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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] ^ For someone who claims to be a linguist, you ask such elementary questions, but considering your denial of Berber as an African language and your claim of Dravidian as one.. nevermind :rolleyes: Moving back to the topic of this thread... [QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] Great find DougM! I hail your image search skills. And following hard upon Rasol's comment, with their facial features and locks of hair, these guys almost look like they could've walked right off the wall of the TMHHW section of Seti I's tomb vignette 30 of BG 4:5. [IMG]http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/8172/unmaureoh1.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/9346/unmaure2hm2.jpg[/IMG] Makes me wonder more and more if the pale colouring may've been symbolically expressive of their dwelling in Ament.x3st a.k.a. the Duat (Twat) -- land of the dead, and death's symbolic color was ... ... well, er, um ... you know ... white. :confused: Interesting pictorial find. Although I seriously do not think the 'white' Tamahou portrayed on tomb paintings was symbolic. Considering that symbolic depictions usually have figures painted in stark or blank white, whereas the Tamhou are all portrayed as having a pale moreso European 'white' appearance, with brownish hair and blue eyes. I seriously think the Tamhou were a peoples of European extraction who totally adopted the culture and styles of the indigenous black inhabitants. [/qb][/QUOTE]Do you mean tehenu or temehu? One is supposedly the aboriginal population of "Libyans", the other is supposedly a foreign derived group who came later. These are Mauretanians. These mauretanians have features similar to those found amongst the Beja and other Sudanic, Nilotic and Ethiopic Africans. This seems to confirm what has been posted already, namely migrations from East Africa being the basis of the original populations speaking Berber languages. Mauretania was ORIGINALLY a Berber speaking region, before there was even a country called Mauretania. The people there were semi nomadic, with those of the South being more sedentary, with villages having been found in Tichitt going back to at least 2,000 BC. Beja: [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Sudan_warrior_1920.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/NSRW_Africa_Hadendoa.png[/IMG] Whether these ancient Nilotic, Sudanic and Ethipic populations could be identified as the Temehu or Tehenu is a whole different question. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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