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"Do you used to see.." Are you speaking English or another language? |
Poster, you're obviously an idio.t with nothing better to do than spread satanic, racist garbage. Why don't you grow up and look to contribute positively to society instead of being a worthless parasite? |
macof: You are the one being dishonest. Not only that but you are a racist.Yawwnn. You are a FRAUD. I guess Aristotle and co were racists for stating the Egyptians were blacks. You don't even realise how dense you sound. Must be your low IQ. I am a proud Yoruba man but I won't support liesTHEN STOP SUPPORTING LIES. Stop supporting the lies told by the same people who go around knocking off the noses off the Egyptian statues to disguise their African features. You're on their side, which makes you a fraud with zero credibility. you want to tell us All images of Egyptian women are yellow/light-brown??Err no. I told you that ''in Egypt, the artistic convention was to portray the women as lighter than men to denote their femininity''. A notable exception was during the Amarna period around the reign of Akhenaton. Excerpt: ''The skin color of both male and female is generally dark brown (contrasted with the usual dark brown or red for males and light brown or white for females)...'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarna_art You want to tell us that There's no cultural difference between Upper and lower Egypt?How does cultural difference translate to racial difference? So if people buried their dead standing up in the north, and in the south people buried their dead lying down, it means northerners were white and southerners black? Is Igbo culture not significantly different from Hausa culture? Does that mean Igbos are green and Hausas are purple? Show us now wit prove any identical feature from lower Egypt that fits wit cultures South of the Sahara and how they are different from Levant and PhoeniciansHere is an account by Herodotus of the cultural practises of the Egyptians. He makes NO distinction between the north and south as regards the practices, PLUS he makes it clear their practices are VERY DIFFERENT from those of the Levant and the Phoenicians, and Greeks, PLUS the practises, when you read them, are VERY CLEARLY practices still associated TODAY with Africa South of the Sahara in every respect. http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Heroegy.html (copy and paste link into your searchbox) Lower Egypt was Mediterranean not Negro as Pagan 9ja already laid out. I don't need to lie to prove the Negro raceThe RECORD DISAGREES WITH YOU. You cannot invent your own history. It's people like u who are filled wit hatred for whites and the shame of his race that he keeps clinching to a lost mixed civilization as his.Keep playing houseboy to whichever slavemaster sent you here. Meantime, ask your slavemaster what he has to say to this: Gaston Maspero states that "by the almost unanimous testimony of ancient [Greek] historians, they [Ancient Egyptians] belonged to the African race, which settled in Ethiopia." Diop, Cheikh Anta (1974). The African Origin of Civilization. Chicago, Illinois: Lawrence Hill Books. p. 2. ISBN 1-55652-072-7. You might also wish to ask him why he knocked off all those noses on the Egyptian artifacts and statues! |
adamdbt: dreamerYou have to dream before your dreams can come true. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
TechyGuy: @Rossikk,Thanks bro.. ![]() |
enny5: stories that tickles the armpit. There is a better chance of the atlantic dryin up.Really? Not sure where you are sitting right now, but it was far less developed 50 years ago. What makes you think time and progress stops with you and your life? This was Broad Street Lagos in 1952 https://www.fuse.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/throwback5.jpg Broad Street Lagos Today [img]http://nationalmirroronline.net/thumbnail.php?file=/Broad_Street__Lagos._408204254.jpg&size=article_large[/img] Broad Street 2050 https://greensimon.zippykidcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/dubai-buildings.jpg |
[size=15pt]How did I miss this thread? OP please drop her like a hot potato. Let her go and marry 'Jesus'. Arrant rubbish. Ask these brainwashed, colonised people and their imported religion who wrote that bible they're worshiping and they'll stare back at you like dumb goats. No idea, no clue, no research, no knowledge, no thinking. No interest in thinking or research. Just acting like cursed zombies. Ignorant, dumb set of people. Meanwhile, the white people that taught them this stuff have long distanced themselves from its myths, having researched and found them to constitute mere primitive mythology. But our people? Oh no! Crying louder than the bereaved as usual. Thoughtless as usual. Research ke? What does research mean? Follow follow copy copy DUNCES.[/size] |
