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: Akan Libation Text-gctid195423
: Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Aug 05, 2016, 07:59 p
Mfitiaseε/Ɔfrε
 
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Onyankopɔn Twereduampɔn Kwame,
[Awusi o!]
Ɔdomankoma a wobɔɔ kuru bɔɔ krane krankye
[Awusi o!]
Wokɔɔ ko anaa kɔɔ bata,
[Awusi o!]
Na 'sono abubu dan,
[Awusi o!]
Asase a wodi amu a wosan ma yɛn aduane die, due due due dammirifua due, due ne amanehunu!
[Awusi o!]
Bosonopo, wo a wogyee afunu
[Awusi o!]
Nseɛdo asieeɛ mu prammiri
[Awusi o!]
Abosom nnuasa nyinaa ara, due o!
[Awusi o!]
Mmusuo
[Awusi o!]
eurasiane
[Awusi o!]
Ɔhaw
[Awusi o!]
Kɔkɔ damu
[Awusi o!]
Mogyabum ne mogyaguo
[Awusi o!]
Me Nananom, mo nyinaa firi atifi anafo apueeɛ ne atɔe ee! Dammirifua due ne abodwokyɛre!
[Awusi o!]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ ee! monsɔre ɛ!
[Awusi o!]
Deɛ wawu asaman a ɛreka hɔ, monsɔre nkɔsi mo akwantu-'nomaa no soɔ
[Awusi o!]
Abibifoɔ a wɔayi mo adwo, montu mfiri ɛpom mfiri ahyɛn aseɛ, monni mo asɛm ho adanseɛ
[Awusi o!]
Deɛ wawu asaman a aka hɔ, monsɔre nkɔsi mo kokosofoɔ soɔ
[Awusi o!]
Mo a wɔbɔɔ mo duam faa mo nnommum,
[Awusi o!]
Montu mfiri ahwereɛ mfuo akɛseɛ ne asaawa mfuo akɛseɛ a ɛkɔɔ Twi kɔɔ Brɛman nni mo ho asɛm no ho adanseɛ
[Awusi o!]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ, monsɔre o!
[Awusi o!]
Deɛ wawu asaman a aka hɔ, monsɔre nkɔsi mo akwantuo 'nomaa soɔ
[Awusi o!]
Deɛ ɔɔmo sɛn mo mene odum kɛseɛ bi soɔ
[Awusi o!]
Mo a mohinhim kisibidie dubaa soɔ
[Awusi o!]
A moakɔdane Onyankopasakyie namporɔweeɛ
[Awusi o!]
Monsiane nkɔpɛ mo nsɛm nkɔka mo ho asɛm mma emu nna hɔ
[Awusi o!]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ e! Monsɔre ɛ!
[Awusi o!]
Deɛ wawu asaman a ɛretwɛn hɔ, monsɔre nkɔsi mo kokosofoɔ soɔ
[Awusi o!]
Nkyehama-mu-foɔ, mo a wɔkyekyeree mo twaa mo mmaa firi Brasil kɔ Mississippi
[Awusi o!]
Montia aderɛ so nkɔbɔ mo kaaseɛ
[Awusi o!]
Deɛ ɛwɔ Jamaica mu,
[Awusi o!]
Wɔ Cuba mu mfuo
[Awusi o!]
Wɔ Florida mu baka
[Awusi o!]
Mo Abibifoɔ a moretwɛn hɔ, montiam nkɔbɔ mo anom kaaseɛ
[Awusi o!]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ ee! monsɔre ɛ!
[Awusi o!]
Deɛ wawu asaman a akɔka mu hɔ, monsɔre nkɔnsi mo sankɔfa 'nomaa no soɔ
[Awusi o!]
Ɛfiri Alabama kɔ Suriname,
[Awusi o!]
kɔpem Louisiana mu abodan,
[Awusi o!]
Momfiri hɔ o! Mo Abibifoɔ Nsamanfoɔ,
[Awusi o!]
Montu mfiri hɔ! Monkɔpɛ mo kaaseɛ nkɔbɔ o!
[Awusi o!]
Mmaa a wɔtotoo mo mmonaa
[Awusi o!]
Nhyɛsoɔ dwamannorɔ frafoɔ,
[Awusi o!]
Asae,
[Awusi o!]
A wɔhyehye mo dwerebee,
[Awusi o!]
Sraa mo ho amanehyeɛ de ntakra famm hɔ,
[Awusi o!]
Honamtoto, Nipaduatwa, Adwenetuo,
[Awusi o!]
Akyerehama-kyekyere ne anosie,
[Awusi o!]
Mo Abibifoɔ Nsamanfoɔ a!
[Awusi o!]
Nananom Nsamanfoɔ monsɔre ɛ!
[Awusi o!]
Deɛ wawu asaman monsɔre nkɔsi mo sankɔfa-anomaa soɔ
[Awusi o!]
Mo nyinaa mmra mmεgye nsuo
[Awusi o!]

