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[QUOTE]Originally posted by rasol: [QB] ^ Here are some further reasons why I can't quite agree with you Doug. * One of the problems with trying to make the Black Gods of Egypt into *soil symbol/fertility symbol* is that virtually -all the Gods- of Egypt are Black. Moreover virtually all Kemetic Pharaoh are painted symbolically as pitch-Black when they are Gods, or revered or powerful or sacred. [IMG]http://www.freemaninstitute.com/Gallery/Egyp059_big_copy.jpg[/IMG] Jet Black Tut. Now, Eurocentrists have tried to "deal" with this, by making the opposite argument.... that Black symbolises *death*. But this is also provably wrong, because of the living images of Kemetians who are nontheless painted Jet Black. [IMG]http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1410/1323615623_b4a9b2585c_o.jpg[/IMG] And, in the Terra Heka reliefs showing 4 ethnic groups in the After-life - they are *all dead*, but the "Egyptian and Sudanese" are shown and referred to as Blacks, whereas Libyan and Levantine are shown and referred to as Reds. [IMG]http://www.geocities.com/wally_mo/image004.jpg[/IMG] So we see, that being dead, being a 'spirit' so to speak, does not make you Black. Asiatics, in the above, dead and ready for Osirian ressurection as they are - are nontheless just as pale complicated as they are shown in life, thus exploding the Black = death hypothesis. I think Wally has the best understanding of symbolic color in Kemetic iconography: [i]Egyptian male (dark) Egyptian brown skin.....masculine, strong Black skin.....................powerful, reborn White skin....................recently deceased Old Egyptian male (light) Yellow skin....................weak, frail Egyptian female (light) Yellow skin....................feminine, weak Egyptian brown skin.....equal of men (Amarna period) Black skin.....................powerful, reborn Egyptian gods Gold skin......................flesh of the gods Blue skin......................the cosmic waters, the firmament Green skin...................life (i.e., plants) Black skin.....................resurrection, sacred, holy, benevolent[/i] http://www.geocities.com/wally_mo/coco_hues.html Of what i've read, his is the most directly evidenced from the primary text, the least internally contradictory, and the most logically inferred, with a minimum of superimpositions. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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