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[Naga Tuma]

I have absolutely no expertise about spirituality.

I have not gone to a place of worship since 1992 even though I have remained faithful within.

All along, I have been attached to scientific thinking processes.

Yet, I fail to explain some FACTS of history without resigning to divine presence and providence.

I grew up hearing the name Danfa and looking from a distance at his local ገልመ or traditional temple.

As children, we were told not to say his name or look toward his temple. A traditional outlook has it that he has a spiritual power.

Until recently, I haven’t heard anyone say he or she knew someone who actually believed in Danfa.

I continue to try to understand more deeply what the late Ethiopian Laureate Tsegaye Ghebremedhin meant by his six words: ቃሉ የማይቀለበስ ቃሉ ለካ ኣንተ ነህ።

I did a little bit of searching online for the word. I might be misremembering that I had read a long time ago the words Danfa and Pferd in German.

I couldn’t find Danfa in German now.

Instead, I found a note from a Chinese man who wrote: Dafa Spiritual Practice Is Serious

I have no clue if the words Danfa and Dafa have the same root. I would leave that to trained experts in languages. The similarity parallels that between Gofta and God.

Evidently, the article by the Chinese writer appears to be politically motivated. Yet, it talks about it through spirituality.

My curiosity here is about the spirituality component in it.

It makes me wonder how much the tradition is widespread and if there is a single known instance of reckoning with its divine power or if all of it can be proven through scientific processes to be fallacious perceptions.

I wonder if the Chinese man who wrote that Dafa Spiritual Practice is Serious can come up with a single instance of reckoning with it.

If yes, as it was written before, the old Bible is rewritten.

[Naga Tuma]

One of the spiritual counsel by the Chinese man, Hongzhi Li, who wrote the analysis linked above is the following: “Never in the past have human beings become divine.”

The words ራጂ፣ ተዓምር፣ and miracle are probably underrated memories of spiritual manifestations in the history of humankind. Underrated because they appear to be universal across the world.

The old Bible anchors Christianity to immaculate conception.

Renaissance men of both eras have moved away from this conjecture.

Paradoxically, the enlightenments that produced Renaissance men are used as vices by the stubborn preachers of Christianity. Paradoxical because the Renaissance men of both eras have moved away from the conjecture.

The stubborn preachers are evidently unconcerned even if a ራጂ or ተዓምር or miracle that even Renaissance men fail to explain manifests in real time in this era.

Can there be anything more oxymoronic than such stubbornness?

[Naga Tuma]

We understand that Ethiopia is an ancient country that even the spiritual leaders out of the Middle East Jesus and Mohammed talked about in faithful terms.

If I correctly understand one of the late Ethiopian Laureate’s accounts, the Ten Commandments are the words of an ancient Ethiopian ቃልቻ or ቃሉ።

I stand corrected if I misunderstood his account even though I have reached at the same conclusion without any prior knowledge of his account.

I use ቃልቻ and ቃሉ interchangeably because one is used more commonly in northern and eastern Ethiopia whereas the other is used more commonly in central and southern Ethiopia.

We have come to know about the words ጎፍታ or ጎይታ or ጌታ and God, ነቢ and ነብይ, as well as ደንፋ and Dafa.

I have come to learn that Dafa is associated with a spiritual practice among the Chinese and Yoruba and that there are or were people in Ethiopia who believed or believe in ደንፋ።

The litmus test of our time is if there is a single instance of reckoning that the Ethiopian ቃልቻ or ቃሉ or ነቢ or ደንፋ has the faintest of divine power.

If the answer to this litmus test is affirmative, the next question that should come naturally is whether this divine power is territorial. This means fighting against any other divine power in its sphere of influence.

If the answer to this natural question is also affirmative, does it not explain the traditional notion ኢትዮጵያን የነካ means ቃልቻን የነካ፣ ቃሉን የነካ፣ ነቢን የነካ፣ ደንፋን የነካ?

Might this explain the tragic end of ኣፄ ሀይለ ሥላሴ, among other things?

I am sure I am doing a lot of speculations. Then again, I find more questions than answers about my speculations and more questions reinforce my speculations.

This is why I invite people who are more knowledgeable about spirituality consider it more seriously.