Egyptian, Nile Valley, Woven Linen, Fishing, Agriculture

Woven Linen

Between 10000 and 8000 BCE the Africans of the Nile Valley also introduced the first calendar. Woven linen has been known in Egypt since about 7000 BCE.

5,600 B.C.E

The oldest depiction of a loom was found at Badari on a pottery dish dating from the middle of the 5th millennium BCE while the first known pictures of weavers were drawn during the Middle Kingdom.

The loom was horizontal with a wooden support for the warp beam and a cloth beam that could be rotated, to which the ends of the warp threads were tied and onto which the woven cloth was wound. In 6020 BCE Africans in the Congo use markings on bones to develop a numeration system. The tools included granite pots, fireplaces and human and animal bones. The mission delineated and defined the Cave with all its drawings and geometrical and decorative designs. In addition, the mission delineated the archeological site in the "Gararah" Valley and drafted a report to be submitted to Dr. Farouk Hosny, Minister of Culture in order to appropriate the budget necessary for the completion of the excavations in the area to find more data on this discovery.

Solar Boat

FISHING 6000 BCE

Fish were caught with woven dragnets and weir-baskets made from willow branches, fishing nets for smaller fish, harpoons, hook and line, the hooks had a length of between eight millimetres and eighteen centimetres.

Agriculture in 4500 BCE Village culture at Merimde-Beni-Salame in the Nile Delta: a mixture of hunting, fishing and agriculture, with a central corn store. Primitive oval mud huts, dogs, sheep, goats and donkeys have been domesticated.
Neolithic Painting

In 4300 BCE: Renaissance of the Neolithic Naturalistic Painting. This was pottery painted with white and later with red colours about 4221 BCE. In 3700 BCE Silver, gold and copper was smelted in blowpipe furnaces. Ceramics 3300 BCE Negade I period in Upper Egypt: Re-polished black-rimmed ceramics with geometric or descriptive ornamentation (hunting motifs). 3150 BCE King Aha (Menes) unifies Upper and Lower Kemet and establishes Memphis as capital.
Egyptian Ancestry

The Egyptian-German archeological mission has realized an important discovery which proves that the ancient Egyptian had lived in the area currently known as the "Great Sea of Sands" in the southwest of Egypt, in the prehistoric period, or five thousand years ago; it had been a rainy area. Dr. Gaballah Ali Gaballah, Chairman of the Supreme Council of Archaeology said that the mission made three trips to the Western Desert "Galf Qabir" southwest Egypt near the junction of the borders of Sudan, Libya and Chad. For his part, Dr. Mohammed Al-Sagheer, head of the Egyptian Monuments Department said that the mission made an archaeological survey around the "Mahariq" Plateau and the "Garah" Cave area, where it discovered several tools which had been used by the ancient Egyptian living, then, in those remote areas.

Credo Mutwa

According to Credo Mutwa the Egyptian empire stretched all the way to South Africa. His evidence? Ancient Egyptian Spectre dug up in South Africa 2000 years ago and dating back to the old kingdom. Including the discovery of the Dufuna canoe, which predates the Egyptian Solar boat by 2,000 years. It should be noted, that the first dynasty of Pharaohs of Egypt were from Nigerian royal families, is evident from the fact that quite a number of them bore Nigerian tribal royal titles. 

L.A.Waddell, who translated early Sumerian Egyptian, and Indian inscriptions of Sumerian king-lists, insists that Sumerian king-lists dovetails into Egyptian and Indian King-lists, and that the first dynasty of Egyptian Pharaohs from the lineage of the Nubian (Black African), from me, Menes, all used Sumerian titles. It is easily recognizable that the titles in question are titles of existing Nigerian royal houses!!

Archaeologist: Dr. Mohammed Al-Sagheer, Dr. Gaballah Ali Gaballah

Transcriber:  L.A.Waddell, Prof. C Achonolu, Credo Mutwah a Shamanic Divinatory and Custodian of Ancient Custom.

