How this religion came to be: On the island of jamaica a bunch of christians came together around a camp fire. Not having any wood to burn they unknowingly threw massive amounts of weed aka(ganja, hemp, mary jane)into the flame. The high that followed lasted for days, and days and days. At this time period, there was a restaurant called Zion. Being that they had the munchies for a month, they ate massive amounts of food at Zion's. The favorite menu item was jahfries. However, massive constipation soon followed the ingestion of said item. The only cure for this type of constipation was to dig JahRoots up out of the ground. Thus, Rastafarians around the world love jah roots, and wish to get to Zion, where jahfries are abundant.
by JahRootsBrrraapp! April 28, 2009
A sect, originally Jamaican, whose tenets include revering former Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie, one of whose titles was "Ras Tafari." Also rasta or rastaman.
by cornholio October 13, 2003
The adherents of rastafarianism. And the rastafarianism is a religious cult, originally of Jamaica, that regards Africa as the Promised Land, to which all true believers will someday return, and the late Haile Selassie I, former emperor of Ethiopia, as the messiah.
by Khadija August 30, 2006
A version of Ethiopian Christianity, popular among Jamaican blacks. The frequent smoking of Marijuana is supposedly a religious practice.
by Bob Marley March 31, 2003
by zoomzoomr August 01, 2008
I an' I touch Jah but Jah nuh like the funnyman. I an' I nuh like rastafarian as ism an' schism nuh irie.
by ll opl July 22, 2008
by Nano88 February 13, 2022