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[QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] I'm more than certain Egypt was the initiator of and a presursor to some, not all, Greek philosophy. Here's why I say not all. [QUOTE] prior to the reign of a king named Ergamenes, ... it had been the custom for the high priests, probably at Napata, to send a message to the king, supposedly from the great god himself, advising him that the time of his rule on earth was finished and that he must die. Traditionally the kings had obeyed the divine orders and had taken their own lives. Ergamenes, however, "who had received instruction in Greek philosophy, was the first to disdain this command. With the determination worthy of a king he came with an armed force to the forbidden place where the golden temple of the Aithiopians was situated and slaughtered all the priests, abolished this tradition, and instituted practices at his own discretion". It was about this time that the first royal tomb was built at Meroe: of a king named "Arkamani" (=Ergamanes). Soon thereafter, Kushite art and architecture began to develop individualistic styles. The royal family appeared much more "African" in their images and in their standards of beauty. The royal costumes and crowns were unique. A lion god, unknown in the Egyptian pantheon, became pre-eminent in the southern part of the kingdom. And Egyptian language and writing were largely abandoned for official monuments and were replaced by the native Nubian language (called "Meroitic"), which was for the first time written down in newly devised hieroglyphic and cursive alphabets. [/QUOTE]Obviously Arkamani's training in Greek philosophy introduced quite foreign and un-egyptian ideas into his mind. Crass materialism? Atheism? ??? Of course I totally disagree with this nonsense about Qevs expressing itself "more African" because it was just as African as it ever was if indeed it were ever Egyptianized since to be Egyptianized is tantamount to being African every bit as much as and no less than anything else that is African. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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