Blackbird said:Additionally....
What is it? In layman terms, melanin is the chemical found in melanocytes (pigment cells), which are all over the human body, and is produced by melantonin. Melatonin is the product of tyrosine (an amino acid) metabolism, which occurs in the pineal gland. Melantonin regulates the rhythm of the body known as the circadian rhythm. This rhythm is attuned to nature and the natural world. The pineal gland produces melantonin at night during the hours between 2:00-6:00 a.m. It is theorized that, at night, the pineal gland turns inward and sprays the brain with this substance. The pineal gland, some researchers say, is composed of crystal-like grandules similar to the crystal components of a cell phone. Crystal is widely known for receiving and storing energy, thus many believe the pineal gland acts as a receptor for energy. The human body's melanocytes are capable of storing the sun's rays, hence this is why skin cancer, cause by radiation from the sun's rays, is virtually unknown in heavily pigmented people, outside of its anti-free-radical abilities. Interesting, the pineal gland is equated with the "third eye" (spiritual eye) or the brow chakra of the chakra system. This chakra is known as the center for clairaudience and clairvoyence - spiritual communication.
Understanding this, there is no problem in comprehending why the Dogon believe in the reality of the Nommo. Or the Yoruba with the Orisa. Or the Kamau with the Neteru. Or the Akan with the Abosom. Or the Bakongo with the Nkisi. Or the Wolof-Lebu with the Rabbs. Or the Ewe-Fon with the Vodu. Or the Nubians, Hausa, Songhai and others with the Zar. These entities are real and have a profound impact on the condition of natural life, including humans. Afrikans actually are the direct descendants of the entities and lineages were birthed from them. My tradition is Vodou and my ancestors were the vodu. Essentially, I am Vodu and the mysteries of the Vodu are within me.
This is a little-known fact that Europeans do not want Afrikan people to know. For us to know the truth of our origin and heritage would bring Western civilization to a rapid halt.
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Blackbird
WooWee...thanks for the eye opener on melanin. You have really enlightened me on this strange yet wonderful gland. I must admit however, that I admire it from a much different perspective than you do in that I appreciate it as a divine order at the hands of God rather than from the perspective of the half human-half fish creature that made it to Jupiter somehow and is waiting to return to earth.
You also said: This is a little-known fact that Europeans do not want Afrikan people to know. For us to know the truth of our origin and heritage would bring Western civilization to a rapid halt.
Question: How is it that Euros know about this little known fact and African people here in America don't?