Akitu Festival Poetry for the New Year: Elish

I came across the creation story of the Enuma Elisha today while watching Billy Carson. I decided to add this story to my musings about Seshat since my fiirst born son's name is Elisha (born around the Asian New Year), its for the New Year Festival, and its from 7 tablets. Therefore, it must be related to Seshat right? of course, glaringly so!

The Enuma Elish is Akkadian. "Akkadian is an extinct Semitic language - meaning that it has no speakers and is not used anymore (in other words, it is a dead language). It was used from mid-3rd millenium BC to the 8th century BC." Akkadian 𒂊𒉡𒈠𒂊𒇺 (Enûma Eliš), literally 'when on high'



The Seven tablets were like a written program of the festival. This is what the 7 tablets looks like:

It was found over a century ago in a ruined Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq). Mosul is about 250 miles North of Baghdad. Mosul stands on the west bank of the Tigris River, opposite the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh on the east bank. Iraq is where the US went to war and many on the fringe complained that it was for the relics and artifacts, not what was stated. That the real fight was a battle for things unspoken. There were even reports of UFOs. Many ancient sites were destroyed in the process of this fighting among men and soldiers. The battle has been with none other than ISIS. Think what you wish about this but lets put things in context, shall we?.. I digress.

Ashurbanipal as High Priest

Back to the House of Books or Library of Ashurbanipal which was established inthe 7th century BC. It was found in modern times in 1849 and most of the tablets are at the British Museum. Ashurbanipal was a scribe and he hired scribes and scholars to travel and copy text. He was in contact with Africans. He was known for using stolen objects from his wars to stock his library. He emassed over 30,000 tablets, of particular interest to him was divination text. Ashurbanipal's father, Esarhaddon,also known as King of Kings among his people, had conquered Egypt in 671 BCE but the Egyptians had revolted soon after, he died just before reaching to Egyptian border to save the Assyrians from the Egyptians revolt. Esarhaddon had faught the Pharaoh Tirhakah/Taharka, King of Kush and Egypt, but had not killed him. Tirhakah’s family had been brought back as captives to Nineveh and remained there but he and his extended family had fled south to Nubia. He boasted about taking Taharka's wife. At the end ofhis telling of his side of the story he echos sentiments found in the Quran an in Revelations 22:19, sursing whoever adds or takes away from his story where instead of mentioning Tree of Life, he says Istar. In the Hebrew Tanakh (the Christian Old Testament) Ashurbanipal is called As(e)nappar or Osnapper (Ezra 4:10), while the Greeks knew him as Sardanapolos and the Romans as Sardanapulus.

The Enuma Elis is from the Akkadian era. It means "when on high" or "when skies above". Kinda like the story of Elisha in the Bible whose father (maybe literally, maybe figuratively) was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind. In 2nd Kings 2 Elisha picks up a device that fell off of Elijah as he was beemed up by God. Elisha used this device to part water, in a similar way that Jesus did in other books. Then men bowed down to him. This is another UFO story from biblical times. When I named my son it was because of the bible. After I read the pregnancy test the bible fell and when I looked down to the page my eyes first saw Elisha, a name I hadnt seen before. Then when I lift the bathroom the TV had Elisha on the screen, so I said, ok, I will name this child Elisha, not knowing if it was a name for a girl or a boy or if I would be having a girl or boy. Luckily everything lined up.

Elisha said a strange thing. 2 Kings 2:9 Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me what I can do for you before I am taken from you.” So Elisha answered, “Please, let me inherit two shares of your spirit.” Two shares is the inheritance of blessing for the firstborn son.Interestingly enough in the Enuma Elish there is a division of 2. Could the author one one story have been harkening on older text? In the Elish Tiamat takes the form of a gigantic snake, and Marduk/Bel (Babylon) battles and defeats her using an arsenal of super-weapons. After his victory Marduk is made the leader of the Gods by acclamation.

"Tiamat was the "shining" personification of salt water who roared and smote in the chaos of original creation. She and Apsu filled the cosmic abyss with the primeval waters. She is "Ummu-Hubur who formed all things"."

