Episodes
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On The Mix With LebsesV8 Volume 115 (28.06.26)
St Onuphrius is also known by the Hellenized form Onouphrios. Most likely, his name was Nofer. Known in Egypt as Nofer the Anchorite, he was an important figure among the Desert Fathers – the famed early Christian ascetics who retreated to the deserts of Egypt in the 4th or 5th century. These...
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On The Mix With LebsesV8 Volume 114 (25.05.26)
Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus was a 3rd-century Bishop of Carthage, theologian, and Christian martyr whose leadership and writings shaped early Latin Christianity. Converted from a wealthy pagan background around 246, he became bishop in 249 and guided the North African church through the Decian…
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On The Mix With LebsesV8 Volume 113 (10.05.26)
Honoring St. Moses of Ethiopia: A Journey Through Faith and History St․ Moses of Ethiopia, also known as St․ Moses the Black, is a significant figure in Christian history, revered for his remarkable transformation from a life of sin to one of profound faith and holiness․ His story is a powerful...
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On The Mix With LebsesV8 Volume 112 (30.04.26)
Isidora of Tabenna in Egypt, Fool for Christ Saint Isidora struggled as a Fool for Christ at the Tabenna Monastery in Egypt, North Africa in the 4th Century. She fulfilled the dirtiest and most-difficult tasks at the monastery. Instead of cooked food, she drank the dirty dish water. Many of the...
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On The Mix With LebsesV8 Volume 111 (22.04.26)
The African Slave and Martyr George of Damascus This story is recorded in the Laodicean manuscript of the Arabic Menologion and in the Calendar of Patriarch Macarius III ibn al-Za’im of Antioch (+1672) and is included in the Synaxarion of Hieromonk Macarius of Simonopetra Monastery on Mount…
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On The Mix With LebsesV8 Volume 110 (05.04.26)
On the Fifth Sunday of Lent the Orthodox Church commemorates our Righteous Mother Mary of Egypt. The feast day of Saint Mary of Egypt is April 1, however, she is also commemorated on this Sunday due to her recognition by the Church as a model of repentance. Our holy mother Mary was born in Egypt....
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On The Mix With LebsesV8 Volume 109 (29.03.26)
The Story of Saint Isidore the Great, Priest of Scetis There is often confusion among the holy monastic fathers who bear the name "Isidore." The Isidore we are talking about here is the one whom the monastic historian Palladius called "Isidore the Great." Rufinus considered him one of the great...
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On The Mix With LebsesV8 Volume 108 (23.03.26)
Sts. Perpetua and Felicity were Christian martyrs who lived during the early persecution of the Church in Africa by the Roman Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus In 203 AD, Vivia Perpetua, an educated woman of noble birth, chose to embrace Christianity, despite knowing that it could result in her...
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On The Mix With LebsesV8 Volume 107 Mixed by LebsesV8 (16.03.26)
St. Abba Macarius the Great (295-392 A.D.; also known as Macarius of Egypt) was among the most authoritative Desert Fathers of Egypt, and a disciple of St. Anthony the Great. The Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates his feast day on January 19 (February 1 by Julian Calendar). The Coptic Church at...
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On The Mix With Volume 106 Mixed by LebsesV8 (12.10.25)
Anthony of Egypt, St (c.251–356), Egyptian hermit, the founder of monasticism. During his seclusion in the Egyptian desert he attracted a number of followers whom he organized into a community; his hermit life is also noted for the temptations he underwent, especially from demons in the guise of...
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On The Mix Volume 105 (05.10.25) Mixed By LebsesV8
Saint Pachomius the Great was both a model of desert dwelling, and with Saints Anthony the Great (January 17), Macarius the Great (January 19), and Euthymius the Great (January 20), a founder of the cenobitic monastic life in Egypt. Saint Pachomius was born in the third century in the Thebaid...
