When the Trickster is also Teacher

The more I study about Ananse/Anansi/Anancy and the cultures that bore him, the more I feel it fate that the famous Trickster would be my own favorite... Or, perhaps because he is from the very stolen peoples who became my Caribbean ancestors. 

This in turn is drawing me in closer to my African ancestry and to the specific cultures the Trickster is from. 

I also like spiders in spite of being the 80s kid who remembers the movie ARACHNOPHOBIA scaring the daylights out of my classmates but I became even more fascinated by arachnids. 

I am deconstructing my earlier lifelong beliefs about who I am as Black person. 

Grappling with how I view the faith I was raised in as well as decolonizing my gender, understanding I would have known what to call myself had my forebears not been kidnapped. 

Also decolonizing my mindset towards the ancestors who created me, and losing my implanted fears towards their spiritualities, faiths, and beliefs. 

Had it not been for one of the greatest of human historical crimes in the modern era, I would still be speaking these languages, wearing the clothing, and living in the environment I should have been in the first place.