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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Amun-Ra The Ultimate: [QB] I posted above the abstract of the document called [URL=http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/6121162/1735188988/name/anselin.pdf][i]Some Notes about an Early African Pool of Cultures from which Emerged the Egyptian Civilisation by Anselin (click to download)[/i] [/URL] Here's some of the most interesting passages related to the Saharan-Sahel-Nile civilization and its linkage with the formative years of Ancient Egypt. Conclusion: - The most likely scenario could be this: some of these Saharo-Nubian populations spread southwards to Wadi Howar, Ennedi and Darfur; some stayed in the actual oases where they joined the inhabitants; and others moved towards the Nile, directed by two geographic obstacles, the western Great Sand Sea and the southern Rock Belt. - The Western Egyptian Sahara, and the Nile Valley, was, from 6000 BC to 3500 BC, a true [b]zone of linguistic compression[/b] , as defined by Jungraithmayr and Leger (1993). - [b]Conceptual vocabulary shared by contemporary Chadic-speakers, Nilotic-speakers and Ancient Egyptian speakers[/b] suggests that the Western Egyptian Sahara was the northern region of this wider contact area that became a [b]zone of linguistic and cultural compression following its desertification[/b] . - If we consider all languages as the archive of their civilisation, the Egyptian vocabulary reflects a lengthy ancient pooling of cultural features from Chadic-speakers and Nilo-Saharan-speakers, shepherds of the Western Sahara. An interesting example of lexical items between Chadic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo speakers (see others in the text) for the word [b]Medu Neter[/b] (meaning hieroglyph in Ancient Egyptian language). - ‘Lord of the mdw nTr’ means ‘Lord of Spoken Words’, rather than ‘Lord of Written Words’ or ‘Lord of Script’, , nb sS. ‘The mdw ntr were primarily not signs but words’ (Boylan 1922, 94). The Egyptian word, mdw (Demotic: md(.t)) has a broad and contemporary peripheral range of cognates: Chadic: Kwami: màad-, ‘to say’; Cushitic: Afar: mad’a, ‘speech’; Nilo-Saharan: Teda: meta, ‘to speak’, medi, ‘speech’; and Niger-Congo: Fulfulde: medd-, met-, ‘to speak’ (Anselin 2006b, 147) - [b]Headrests are known in many African cultures[/b] : Cushitic (for example, Beja, Oromo, Somalia), Nilotic (for example, Nyangatom, Turkan), Bantu (for example, Luba, Cokwe, Kuba), Zande and Dogon (Lam 2003). In the Nyangatom culture, the headrest has a religious significance: it is the material double of his owner, just as the favourite ox is the living double. This may shed light on the place and the meaning of the artefact in African cultures. [b]In Ancient Egyptian culture, the headrest became a hieroglyph[/b] (Figure 11). [IMG]http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w513/Amunratheultimate/Misc/AfricanHeadrestsbecameahieroglyphinAncientEgyptian.jpg[/IMG] - In addition to [b]Headrests[/b] , the [b]dissymmetric horns of oxen[/b] and the [b]w3s-sceptre[/b] , the Ancient Egyptians shared many features with the cultures of the Nilotic and Cushitic pastoralists, probably as a result of their [b]Saharo-Nubian roots[/b] [b]Saharo-Nubian Cultural Antecedents of the Egyptian Predynastic Culture:[/b] a - In the Gilf Kebir, the [b]rock art[/b] can be said to foreshadow the Egyptian myth of the aquatic world of the Afterlife b- The ceremonial centre and stelae of [b]Nabta Playa[/b] document a conception of the Afterlife linked to the key stars of the Egyptian culture: Orion (%3H), Sirius (%pdt), and the Circumpolar stars (ixm-sk; Wb 1, 125.14) c - We can follow [b]the ‘Giraffe road’[/b] – not the animals, but their pictures engraved and painted on the rocks of the Western Desert and [b]incised or painted on the Naqadan jars[/b] of the Nile Valley cultures. - [b]Recent archaeological data[/b] provided since the 1980s outlines a new map of the formation of Ancient Egypt. Tasian (c. 4500 BC) and Badarian Nile Valley sites were not the centres of a Predynastic culture, but [b]peripheral provinces of a network of earlier African cultures[/b] around which Badarian, Saharan, Nubian and Nilotic peoples regularly circulated (aka the Saharan-sahel-Nile civilization). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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