry. 

A standing stone in sight and in alignment with Twmbarlwm is called Langston which means in the ancient language ‘ancient stone’. The word ‘lang’ means ancient, that is what it meant to the people who we consider to be the ancients. That’s how old these places are. That’s how old the language is. A gauge is a measurement, in this case of time. 

Before anybody invented written languages we had spoken form which phonetically mutate into regional dialects. By tracing a combination of ‘the same word’ associated with ‘the same or strongly related meaning’ we can trace cultural roots. It is important to be aware how ‘culture’ and ‘bloodline’ are two different elements. 

When you ‘see and can not un-see’ it, you begin to understand how we are all talking the same language. In traditional British mythology, ‘see’ and ‘un-see’ are concepts associated with the Faerie courts, the Seeley and un-Seeley are the light and shadow courts; ‘those who accept, those who live in delusion and fantasy who are not ready or not willing to accept’. 

There is another historic group which associates the word Twmbarlwm with the spirits of the ancestors. It is not Welsh. Its roots are West African. 

Dambala the Sky Father is one of the most important of all loa, who are spirits in West African diaspora religious traditions. Traditionally he is a great white or black serpent, sometimes a rainbow. Dambala originated in Benin, from the city of Ouidah (Wedo). 1 

It is said about Damballa “he represents a continuum which is at once the ancient past and the assurance of the future.” Damballah is a Rada, guardians of order, morals and principles. In this sense it relates to Dharma the concept of 'everything in its right place' (compare 'karma' things seeking their right place), ruler Damusz of the city of Damascus. A phonetic and conceptual link to Dahomey. 

Damballah ‘whistles and hisses like a snake’ instead of speaking, 2 

A description which practising spiritist’s associate with ‘tinnitus-like tones’ revealing the presence of a communicable entity. Therefore It is associated with a ‘gate’ or ‘opening’ when communicating with spirits (alternately translated as ‘worshipping ancestors’). 

Timbale, a specific, recognisable drum rhythm used to ‘open the gate’ to communicate ceremoniously with spirits. Differs from the ‘closing the gate’ drum rhythm, and several others for various ritual stages and purposes. 

A shallow double-headed drum called timbal may be used when the dance kongo is performed. 3 

“A Latin American / Cuban dance of African origin with a repeated pattern of three steps followed by a kick, to each bar: the dancers typically form a single file winding line, following a leader.” 4

Konga is a different rhythm to the Tumbala, it is included here for associative purposes. 

The Boula is the smallest of the three drums that form the Rada battery used in Vodou ceremonies. Painted white with red and green bands near the bottom.  5

White, Red Green. Also seen in the national flag of Wales and of Mexico where the modern Santeriá form of African diaspora religion officially has millions of practitioners. 

“Enslaved Africans brought the batá tradition to Cuba during the mass migration of the transatlantic slave trade. Añá is believed to communicate with these deities when the consecrated batá are played, their musical sounds transformed into aché—spiritual energy or life force. Añá facilitates divine communication and helps to “bring down,” in the form of spiritual possession, other orichas (deities in human form) during ritual ceremonies or tambores. Aside from these spiritual attributes, a musical ritual using fundamento can bring social prestige to the host of a tambor and purpose and unity to the religious community as a whole.” 6 

The Cuban Santeriá ceremony derived from Yoruba is called Tamboure. 

Tambourine is a hand-held shaker related to the Egyptian Temple sistrum (rattle). 

“A sistrum is an ancient Egyptian percussion instrument that was shaken during religious ceremonies and when coming into the presence of a deity.” 7

“U-shaped sistrums existed by 2500 bc in Sumer and have been excavated near Tbilisi, Georgia.” 8

Sumer links the practise-and-purpose to Damascus. 

Phonetic 'Tbl' (say it out loud). 

The suffix -ina means ‘eve’ the same as ‘All Hallows Eve’ is called also ‘Halloween’. 

Eve is a variant of Ewe. 

Tumbalá is a town in Southern Mexico, the Chiapas region. 9

Ba is Sanskrit / Egyptian Hieratic for a "spiritual entity seen as a human-headed bird hovering over the deceased or exiting the tomb in the hieroglyphics, and was the part of the soul that could travel between the worlds of the living and the dead." 10 

This description is an indicator, with admiration of the symbolism and association. The italic is my own emphasis. 

SOURCES

Although for practicality I have referenced internet sources to compose this article, 

branches I work with are not mentioned here with respect for their not openly existing 

in accordance with the lineages’ tradition. 

 

1  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damballa

2  https://steemit.com/vodou/@arrrados/haitian-vodou-damballah-the-primordial-serpent

3 http://www.lameca.org/publications-numeriques/dossiers-et-articles/vodou-music-in-haiti/2-the-musicians-of-vodou/

4  https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/conga

5  https://music.si.edu/object-day/rada-drum-boula-vodou-ceremonies

6  https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/gender-taboos-cuban-bata-drumming

7  https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/553814

8  https://www.britannica.com/art/sistrum

9   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbalá

10 http://myweb.usf.edu/~liottan/theegyptiansoul.html

FURTHER ACTION

I should send this blog to these people, really. 

