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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lion: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Wally: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by lamin: [qb] The important thing though is to translate the caption on the mural. [/qb][/QUOTE]That is absolutely correct. Some here would rather post images and then present their OWN views on the topic. This thread is about [b]the Ancient Egyptians' [i]own[/i] views...[/b] For example: [b]How the Ancient Egyptians viewed the Sudan historically[/b] Names for Sudan found in Budge's The Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Vols 1&2 Khentu Hon Nefer (page 554a) = [b]founders of the Excellent Order. [/b] Budge: "peoples and tribes of Nubia and the Egyptian Sudan." For "Hon" see page 586b. Hon Nefer (page 1024b) = [b]Excellent Order [/b] Kenus (page1024b) = [b]mighty; brave [/b] (from Kenu, page 772a) Ta Khent (page 1051b/page 554b) = [b]land of the beginning. [/b] Eau (page 952b/page 17b) = [b]the old country [/b] ... [/qb][/QUOTE]I see your strategy. It is to use Budge's dictionary to define a single word and then make a broad reaching statement covering the whole history about it. The Egyptians had different types of relations with the Kushites of Sudan in different periods. Sometimes they had friendly relations and sometimes they were at war with them. Are you telling me that there are no negative comments by the Egyptians toward them? I don't think a dictionary definition of a single word resolves a cultural viewpoint or that one cultural viewpoint is maintained the same way in a long history. Today we speak of nationalities, there are a huge number of them. When we speak of race it is a category of only a few types. Numerous nationalities can be fit into each so called "race" category. The mural in question is sometimes called "The Mural of Races" and elsewhere called the "Table of Nations" Find me the glyph which distinguishes a word "race" from a different word "nation" or "nationality". Also any Mural which is alleged to show different races should also have apart from a generalized definition of a single word in a dictionary (assuming that the definition is perfect) -should have bodies of text describing a so called racial description of each the figure shown. Now give us translations of the all the text surrounding this Table of Nations or the so called "Mural of Races". It is not talking about race. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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