What if the stories you’ve been told about God, power, prophecy, and the origins of spirituality were deliberately altered—erasing the truth of Africa’s sacred feminine legacy?

In The Sibyls, Mama Zogbé uncovers a truth buried beneath centuries of conquest, colonization, and religious rebranding: that the original prophets, miracle-workers, and spiritual guides of the ancient world were African women.

These women—queens, priestesses, healers—were known as Sibyls.

The Rise and Erasure of the Sibyls

The Sibyls were not myth. They were real, powerful women who spoke prophecies, healed bodies and nations, and built spiritual cities and temples in Africa, Europe, and Asia Minor long before the birth of Christ.

But history, as it is told by the victors, changed everything.

Their temples were destroyed. Their writings were plagiarized. They were rebranded as witches. Their divine feminine power was replaced with patriarchal control.

Even African men, under pressure or ambition, betrayed them—looting their sanctuaries and forcing them into exile. And when they fled to Europe and Asia, they were hunted there too.

Stolen Stories, Whitewashed Myths

The theft didn’t stop at physical destruction. The spiritual knowledge of the Sibyls was appropriated and repackaged by empires like Greece and Rome:

The gods of Olympus were originally African deities. Homer’s Odyssey was a plagiarism of the Ethiopian Sibyl Eriphyle’s prophecies. Helen of Troy, famed for her beauty, was a Black woman. Even the name Europa belonged to one of the Sibyls.

Art, poetry, and theology were all employed to elevate male, white divinity and erase the divine feminine of African origin.

The Roman Church and the Goddess in Disguise

When Christianity rose under Constantine, the persecution intensified. Temples were torched. Priestesses were killed or sold into slavery. Yet the divine feminine survived—hidden in plain sight.

The Vatican, built on the ruins of a Sibyl temple, still whispers the old truths. The Black Madonna, venerated in secret even today, is none other than the African goddess Isis—uNomkhubulwane.

Even the Catholic prayer “Hail Mary” reflects this hidden reverence for the mother of God—a divine title first held by the Sibyls.

A Lineage of Power and Prophecy

Many African women today—especially indigenous healers and abangoma—carry the same spiritual gifts. They divine with bones, shells, and dice. They dream of snakes, water, suns, and animals. They heal through trance, dance, and ancestral connection.

These are the markers of a Sibyl’s bloodline.

King Saul sought a Sibyl, Herophile, when God’s voice grew silent. Roman emperors, including Augustus, honored them. And the 7 churches in Revelation? Not Christian institutions—but temples of the Great Mother.

Reclaiming Our Truth

The erasure of the Sibyls is not just a historical injustice. It is a spiritual theft that disempowered generations of women, rewrote sacred texts, and weaponized religion.

But the truth is awakening.

To read ‘The Sibyls’ is to remember. To remember is to reclaim. And to reclaim is to heal.

As Jesus said:

“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”

For reflection:

What gifts or dreams have you inherited through your maternal line?

Have you ever felt a spiritual calling that defied traditional religious narratives?

How would your spirituality transform if you truly believed the sacred feminine dwelled within you?

The legacy of the Sibyls has not gone forever. It lives in the DNA of every spiritually gifted child, male or female who is descended from these ancient priestesses of the divine. As we rise in consciousness and elevate spiritually, we align with the same divinity. Allow that heritage to ground and transform you.