More recently Wayne B. Chandler promulgates this erroneous etymology in his essay The Moor: Light of Europes Dark Age appearing in a couple of Van Sertimas journals along with other patently mistaken notions without critical examination. The Libyans, however, were originally caucasian troglodytes who occupied territory in the far north central portion of Africa. (15) Their presence has been documented since the first dynasty in Egypt, circa 3100 B.C. Dr. Rosalie David, an Egyptologist, describes them as people with distinctive red or blond hair and blue eyes who lived on the edge of the western desert (16) bordering Egypt. According to Gerald Massey, the Egyptians called the Libyans Tamahu. In Egyptian, Tama means people and created. Hu is white, light ivory. Tamahu are the created white people. (17) (15) Budgett Meakin, The Moorish Empire (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1899) p6 (16) A. Rosalie David, The Making of the Past: the Egyptian Kingdom (Turnhout, Belgium: Eisevier-Phaidon, 1975) pp13-14 (17) Gerald Massey, Book of Beginnings (Voll University Books, 1881) p27 Two of his sources, the ones mislabeling Libyans as caucasian troglodytes and wrongfully declaring Tamahu to mean created white people are over 100 years old. While his other source parrots the status quo on blond and blue people who do not appear so in any monuments Ive seen as far as blond hair goes. The original Libyans documented since the 1st dynasty were Tehenu not Tamahu and far from living in rock hewn dwellings were semi-settled and transhumant agro-pastoralists. They were of a medium brown skin colour per Bates, a likewise dated source that however is still definitive and much referenced by professionals. There are representations of western desert folk some with blue eyes some with red-brown hair some with skin of cream but contemporary with those are also representations of same said folk with dark hair dark eyes and skin of copper. No words for created, people, or white/light ivory in Pharoanic Egyptian match either tama or hu.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:37:40 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015