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Aristotle also confesses: "Thus, the mathematical sciences first originated in Egypt, the cradle of Mathematics--- that is, the country of origin for Greek mathematics."(pp.47-48). Moreover, after evaluating "the astronomical knowledge acquired by the Egyptians, Aristotle was compelled to conclude: "we owe many incontrovertible facts about each of the stars' to the Egyptians". (p.51). The fact of the matter is that these confessions are prima facie evidence that the original glory is not out of Greece. The original glory belongs to the Africans/Kemites of ancient Kemet/Egypt; "Herodotus said it, Plato confirmed it and Aristotle never denied it." (.9.45). In addition, all the other 'famous' Greeks received their education from the African Highpriests including Socrates, Euclid, Hypocrates, Diodorus, Solon, Archmides and Euripides.
The Greek, St. Clement of Alexandria , stated that if you were to write a book of 1,000 pages, you could not put down the names of all the Greeks who went to the Nile Valley in Kemet/Egypt, Africa, to be educated and even those who did not go claim they went because it was prestigious. In his book titled, Egypt & Afrocentric Geopolitics: Essays on European Supremacy (1996), this writer exposes the fact that Western philosophical scholarship suggests that the words "Man know thyself" (in Greek Hellenic language, qnothi seauton) were said by the Greek 'Father of Philosophy' Socrates. The truth is that the original glory of these words were already written by the ancient Africans/Kemites on the outside walls of Temples and addressed to the neophytes (students). Socrates only copied/derived this philosophical concept from Egyptian Temples during his matriculation there.
Plato also copied/derived his so-called four virtues: wisdom, justice, courage and temperance from the original Egyptian spiritual belief system which contained ten virtues.(p.8). The Greeks re-named this belief system the Mystery System. In his Nile Valley Contribution to Civilizations (1992), Anthony T. Browder points out that "Homer, the Greek poet, praised the glory of this great (Egyptian) city ("Thebes") in The Illiad (circa 750 B.C.)" and "Rome's classical literature of religious and moral teachings" was written in 1 B.C. by poet Virgil. This "great work"" called the Aeneid consisted of 12 books---"Virgil based the first six books on the Odyssey and the last six books were modeled after the Illiad." The truism is that "Virgil wrote the Aeneid to establish the divinity of the Roman empire, which he closely associated with that of Greece" which in turn, was closely associated with and derived from, the original Kemetic ennead of Gods and Goddesses as follows (p.169):
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Re: original glory: African/Kemetic, not Greece
Tue, January 16, 2007 - 9:27 PM
In the area of medicine, the ancient Africans/Kemites wrote such medical books as the Hearst Papyrus, 7th Dynasty 2000 B.C., the Kahun Papyrus, 12th and 13th Dynasty 2133-1766 B.C., which contain gynecological treatments and the Ebers Papyrus, 18th Dynasty 1500 B.C.
On the walls of the Temple of Kom Ombo, the Kemites have left records of the original medical tools they used in their operations. These tools consist of forceps, aircups, knives, sponge, scissors, triceps, a balance to weigh portions of medicine, retractor to separate skin, birthing or delivery chair and the origin of the modern-day RX prescription symbol. These tools are chiseled into the stone walls. In 47 B.C., the medical doctors in ancient Kemet, delivered Cleopatra V11's son named Caesarion ("Little Caesar").
The medical procedure performed by these African doctors in the B.C. era to deliver this boy-child is called the Caesarean Section in our A.D. era. And to confirm the medical originality of the Africans/Kemites, The Plain Dealer reported on 9 January 2004 as follows: "the physicians of ancient Egypt not only performed orthopedic surgery; they also outfitted some of their patients with prosthetic devices--- German physicians described "the body of a (mummified) woman probably in her 50s, whose foot had a prosthetic big toe. Carved from wood and attached to two small woven plates, the device was tied to the forefoot with a string."
Now, while the Africans/Kemites were writing these medical texts and performing all these medical operations, the Greek Hypocrates, was not born yet, until 333 B.C.----almost 2,000 years after the African originality in medicine. Imhotep,the world's "first recorded multi-genius" is regarded as the real Father of Medicine. He was born in 2800 B.C. So instead of taking the derived European-Greek Hypocratic Oath, (which contains two African/Kemetic Gods Heru and Imhotep), medical students today should take the true, original Imhotep Oath. Hypocrates only spent 20 years studying medicine at the Temple of Waset (renamed Thebes by the Greeks and Luxor by the Arabs). As such, he is a student/child of medicine, not the 'Father'. Imhotep also built the Step Pyramid-the world's first stone monument-at Saqqara, 111rd Dynasty circa 2730 B.C.; this proves that Africans/Kemites invented architecture - a genre of architecture that was later copied and duplicated in Greece. As a philosopher, Imhotep is credited with having written the slogan: "Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we shall die."