Botaeε/Aseε
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Na εne deεn? Ɛne sε, εnnε da yi na yεbεko!
[Awusi o!]
Saa Memeneda yi ara na yεbεgye awere wɔ atamfoɔ nsa mu
[Awusi o!]
Nsakrae ntira
[Awusi o!]
Treneesεm ntira
[Awusi o!]
Adεnnεnye ntira
[Awusi o!]
Nkwa ntira
 
Nhyirasrε
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Yεsrε mo nkwa ne akwahosan
[Awusi o!]
Nyansa
[Awusi o!]
Akokoduru
[Awusi o!]
Ahoɔden
[Awusi o!]
Anihutumi
[Awusi o!]
Asotetumi
[Awusi o!]
Abibimandɔreɛ
[Awusi o!]
 
Duabɔ
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Na ɔtamfoɔ biara a ɔmpε yεn nkɔsoɔ biara no deε, ɔnwu awia ketekete
[Awusi o!]
Ɔbɔ bra biara a, mommma no nnyε yie
[Awusi o!]
Ɔnhwe aseε pɔtɔɔ na yεnkɔfo n'agyapadeε nyinaa
[Awusi o!]
N'asefoɔ nyinaa aseε nhye na εrenka baako koraa!
[Awusi o!]
Ogya nhye, ogya nhye, ogya nhye wɔn dwerebee!
[Awusi o!]
 
Awieε
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Mommεhyira yεn a yεahyia ha yi nyinaa
[Awusi o!]
Mommεgye nsa yi nnom no prεko
[Awusi o!]
Momma mmusuo biara nka yεn
[Awusi o!]
Yεn a yεahyia ha yi nyinaa nkwa so.
[Mo ne kasa]

Beginning/Invocation
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Great Shining One, Great-Tree-That-One-Leans-Upon-That-Does-Not-Fall, Saturday Born
[Awusi o!]
The Benefactor to the Masses who created all
[Awusi o!]
Have you gone to war or on an expedition,
[Awusi o!]
Because an elephant has destroyed the house,
[Awusi o!]
The earth who swallows the corpse who turns around and gives us food to eat,
[Awusi o!]
Consolations, consolations, consolations, for the catastrophe!
[Awusi o!]
Great Ocean who receives the corpses
[Awusi o!]
Abyss-dwelling spitting cobra
[Awusi o!]
All thirty Abosom, consolations o!
[Awusi o!]
Evil!
[Awusi o!]
Misfortune!
[Awusi o!]
Pain
Bloodletting and Slaughter!
[Awusi o!]
My ancestors, all of you from the north south east and west! Consolations for long-suffering and restlessness for not being avenged!
[Awusi o!]
Ancestral Spirits Arise!
[Awusi o!]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your bird of passage.
[Awusi o!]
Those stolen Kmtyws step out of the ocean from the wombs of the ships and claim your story.
[Awusi o!]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[Awusi o!]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your vessel.
[Awusi o!]
Those Kmtyws shackled in leg irons and enslaved,
[Awusi o!]
Step out of the acres of cane fields and cotton fields and tell your story.
[Awusi o!]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[Awusi o!]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your bird of passage.
[Awusi o!]
Those lynched in the magnolias,
[Awusi o!]
swinging on the limbs of the weeping willows,
[Awusi o!]
who became vultures rotten meat,
[Awusi o!]
Step down and claim your story.
[Awusi o!]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[Awusi o!]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your vessel.
[Awusi o!]
Those tied, bound, and whipped from Brazil to Mississippi
[Awusi o!]
Step out and tell your story.
[Awusi o!]
Those in Jamaica,
[Awusi o!]
in the fields of Cuba,
[Awusi o!]
in the swamps of Florida,
[Awusi o!]
the rice fields of South Carolina
[Awusi o!]
You waiting Kmtyws step out and tell your story.
[Awusi o!]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[Awusi o!]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your bird of passage.
[Awusi o!]
From Alabama to Suriname,
[Awusi o!]
Up to the caves of Louisiana.
[Awusi o!]
Come out! You Kmtyw Spirits,
[Awusi o!]
Step out! And claim your stories.
[Awusi o!]
You raped,
[Awusi o!]
Slave bred,
[Awusi o!]
Castrated,
[Awusi o!]
Burned,
[Awusi o!]
Tarred and feathered,
[Awusi o!]
Roasted, chopped, lobotomized,
[Awusi o!]
Bound and gagged.
[Awusi o!]
You Kmtyw Spirits!
[Awusi o!]
Spirit of the Dead rise up,
[Awusi o!]
Lingering Spirit of the Dead rise up and possess your bird of passage.
[Awusi o!]
 
