Wholistic Life Ministries: Church of the Ancestors

06/15/2025

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At ICCA, we are committed to delving into the realms of the metaphysical and paranormal with a sense of wonder and respect. Join us on this journey of discovery.

03/21/2024

There are at least seven passages in the Bible where God is depicted as directly permitting or endorsing slavery. Two of these are in the Law of Moses: God permitted the Israelites to take slaves from conquered peoples permanently, and the Israelites could sell themselves into slavery temporarily to pay off debts (Exod 21:2-11; Lev 25:44-46). The other five passages are in the New Testament, where slavery as a social institution is endorsed and slaves are called to obey their masters “in everything” (Eph 6:5-9; Col 3:22-4:1; 1 Tim 6:1-2; Tit 2:9-10; 1 Pet 2:18-20).

02/28/2024

: Weirdest dream last night. I was in Kemet n I kept hearing “Anpu”. It was like a call. Someone else was saying it but I could hear it.

I never connect with a deity unless they call out to me in a dream or vision. Anpu has to do with Sirius, the dog star. Anpu is gaurdian of mediums and children, protector of the Ka and Ba. He weighs the hearts at death for Ma’at.

02/15/2024

Hmmmmmm

01/17/2024

never dies. It transition to another area of the universe. The universe is not all physical. Sometime a spirit takes over me which is ok. I’m not afraid.

01/16/2024

Imma always venerate my ancestors! If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything!❤️ Ase’

01/12/2024

: According to Mama Zogbe, in her written work, “The First Prophetess of Mami (Wata)”, the majority of Pythonesses were African Women & Men priest/priestesses who were destroyed by Hebrew and Roman men with the help of envious African Levite Priests and associated with a false deity known as the Devil/Satan by the Catholic Church.

https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/2017/10/20/pythoness-no-not-a-big-female-snake/

On some first Sunday of Lent in the early fifteenth century, Robert Rypon, the subprior of Durham Cathedral Priory, took the opportunity of a sermon dedicated to the First Commandment to speak about magic – more specifically, to roundly condemn it as a type of idolatry and blasphemy. It is a remarkable sermon that has caught the attention of a few scholars before for its thorough discussion of magic: more than half of the sermon is dedicated to describing sorcery (sortilegium), a sin which Rypon, displaying the same academic and punctilious mode of thought evidenced in his other surviving sermons, breaks down into no less than ten different types or “species.” [1]

Among the types of magic he enumerates is fortune-telling or divination, a sorcery the devil can work through himself or “through living men” (presumably in contradistinction to omens conveyed through spirits or ghosts). Rypon claims with a tone of authority that these diviners or soothsayers are properly called “phitonissae” or “phitones,” [2] in modern English “pythonesses.” The word stands out on the manuscript page for its peculiarity, and raises the question of where the Durham monk learned it. Its story provides a micro case study of the reception and appropriation of the classical tradition by medieval writers.

Rypon’s immediate source seems to be the seventh-century Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, which provides much of the grist and theoretical framework for the rest of his tirade against sorcery. Isidore rightly notes that the term (pythonissae – the spelling is corrupted by Rypon’s time) was originally applied to the female priestesses or oracles of Pythian Apollo at Delphi, [3] a cultic site that owed its original name, Pytho, to the legend that Apollo slew a great python there. By late antiquity, however, the title was already being used for diviners in general, often ones who owed their powers to some unidentified spirit that possessed them. In his Vulgate translation, Jerome described the Witch of Endor as “mulier habens pythonem in Aendor” (a woman in Endor having a divining spirit; 1 Sam. 28:7) and a pythoness (pythonissam; 1 Chron. 10:13). Indeed, Jerome uses the word multiple times throughout the Vulgate (e.g., Lev. 20:27; Deut. 18:11; Isa. 8:19; Acts 16:16) to describe diviners and soothsayers, female and male, and no doubt this was another avenue through which Rypon learned it.