Egyptian – Greek – Igbo
Ptah – Hephaestus – Chi-tah
Horus – Apollo – Eru/Eri
Osiris – Dionysus – Osa/Olisa
Nobody knows exactly how or when the Black Christ (El Cristo Negro) arrived in the tiny community of Portobelo on Panama’s Caribbean coast. Some put the date at around 1658. But the stories of miracles surrounding the eight-foot wooden statue of the Black Christ are enough to overwhelm the village with tens of thousands of pilgrims every October 21.
EXHIBITXXe-C-13JUL01-MT-KK Pusod Center in Berkeley exhibits “Colored: Black and White” a collection of posters, magazines and newspapers which show America’s colonialist attitudes at the turn of the Century. This is the cover of the Boston Sunday Globe, Mar. 5, 1899. HANDOUT PHOTO Photo: Kim Komenich