Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths)

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American new religious movement Black nationalist movement Nation of Gods and Earths cultural movement religious leader religious movement spiritual movement

The Five-Percent Nation, or Nation of Gods and Earths, is a Black nationalist cultural and spiritual movement that emerged from the Nation of Islam in the 1960s, emphasizing self-knowledge, empowerment, and the belief that Black people are the original people and divine.

Aliases (7)

Five-Percent Nation ×48
Five Percent Nation ×3
Nation of Gods and Earths ×3
Clarence 13X ×2
Five Percent Nation teachings ×2
Five Percent represent the poor righteous teachers ×1
Five-Percent Nation ideology ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American new religious movement → Black nationalist movement → Black nationalist movement → Nation of Gods and Earths → cultural movement → cultural movement → religious leader → religious movement → spiritual movement → spiritual movement →
alsoKnownAs	Five Percenters → NGE → Nation of Gods and Earths →
coreBelief	Black people are divine → Black people are the original people of the planet Earth → each person is responsible for their own salvation → rejection of a mystery God → self-knowledge leads to empowerment → the Black man is God → the Black woman is Earth →
countryOfOrigin	United States of America → surface form: "United States"
culturalPractice	building (sharing lessons and knowledge) → street-based teaching →
dateOfOrigin	1964 →
doctrine	120 Lessons → Supreme Alphabet → Supreme Mathematics →
ethos	Black nationalism →
foundedBy	Clarence 13X → Clarence Edward Smith →
founderOf	Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) → surface form: "Five-Percent Nation"
influenced	hip hop culture → rap music → urban slang →
influencedBy	Islamic concepts → Nation of Islam → surface form: "Nation of Islam theology"
languagePractice	use of coded terms and acronyms based on Supreme Mathematics and Supreme Alphabet →
membershipConcept	Eighty-Five Percent represent the uncivilized masses → Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) → surface form: "Five Percent represent the poor righteous teachers" Ten Percent represent the rich slave-makers of the poor →
organizationalStructure	loosely organized decentralized movement →
originatedFrom	Nation of Islam →
placeOfOrigin	Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan → surface form: "Harlem, New York City"
rejects	formal mosque-based worship structure →
scripturalSource	Bible (reinterpreted) → Quran → surface form: "Qur'an (reinterpreted)"
separatedFrom	Nation of Islam →
teaches	knowledge of self as knowledge of God → self-discipline → self-knowledge →

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Robert Fitzgerald Diggs → affiliation → Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) →

this entity surface form: "Five-Percent Nation"

Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) → founderOf → Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) →

subject surface form: "Clarence 13X"

this entity surface form: "Five-Percent Nation"

Masta Killa → influencedBy → Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) →

this entity surface form: "Five-Percent Nation"

Wu-Tang Clan → influencedBy → Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) →

this entity surface form: "Five Percent Nation"

Ol' Dirty Bastard → inspiredBy → Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) →

this entity surface form: "Five Percent Nation teachings"

The Tao of Wu → inspiredBy → Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) →

this entity surface form: "Five Percent Nation"

The Wu-Tang Manual → mainSubject → Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) →

this entity surface form: "Five Percent Nation"

Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) → membershipConcept → Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) →

subject surface form: "Five-Percent Nation"

this entity surface form: "Five Percent represent the poor righteous teachers"

RZA → religion → Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) →

The Tao of Wu → subject → Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) →

this entity surface form: "Five Percent Nation teachings"

Wu-Tang Forever → theme → Five-Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) →

this entity surface form: "Five-Percent Nation ideology"