Greek Philosophers studied in Egypt at the feet of the Negro

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CHAPTER 5

UNSHACKLE YOUR MIND

EXPLORING THE BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION.
by John R. Moore
The things that the Black Afrika mind has produced are all around us, but as the poet Langston Hughes said, they have been mixed up so much that we can no longer recognize them.
"You done taken my blues and gone, you sing 'em on Broadway, and you sing 'em in Hollywood Bowl, you mix 'em up with symphonies, and you fix 'em so they don't sound like me".
For example, it is known that practically all of the so called Greek Philosophers studied in Egypt at the feet of the Negro, but if you were asked if the figure on the left or the one on the right looks like the people who taught the Greeks, you would probably say the one on the left, but you would be totally WRONG. On the left is Alexander of Greece, and on the right is an Egyptian Pharaoh, King Amenemhat III.
In Egyptian mythology, the Egyptian God Osiris left, was chopped into 14 pieces. Goddess Isis, his wife, right, was able to find all of the pieces of his body except his penis, and she ordered that a type of structure be built to symbolize this creative principle.
The ancient Egyptians called that structure a Tekhenu. The Greeks changed the name to Obelisk which is known in America as the Washington Monument.

So the structure which was originally dedicated to an Afrikan God is now a monument to George Washington, a European. Millions of Americans and foreigners pass this structure (right) every year, not knowing about the Black roots of its very foundation.
Also, around 2000 BC, King Amenemhat III and all of the kings before him, referred to the Pharaoh's capital as the Double White House (left) which was the centre of government. "You done taken my blues and gone."

This history that can now be documented even better than it ever could have been previously, but in order to get the story straight, certain rules need to be followed. Wherever possible, primary sources will be used rather than secondary sources, and actual objects rather than hearsay, because it is crucial to see the objects rather than hear about them. So this is one of the rules that will be followed, because if the actual sources are not seen, it can create the conditions to be easily misled about the information or even to dismiss it.
The sources also have to be kept in the proper sequence or the right order, if not, the information may still not have much meaning to us. For example, one reason that causes people to believe that Egypt was a white civilization rather than a Black civilization is that most of the information they have is from the last dynasty or the Greco-Roman dynasty and not from the first dynasty. So they are simply misled and reproduce erroneous information as a result.
The images shown will be put in order and topics will be compared within context. Moreover, instead of showing a picture of one individual, the brother, sister, mother, father, aunts and uncles will be shown as well, so that when each family is looking alike, any person who looks Black cannot be called disfigured, as was done with Akhenaten.
The proper Kemetic names must be used as much as possible, since a great amount of Afrikan history is lost because others use words that Europeans coined to call Afrikan people, because European settlers and explorers have this knack to always change Afrikan names to European names, meaning that most of the names that we currently know Afrika by, are names that are not native to Afrika.
For example, if the history of Cush were to be written, then the history of Black people in the world would be assured, but if the history of Afrika is written, it would be written because it was called Afrika by the Greeks initially. Therefore you would be starting it at a point when the Greeks had knowledge of it, but this would definitely be too late in Afrikan history to offer any accurate information. So the names are vitally important, though in the case with the Greek word Ethiopia which means burnt face, or Black skinned people, it is important mainly because it accentuates the Blackness of Egypt. This is what the Greeks were talking about at the time, which was a part of the Egyptian continent.
It will also become clearer as to why it is important to use photographs as opposed to sketches done by artists. Many of the history and archaeology books have artists' sketches to portray images of Pharaohs and Queens, but you will notice that they begin to lose their Afrikan core and definition when that is allowed to happen. So wherever possible, photographs of the primary sources will be used. Those are the rules that will be adhered to throughout this investigation.
It is fitting that this study commences with Doctor Geoff who was the single most important person in forcing the academic establishment in Egyptology to re-write the history of Afrika. He forced UNESCO to join in the development of a new book on Afrikan history called "The General History of Afrika by UNESCO". He debated his professors, and every time that he did so, the observers were almost unanimous in their agreement that he has defeated them with his information when discussing the Afrikan-ness and the Afrikan origin of Egyptian civilization. That is professor Cheikh Anta Diop on the left. When Dr. Geoff, debated his professors and others from Europe and Cairo at the Cairo symposium, a report was written in a book called "The Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of the Meriotic script."
At the end of that report shown here is an underlined conclusion which says that although the preparatory working paper from the appendix, (which means all the scholars who were coming to debate whether the Egyptians were Black or white), were told what they were supposed to do, and although everybody was advised about the particulars, not all the participants had prepared their work comparable to the painstakingly prepared contributions of professor Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop and Dr. Theophile Obenga. The important line is the last one which states that there was consequently a real lack of balance in the discussion, in other words, when it came time to put evidence on the table, only Dr Cheikh and Obenga impressed those who were in attendance at that Cairo symposium.

