#bights

[lightsgifs]

Blessthefall - Open Water (feat. Lights)

#lights #lights poxleitner #lights bokan #beau bokan #blessthefall #open water #live #bights #*

[wintermatmazel]

lovehurts,it causes anger,jealousy,obsession,why dont you love me back!?

#kalplerin keşfi #keşfedilmemiş #keşfedilmeyen #keşfedin #keşfet #travel #trending #trends #bts #bts army #trendingnow #trending on tumblr #bangtan #bights #Spotify #jungkook #taehyung #jin #jimin #yoongi #rm #jhope #namjoon

[mrhaynara]

#bts v #taehyung #bts 10th anniversary #bights

[briery]

An astronaut took this photograph of the Aurora Australis in August 2017. At the time, the International Space Station was moving over the southern Indian Ocean towards the Great Australian Bight and Melbourne, Australia.

#aurora #auroras #aurora australis #southern lights #stars #solar wind #solar winds #earth #space #orbit #magnetosphere #atmosphere #atmospheric phenomena #nasa #science #international space station #indian ocean #great australia bight #melbourne #australia #2017 #2010s

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

#travel #bight #nightview #nightsky #nightscape #stars

[kemetic-dreams]

Afro-Jamaicans are Jamaicans of predominant African descent. They represent the largest ethnic group in the country.

The ethnogenesis of the African Jamaican people stemmed from the Atlantic slave trade of the 16th century, when enslaved Africans were transported as slaves to Jamaica and other parts of the Americas. During the period of British rule, slaves brought into Jamaica were primarily Akan, some of whom ran away and joined with Maroons and even took over as leaders

West Africans were enslaved in wars with other West African states and kidnapped by either African or European slavers. The most common means of enslaving an African was through abduction.

Based on slave ship records, enslaved Africans mostly came from the Akan people (notably those of the Asante Kotoko alliance of the 1720's: Asante, Bono, Wassa, Nzema and Ahanta) followed by Kongo people, Fon people, Ewe people, and to a lesser degree: Yoruba, Ibibio people and Igbo people. Akan (then called Coromantee) culture was the dominant African culture in Jamaica.

Originally in earlier British colonization, the island before the 1750s was in fact mainly Akan imported. However, between 1663 and 1700, only six per cent of slave ships to Jamaica listed their origin as the Gold Coast, while between 1700 and 1720 that figure went up to 27 per cent. The number of Akan slaves arriving in Jamaica from Kormantin ports only increased in the early 18th century. But due to frequent rebellions from the then known "Coromantee" that often joined the slave rebellion group known as the Jamaican Maroons, other groups were sent to Jamaica. The Akan population was still maintained, since they were the preference of British planters in Jamaica because they were "better workers", according to these planters. According to the Slave Voyages Archives, though the Igbo had the highest importation numbers, they were only imported to Montego Bay and St. Ann's Bay ports, while the Akan (mainly Gold Coast) were more dispersed across the island and were a majority imported to seven of 14 of the island's ports (each parish has one port).

Myal and Revival

Kumfu (from the word Akom the name of the Akan spiritual system) was documented as Myal and originally only found in books, while the term Kumfu is still used by Jamaican Maroons. The priest of Kumfu was called a Kumfu-man. In 18th-century Jamaica, only Akan gods were worshipped by Akan as well as by other enslaved Africans. The Akan god of creation, Nyankopong was given praise but not worshipped directly. They poured libation to Asase Ya, the goddess of the earth. But nowadays they are only observed by the Maroons who preserved a lot of the culture of 1700s Jamaica.

