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AKALALI, REFORMER OR DESTROYER OF OKANISI MAROON CULTURE AND RELIGION. PART 5

AKALALI, REFORMER OR DESTROYER OF OKANISI MAROON CULTURE AND RELIGION. PART 5 By: André R.M. Pakosie In this Part 5, as I indicated at the end of Part 4, I explain the Sweli Gadu, the great deity of the Okanisi Maroons. And his role and importance in former Okanisi Maroon society. In the story I will take you back to the slave plantations where the concept of Sweli Obiya originated. At a time when some ancestors, who had been forcibly taken from Africa by slavers and enslaved on the plantations in Suriname, decided to turn their backs on slavery and seek refuge in the jungle. When someone made a plan to do this, others who had somehow heard about it would come and ask to join him. On the slave plantations, however, the slavers had made sure that the enslaved people on the plantations could not trust each other. So the person making his escape plan did not know if someone who wanted to join him was a spy sent by the white slavers to discover his plan. So such a person prepared then his Sweli Obiya. Anyone who wanted to join him had to swear on the Sweli Obiya that he was not a spy. During the marronage, the Sweli Obiya acted as an Agumaga, a spiritual compass that gave the group the direction to follow.