Braiding hair is more than just an art used to keep hair in its most beautiful form. Hair braiding in the Black community and throughout the Black world as it is practiced today and in ancient times IS ALSO A HIGHLY ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE CALLED 'FRACTOIDS.'
Hair braiding was perfected in ancient times in the Black regions of the earth, particularly Africa, India, the ancient Americas. Hair braiding seem to have developed about 30,000 BC to 10,000 BC.
This period can be sighted because one group of Black people of African origins, the Melanesians and Papuans do not have a system of hairbraiding as Africans do. Yet, we find hair braiding among the ancient and prehistoric Blacks of India's Mohenjo daro (see www.cwo.com/~lucumi/runoko.html ). We also find hairbraiding in the ancient Middle East, all over Africa and in the ancient Negro artwork and statuary of the great Black Manding-Shi civilization of Central America's 'Olmec' culture, ( see
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Hair braiding seem to have been developed after 30,000 BC for the simple reason that hairbraiding is not found among Melanesians, some who left the Sahara about 30,000 BC and established a horticultural culture in Papua New Guinea.
Yet, we find in New Guinea and Melanesia other aspects of Black African Negro prehistoric culture that is found nowhere on earth except from the prehistoric Sahara and the Egypt/Sudan region.
We find the wearing of the baboo or tube sheaf among men in ancient Sahara (over 10,000 BC). This sheaf is still worn by some men in Papua New Guinea and West Papua (where the Black population is being attacked and destroyed by the Malays in a form of genocide similar to what hit East Timor's Black people).
FRACTOIDS THE ANCIENT MATH OF AFRICA
Fractoids are a form of mathematics that uses geometric patterns in a systematic maner over and over. One will find fractoids in the DNA sequence and the way it is patterned. One will also find fractoids in the way leaves are designed, the scales of snakes, the patterns of spider webs, the formations of sand dunes and the pattern of some atoms and molecules.
Fractoids are very common in the manner that Black men and women play music or braid hair. In fact, one can say fractoids is the application of rhythm in a mathematical manner. Each pattern is created in a manner where it is repeated and follows a particular sequence.
Hence, when a Black woman braids hair, she is using fractoid mathematics and geometric patterning that has been the tradition for thousands of years. When a Black man plays a beat on a drum, plays blues or plays a certain type of jazz, he is using fractoids. In the case of jazz, fractoid rhythmic patterns are very subtle in some cases and very bold and noticable in others. Yet, jazz music and other forms of African music is based on the natural rhythm of the heart. Each beat is applied with mathematical precision even when many other beats and rhythms are played in a freestyle form as is the case in some types of jazz.
In the case of braiding hair, cornrow patterns, braids, puffs, twists and other designes used in hair braiding follow a strict and sophisticated mathematical design that has to be learned.
Hair braiding in the Black community of the US, Africa, South India, the Caribbean, the Americas, Europe is an art and science that is taught. It is taught by those who know the art and techniques as well as the mathematical concept of fractoids, counting, sequencing, geometric patterns and proper esthetics.
So, African-Americans, Africans and pan-Negro people worldwide must take steps to preserve the art of hairbraiding and stop the tricks and schemes used to stop African-American women from braiding hair.
The use of fractoids to braid hair is just one of the ancient African sciences used in everyday living by Blacks or Pan-Negroes around the world, whether it is in Africa, the Americas, South and East India, the Indian Ocean, Melanesia or Europe.
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