Ancestor Worship Day Greetings · 256 Ifa & Orisa Healing Temple

Ancestor Worship Day Greetings

You are witnessing a phenomenon that exists only in New Orleans, Louisiana.

This is Black Masking Indian culture. Only four times a year, these masks are brought out to honor ancestors, Africans by origin, who were aided to escape slavery by Native Americans. As they lived together, they exchanged culture, and from that union a unique masking tradition was born, one that echoes the Egúngún masking tradition of the Yorùbá people in Nigeria.

Here we have Chief Shaka Zulu, leader of the Golden Feather Hunters, as he processes through the community honoring and uplifting both his Native American and African ancestors.

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Ancestor Worship Day Greetings