macof: Precisely due to the evidence on ground that points to a mixed race civilization in EgyptI already mentioned (with proof) that women were depicted as lighter than men at some point as an artistic convention in Egypt. So stop posting images of light painted women to 'prove' your point. That translates to deception. Also, explain to us why there are NO documented accounts by visitors to Egypt supporting your claims. All the ancient visitors to Egypt, from Aristotle to Appolodorius, state clearly that the ancient Egyptians were black skinned. Why do you ignore their eyewitness testimonies and accounts? Is it because you are intellectually dishonest, with no interest in the truth? Also the tomb art as presented shows ONLY black skinned negroid people, confirming those eyewitness accounts, so one can only surmise that your "mixed" population emanates from your colonised imagination, from Hollywood, National Geographic channel, and from racist 19th century Egyptologists who could not bear to learn that they were civilised by black folks. Your theory directly contradicts the ancient record, and has zero support from that record. Kindly stop disseminating falsehoods. Again, the fact that of all the scores of documented visitors to Egypt, NOT ONE says "the blacks live in the south and the whites and yellows live in the north", instead, ALL stating that "the Egyptians are black skinned with wooly (ie kinky) hair", shows that what you are presenting to the contrary is cooked-up 'evidence'. |
drauj: @ op I hope we live to see this fantasy becomes a reality. Mark you tribalists like you will then realise what the "North" could be if not for your myopic Hydrocarbon mentality.You clearly don't know me to refer to me as a 'tribalist'. And kindly correct yourself. We refer to this as a projection not a fantasy. Thanks. |
optimumprimus: Rossike , one other thing i would like to add ; the current system we have right now will not exist by 2070. the United states is coming up with other alternatives to usher in a new futuristic civilization in the next 60 years,it's called "Venus Project" (see. Venus Project). these very arrangement as we have them today will be outdated .I have zero interest in your input. Kindly get lost and stay lost, you vile animal. |
optimumprimus: the President must be good looking,not less than 6 feet tall. must wear suit or dress shirt on official and international duties. not just any ugly oily face Dullard. the president must be a role model .You are shallow, ignorant, stu.pid and dumb. Please get this blasted rubbish and your dirty pictures off my thread. By 2050 your colonialist, slave plantation concept of beauty will be long dead and buried by God's grace, with pathetic, mentally disfigured caricatures like you confined to the dustbin of history. |
What I don't like about these innovations is that they make very little effort to give it any aesthetic appeal. I mean, just because it is a prototype does not mean you cannot invest a little time and effort to make it look appealing with some decent finishing. The dude could and should have found a way to cover those wheels for instance. |
mcfynest: What happened to africaThe same thing that will happen to Europe in future. Or America. No civilization remains on top forever. They reach a peak and then begin the inevitable decline. Human factors to do with complacency, greed, arrogance, infighting, etc always set in...plus even natural factors like environmental disasters and setbacks. In Africa for instance, the desertification of the once fertile and lush Sahara caused all sorts of problems for African civilization. It led to mass population dispersal, social upheaval, reduced soil fertility, fiercer competition for arable land and water leading to conflict, ethnic distrust, social fragmentation etc etc. The biggest threat to modern civilization today is nuclearization and environmental degradation. But just as soon as this civilization ends, another will emerge to replace it, however long it takes. |
McLuhan: Sometimes you ask yourself, what is it about Nigeria that bestialises people, that brings out the animal in them? Every now and then you find perfectly sensible people who behave impeccably when they are outside Nigeria's shores but who inexplicably succumb to the Nigerian craze immediately they return home. Is there an atmospheric spirit that lurks in the Nigerian airspace and possesses people like some incubus immediately they alight from their aircraft or breathe the Nigerian air? Or is it attributable to a genetic dysfunction in our DNA?''perfectly sensible people who behave impeccably when they are outside Nigeria's shores''. You mean like these folks? ................................................[img]http://2.bp..com/_4NsgmZ9mULE/TMtXItjVNNI/AAAAAAAAACk/BR3a1ja3k4Y/s1600/publicshit.jpg[/img] https://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/no-slug/4e2a2006f450dc12b024372b1d06e5cb.jpg https://google-street-view.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/google-street-view-popular-colombian-pee2.jpg DUMMY DUM DUM. |
