Okraguare - Soul Washing on the Krada (Soul-day/Birthday) In Akan Ancestral Religion in North America, the Hoodoo Religion, as well as Akan Ancestral Religion in Afuraka/Afuraitkait (Africa), we engage the Okraguare or Soul-washing ritual at least once weekly at the shrine for our Okra/Okraa. Okra and Okraa (Ka and Kait) - Male and Female terms in Akan for the Soul - the Deity assigned to your Head by the Nyamewaa-Nyame (Amenet-Amen, the Supreme Being) to dwell with you and guide you to execute your Divine Function in Creation throughout your life. guare (dwaree) - to wash; to cleanse We also go out to the asuo (river) on our Krada (Soul-day/Birthday) to invoke and give offerings to the Obosom (Deity) who governs our patriclan. Once this Obosom takes up residence in the river and lends its tumi (Divine power) to this body of water, we then utilize that properly energized-water to cleanse/wash our head and our Okra/Okraa. If we were in Afuraka/Afuraitkait (Africa) we would go to the specific river sacred to this particular Obosom. Because we are in america, we go to the local river and invoke our Ntorobosom (patriclan Obosom) to come and possess the local river while we engage in the ritual process or Okraguare. The Ntorobosom always manifests to confirm the invocation was effective. The cell-phone video is post-Okraguare yesterday which was my Krada (Soul-day). In this particular branch of the river there are large stones in the middle upon which we repose when conducting Okraguare. In our upcoming documentary film AMARUKAFO ADEBISA ADWUMADI: African-American Ancestral Divination Project, we will examine this ritual process in detail and demonstrate it. This ritual process is manifest in unique forms by all Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) people. Akan people cleanse our Okra/Okraa, Yoruba people cleanse their Ori Inu (Inner head/Soul), Ewe and Fon people cleanse their Se Lido (Soul), Igbo people cleanse their Chi (Soul), in ancient Khanit and Kamit it is the cleansing of the Ka or Kait, etc. We are aiming to complete our film in time for our second annual ODWIRAMAN AFAHYE: Purified Nation of Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut (Africans) in the West - Conference, which is June 24th in Washington, DC. We will be in Virginia and North Carolina this week to film and the other states mentioned in previous messages thereafter. We have reached the 22% mark of our crowdfunding goal so far. With your assistance we can reach the 50% mark asap which will carry us into post-production. Although our schedule is tight, we have time to get the work done with your support. AMARUKAFO ADEBISA ADWUMADI: African-American Ancestral Divination Project www.fundrazr.com/Amarukafo_Adebisa Yeda ase .. we thank you.. Odwirafo