Black Spark, White Fire : Did African Explorers Civilize Ancient Europe?

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Summary: stop crying and accept the facts!
Review: ewwwwww the truth hurts huh rightwingers? News flash! where does semitics come from? hmmm they are a mixture of black and white and since everything has a begin point then indeed we should not delude ourselves about skin melanin conditions based on geographical where abouts still waiting on a white man to successfully become black from sun tanning Michael Jackson has already shown that a black man can become white due to a melanin defiancy, or did the charlatans forget that everything has melanin in it. For the poor readers Poe never was saying that greeks were not white but what he did show was that how they were influence by the black ppl who were already a thriving civilazation. And of course they mingled and not to mention all of anthro findings of how ppl came to be in those northern mountain areas to begin with. Wether the metro and rightwinger intellects alike, like it or not black was first as nothing develops in the cold without a gradual adaptation so stop crying and accepts the facts!

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Summary: Correspondences between Egypt and other African Cultures
Review: This short list of cultural correspondence between African and Egyptian culture is preliminary and due for expansion. There are over 40 on the list. Much of the material is taken from J.O. Lucas' Religions in West Africa and Ancient Egypt, 1970, Nigerian National Press. This was written over 20 years ago but it basically provides documentation that is similar to Black Spark White Fire.

Contributions to this list are encouraged.

1. The use of emblems and hieroglyphic symbols with meanings similar to those found in Egypt. See Religions in West Africa and Ancient Egypt for an extensive study of these emblems.

2. Similarity of the root word for the Supreme God, or another deity or idol, in many West African countries (e.g., Orisa, Orise, Olisa, Lisa, Leza, Arusi, Aruosa, Alusi, etc.) with the Egyptian god, Horu-sa-ast.

3. A Supreme God is recognized but local deities and ancestors are worshipped.

4. Egyptian gods have survived in name and/or attribute in West Africa. These include Osiris, Ra, AMen, Ptah, Min and Horus.

5. Similar concepts on divine kingship.

6. Ideas relating to life after death. Practice of making provision for this life, and of the concepts of Ka and Khu.

7. Ideas related to the pig and other sacred animals, festivals, dancing, singing and efficacy of offerings. The survival of the Mock King of ancient Egypt.

8. Similar ideas concerning magic and magical practices. Related types of amulets are found. The amulet of the headrest in ancient Egypt survives in the Sika Gua "Golden Stool," of the Ashantis and other emblems of the West. Khnum, the potter god of Egypt survives as Khnum "Creator God, a Potter," in West Africa.

9. The following religious practices show resemblance: 1) places of worship 2) services in groves and shrines 3) illustrations 4) use of music 5) training for priesthood 6) priest and their functions 7) dedicated objects and 8) oracles. Specifically noteworthy are the performance of mystery plays similar to those at Abydos, the wearing of the leopard's skin by the Chief Priest, and the "temple" idea.

10. Circumcision, including female circumcision.

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Summary: tsk tsk
Review: To the reader from (lost) angelos, I dont see your real name so why point the finger at poe, also just like the rest, the truth hurts you i see. For one, European history dictates that they were civilizing foreigners who never invaded their lands until the Europeans invaded theirs. Hmmm u will have a tough time with convincing everyone that the condition of the africans is just some third world ignorous on their part, for one there is too much proof that shows other wise and that also shows that for the most part Europeans and the nomadic tribes were the cause of African societies as they are now. Of course a charlatan like u would not do any real homework becos u are too busy being a armchair intellect. Now the last time i checked, when ppl invade your land without reason they were considered barberic and uncivilized but yet u rightwingers celebrate this as if u were and are the exception, example, bush invasion of irac hmmmm very justifiable evidence, what evidence?! Tsk Tsk i guess the french, bristish, germans, portugese, and a couple of other ignorant Euro tribes had a free pass to come to africa and change the black ppls speaking habits and cultural understandings and replace it with some mud soup belief. And of course when u kill off most of the leading elders and adults the children will inherit ignorance becos of the state of their ppl and land due to invasion, but im sure a charlatan such as yourself at the very (least) knew that much right? Wrong! u like other fools who have been brainwashed by your insecure superiors refuse to take the black history back far enough to were there was no slavery of no sort u can only go as far as when your kind came to africa inslaving ppl and changing the way the black cultures related to each other, of course if u pass on a disease it will eventually spread in all departments of human relation (mental behavior). But since for most white ppl the world is black and white u will always overlook whats colored in black for whats colored in white which brings us back to your empty argument and unjustifiable attitude. Indeed, race is not a black problem, this is a white problem since we were never the ones discriminating about differences, that disease way of thinking and behaving were forced on black ppl. So in general, anything that is marked we the whites has to be taken with a grain of salt. Especially when it comes from a person who would not let a black person into his home to shower and eat probably. lmao! i am more than a name like i am more than a thing unlike most who still identify as such. lmao! Also the evidence of Africans already having flying devices is a fact but the idea by 18th century jargon was to keep their ppl out of harms way of the truth about nonwhite ppl who have been there and done that in different but similar ways, besides there arent too many black ppl getting all these things done to their bodies that they are to supposably hate, cant say the same for all these overly pride stricken white ppl. ...