Emart: Sure say no be albino be that?Who? These? https://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/no-slug/4e2a2006f450dc12b024372b1d06e5cb.jpg No they're not albinos. They're whites. Stup.id dummy. |
[img]http://2.bp..com/-fXYF2nH0ht8/U8ep9fNkKBI/AAAAAAAADIg/ZOKPfjP7AIM/s1600/niger.jpeg[/img] [size=20pt]''1,500 destinations across the globe''? 1,500? With 26 aircraft? How? When? Are there even up to 1,500 air destinations on earth? British Airways today serves 170 destinations. But Nigeria Airways served 1,500 destinations in 1973?? Generating ''N150 billion per annum'' in 1973? 1973? Do you know Nigeria's entire annual GDP was less than N5 billion in 1973? This stuff was clearly written by a semi-literate, ignorant buffoon, and clearly accepted without question by equally semi-literate, dumb and stupi.d Nairalanders, more concerned with purveying their ethnic hatred than using their brains. LOW IQ DUNCES - EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU.[/size] |
blackprowler: Which superiority? Over whom?Maybe you should direct your question to Lady Flora Lugard, wife of Lord Lugard, the first British Governor-General of Nigeria: Lady Lugard was a qualified historian and academic: (Excerpts) Her book, A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Sudan With an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria (1900), is an extraordinary look at the history of Africa, which she gathered from countless sources, and one would imagine a great deal of it came from the British Library and from the archives of The Times of London, for whom she had for many years been the Foreign Political Correspondent. She had always been known to be an intensive researcher into her subject matter, and one wonders at the months and probably years she put into this undertaking, which became the reference work for so many future books on Africa. This book was first published 100 years ago showing with detail and descriptive power, the greatness that Africa once was. Lady Lugard argues that: "When the history of Negroland comes to be written in detail, it may be found that the kingdoms lying towards the eastern end of Sudan (classical home of Ancient Ethiopians) were the home of races who inspired, rather than of races who received, the tradition of civilization associated for us with the name of ancient Egypt. For they cover on either side of the Upper Nile between the latitudes of ten degrees and seventeen degrees, territories in which are found monuments more ancient than the oldest Egyptian monuments. If this should prove to be the case and civilized world be forced to recognize in a black people the fount of its original enlightenment, it may happen that we shall have to revise entirely our view of the black races, and regard those who now exist as the decadent representatives of an almost forgotten era, rather than as the embryonic possibility of an era yet to come." "The fame of the ancient Ethiopians (ancient Kushites) was widespread in ancient history. Herodotus described them as the most beautiful and long-lived of the human races, and before Herodotus, Homer, in even more flattering language, described them as the most just of men, the favorites of the gods. The annals of all the great early nations of Asia Minor are full of them. The Mosaic records allude to them frequently; but while they are described as the most powerful, the most just, and the most beautiful of the human race, they are constantly spoken of as Black, and there seems to be no other conclusion to be drawn than that at that remote period of history, the leading race of the Western World was a Black race." Lady Lugard/Flora Shaw Lugard, Asa G. Hilliard, III, A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Sudan With an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria (1900) |
macof: Not all "Egyptians" were Blacks anyway...most of the Nile delta were light-Brown skinned typical MediterraneansThere goes another one saying stuff that flies in the face of the tomb art evidence and historical documented accounts and records. I think it's best we ignore your type and blame it on Hollywood. |
ISpiksDaTroof: If I put a 12th grade kid next to your so-called university graduate, I bet you anything that 17yr old is way smarted and educated than that 39yr old man... or isn't that the age most of yall graduate 4yr university due to incessant strikes and bribes to lecturers?I bet a dunce like you cannot even locate more than 5 countries on a map. Illiterate wastrel from God knows what ghetto. |
ISpiksDaTroof: Ignoramus that has 24hr electricity, good roads, social welfare for the sick, young, invalid and old, quality education, equal justice regardless of your status, sex, creed or se*xual orientation, employment for all, security for all by means of effective policing...Yawwnnnn............. 24 hrs light or not, the average American is grossly IGNORANT of the world outside America. Knowledge has no price. I had a HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER there ask me ''where is that?'' when I said I came from Lagos. I have spoken to many of them who ask ''where is that?'' when told about Nigeria. They call their national baseball tournament 'The World Series'. They have many websites which try to educate them that ''Africa is not a country'': http://time.com/12990/africa-is-not-a-country/ http://goafrica.about.com/od/peopleandculture/tp/Top-10-Myths-About-Africa.htm http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/20/africa-world-cup_n_5516292.html I don't recall anyone needing to teach Nigerians that ''Europe is not a country'' or that ''Asia is not a country''. These are the people whose 'comments' we should take seriously? . . . . As for your other bogus claims about ''equal justice regardless of your status, sex, creed or se*xual orientation'' WRONG. In America, there are MAJOR differences in justice for the rich and the poor, and justice for the white and the black: http://www.civilrights.org/publications/justice-on-trial/ employment for allTell that to the tens of millions of unemployed Americans: http://rt.com/business/us-unemployment-economy-crisis-assistance-006/ security for all by means of effective policingTell that to the nearly 20,000 Americans murdered annually, and the millions more robbed and whose houses are burgled per annum: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm |
ISpiksDaTroof: They are more educated and informed than you ever will be.Really? You must be even more stupi.d than them to say that. |
Oh dear.. |
rdokoye: The average American can’t even point out Nigeria in an atlas map, so who cares what they think? They typically sway towards the Africans are inferior and incompetent mantra, so the president sponsoring terrorism in his own country appeals most to them; as ridiculous as it sounds.The average American thinks Africa is one country that is probably smaller than the smallest US state. That is how ignorant they are. Reading their ''comments'' is like reading the rantings of three year old toddlers. And just as much a waste of time and energy. |
Fulaman198: Well that is because Africans have been brainwashed to the point to believe that they are no good when in fact Nigerians are the most educated people/immigrants in the United States and possibly the United Kingdom. It's not really their fault. You have lots of Nigerian schools that teach more European history than African history. The question is, what are we going to do to fix this? Many Nigerians for example are completely daft to other countries/regions in Africa even if they are neighbouring countries or regions.I actually learnt that they've recently dropped the teaching of history in Nigerian secondary schools. You couldn't make it up. I guess that means we should expect even more 'Pagan9jas' in the future. Tragic. |
PAGAN9JA: [size=18pt]RUBBISH!Who said the stone colour depicts the colour of the kings? We are saying their noses were cut off to hide their 'wideness'. It has nothing to do with the colour of the stones. The stones could be green or purple for all we care. We already KNOW the Egyptians were blacks. I've really no idea why you're fighting your own history (assuming you're not some white racist posing as an African). WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE tomb art depicting blacks almost entirely? What do you have to say about the testimonies of the ancient Greek visitors? You IGNORE these strong proofs of black Egypt, and go looking around like a lunatic for something to argue against it, and then when evidence trashing your position is presented (as I've done repeatedly), you ignore it and go looking for something else to scream about. Are you going to apologize for claiming a shabti doll of Tutunkhamun was a life sized statue, even when your own link said it was a shabti doll, or are you here to deceive and lie to people? |
PAGAN9JA: na your papa be historical illiterate. The black allele is still stronger than the white one? Where are all these so-called black Egyptians ?There were large scale migrations from the Nile valley to the south of the continent in antiquity following desertification and foreign invasions. This was the life sized statue of Tutunkhamun found in his own tomb:[img]http://1.bp..com/-f68tXZ3TkDs/ToVg0o9THkI/AAAAAAAADyc/K8062VqtD_8/s1600/Tutankhamun_Shabti.jpg[/img] This is a full coloured statue unlike your dual black and gold statue. Therefore this is much more plausible.That is not a life sized statue but rather a tiny shabti doll made with lightwood depicting his travelling soul. It even says it's a shabti on your picture! I bet you have no idea what a shabti is. They are very tiny dolls buried with the deceased representing their spirit. I said you were an illiterate in these things and all you do is confirm it. The image I posted was a life sized statue of Tutunkhamun found in his tomb. Learn about shabti dolls here: http://www.ancient.eu.com/article/119/ Lastly, we notice that the 'light skinned' images you posted were all of WOMEN. This is not surprising since it at some point it was an artistic convention in Egypt to depict women as lighter to denote their femininity. Here is textual evidence of this: ''The skin color of both male and female is generally dark brown (contrasted with the usual dark brown or red for males and light brown or white for females)'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarna_art Oh.. and that first bust you posted of 'Nefertiti' has been dismissed by many scholars as a fake: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8038097.stm Finally, why exactly should we believe a western media deceived, brainwashed person like you over the testimonies of esteemed ancient Greek visitors to Egypt - scholars like Aristotle and Herodotus who stated the Egyptians were black skinned? I mean, we don't even know your name! |
A few 'lucky' pharaohs with their features relatively intact: https://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Images_Egypt/Egypt_Mentuhotep_II.jpg Narmer (Menes) First Dynasty Pharaoh https://www.aldokkan.com/egypt/menes.jpg https://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Images_Egypt/Senusret_I_a.jpg https://www.homestead.com/wysinger/amenemhet29.jpg https://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Images_Egypt/Amenemhet_II.jpg |
EGYPT NOSE CUTTING FIESTA or shall we say ''Operation Hide The African in Him'' https://www.freemaninstitute.com/Gallery/Egyp233_big_copy.jpg https://www.freemaninstitute.com/Gallery/Egyp223_big_copy.jpg https://www.freemaninstitute.com/Gallery/Egyp313_big_copy.jpg https://www.freemaninstitute.com/Gallery/Egyp156_big_copy.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Djedefre-head.jpg https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2159/2131803068_212cd189f9_o.jpg https://www.freemaninstitute.com/Gallery/Egyp311_big_copy.jpg https://www.freemaninstitute.com/Gallery/Egyp219_big_copy.jpg [size=15pt]''White supremacy made you cut the nose off the Sphinx, because it reminded you too much of the black man's... majesty''[/size] - Louis Farrakhan https://www.freemaninstitute.com/Sphinx-ModernPhoto.jpg |
Fulaman198: So hold on a second there are actually people who are still debating whether Ancient Egyptians were black or white when there are Ph.D. White Egyptologists like Freeman who said they are black. This has nothing to do with Afrocentrism, Egypt is in Africa There are still many black Egyptians today although a lot have been pushed further south as a result of Greek, Turk and Roman conquest.The one I don't understand is when even the ancient Greek visitors and scholars like Aristotle and Herodotus wrote that the Egyptians were blacks, yet you still have people like Pagan9ja and co arguing nonsense. It just shows the extent to which modern western media and Hollywood deception has eaten into peoples' consciousness. Can there be a more credible witness in history than Aristotle? Or Herodotus, known to Europeans as ''the father of history''? I mean, it's incredible. Many Africans are so brainwashed by modern media deception, it's unreal. |
