The Holy Piby
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The Holy Piby is a proto-Rastafarian text written by an Anguillan, Robert Athlyi Rogers (d. 1931), for the use of an Afrocentric religion in the West Indies founded by Rogers in the 1920s, known as the Afro-Athlican Constructive Gaathly. The theology outlined in this work saw Ethiopians (in the classical sense of all Africans) as the chosen people of God. The church preached self-reliance and self-determination for Africans, using the Piby as its guiding document. |
The Promised Key
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This is pro Rastafarian work by Leonard Howell, a Jamaican “John The Baptist”. Published around 1935, this is an edited, much shorter, version of The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy. This text gives us the identities of ‘King Alpha and Queen Omega’,Howell became a preacher of Ras Tafari in 1933, he started to preach that Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (Ras Tafari) was the Messiah, that Black people were the chosen people, and would soon be repatriated to Ethiopia |
The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy |
The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy, written during the 1920s by a proto-Rastafari preacher, Fitz Balintine Pettersburg, is of historical and religious significance to followers of the Rastafari movement. Along with The Holy Piby, it is today recognized as one of the root documents of Rastafari thought. It is a surrealistic stream-of-consciousness polemic against the white colonial power structure, a palimpsest of Afrocentric thought. |