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Black Briton the Seeds That Created Europe Black Briton the seeds that created Page 1 of 38 Black Briton The seeds that created Europe Wherever there is man or civilization there is the Black man. Wherever file://C:\Documents and Settings\Dejaz\My Documents\Negus-n... 4/28/2011 Black Briton the seeds that created Page 2 of 38 we have planted our seed civilization took root. Europe was not exception African had populated the isle long before Europe / Europa took its name: Europa (Greek Ευρώπη) was a Phoenician [black] woman in Greek mythology, from whom the name of the continent Europe has ultimately been taken. The etymology of her name (ευρυ- ʺwideʺ or ʺbroadʺ + οπ– ʺeye (s)ʺ or ʺfaceʺ)[2] suggests that Europa represented a lunar cow, at least at some symbolic level. Who was the Lunar Cow? Hathor In Egyptian mythology, Hathor (Egyptian for house of Horus) was originally a personification of the Milky Way, which was seen as the milk that flowed from the udders of a heavenly cow. Hathor was an ancient goddess, worshipped as a cow-deity from at least 2700 BC, during the 2nd dynasty, and possibly even by the Scorpion King. The name Hathor refers to the encirclement by her, in the form of the Milky Way, of the night sky and consequently of the god of the sky, Horus. She was originally seen as the daughter of Ra, the creator whose own cosmic birth was formalized as the Ogdoad [8] cosmogeny. An alternate name for her, which persisted for 3,000 years, was Mehturt (also spelt Mehurt, Mehet-Weret, and Mehet-uret), file://C:\Documents and Settings\Dejaz\My Documents\Negus-n... 4/28/2011 Black Briton the seeds that created Page 3 of 38 meaning great flood, a direct reference to her being the Milky Way. The Milky Way was seen as a waterway in the heavens, sailed upon by both the sun god and the king, leading the Egyptians to describe it as The Nile in the Sky. Due to this, and the name mehturt, she was identified as responsible for the yearly inundation of the Nile . Another consequence of this name is that she was seen as a herald of imminent birth, as when the amniotic sac breaks and floods its waters, it is a medical indicator that the child is due to be born extremely soon. Briton: Albion (Alouion in Ptolemy) is the most ancient name of Great Britain. ʺIt sometimes is used to refer to England specifically. Occasionally, it refers to Scotland, or Alba in Gaelic, Albain in Irish, and Yr Alban in Welsh[1]. Pliny the Elder in his Natural History (iv.xvi.102) applies it unequivocally to Great Britain . The origin of the name Britain may be connected with the Brythonic ʹPrydynʹ (Goidelic: Cruithne), a name used to describe some northern inhabitants of the island by Britons or pre-Roman Celts in the south.[1] [See Albania] Excerpt from J.A. Rodgers - Sex and Race: ʹWere the first Britons, Negroes? There is considerable evidence that the might have been. Grimaldi relics have been dug up in England.1 Very ancient huts, strikingly like those of Africa and the South Seas have been unearthed at Glastonbury . Ring money of the kind used by the Negroes of Sudan to pay tribute to the Pharaohs, which is still being hammered out by African goldsmiths, has also been found.2 Blue beads of 1500 to 1200BC, that are common in the Egyptian ruins, have been found in considerable numbers in the Stonehenge district. [See article on file://C:\Documents and Settings\Dejaz\My Documents\Negus-n... 4/28/2011 Black Briton the seeds that created Page 4 of 38 Druids].3ʹ African Ring money In regards to color - J.A. Rodgers quotes Tacitus, a Roman historian of 80AD: ʹThe dark complexion and the unusual curly hairʹ of the Silures or Black Celts, who occupied England together with the ʹfair-skinned, fair-hairedʹ people. He believes the Black Celts migrated from Spain [pre-Moors]. The Black Knight According to Gerald Massey in his book ʹ A Book of Beginningsʹ to the Egyptian origins of the British Islesʹ: He has evidence that Stonehenge, the most famous ancient monument in England, was built by a Negro architect, named Morien. [That is the name MOR or Moor came from the ancient Egyptian]. ʹHe says, as a Negro is still known as Morien in English [British file://C:\Documents and Settings\Dejaz\My Documents\Negus-n... 4/28/2011 Black Briton the seeds that created Page 5 of 38 tongue], may not this indicate that Morien belonged to the black race, the Kushite [African] builders?