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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] Please let's not argue guys. [QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: It may make no sense to you and that's fine by me. The term was used in the quote from Breasted and for the third time I agreed we should use Antiu in reference to the peoples between the Nile and the Red Sea. As usual when it comes to disagreement you resort to talking about me instead of the subject matter at hand. What's worse you join a baseless attack on me. Neither you nor anyone else can quote me calling Abyssinians troglodytes, it just a seized upon fabrication to berate me for not agreeing with you that troglodyte isn't just a pejorative and that the ancients didn't employ it as a pejorative. I really don't care if you or anyone else wants to go on and on about the pejorative use of troglodyte. There is such as thing as troglodyte architecture in the world whether or not you acknowledge it. When buildings are hewn out of the living rock like at Roha, its troglodyte architecture. If you want to take it out of context and make something else of it instead of researching the term its no reflection on me. Europeans do use the word in reference to current places in Europe not just Africa. There is a larger world of learning outside the nature of a debate club. Go do the research! Just because you want to limit the word is no reason for others to have your limitation forced onto them, closing off their minds to learning something new, just as Hotep2u taught me something new. Expand your mind. But since so many of our people still don't accept the word of one of their own but recognize something as valid only if "Simon" says, then hear it from Simon. [URL=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1310/is_1995_Dec/ai_17943139]UNESCO Courier: Life below ground - troglodyte communities[/URL] by Jacek Rewerski Troglodyte communities down the centuries have created a little-known form of architecture that demonstrates exceptional versatility and resourcefulness Hewn from the living rock Troglodytism belongs to a very ancient and widespread tradition which still continues to be practised. There are more than 40 million troglodytes in China today. In Tunisia, ancient dwellings hewn vertically out of the rock have been transformed into attractive hotel complexes. [b]Remarkable examples of cave-dwelling communities still exist in Spain, Italy and France. In the Saumur region of France, near the river Loire, many cave dwellers enjoy the same amenities as householders who live above ground.[/b] At the same time many troglodytic sites have been abandoned, many are deteriorating and will soon be beyond repair, and others have disappeared entirely, even if some are being renovated thanks to tourism. Is troglodytism merely a survival from a bygone age which will one day be forgotten? Sanctuaries and refuges The tomb-temples of Petra in Jordan, the Buddhist temple-monasteries of Ajanta and Ellora in India, the burial vaults of Lycia and the rock churches and hermitages of Cappadocia in Turkey are outstanding examples of [b]troglodytic sanctuaries[/b]. Some of them, such as [b]the rock churches of Lalibela in Ethiopia[/b], are still used for worship. [b]These forms of sacred architecture hewn from the living rock are [i]highly sophisticated[/i]. Carving a sanctuary from the block, like sculpture, allows [i]no room for error[/i].[/b][/QUOTE]If by 'Troglodyte' one means cave-dwellers, then yes there were 'Troglodytes' all over the world including the indigenous people of Taiwan to even an isolated people in the Philippines and Indonesia. But still, what is the difference between the Troglodytes of the Western Desert and those of the Eastern?? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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