His Royal Majesty’s CROWN KPOJITO IGBO ;IYALASE Oloye Aina
Olomo of the YORUBA African Kingdoms OF THE AMERICAS VIA OYOTUNJI AFRICAN
VILLAGE OF THE CROWN, THRONE AND LINES OF ADEFUNMI

African Cultural Restoration is the Key

African people in the west became chief-less people pursuant to conquest. Slavery, colonization, cultural and spiritual imperialism has systematically stripped away traditional forms of government for displaced African people. There is a contemporary trend developing that allows people to receive titles without any prerequitsites. I have seen people receive titles for communities when they don’t even know where they are located. Titles are even being given for joining fraternal groups or facebook pages. This is a subversion of ancestral tradition. This gifting of titles is a slap in the face of all those who have worked hard toward the cultural and spiritual restoration of African people in the Western Hemipshere. I can not participate. Titles are and have always been a reward and a method of recognition of the contributions individuals have made to their communties. People who hold traditional titles should have to work very hard for them; and upon receipt they must pledge to to continue to serve and maintain their space in the governing bodies of traditional rulers. Titles and their positions last generations.

People without leadership are easily dominated. Those who are not self-governing are easy prey for conquest and ideological indoctrinations by other political or religious systems. Restoration of titles and societal positions to people in the so-called New World, is a step toward the slow process of empowerment for those who are struggling to reclaim the cultures and the traditions of their fore-mothers and fathers.

So many people have asked me the meaning of the new prefix listed with my name that I decided to write a brief explanation. “Naa” is a title bestowed upon female members of a (paramount) or Imperial monarch’s court, a person descending from a royal bloodline. I discarded the use of Naa because I did not want my use of this form of the prefix to be confused with others who also use it as a partial title that connects them to the Matriarchial throne of Nubia; they use the Ghanaian prefix of Naa Asafoanye. The Nan prefix is used in the Benin among the Anago Yoruba, Fongbe and Minoan people to indicate a woman’s connection to the Divine Feminine principle power of the universe as identified in Vodoun. I am a descendant who has been restored to my family’s bloodline placement among the Anago and Fongbe people. My title and my en-stoolment as the Igbo Iyalase of my king in Benin allows me to not only use but also to bestow this prefix upon community females when they are elevated to chieftancy responsibilites according to bloodline and oracle. Nan and Naa imply that a woman has a relationship to the positions occupied by the Great Mothers of Africa and Her thrones. Some tribes use only two letters such as “Na” as a prefix to indicate a titular tie to a throne. Naa and Nan prefixes are used when the family of the individual is a member of ascension bloodlines to a paramount throne or when an (already) en-stooled female Chief holds a specific title or ritual obligation over a respective village of a predominant ruler. Fang Bulu, Betu people of Cameroon, Gabon, equatorial-Guinea and a bit of Central African Republics of Congo use “ Nan, Nna, Nane, Name” and sometimes “Nina”all are equal to or refer to the divinity of “mother.”

There are many Chieftaincy classifications that are West African institutions. A royal court has chiefs and priests who do not carry the Naa or Nan prefix because they are not in a lineage line to a throne. For instance, there is a“Daa” designation in West African voudun for males. Daa appoints a man as a”king” or ruler of spiritual matters or leader of particular shrines. Her Royal Grace is an apellation that can be used by royal spouses or highly placed female chiefs. HRG can also be bestowed upon an individual by royal declaration. Translation caused some titles to lose their clarity and others have lost their meaning by being placed in non-bloodline contexts. The most significant lost is attributed to the lack of cultural infrastructure and extraction of purely spiritual data. An example of a bloodline prefix is a “Hrh”-Her royal highness prefix. In Africa “hrh” is never used by those who are not a directly and immediately in line and attached to a “throne” by blood. Recently, I have seen it used incorrectly by people who are “heads or top executives” of fraternal groups. This is mis-leading because there can be an assumption that there is a royal blood line when in fact there is only an organizational placement. In other words, all princes and princesses of a throne are “royal highness (es).” There is so much to learn during the arduous process of cultural and governmental restoration of African people.

One of the most important facts to remember about African royals and their chiefs is their positions are institutions long-established by the ancestors and their placement in society is an official status and an important part of the established core of traditional rulers. It is against most national and ancestral laws for people to misuse any of the “Naa, Nan, HRG or HRH” prefixes.

African Queens/kings are the personification of the goddess/god on earth. Our royalty possess constituted “divine” or sacred authority. Queens and kings, Naa(s), Nan(s) and chiefs, priests and elders are all custodians of the people’s culture; all are the embodiment of timeless traditions.

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Oloye Aina Olomo

Lord George Gordon Byron

Matri- Consciousness is an understanding that describes the functions of Mother as an archetype and a divinity. Matri Consciousness places her at the center of universal knowing. When feminine functions, not female biology is placed at the core of our discernment of the earth’s processes our spiritual cognition expands. Rational and systematic study of religion, oracles, rituals and scriptures are easily comprehended when Mother is the matrix.

The function of womanly powers includes but is not limited to receptiveness. Her directorship is the force of increase and she is the incubator of natural growth processes.  “She” is the primary vessel used to hold, grow and increase many things. Physically, the earth, the celestial and a woman’s body are penetrated through “openings.” It is these openings that make her receptive. As a galactic force, the black hole is very receptive; nothing in its path gets away. Another example of the receptivity of Mother’s openings is Mother Earth’s soil. A seed needs a hole in order to plant itself. Once it makes its own hole or one is made for it the earth holds and nurtures the plant ovule that later blooms; it moves through her darkness into their next stage. Once it’s received and held inside her as the vessel in the absence of light the growth process begins. Through the vaginal opening an egg becomes an embryo and through the hole in the earth a seed becomes a tree. 

While the powers of the Great Mother have a dark aspect, magic and miracle happen under her cover. Mother is found at the center. It is the darkness that gives birth to the light. She is that place in the dark where we feel safe and secure, in hopes that our flaws are hidden, even from us. The crafts of witches, wise women, warlocks, wizards, healers, priests and diviners approach her openings, in hopes of  being able to enter and then to exit. In this aspect “She” is pervasive and all consuming. We exit out of the darkness of our mother’s womb crying and we return to soil of her womb in silence. From the dawn of our first day through the twilight of our elder year’s earth and humanity plunder through the streams of  light that flow into our consciousness and spiritual experiences but knowing, all the while we are waiting for the sunset. Sooner or later, everyone and everything returns to the familiarity of the darkness our mothers womb and coolness of the soil.

The largest groups of Africans who are adapting their lives in an effort to restore and reclaim ancient structures have incorporated that support and nurture traditional religions are: Yoruba, Igbo, Fon, Akan and Kongo. By re-instituting ancient positions of authority people self-govern their spiritual and cultural groups according to their chosen ancestral customs. An important distinction to understand is a chief is not necessarily a priest of the indigenous spirituality.

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• No homophobia allowed!
• No inciting to riot!
• Agree to disagree!

If we all stay within these boundries, we can have meaningful conversation on those controversial and sensitive topics that we have not been willing to discuss.  Hopefully, we will be able to draw enough informtion from each other to sustain us through the changes which are coming and to build a better world.

“I have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.
Now I must go back and tell the people that this is The Hour.” 
 
 In Peace,

Iyalase Aina Olomo