"Myal" or Kumfu evolved into Revival, a syncretic Christian sect. Kumfu followers gravitated to the American Revival of 1800 Seventh Day Adventist movement because it observed Saturday as god's day of rest. This was a shared aboriginal belief of the Akan people as this too was the day that the Akan god, Nyame, rested after creating the earth. Jamaicans that were aware of their Ashanti past while wanting to keep hidden, mixed their Kumfu spirituality with the American Adventists to create Jamaican Revival in 1860. Revival has two sects: 60 order (or Zion Revival, the order of the heavens) and 61 order (or Pocomania, the order of the earth). 60 order worships God and spirits of air or the heavens on a Saturday and considers itself to be the more "clean" sect. 61 order more deals with spirits of the earth. This division of Kumfu clearly shows the dichotomy of Nyame and Asase Yaa's relationship, Nyame representing air and has his 60 order'; Asase Yaa having her 61 order of the earth. Also the Ashanti funerary/war colours: red and black have the same meaning in Revival of vengeance. Other Ashanti elements include the use of swords and rings as means to guard the spirit from spiritual attack. The Asantehene, like the Mother Woman of Revival, has special two swords used to protect himself from witchcraft called an Akrafena or soul sword and a Bosomfena or spirit sword

Jamaican Patois, known locally as Patwa, is an English creole language spoken primarily in Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora. It is not to be confused with Jamaican English nor with the Rastafarian use of English. The language developed in the 17th century, when enslaved peoples from West and Central Africa blended their dialect and terms with the learned vernacular and dialectal forms of English spoken: British Englishes (including significant exposure to Scottish English) and Hiberno English. Jamaican Patwa is a post-creole speech continuum (a linguistic continuum) meaning that the variety of the language closest to the lexifier language (the acrolect) cannot be distinguished systematically from intermediate varieties (collectively referred to as the mesolect) nor even from the most divergent rural varieties (collectively referred to as the basilect). Jamaicans themselves usually refer to their use of English as patwa, a term without a precise linguistic definition.

Jamaican Patois contains many loanwords of African origin, a majority of those etymologically from Gold Coast region (particularly of the Asante-Twi dialect of the Akan language of Ghana).

Most Jamaican proverbs are of Asante people, while some included other African proverbs

Jamaican mtDNA

A DNA test study submitted to BMC Medicine in 2012 states that "....despite the historical evidence that an overwhelming majority of slaves were sent from the Bight of Biafra and West-central Africa near the end of the British slave trade, the mtDNA haplogroup profile of modern Jamaicans show a greater affinity with groups found in the present-day Gold Coast region Ghana....this is because Africans arriving from the Gold Coast may have thus found the acclimatization and acculturation process less stressful because of cultural and linguistic commonalities, leading ultimately to a greater chance of survivorship and a greater number of progeny."

More detailed results stated: "Using haplogroup distributions to calculate parental population contribution, the largest admixture coefficient was associated with the Gold Coast(0.477 ± 0.12 or 59.7% of the Jamaican population with a 2.7 chance of Pygmy and Sahelian mixture), suggesting that the people from this region may have been consistently prolific throughout the slave era on Jamaica. The diminutive admixture coefficients associated with the Bight of Biafra and West-central Africa (0.064 ± 0.05 and 0.089 ± 0.05, respectively) is striking considering the massive influx of individuals from these areas in the waning years of the British Slave trade. When excluding the pygmy groups, the contribution from the Bight of Biafra and West-central rise to their highest levels (0.095 ± 0.08 and 0.109 ± 0.06, respectively), though still far from a major contribution. When admixture coefficients were calculated by assessing shared haplotypes, the Gold Coast also had the largest contribution, though much less striking at 0.196, with a 95% confidence interval of 0.189 to 0.203. When haplotypes are allowed to differ by one base pair, the Jamaican matriline shows the greatest affinity with the Bight of Benin, though both Bight of Biafra and West-central Africa remain underrepresented. The results of the admixture analysis suggest the mtDNA haplogroup profile distribution of Jamaica more closely resembles that of aggregated populations from the modern-day Gold Coast region despite an increasing influx of individuals from both the Bight of Biafra and West-central Africa during the final years of trading enslaved Africans.

The aforementioned results apply to subjects whom have been tested. Results also stated that African Jamaicans (that make up more than 90% of the population) on an average have 97.5% of African MtDNA and very little European or Asian ancestry could be found. Both ethnic and racial genetic results are based on a low sample of 390 Jamaican persons and limited regional representation within Jamaica. As Afro-Jamaicans are not genetically homogeneous, the results for other subjects may yield different results.

