Chants for Ancestral Exuberance
you are liberation is an attunement from the future ones.
i received this transmission during my dear friend Maryam Hasnaa’s Co-Weaving Timelines workshop in New Earth Mystery School.
luminous ancestors is a sonic attunement that emerged for taya mâ’s luminous ancestors of earth sea and sky offering and the ancestral exuberance practitioner training.
ancestors guiding us, guiding us home. ancestors loving us, ancestors holding us, ancestors blessing us, guiding us home.
luminous ancestors of earth, sea and sky. may we root, may we flow, may we fly. may we ripple, may we tend, may we soar, may we be blessed by you who come before.
*beats for future ones & luminous ancestors by Fred Irie. drafts not for distribution*
art on this page is from the Dreaming Liberatory Ancestral Futures collaboration between Ani Ganzala & Taya Mâ, the cover feature of Interdisciplinary Journal for Partnership Studies, fostering cultural transformation from domination to partnership & prioritizing the advancement of human rights and nonviolence, gender and racial equity, and the adoption of new metrics rendering visible the economic value of care.
Ani’s piece Aruanda (above, acrylic) highlights the relationship between the Black Diaspora and botanical technologies for physical and spiritual healing, and their piece No mundo aquático dos peixes e réptais, nós sonhamos / In the aquatic world of fish and reptiles, we dream (below, acrylic) depicts physical and spiritual connection through black and queer love.
Taya Mâ’s chant Solidarity (above) is a lovesong for liberation, an invocation of interdependence, and a call for collective care across realms, born from making ritual and offering prayersong for a free Palestine.
Ani Ganzala is an Afro-Indigenous visual artist, activist and mother whose work revolves around the love and spirituality of black women and LBTQIAPN and the honoring of nature and the ecosystem in which we live. Taya Mâ Shere is a ritual artist embracing embodied, earth-reverent devotion as liberatory spiritual practice. Ani & Taya Mâ first connected on the sacred shores of Bahia, Brasil almost two decades ago. Their creative work is rooted in ancestral dreaming, earth reverence and spiritual activism.
