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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mike111: [QB] [b]It started with a conversation with Nay-Sayer:[/b] Nay-Sayer Catechism: "The Egyptians called their country Kemet or Black after the color of the soil." Kemet [nu][community, settlement, nation] = Black nation = Ancient Egypt. Mike111 Problem is, I don't put much stock in ANY of the translations - for purely logical reasons. I will explain: Say you were standing with a group of friends, and someone douses you with a bucket of water. If someone asked you who you were, you could jokingly say "I am the WET one". Say you were now standing in a pool with these same friends, and someone asked you who you are: you could no longer say that you are the "WET" one, because you are ALL WET, (pardon the pun). Likewise, how could the Egyptians differentiate their nation as the "Black Nation" when all known Nations were ALSO Black. The same problem exists with Sumerian translations. The Sumerians are said to call themselves sag.gi6.ga, meaning "the Black-headed ones". Here we find the same problem, at that time, there are no Whites or Mongols around, so how would that differentiate them from other people. I was not the only one! Ebony Allen (from feb. 2007) I am member of a black forum. This guy was talking about how Egyptians never originally called their land Khemet. Before that they called it Ta-Mery which means "Beloved Land". He then said the only reason that they called the land Khemet was to distinguish themselves from whites/Arabs who invaded. He also says that they never called themselves kememu which we know means black people until the invasions. Is this all true? Mike111 After thinking about it, it occurred to me how truly lacking in first-hand knowledge of the “Kemet” thing that I was. I mean that I never bothered to look it up, to see it, or it’s context, I simply just accepted it. But now, after thinking about it, it occurred to me that all the inferences that I have personally seen, refer NOT to Kemet, but to the “Two Lands” (upper and lower Egypt), see the examples below. From the Papyrus of Nebseni "You, who illuminest the [b]Two Lands[/b] with your splendour] A Hymn to Osiris and the Legend of the Origin of Horus Thou art the two-fold substance of the [b]Two Lands[/b] everywhere, and the divine food of the Kau, Autobiography of Ahmose, son of Abana The Lord of the [b]Two Lands[/b], Nebpehtire, the justified. I was a youth who had not married. Following up: I read where the earliest instances of the words were in the Papyrus of Ani; Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Tale of Sinuhe. I checked the Papyrus of Ani; Egyptian Book of the Dead translations by E. A. WALLIS BUDGE and Neil Parker Thou art the substance of [b]Two Lands[/b] (Egypt) Thou art the heir of Keb and of the sovereignty of the [b]Two Lands[/b] (Egypt) The [b]Two Lands[/b] (Egypt) are content to crown thee upon the throne of thy father, like Ra. Thou floodest the [b]Two Lands[/b] like the Disk at daybreak. The Tale of Sinuhe The servant of the harim Sinuhe says: - Fair hail! Discerned is this flight that thy servant made in his witlessness, yea even by thy ka, thou good god, lord of the [b]two lands[/b], whom Re loves and Montu, lord of Thebes. I tried reading the hieroglyphs, problem is the symbols that are suppose to say KMT are the signs for Water, steps or rocks, the falcon, and the sign for (Two) over a sign that I don't know - my guess is that it's the sign for land. So exactly where is this Kemet or Km.t word, and if it exists, what is it's true meaning. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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