European, DNA, Dark Skin, African, Europe

European DNA & Dark-Skin

Europeans were dark-skinned until 8,000 years ago: Pale complexions were brought to Europe from the Near East, study claims: The original migrants to Europe from Africa arrived 40,000 years ago Up until 8,000 years ago, early hunter-gatherers largely had darker skin When Near East farmers arrived, they carried with them light skin genes Genomes of 83 people found 5 genes linked with diet and skin changes. 

 

It has been at the root of division and persecution for centuries, but it seems that the white skin of most modern Europeans did not evolve in Europe at all. 

Now genetic research has revealed that ancient European populations were dark skinned for far longer than had originally been thought. Rather than lightening as early humans migrated north from Africa around 40,000 years ago due to lower levels of sunlight, these first Homo sapiens retained their dark skin colour.

DNA analysis obtained from ancient human remains has shown that as these farmers bred with the dark skinned hunter gatherers, one of these genes became prevalent in the European population and European's skin colour began to lighten. Around 5,800 years ago the second gene, which makes skin colour lighter still, also began to spread though the European population. The research, which was presented at the 84th annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, shows that populations in Europe were still evolving until relatively recently. 

 It also shows that a population of hunter-gatherers living on the site of Motala, southern Sweden, had already developed both skin-lightening genes around 7,700 years ago together with a third that gave them blue eyes. Dr Iain Mathieson, a geneticist at Harvard University in Massachusetts who led the work, said: 'Ancient DNA makes it possible to examine populations as they were before, during and after adaptation events, and thus to reveal the tempo and mode of selection. 

A study of ancient human bones has revealed how Early Europeans had difficulties digesting milk around 5,000 years after the introduction of farming. 

It took at least that long for their genes to evolve until they were no longer intolerant to lactose, the natural sugar in mammalian milk, scientists suggests. Researchers looked at ancient DNA extracted from 13 individuals buried at archaeological sites in the Great Hungarian Plain - a region known to have been at the crossroads of cultural change in European prehistory.

 

The samples were dated from 5,700 BC to 800 BC, ranging across the Stone, Copper, Bronze and Iron Ages. 'Our findings show progression towards lighter skin pigmentation as hunter and gatherers and non-local farmers intermarried, but surprisingly no presence of increased lactose persistence or tolerance to lactose,' said Professor Ron Pinhasi, from University College Dublin's Earth Institute.

'This means that these ancient Europeans would have had domesticated animals like cows, goats and sheep, but they would not yet have genetically developed a tolerance for drinking large quantities of milk from mammals.'  To read or download the whole article please click here

Sources:  Dr Iain Mathieson, Ron Pinhasi

Memphite Theology, Philosophy, Text, Ptah, Atum (Atom)

The identity between the sun God Atom and the atom of science: The Ennead and the Nebular Hypothesis coincide. Not is the Memphite Theology the source of Greek Philosophy or primitive science, it is also the basis of modern scientific belief.

If we compare this Egyptian cosmology with the Nebular hypothesis of Laplace, we would find striking similarities in the two contexts.

According to the Nebular hypothesis our present solar system was once a molten gaseous nebula. This nebula rotated at an enormous speed, and as the mass cooled down it also contracted and developed greater speed. The result was a bulging at the equator and a gradual breaking off of gaseous rings, which formed themselves into planets. These planets in turn threw off gaseous rings, which formed themselves into smaller bodies, until it was just the sun that was left, as the remnant of the original parent Nebula. 

From this context it is clear that the original parent nebula was fire or the Sun, and that by throwing off parts of itself, it created some planets, which in turn threw off parts of themselves and created others. According to the context of the Memphite Theology, the creator God was the Sun God or fire God Atum (Atom), who named four pairs of parts of his own body, from which Gods came.

But Atum (Atom) plus the eight other Gods created consisted of the Ennead or Godhead of nine.

Ptah

It bears a striking similarity to modern science, which teaches that there are nine major planets. We can now summarise these similarities the creator God in both the Egyptian and Modern Cosmologies is the Sun or Fire. The creator God in both cosmologies creates Gods from parts of Himself. The numbers of Gods are nine, and correspond to the nine major planets.

