My Memories About the Human Being: Life and Its Contradictions

By Celly Luyinduladio

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 19, 2007
• ISBN: 9781469100722

Celly Luyinduladio

Celly Luyinduladio is a Mukongo, more specifically a Munianga born in Kinshasa. He lives in the USA and he is an Electrical Engineer.

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Copyright © 2007 by Mr. Luyinduladio, Celly.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2007907081

ISBN:   Hardcover   978-1-4257-8983-1

   Softcover   978-1-4257-8969-5

ISBN:    ebook   978-1-4691-0072-2

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Contents

PREAMBLE

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

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The meaning of Yowa from

http://www.webarchaeology.com/html/kongocos.htm

Wyatt MacGaffey, a scholar of Kongo civilization and religion, has summarized the form and meaning of the essential Kongo Cosmo gram as follows:

The simplest ritual space is a Greek cross [+] marked on the ground, as for oath-taking. One line represents the boundary; the other is ambivalently both the path leading across the boundary, as to the cemetery; and the vertical path of power linking the above with the below. This relationship, in turn, is polyvalent, since it refers to God and man, God and the dead, and the living and the dead. The person taking the oath stands upon the cross, situating himself between life and death, and invokes the judgment of God and the dead upon himself. [This is taken from a work in progress shared with Dr. Thompson by MacGaffey].

This is the simplest manifestation of the Kongo cruciform, a sacred point on which a person stands to make an oath, on the ground of the dead and under all-seeing God. This Kongo sign of the cross has nothing to do with the crucifixion of the Son of God, yet its meaning overlaps the Christian vision. Traditional Bakongo believed in a Supreme Deity, Nzambi Mpungu, and they had their own notions of the indestructibility of the soul: Bakongo believe and hold it true that man’s life has no end that it constitutes a cycle. The sun, in its rising and setting, is a sign of this cycle, and death is merely a transition in the process of change. (Janzen and MacGaffey 1974:34) (49). The Kongo Yowa cross does not signify the crucifixion of Jesus for the salvation of mankind; it signifies the equally compelling vision of the circular motion of human souls about the circumference of its intersecting lines. The Kongo cross refers therefore to the everlasting community of all righteous men and women:

Nzungi! n’zungi-nzila … . Man turns in the path,

N’zungi! n’zungi-nzila … . He merely turns in the path;

Banganga ban’e E ee! … . The priests, the same. ("The priests

have arrived")

More information can be found by reading Levi Jordan and others.

DEDICATION

This is dedicated to Dear mother: Luyinduladio, Mponi for your love and support. Nothing could have been accomplished without your teaching of the basics about life, and I am deeply grateful for your guidance and commitment. To all my teachers who helped me nurture my intellectual capacity even when I disagreed with your thoughts, I say thank you. My deepest gratitude to Miss. Dee Steffan who encouraged and reminded me to write because she believed that I have a lot to say; and she was right at the time but she still is; furthermore, she worked tirelessly to edit the manuscript, and I could not have thought of the best person except her. To my father who wanted me to finish college, just know that I made it through, and thank you for being there. To the special lady I first met in the United States of America, who showed her magnitude kindness by giving me forty dollars, I pray that we can meet again. To the world, to the destroyed Kongo Kingdom, to the mother Land and to my family, I say this is your present, and my intended hope is you will appreciate le chef d’oeuvre to its full value.

PREAMBLE

A masterpiece book does not have any value until you open it, read it and understand the ideas and concepts developed. If asked, what kind of response do I expect from the readers? The response is that I do expect them to read it with an open mind. Then, criticize my thoughts, and draw their own thoughtful conclusion, agree or disagree; that is my hope.

This chef d’oeuvre was written with the noble intention to impact the Universe in a very positive and meaningful way in terms of the thinking process due to the fact that almost nothing valued can be conceived without a concept of a thoughtful approach. Since I am a citizen of this world de facto I Mr. Luyinduladio, Celly possess the right to state my opinions, assertions and facts about the world and any country or continent that affects me as an individual including others. This right is not given to me by any human being nor any country but it is indeed incorporated into my being since the first day of my birth in this world; I hope that everyone can comprehend and respect that as I do respect their right to speak up even whenever I disagree with their opinions but it is fundamentally important to everyone to express themselves and think freely.

The masterpiece talks about the world intelligently, and my intended intention is that the world will sit down; think coherently and rationally before standing up and continue to do business in the same trajectory if not worse. These thoughts are not necessary meant to be the absolute truth; and yet they are undoubtedly a product of a considerable amount of a thinking process which involved countless hours of searching and questioning the intimate feelings, the road I rode, the reactions I received rightly and wrongly, the observation of the Universe, the observation of the human being, the profound interpretation of silence and its meaning etc. Therefore, this chef d’oeuvre is the final product of the multiple combinations as stated previously. Despite its views, assertions and facts sometimes negative as well as positive the contradiction is well stated in its title. Conversely, this masterpiece meaning is to mean the best should