Origin of African American New Years traditions, Watchnight Church Service and more

 This is a meal eaten by the African diaspora in America on New Year’s! January 1st ! 

The meal consist of black eyed peas, rice, greens and cornbread! The name of the dish is Hoppin John but the name is obscure to the modern world yet it sounds like name of the festivals associated with some regions or countries in AFRICA.

The various names of the festival are Jonkunnu ( Carribean and West Africa) , also spelled Junkanoo, but this festival could also be associated toThailand it is called Songkran, there is also a festival in a region of India called Chenna,  in Mexico it is called Habinahan, an ancient festival whise name sounds similar to Hoppin John, but it is said to be the name of the meal the African Americans eat on New Years. 

 Keep in mind that the ancient people were highly spiritual and this means the meal is symbolic! The corn bread, the symbol of the ancient word Maize which is Massai an ancient father, while the collard greens could be the symbol of  a father associated with green vegetation and black eyed peas symbol of  protection another father protection. 

The New Year festival Jonakannu is  also similar to the  Philadelphia Mummers Parade. 

The Mummers day festival In Philadelphia is said to be something the Europeans brought to Philadelphia but for decades they were using black face. Generally when Caucasians use black face they are emulating something they saw the Negro aka people of African descent do! Research the origin of Breir Rabbit for an example. 

Based on some images ancient New Years  celebration seemed to include mask and feast in honor of ancestor of some of Asia and Africans of the diaspora. If this is rooted in the traditions of the Pharoah the ancestor would be a mummy! Sounds similar to Mummers doesn’t it? 

Why is the mummers celebration so similar to the Junkanuu? Most immigrants arrived in America hundreds of years after the Africans arrived to East Americaand not all Africans were enslaved, therfore it is posshble that this culture was adopted by these Europeans as they observed the Africans in America or they adopted it from the servants of Europe. 

If you do your own research you will see that there were Negro clubs in the Mummers parade please share if you know why they left the festival. The word mummer includes the word Mummy and the mummy is associated to the land that Noah conquered by the Europeans and Hebrews.

This festival called Jonkunnu is spiritual and secular. It also can go as far back as Noah.  

               The biblical in a short musical video

What are the biblical roots of New Years! In ancient times the universe was the clock. The ancestors of the Africans in America and the other Africans of the diaspora used the universe to tell time. 

Freedoms Eve December 31st 1862 - January 1st 1863 is the anniversary of the Emmancipation Proclamation which is has nothing to do with the celebration Juneteenth, a celebration  rooted in the 13th amendment of 1865 when Texas was notified 6 months later. 

It is possible that this New Years parade is rooted in Ancient African tradition of waiting for the appearance of the Sirius light.   Genesis 1:14 the lights of the universe.

The New years, Thanksgiving and Christmas called Freedoms Eve in the USA is also a time when servants and slaves were allowed to return home during the holiday season. 

We can find examples of this tradition in the Bible during the Pharoahs birthday, the actions of King Asurah in the book of Esther, the Jubilee in the book of Leviticus, and the return of Ezra and Nehimiah to rebuild the temple. 

A time of peace and goodwill rooted in the African folktales about the Orion adopted by the Greeks and given to the world but the Sirius was not their ancestor it was an ancestor to the Africans and this day is rooted in the traditions of people of African descent! 

Noah is an ancestor and the Nile civilization and Kemet are the descendants of Noah. We believe Noah is of AFRICAN descent because the symbols in his name are the snake and hands up in Prayer (The ka). The people of India considered the snake as rebirth, rooted in Genesis and the creation! New beginnnings! 

We should keep in mind that the some tribes of Asia and India also honor the watchnight and solar New Years as festive and ancestral  

We must consider that Noah and Adam are very important to this period because the new years celebration and African American watch night services are is rooted in Genesis chapter 1 verse 14. We can find evidence of these festivals in the traditions of the remaining descendants of the oldest tribes of the world AFRICA!