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On The Mix Volume 104 (09.09.25) Mixed By LebsesV8
Saint God-bearing Father Paisios the Great I call you an Angel O Paisios, Not by nature but by your unusual life. Our Venerable and God-bearing Father Paisios the Great was from the village of Shansa in Egypt and born in 320. Παΐσιος ο Μέγας_Paisius the Great_
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On The Mix Volume 103 (02.09.25) Mixed By LebsesV8
Every sunday we review the latest boom bap rap albums released in that particular week, by compiling a mixtape with tracks from these various artists. https://hearthis.at/lebsesv8/
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On The Mix Volume 102 (27.08.25)
Every sunday we review the latest boom bap rap albums released in that particular week, by compiling a mixtape with tracks from these various artists. https://hearthis.at/lebsesv8/
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On The Mix Volume 101 (20.08.25)
Every sunday we review the latest boom bap rap albums released in that particular week, by compiling a mixtape with tracks from these various artists. https://hearthis.at/lebsesv8/
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On The Mix Volume 100 (15.08.25)
Every sunday we review the latest boom bap rap albums released in that particular week, by compiling a mixtape with tracks from these various artists. https://hearthis.at/lebsesv8/
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On The Mix Volume 99 (10.11.24)
Book: Thomas Sankara and Jerry Rawlings: Intellectuals, Populists, Revolutionaries, and Pan-Africanists Human history began in Africa, and according to all available historical, biological, and anthropological sources and understanding, it is the origin of modern humans. However, things have not...
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On The Mix Volume 98 (16.10.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
Every sunday we review the latest boom bap rap albums released in that particular week, by compiling a mixtape with tracks from these various artists. https://hearthis.at/lebsesv8/
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On The Mix Volume 97 (22.08.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
Excerpts of Kwame Nkrumah’s DARK DAYS IN GHANA . I left Accra on 21st February 1966. I was seen off at the airport by most of the leading government and Party officials, and by service chiefs. I recall the handshakes and the expressions of good wishes from Harlley, Deku, Yakubu, and others. These...
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On The Mix Volume 96 (03.06.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon Summary The Wretched of the Earth analyzes the postwar decolonization movement, focusing on Africa and on Algeria in particular. Fanon argues the violence of colonial rule sows the seeds of its violent overthrow. Taking violent action restores the colonized...
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On The Mix Volume 95 (29.05.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
“There is no mental health for Black people without understanding racism and [whyte] supremacy; it is the major origin of stress that impacts us… There will never be peace as long as there is [whyte] supremacy.” ~Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing The Isis Papers: The Keys to Colors by Dr. France’s Cress...
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On The Mix Volume 94 (28.05.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. Chancellor Williams The Destruction of Black Civilization took Chancellor Williams sixteen years of research and field study to compile. The book, which was to serve as a reinterpretation of the history of…
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On The Mix Volume 93 (17.04.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
Kemet, Afrocentricity, and Knowledge By Molefi Kete Asante "Asante's book, Kemet,Afrocentricity,and Knowledge, continues his project of forging a new discipline out of the many strands of Black Studies. Like his previous works, this is a profound statement of the Afrocentric perspective."...C....
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On The Mix Volume 92 (04.04.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
The Neteru of Kemet: An Introduction, Siuda-Legan, Tama “Three thousand years before the birth of Jesus Christ and perhaps even before, a civilization thrived on the banks of the Nile River in northern Africa that was called by its inhabitants Kemet (‘Black Land’). This land is known today by the...
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On The Mix Volume 91 (28.03.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
The Kingdom of Kush: The Napatan and Meroitic Empires Derek A. Welsby "The Kingdom of Kush, lying to the south of Egypt, upstream of the first Nile cataract, flourished for a thousand years. During the eighth and seventh centuries BC its rulers controlled Egypt as pharaohs of the Twenty Fifth...
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On The Mix Volume 90 (21.03.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
Enoch the Ethiopian: Greater Than Abraham Holier Than Moses by Indus Khamit Kush Enoch, the Ethiopian, Patriarch and Prophet, Greater than Abraham, Holier than Moses, is the first perfect human being in the Bible and the first important man according to Moses the lawgiver. (Gen. 5:18, 22, 24) And...
