The Curse of Ham

It is my contention, that Noah was caught by his sons in the act of committing adultery. They did not just see their father’s nakedness, they saw him penetrating the vagina of a woman, and not just any woman. She was a goddess.

And thus my lesson on the Curse of Ham, begins.

‘The truth will set you free!”

John ‘The Nazarite’

The misnomer known as the Curse of Ham is more accurately known as the curse upon Canaan, Ham’s son, that was imposed by the biblical patriarch Noah. The curse occurs in the Book of Genesis and concerns Noah’s drunkenness and the accompanying shameful act perpetrated by his son Ham, the father of Canaan (Gen. 9:20–27).^[1] The controversies raised by this story regarding the nature of Ham’s transgression, and the question of why Noah cursed Canaan when Ham had sinned, have been debated for over 2,000 years.^[2]

The story’s original purpose may have been to justify the subjection of the Canaanite people to the Israelites,^[3] but in later centuries, the narrative was interpreted by some Christians, Muslims and Jews as an explanation for black skin, as well as a justification for slavery.^[4] Nevertheless, most Christians, Muslims and Jews now disagree with such interpretations, because in the biblical text, Ham himself is not cursed, and race or skin color is never mentioned.^[5]

For a period in its history the Latter Day Saint movement used the curse of Ham to prevent the ordination of black men to its priesthood.^[6][7]