A chart has been summarized because when dates are used, it is important to keep this general framework of Egyptian history as the young child of Cush in mind, which starts around 3100 BC, so the focus will mostly be on Egyptian history, since the best records can be found there.
This line is about 4,000 miles long, and the importance of it is that it divides Egyptian history into 6 periods of Afrikan and Afrikan people's history, from 4000 BC to 2000 AD. This provides the opportunity to look at Egypt's history of in summary form. Note that for the first 1,000 years, there are no invaders of Egypt from the outside. Across the top, note Europe, Asia, KMT (Kemet) and Nubia headlined, and on the right side there is Nubia (Ta Seti). That little bracket puts Ta Seti, the world's first nation located south of Egypt, in Nubia. The date of Ta Seti is about 3300 -3500 BC which is much earlier than Egypt. This information is very important because it would be the parent of Egypt, because it was from the south, from the Ta Seti area, that the first king who unifies Egypt would come.
Observe that from 3000-2000 BC there are about 12 dynastic periods or 12 families of kings who ruled Egypt during that 1000 year period. The little pyramids at the side show that the pyramid age occurred before Afrika was successfully invaded by anyone from the outside. In other words, all the pyramids that were built in Egypt that were of importance were built during the first 12 dynasties. There were no Hyksos or Asian invaders up to that point.
Notice that to the left side of the vertical line after dynasty 12 ends, is the word Hyksos. The Hyksos kings come in for about 150 years from Asia at the time when Abraham and Moses who are on the chart also come in. This was about 1750 BC if you know your Biblical history. Moses comes in around the time of Akhenaten in 1400 BC, which gives a 400 year period of Hebrew sojourn in Egypt according to the oral records. It also gives the period of time of the Asian Hyksos kings who were there overlapping during Abraham's entry into Egypt. 70 people divided into 12 families entered along with Abraham who became the Hebrew people, and when they left with Moses 400 years later, they were roughly 500,000 strong.
During the period of the 18th kingdom, the period in which Moses lived, Black people took control again. Notice the little building on the right which indicates the temple age. That is the first time you begin to see buildings that look like post office buildings that are claimed to be Greco-Roman architecture. But you will understand why it is called Greco-Roman architecture when in fact it is really Black Afrikan architecture. The Greeks and the Romans simply copied this architecture from the Afrikans and brought it to their countries.
Notice that at the timeline around the period 1500-1300 years BC, there are neither Europeans nor Greeks to build any buildings, but when they do start to construct buildings, they first come to the Nile Valley and gaze on the splendour of the Afrikan buildings before taking those models back home to imitate them in Europe. This then becomes the Greco-Roman architecture which then becomes the foundation of western architecture.
Note that in dynasty 25 there is a gap between the 18th and the 25th, because during that period there were other Asian invaders and families that were either mixed or foreign that ruled in Egypt. The Afrikans later returned during dynasty 25, and this was referred to as the restoration or revival age, since they began to restore the culture of Afrika.
Next comes the period when the Greeks and Romans appeared. Remember it was mentioned earlier that one reason why people believe that Egypt is a white civilization is because they see what was left behind by the Greeks and Romans who were there. But look at the period when they arrived, in the 30th dynasty, about 300 years before Christ and 300 years after Christ. The Greeks were in control for 300 years up to the time when Christ was born.
A very important point to note is that the Romans only had political control over Egypt, but never cultural control during the time of Christ and as far as 300 years after. Egypt, during the whole of this 3000 year period was always under its own independent cultural control, and everybody continued to imitate Egypt. Even when the conquerors came in they acted like the Egyptians and not the other way around.
There is one more thing on this chart that is important which is in Cush. The last bracket shows the period of the Kandake queens overlapping the period of Greco-Roman rule in Egypt. In other words, when the Greeks and Romans were ruling Egypt, there were women Pharaohs known as the Amazon queens that ruled Cush in Nubia. They actually had interaction with the Greeks and Romans but neither did Alexander nor Caesar ever conquer these women. In other words, Greek and Roman rule went no further than Egypt, as it could not get into Cush in any meaningful way. There are records of battles between one or two of the Caesars and one of the Kandake queens which occurred toward the end of that period.
Looking at our period again from the top, you will notice that the important factors are the nation of Ta Seti, the first 1,000 year pyramid age, the 18th dynasty temple age, the 25th dynasty revival age which signalled the end of political Black rule in Egypt, but not the end of Black cultural rule which does not terminate until the establishment of a western church, the Christian Catholic Church, after the Council of Nicea. Then there was a 200 year war that was waged on Afrikan cultural units and leadership which resulted in finally either eliminating or driving underground the cultural leadership of Kemet and causing the destruction of Black Egyptian civilization.
This is the complete picture that will be shown using images, and you will be able to refer to the time chart.
Here is a very important map of the entire Nile Valley. At the bottom you will see a lake which is the source of the Nile River, called Lake Nyanza also known as Lake Victoria. Lake Victoria feeds one branch of the Nile, the White Nile, which begins a 4,000 mile journey from the highlands of Afrika down to the Mediterranean leading to the top of the map. It is going down when it goes that way. It will be joined by a river that is fed by a lake in Ethiopia called Lake Tana, which is called the Blue Nile.
Many people eat in Ethiopian restaurants many of which are called The Blue Nile all over the country. This is because the Blue Nile is located in Ethiopia. It is a fast river and most of the water that gets into Egypt actually comes from Ethiopia, but the slow river, which is The White Nile, comes out of Lake Nyanza and they join at Khartoum, making this Nile the cultural highway of Afrika through which the rest of the world is fed, besides being also the source of civilization.
In the middle of the map you will see where the Ethiopian civilization developed, and then later when the river was filled-in with enough dirt to build on at the delta, Egypt was created as the child of Ethiopia.
