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iyah360
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« on: October 30, 2003, 11:01:16 AM »

Peace.



Gerald Massey states :"Ptah and his Seven Khnemmu are the Pygmies."

http://www.africawithin.com/massey/gml1_hebrew.htm

These seven Khnemmu, if one follows the history are the same as the "Elohim" in the Hebrew mythology and it is these who in the first chapter of Genesis say collectively "Let Us Make Man in OUR image . . . "

I have just been turned onto an article which may shed some light on the root of the high ethical conduct described of in the Egyptian Book of Coming Forth by Day(Book of the Dead) which was the basis for the 10 commandments given to Moses in the Torah. The roots are from inner Africa with perhaps the oldest race of humans, the Pygmies.

"The Pygmies, whose archaic origins are swathed in myth, are held to be still more primitive than the Bushmen in that they do not even make fire by friction or employ traps or snares when hunting -- for lack of intelligence, it is thought. Yet they do not know crime or perversion and there is no record of any Pygmy ever killing another one. They live in accordance with a highly ethical code of conduct, given them by their God.

Homer and Herodotus, as well as other classical Greek and Roman authors, referred to the "pygmaioi" (literally "fistlets"), but the West did not become actively aware of their existence until George Schweinfurth, much to his delight, came upon them unexpectedly during his African travels between 1868 and 1871. Since then they have formed a study object for the anthropologist, but as many live in close relationship with surrounding Bantu tribes, it is not always easy to differentiate between their original customs and those adopted from their neighbors. In the case of groups which remained in the heart of the forest, their very inaccessibility and their own wariness have precluded too much inquiry. Someone who did dare approach them was Jean-Pierre Hallet, a Belgian agronomist, who spent eighteen months among them in 1957-58, and has shared his experiences in his bestsellers, movies and personal appearances. A man of great courage and compassion, he now devotes his entire time and energy to preserving the rapidly dwindling Efe Pygmy population from extinction.

That the Pygmies have not done anything to improve the material quality of their life is due to their ethics, not because they are incapable of invention. They do not use traps or snares as this is "wasteful and unmanly." In their "Eighteen Sins of Man" six ecological rules are included which forbid wanton slaughter of animals, wasting food, fouling water, cutting the tall trees, setting traps for animals and eating eggs, which are like "seeds of life." (Jean-Pierre Hallet with Alex Pelle, Pygmy Kitabu, pp. 475-6.) These restrictions have enabled them to preserve for perhaps thousands of years the forest which is like a father and mother to them. The Pygmies do not approve of the use of firesticks because fire they consider to be sacred. Since it was created by God, man is only to preserve it, as to make it would be defiance of God. They therefore carry their fire with them from one encampment to the next.

Like the Hopi Indians who, after the last purifying earth cataclysm, chose to inhabit the least fertile land in America's Southwest in order to remain untainted by materialism, the Pygmies too have made a deliberate renunciation. As they told Mr. Hallet: "Our ancestors, the men of the first ages, were rich and powerful. They lived in great villages. They used wonderful tools. They worked miracles. These things did not make them happy." (Ibid., pp. 120-1.) Indeed, they caused calamities evidently, for their traditions say that the misuse of fire led to a great starvation. Eventually the cultural hero, Efe, with some other Pygmies, left the ancestral home in a boat. Thereafter they gave up all material prosperity, only to live for the real values, their philosophy being that "If you give a piece of your heart to things that you own, you cannot love people with all your heart. We love and take care of people, not things." (Ibid., p. 120)

These racial memories cannot be dismissed as so much wild fantasy on the part of a group of unintelligent savages. In the first place, though uneducated in our sense of the word, they are not, as generally thought, unable to learn. In the previous century Count Miniscalchi brought up two Pygmy boys in Verona, Italy. "Affectionate and appreciative pupils," Tebo and Chairallah spoke fluent Italian and "passed tests in composition, arithmetic, grammatical analysis and dictation." Tebo learned to play the piano (Armand de Quatrefages de Breau, The Pygmies, pp. 181-3). Jean-Pierre Hallet succeeded in teaching his Pygmy friends to read and write and speak French" (Jean-Pierre Hallet with Alex Pelle, Congo Kitabu, pp. 302-3). The Pygmies have an extensive pharmacopeia and refer to Saturn as the planet of the nine moons.

That Efe crossed a vast water in a boat, which moved without any visible means of locomotion, and invented all the arts and sciences, such as working metals and making pottery -- things that are patently absent today -- would suggest that the Pygmies are of a very ancient culture, instead of being a totally primitive people who originated and forever remained in the tropical forests. Their legends of a "killer cold," which came suddenly, and their knowledge of "far away frozen countries," (Pygmy Kitabu, p. 326) would only confirm this.

Landmasses rise and fall over aeons of time, and when the continent and island-complex now called Atlantis (its true name being no longer known) began to sink -- a process believed to have taken several million years -- there was a steady exodus from the threatened areas to newly emerged territory. Especially toward the end of the Atlantean era, when its inhabitants had become intensely degenerate, people who could no longer go along with the general trend may well have been prompted to seek a new and better world, denouncing all that formerly had seemed advantageous in favor of a purer way of life. The Pygmy legends seem to point to their ancestors having made just such a choice.

The Pygmies too are remarkably pure in regard to magic and witchcraft, so prevalent among surrounding tribes. Colin M. Turnbull, who traveled with a band of Pygmies for some time, mentions an incident of a family practicing hunting magic. The other members of the band condemned them as totally antisocial and selfish: why should they have all the luck for themselves while others might go without game? By common consent the magic ingredients were thrown into the fire.

Like the Bushmen, the Pygmies link their inborn divine aspects with the stars. The universe and all it contains, they believe, is animated by the vital force of the deity, and man's essence, spiritual fire, is a part of this. At death, this fire returns to God in the heavens, where it becomes a star, and if the person has led a good life, his star will shine brightly. Before the Pygmies were made to bury their dead, they used to erect funeral pyres, as the fire "separates the parts of a person," (ibid., p. 394) for they too see man as a composite entity. The lower personality does not survive after death, but the balimo or higher self journeys to the lunar angel (a kind of heavenly father), who in time produces a new human being, meting out its lifetime and determining whether it will be a man or a woman. He rarely brings together again exactly the same components as before, so that each human being is, as it were, a fresh creation with no memory of its previous existence.

The supreme deity (who is actually a trinity) is never depicted in any form, for his ineffable image cannot be captured. He created the world with a single word and since then has been maintaining and regulating all life. Originally dwelling among men, their trespasses caused him to retreat, though in the spirit he has always remained with his Pygmy people . . . "

from:

http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/world/africa/my-ida3.htm





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« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2003, 10:24:03 AM »

 your article was mind -awakening... please continue to share with us your knowledge!
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