#african #afrakan #kemetic dreams #africans #brownskin #brown skin #afrakans #african culture #afrakan spirituality #asante #jamaican #benin #bight of biafra #gold coast #mtdna #afro jamaicans #twi #west africa #africa #algeria #uganda #ethiopia #ghana #myal #rastafari #rasta #rastaman #rasta love #kisumi amau #tegan and sara

[reallypheelingit]

figured I should post this on its own too... Bight with all the slap bracelets that @goannafr gave them!

#frfanart #flight rising #fr banescale #banescale #bight #florabrisa #pheel art #goannafr #digital art

[penstrokes]

Realizing Omega is shadier than Crosshair due to Sid's bad influence

#star wars #the bad batch spoilers #the bad batch #take omega to canto bight and let her fuck'em up

[blighted-elf]

For those who haven’t seen it yet...

World of Darkness Collection is now available on Humble Bundle! Pay what you want, get books and video games, support the charity 🦇https://t.co/2NAMlc6yr2 

#Vampire the Masquerade #VtM #Werewolf the Apocalypse #Wraith the Oblivion #Out for Blood #Sins of the Sires #WtO Afterlife #Shadows of New York #Heart of the Forest #Parliament of Knives #Night Road #Coteries of New York #Anarch #Camarilla #Bighted posts

[dire-vulture]

pheelslikesummer what's bight's FAVE collar/necklace/slap-band??

oooh let's see... Bight certainly isn't lacking in options haha

wavy purple one with the heart charm is a good contender! Bight certainly likes purple, wavy patterns, and hearts c:

The texture of the upper pink one is fun, and the bow is super cute too so I think Bight would be quite fond of these ones as well. Though of course they love all their accessories. really easy dragon to buy gifts for tbh sfdgf

thank you for the ask :D

#asks #bight #banescale #goannafr

[thevoiceofdesertbluffs]

He is currently staring at me from his door. I am not sure what he is doing there, but he has been here for around an hour, just... staring. He won't stop staring.

#eyestrain #eyestrain cw #bight colours #bright colors #tma #the magnus archives #michael distortion #gart #got a headdache from drawing this. yay! #anyways. its not very good but it was more something i felt compelled to do...... #i hope you all enjoy the slightly different style

[redrcs]

On the edge of the Bight

On my travels

#original photographers #nature photography #landscape photography #Great Australian Bight #clouds #Southern Ocean

[trooperst-3v3]

I guess I missed Canto Bight Fashion Week. I remember I was invited to model last year and I loved it.

Can you blame them for not inviting you back? I mean, you're super tall and always have hella good hair. You were probably intimidating the other models.

Also, the blaster probably helped.

If you wanna dress up fancy, anyway, I could probably make a nice dress for you while work is slow.

You gotta buy the fabric, though.

#st-3v3 #star wars #sequel trilogy #stormtrooper #ask #captain Phasma #canto bight #fashion week #gwendoline christie #model

[walkawaytall]

I'm sorry, why are there more characters with the last name Antilles in the GFFA than there are named planets with casinos? In forty-six real-life years of lore -- many of them spent with a smuggler who canonically won his very famous ship by way of gambling -- they have only referenced two planets with casinos? Am I being punk'd by Wookieepedia right now?

#I refuse to use canto bight #I simply don't want to #you can't make me #gffa #star wars meta #star wars #canto bight

[hostilemuppet]

How do you feel about those John Dory miscarriage fics on Ao3? I felt that it went from “Egg didn’t crack so it was a stillborn” to “ Egg cracked. It was blood everywhere. Fetus on the ground.” And I wonder how do abortions work if that’s how miscarriages work😭

when you think about it isnt the only difference between an abortion and a miscarriage how intentional it was

#text #i think. the obsession with having jd SPECIFICALLY go through miscarriages. is odd #like if it was a more general trend id be able to shrug it off but #90% of the time it is jd #and........ someone smarter than me bight be able to put it into words #but i cant. articulate. how. Odd. that feels

[lvtheverybest]

Every time I see Death from Puss in boots I see him holding frying pans

#it probably doesn't help that I have my phone with the lowest possible bightness #i hope I'm not the only one #puss in boots #death wolf #lobo puss in boots #the last wish #puss in boots death #shitpost #eddit