"Have you got a pet theory on the origins of Twmbarlwm – real, fantasy or humorous. Then write it down and we’ll publish the best stories in the next Newsletter and put them online too."

https://www.twmbarlwm.co.uk/what-is-the-twmp-on-twmbarlwm/

twmbarlwmsociety@gmail.com

Why did it take so long? 

Because I had to verify it as true before telling people about it, 

which took a lot of specialist training which I dedicated my life to. 

And now the work is done. 

Babylon In Bytesize

BABYLON IN BYTESIZE

‘Cultural Appropriation’ is a post-modern term popularised circa 2010 onwards as a part of the ‘Wokeism’ social agenda. It is important to be aware the term ‘woke’ has been culturally appropriated to serve a new agenda, is no longer used in its original intended sense. This characteristic well answers ‘what is post-modernism?’ With shades of Orwellian ‘newspeak’ and ‘double-think’ well in effect on contemporary international cultures. It is an attempt to unify diverse traditions into a more practical and easily managed monoculture. Therefore to express ‘cultural appropriation’ in terms of black and white is difficult outside of extreme and obvious cases of it. 

The English peoples do not object to other nations being english-speaking as a common language as a cultural appropriation due to historical roots of the matter, the English language being one of the Colonial Conquistadors at a time of the past which few if any living persons can remember first-hand. Before hating on the English for this is would do well to become aware the English were perhaps the first and still are living under colonialism themselves, it is deeply entrenched into the mindset. 

My ancestors are Celts. On my mothers side, through the Cornish branch of Brythonic Celts, dating back through mixed European Celts to La Tene region. On my father’s side, Norse Celts mixed from across the Scandinavian region, what we now describe as Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The evidence for this claim is the DNA testing. Interestingly my son’s DNA indicates he has more Finland DNA in him than I do. We pass along to our descendant genes which are not dominant in ourselves. What else might we be containing? His mother is mixed Germanic gypsariat and Welsh branch of Brythonic Celts. ‘I are’ European despite Brexit. 

Why this is important to mention is in regard to a Bronze Age coin dating circa 3000 BC, discovered in Central Europe, which very clearly shows a Celtic King or Queen wearing dreadlocks. The Celtic peoples, my genetic ancestors had dreadlocks. This is indisputable, with archeological evidence to support it. 

Recently I was accused of cultural appropriation by a woke black woman who did not like how a white guy has dreadlocks. I certainly did not set out to offend anyone. She interpreted the statement of my hairstyle in a different way than I had intended when I made it. In her woke belief system dreadlocks is a black people thing only. 

I have written this by way of a response. My attitude is simple. Live and let live. Work with what works. The path of evolution is always the most practical solution unless passion is involved. By picking up an agenda from post-modern society to use as a weapon to cause segregation between living people, is a form of virtue-signalling and gate-keeping characteristic of the woke culture agenda to create tension and arguments between people. The items used for this segregation are anything which can be exploited to raise hurt instead of healing, anger instead of bonding. Gender and ethnic origin are the social issues stirred up to create segregation. 

Who exactly is it would be afraid of all the people uniting in friendship and mutual understanding? 

Why would anyone stand against that Humanitarianism ideal? 

The situation is not as simple as that. If only it were. We must understand it from both angles to truly understand what is happening, why it is happening. There is a positive purpose, perhaps even a need for concepts such as ‘cultural appropriation’ at this time in history. 

We are already in an unprecedented state of global-scale multi-cultural integration. Our traditions, all of us, are being replaced by corporate monoculture. You know what the yellow M sign is. We all know what the twisty white lines refer to on a diabetes-inducing, sugar-based fizzy drink which is banned in some European regions because it has the same chemical formula as weed-killer and is considered criminally stupid to drink weed killer or feed it to our children. 

But we do not practise the ecological harmonious lifestyles our grandparents and earlier generations did. Is it because our minds no longer work the same way as did our ancestors? Even our roots have become disposable in the consumer super-marketplace. A need to reinforce boundary lines on our heritage, on our traditions, lest they disappear in one living generation is very apparent. Many of us do not even know what those things are any more. It has nothing to do with skin colour. 

But what if they do it better over there? What if we need to adapt to change to survive? We are a heartbeat following the Edo Period of Japan where the Emperor in his wisdom shut the doors of his nation from any dealings with outsiders, to allow a period for the culture to perfect itself. Today any nation which is doing that is regarded totalitarian and inhumane by the rest of the global collective. 

Does anybody here remember a time when ‘The Internet’ was young, we referred to ‘the Global Village’? Does anyone still use that terminology or was it a late 1990s early 2000s aspiration which dissolved with the rise of corporate social media? Somebody I asked this of replied, “It became a city, mate.” 

BLM vs WLM

"And in the darkness of misperception." 

Slogan on the wall of a nightclub venue

 at Axiom Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, late 1990s. 

