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Virtually all experts on the origin and development of Ancient Egypt concur that it was the Anu (ohn.oo) people of the Sudan who created the intellectual and military foundation of the first political nation in recorded history.

On = the On people (the greatest city of the Onu, On was called Heliopolis by the Greeks)
Oni = one On person
Onu = the entire On group
(it isn't coincidental that Oni is a Yoruba title - Oni of Ife - either!)

It was the Anu who wrote the "Book of the Great Awakening" or as it's called in the west, "The Book of the Dead." In this book, there is the many moral confessions that the individual, when passing from one plane of existance, to the other afterlife, would have to make to the greatest Anu who ever existed and thus the supreme judge Osiri Ani.

So important was this ritual of passing that the common people, the majority, had to stage a violent revolution in order to be able to have the same privilidge that had originally been reserved for the elite.

Many thousands of years later, the Egyptian prince "Moses" or "He is the child of - no god or no person" would provide the Judeo-Christian descendants of this moral code, a somewhat more condensed version of this ancient African moral code (hundreds to merely 10); a code that would ultimately become a universal one, if only in theory...

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Originally posted by Wally:
originally posted 10 November 2004

The Anu People
The most significant fact of the founding of Pharaonic Civilization by the Anu people is rarely, if ever, mentioned in texts on Ancient Egypt. Not to mention the Anu is actually worse than, say, writing a history of the United States of America and not mentioning the Pilgrims (aka "Founders"/"Forefathers"). One has to look at earlier texts for this vital information:

The French Egyptologist Abbe Émile Amélineau is credited with the discovery of the Anu and their contribution to Egyptian civilization. It was Amélineau who designated the first black race to occupy Egypt as the Anu. He showed how they came slowly down the Nile and founded the cities of Esneh, Erment, Qouch and Heliopolis...

From Amélineau:

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These Anu were agricultural people, raising cattle on a large scale along the Nile, shutting themselves up in walled cities for defensive purposes. To this people we can attribute, without fear of error, the most ancient Egyptian books, The Book of the Dead and the Texts of the Pyramids, consequently, all the myths or religious teachings. I would add almost all the philosophical systems then known and still called Egyptian. They evidently knew the crafts necessary for any civilization and were familiar with the tools those trades required. They knew how to use metals, at least elementary metals. They made the earliest attempts at writing, for the whole Egyptian tradition attributes this art to Thoth, the great Hermes an Anu like Osiris, who is called Onian in Chapter XV of The Book of the Dead and in the Texts of the Pyramids. Certainly the people already knew the principal arts; it left proof of this in the architecture of the tombs at Abydos, especially the tomb of Osiris and in those sepulchers objects have been found bearing unmistakable stamp of their origin, such as carved ivory, or a little head of a Nubian girl found in a tomb near that of Osiris, or the small wooden or ivory receptacles in the form of a feline head--all documents published in the first volumn of my Fouilles d'Abydos.

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From the Kememu

Anu the city of Heliopolis (Coptic; On)
Anu Meh Anu of the north (Heliopolis)
Anu Shemo Anu of the south (Hermonthis/Ermant)
Anu Monti Anu of Hermonthis
Anu Tem the Anu of Tem (Hermonthis)
Anu Re the Anu of Re
Afdu Ikhu the Four Ancestors (of the Anu)
Ugrit Goddess of the Duat of Anu
Djandjané Anu the Anu Court of Judges: Tem; Shu; Tefnut; Osiris; Thoth
Anu n Ptoh the Anu of Ptah (Denderah)
Anu n Nut the Anu of Nut (Denderah)

Denderah
Judging by the sheer number of given titles, the most venerated city of Kemet was not Thebes, but Denderah. After all, this was the city where the Parents of the Kemetian nation (Isis and Osiris) were born. (It is also in the same neighborhood as Naqada). Here are some of the titles of this city:
"The birthplace of Isis"
"The Throne of the Queen"
"The perfect throne in the Holy of Holies"
"The place of joy"
"The thrones of Horus"
"The holy temple of Horus"
"The throne of eternity"
"The throne of the drink"
"The birthplace of Nut"
"The Golden House"
"The Sanctuary of Osiris"
"The Sanctuary of Re"
"The city of the knowing of Isis"
"The temple of life"
"The temple of Hathor"
"The eternal house"
"The exalted temple"
"The holy temple of Horus of the Two-Lands"
"The house of knowledge" (per Rekhit)

The Sudanese Country of Bukem (Buqem)
This country was where the worship of the gods Hathor, Shu, Tefnut, etc., originated and spread down the Nile Valley. (An Anu country?)

Kas (Kos) - Capital of the 14th *state of southern Kemet
The word Kas, symbolized by a man astride two mythological creatures with their necks entwined and bound together, and the largest word on Narmer's palette of unification, means "Political Union." This particular state was situated roughly half the distance between the north-south borders of southern Kemet. It would be interesting to find the significance of its being named Kas (the south being unified first?)...

*Kemet consisted of 42 states and governors; 22 located in the south and 20 in the north

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Originally posted by Wally:
I will repeat a couple of my posts from 2004 which I feel are less vague about Osiris than the above...

Kemetian history tells us emphatically that;
a) Osiri was an Anu (Osiri Ani).
b) The Anu were an agricultural people from Sudan.
c) The deceased Osiri, became an "Ikhu" (shining one/revered ancestor)and ultimately became deified and was regarded, along with Isi, as the ethnic ancestor of the dynastic Kememu.