In the arena of city planning, the Africans/Kemites invented the concept of a province or district which they called a Nome; there were 42 Nomes in ancient Kemet. The Greeks would later call these original Nomes, "City States."
"The Greeks were not the authors of Greek Philosophy, but the people of North Africa, commonly called the Egyptians. the so-called Greek philosophy is stolen Egyptian philosophy," so asserts George G. M. James in his treatise Stolen Legacy (1954). James goes on to contend that "after the death of Aristotle, his Athenian pupils undertook to compile a history of philosophy, recognized at that time as the Sophia or Wisdom of the Egyptians, which had become current and traditional in the ancient world"; this history was later "erroneously called Greek philosophy." (p.10). -
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Re: original glory: African/Kemetic, not Greece
Tue, January 16, 2007 - 9:28 PM
Let us recall that when the Greek from Macedonia, Alexander 'the great', invaded Egypt in 332 B.C., Aristotle was among his invading forces; this then gave Aristotle "free access" to the library of Waset whereby he had the unbridled opportunity to put his name down as the original author of Kemetic philosophical papyri(manuscripts) that were written thousands of years before he was even born. And the list goes on and on and on in almost every field/area of human endeavor/ development/ advancement to provide valid testimony as to the original glory that is African/Kemetic, not Greece.
In fact, the mathematical system that is the spinal cord of the computer in our A.D. era was invented by the Kemites in the B.C. era, that is, the Binary mathematical system. These facts, therefore, prove that we cannot have a world of today and even a Europe of today, if we did not have a Kemet (Egypt) of yesterday in Africa. Ergo, the salient question that must be asked is: since the Greeks themselves confess in their own Hellenic language that they derived/received their glory from the original Africans/Kemites, why Euro-centrism or the "Curriculum of Exclusion" still continues to deny Africa and African peoples any sense of originality?
Dr. John Henrik Clarke is correct to surmise that : "Civilisation did not start in European countries and the rest of the world did not wait in darkness for the Europeans to bring the light. Most of the history books in the last five hundred years have been written to glorify Europeans at the expense of other peoples. Most Western historians have not been willing to admit that there is an African history to be written about and that this history predates the emergence of Europe by thousands of years. It is not possible for the world to have waited in darkness for Europeans to bring the light because, for most of the early history of man, the Europeans themselves were in darkness. When the light of culture came for the first time to the who would later call themselves Europeans, it came from Africa and Middle Eastern Asia. It is too often forgotten that, when the Europeans emerged and began to extend themselves in the broader world of Africa and Asia during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they went on to colonise most of mankind. later , they would colonise world scholarship, mainly to show or imply that Europeans were the only creators of what could be called a civilization. In order to accomplish this, the Europeans had to forget or pretend to forget, all they previously knew about Africa."
Such a conclusion is corroborated by European scholars/historians R.R. Palmer and Joel Colton in their book A History of the Modern World (1984) as follows: "Europeans were by no means the pioneers of human civilization. Half of man's recorded history had passed before anyone in Europe could read or write. The priests of Egypt began to keep written records between 4000 and 3000 B.C., but more than two thousand years later, the poems of Homer were still being circulated in Greek city-states by word of mouth. Shortly after 3000B.C., while the Pharaohs were building the first Pyramids (in Kemet/Egypt), Europeans were creating nothing more distinguished than huge garbage heaps."
In The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (1974), Cheikh Anta Diop (modern-day Imhotep), speaks to the original glorification of ancient Kemet thus: "Universal knowledge runs from the Nile Valley towards the rest of the world, in particular Greece, which (only) served as an intermediary. As a result, no thought, no ideology is foreign to Africa, which was the land of their birth." And British Egyptologist Gerald Massey sums up all the evidence as to the originality of the Africans/Kemites in his seminal work Ancient Egypt: Light of the World (1988).
His thesis is: "All the things that we consider, viz, the symbolism, teachings, doctrines and Templates of Christianity, certainly since the Council of Nicea May-August 325 A.D. and Judeo-Christian religion all came out of an Afrikan matrix, construct and experience, particularly distilled through ancient Egypt."
Truth Be Told: In the era of total liberation (not carnival-like emancipation) Afrikan peoples must realise that "you're not an Afrikan because you're born in Afrika. You're an Afrikan because Afrika is born in you. It's in your genes, your DNA, your entire biological make-up. Whether you like it or not, that's the way it is. However, if (we) were to embrace this truth with open arms, my,my,my, what a wonderful thing" that would be.
