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Sankofa: Retrieving the Wisdom of the Past
Day 21-July 29, 2021–A Big Day
I did something scary.
I created my first Sankofa, a bird looking backward, sometimes portrayed with an egg near or in its mouth. It scares me because I want it to look like something very important to me.
I want to honor this scared Adinkra symbol of the Akan of West Africa, and its message, the need to go back and retrieve what has been forgotten or lost from the past in order to inform the future, to gain wisdom, learn, and evolve.
Yesterday I did a goddess, but somehow that wasn’t scary, probably because I’ve been drawing them for years. But Sankofa is key right now because I’m going back and recovering my memories. Maybe I’m not so much recovering memories as I am sorting through them, trying to make sense of them, attach them to feelings of trauma and pain.
I’m also connecting those memories and feelings to the recurring nightmare I had as a child… Armageddon. Armageddon got its name just recently; the word came up during a Tapping session. It is the only fitting…