Aim/Reason for Invoking
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What is it? It is that today on this day WE will fight!
[Awusi o!]
On this very Saturday WE will avenge Ourselves on Our enemies
[Awusi o!]
For Change
[Awusi o!]
For Justice
[Awusi o!]
For Balance
[Awusi o!]
For Life!
[Awusi o!]
 
Asking for Blessings
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WE beg y'all for life and good health
[Awusi o!]
Wisdom
[Awusi o!]
Courage
[Awusi o!]
Strength
[Awusi o!]
Vision
[Awusi o!]
Hearing
[Awusi o!]
The expansion of the nation
[Awusi o!]
 
The Curse (my favorite section)
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And any enemy who doesn't want US to progress, let him or her die in the scorching sun
[Awusi o!]
if he or she attempts to live any life, don't let them do well
[Awusi o!]
Let them fall down utterly that WE may expropriate all their possessions
[Awusi o!]
Let all of their descendants burn without leaving a single one at all!
[Awusi o!]
Fire burn, fire burn, fire burn them utterly!
[Awusi o!]
 
The End
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Y'all bless all of US who are gathered here
[Awusi o!]
Y'all receive this drink and drink all at once
[Awusi o!]
Y'all don't let any evil fall upon US
[Awusi o!]
All of US who are gathered here, life!
[Congratulations for speaking]
: Akan Libation Text-gctid195445
: Yaw Asare Aug 05, 2016, 09:34 p
Ɔbenfo, mepa wo kyɛw apeɛ nyinaa di saa ɔkwan yi so (mfitiase-awieɛ) anaa?

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: Akan Libation Text-gctid195446
: Yaw Asare Aug 05, 2016, 09:34 p
Mansa Kankan Munited snakes;195445 wrote: Ɔbenfo, mepa wo kyɛw apeɛ nyinaa di saa ɔkwan yi so (mfitiase-awieɛ) anaa?

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Apaeɛ*

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: Akan Libation Text-gctid195451
: Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Aug 05, 2016, 10:11 p
Mansa Kankan Munited snakes;195445 wrote: Ɔbenfo, mepa wo kyɛw apeɛ nyinaa di saa ɔkwan yi so (mfitiase-awieɛ) anaa?

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Ɛtɔ da bi a wobɛhunu nsakraeɛ kakra wɔ mu, nanso ne nhyehyɛɛ kwan no ara nie. Hwɛ 'Akan Verbal Taboos' a Ɔpanin Kofi Agyekum twerɔeɛ no.

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: Akan Libation Text-gctid195527
: Tenkamenin Aug 05, 2016, 10:56 p
Mpaeɛ no ɛmu duru pa ara!
: Akan Libation Text-gctid195586
: Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Aug 06, 2016, 05:02 p
Apaeɛ no mu yɛ duru pa ara!

Meda ase.

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: Csalaam Sep 26, 2017, 11:42 p
Wiɛ! Ahoɔden wɔ apaeɛ yi mu

"Abosom na ɛkyerɛ kɔmfoɔ ntwaho"
: Akan Libation Text-gctid251755
: Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Oct 02, 2017, 05:57 p
Meda wo ase.

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: Kw@ku M3nsa Oct 24, 2017, 07:11 p
Meda wo ase pa pa paaa.:Kmt: