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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wally: [QB] [QUOTE] rasol writes: Anyone have information on these documents? Supposedly the Papyrus of Hunefer is currently at the London Museum, and comments on the origins of the Kemetians: "we came from the beginning of the Nile were God Hapi dwells, at the foothills of the Mountains of the Moon" [Great Lakes Region - central Africa] Accurate translation? [/QUOTE] Are you talking about the Papyrus of Hunefer which is the same as that of Ani, or in other words the "Book of the Dead"? In any case, it is consistent with every thing we know from the Mdu Nter. It may surprise a few, but Egyptology has always maintained the southern African origins of the Ancient Egyptians. (Which explains why a handful of latter-day racist mavericks concocted the 'Hamitic' myth) Here is EW Budge's account of the origins of the Ancient Egyptian language, and consequently the Ancient Egyptians themselves: [QUOTE] It is impossible for me to believe that Egyptian is a Semitic language fundamentally. There are a very large number of words that are not Semitic and were never invented by a Semitic people. These words were invented by one of the oldest African people of the Nile valley of whose written language we have any remains. [b]Their home lay far to the south, and all that we know of Predynastic Egypt suggests that it was in the neighborhood of the **Great Lakes.[/b] EW Budge, Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Dover, 1920 [/QUOTE] It isn't just in the text of Hunefer, but in the vocabulary of the language when referring to these southern African regions as: "Land of the beginning" "Land of our beginnings" "Land of the ancestors" "Land of the founders" "The Holy land" etc., etc. --from the beginning to the end of Ancient Egyptian civilization. ... **geographical location of the "Mountains of the Moon" [This message has been edited by Wally (edited 20 January 2005).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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