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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dana marniche: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by cassiterides: [qb] '' type of black indigenous to the North Africa'' === Blacks are not indigenous to North Africa. Note the following ancient descriptions of indigenous Libyans: Hesiod (700BC) distinguished between the Black Ethiopians (‘‘black skins’’) and the lighter skinned Libyans (Catalogues of Women, Fragment 40a, Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1358). The Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax (4th century BC) describes fair haired Libyans : ‘‘And there live around it all the Gyzantes Libyes, a community, and a city beyond (the lake) towards the sun’s setting; for all these Gyzantes Libyes are said to be all [b]fair-haired[/b] and very beautiful.’’ The ancient Libyan-Greek poet Callimachus in the 3rd century BC described yellow haired Libyan women (Hymn II to Apollo, 85) : ‘‘Greatly, indeed, did Phoibos rejoice as the belted warriors of Enyo danced with the [b]yellow-haired Libyan women[/b], when the appointed season of the Karneian feast came round’’ Pausanias (1. 14. 6) recorded a legend that the Libyans had blue eyed deities: ‘‘But when I saw that the statue of Athena had blue eyes I found out that the legend about them is Libyan. For the Libyans have a saying that the Goddess is the daughter of Poseidon and Lake Tritonis, and for this reason has blue eyes like Poseidon.’’ The Libyan giant Antaios is described as fair skinned and red haired by the ancient Greeks, and is depicted on artwork as a redhead: [IMG]http://www.theoi.com/image/L2.3Antaios.jpg[/IMG] http://www.theoi.com/Gigante/GiganteAntaios.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apuleius The ancient writer Lucius Apuleius who was "half-Numidian half-Gaetulian'' described himself as follows in his book 'The Golden Ass': ''...his haire yellow by nature, his gray and quicke eyes like to the Eagle'' http://books.eserver.org/fiction/apuleius/bookes/two.html [/qb][/QUOTE]All the names of the pre Hellenic Gods you mentioned were derived from "the Ethiopians". Poseidon the trident bearer whose name is also found in the Solymian Pisidians is related to the semitic Beishat, Beish or Bisha meaning fish. The Solymi themselves were also Ethiopians or pre-Hellenic African "semitic" peoples who lived in the area of the Aegean and Lycia whose remnants are likely the Salim or Sulaym of early Arabia. The people of Lake Tritonis worhipped Poseidon, Triton and Athena. Modern Ethiopian women still where th goat skinned Aegis of Pallas Athena. SHe is obviously the Ta Nit or Neith of Carthage and Libya predating Greeks and Scythians. The Tuareg in part originated in the area of Tritonis in Libya and undoubtedly brought their trident symbol with them. The name is related to Trita, Thraetona or Feridun, Rhodones in Indic/Iranian myth as well as the names the God/Goddess Ruda of ancient Arabia. In the times of the gladiator , Ethiopians gladiators are said to have carried the trident as well as nets. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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