(also, it is probable that portions of his corpse were distributed to the various local capitals.)

There is the myth and the reality, and it's often easy to confuse the two...

Here again, is some pertinent observations by
E.A.WALLIS BUDGE (1857-1934), Late Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum...

Osiris and Dancing

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Diodorus...describes the love of Osiris for music, and singing, and dancing...throws light on one of the most important features of the African religion and the character of the African. All Nilotic peoples are greatly addicted to dancing, and they never seem able to perform any ceremony without dancing; they dance at weddings and they dance at funerals, and dancing among many tribes constitutes an act of worship of the highest and most solemn importance...(the Ancient Egyptians) considered certain dances to be acts of worship. --Osiris, EW Budge, p.231

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Osiris and Human Sacrifice

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Among the Africans of all periods the belief in immortality has always been implicit and absolute, and there can be no question that human sacrifices and "funeral murders"(1) are the logical outcome of this belief in immortality, and of the fear and honour in which they have always held the gods and the dead...In Ashanti, the king, as in ancient Egypt, slew prisoners with his own hand. --Osiris, EW Budge, p.225/229 (1) ritual murder

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Origin of the Ht hieroglyph ("the god's house)

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The first of these (early temple images) is clearly an African hut, the sides of which are made of plaited reeds; the roof is made of some vegetable material which has been tied together, and consisted probably of a thick mat made of solatik similar to that which covered my tukul (hut) at Marawi (Abu Dom) and other places in the Sudan...the three curved lines in front represent the palings which are fixed before the tombs of great men all over the Sudan.
--Osiris, EW Budge, p.247-8

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Osiris, Tattooing, & the Color White

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We next notice that the whole body of Osiris, from the neck to the soles of his feet, is covered with something which is commonly called "scale-work."...I believe that this "scale-work" is intended to represent the design with which the whole body of Osiris was thought to be tattued...That the body of Osiris is often painted white in vignettes does not affect the identification of the scale-work with tattuing, for many tribes smear themselves with white earth or clay. The white color may be symbolic of death ( http://www.geocities.com/wally_mo/coco_hues.html ), for among the Nilotic Negroes the women wear a black tail fringed with white strings for a month as a sign of mourning, and others smear themselves with white earth. --Osiris, EW Budge, p.324

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The Cult of Osiris

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(The cult of Osiris)...is as old as dynastic civilization in Egypt, and that it grew and developed, and spread with ever-increasing power until it became the dominating religious influence throughout the country. Osiris was the symbol of the African conception of resurrection and immortality, and from first to last his worship was characterized by customs, and rites, and ceremonies which was purely African. --Osiris, EW Budge, p.347 [/b]

Egyptian Monotheism


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Champollion le Jeune believed "the Egyptian religion to be a pure monotheism, which manifested itself externally by a symbolic polytheism." --Osiris, EW Budge, p.358

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Ancestor Worship

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Up to the time when the cult of Osiris spread throughout Egypt, the Egyptians, I believe, worshiped their ancestors, according to the custom of the African in most parts of the Sudan, then and now. The following examples will show how widespread is the cult of ancestors in the Sudan, and will illustrate the similarity between the figures of ancestral gods and the figure of Osiris.
The Barotse worship chiefly the souls of their ancestors..."the essence of true Negro religion is ancestor-worship, a belief in the 'ghosts of the departed'." --Osiris, EW Budge, p.290

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The Resurrection

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Osiris suffered death because he was righteous, and because he had done good to all men. Osiris, being the son of a god, knew well the wickedness which was in Set, and the hatred which the personification of evil and his fiends bore to him, yet he did not seek to evade his murderous attack, but willingly met his death...the resurrection of Osiris is the great and distinguishing feature of the Egyptian religion, for Osiris was the first fruits of the dead, and every worshiper of Osiris based his hope of resurrection and immortality upon the fundamental fact of the resurrection of Osiris. --Osiris, EW Budge, p.312-3

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Africa Adorned

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The tombs of Egypt have yielded untold thousands of beads of all kinds, which prove that the love of the Egyptians for beads, shells, teeth of animals and men, pendants, etc., which could be worn as necklaces, was as great as is that of modern nations of Africa. --Osiris, EW Budge, p.323

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Egyptian Voodoo

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It was well known in Egypt and the Sudan at a very early period that if a magician obtained some portion of a person's body, e.g., a hair, a paring of a nail, a fragment of skin, or a portion of some efflux from the body, spells could be used upon them which would have the effect of causing grievous harm to that person. --Legends of the Egyptian Gods, EW Budge, p.xxxiv

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The Creation of Mankind

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(God)..."Now after these things I gathered together my members, and I wept (rime) over them, and men and women (rome)(2) sprang into being from the tears (rime_ty) which came forth from my eye." --Legends of the Egyptian Gods, EW Budge, p.5 (2) lome in Bantu

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Literal meaning: ‘creator’ God of the Alur tribesmen of Uganda and Zaire. He is also known as Jok Odudu, ‘god of birth’. The Alur believe that the world is full of spirits, djok, and consider that their ancestors manifest themselves in snake forms or in large rocks. Black goats are sacrificed to Jok, especially when the Alur need rain.

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