In 2023 I was accused by racists of being BLM. A woman said this to psyche up three of her gimps, one of whom was a plainclothes policeman who had infiltrated the racists and was terrified I might be able to recognise him, which I did, and expose him, which I did not, chased me up the street threatening violence and shouting; "Go back to where you came from" and "You are not from around here." I have lived half a km away from the location where this occurred, for fifteen years. Previous to that I lived 80km further East in the same nation. I was born in its capitol city. My racial heritage is mixed Brythonic, Nordic and Central European Celtic. I consider myself to be a Human being from planet Earth. 

I was fortunate, the racists chased me into a parked police car which perhaps saved me from violence and certainly saved me from further intimidation. The police told me to leave the area while they held the racists off. That's all they did. No arrests were made, probably because they knew and were working with the plainclothes. From my perception a person would have to be very low of intelligence indeed not to have identified the plainclothes immediately. For example, he was wearing police boots, plus all the other signifiers of which there are several obvious ones. 

This month I have been accused of Cultural Appropriation by a black activist. 

She was offended that white people; 

1) have dreadlocks

2) have spiritism (ancestors with whom they communicate)

On the principle that these should be Black people Only things. 

Her issue, nothing to do with me. 

I no longer have dreadlocks, I used to, I believe from archeological evidence that my ancestors did too, for thousands of years. The girl herself does not have dreadlocks either. She does apparently believe she owns other peoples hair and their right to do whatever they want with their own hair-style. 

Having been fed on a recent wave of Afro-American subcultural movement who identify Dreadlocks as symbol of retaliation against Westerners, she unfortunately mouthed off and did not stay around to hear any reply.

The specialist group are from all over the world. We have welcomed her as an equal, given her friendship and support, offered help with her career path with free advice from decades of experience, which she would otherwise have to pay for. 

We watched her behaviour of 'assuming offence', to justify that she could take a moral high ground by attempting to make us feel we should apologise to her. It is a recognisable passive-aggressive, emotional blackmail tactic of self-empowerment reliant on positioning other people to react to the behaviour in a particular way. It sets the person as superior to the people they are insulting, attempting to cause the same people to give them further energy by making them feel bad at having caused upset. It is a form of gas-lighting.

The group is genuinely a very caring community of people, ranging from mature to quite young. We recognised she has mental-emotional issues. She is vulnerable and is being exploited by a cult which, instead of promoting human unification through compassionate understanding, is encouraging young people toward hatred. She is victim to an act of black magic, of hatred, of segregation, of mental slavery to a hostile, fearful, ideology. 

I suspect the racists justify this to themselves for the same reason I was chased up the street by a different group of racists. People like myself who are disenfranchised from their ancient roots more than three generations ago, claiming some heritage which most certainly exists, but unfortunately doing so by hating everyone different and increasing racial tensions, instead of taking stock of where we all are, in this together, in relatable situations, here and now. 

Nobody in the group did anything to purposefully upset her. I apologised for having possibly said anything which might have upset her. She replied, 'no it is okay, it wasn't you'. I offered an olive branch of friendship. That offer will forever stand, a door which will be always open. 

She has recently split up from the boyfriend who encouraged her to focus on her writing and to join writing groups. She got with another guy who resents white people and is encouraging her to do the same. It's her life and she's free to do as she chooses. It's sad to lose a new friend for any reasons. 

Now I would like to sing her praises. 

Her writing, what we have seen of it, is brilliant. 

She has been an inspiration.

Not in any way such as that I plagiarised anything she has written. 

I would never do that. 

She has brought me into a focus to write on some specific topics,

which I feel are important, some more than others.

I have written about the problems with and possibly a need for, the pros and cons, of this thing they call 'cultural appropriation'. HERE. This is about where our global communities are at with unification, monoculture, and preservation of traditions. 

I have finally gotten around to writing an overview of my nearly fifty years of research into a very specific topic of where the region I was born into, which is not where my ancestors originated from, fits into the greater scheme of things based on languages and locations. HERE. This is about Global Spiritism. 

I have got around to researching some evidence that Dreadlocks are not a uniquely African hairstyle reserved only for African people, but are in fact found all over the world in many different civilisations.  As far as archeological evidence goes to prove anything much at all, some of that even predates African use of dreadlocks. It also reveals how different peoples wear dreadlocks for different purposes.  HERE.

That's a triple braid.

The Witch

The Witch

Any confidence she has is through her success at trickery. 

Therefore the last thing she wants is for people to see through her or worse, expose her. 

She will fiercely defend this by attacking them through subversive means 

if she feels any risk to herself at all. 

She is hypersensitive to this and will feel it coming 

before the people involved realise for themselves what she is like. 

This is developed to an ESP ability 

through which she connects with others like her who experience the world the same way. 

Their being sexist, men are convenient target to blame everything on 

as people will generally believe that, 

because of her maintaining the common social narrative 

to persecute men as standard. 

Strategy makes it easier for her to use as a smokescreen away from her corruption 

to redirect everybody’s attention towards persecuting her target.

"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The people who lie to themselves and listen to their own lie come to a point that they cannot distinguish the truth within them, or around them, and so lose all respect for themselves and for others. And having no respect for anyone or anything they cease to love." 

~Fyodor Dostoevsky