Elisha of the bible in 2 Kings also has a salt story. 2-19 happens to by my son's birthday so I thought this correlation between the two text was interesting. "19 Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Even though our lord can see that the city’s location is good, the water is bad and the land unfruitful.” 20 He replied, “Bring me a new bowl and put salt in it.” After they had brought him one, 21 Elisha went out to the spring of water, threw salt in it, and said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘I have healed this water. No longer will death or unfruitfulness result from it.’” 22 Therefore, the water remains healthy to this very day according to the word that Elisha spoke."




High priest of the god Ashur was integral to the New Year festival. This event was secret and not really for commoners.
  

Arrows, Africa and Nashville Pyramids

When people think of Africa they don't usually think of Cupid, Valentines Day, or love being shot by a bow and arrow. However, for the month of February I am going to write about this topic from my perspective. How I came to connect Ancient African history of the Bow and Arrow to the Greeks and Romans as well as early Freemasons in America, for whatever its worth. I found the connections startling.

Some years ago I conducted some Egypt in Nashville tours to share with the Nashville community my research on the connections of Egyptian thought and architecture in Nashville. I drew from an Egyptian Architecture course I took while an undergraduate student in Anthropology and African Studies at Vanderbilt University. As well as talks with William Henry, local African Americans and Native Americans with a history of the land there. Moreover, my research on Seshat led me to see many connections between all with a common thread of the Freemasons.

Lake Watauga, Nashville, TN

One Freemason in particular that I found an interest in was the founder of the Tennessee Centennial Celebration in 1897,  It previously had been a farm purchased in 1783 by John Cockrill, the brother-in-law to James Robertson and houses Lake Watauga. At the time we were the foremost western state. President Theodore Roosevelt wrote that the Watauga settlers were the "first men of American birth to establish a free and independent community on the continent." Watauga river at Centennial Park is my Nashville version of the Nile.



This is the pyramid that once stood next to The Parthenon which now, since 1990, houses a spear touting Athena, Nashville's Athena stands 41'10" tall, making her the largest piece of indoor sculpture in the Western World. There is now a parking lot at this site. It was called the "Pyramid of Cheops" and measured 1\6th its size. There is also still standing at the park a memorial to James Robertson who came from the Watauga settlement to found Tennessee. A second boat on that trip included a man named Black Bob or Robert Renfroe. He was known for being good with the bow and arrow, and communicating with the Native Americans. He was credited with helping to save the boat that included a young Rachel Donelson who later married Andrew Jackson. He had archery skills, and thus they made it past the spear throwing natives who were protecting their land.

My interest in Black Bob and WHY he was the first free black man of Tennessee, and WHY so many Freemasons signed his freedom papers let me to look at who the Freemasons were in Nashville and how the name Nashville could have come about.

Union Station

7 acre cannonball cotton gin assault, franklin, tn

Turns out the founder of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition was a Freemason, Major Eugene Castner Lewis. He also helped develop Union Station, the train station in Nashville with a statue of Mercury/Hermes at the top of its obelisk. His father managed the Cumberland Iron Works, which enslaved Africans to extract iron from Dickson, TN and make cannonballs. I had a dream about him I heard horses and a train, happened to be on his birthday, so I decided to check out his grave site at Mt Olivet, Confederate Circle. It was a pretty surreal dream so I went with it and dug into this man's life. It lead me to making a connection between the native american pyramids of Middle Tennessee to the Freemasons. Mr Lewis owned a home with multiple "mounds" from the Mississippian period near Mound Bottom State Archaeological Area. His home and land happened to be up for sale at the time I was researching him but the agent wasn't available to show me the property. Because it is a private property the mounds there have not be studied for public knowledge. So we really don't know whats there. We do know what's nearby, however. 

"Native Americans migrating from the present-day St. Louis area founded the once-thriving community along the Harpeth River about 1,000 years ago. in the late 900s or early 1000s A.D. a complex society arose on what is now the Mound Bottom site Intensive use of the site lasted until about 1350 A.D.

