T-Time: A Rites of Passage Manual for the Adolescent Female - Softcover

Stephens-El, Jeanette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420806890 ISBN 13: 9781420806892

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2005

Synopsis

"Punctuating your purpose" is what T-Time - A Rites of Passage Manual for the Adolescent Female is about. This initiation guide book for women who desire to give young females a powerful spiritually charged, emotionally invigorating welcome into womanhood was born from a fusion of Native American and West African customs. This marriage has created a celebratory ritual, which puts rites of passage initiates and participants on a spiritual journey to illuminate their souls for a lifetime. Historical references used in T-Time ("transition time") regarding various cultural rituals allow the reader-turned-facilitator to define the process young girls experience as they go from grade school to middle school -- from baptism to praise dance -- and from daddy's little angel to a budding princess. This generally occurs with little fanfare and no outstanding life-altering ritual. T-Time will change that. In this book women are encouraged, through a series of cleansing rituals, aromatic meditations, vigorous prayer, laying on of hands, libation, charges and divination to boldly declare to their flowering girls, "You are now a woman!" The upward movement from "Girl" to "You-go-girl" to "Woman" should culminate in an intense but exhilarating T-Time ceremony not to be missed.

About this title

About the Author:

Raining Deer Harjo is a free-lance writer and former arts administrator for the African American Caribbean Cultural Arts Commission in Miami, Florida. She was the coordinator of the annual Pan-African Bookfest and Cultural Conference for many years and co-hosted weekly prayer vigils at the renowned Miami Circle with Trinidad & Tobago's Carib Tribal Queen, Catherine Hummingbird Ramirez. Raining Deer served on the Board the Diaspora Arts Coalition as well as the M Ensemble Theater Company in Miami. Under her American name, she created the format for and served as editor-in-chief of Southern Dawn Magazine in the late 1980s. She attended Miami-Dade College where she worked closely with the Distinguished Visiting Professors Series and Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. After receiving a McKnight Scholarship for academic excellence, she was awarded the Language Arts Most Outstanding Student Award. While engaged in metaphysical studies at the University of El-Eastmoor, she co-founded the Imani Um Nommo Writers Workshop in 1981. Many of Raining Deer's articles appeared (also under her American name) in prominent South Florida newspapers such as the Miami Times, Fort Lauderdale's Westside Gazette, The Miami Herald, and The Miami Weekly. A Leadership Miami Graduate and nominee for the Price Waterhouse Up & Comers Award, Raining Deer served as publicist and public relations specialist to many performing and recording artists, including Philip Michael Thomas (star of NBC's Miami Vice), and personalities such as (King) Oba Oseijeman Adefunmi I of Oyotunji African Village, and his wife HRG Iya Orite Olasowo. Raining Deer has produced musicals featuring former Alvin Ailey dancer Desiree S. Vlad and L. Maurice White. A member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Oglawaha Band of the Cox-Osceola Seminole Reservation at Orange Springs, Florida, Raining Deer was wed to the tribe's medicine man, Thunder Horse Nokus Harjo (a/k/a Wayne Bowen) in 1990 by the late Chief Little Dove Buford. During

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1420806890
• ISBN 13: 9781420806892
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128