Egyptians, always in their own history as they wrote it, as opposed to the history that other people wrote during the slavery and colonization period, had recorded this information. There were professors of history who wrote during the time of slavery and colonization who were much like the professors of history that would be in South Afrika today. You would not expect them to write the truth about South Afrika today, especially if they are trying to justify their alien presence in that foreign land. So what these professors did was to create the false image that the Egyptian civilization was created by people who came from Asia, yet you cannot find that Asian parent anywhere. There are no buildings or writings, neither is there the cultural material that provides any evidence to indicate that there was anything from Asia that came before something in Egypt to create the things seen in Egypt. There is no evidence whatsoever, but there is plenty of evidence to be found that show the reverse was true, including the words of the Egyptians themselves; "we came from the source of the Nile".
If you examine that map carefully, it means that they either came from Ethiopia or Uganda. "We came from the foothills of the mountains of the moon". Mount Ruwenzori and Mount Kilimanjaro are both called Mountains of the Moon. In fact Mount Kilimanjaro in Kiswahili translates into English as Mountain of the Moon, so if you take the Egyptians own words as to where they came from, then they came from the hinterlands of Afrika, up river, up south in the mountainous areas, up the Nile, near the Mountains of the Moon which would take them either into Ethiopia or the Ugandan, Kenyan, Tanzanian areas.
So these Egyptians who created one of the world's first civilizations did not come out of the sky, and are not space people or aliens that arrived on space ships as proposed by some detractors, but they came from the inner part of Afrika. In fact they came from the little villages of Afrika which at sometime may have been much larger than previously imagined. This highway was always heavily populated by all the 6 types that came down that highway finding their way into other parts of the world.
If you want to take your biblical history where many of our people are labouring under the myth of the curse of Ham believing that Black people are being punished because Ham was cursed by God, the fact is, the Bible NEVER said that. It says that Noah cursed Canaan and not that God cursed Ham, so even that we got all mixed up. Canaan was a child of Ham who represented Black people in biblical history, including all people starting from Egypt and going all the way to the south. This conforms to the archaeological and historical revelations.
This penguin map of Afrika tries to represent the fact that about 2,700 BC, there were migrations from East Afrika to West Afrika. What seems like water or smoke going across the continent to the left is moving from the Nile Valley over to the area where Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leon and so on are located. In other words, what this shows is that over a period of time there were many migrations, with this one occurring around 2750 BC down through the Sahile corridor. So to explain where the Nigerians, Ghanaians and Malians came from is that they were originally Nile Valley People who either migrated out or were driven out of the Nile Valley. So there is a physical and cultural connection between West Afrikans and East Afrikans, that is, both North-East and South-East Afrikans.
Most Black people came to America at the time the United States ventured into the slave trade about 50 years before it stopped, and by that time the main source of the slaves was Angola and Mozambique. In other words, most Black people came from East Afrika, Mozambique, Angola, West and Central West Afrika to America, which was the largest crop of Black people that were brought to America during the slavery period, and not from Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria and so forth as some people believed.
The migratory pattern across the continent suggests exactly what Dr. Diop had talked about, which related to the cultural and physical unity of the Afrikan people throughout the continent of Afrika.
Here is a picture of a monument in Afrika that is called the sphinx by the Greeks, but you can tell by the spelling that it is not an Afrikan name. The Afrikan name for this monument is Hor em Akhet or Horus, meaning god of the horizon. Some people suggest that it is the face of a woman, maybe Virgo, and that the lion's body could be Leo's, but this is not known for sure, neither is it known if it is Pharaoh Khafre who was one of the Pharaohs of the 4th dynasty, as suggested by some scholars.
There is not even a mark on this monument where a Pharaoh claims that he built it, so it would be pure speculation to suggest that it is Khafre. There is some record that Khafre had repaired the statue during his reign, but it does not state that he built it.
John Jackson in his book provides the evidence for the fact that it is really about 10,000 years old, which would take it way back before the beginning of Egypt and even before the time of the pyramids.
Most people try to make it after the step pyramids and during the time of the building of these other pyramids that you can see in the distance. In any case it does not matter for this argument whether it is ancient or modern, but if it belongs to Pharaoh Khafre, then there is something that is very interesting with respect to the Black origins of the Egyptians.
Note carefully that the nose and mouth on monument are damaged.Chancellor Williams makes a big point of the fact that the officers and men of Napoleon's army in 1798/9 actually aimed their rifles and cannons towards this sphinx in an attempt to destroy and deface the monument. The beard is now gone, which is in the British museum, and it is believed that the nose may also be in the British museum.
Now take a look at that same monument not from the front, which is what most tourists see, but from around the side where the buses do not stop when they come down the hill, and look at his profile. But first, take a look at his profile as sketched in a book by Baron Denon who saw it when Napoleon was there. He was one of the 75 or so professors that Napoleon took with him to study Egyptian history, which eventually became the beginning of what is now termed Egyptology.
Napoleon took professors with him when he conquered Egypt and brought back information, since he had lots of respect for the information that existed in Egypt although he may not have had much love for the colour of the people who created it.
Now because one of the rules is that sketches should never be depended on when there is a chance to look at the information first hand, we will go back to the side view of this sphinx so you can see at the profile, the high cheek bones and the thick lips, and even though the full nose is missing, you can still clearly see what all historians in the past have recognized as an Afrikan, a proto-typical Afrikan.
So anyone who would look at this and say they are looking at a white person has to be guilty of perceptual distortion or denial of reality.