ʹ The word ʹMoorʹ is derived from Latin ʹMauresʹ meaning black. Here are a few derivations on that name: ”Maurice, Morris, Morrero, Moore, Maureen, Morien, Mary, Marie are the names of ancient African people in Europe . Also; Blackwell, Blackwood, Cole, Coker, Lenoir and Brown refer to Black people. Coke is a derivative of Coal. Old King Cole was a merry Black Soul, and may be the reason Coca-Cola is a dark in color. Soul was always considered a dark thing, we added to this by our thinking that Black people were the ʹSoufulʹ ones. From the same root we derive: Maur, Maurus, Marra, Moro, Morisco, Mohr, Moritz, Moor, Moru, Maru, Morelo, Maureta, Mauretania, Morocco, Maurice, Morien, Morin, Moryan, Moreto, and so on.” The Oxford dictionary definition: ʺThe Moors were,ʺ according to the Oxford English Dictionary, ʺcommonly supposed to be mostly black or very swarthy, and hence the word is often used for Negro.ʺ Swarthy - KEIR: Gaelic name meaning ʺdark-skinned, swarthy.ʺ Black Irish and the tide of Ignorance ʺThe term Black Irish is a term used by some descendants of Irish emigrants to describe their ancestors. The term is found in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States. It refers file://C:\Documents and Settings\Dejaz\My Documents\Negus-n... 4/28/2011 Black Briton the seeds that created Page 6 of 38 to the possessing of dark hair and eyes as opposed to the caricature of Irish people with red hair, pale skin, and blue or green eyes, a difference which is possibly due to less Anglo- Saxon and Scandinavian ancestry being found in people on the west of Ireland. The term is often accompanied by a claim that the darker features are due to Iberian descent. A prominent theme of ethnology in the 1800s was that the Irish were related to African People and black people and both were inferior. John Beddoe (1826-1911), one of the most prominent Victorian ethnologists in the United Kingdom supported these theories with his work. Beddoe believed that eye colour and hair colour were valuable evidence in the origins of the British people. He published The Races of Britain: A Contribution to the Anthropology of Western Europe in 1862 and again in 1885 and 1905 and it was republished again in 1971. Beddoe wrote in this book that all geniuses were ʺorthognathousʺ (that is, have receding jaws) while the Irish and the Welsh were ʺprognathousʺ (have large jaws). Beddoe also maintained that Celts were similar to Cromagnon man, and Cromagnon man was similar to the ʺAfricanʺ race. Celts in Beddoeʹs ʺIndex of Negrescenceʺ [ Negrescence is a word with a Latin origin and describes ʺa process of becoming blackʺ. It can also refer to having a dark complexion.] are very different than Anglo- Saxons, which was published in 1862 in his ʺRaces of Britainʺ book, and also in an 1870 paper. In the 1870 paper, Beddoe describes various Celtic types, and describes the racial category of ʺAfricanoid Celtsʺ. This analysis was used to support Beddoeʹs theory that the Irish had the physical characteristics of the indigenous, aboriginal people of the British Isles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Irish. file://C:\Documents and Settings\Dejaz\My Documents\Negus-n... 4/28/2011 Black Briton the seeds that created Page 7 of 38 Well, thatʹs white folks at it again . When you find a black man you ha to label him inferior instead of looking at the whole context and understanding he is the basis for you civilization and culture. Biblical analysis: ʺEight different words have been translated ʺblack.ʺ They indicate various meanings such as ʺdusky like the early dawn,ʺ ʺashen,ʺ ʺswarthy,ʺ ʺmoved with passion. The Hebrew word meaning ʺsunburntʺ or ʺswarthyʺ is translated ʺblackʺ in the Revised Version of the American and British Bibles.ʺ The name used for those who lived in Africa by those who were of Caucasian extraction [Greeks, Romans] was Aethiops meaning: Burnt face. The People living in the Nile Valley called themselves Khemet or Kem meaning Black. The biblical Ashan is also the word used for Jerusalem and its environs after the destruction and dispersion in 70AD - The Ashan tribe or Ashan-Ti of Ghana derived their name from this even, since they were part of the tribe of Hebrews that ran from the destruction and relocated in what is now Ghana , Africa . Ashanti Prince file://C:\Documents and Settings\Dejaz\My Documents\Negus-n... 4/28/2011 Black Briton the seeds that created Page 8 of 38 The Habashan is the ancient name of what is now called Ethiopia [ Abyssinia ]. Habashan the Salassi Family We can assume that the word swarthy referred to Black Folks and their relatives before it was re-DEFINED for todayʹs use. Let’s take another look at the word. The Merchant of Venice : “We poor remnant have escaped. Ask not how many perished!ʺ In a sordid pursuit the soul of the Venetian usurer has become contaminated, but he is not without the nobler affections.
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