Everything about The Holy Piby totally explained
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 Church. 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 Holy Piby is made up of four books. The first, entitled "The First Book of Athlyi Called Athlyi," has only two chapters. The next, "The Second Book of Athlyi Called Aggregation," is the largest with fifteen chapters, the seventh of which identifies
Marcus Garvey as one of three apostles of God. The "Third Book of Athlyi Named The Facts of the Apostles" presents two prominent members of the
UNIA-ACL,
Robert Lincoln Poston and
Henrietta Vinton Davis, as the other apostles in the
Holy Trinity. The title of the last book is "The Fourth Book of Athlyi Called Precaution." That book is followed by a series of questions and answers wherein Garvey, Davis, and Poston are proclaimed to be the saviors of the "down trodden children of
Ethiopia."
While not, strictly speaking, a "Rastafarian text", it was certainly a primary source of influence to the
Rastafari movement, who see
Haile Selassie I as
Christ, and Marcus Garvey as his
prophet.
The original is very rare. There are no copies listed in either the
Library of Congress or the
University of California catalogs. The Holy Piby was even banned in
Jamaica and other Caribbean Islands in the middle and late 1920s.
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