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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jari-Ankhamun: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lion: [qb] Here's a familiar illustration, "The Four Races" (supposedly) Book of Gates Seti I [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Egyptian_races.jpg[/IMG] supposedly, left to right LIBYAN......NUBIAN......ASIATIC.....EGYPTIAN _________________________________ Here's the actual photo: http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/images/large/15665.jpg [IMG]http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/images/large/15665.jpg[/IMG] the caption that the Theban Mapping Project gives is "The four races of Mankind" However, it's very easy to see that that is not what the picture is showing. If we go by the categories given what you have in this photo is from left to right: is LIBYAN, LIBYAN, NUBIAN, NUBIAN, NUBIAN 2 libyans and 3 Nubians !!! -no Asiatics or Egyptians in a picture titled "The Four races of mankind" here's the whole set of race pictures from the Seti tomb http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/search/search_images.asp?Query=Search&searchtype=0&Keywords=races&offset=0 even more if you look at the whole Book of Gates: http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/search/search_images.asp?Query=Search&searchtype=0&Keywords=races&offset=0 If you look elsewhere in the Book of gates you do see four so called race types with clothing which matches the illustration but not all together like the illustration. The clothing in the illustration is accurately illustrated. If you go by that and apply it to the photo version of "The Four Races of Mankind" you see first two obvious Libyans next are two figures with the paint completely faded. But their clothing clearly matches the last, fifth figure with the paint still in tact, the Nubian. This is obvious. You can sill see the form of the figures in relief. They are not Asiatic because their sashes are wider and straighter than the Asiatic and they are not Egyptians because Egyptians are depicted with no sash at all. The head has no feathers like the Asiatic and the hair is rounded on the bottom not cut straight horizontally on the bottom like the Asiatic. It's clearly not "four Races" it's two races, two of them Libyan and three of them Nubian. Obviously the caption "The Four Races of Mankind" is incorrect as it applies to this picture. note: There are other illustration versions of paintings in the tomb that are shown in the Theban Mapping project site but the familiar "Four Races" illustration pictured at top is not one of them. Regardless, the photo is captioned wrong. It should be called Libyans and Nubians. [/qb][/QUOTE]Again there are no races dipicted on the Book of Gates, the book of Gates was made to show the Foreign people that were close enough the the Nile Valley to be able to get ressurected in the After life. Please will people learn before typing. Here is the Book of Gates: http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/gate/ ^^^^ Show me where Egyptians defined races in there... [b]as a table of nations -- terminology borrowed from the description of Genesis chapter 10 -- when it hardly is a picturing of all the different nations known to 19th Dynasty Egypt. In fact to compare it to Genesis 10 it would only be the four sons of Hham: Kush, Missrayim, Fut, and Kena`an. Others see it as the four races of man known to the AE. The problem with that is race science was unknown to the author of the text or the artist of the painting. At that time there were only two broad colour groupings known anywhere in the ancient world, dark and light. And whats more important to the ancients was the ethnicity or nationality. Belonging to a colour group didn't automatically imply kinship relations among all the ethnies sharing similar colour. Another view, of those who havent seen the vignette as a whole but seen only sections of one group, is that it portrays immigrants or mercenaries or such. Actually everyone depicted is dead and in the Dwat or underworld. And on top of that, they are freshly dead today so to speak since the Book of Gates chapter by chapter is a record of the Suns travel after sunset and before sunrise. I'll leave it to you or others to explain what the Book of Gates is but I will say that the scene is showing peoples under Re who are eligible for Osirian resurrection. As such, one people known to the AE are intentinally left out. They being the Hua Nebu i.e. the northern people of the Aegean. There's little left to free interpretation or other than an understanding that real people complexions are shown because the painting was only made for one reason, to be an illustration of a text. The text that it illustrates is right above the head of Heru and four groups of peoples. In each of the tombs where the vignette appears the skin tones may vary some from tomb to tomb but are still within the general range of colour of the ethnic group. I probably didn't get to many points you want brought out but we can all continue discussing this important document relating to Kmtyw identity in the most sacred of all contexts, life after death for the worthy souls. I hope that anybody with any questions about anything I post will feel free to hit me or just raise the question for the group in general to all chime in with their takes. The more we share the more we all learn..[/b] This can be found: http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/Forum8/HTML/001098.html [/QB][/QUOTE]
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