How to Solve For X: Wakanda Edition
When the Truth is mocked and the fictional is celebrated, chaos can't be far behind.
Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked.
Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
Galatians 6:7
What even is February?
Not quite winter. Not yet spring.
No longer the beginning. Nowhere near the end.
Whatever it is, welcome to February - or as some folks call it, Wakanda History Month.
“Wait,” you might be saying, “don’t you mean Black History Month?”
What, you didn’t get the memo? It’s no longer about “black” or “history.” It’s now Wakanda History Month.
I didn’t arrive at this conclusion arbitrarily. Every institution from local libraries to woke churches and academic institutions can’t help but conflate a box-office Hollywood hit with actual history.
The legacies of traditional black-identified historical figures like Frederick Douglass or Michael King Jr. are now held in the same esteem as the 2018 blockbuster “Black Panther” or its 2022 sequel, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
Don’t take my word for it.
Whereas Black History Month - or what was known as recently as 1975 as February - inspired monuments and holidays, now in the age of Marvel it has metastasized into a celebration of the imaginary, never-was land of Wakanda.
What is Wakanda?
For those blissfully unaware, here is your briefing on Wakanda:
Wakanda, officially the Kingdom of Wakanda, is a fictional country appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the country first appeared in Fantastic Four #52. Wakanda has been depicted as being in East Africa. It is located in sub-Saharan Africa and is home to the superhero Black Panther, who is, of course, also fictional.1
On college campuses across the U.S., liberal arts students and faculty alike gather to mark this month, one which President Ford told us was to “recognize the important contribution made to our nation's life and culture by black citizens,” by watching an action film which takes place in an imaginary land populated by a nonexistent citizenry in a kingdom that never was.
Consider Clark University in Worcester, Mass, which holds a “Panther” screening as part of a Black History Month “double feature” and highlights the movie’s “cast led by strong black women” which “continues to explore ideas of the impact and pressures of colonialism on Wakanda and the fictional nation of Talocan in the wake of the death of King T’Challa.”
Colonialism? In a place that never existed? Why not base the story in one of the many African nations where colonialism historically ran its course? Why choose an imaginary one?
Or what about this civil rights group which says Wakanda represents “what Africa would have been were it not for centuries of colonization, imperialism, and plundering by white Europeans.”
The cultural significance of Wakanda, we’re told:
…cannot be understated in this context, in which whiteness is the default, in which white children have had access to vibrant and varied fictional characters to model themselves on, and in which pop culture has frequently depicted Africa as forsaken, war-torn, dusty and impoverished, often without historical context as to why it is so.
The problem with Africa, apparently, the reason that the so-called “dark continent” still largely resembles a hodgepodge of disparate medieval villages is that *checks notes* - ah yes, because we Westerners don’t blame colonialism nearly enough.
You might also be more than a little stunned to learn that for one brief moment in time, Wakanda, the fictional country from a Hollywood blockbuster franchise, appeared as a legit U.S. free trade partner on the USDA website alongside America’s actual trade partners like Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Peru.
Francis Tseng, a New York-based computer engineer who discovered Wakanda on the USDA list, told Reuters the discovery left him utterly baffled.
“I was very confused at first and thought I misremembered the country from the movie and got it confused with something else,” Tseng was quoted as saying.
Confusing, indeed.
Even after removing the name of Wakanda from its website, the USDA, in what is now typical woke-fed fashion, acknowledged the gaffe not with an apology, but by sharing the familiar Wakanda salute on its social media pages.
That’s right - the Department of Agriculture, the agency tasked with the protection of America’s farms and farmers, was all too eager to partake in the Wakanda salute, even using the hashtag “#WakandaForever.”
Or what about the 2020 “limited-edition” Visa debit card featuring Harriet Tubman, a traditional symbol of Black History Month, making - you guessed it - the “Black Panther” X sign on the front, of all things, an ATM card.
Though the bank denied the artist’s intention was to capitalize on the Black Panther trend, the iconic similarities are undeniable.
Stop and think for a minute: when was the last time the U.S. government along with financial institutions and all of academia coordinated in lockstep to amplify a particular message or movement? When was a message so universally inescapable that you couldn’t go anywhere without encountering it in some shape or form?
I’ll give you a hint.
Anyone remember the year 2020? Something about a 15-day bat soup virus?
