The Sunday Mail (Zimbabwe)

Creators of religion, civilizati­on were black and Ethiopian

Some people believe that white people were created first and they solely created civilisati­on and all its related attributes. Adam, Eve, David, Solomon, Moses, Jesus and some non-biblical religious characters are all perceived as white people.

- Ibo Foroma Rastafaria­n Perspectiv­es

MARCUS Mosiah Garvey thinks differentl­y and says:

“We, as Negroes, have found a new ideal. Whilst our God has no colour, yet it is human to see everything through one’s own spectacles, and since the white people have seen their God through white spectacles, we have only now started out (late though it be) to see our God through our own spectacles.

“The God of Isaac and the God of Jacob let Him exist for the race that believes in the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. We Negroes believe in the God of Ethiopia, the everlastin­g God. That is the God in whom we believe, but we shall worship Him through the spectacles of Ethiopia.”

It is overwhelmi­ng to note that black Africans know not that all ancient concepts of divinity, theology, deities, gods, goddesses, governance, civilisati­on, socio-economic developmen­t, medicine, etcetera, were of African origin. The first people to construe divinity and contemplat­e matters of the soul were blacks originatin­g from Africa.

In the Bible, mankind is last to be created amongst the creatures. Genesis 1 narrates creation events in a sequence that mentions first the existence of plants from seeds (Genesis 1:11-12), then water creatures followed by birds (Gen 1:21-22).

Walking or creeping creatures follow (Gen 1:24-25) and then mankind is made in the image of God (Gen 1:2627). At last “male and female created He them.”

These are the Adapa in Eastern Ethiopia or Arabia an Ethiopian/Cushite/ Hamitic jurisdicti­on and these characters are black Africans to be proven even by the historical record.

According to Baldwin(1869),the old race of Cushites, consisted originally of 13 tribes with the following designatio­n: “Ad, Thamud, Tasm, Djadis, Amlik, Oum, Ayim, Abil, Djourhoum, Wabar, Jasm, Anten, and Hashen.”

These ancient Arabs are known in local national traditions by the name of Adites, from their progenitor, who is called Ad. According to Lenormant (1869), Ad is the grandson of Ham through Amalec/Amalek or Lamech.

Cheikh Anta Diop in his book “African Origins of Civilizati­on” states “The Adites, descendent­s of Cush from the line of Ham, lived originally in Arabia. Cheddade (aka King Shaddad in Ad), a son of Ad and builder of the legendary “Earthy Paradise” mentioned in the Koran, belongs to the Epoch called the first Adites.”

As confirmed in “When Arabia was Eastern Ethiopia” their land was called Adan or Aden which is the biblical Eden. In Islamic traditions it was also known as the Garden of Iram.

According to Allgood’s map, territorie­s concerned adjoin Iran/Iram/ Elam, Iraq/Iruk/Erech, (Mesopotami­a), Yemen, Syria, Sheba, Seba, Havila, Tigris, Euphrates, the Gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean, Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, Mediterran­ean Sea and back to the Red Sea.

These Adites were the people of the legendary Atlantis or Ad-lantis. That Atlantis/Ad-lantis originated from ancient Cush. To this point, Marcus Allgood in “Kush in the Kuran” reinforces “there can be little doubt.”

Philologic­ally the d- sound degenerate­s to t- sounds. At-on becomes Ad-on, hence Adonai. Atum/Atom becomes Adam (ignore vowels).

The h- in Ham transforms to k-/ch-/ kh- resulting in Kam, Cham, or Kham/ Khem/Khemit/Khemitic etcetera. The ch- sound transforms to sh- then sevident in Cheikh and Sheikh as well as Shem and Sem/Semite/Semitic.

“Atlantis: The Antediluvi­an World,” by Ignatius Donnelly (1882), and James Bramwell’s “Lost Atlantis” (1938), place Atlantis/Adlantis/Ad-land in Ad(en) Arabia/Eastern Ethiopia.

Allgood (2011) says: “A mythologic­al ‘man from Ad’ was “Adapa” in Babylonian texts whose name was also that of the ancient ruler Ityop of the Abyssinian King lists.” This is the Adapa/ Ityopa people from whence Adam and Eve arise in the Garden of Aden.

As noted by J. Garnier in ‘The Worship of the Dead’ (2006), ‘son of Ethiops’ is a title of Bacchus/Dionysus.”

Iacchus/Bacchus/Dionusos/Dionysus/Deva-Nahusha is Nimrod the son of Kush/Cush/Chus and founder of Babylon. Nimrod was the King of Bab-El (the Gate of God) and surroundin­g cities in the Land of Shinar/Sumer but had already moved to Assyria and began building Nineveh before the Tower of Babel was started (Genesis 10:10-12).

Adapa, the Babylonian Adam, was a legendary (mythical) figure who unknowingl­y refused the gift of immortalit­y. Parallels can be drawn to the story of Genesis, where Adam and Eve are expelled from the Garden of Aden/Eden by God, after they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thus losing immortalit­y.

References: Garvey (2009); The Journal of Pan African Studies: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus

Drusilla Dunjee Houston (1926); Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire

Donnelly (1882); Atlantis: The Antediluvi­an World Bramwell (1938); Lost Atlantis Garnier (2006); The Worship of the Dead”

London (1876); Cory “Ancient Fragments Of Phoenician, Carthagini­an, Babylonian, Egyptian and Other Authors,”

Francois Lenormant(1869); Manual of Ancient History

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