More information available of the truth about African people!!"The hieroglyphics label the above figures as follows:
(Ref: The Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Vols 1&2, E.A. Budge, Dover.)
Egyptian Ret (page 435a,b) = Men: We also have 'ret na romé' or "We men above mankind." This ideology allows us to understand that there are actually only three races represented here; Black, White, and Semitic since the Egyptians considered themselves in a class of their own, while still showing that they belonged to the Black racial group.
Semite Namu (page 373b) =Travelers or wanderers: We also have 'Namu Sho' or "People who travel the sands": Nomads or Bedu.
Other Africans Nahasu (pages 344a/386b) = Strangers or barbarians: In Wolof (Senegal), a language as close to Ancient Egyptian as Coptic Egyptian, "nahas" means "good for nothing; worthless."
European Tamhu (page 855a) = Red people: Tamh = hematite; reddish iron ore; ochre or pale yellow to red.
The Black 'Land' nonsense:
Catechism: "The Egyptians called their country Kemet or Black after the color of the soil."
Egyptology contrived this idea from Herodotus, “Egypt is a land of black soil…We know that Libya is a redder earth.” (Herodotus, The History, book 2:12); conveniently ignoring the fact that he also mentioned that the Egyptian people were black as well. So, to anyone, not familiar with the Ancient Egyptian language, this "Kemet = black soil" may seem like a plausible conclusion. It is not:
Kem, kame, kmi, kmem, kmom (page 787b) = to be black
Kem [khet] (ibid) = extremely black, jet-black
Kemet (ibid) = any black thing
Kemet [nu] = Black nation = Egypt. Note: the determinative [nu] means any Egyptian nation, community, or settlement; has nothing to do with earth or land (to, ta, ateb).
Kemet [Romé] = Black people. Egyptians.
Kemit (ibid) = Black books, Egyptian literature.
Kem wer [miri] = The Great Black sea (The Red sea). This sea is neither black nor red, this is in reference to which nation, Black or Red, at a particular time, controlled this body of water.
Kemi fer = Black double house; seat of government. Note: by reference to Wolof again, we know that to make a plural of per or house, the p>f or fer or houses. Thus fero=great houses (double), it is not pero as Budge writes.
In Egyptian, the adjective precedes the noun, when the noun represents anything sacred or holy (i.e., a deity or the word black itself), otherwise the adjective follows the noun:
Kem ti = Black image, sacred image : ti oubash = white image
Kem ho = Black face/title of a god : ho oubash = white face
Kem to = Black land : To deshret = Red land (also; To Set)
This rule does not apply when Black is used as a noun-adjective of nationality:
Hompt Kemet = copper of Black; Egyptian copper : Hompt Sett = copper of the Red nations; Asiatic copper
Ro in Kemet (page 416a) = speech of Black; mute ro n Kemet = word of the mouth of Black; the Egyptian language
Kemet Deshret = Black and Red; good and evil; fertile and barren, etc.; Duality
Deshretu (page 554a,b) = red ones, red devils. Used also to refer to the Namu and Tamhu; not a complimentary label.
Attitude towards the heart of Africa:
Khentu Hon Nefer (page 554a) = founders of the perfect order. Budge: "peoples and tribes of Nubia and the Egyptian Sudan." For "Hon" see page 586b.
To Khent (page 1051b/page 554b) = land of the beginning.
Eau (page 952b/page 17b) = the old country
Ancient Egyptian's Worldview:
The Egyptian's view of the world was the exact opposite of the current Western one. To the Egyptian, the top of the world was in the south (upper) towards the African interior, the bottom (lower) towards the north, hence upper and lower Egypt; upper and lower Syria."
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