These similarities make it evident that Laplace inspired by the Nebula hypothesis from the Memphite Theology or other Egyptian sources. Anyway, the entire setting of the Memphite Theology is astronomical, and what could be more natural, than to expect an astronomical interpretation? It seems well within reason, to regard the Ennead as the heliocentric system of history. Atom the sun God, created eight other Gods or planets, from his own body as the Unmoved Mover, teachings which had been falsely attributed to Aristotle.

The Memphite Theology was dated to a very early period of Egyptian history, i.e. the time before the first Dynasties had made their new capital at Memphis: the city of the God Ptah, i.e., between 5000 and 35OO B.C. Intellectual Adventure of Man by Frankfort, p. 55.  This consists of three supplementary parts, each of which will be treated separately: Part I presents the Gods of Chaos. Part II presents the Gods of Order and arrangement in creation, and Part III presents: the Primate of the Gods, or the God of Gods, through whose (Logos) creation was accomplished.

Part One
The Primate of the Gods Ptah, conceived in his heart, everything that exists and by His utterance created them all. He is first to emerge from the primeval waters of Nun in the form of a Primeval Hill. Closely following the Hill, the God Atom also emerges from the waters and sits upon Ptah (The Hill). There remain in the waters four pairs of male and female gods
(the Ogdoad, or unity of Eight-Gods), bearing the following names:-

(1) Nun and Naunet, i.e., the Primeval waters and the counter heaven.
(2) Huh and Hauhet, i.e., the boundless and its opposite.
(3) Kuk and Kauket, i.e., darkness and its opposite.
(4) Amun, i.e., (Amon) and Amaunet, i.e., the hidden and its opposite.
(Egyptian Religion by Frankfort, p. 20; 23. Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man by Frankfort, p. 21).
The Philosophy of Part 1:

(1) Ptah has the following attributes; (a) The Primate of the Gods, i.e.. The God of Gods (b) The Logos. Thought and creative utterance and power (Egyptian Religion by Frankfort, p. 23). (c) The God of Order and form (d) The Divinity Artificer and Potter (Fire Philosophy by Swinburne Clymer Jamblichus; Ancient Egypt by John kendrick, Bk. I, p. 318. and 338).

A. Text of Part II
The Gods of Order and arrangement in the cosmos are represented by nine gods, in one God-head, called the Ennead Here Atum (Atom), the source of the Ogdoad, is also retained as the source of the Gods of Order and arrangement. Atum (Atom) names four pairs of parts of his own body, and thus creates eight Gods, who together with himself become nine. These Eight Gods are the created Gods, the first creatures of this world. And (Atum), the creator God, the Demiurge, of whom Plato spoke. (Atom) projected from his body were:

(i) Shu (Air)
(ii) Tefnut (Moisture)
(iii) Geb (Earth) and
(iv) Nut (Sky);
who are said to have given birth to four other Gods:
(v) Osiris (the God of omnipotence and omniscience)
(vi) Isis (wife of Osiris, Female Principle)
(vii) Seth (the opposite of good)
(viii) Nephthys (Female Principle in the Unseen World).
Plutarch: Isis et Osiris, 355A; 364C;371B; Frankfurt; Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man, p. 6667.

The Philosophy of Part II.
As we read the text of Part II, we find that the Sun God Atum (Atom) who was present in the Chaos was also presented at the development of orderly arrangement in the cosmos. At this stage Atum (Atom) assumes the role of creator of all Gods except Ptah, the God of Gods. He next proceeds to accomplish this special type of creation in the following manner:

He commands Eight Gods to proceed from His own body according to the names of those eight parts. The result of this creation presents us with what is called: The "Enead" or the unity of "Nine Gods in one Godhead."

Text of Part lll
In this third part of the Memphite Theology, the Primate of the Gods is represented as Ptah: Thought, Logos and Creative Power, which are exercised over all creatures. He transmits power and spirit to all Gods, and controls the lives of all things, animals and men through His thought and commands. In other words it is in Him that all things live move and have their eternal being.

The Philosophy of Part lll
From Part III we infer the following doctrines:- (a) all things were created by the thought and command of Ptah, the God of Gods. (b) Through the thought and command of Ptah, we all live, move and have our eternal Being, (c) Ptah is Creator and Preserver. Ptah's powers were transmitted by magical means to Atum who performed the work of creation. Intellectual Adventures of Man by Frankfort, p. 52-60.

