London 1981

Peter MARSHALL


St Agnes Place, Kennington, 1981
29c-24: house, graffiti, rastafarian,

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On another visit to St Agnes Place I photographed this lengthy Rastafarian text on the wall.
 
I think it reads:
 
If cats and dogs
birds and bees
flying things and
creeping things
things in the sea
and all creatures
could speak they would
tell you man you is the only beast
 
HAILE
SELASSIE
I
 
Here dwell the two
olive trees and the
two candle sticks
standing before
the Most High of the earth
Woe unto the beast that harms them, woe
 
I am the word
 
The first section is probably based on Genesis Chapter 8 v19 "Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark."
 
Revelation Chapter 11, includes the verse "These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth" . The beasts are in Revelation 13.