PAGAN9JA: You stop lying in the first place. I am not being a pawn to anyone. I just dont want to lie and steal other peoples history and lay claim over it. Tutankhamun was a tanned-brown man which is the natural Egyptian complexion still found among many Egyptian and Saidi men.Dude, I really don't have your time. You're a historical illiterate to be talking about the skin tones of Egyptians TODAY after they've become mixed with the blood of Arab and Greek invaders. Tutunkhamun was from the pyramid building era, an era long before the foreign invasions, when Egyptians were black Africans. This was the life sized statue of Tutunkhamun found in his own tomb: HOW MUCH BLACKER DO YOU WANT HIM TO BE? https://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/Egypt/Cairo/Museum/Tutankhamun/Statues/LeftEntranceImageFrontView.jpg https://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/Egypt/Cairo/Museum/Tutankhamun/Statues/RightEntranceImageSideView.jpg Statue of Queen Tiye: King Tut's grandmother: https://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc332/kushkemet08/268_Egypt_Tiye.jpg https://img190.imageshack.us/img190/127/yegyptianwomanstatute.jpg Other tomb art from ancient Egypt: https://img703.imageshack.us/img703/6025/yusherhetdailylife7.jpg https://img40.imageshack.us/img40/9605/ylorduserhatmakingiffer.jpg https://img171.imageshack.us/img171/8767/yusherhetdailylife3.jpg https://img857.imageshack.us/img857/299/yantefoqerlife4.jpg https://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/352054517_b7e9e03a48_b.jpg https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2440794279_20d51b3835_o.jpg ...................https://wysinger.homestead.com/files/photo99.jpg https://www.homestead.com/wysinger/seti_1.jpg https://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/937/50175611.JPG https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2287/2427222727_2b968b30a7.jpg?v=0 https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2133/2273030538_b6d6c345a9_o.jpg https://img843.imageshack.us/img843/1417/yusherhetdailylife4.jpg There are hundreds more of these images from Egyptian tomb art. The people who cut off the noses of the statues always make sure not to display these images in their museums and in Hollywood flicks, so you need to either visit Egypt or go on specialist Internet sites to see these images of the true Ancient Egyptians. The Ancient Greek testimonies also help: THE DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE Note: All of Africa South of the Sahara was known to the ancient Greeks as ''Ethiopia''. Greek historian Diodorus Siculus. From his own statements we learn that he traveled in Egypt around 60 BC. His travels in Egypt probably took him as far south as the first Cataract. "They (the Ethiopians) say also that the Egyptians are colonists sent out by the Ethiopians, Osiris ["King of Kings and God of Gods] having been the leader of the colony . . . they add that the Egyptians have received from them, as from authors and their ancestors, the greater part of their laws." Diodorus's declared intention to trace the origins of the cult of Osiris, alias the Greek Dionysus also commonly known by his Roman name Bacchus. The Homeric Hymn "To Dionysus" locates the birth of Dionysus in a mysterious city of Nysa "near the streams of Aegyptus" (Hesiod 287). Diodorus cites this reference as well as the ancient belief that Dionysus was the son of Ammon, king of Libya (3.68.1), and much of Book 3 of the Bibliotheka Historica is devoted to the intertwined histories of Dionysus and the god-favored Ethiopians whom he believed to be the originators of Egyptian civilization. [emphasis added] (1st century B.C., Diodorus Siculus of Sicily, Greek historian and contemporary of Caesar Augustus, Universal History Book III. 2. 4-3. 3) Diodorus devoted an entire chapter of his world history, the Bibliotheke Historica, or Library of History (Book 3), to the Kushites ["Aithiopians"] of Meroe. Here he repeats the story of their great piety, their high favor with the gods, and adds the fascinating legend that they were the first of all men created by the gods and were the founders of Egyptian civilization, invented writing, and had given the Egyptians their religion and culture. (3.3.2). "Now they relate that of all people the Aithiopians [Ethiopians] were the earliest, and say that the proofs of this are clear. That they did not arrive as immigrants but are the natives of the country and therefore rightly are called authochthonous is almost universally accepted. That those who live in the South are likely to be the first engendered by the earth is obvious to all. For as it was the heat of the sun that dried up the earth while it was still moist, at the time when everything came into being, and caused life, they say it is probable that it was the region closest to the sun that first bore animate beings". Diodorus continues: "They further write that it was among them that people were first taught to honor the gods and offer sacrifices and arrange processions and festivals and perform other things by which people honor the divine. For this reason their piety is famous among all men, and the sacrifices among the Aithiopians are believed to be particularly pleasing to the divinity," "The Aithiopians [Ethiopians] say that