One of the meanings of Shabazz is "keys" as the word entered the Spanish language and is now spelled "Chavez". Master Fard Muhammad spoke many languages, including the language of the birds. He taught that Africans were descendants of the tribe of Shabazz. He said that these were 17,000,000 members of the Lost- Found tribe of Shabazz in North America and he symbolized them, in their mentally dead state as "rusty locks" that needed oil for the same number of " keys” to " turn" them.
These are puns, Bandhas are locks. Keys is a code for qi/Ki/chi. So, by employing bandhas (locks) we can open our nadis and "turn" the direction of pranic chi flow toward our crown chakra for "oil" (hormones) to flow from the pineal, pituitary and hypothalamus glands. The original alphabet consisted of 16 letters also accord with the basic prime 16 odus if the Ifa oracle.
On a sociological level, the "rusty locks" symbolize blacks in America and the "keys" (Chavez) symbolize their unity with Latinos in the universal struggle for freedom, justice and equality.