In the final analysis, Afrikans are the people of yesterday and tomorrow; Europeans are only the people of today. Afrikans are the Alpha and Omega---the beginning and the end.
Shem Hotep ("I go in peace").
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Re: original glory: African/Kemetic, not Greece
Tue, January 16, 2007 - 9:38 PM
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Afrikan Origin of the University
By Kwaku Person-Lynn, Ph.D.
As world history is being re-written, old concepts considered canon in academia are melting away as new, and/or neglected or omitted information begins to surface. For instance, ancient Greece has been credited with achievements created in Afrika before Greece existed. The university is a worldwide entity, but only a handful knows of its genesis. Very few are aware that ancient Kemet (called Egypt by the Greeks) was the intellectual, spiritual, scientific and industrial center for the world. Ancient Greece’s greatest scholars honed their skills and acquired their knowledge in Kemet (Egypt). A small sample of the students from ancient Greece who were educated in Kemet were: Thales (so-called father of philosophy), Hippocrates (so-called father of medicine), Pythagoras (so-called father of mathematics), including other noted Greeks: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Democritus, and hundreds of other scholars from Greece attended Afrika’s famous Kemetic (Egyptian) temple-universities in Ipet Isut (called Karnak by the Arabs) and Waset (called Thebes by the Greeks; Luxor by the Arabs).
Dr. Asa Baffour Hilliard, the renowned educational psychologist and historian tells us that the, “Ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) higher education system was old and grey before the Greek Heroic age existed, before the city states existed, before Greece as a nation existed, indeed before the famed Greek scholars existed. The easy way to show this is to look at Greece and Kemet (Egypt) at 2000 B.C.E. There was no textbook in Greece at that time, but the Ahmes (Rhind) Mathematical Papyrus material existed, with problems in geometry and trigonometry. Wisdom literature was much older than that, such as the Teachings of Ptahotep. Architecture and astronomy are manifest in the even more ancient pyramids, tombs and temples.
In fact, full university curricula in grammar (MDW NTR, known as the hieroglyphs by the Greeks), mathematics, sciences, arts, literature of many types, and philosophy as well. The Greek record itself is full of references to the priority of Kemetic scholarship, and to it as a source for Greek scholar's study. As Solon was told by the scholars of Kemet, the Greeks were 'children in the 'mysteries,' even in the knowledge of the history of Greece itself.” Incidentally, Greece first written literature, The Iliad and The Odyssey, did not appear until around 800 B.C.E.?
The term of education was 40 years and the curriculum was quite extensive. “The temple-university had a huge library and its faculty, called ‘teachers of mysteries,’ were divided into five major departments: astronomy and astrology; geography; geology; philosophy and theology; law and communication.” Ivan Van Sertima Nile Valley Civilizations. A student would not major in one discipline, as is today, but would be trained in all disciplines. No known Greeks completed the entire term. Pythagoras lasted 22 years, Plato 13 years, Democritus 5 years.
The concept of education was holistic in nature. “The process of education was not seen primarily as a process of acquiring knowledge. It was seen as a process of the transformation of the learner who progressed through successive stages of rebirth to become more godlike. Disciplined study under the guidance of a master teacher was the single path to becoming a new person.” Asa Baffour Hilliard Nile Valley Civilizations.
The spiritual nature of the instruction was not only commonplace, the language in which it was taught reflected the same. The medu neter (defined as divine or sacred language or speech, known as the hieroglyphs by the Greeks) also had a spiritual character. The symbol for one million was a man kneeling, arms stretched forward, palms up, praising the Creator.
Another point of great debate and contention is who were the ancient Kamites (Egyptians). Some of the most defining proof was presented by two of Afrika’s greatest scientists: Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop from Senegal, and his colleague, Dr. Theophile Obenga of the Congo, at the January 1974 UNESCO conference of Egyptologists in Cairo entitled “The Peopling of Ancient Egypt.” The report was published in major volumes by UNESCO on the history of Afrika. Their striking multi-disciplinary approach proved that the ancient Kamites (Egyptians) were the black inhabitants of Kemet (defined ‘the land of Black people’), though several Egyptologists, then and now, attempt to disprove their work.
The science of education, the university and library are only a portion of the gifts the Nile Valley in Afrika has given to the world. Probably the greatest gift of all, besides the birth of humanity, was organized societies, what we today call, civilization.
Dr. Kwaku Person-Lynn is on the faculty at Loyola Marymount University in African American Studies and instructor for Afrikan World Civilizations history classes taught in the Leimert Park community. E-mail: Dr.Kwaku@hotmail.com. Website: www.drkwaku.com.
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