The Holy Piby

The Holy Piby is a proto-Rastafarian text written by Robert Athlyi Rogers and is made up of four books. The first, entitled "The First Book of Athlyi Called Athlyi," has only two chapters.

The next, "The Second Book of Athlyi Called Aggregation," is the largest with fifteen chapters, the seventh of which identifies Marcus Garvey as one of three apostles of God.

The "Third Book of Athlyi Named The Facts of the Apostles" presents two prominent members of the UNIA-ACL, Robert Lincoln Poston and Henrietta Vinton Davis, as the other apostles in the Holy Trinity.

The title of the last book is "The Fourth Book of Athlyi Called Precaution." That book is followed by a series of questions and answers wherein Garvey, Davis, and Poston are proclaimed to be the saviors of the "down trodden children of Ethiopia."

While not, strictly speaking, a "Rastafarian text", it was certainly a primary source of influence to the Rastafari movement, who see Haile Selassie I as Christ, and Marcus Garvey as his prophet.



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