One People the Ancient Glory of the African Race All Rights Reserved Copyright 1984 ISBN 0-9630951-1-0
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One People The Ancient Glory of the African Race All rights Reserved Copyright 1984 ISBN 0-9630951-1-0 The Karnak Company www.karnaksociety.com [email protected] If you want ONE PEOPLE, THE ANCIENT GLORY OF THE AFRICAN RACE in book form send 10 dollars to The Karnak Society at 8744 S. Euclid, Chicago, Illinois 60617. Donations are welcomed as well. Volume II is not in paper print. i Forward One People was written as a result of the encouragement of many. There are many history books written by Black authors foremost to One People in many aspects. However, in the writing of One People we tried to make One People unique in two ways – the inclusion of primary sources and a general survey of Black history from prehistoric times up to the Ethiopian/Egyptian era. We wanted to tell the story of our people in simple language and explore the areas of our history often ignored, prehistory and the Atlantian epoch. Unfortunately, our prehistory and the prehistory of the world have been left to others. Those others have stated that humanity, the black humanity in particular, has a common ancestry with apes. That may or may not be true. However, based upon their evolutionary theory, humanity has a common ancestry with grass, rabbits, wolves, pigs, worms, birds, and so on. If all life on planet Earth evolved from related single cell life forms, then all present-day life forms on this planet are related at some point on the evolutionary time-line and have a common ancestry – from the elephant to the amoeba. So why was and is there such an infatuation with apes and people having common ancestry? Don’t people, according to evolutionists, have a common ancestry with shrimps? The answer is yes. However, the practical answer is no. ii If people developed from a common ancestry with shrimps, that common ancestry would be so remote in the annual of global time that the answer, for rationally, must be no. So when it is stated here that people and apes do not have a common ancestry, we are talking about not in the recent global age – the last 2 billion years. A book was once published call the Stolen Legacy, written by George GM James. It was a very popular book for students of ancient Black history. However, the book title is misleading because our legacy as a people, for the most part, was preserved by Greeks and near Greeks, for it was they who recorded and preserved much of our known ancient past for posterity. It is for the likes of Diodorus, Herodotus, and Strabo that we know about the ancient Egyptians, Ethiopians, the very ancient Atlantians, and many more. In composing this book, the first printing, perhaps we were too harsh on the Neanderthals. We have since come to believe the Neanderthals were not subhuman in any sense to the Cro- Magnon or modern people – just another beautiful element of humanity that had become well adapted to the environment in which they lived. However, we will not alter the original text – it must stand or fall on its own merit. The original book was printed without pictures or illustrations. However, in this second printing a photo journal section was included iii because the physical proof of our contribution to human civilization has been scattered throughout the distant corners of the world in such a clever way that most Black people will never see the physical artifacts our ancestors left behind for us and others. Seeing them, seeing what has not been destroyed in a vast sea of destruction, is crucial in sealing our faith in who we were and who we are today. However, we cannot live in the yesterday. We study our history for wisdom and insight to help us survive today and into our many tomorrows. Our survival does not rest in the past though it comes from our past, for each generation is vested with the obligation to pass on water to the next generation. And we can only hope that the water we pass on is pure and our very own, May our past be our guide in the present and in our future. TJ Greer iv CONTENTS The Garden of Eden…1 Lucy and the First Family…3 The Hominids…7 The Procreation…13 Atlantis…23 Queen Myrina and the Amazons…30 The Children of the Sun…35 Osiris and Isis…39 Menes and the Unification of Egypt…44 Imhotep…46 King Khufu and the Great Pyramid…48 Semiramis the Great…51 King Pepi II and Harkhuf…60 Moses and the Hyksos…62 Queen Hatshepsut and the Puntites…65 Akhnaton…68 Queen Makeda and King Solomon…72 Ethiopians as Masters of Egypt…75 Queen Tomyris and the Massagetae…81 Queen Candace and the Ethiopian Stand against the Romans…85 Illustrations page 89 - 1 THE GARDEN OF EDEN If the Garden of Eden existed in antiquity, it had to have existed in black Africa. Racist white scholars try very hard to put the biblical Garden of Eden in the Middle East, away from Africa. However, evidence from the Bible indicates otherwise. King James says the following on the location of Eden: And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom he had formed…And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the First is Pison; that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is the Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third is Hidekel: That is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. According to Josephus, an ancient Jewish historian, the above was written by Moses after he departed from Egypt with a large population of Jews. And Moses describes the Nile River which reaches into the heart of black Africa – for only the Nile River matches the geographical clues given by Moses. The four rivers mentioned by Moses are the Pison, Gihon, Hidekel, and the Euphrates. The Nile River is really four massive rivers which travel along the paths and directions 2 described by Moses. The modern names for these rivers are the Bahr al Arab (Pison) which flows to the west of southern Sudan or ancient Havilah. The second river mentioned is the White Nile (Gihon) which flows through ancient Ethiopian and Egypt. The third river is the Blue Nile (Hidekel). And the fourth river named is the Sobat (Euphrates) which points to the north of modern Kenya. According to Josephus, who lived around two thousand years ago, the original name of the Euphrates in the Middle East was the Phoras, and the “…Geon [Gihon] which flows through Egypt, means ‘that which wells up to us from the opposite word,’ and by Greeks is called the Nile.” (p.21) The clues given by Moses put the biblical Garden of Eden in East Africa in or near the modern country of Uganda. This means that if the Garden of Eden existed, it existed in black Africa and was populated by a black Adam and a black Eve; they gave birth to our global humanity. It is highly unlikely that any other race of people gave birth to the black humanity, but highly likely that our race gave birth to the other major races of humanity. Therefore, if Adam and Eve existed in Eden, they had to be black-skinned Africans. Josephus, JEWISH ANTIQUITIES VOL. IV, 1978 3. LUCY AND THE FIRST FAMILY On November 30, 1974, Donald Johanson made the greatest archaeological discovery in the history of humanity in the Afar region of Ethiopia. He discovered forty percent of the bones of an erect-walking human ancestor that lived between 3.5 to 4.0 million years ago. The bones were those of a woman that stood about three and a half feet tall and weighed around sixty pounds. From the neck down her skeletal structure was almost identical to that of modern-day people. Her head was a little different from today’s humanity, but still very much human-like. The name given to this prehistoric woman by Johanson was Lucy, and Lucy died at the age of twenty-eight from an unfortunate mishap or illness. Lucy was slim, muscular, and a fully bipedal hominid. In the area she was discovered the remains of thirteen other hominids very similar to Lucy were also discovered in a region called Hadar. These hominids were given the name of Australopithecus afarensis. And they stood up to five feet tall, all being slim and muscular in shape. The cranial capacity of the afarensis ranged from 380 to 450 cubic centimeters. In chimpanzees, the cranial capacity ranges from 300 to 400 cc. In modern people the average cranial capacity is about 1300 cc. However, the afarensis was of a diminutive size compared to modern 4 humans and, naturally, would have had a somewhat smaller cranial capacity than us taller, heavier, and wider people of today. Helen E. Fisher says on the afarensis hominids in her most remarkable book, THE SEX CONTRACT: Lucy and the First Family are the first to appear after the missing link. And they lived in groups. At Hadar thirteen individuals had lived together. Together they had traveled through the open woodlands that dominated the Afar triangle 3 million years ago.