Sources: History of Science by Sedgwick and Tyler page 141 and 153 C. IX. History of Philosophy by Zeller Introduction page 31. Europe in the Middle Ages by Ault page 216-219. History of the Arabs by Hitti page 370, 629, 665 and 572. Esoteric Christianity by Annie Besant page 107, 128-129. Ancient Mysteries by C.H. Vail page 59, 61, 74-75 and 109.

Egypt: Memphite Theology, Ptah, Shabaka Text

Ptah is the creator-god of Memphis, and during the long period the city served as the capital of Egypt it was known as Het-ka-Ptah or "House of the Soul of Ptah."

Ptah is one of several Egyptian deities attributed with a myth about fashioning creation. Ptah, as the god Ta-tenen (the primordial mound), creates in the so-called "Memphite Theology" the world, its inhabitants, and the kas of the other gods.

Reference is again made to the Ennead, this time with Ptah at its head. The whole Memphite theology is preserved on a slab of basalt now exhibited in the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery. It was composed at a very early date, and committed to stone during the Twenty-fifth Dynasty by the order of the Pharaoh Shabaka.

The Shabaka Text (c. 710 BCE) which was intended to preserve "a work of the ancestors," this text is alternatively known as The Memphite Theology, and based upon the generative power of God's thought and speech. As with all the Egyptian theologies, the Memphite religion was also political, justifying the primary status of the new capital. Ptah, the principal god of Memphis, had to be shown to be the great creator-god, and a new legend about creation was coined.

But it was also important to organize the new cosmogony so that a direct breach with the priests of Heliopolis might be avoided. Ptah was the great creator-god, but eight other gods were held to be contained within him, including some of the Heliopolitan Ennead and the Hermopolitan Ogdoad. The Heliopolitan Atum held a central position, and the Hermopolitan Nun and Naunet were also included.

The Shabaka Text enumerates Ptah's eight hypostases or qualities as "the Neterw who have come into existence in Ptah". Ptah himself incarnates the primordial Eight, and then becomes Tatenenn, 'the earth which rises up', an evocation of the primordial hill. "He who manifested himself as heart, he who manifested himself as tongue, in the likeness of Atum, is Ptah, the very ancient, who gave life to all the Neterw." The Shabaka Text is perhaps the earliest record of theistic creation in existence. Unfortunately, this Shabaka Stone was subsequently used as a nether mill-stone and much of the text has been lost. The document known as the Bremner-Rhind Papyrus includes, among other religious texts, two monologues of the sun-god describing how he created all things.

 Tongue means speech, or in later philosophical idiom the logos. Ptah conceived the world intellectually before creating it 'by his own word'. The heart and the tongue 'have power over' all the other members, since the tongue describes what the heart conceives. Thus Ptah re-creates the Great Ennead, and gives rise to all the qualities of things, through the Desire of his heart and the Word of his tongue. Ptah's name means "Creator". He is depicted as a mummified man with only his hands free to grasp a sceptre composed of the symbols of life (ankh), power (was), and stability (djed). He is also typically shown wearing a skullcap and standing on the plinth-shaped hieroglyph that is part of the name for Ma'at, the goddess of fundamental truth.

Sir E. A. W. Budge, gives a list of the Egyptian Gods that originated in the Sudan, the land of the Negroes, and says there is "Little doubt that the Great God of Memphis, Ptah was originally a great handicraftsman and worker in metals who was deified." He continued "It was the Negroes in the South who introduced the use of iron into Ancient Egypt. Prehistoric iron furnaces discovered in northern Rhodesia, almost in the heart of Africa, by Nino Del Grande, shows that the Negro knew the use of iron untold centuries before the European."  And "Archaeologists generally agree that it was the Negro who first discovered the secret of Iron." The Menphite Theology is an inscription on a stone, now kept in the British Museum. It contaim the theological, cosmological and philosophical views of the Egyptians.

Sources: Oxford Ashmoleum Museum, Sir E. A. Wallis. Budge