Recent research at Mound Bottom suggests a connection to Cahokia, which was the largest city in America before Europeans arrived, the documents say. Cahokia is located in what is now southern Illinois across the Mississippi River from St. Louis.... No known descendants of this culture have been found. Around 1450s AD they left in what appears to be a hurry based on the number of broken pottery. This abandonment of the region is part of a larger pattern seen in parts of the Ohio, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Cumberland River valleys known as the "Vacant Quarter" hypothesis. The Natchez Indians chief was called the "Great Sun". They recognized the same Kemetic sun symbol as the sun and drew it on a cliff on the Harpeth River bend near three pyramids...If on the mountain overlooking Mound Bottom you can see a Macehead at Mace Bluff. Moreover, a Hawk petroglyph with crown mace wings, can be seen at' Devil Step Hollow Cave, Tennessee."' Toye E. Heape provided me and my group with a tour of the area and explained to us the astronomical alignment of the site, as well as the hand and eye motif Native American significance.

His grave site is at the top of a hill overlooking Nashville at Mt Olivet. The name Olivet alone peaked my interest because of its kemetic connotations and biblical significance. With all these replica's going on and copying of names I wanted to tie these things in together to see what they meant to the ancients and the Freemasons. His tomb is a mini replica of Cheops pyramid. As I stood there i thought what a nice view atop this Confederate hill. Many confederates took over ancient native american burial "mounds" and occupied them, re-purposed the ancient pyramid sites. Mt Olivet isn't designated an ancient pyramid site as far as I know. However, it is flooded with obelisk and sarcophagi. 

9/4/2013 7th Ave Nashville Masonic Lodge with a ritual sphinx similar to the two flanked at Eugene Lewis tomb

Top Left, Arrow and star at Eugene Lewis' tomb. Top right, beyonce dancing over star and arrow.
bottom right Russian Tula Arrow in Star (post 1928). Photo I took in 2013.

Outside of the fact that I was doing a cemetery walk looking at a pyramid tombstone atop a Confederate mound surrounded by obelisk overlooking Nashville's ancient native american pyramid sites, there was nothing unusual about the scene. But the one thing I couldn't figure out was the arrow on the ground in front of the Cheops replica. I wanted to know what it meant, what it was pointing at. I just couldn't figure it out. I came back May 11, 2013 a second time to look again and there was a blue tree at his pyramid. It was small, but bizarre, as it wasn't Christmas. And even if it was, why in the world would someone put it at a gravesite? I had just wrote about the color blue.

Eugene Lewis was the president of a railroad company and went to school at the Pennsylvania Military Academy in the mid 1800s. Strangely, he was born the same month that President Andrew Jackson, also a Freemason and friend to Black Bob, died-June 1845. While they didn't cross paths they were connected outside of their 7th Ave lodge affiliation. Lewis' Sycamore Mills was the parent of World War I powder mills at Old Hickory built by Du Pont. The Du Pont family from France, Freemason friend of Thomas Jefferson in Paris, who had the government use them as the supplier of gunpowder.

On August 2, 2014 I happened to drive by Du Pont in Old Hickory, TN, a suburb of Nashville.. I took some pictures and noted:

"Home of the 7th President of the United States and featured on the $20 bill. I see Obelisk everywhere. This time down the street from Andrew Jackson's home and the Du Pont plant. Not far from the river. They were around the corner from each other one on the Triangle in a pentagram." "Friend to Robert "Black Bob" Renfro. Obelisk in pentagram on square base, horus/bird/eagle emblem. Du Pont factory in the background. " The Du Pont funded TVA damns were built to rival those of the Nile Valley."