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On The Mix Volume 89 (14.03.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
Carter Godwin Woodson’s The Mis-Education of the Negro is a social critique that addresses the inherent structural and institutional racism represented by the United States education system. Originally written and published in 1933, this study guide refers to a republication of the text from 2010...
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On The Mix Volume 88 (05.03.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
Stolen Legacy by George G. M James Ancient Greeks were not the original authors of Greek philosophy, was mainly based on ideas and concepts that were borrowed without acknowledgment, and indeed stolen, from the ancient Egyptians. "Greek philosophy is somewhat of a drama, whose chief actors were...
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On The Mix Volume 87 (26.002.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
How To Eat To Live, Books 1 & 2, were first published in 1967 and 1972 respectively. In these books Elijah Muhammad, Messenger of Allah, pointed out very clearly and decisively that it all is from Allah (God) in person. He believes he met God in the form of a man and it is He who revealed the…
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On The Mix Volume 86 (20.02.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
The Rosetta Stone E.A. Wallis Budge In 1798, in the Egyptian settlement of Rashid (Rosetta), near Alexandria, a French soldier unearthed a large slab of black basalt on which was engraved an inscription in three scripts—Greek, demotic or New Egyptian, and hieroglyphics. The inscription was a…
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On The Mix Volume 85 (12.02.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
Ancient Spiritual Mystery Teachings of Kemet ( Ancient Egypt): The original source of Judaism, Christianity & Islam by Simon Starr Thoth, Hermes or Djehuty as this book refers to him is a mythical ancient Egyptian (Kemetian) sage whose wisdom is said to have transformed him into a god. Djehuty…
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On The Mix Volume 84 (05.01.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
Kemetic Literature: Comprising Egyptian Tales, Hyms, Litanies, Invocations, The Book of the Dead, and Cuneiform Writings Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge Kemetic Literature is a set of sacred works written in Ancient Egypt. These works have been preserved for thousands of years and hold powerful...
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On The Mix Volume 83 (29.01.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
The Cultural Unity of Black Africa is a profound contribution to the universal store of knowledge in that it situates the geographical and cultural origins of patriarchy and matriarchy in Europe and Africa respectively, and shows that social systems evolve out of specific climatic and…
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On The Mix Volume 82 (23.01.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
In this book, the late Cheikh Anta Diop presents a dynamic and convincing argument for the creation of a unified black African state. This new revised edition is supplemented with a recent interview by renowned political analyst and journalist Carlos Moore and delineates Diop's vision of Africa's...
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On The Mix Volume 81 (15.01.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology by Cheikh Anta Diop In Discourse on Colonialism, Césaire draws on the symbolic meanings of a pair of terms to illustrate his view of colonialism and its impacts on the world. The word civilization generally symbolizes goodness and virtue, while...
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On The Mix Volume 80 (08.01.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
Precolonial Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop, Harold Salemson (Translation) Precolonial Black Africa is one of three major works by Cheikh Anta Diop that attempts to reconstruct African history and the black contribution to the foundations of Western civilization. In this book, Diop compares the...
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On The Mix Volume 79 (03.01.23) Mixed By LebsesV8
Diop’s model goes like this: Homo sapiens began in Africa and began as black people. It was as black people that they spread over Asia and Europe, taking the place of the Neanderthals. The rise of different races: Over time black people in northern Eurasia became light-skinned and began to look...
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On The Mix Volume 78 (25.12.22) Mixed By LebsesV8
Hapi Hap(i)/Hapy - "Runner" Hapi is the body of the River Nile itself, the world's longest waterway, without which the Two Lands would cease to exist. Hapi is venerated both as the physical sacred waters of the river and symbologically as the concept of life and fertility, reenacted every day in...
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On The Mix Volume 77 (20.12.22) Mixed By LebsesV8
Anket Other Names: Anukis, Anuket Anuket/Anket (GR Anukis) - "Embracing Lady," consort (or alternately, daughter) to Khnum, Anuket is depicted as a woman wearing an unusual tall crown of ostrich feathers, probably a Nubian headdress. She is, along with Khnum and Satet, one of the three Names...
