Introduction

Dr. Funkenstein, also known as Star Child and in his earthly form, George Clinton, had already declared on the 1975 Parliament album Mothership Connection, we have returned to claim the pyramids. The P-funk mythology was futuristic, inspired by science fiction, yet it also looked back to the African past, by a spirituals all the way to ancient Egypt. What might seem to be a harmless and humorous fantasy about Funko knots capable of funkitizing galaxies was in fact an exuberant expression of Africana thought.