Beauty As Life Worship

Beaty is a major part of ThayũCulture or more simply of Life Worship. The importance of general aesthetics is not only complimentary to good health but has broader reaches including poetic, prophetic and political. What’s even more interesting is that the love of beauty is not only the purview of mortals of men but also of deep interests to various deities going back to the primordial days. Among the most influential of such examples can be found in the stories of Homer. The two books attributed to him are based on the tale of a beauty contest gone haywire. The myth of the Trojan War, the basis of the two books by Homer, starts with a wedding on mount Olympus. All the gods and goddesses had been invited except Eris,the goddess of discord. For this dishonor, she crashed the party and threw an apple with a note that it was for the most beautiful goddess.

The otherwise peaceful event took a turn for worse when each of the three goddesses, Venus, Athena and Aphrodite, all claimed to be the most beautiful ones. Not even the biggest god of all was willing to settle to case, instead outsourcing the judgment to a Trojan herdsman known as Paris. As it turned out, the appointment to resolve the dispute of matters of beauty between women and goddesses comes the potential of suicide as serious possibility.

All the three goddesses resulted to bribery in an effort to influence the final decision by the poor herdsman. After weighing all the varies items and powers offered to Paris by the goddesses, the most attractive was, well, beauty. Paris chose the goddess who offered him Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman in the Greek world. It did not matter that Helen of Troy had been married to the King of Menelaus of Sparta, in addition to having an insurance policy on that marriage in the form of an oath to protect that sacred matrimonial bond by all other Greek kings. By accepting Helen as a price for voting Aphrodite as the most beautiful goddess, Paris essentially inviting the wrath of all the Greek kings and their armies.

The result of those two events led to a 10 year war. Nowadays a similar struggle continues in terms of human health as we mirror Paris and Aphrodite. We fight against our health with the bribe of wining the public approval of being our most beautiful versions of ourselves at a small cost of abandoning our inner and true health. To look beautiful and attractive to both the modern day goddess and gods, we will sacrifice anything.

The ultimate result is that we are suffering in name brand clothes, living and driving expensive houses and cars, but existing in the most corrupt and cheap bodies ever. I am thinking here about the washed bodies and the clean and expensive clothes worn on the day designated as the day of worship where I live.

Before you blame Aphrodite for our misery, remember that Adam ate the forbidden fruit and only then realized that Eve was naked for the first time. Poor eating habits causes all manner of shame, discomfort and distortions.

Talk about the need to be born again, but not as children or by the gods or goddesses, who seem to be infected by the same virus, but in Life Worship.

Verily, Verily I say unto you, seek ye the inside beauty of your health and outside beauty will be yours both now and forever. I am not just saying it from the mythology of the Greeks of yo, but from a lived experience of the power of Just Food we are growing in Gathĩngĩra. I would venture to say that that had Paris tasted our food, the story of the Trojan war would have never seen the light of day but instead we would have a love stories of the inner beauty more superior to the physical beauty of Helen.

This inner beauty has been visible to me and I call it I Am. For you are truly beautiful if your inside beauty shines so much so that it can be seen with the naked eye. Maybe the kind of beauty that is so powerful that it hides your nakedness. Maybe it’s that kind of beauty that weathered away when Adam ate the wrong food and immediately realized that he was naked. I Am health a product of Just Food, is the most attractive beauty and therefore a major component of ThayũCulture. In so many ways, modern day beauty is the reincarnation of Aris, modern day goddess of discord.

Chef Kabui

The Hex Kitchen is a collaboration between Chef Kabui and the Hex community in a bid to promote food literacy, mindful eating and wealth creation. There is a natural connection between those who are fighting against fiat currency and those engaged in the struggle against fiat food. The two social ills of fiat currency and fiat food are at the heart of the tyrannic global world system we are now living in. That tyranny is directly connected to the climate crisis we face and there is no way we can solve one part of the problem without being mindful of the whole system, For a start, the Hex Kitchen is keen on addressing the issues of real money and real food as a basis on regaining our sovereign power. It is no accident that the struggle for food justice would find allies in cryptography and more specifically cryptocurrency. It is not a usual collaboration but yet it is one that makes sense on many levels. Chef Kabui has been studying and applying the power of food literacy, mindful eating and food justice in the struggle against oppression in general and specifically to people of African descent.

Chef Kabui has studied the disciplines of politics, anthropology and culinary arts and has designed a cuisine or rather an approach to food that is informed by the above experience and the indigenous knowledge that he gained from his Kenyan family’s history as sustainable farmers for generations. The combined experience and education resulted in the creation of a cuisine called Afro Futuristic Conscious Cuisine. It is a combination of the most sustainable practices in the growing, preparation of food with the goal of causing the least damage to the environment and maximizing the health benefits of the food. Those two conditions are necessary for a mindful community that ensures that justice thrives.

Chef Kabui has been pushing organic food and healthy eating based on his research and his own experience. The idea of healthy food and justice is not something that chef Kabui got into but was born in it. His family operated a farm and his father ran a restaurant in the capital city of Nairobi. Kabui grew up in the village with his mother where they grew almost all the food they consumed. It was at his family farm that he Kabui developed a love for fresh food and the art of consuming food following the natural cycles of seasons.

The collaboration aims to share the skills for healthy food to the Hex community and beyond. No community can survive without food and the Hex community is no different. The Hex Kitchen is another assembly point for the community to be nourished both physically and socially. While wealth is private, food is social and having a kitchen for the community to assemble is a great option for a community that is causing ripples across the world.

What to Expect

The Kitchen will have virtual classes, content on Youtube and other social media presence for a start. The goal is that the Kitchen will have a physical place that will have a kitchen in a farm that will grown food and have space that guest can visit. The farm will have a demonstration farm for the vegetables, fruits and herbs,

For the schedule of upcoming classes please visit our events section and find a class that is fit for your schedule.