Editing Holy Piby

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The '''''Holy Piby''''', also known as the Black Man's Bible, is a text written by an [[Anguilla]]n, [[Robert Athlyi Rogers]] (d. 1931), for the use of an [[Afrocentrism|Afrocentric]] [[religion]] in the [[West Indies]] founded by Rogers in the 1920s, known as the [[Afro-Athlican Constructive Gaathly]].<ref name="Introduction & Analysis">{{cite book |last1=Selassie I, Ph.D. |first1=W. Gabriel |title=Introduction and Analysis: The Holy Piby, The Blackman's Bible |date=2017 |publisher=Orunmilla, Inc. |location=Los Angeles |isbn=978-0986381904 |pages=xiii}}</ref> The [[theology]] outlined in this work saw [[Ethiopia]]ns (in the classical sense of all Africans) as the [[chosen people]] of God. The church preached self-reliance and [[self-determination]] for Africans, using the Piby as its guiding document.

== Content ==
The ''Holy Piby'' is made up of four books. The first, entitled "The First Book of Athlyi Called Athlyi", has only two chapters. The next, "The Second Book of Athlyi Called Aggregation", is the largest, with fifteen chapters, the seventh of which identifies [[Marcus Garvey]]<ref>[http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/piby/piby12.htm Marcus Garvey], [[Internet Sacred Text Archive]], Last Accessed May 24, 2007.</ref> as one of three apostles of God. The "Third Book of Athlyi Named The Facts of the Apostles" presents two prominent members of the [[UNIA-ACL]], [[Robert Lincoln Poston]]<ref>[http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/piby/piby21.htm Apostles Anointed], [[Internet Sacred Text Archive]], Last Accessed May 24, 2007.</ref> and [[Henrietta Vinton Davis]],<ref>[http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/piby/piby22.htm#fr_4 God spoke to his Apostles], [[Internet Sacred Text Archive]], Last Accessed May 24, 2007.</ref> as the other apostles in the [[Holy Trinity]]. The title of the last book is "The Fourth Book of Athlyi Called Precaution". That book is followed by a series of [[catechism]]-style questions and answers wherein Garvey, Davis and Poston are proclaimed to be the saviors of the "down trodden children of [[Ethiopia]]".

== History ==
=== Rastafari movement ===
Together with the ''[[Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy]]'' by [[Fitz Balintine Pettersburg]] and [[Leonard P. Howell]]'s ''[[The Promise Key]]'', the ''Holy Piby'' is today recognized as a root document of Rastafari thought.<ref name="Price2009">{{cite book|author=Charles Price|title=Becoming Rasta: Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OC399TZD2BwC&pg=PA49|year=2009|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-6768-9|pages=48–49}}</ref> While not strictly speaking a "Rastafari text", it was certainly a primary source of influence to many in the [[Rastafari movement]], who see [[Haile Selassie I|Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia]], as the [[second coming]] of [[Christ]]. Some Rastafari see Emperor Haile Selassie&nbsp;I as Christ in His Kingly Character as written in the [[Book of Revelation]], Chapter 5 and regard Marcus Mosia Garvey as a [[prophet]].

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/piby/index.htm Electronic text of the ''Holy Piby'' at sacred-texts.com]

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