the Egyptians are settlers from among themselves and that Osiris was the leader of the settlement.The customs of the Egyptians, they say, are for the most part Aithiopian, the settlers having preserved their old traditions. For to consider the kings gods, to pay great attention to funeral rites, and many other things, are Aithiopian practices, and also the style of their statues and the form of their writing are Aithiopian. Also the way the priestly colleges are organized is said to be the same in both nations. For all who have to do with the cult of the gods, they maintain, are [ritually] pure: the priests are shaved in the same way, they have the same robes and the type of scepter shaped like a plough, which also the kings have, who use tall pointed felt hats ending in a knob, with the snakes that they call the asp (aspis) coiled round them." "There are also numerous other Aithiopian tribes [i.e. besides those centered at Meroe]; some live along both sides of the river Nile and on the islands in the river, others dwell in the regions that border on Arabia [i.e. to the east], others again have settled in the interior of Libya [i.e. to the west]. The majority of these tribes, in particular those who live along the river, have black skin, snub-nosed faces, and curly hair". (Diodous Siculus, Bibliotheke, 3. Translated by Tomas Hagg, in Fontes Historiae Nubiorum, vol. II: From the Mid-Fifth to the First Century BC (Bergen, Norway, 1996)) Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.) Greek philosopher, scientist, and tutor to Alexander the Great. Aristotle is said to have written 150 philosophical treatises. "Too black a hue marks the coward as witness Egyptians and Ethiopians and so does also too white a complexion as you may see from women, the complexion of courage is between the two." (Physiognomics, Vol. VI, 812a) Aristotle makes reference to the hair form of Egyptians and Ethiopians: "Why are the Ethiopians and Egyptians bandy-legged? Is it because the bodies of living creatures become distorted by heat, like logs of wood when they become dry? The condition of their hair supports this theory; for it is curlier than that of other nations, and curliness is as it were crookedness of the hair." (Physiognomics, Book XIV, p. 317) The evidence of Lucian (Greek writer, 125 B.C.) is as explicit as that of the previous writers. He introduces two Greeks, Lycinus and Timolaus, who start a conversation: Lycinus (describing a young Egyptian): "This boy is not merely black; he has thick lips and his legs are too thin . . . his hair worn in a plait behind shows that he is not a freeman." Timolaus: "But that is a sign of really distinguished birth in Egypt, Lycinus, All freeborn children plait their hair until they reach manhood. It is the exact opposite of the custom of our ancestors who thought it seemly for old men to secure their hair with a gold brooch to keep it in place." (Lucian, Navigations, paras 2-3) Herodotus (circa 400 bc) (Known to western historians as the Father of History) Herodotus also asserted that "the names of nearly all the gods came to Greece from Egypt . . . for the names of all the gods have been known in Egypt from the beginning of time . . . It was the Egyptians too who originated, and taught the Greeks . . . ceremonial meeting, processions and liturgies . . . The Egyptians were also the first to assign each month and each day to a particular deity, and to foretell the date of a man's birth, his character, his fortunes, and the day of his death . . . The Egyptians, too have made more use of omens and prognostics than any other nation. . ." (Herodotus, The Histories, 149-150; 152; 159). ''[size=15pt]There can be no doubt that the Colchians are an Egyptian race.[/size] Before I heard any mention of the fact from others, I had remarked it myself. After the thought had struck me, I made inquiries on the subject both in Colchis and in Egypt, and I found that the Colchians had a more distinct recollection of the Egyptians, than the Egyptians had of them. Still the Egyptians said that they believed the Colchians to be descended from the army of Sesostris. [size=15pt]My own conjectures were founded, first, on the fact that they are black-skinned and have woolly hair[/size], which certainly amounts to but little, since several other nations are so too. But further and more especially, on the circumstance that the Colchians, the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians, are the only nations who have practised circumcision from the earliest times.'' |
justiade4uu: The Oyibo has MENTORS scattered all over Naija. He is following his mentors O!!!SHUT THE FCK UP. HE LEARNT IT IN HIS OWN COUNTRY. |

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