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[QUOTE]Originally posted by zarahan- aka Enrique Cardova: [QB] [b]In the texts from the tombs of Seti I, Merenptah, and from Ramses III (Book Of Gates) we find indisputable evidence written by the ancient Egyptians themselves which demonstrates that they considered themselves to be profoundly related to the peoples of Nubia. "The Semites (3mou), Sekhmet has transformed them, it is She that hammers their souls. You are those (Egyptians) that strike against them (Semites) for me. I am happy for the multitude that I gave birth to (or who came from me) among your name (those of the Egyptians) destined for the Nubian-Sudanese (nehasu), who are born with the favor of Horus. It is he who protects their souls." The passage is repeated with tamahou (Indo-Europeans) replacing 3mou(Semites/Asiatic). We know that etymologically the ancient Egyptian terms for Europeans and Asians are extremely pejorative, indicating a animal-like human, with a qualifying sign indicating something that walks on four paws like an animal. The word for Nubian (nehase) does not have any racial or pejorative connotation whatsoever in the ancient Egyptian language. To translate the word nehase as black or Negro is a deliberate mistranslation. It seems to be the name of some group of ancient Africa people just as Yam and WaWat, were names of other African peoples. Toby Wilkinson stumbles along attempting to create some kind of Apartheid Wall between these two ancient African peoples. Wilkinson often remarks about the use of hippopotamus figures in ancient Egyptian culture. Toby Wilkinson again attempts to separate, in the minds of his readers, ancient Africans from ancient Egyptians (p.64). He writes how the lumbering bulk and small ears of hippos amused the ancient Egyptians... "inspired wry amusement" in those who drew them. On the other hand he writes, "....to African people, hippos are not always figures of fun: they are dangerous wild animals that pose a threat to humans"[/b] ^Interesting writeup by reviewer Donald Peyton. Outside a "Racial" frame though, I think Wilkinson has some info of value to present, as he has done in in the past- as in his "Pre-dynastic Egypt" book, provided people look at it with a critical eye. Wilkinson does not buy into the Dynastic Race migration theory. If Peyton is correct, it appears that in WIlkinson's framework of "debunking" Ancient Egypt he is spinning in every possible negative, including dubious "racial" framing of certain things. Still his work has to be looked at on balance. =============================================================== [b]Not all reviews of Wilkinson were negative. "Brandon Pilcher" aka "Truthcentric" sharply disagreed with Donald Peyton, in his book review, as show below and gives it 5 stars: [/b] REVIEW By Brandon Scott Pilcher 5* 5.0 out of 5 stars Not Eurocentric at all, October 26, 2010 The earlier reviewer Donald Peyton is an illiterate idiot if he thinks this is Eurocentric propaganda. The truth couldn't be more different! Wilkinson is very critical of the old "Dynastic Race" theory which attributed dynastic Egyptian culture to Southwest Asian invaders, and although he does claim there were Palestinian immigrant communities in prehistoric northern Egypt, he makes it clear that most of northern Egypt at the time was an uninhabitable marsh and that it was the southern Egyptians, especially those living in the southeast, who laid the foundations for classical Egyptian civilization. In fact, while reading Wilkinson's reconstruction of prehistoric Egyptian culture, I was reminded of another book I read about the Dinka in southern Sudan, "Warriors of the White Nile" by John Ryle and Sarah Errington. The proto-Egyptians as described by Wilkinson had the exact same cattle fixation and semi-nomadic lifestyle of shifting between river valley and savanna that the Dinka do today! In addition, both ancient Egyptians and Dinka consider cattle synonymous with wealth, as do many other cattle-herding cultures in Africa. Far from being Eurocentric propaganda, this is an excellent resource for those interested in ancient Egypt's African heritage. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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