Then if that one is real, who authorized this one? Where did this sphinx come from? The question should be, which one is older? This one was developed in the United States at the Rosicrucian museum in San Jose, California, so anyone going through that museum and looking at this image might get the impression that the ancient Egyptians were white which will be very misleading.
It must be realized that this statue was created specifically for this building and did not come from anywhere in Egypt, but even if it did and it looked like this, it would have come during the Greco-Roman period which as you saw on the time line, was the last dynastic period when the Greeks and Romans began to imitate the art and architecture of the ancient Egyptians. This is an example of the power which the culture of Afrika had over the minds of its conquerors that so impressed them, that they began to imitate the cultural forms, which included the religion, politics, economics and so forth, and not merely the style of dress.
The Rosicrucian Order, by the way, is one of those secret brotherhoods or societies like the Masonic Order, and it is interesting to note that they would turn to Egypt for the source of their symbolism and for the source of the organizing principles of their brotherhood, as do churches and others, because Egypt really is the source. It is not strange therefore that Rosicrucians or Masons would do that, but Christians, Jews and Arabs also do it. They all have to Return to the Source in order to explain their own beginnings.

This picture is included because it suggested a possible reason as to why Napoleon's soldiers might have been angry enough to turn their rifles and canons on the sphinx. Remember that , the liberator of Haiti was at war with France, and France was at war with Haiti, and that Toussaint L'Overture, Jean-Jaques Dessalines and Henri Christophe together with Boukman who was an Afrikan priest, had begun the Haitian revolution. They all did something that had never been done before in history and still has not been done again since, where an army of slaves was raised which defeated the army of a developed country.
So here is the man representing the people who embarrassed France in the eyes of the world, embarrassed England in the eyes of the world, embarrassed Spain in the eyes of the world because the Haitians were successful in establishing their independence militarily.
This might be a good reason why people would be angry whenever they saw Black faces or images, and might be inclined to blow off the nose and mouth, but this is just speculation since there is no available data on which to base these conclusions.

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