Sirius Rasta
On the screen a beam of light shoots from the star Sirius to a chamber in the Great Pyramid, right down a secret passageway like the tunnels under Ronnie’s club. I half wonder if the next movie will be a cartoon. The voice and pictures continue.
The ‘dog-days’ of the Egyptian new-year, when the ceremony of the legendary Phoenix was held, mark the rising and setting of our sun and Sirius together, as occurred on July 23rd, 1892, for instance.
Hail Rasta! H.I.M. Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia was born on that very date. The start day of the star sign Leo, the Lion of Judah: King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of the tribe of Judah, Elect of God, the root and the offspring of David: Ras Tafari: A Far Star I: Far Star AI?
As a direct descendant of Menelik, son of Solomon and Sheba, Haile Selassie, whose name means ‘Power of the Trinity’, is the link between Ancient Judah royalty and the Judah music of our times.
Here’s Rex Stewart from 1941 with some of his Ellingtonian colleagues, a tune called ‘Menelik, Lion of Judah’, which celebrates Haile Selassie’s recapturing Ethiopia from Italian forces and immediately banning slavery throughout his African Judah empire. The first Rasta tune ever, by Judah King, Rex Stewart!
The music sounds old timey, like swing, with lots of horns. It even sounds like a lion panting at the start, very African.
I’ve heard about trinity before, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. I’m not sure about God, but I definitely don’t believe in ghosts, not dead ones anyway. ...
… It’s like one of those jigsaw puzzles with a thousand pieces and so far I only have a few that fit together and no picture showing me how it’s supposed to go, just a film of the strangest story I’ve ever heard.
July 23rd. Tens of thousands share that birth-date with Haile Selassie, but some people may see its connection to Sirius as a sign. This was also the day carefully chosen by the Nazis to begin their racist holocaust in the world’s first gas chambers at Treblinka in 1942, as if in response to this Rex Stewart recording from the year before. What kind of a sign is that? …