I wondered about the origin of the term old hickory and found a native connection:: "Artemis Caryatis. in Ojibwe, hickory is called "mitigwaabaak", a compound of mitigwaab "bow" and the final -aakw "hardwood tree" The Ojibwe (also Ojibwa or Ojibway) or Chippewa (also Chippeway) are among the largest groups of Native AmericansÐFirst Nations north of Mexico.They are historically known for their crafting of birch bark canoes, sacred birch bark scrolls, use of cowrie shells for trading, cultivation of wild rice, and use of copper arrow points. In 1745 they adopted guns from the British to use to defeat and push the Dakota nation of the Sioux to the south.... According to the oral history, seven great miigis (radiant/iridescent) beings appeared to the peoples in the Waabanakiing (Land of the Dawn, i.e., Eastern Land) to teach them the mide way of life. One of the seven great miigis beings was too spiritually powerful and killed the peoples in the Waabanakiing when they were in its presence. The six great miigis beings remained to teach, while the one returned into the ocean.
The six great miigis beings established doodem (clans) for the peoples in the east, symbolized by animal, fish or bird species. The five original Anishinaabe doodem were the Wawaazisii (Bullhead), Baswenaazhi (Echo-maker, i.e., Crane), Aan'aawenh (Pintail Duck), Nooke (Tender, i.e., Bear) and Moozoonsii (Little Moose), then these six miigis beings returned into the ocean as well. If the seventh miigis being stayed, it would have established the Thunderbird doodem.
At a later time, one of these miigis appeared in a vision to relate a prophecy. It said that if the Anishinaabeg did not move further west, they would not be able to keep their traditional ways alive because of the many new settlements and European immigrants who would arrive soon in th..."

Let's go back 100 years before the Centennial Celebration to the founding of Tennessee. I'm digressing and must get back to Ancient Nubia, its capital Memphis, African Iron, and the bows and arrows that came with the legacy of African warriors who were pyramid builders. Amidst all these pyramids in America there is only one place on the planet that has more pyramids than even Egypt, Meroe, land of the Nubians, experts of the bow and arrow. While pyramids are associated with Egypt, the nation of Sudan has 220 extant pyramids, the most numerous in the world built around the 300s BC. If Cahokia Mounds includes the mounds in Tennessee, Ohio, and Georgia it would rival Nubia in pyramid structures but on the American continent, its sister continent as deemed by Freemason founding fathers. Meroe also happens to the the first name of Middle Tennessee.

The ancient Egyptians called Nubia land Ta-Seti. Land of the Bow. The people of the Nile Valley called their land Ta-merau, land of Mera -Egypt. Mer(i), Meroe, Meru, and the people the Moors. "We find the name Moor, in reference to whom the Greeks called “Ethiopians” mentioned in ancient records of the Chaldeans (Babylonians) under the name “Mirukh.”The Hindus knew our ancient fathers by the name “Meru.” The Greeks knew our ancient ancestors as the Meropes. And the Egyptians, who kept the best records, recorded themselves as TA-MERAU with the “au” denoting plurality as in the name of the people collectively. We can safely assume that the “ukh” in Mirukh, the “u” in Meru and the “opes” in Meropes, is merely there in that ancient vernacular to represent plurality."

Cherokee-Cumberland war of 1794

The first nine month of 1794 witnessed more than forty raids on the Mero District by the Cherokee as well as the Muscogee. A major invasion by a joint Cherokee-Muscogee army collapsed in the face of dissension between warriors of the two nations. The Nickajack Expedition in September by federal, territorial, and Kentucky militia forces destroyed the towns of Nickajack and Running Water, leading the Cherokee to sue for a final peace.

tbc...

God and goddess, those terms were used for malenia, however they are inaccurate in describing the concepts and people revered for great things in the past. At what point in the human life span do we put aside our insistence on what people of 2,000 years ago believed of people 5,000 years ago. Can we not take what the people of 5,000 years ago left for us to disern who they were and how they viewed life? Without prejudice? I spoke to a writer today who published a curriculum called Golden Apples and is working on a bible translation called the Tree of Life. She nearly ended our conversation when I asked her if she knew about the Egyptian goddess of the Tree of Life. Explaining she only follows her god of.... I attempted to explain Seshat was no god but a symbol and that people get confused by images on walls that were honoring ancestors, as we do today, with making those people the supreme god. The language used to describe their role is taken out of context. I explained its not about gods but the history of education, scripts, the laying of foundation of temples, mathematics, and all those things taught to scribes in the ancient schools. She told me to have a good day! She did write down "Seshat" and plug her book on amazon. Super frustrating that productive conversations are swarted by people's fear of being exposed to something that falls outside of the realm of the scripts they read and acknowledge. I am interested in calling her back in six months when her book is complete to see what the hebrews who were writing in greek were thinking when transcribing the sayings of proverbs about wisdom and instruction. 

