{"id":1161,"date":"2020-08-09T20:55:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T20:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/supremedesignonline.com\/wholesale\/product\/blackgod\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T18:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T18:10:39","slug":"blackgod","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/supremedesignonline.com\/wholesale\/product\/blackgod\/","title":{"rendered":"Black God: An Introduction to the World\u2019s Religions and Their Black Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever heard that Christ was Black? What about the Buddha? They weren\u2019t alone. Many of the world\u2019s first deities and divinities, both male and female, were originally depicted as Black. That means dark skin, woolly hair, broad nose, and the kind of personality that made the world pay attention. In\u00a0<em>Black God: An Introduction to the World\u2019s Religions and Their Black Gods<\/em>, Supreme Understanding explores the many Black gods of the ancient world, from Africa to the Near East, to Europe, to India, to China, to Japan, to Australia, all the way to the Black Gods of the Americas. Who were these Black gods? How did they come to be worshiped? And what does this mean for us today?<br \/>\nThese questions are answered in\u00a0<em>Black God: An Introduction to the World\u2019s Religions and Their Black Gods.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe earliest gods and messiahs on all the continents were black. Research has yielded an impressive amount of material on the subject.\u201d \u2013 Historian J.A. Rogers<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Black God: An Introduction to the World\u2019s Religions and Their Black Gods<\/em>\u00a0is a reference book. Unlike\u00a0<em>The Science of Self, Volume One<\/em>, you don\u2019t necessarily have to read this book from front to back. You can skip around, because\u00a0<em>Black God<\/em>\u00a0is meant to be encyclopedic \u2013 a useful reference on over dozens of deities, traditions, and other topics.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout\u00a0<em>Black God<\/em>, you\u2019ll find dozens of quotes from books that are quite old. In many cases, we\u2019re talking about more than a century old. In some cases, even older. Naturally, some of the language will be difficult and dry. Some of it might even sound racist.<\/p>\n<p>So why quote all these old books? Because that\u2019s when they were still telling the truth! Why? Because they believed we\u2019d never read these books! In these old books (often the ones that didn\u2019t circulate much) you\u2019ll find white historians, theologians, anthropologists, and ethnographers making incredible admissions about race and religion, the likes of which you\u2019re very unlikely to find in a mainstream publication today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever heard that Christ was Black? What about the Buddha? They weren\u2019t alone. Many of the world\u2019s first deities and divinities, both male and female, were originally depicted as Black. That means dark skin, woolly hair, broad nose, and the kind of personality that made the world pay attention. In\u00a0<em>Black God: An Introduction to the World\u2019s Religions and Their Black Gods<\/em>, Supreme Understanding explores the many Black gods of the ancient world, from Africa to the Near East, to Europe, to India, to China, to Japan, to Australia, all the way to the Black Gods of the Americas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[16,20],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1161","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-featured","7":"product_cat-original-history","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"sale","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-variable","14":"has-default-attributes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/supremedesignonline.com\/wholesale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/supremedesignonline.com\/wholesale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/supremedesignonline.com\/wholesale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supremedesignonline.com\/wholesale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supremedesignonline.com\/wholesale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/supremedesignonline.com\/wholesale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supremedesignonline.com\/wholesale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supremedesignonline.com\/wholesale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}