Holy Piby

The Holy Piby ( written by a native of Anguilla Athlyi Robert Rogers ) is regarded as an important basis of the Rastafari religion. It is referred to as the " Bible of the black man." It was written by Rogers 1913-1917 and printed in 1924 in the United States.

From there, several copies were shipped to South Africa, where it came to the establishment of the "Afro - Athlican Constructive Church " by supporters of Rogers among black workers diamonds from Kimberley. The church held the Ethiopians ( in the Biblical sense, ie all Black Africans ) as the chosen people of God ( Äthiopismus ).

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

The meetings of the church were initially described by police observers as apolitical, but it came after warnings from the British governor to polizeilichem pressure, and the church retreated into the remote hills. From here, the church took place in the 1930s influenced the formation of the Rastafari movement, as did that of the United States to his native Jamaica reported and venerated by the Church as prophet black nationalist and Pan - Africanist Marcus Garvey.

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

Many Rastafarians believe that Rogers' Holy Piby the first Bible version comes closer than the ( in their view of the White falsified ) modern English Bible, but not necessarily exactly identical to this one. This original Bible was the Rastafarian tradition has written in Amharic.