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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ish Gebor: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Anglo_Pyramidologist: [qb] It is incredibly easy to scan through ancient literature and myths and claim that indigenous WHITE people appear in all ancient civilizations and geographic places across the globe. Basically this is all afrocentrics do, though instead of scanning for references to white, they do instead for black. This thread which show how easy a white form of afrocentrism can be - Let's start with New Zealand - Maori myth makes note of an indigenous pre-Maori race called the Patupaiarehe, Turehu or Pake-pakeha meaning “moon-light people”. The Patupaiarehe were also red haired and pale white skinned. The folklorist James Cowan wrote: “Patupaiarehe were a much lighter complexion than the Maori, their hair was of a dull golden or reddish colour.” (Fairy Folk Tales of the Maori, 1925, p.2-5). From the Maori book THE LORE OF THE WHARE-WĀNANGA Written down by H. T. Whatahoro from the teachings of Te Matorohanga and Nepia Pohuhu, priests of the Whare-wānanga of the East Coast, New Zealand (Translation by Percy Smith,chapter VI): ''The Turehu—were of a more advanced civilization than the Maori people at the date of the visit, and these people are described as fair in complexion, with flaxen hair'' In Māori mythology, a race of pale spirit beings, the tūrehu, or pakepakehā live in the forests and mountain tops,[1] and are sometimes hostile to humans. Wikipedia on the Turehu - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turehu The Turehu, also referred to as Patupaiarehe, Ngati Hotu and the Urukehu (red heads), were resident in New Zealand when the Maori first landed.[2] These pre-Maori people, were sometimes described as fair complexioned, with red[3] or blond hair and blue eyes[citation needed] and pakepakehā is considered one of the possible sources[4] of the Māori word pākehā - used to refer to Europeans. --- [b]Therefore the white race is indigenous to New Zealand, the dark skinned maori are not native, whites were there before them[/b]. Now on to Micronesia. The Matang of Gilbert Islands Micronesians across the Gilbert Islands in the Pacific Ocean, have a tradition of a reddish haired, blue eyed, pale white skinned race who once inhabited the region as natives. These traditions were reported by the British author Sir Arthur Francis Grimble (A Pattern of Islands, 1952): "The loving kindness of the Baanaban islanders, in common with the whole Gilbertese race, towards Europeans sprang from no feeling of inferiority, but on the contrary, from a most gracious sense of kinship. Their chief ancestral heroes had been, according to tradition, fair-skinned like ourselves. Au of the Rising Sun with his sister-spouse Titua'abine of the Lightning; Tabuariki the Thunderer and his consort TEVENE'I of the Meteor; Ri'iki of the Milky Way, Taburima'i the White King, and the woman Nimananoa, the Navigatress - all of these heroic beings, sprung from the branches and roots of a single ancestral tree, were of the red-complexioned, blue-eyed strain called 'The Company of the Tree, the Breed of Matang', from which the race claimed decent in the male line.'' - [b]Therefore the indigenous micronesians are infact white people[/b]. etc etc I could scan indigenous myths from across the globe which state that indigenous white people were there first. This is all afrocentrics do, but instead they look for the mention of a dark or black skinned people. As can be seen above, it can easily be claimed that the indigenous new zealanders and indigenous micronesians were white people, just by looking at a few scant myths. This is all afrocentrism amounts to but with reference to dark people hence Ivan Sertima and other afrocentrics are claiming the black or 'dark dwarves' of Nordic mythology proves an ancient indigenous black pygmy presence in scandinavia. Now the same can be done in sub-saharan african myths but with a white presence - In Central Africa, Boshongo Africans have an mythology which asserts a divine figure called “Bomazi” was the first native to the Congo River, he was not dark skinned but a “light white skinned man”. In Ghana, Ashanti Africans have a tradition of a native pale skinned divine child who was in their land first, according to the New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology a “white child with large ears…came down from heaven and first settled the territory”. Furthermore according to the Zulu Shaman Credo Mutwa, the author of several books on African myths and legends, there was once an indigenous pale skinned “golden haired race of blue eyed men” called the Mzungu who inhabited africa before the dark negros. Using these myths anyone could easily say that white people are indigenous to sub-sahara africa. This is all afrocentrics do, but reversing the skin colour. [/qb][/QUOTE]Let us scan your outright racist lies, [b]The concept of the 'dying Maori', then, was replaced with that of the 'whitening Maori'. [/b] While they were expected to retain aspects of their PAGE 20Maoridom into the foreseeable future, 'brown Europeans' would resile from the 'beastly communism' of the tribal collectivity. They were expected to embrace individualism fervently, maximise their profits by selling the land to those with the superior technology to use it efficiently (whites), and behave in such a fashion as not to disrupt 'the natural order of things'. Antipodean life should as far as possible replicate that of the Home Counties of England. Maori were deemed to have a head start over other indigenous peoples. As the Minister of Defence said in 1914, they were 'the chief of the dark races'.15 Thus they would easily learn from 'the Englishman', the ideal imperialist who 'loves order and justice'. Because he had secured 'orderly government at Home', the coloniser 'knows how to establish it in new lands'. The English nation and its auxiliaries had, in short, a 'civilising mission' in the British Empire. While this was clearly based on exploitation of colonial peoples and extraction of their resources, it was rationalised by a mixture of altruism and scientism. Maori were assessed to be 'advanced' enough to be invited to learn to become (ultimately, full) participants in the superior political economy and culture. Such an intellectual paradigm has now largely disappeared, at least in raw form, but vestiges remain that still have an impact on historiography — and, by extension, on national mythology. http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-HillStat-t1-front-d7.html [/QB][/QUOTE]
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