Holy Piby

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The Holy Piby is a text by Anguilla born Robert Athlyi Rogers , who is considered an important basis of the Rastafarian religion. It is also known as the "Black Man's Bible". It was written by Rogers between 1913 and 1917 and first printed in the United States in 1924.

From there a number of copies were shipped to South Africa, where the Afro-Athlican Constructive Church was founded by supporters of Rogers among the black diamond workers of Kimberley . The church held the Ethiopians (in the biblical sense, all black Africans) for the chosen people of God ( Ethiopism ).

Also in 1924 the manuscript was discovered in Panama by the Barbadian priest Charles Goodridge. With the Panamanian Grace Jenkins Garrison, whose followers she called "The Comet", he founded an offshoot of the South African Church in Jamaica in 1925, also registered as the " Hamitic Church " in Jamaica .

The church meetings had initially been described by police observers as apolitical, but police pressure arose following warnings from the British governor and the church withdrew to the remote mountains. From here the church influenced the formation of the Rastafarian movement in the 1930s, as did the black nationalist and pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey , who was expelled from the USA to his home country Jamaica and venerated as a prophet by the church .

Copies of the first edition are extremely rare today and are missing even in most of the world's largest libraries, such as the Library of Congress . In the 1920s and 1930s, the book was banned in many places.

Many Rastafarians believe that Rogers' Holy Piby is closer to the first version of the Bible than, but not necessarily exactly identical to, today's English Bible (which they believe was falsified by whites) . This original Bible was written in Amharic according to Rastafarian tradition .

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