Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Bigger than God?

There you are, you heard it here first, a "Howell" is up there with Jesus Christ, God, and Haile Selassie.
More details I hear you say?
From Wiki:-


Leonard Percival Howell (June 16, 1898 – 1981) was a Jamaican religious figure. He was one of the first preachers of the Rastafari movement (along with Joseph Hibbert, Archibald Dunkley, and Robert Hinds), and is sometimes known as "The First Rasta."

Born in May Crawle River, Jamaica, Howell left the country as a youth and returned in 1932. He began preaching in 1933 about what he considered the symbolic portent for the African diaspora—the crowning of Ras Tafari Makonnen as Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia. His preaching asserted that Haile Selassie was the "Messiah returned to earth." Although this resulted in him being arrested, tried for sedition and imprisoned for two years, the Rastafari movement grew. [1]

Over the following years, Howell came into conflict with all the establishment authorities in Jamaica: the planters, the trade unions, established churches, police and colonial authorities. Nevertheless, this movement prospered, and today the Rastafari faith exists worldwide.

Leonard Howell died in Kingston, Jamaica.


I wonder if he had welsh ancestors? Or, perhaps an ancestor born on the farm/estate of a Howell?


2 Comments:

Blogger Nick Browne said...

Outstanding, Red Team, outstanding! Get you a case of beer for that ...

9:22 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

there is only one thing to be said when one discovers one's possible ancester is ranked with god,

"HOLLA!"

12:23 pm  

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