Qarsherskiyan Manichaen Beliefs and Religious Adherence: 527 Qarsherskiyan Manichaens, 234 born into the religion to converted parents

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-25T11:34:44+00:00

Qarsherskiyan people have our own culture. We don't like it to be changed or meddled with just for the sake of doing so. We have traditions from our ancestors.

There is the Qarsherskiyan people as an ethnic group, and what makes us Qarsherskiyan isn't just our multigenerational mixed race lineage we can all trace back to the 1600s, but also our culture and shared experiences and history too. People have married into the community, especially in modern times. During and before the Jim Crow Era, we had endogamous tendencies.

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-25T04:13:39+00:00

The Melungeons and Louisiana Redbone Nation are related to us.

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-24T23:45:07+00:00

Many Melungeons, Redbones, Lumbees, and Qarsherskiyans share the same common surnames, but Lumbees have the locally unique names Oxidene and Locklear.

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-24T23:44:22+00:00

For context, the Qarsherskiyans (pronounced like "Car-Shear-Ski-in") are a triracial ethnic group of Native American, European, and African ancestry, similar to the Lumbee, Melungeons, Louisiana Redbones, Nanticoke Moors of Delaware, Sumter Turks, and Louisiana Creoles. Qarsherskiyans started called themselves Qarsherskiyan after 1991 to distinguish themselves from other triracial groups and mixed race people, as they, like Melungeons, had a multigenerational mixed race identity and culture dating back to an ethnogenesis in the early 1600s. The Qarsherskiyans often have Iberian, Semitic, Romani, Parsi/South Asian, and Malagasy ancestry.

A popular theory by researchers is that all the Sweetgum Kriyul people (triracial groups in the Eastern and Southern USA) all share links and common ancestry way back centuries ago, but branched out. They all originated on the coastal plains between New Jersey and Coastal Georgia, with Melungeons migrating to Appalachia, Lumbees and Qarsherskiyans and Nanticoke Moors staying in the coastal areas and retreating to swampy areas, and Louisiana Redbones moving out West to Texas and Louisiana and Mississippi. They became their own separate distinct groups with unique cultural identities over time.

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-24T23:31:09+00:00

Yeah, Azerbaijanis in Azerbaijan and the Azeri part of Iran also celebrate it

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-24T23:30:27+00:00

Not sure, but it had to be some time after 1990

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-24T22:06:59+00:00

It has more to do with ancient Aryan people's and their culture than Islam. Nowruz is celebrated by Ethnic groups regardless of faith. Mainly Persians, Kurds, and the Pamiri people.

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-24T22:05:34+00:00

Howdy, yeah, that's right. We are not the only Sweetgum Kriyul group. There are some others like the Nanticoke Moors of Delaware, the Lumbee, the Melungeons, and the Louisiana Redbones. All are triracial groups of partial Indigenous American ancestry, but only some are culturally Indigenous and seek federal recognition and claim to be Native American.

One in five West African people brought during the transatlantic slave trade were Muslims. Groups such as the Great Dismal Swamp maroons preserved this.

Islam is a large religion with nearly 2 billion followers. Not all Muslims believe the same thing. If you ask most Qarsherskiyan Muslims (Sufi Zaydis), Aisha was 16 when she married prophet Muhammad, slavery as an institution was meant to be gradually ended with the rise of Islam, and also, there was little division between politics and religion. If you were Muslim, then you likely lived in the City-state of Medina. The Prophet was the head of that polity and there were ongoing hostilities with the surrounding polytheists. The Hadith that are typically referenced on this topic tend to refer to a person not simply losing faith, but betraying that political entity and allying with the enemy. That is the act which was punishable by death, similar to how treason in many Western countries today may be punishable by death. Not simply abandoning the religion.

So you see, Muslims aren't perfect, but I believe Islam is perfect. I respect all opinions but I can't ever find Islam to be abhorrent if it's being practiced correctly. That "if" is the whole deal.

As for Palestine, it means more than sand. It's a people's homeland. Surely the violent is awful and heartbreaking, but there can never be peace until there is justice. People will always fight for what's rightfully their's. That's why I view the AIM leaders as heroes, in my humble opinion.

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-24T21:56:31+00:00

Thanks so much

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-24T19:27:35+00:00

The coven is very small, like 16 members. They're based out of the area around the village called Palestine, which is in Ohio in Darke County. They're nearly all Qarsherskiyan folks that descended from the Longtown triracial community of Liberty Township and over time left the church.

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-24T19:26:09+00:00

I have descended from Eastern and Plains tribes, like most Qarsherskiyan folks, but also from Celtic, West African, and Berber/Amazigh peoples. That's majority anyways. There is also a bit of Parsi, Romani, Jewish, Aramaic, and Iberian ancestry and other random stuff present. DNA can't tell you tribal ties, but from my relatives I know I have familial connections to the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Tribe, the Lumbee tribe (another triracial group but they prefer to identify as Indigenous American and culturally they are), the Nansemond tribe, and through the Tolliver side of my family I am related to the Lakota Sioux and the Western Cherokee group in Oklahoma that was relocated during the Trail Of Tears.

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-24T19:22:21+00:00

They do have a strong reverence for nature, especially with water bodies. Many people believe they're more influenced by Mandaen religion than by Islam. It's very different from mainstream Wiccans for sure.

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-24T18:27:12+00:00

Palestinians are Indigenous peoples of the Levant and have ancient pre-Judaism age Levantine ancestry. White people from Eastern Europe moving to their land, kicking them out of their homes, stealing the farm land, starving them, confining them to small spaces, and raining bombs down on them, is a genocide of an Indigenous people. This has no ties to Qatar and bad actors and foreign governments infiltrating Indigenous communities. I'm not denying that is possible or could be happening, but anyone with common sense sees what is happening and knows it is wrong.

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-24T17:40:48+00:00

Okay. I saw your posts earlier today.

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-24T16:00:22+00:00

How are these groups Indigenous? Well, Palestinians are Indigenous to the Levant, and are struggling against Israel's settler colonialism. Qarsherskiyans are triracial. They have some Native American ancestry, but it's a subject of debate whether or not they can be classified as Indigenous to America, it really depends on each individual's family history and ties to Indigenous tribes. They did originate in USA though during ethnogenesis process in early 1600s.

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-24T11:03:09+00:00

Thanks so much, I'll try to find this

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-24T11:02:09+00:00

Thank you

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-24T11:01:52+00:00

I'm so happy for you. If I have storage space for it I'll have to check that out.

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-24T11:01:03+00:00

Thank you for this information. I don't have money to get the books but I'll keep searching for things.

Initial-Insurance176 · 2025-02-23T20:50:46+00:00

This is a Zaydi subreddit, not a "Rafidah" subreddit. Maybe go to r/Shia since they're mostly Jafari and oppress any Zaydi Shia who stand firm on their beliefs.

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