Like the fanciful zeitgeist that told us men can become women or that it would take two weeks to stop the spread, when it comes to Wakanda and black history, we're being commanded to affirm something that we all know simply isn't real.
The question remains, as it always is: why?
The X and Chi-Ro
It’s no exaggeration to say that a holiday which began as Negro History Week now celebrates a world which, in fact, does not exist.
So if it’s all just cinematic, if it’s all fictional and make-believe, what’s all this X business? Is this just a Marvel Universe idiosyncrasy? Or is there something deeper being communicated?
In 2018, the film’s director, Ryan Coogler, said the X gesture was a hat tip of sorts to the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, who often buried their dead with the arms folded over in the shape of an X.
Historians tell us a body with crossed-arms in Egyptian burials usually indicated male royalty or a sign of kingship.
“That’s where we got the ‘Wakanda Forever’ salute from,” Coogler said at the time.
But there is, in fact, yet another layer of meaning to X.
“In the 2015 book Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom, authors Adela Oppenheim, Dorothea Arnold, Dieter Arnold, and Kei Yamamoto posit that the crossed arms signify the loss of control of one’s body in death, ‘an idea expressed’ in the Egyptian god Osiris who was slain by his brother and chopped up in pieces.”
This historical context appears to be verified by the very monuments of Egypt itself.
The Egyptians buried their male royalty with crossed arms to “symbolize authority” - but over whom? Or what?
While most audiences recognize Boseman from “Black Panther,” most may not know he also played Thoth, the Egyptian moon god, in 2016’s “Gods of Egypt.”
Two years later, at the height of his “Black Panther” fame, Boseman showed up to the Met Gala wearing a suit adorned with multiple crosses, which one outlet described as an “outfit worthy of a king.”
The all-white Versace outfit included “religiously inspired embellishments” - a polite way of saying numerous gaudy gold crosses - along with two popish red tassels, gold shoes, and a cape.
And if you tilt your head just so, those crosses? Why, they start to resemble the letter X.
One user on Twitter - a platform which is now, of course, called X - commented that Boseman was the “new pope from Wakanda.” Interesting choice of words.
And you’ve no doubt heard of another product of Africa who has demonstrated a lifelong affinity for the X symbol.
From naming his son to his companies - minus the one figuring out how implant microchips into human beings - X clearly holds significance for this generation’s Nikola Tesla.
Even NPR appeared confused over Musk’s lifelong obsession with X, offering little insight beyond “X is still something of a mystery even to his biographers.”
Remember, for context, Musk is the same person who did this:
Whatever your opinion is of Musk, or whether most people realize it or not, these two images are equally blasphemous in their symbolism.
You see, X and Wakanda are actually inseparable. They are one and the same.
Turns out even as an invention of Marvel Comics founder Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the artist behind some of Marvel’s most iconic characters, Wakanda isn’t entirely original.
Most are likely unaware, for example, that Wakanda is the name of a Native American deity.
As the Washington Post reported:
Among the Plains Indian peoples — the Omaha, the Kansa, the Ponka, the Osage and others — Wakanda was (and is) a name for God. And like the Wakanda of “Black Panther,” this was a divinity whose hiddenness was inseparable from its power.
As the Bureau of American Ethnology noted in 1894: “The ancestors of the Omaha and Ponka believed that there was a Supreme Being, whom they called Wakanda. They did not know where He was, nor did they undertake to say how He existed … Wakanda means ‘the mysterious’ …
And that’s not all.
As WaPo reported, Wakanda, recorded elsewhere was Wah’Kon’Tah, was “a place from which all goodness emerged and to which all aspired to journey,” a “future state” which “consists in a place of pleasure and repose, where the prudent in council, intrepid and courageous warriors, indefatigable hunters, and the kind man will obtain an eternal recompense.”
Sounds like heaven to me.
Surely all of this is just coincidence, you might say.
And that’s a logical conclusion, except for the fact that Jack Kirby’s granddaughter insists he surely “understood” what Wakanda meant when he created “Black Panther.”
Let’s quickly recap.
Wakanda is the name of a pagan god which was worshiped among indigenous folks, a name which represents a “place from which all goodness emerged.” It is the celebration of a non-existent deity - who is, at best, a demonic spirit2 - from a non-existent land.
In other words, it’s all made up.
The net utility of cultural works like “Black Panther,” much like the stated end of pop culture as we know it today, is to lead the ignorant American Christian masses away from worshiping Yahweh, the God of the Bible, and turning them away to other gods - deities which not only do not exist, but never existed and never will.
