Primaevalness

Hamisi reflected that much of Africa still retained the primaevalness of the Garden of Eden.

In his rise to completedness and fall back into primaevalness he prevails in Nature’s play of ‘temporization’.

The free-flowing hair of the head and the beard symbolise for the Rastafari strength and nature, primaevalness, wildness and untamedness.

While in this poem the potentially darker undertones of the invoked primaevalness in nature are overcome thanks to a sense of healthy vitality, in a few other poems the general concept of nature assumes less positive tones.

I fashion for you (msi=i n=ṯn) those who are in their primaevalness, whose names are hidden from me.