Luisah Teish ( /t iː ʃ / TEESH ; [1] wacce kuma aka fi sani da Iyanifa Fajembola Fatunmise ) malama ce [2] kuma marubuciya, musamman na Jambalaya: Littafin Mace ta Halitta na Ƙa'idodin Kai da Ayyukan Aiki. [3] Ita ce shugabar Iyanifa da Oshun a al'adar Lucumi na Yarbawa. [3] [4]

Luisah Teish
Rayuwa
Haihuwa New Orleans, 20 century
ƙasa Najeriya
Karatu
Harsuna Turanci
Pidgin na Najeriya
Sana'a
Sana'a marubuci da Mai tsara rayeraye

Rayuwa gyara sashe

Luisah Teish Ba-Amurke ne, an haife ta a New Orleans, Louisiana. Mahaifinta, Wilson Allen, Sr. Episcopal ne na Methodist na Afirka wanda iyayensa bayin tsararraki biyu ne kuma tsara ɗaya kacal daga bauta. Mahaifiyarta, Serena "Rene" Allen, 'yar Katolika ce, ta Haitian, Faransanci, da Choctaw. Asalin zuriyarta kuma sun haɗa da Yarbawa ta Yammacin Afirka.

A ƙarshen shekarun 1960, Teish ta kasance ƴar rawa a ƙungiyar Katherine Dunham, inda ta koyi da yin raye-rayen gargajiya na Afirka da Caribbean. [5] Bayan barin kamfanin rawa, ta zama mawaƙiya a St. Louis. A shekara ta 1969 ta shiga Fahami Temple na Amun-Ra, kuma a nan ne ta ɗauki sunan "Luisah Teish", wanda ke nufin "ruhi mai ban sha'awa". [5] [6] Ta jagoranci kungiyar rawa ta Black Artists Group (BAG) a St. Louis bayan tafiyar shugaban rawa na farko na BAG, Georgia Collins.

A ƙarshen 1970s ta zama farkon kuma firist na addinin Lucumi, [5] kuma ta fara koyar da ɗalibai a cikin 1977. [7] A halin yanzu tana zaune a Oakland, California. [8] [9]

Teish ya ce, "Al'adata tana da farin ciki sosai - a koyaushe akwai kiɗa, raye-raye, waƙa, da abinci a cikin ayyukanmu - da kuma jin girmamawa ga yara. Yana da farin ciki da kuma tunani." [5]

Wata marubuciya ta ce ita ce "wataƙila fitacciyar fitacciyar .. Yarbawa firist.. na [San Francisco] Bay Area" (2010). [9] Wani marubucin ya bayyana ta a matsayin "... sananne a duniya a cikin da'irar Allah a matsayin marubuci kuma mai yin al'ada." [10]

Littafi gyara sashe

  • What Don't Kill is Fattening: Poems by Luisah Teish (1980) Fan Tree Press ASIN: B0007BJRRE
  • Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals (1988) HarperOne  ,  
  • Carnival of the Spirit: Seasonal Celebrations and Rites of Passage (1994) Harpercollins  ,  
  • Soul Between the Lines: Freeing Your Creative Spirit Through Writing (with Dorothy Randall Gray) (1998) Avon Books  ,  
  • Eye of the Storm (1998) E P Dutton  ,  
  • Jump Up: Good Times Throughout the Season with Celebrations from Around the World (2000) Conari Press  ,  
  • What Don’t Kill Is Fattening Revisited: Twenty Years of Poetry, Prose, and Myth (2002) Orikire Publications
  • Zulu Shaman: Dreams, Prophecies, and Mysteries (with Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa and Stephen Larsen) (2003) Destiny Books (New Edition of Song of the Stars)  ,  

Manazarta gyara sashe

  1. "Growing up in New Orleans; Learning from Elders; Connecting with Spirit (Part 1/7)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2020-10-27. Retrieved 22 October 2020.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  2. Malka Drucker. White Fire: A Portrait of Women Spiritual Leaders in America. SkyLight Paths Publishing, 2003
  3. 3.0 3.1 Casey, Laura. "There's magic between plants, food and beauty". Oakland Tribune [Oakland, Calif] 28 Oct 2006: 1.
  4. "Luisah Teish". Great Mother and New Father Conference. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Albert, Mimi (January 1987). "Luisah Teish - Yoruba priestess, psychic channel, storyteller, shaman - describes her return to the goddesses and gods of her West African spiritual roots". Yoga Journal. Active Interest Media, Inc. 72: 33–35. ISSN 0191-0965.
  6. Directory, Institute of Noetic Sciences: Luisah Teish, wuote: "In 1969 she received initiation into the Fahamme Temple of Amun-Ra in St. Louis, Missouri."
  7. Greta S. Gaard. Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens. Temple University Press, 1998
  8. Aikens, Charles. "Teish Says Oakland Deserves To Be Saved". California Voice [Oakland, Calif] 08 Dec 1991: 4.
  9. 9.0 9.1 Lillian Ashcraft-Eason. Women and New and Africana Religions, ABC-CLIO, 2010, pg. 129
  10. Kathryn Rountree. Embracing the Witch and the Goddess: Feminist Ritual-Makers in New Zealand. Routledge 2003. Quote: "In 1992 Luisah Teish, who is well known internationally in Goddess circles as a writer and ritual-maker, visited New Zealand. Teish is of Yoruba (West African) ancestry, although she was born and raised in New Orleans. She was the guest facilitator at residential weekend workshops in Auckland and Hamilton dedicated to exploring sensuality and creativity in ritual contexts. Her book Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals (1985) is well known among feminist witches in New Zealand"

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