By Simson Najovits
Najovits has written a 2 quantity delusion approximately historic African culture.
Najovits continues to be captive to the Euro-centic highbrow paradigm which areas Africans outdoor of human heritage. in keeping with this highbrow paradigm , the sequence of old African cultures, quite often known as "Ancient Egypt", had its starting place within the "East". It additional claims that the Egyptians have been , particular and mysterious. within the first few pages, Mr. Najovits struggles desperately to manufacture an starting place for the Egyptians that's divorced from the good Lakes quarter within the center of Africa. eventually, his pseudo-scholarships fails....
The Egyptians appeared to the south because the land in their ancestors. The world's first Holy Land was once a ways south of Egypt within the middle of Africa. the 1st ruler got here from the south.
Any African, or someone accustomed to African tradition might be aware of that the faith of the Egyptians is particularly very similar to the African religions of this present day. for instance, the strategies of the ka and the ba are available nearly each the place in Black Africa today!The cosmology of black Africa and old Egypt are basically the same.
Any African might immediately recognize that the hair sorts of the Egyptians have been totemic. the top leisure is located virtually all over in Africa this present day! The farm tools are the an identical or very related, so are the musical tools. Any reader who doubts this may easily learn heavily African tradition. See C. A. Diop, T.Obenga or A.M. Lam. an individual who can learn the writings of the traditional Egyptians within the unique will fast come to the realization that the South used to be their fatherland, and that the tradition was once in basic terms African! The final local African pharaoh Nectanebo ll fled to NUBIA to flee the Persian invasion, c.324 bc.
It is fascinating to notice that each one the hieroglyphic symptoms are African. all of the animals and vegetation are present in Africa. The ox used to be unknown in Mesopotamia.
The language of historic Egypt used to be a Black African language,genetically regarding African languages spoken today!! Theophile Obenga and C. A. Diop have verified that the language spoken by means of the traditional Egyptians is expounded wolof, Dinka,Nuer,and many different modern-day languages. in truth, many uncertain issues relating old Egyptian grammar could be clarified through refering to trendy Black African languages and cultures. a similar is right of observe meanings.
No linguist, utilizing glossy medical linguistic equipment, can display that the language of the traditional Egyptians is genetically on the topic of the Semitic family;it has now not been performed since it cannot be done.
In truth, the traditional Egyptian language is of the same opinion with the black African language Wolof(spoken in Senegal)on as regards to each point of the grammatical structure!
Mr. Najovits back misleads his readers while he writes that Dr. Diop easily "declares" that the traditional Egyptians have been black. Dr. Diop has produced quite a few books and articles at the history,culture and language of historical Egypt. It was once his life's paintings.
Najovits rigorously avoids tackling the large and good scholarly linguistic and cultural facts produced via African students resembling Dr. C. A. Diop. in its place he engages in advert hominem assaults, suggesting that Dr. Diop might be "a little racist". We wonder whether Mrs Diop, a white French girl could trust Mr. Najovits.
The try to separate historic Egypt from its African origins has led Mr. Najovits to create this 2 quantity myth of Euro-centric hypothesis upon hypothesis on an African tradition that he doesn't comprehend within the least.
Most students of Egyptology agree that historical Egypt can't be appropriately understood outdoors of its indigenous African cultural context.
If one desires to remain good in the euro-centric highbrow paradigm and browse center warming Eurocentic myths,fantasies,speculations and superseded critiques that ignores the black African truth and African cultural origins of "Ancient Egypt", then Mr. Najovits has written simply the ebook for you.
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During the Early Dynastic Period (c. 3100–2686 BC), Egypt was gradually divided into regions, or sepat — villages or towns of clans and their surrounding land. The totemistic system of animal and plant emblem/totems transformed 19 Egypt, Trunk of the Tree into divine forces and divinities was superimposed on this new structure. Throughout Egyptian history, most of the emblems of these sepat remained linked to plants or animals. (The sepat have come to be known as nomes, from the Greek nomos. ) The magical and totemistic framework in ancient Egypt is a perfect fit for the analysis by the father of sociology, Emile Durkheim (1858–1917).
The black dog, Khentymentiu, a god of the afterlife, was linked to Abdu (Abydos) The wolf, or dog or jackal, was the emblem/totem of Zawty (renamed Lykopolis), the city of the wolf, by the Greeks) and became the jackal-headed god Wepwawet, opener of the road to the afterlife. The goose was sacred to the earth god Geb — he was the “Great Cackler” and sometimes wore a goose headdress — and to the mighty and beloved Amun. The cobra, the iaret, was the emblem/totem of the city of Buto, and became its henotheistic deity as the goddess Wadjit and later, as the uraeus, was a symbol of Lower Egypt and the pharaoh.
3100–2686 BC), Egypt was gradually divided into regions, or sepat — villages or towns of clans and their surrounding land. The totemistic system of animal and plant emblem/totems transformed 19 Egypt, Trunk of the Tree into divine forces and divinities was superimposed on this new structure. Throughout Egyptian history, most of the emblems of these sepat remained linked to plants or animals. (The sepat have come to be known as nomes, from the Greek nomos. ) The magical and totemistic framework in ancient Egypt is a perfect fit for the analysis by the father of sociology, Emile Durkheim (1858–1917).