Daughters of the Holy Shrine
Daughters of the Holy Shrine
The Gifted women of the Akan Dynasty.These were powerful Diviners, called Obayifo… note: these women were not “blood sucking vampires” as the church later described them… (The church burnt all the powerful women who were minding their own business in Europe and demonized every other form of spirituality..)Oba yifo: a performer of a supernatural act. The gifts possessed by these women were passed on from generation to generation. The oldest Obayifo who is ready to join the ancestors would bless her most beloved youth in the family and give them the “bayi kukuo” (the Divine pot) which mostly had knowledge, spells and portions, to continue the good work. Women who protected their families and tribes through their GiFTS have been demonized and persecuted by… you know who, hence, have gone scarce and refuse to pass on their gifts to the younger generation who now deem those gifts as destructive.Prosecutions for the crime of witchcraft reached a highpoint from 1580 to 1630 during the Counter-Reformation and the European wars of religion, when an estimated 50,000 people were executed, with some regions burning those convicted at the stake. Colonists brought this ideology to these tribes who once cherished these women and loved 🥰 them…