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On The Mix Volume 76 (11.12.22) Mixed By LebsesV8
Imset(y) (Amset; WB Meshtha) "The Kindly One" One of the "Four Sons of Heru" depicted in funerary literature as protecting the throne of Wesir in the Underworld, Imset is depicted as a mummified human wearing the "nemes" headcloth on funerary furniture and especially the "canopic" jars which held...
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On The Mix Volume 75 (05.12.22) Mixed By LebsesV8
Heru-wer Other Names: Har-wer, Haroeris (Har-wer; G/R Haroeris) - "Great Heru/Heru the Elder" Heru in His most abstract, "original" form is known as a hawk, primarily a divinity of sky, even on Predynastic pottery and other objects. The hawk of Her-wer came to be associated with the kingship and...
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On The Mix Volume 74 (27.11.22) Mixed By LebsesV8
Unnefer Other Names: Wennefer (Wennefer) - "Uniquely Beautiful; Beautiful One" A specific title of Wesir as the Lord of the Beautiful West, the metaphorical land of Amenti where the blessed dead dwell. Source Author: Rev. Dr. Tamara L. Siuda
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On The Mix Volume 73 (20.11.22) Mixed By LebsesV8
Bat "She Who hoes"; a Predynastic Name of Netjer associated with cows, the sky and fertility; later assimilated into Hethert. Bat's front-facing, cow-eared visage would become synonymous with the ritual rattle used in invocation and purification rituals known as the sistrum. Source Author: Rev.…
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On The Mix Volume 72 (13.10.22) Mixed By LebsesV8
Heru-sa-Aset Other Names: Harseisis (G/R Harseisis) - "Heru, son of Aset" Probably the best-known and most widely worshipped of the Names of Heru, Heru-sa-Aset, the miraculous child of Aset and Wesir, is symbolized directly in the ruler of Kemet - as the caretaker of the legacy of his predecessor...
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On The Mix Volume 71 (06.11.22) Mixed By LebsesV8
Ra-Heruakhety Other Names: Ra-Horakhty (G/R Ra-Horakthy) - "Ra-Heru of Two Horizons" A specialized early form of Ra, composite with Heru the predynastic Name of the sky, Ra-Heru-akhety came to symbolize the inherent majesty of the sun itself and is the patron of the ruling class as well as of the...
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On The Mix Volume 70 (30.10.22) Mixed By LebsesV8
Aten Other Names: Aton, Yiten (Aton, Yiten) - "Sun's Disk" Aten is the physically visible sun, the yellow sphere in earth's sky that can fructify or scorch. The Aten-disk is venerated as a form of Shu, Ra, or Heru from the late Middle Kingdom onward and was not, as some have erroneously stated,...
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On The Mix Volume 69 (23.10.22) Mixed By LebsesV8
Imhotep Other Names: Imouthis (G/R Imouthis) - "In peace" Imhotep is one example of the "personality cult" of Kemet, whereby a learned sage or otherwise especially venerated person could be deified after death and become a special intercessor for the living, much as the saints of Roman…
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On The Mix Volume 68 (16.10.22) Mixed By LebsesV8
Ra "Sun" Embodied in the golden sun which is His Symbol, Ra is Netjer of light, life, and heat, and the power inherent in the sun which warms our planet. In several forms, Ra has been venerated as the central Name of Netjer of the Kemetic faith through its entire history, considered both Father…
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On The Mix Volume 68 (16.10.22) Mixed By LebsesV8
Every sunday we review the latest boom bap rap albums released in that particular week, by compiling a mixtape with tracks from these various artists. https://hearthis.at/lebsesv8/
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On The Mix Volume 67 (09.10.22) Mixed By LebsesV8
Wesir Other Names: Ausar, Osiris (Ausar; G/R Osiris) - (unclear; possibly "He Sees the Throne") A Name of obscure origin Who, like Aset, rose to prominence over antiquity to become one of the most lasting Names of all time, Wesir is first noted in the Pyramid Texts as a shadowy figure to which…
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