Talk:Holy Piby

I am the proprietor of sacred-texts.com. The Holy Piby is located at my site and I believe it to be in the public domain in the United States because it was not registered or renewed in a timely fashion at the US Copyright office as required by law.

I have no objection to Wikipedia linking to it or quoting it.

Following is my proposed text for the Holy Piby Article:

The Holy Piby is a proto-Rastafarian sacred text which was written by Robert Athlyi Rogers, who founded an Afrocentric religion in the US and West Indies in the 1920s. Rogers' religious movement, the Afro Athlican Constructive Church, saw Ethiopians (in the Biblical sense of Black Africans) as the chosen people of God, and proclaimed Marcus Garvey, the prominent Black Nationalist, an apostle. The church preached self-reliance and self-determination for Africans.

The original is very rare. There are no copies listed in either the Library of Congress or the University of California catalogs, which is highly unusual. The Holy Piby was banned in Jamaica and other Caribbean Islands in the middle and late 1920s. Today the Holy Piby is acclaimed by many Rastafarians as a primary source. --—Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.249.108.58 (talk • contribs)

"In the late 2010s Holy Piby had a prominent ressurgence in southern-West European countries, namely in Portugal where several cover bands managed to fill some important venues such as Casa da Musica in Oporto." This line seems to be describing an artist/band called "Holy Piby" rather than the Rastafarian text.

What is the pronunciation of "Piby"? Badagnani 04:55, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

What is the pronunciation of "Piby"? Badagnani (talk) 22:41, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to know too. —JerryFriedman (Talk) 21:27, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Almost certainly /ˈpaɪbi/. If no pronunciation was given, I can only assume it was meant to sound like the more familiar Holy Bible., —Soap— 02:04, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

It is worth mentioning that Rogers was born in Anguilla - Many Anguillian Rastafari take pride in this fact. Seir Corall 03:45, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

How could it have been "banned in...Carribean islands...in the middle and late 1920's" if the man who wrote it was "b. 1931"? 209.247.5.233 09:19, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Apparently, he died in 1931. Badagnani (talk) 22:42, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

According to my sources (mainly about Rastafarians in Jamaica) the Holy Piby is never mentioned in connection with the Rastafarian movement. This may be different for Anguilla—I do not have any sources specific to this country. I think the influence of the Holy Piby to the Rastafarians should be formulated more specific and backed up with sources. Ras Makonnen (talk) 09:36, 26 November 2007 (UTC)