Zanemvula is an African traditional healer who specializes in cosmic alignment. She teaches African indigenous knowledge systems of time-keeping and the history thereof.
Cosmos implies viewing the universe as a complex and orderly system or entity. It includes all of space, and all the matter and energy that space contains. It even includes time itself and human beings. Earth and the Moon are part of the universe, as are the other planets and their many dozens of moons. Along with asteroids and comets, the planets orbit the Sun.
The sun, its commanding presence in the sky, its brightness too strong to look at, its light and warmth essential for life--is a powerful symbol for the divine. Depictions of the sun are rare in Africa's traditional arts, but ideas about the sun underscore its ever-present influence. In some traditions on the continent and in the African diaspora, the rising and setting of the sun and its path across the sky each day suggest the cycle of life, from birth to adulthood to death and rebirth.
The way that the cosmos is explained in the western world is a water down and simplified version of what our ancestors inertly new and they had the very advanced way of teaching cosmology and of understanding the cosmos. And it was a time keeping system more than anything, it how they track time. It was how they new when to sow, when to harvest. It is when the new to celebrate the beginning of solar cycle. - Zanemvula Tsabedze
Think about this …
North – God (represent up the sky where our Creator is) we look up when we pray.
South – Ancestors (the direction is down where ancestors are) When one talks to ancestors, one looks down.
East – Sun (where are gods come from, that’s why they worshiped the sun)
West – Never bury an African people to the west. Should you rise up, you must rise up facing the gods)
The longest day of the year, summer solstice
Equal day and night 22 – 26 September Spring Equinox
Shortest day of the year 21 of June
Inzalo Ye Langa, the significance of this area, spell out the ancient knowledge and vast understanding Africans had regarding the cosmos. The place is one of the pieces of evidence that our ancestors were more advance than we think of them. The calendar still works even today.