How so?
Because however else it has been adopted across history, X, in the year of our Lord 2024, is first and foremost an ancient symbol used explicitly for Christ Jesus.
This symbol, also known as Chi-Rho, comes from the Greek letters Chi (X) and Rho (P), the first two letters of Christ’s name in Greek, ‘Χριστός.’
Read that again: the name of Christ in the Greek, the language of the New Testament, begins with Chi, or X.
Found in the catacombs of Rome where persecuted Christians were martyred, the Chi-Rho symbol is acknowledged as one of the earliest Christian symbols.
The Chi-Rho, history tells us, is the same symbol in a vision seen by Constantine before the pivotal Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312 AD. With the cross, Constantine said, was this message: “By this sign thou shall conquer.”
You may know this Chi-Rho symbol by another name.
That’s right: the Microsoft Windows XP logo features another X in the four-colored “window” and the letters X and P.
Coincidence, right?
Okay, then. You may also know this symbol as the same symbol associated with medicine and healing.
“But that’s an Rx…right?” Is it, though?
If you’ve ever had the privilege of taking any sort of math class, you’re also likely aware that X is used an independent variable to signify an unknown value for that which is known.
While this practice is believed to have originated with Descartes in the 17th century, nobody’s really come up with a good explanation as to why.
Nowadays, X is also used on passports in New Zealand and elsewhere to identify oneself with a third “non-binary” gender - that is, one that is neither male nor female, but (typically) an amalgamation of the two.
The list goes on.
Perhaps most eyebrow-raising about all of this is the way X is used in the Scriptures.
Notably, the New Testament gives us two - and only two - instances in which X is used in the original language at the start of a word.
Both of these instances come in the context of the Beast, or as he/it is more commonly known, the Antichrist.
The first instance is the word "χάραγμα / charagma, which Strong’s defines as “an engraving (etching), a mark providing undeniable identification, like a symbol giving irrefutable connection between parties.3
We see this word used in relation to what most Bible scholars believe will be the nadir of human history - the mark of the Beast.
And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, that they be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark—the name of the beast or the number of its name.
The second time X is used at the beginning of a word in the New Testament is when it is used to symbolize the Mark of the Beast: 666, which is written as χξϛ (chi xi sigma) in the Greek.
Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.
His number is six hundred sixty-six .
Wakanda.
X.
Kings.
Logos.
Real.
Fictional.
“Gods.”
Devils.
The Mark of the Beast.
666.
Are we starting to get what’s going here?
Do I have to spell it out?
They're mocking you with X, Christian.
They're mocking you because, like their father the devil, they hate you and they're exploiting their media machine and your ignorance to mainstream that hatred.
If you can’t see that - if you refuse to see that - you will continue to be deceived and led astray by the god of this age who was a murderer from the beginning.
See, it’s not just Wakanda History Month. It’s not just a Marvel movie.
It’s not just Elon Musk, or Bill Gates, or Microsoft, or any other single entity.
It’s the world system led by its wannabe god, Lucifer.
How else do you explain this?
Are these celebrities all simply Wakanda aficionados?
Big Chadwick Boseman fans?
Of course not.
This is about something bigger than the box office.
This is about paying tribute to their “X factor.”
This is about an eternal enmity for the God of Israel, His Christ, and His people.
This is about you and me and how we make our way through this life, not being deceived, as Eve was, but being wise as serpents and harmless as doves.4
Oh, one last thing.
In exactly 60 days from this writing, a celestial event will form the second and final leg of an X over the continental United States of America.
The crux of this path over the state of Texas - which itself has an X at the center of its name - will conclude in the event of the total solar eclipse, which will be visible over the city of Eagle Pass along the U.S.-Mexico border on 4/8/24 for approximately 4 minutes and 24 seconds.
Honestly, I don’t know what it means. Maybe it’s something. Maybe it’s nothing.
But if you believe God is the Maker of heaven and Earth - and He is - if you believe He can speak not just through His Son, the Living Word, but also through His creation - and He does - then you cannot believe this to be all one big coincidence.
https://origins.osu.edu/connecting-history/searching-Wakanda-african-roots-black-panther-story (editor’s comments added)
Isaiah 45:5; 2 Corinthians 4:4
https://biblehub.com/greek/5480.htm
2 Corinthians 11:3; Matthew 10:16