MKGlouisville scatterblasted Hall of Maat with “evidence” from genetics, linguistics, art history and archaeology, all supposedly supporting his view that the Ancient Egyptians were rooted in subSaharan “black” Africa. In this thread, I’d like to continue looking critically at the non-genetic evidence he presented.
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Ingoring your irrelevant analysis of the pyramids in Nigeria, I'll point to another major connection between West Africa and ancient Egypt:
The “pyramids” in Nigeria are, I’ll agree, totally irrelevant to Ancient Egypt. It was you, however, who brought them up. The only resemblance of those to the Step Pyramid at Saqqara is that both were made in layers. By that logic, wedding cakes should have some kind of deep Afrocentric significance.
On to the wordlists. I hardly know where to start. There are wordlists that have legitimately been used to establish degrees of relatedness between languages (google Swadesh’s lists, for example), but cherry-picking a bunch of words and names with tenuous similarities in meaning and transliteration is
not the same thing. It is, however, a common tactic in pseudohistory and pseudolinguistics. See [
www.zompist.com] for a fairly thorough demolition of this kind of nonsense research. Furthermore, many of the so-called Ancient Egyptian vocabulary items look totally dicey to me. Thank you for posting both lists in their entirety, so we can all see how vacuous the claim is.
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Yoruba God
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Egyptian God Bes
Note the skull necklaces and gasping mouth on both.
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Kemet and Yoruba ram sculptures
You really should check on some of these before you put them forward. The “Yoruba God” is an Ife terracotta identified as “Child of Obatala (creation divinity). The sculpture probably depicts a ritual specialist indicated by the bead on his forehead and the skull pendant.” See: [
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The Bes figure is in the Louvre: [
www.louvre.fr] It is not a skull on his chest, but a feline head, part of the catskin he is wearing. His mouth is not gaping - rather, the inlaid tongue that originally filled the gap is missing.
What you have here is a superficial similarity between unrelated objects. Which is pretty much what could be said of the so-called pyramids and the wordlists.
