Catch Your Thunder: Rendezvous
with the End
By O’Tam Pulto
A Synopsis
The
world has read and reread about the Epic of Gilgamesh, about the Story of the
Flood, and about the Mayan end of times. Only a few know of the Great Reversal
of the Magudans. These are the last vestiges of an ancient community, non-existent
to the big world, dwelling in the perennially foggy highlands of the Gamo at
the upper, thicker lip of the East African Rift Valley. Their Apocalypse is not
written in parchments; not on stones or on terracotta. It rather is hidden in the
intestines of animals, in the womb of the three winds, and in the ways streams
flow and birds fly, which they read in their trance state called the Waazzo
Flight. Their religion: the Waazzo “Cult”.
A
handful of people among the Magudans saw the approaching End. They say the
Traceless – one of the most powerful spirits in their cosmology; a Lucifer but
not evil – has spoken and the Reversal is on. They call the End the Great
Reversal because this would be a time Great Kingdoms of the world and their
high cultures crumble and the customs of small and forgotten communities that
preserved their deep connections to nature sweep the globe.
Elsewhere,
Goddess Atete of the upper Kush or Aset of the Egyptians or Isis of the Hellenistic
world has also sent her calls through Ayyantu – the un-awakened Head-Priestess-to-be
of the Goddess. Ayyantu has to wake up and awaken the Nyabinghi and five other
queens of African ancient oracles. Together these Seven Dancing Queens are to rescue
a mysterious Cup that would ensure their people’s revival and survival at this
time of the End. The trouble is, only two names are revealed so far – Atete and
the Nyabinghi. Who are the other five? Are they among the heirs of the Rain
Queen of the Lovedu? Nandi of the Zululand? Nehanda of the Shona? Lady Elephant
of the Swazi? Nzingha of Angola? Yaa Asantewa of the Ashanti? Or Gumsu of the
Hausa? Ayyantu should find out. Worse, the Cup is in the possession of Tora –
the ferocious head Mutse (spirit healer) of Maguda.
Tora
has no idea. The Cup he is niggardly guarding – called the Thirsty Cup – is
sought by the League of the Monarchs of the World with the headship of the
Ethiopian Lion of Judah backed by the monarchs of British and Japan; and also
by the Derg with the leadership of the military junta Mengistu Hailemariam. China,
Jalala the magician of Bishoftu and other forces are also behind it and behind Ayyantu.
Ayyantu, the Nyabinghi and the other sleeping queens of Africa has a lot on their
plate.
Tama,
the half-brother of Tora the Mutse, the brother-husband of Ayyantu, the Prophet
of the Oracle of the Silent Dancers, the professor of African indigenous
religions – nicknamed the Ghost of Makerere – is laboring to awaken his
sister-wife Ayyantu, and to help her find and bring together all the Seven
Dancing Queens. Although skilled in the secrets of the Road, his lot is in no
way easy. His brother, a man of unquenchable power thirst, and the giant forces
of the world seeking the Thirsty Cup are upon his heels.
Catch
Your Thunder: Rendezvous with the End
is the first book in the epic tale of the Gita Ola – the Great Battle – of the Reversal:
a battle among the time-honored institutions that fight to preserve their
powers, people who think have the elixir for the healing of the world, and the
innocents and the childlike of the land who toil to plant and cultivate the new
tale of Mother Earth.
This
wouldn’t be the war of flesh bearers alone. Heaven and Hell are closer to us than
we might imagine. The Magudan spirit practitioners are adept in the ancient art
of guiding the spirits of the dead and the half-dead to possess the wakeful and
sleeping minds of the divines of all religions, politicians, scientists, and
artists to make them come up with the most bizarre sciences and decisions so
that the old world order would be plowed under. Not only the elites. They may also
have ordinary people like you and me possessed by the spirits of the deceased to
make of us their armies when we think we are living our chosen ways. This is
the time of the End, the time of the ultimate choice, and it is better that we
choose to know and know to choose.
Telling
of unknown shamanic communities and their secrets highly guarded for nearly seven
millenniums, the story wouldn’t come without a challenge to the long established
concepts of the human mind and soul, time and space, life after death and
resurrection, and human-nature interconnections; making us wonder if the
world has not gotten these things wrong. It would also make us question if
crucial truths in humanity’s ancient and recent history are being consciously
overlooked: what were warriors like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar
looking for in East Africa? Why did Italy of Umberto and Mussolini
plant her teeth so adamantly on this part of the black continent? What were the
extraordinary African Queens such as Candace, Cleopatra, and Sheba hiding? What
are the Chinese really looking for in Africa? …
Goddess
Isis has always been at the heart of the birth and rise of great civilizations
– the Abyssinian, the Nubian, the Egyptian, the Greece, the Roman, and beyond.
She was silent however, like the silent mothers of Africa. Her silence, which was
the source of her power, has been misunderstood so long that she had to break
her oath not to speak. Now she is calling. Many may arise in the name of Isis and
cause untold sufferings on the children of men. However, Isis is primarily the goddess
of women and the lowly; and the redemption of Africa as well as the world can
only come through women and the lowly. This is about the rise of the wronged to
ensure the New World after the Reversal belongs to them. The Great Battle would
be unparalleled in the history of the universe and the fighters would be unlike
the heroines and heroes the world has ever seen.
The Motive behind the writing