Bitch: Plant brought to America during the slave trade from Africa

In my telling of the story of Seshat and all things of the star symbol. I feel it appropriate to include my thoughts regarding the Kola nut to this blog. The Kola nut tree has a star shaped fruit, like the apple (knowledge) has when cut in half. In Africa is called Bisi. In May of 2016 at a Nigerian friend's funeral dinner I was fortunate to witness its reverence in modern times and wrote this in my journal. "I'm so excited to witness the presentation of the Kola Nut today. It's a part of African tradition of life giving that was brought over to America through the slave trade and commercialized by Coke-a-Cola (Kola). Because of its transformative nature to the human spirit and medicinal value, as taught and carried over by African-Americans".

I have heard the term "bitch" used in several different ways in my community. However, it most often has a negative connotation to describe a woman who is mean or doing something at that moment that is not liked. While researching the slave trades usage of the cola nut to produce Coca Cola and Pepsi I came across this term used to describe some of the woman on the ship. I was shocked to know that black woman have been called Bichy beyond the hip hop era. The Bichy Tree was actually good for relieving high blood pressure and was a nervous system stimulator! It was used to treat long term exhaustion syndrome. 

The Kola nut, still used today in African rituals of divinity, is its shipping name. Masses of the Bichy tree are cultivated in Africa and shipped to an unknown source. Having known the story of Coca Cola and their invention "trade-secret" ingredients this blew the cover for me as just another excuse to not recognize the true inventors of the drink.

The name has several pronunciations. Bişi, Bizzi, Busy, Biche, Besse, Bichy.. In Africa its called Obi. Its main constitution is caffeine. "The trees have yellow flowers with purple spots, and star-shaped fruit. Inside the fruit, about a dozen round or square seeds develop in a white seed-shell. The nut’s aroma is sweet and rose-like. The first taste is bitter, but it sweetens upon chewing."

Now more of the nut from the tree, Kola, and how it got to America. Cola acuminate and Cola nitida, are trees native to western Sudan. Kola nuts are the source of the major ingredient used in making modern cola drinks. During the slave trade, kola nuts were given by crews to passengers to suppress hunger and thirst. A transatlantic slaver wrote: ‘The seed, brought in a Guinean ship from that country, is called ‘bichy’ by the Colomanty and is eaten and used for pains in the belly.”
Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire and Sierra Leone.

Intellectual piracy. What the Africans brought to America. Beverages. 1 being Coca-Cola. Kola Nut.

"The kola nut is the fruit of the kola tree, a genus (Cola) of trees that are native to the tropical rainforests of Africa. The caffeine-containing fruit of the tree is used as a flavoring ingredient in beverages, and is the origin of the term "cola".

The kola nut has a bitter flavor and contains caffeine. It is chewed in many West African cultures, individually or in a group setting. It is often used ceremonially, presented to chiefs or presented to guests.[3]

Kola nuts are perhaps best known to Western culture as a flavoring ingredient and one of the sources of caffeine in cola and other similarly flavored beverages, although the use of kola (or kola flavoring) in commercial cola drinks has become uncommon. [4]"Kola nuts are an important part of the traditional spiritual practice of culture and religion in West Africa, particularly Niger and Nigeria.[5] The 1970s hit "Goro City", by Manu Dibango, highlights the significance of kola nuts (called "goro" in the Haussa language) to the capital of Niger, Niamey.

Kola nuts are used as a religious object and sacred offering during prayers, ancestor veneration, and significant life events, such as naming ceremonies, weddings, and funerals. They are also used in a traditional divination system called Obi divination. For this use, only kola nuts divided into four lobes are suitable. They are cast upon a special wooden board and the resulting patterns are read by a trained diviner.[6] This ancient practice is currently enjoying increased growth within the United States and Caribbean.

In the 1800s, a pharmacist in Georgia, John Pemberton, took extracts of kola and coca and mixed them with sugar, other ingredients, and carbonated water to invent the first cola soft drink. His accountant tasted it and called it "Coca-Cola". Cocaine (not the other extracts from the Peruvian coca leaf) was prohibited from soft drinks in the U.S. after 1904, and Coca-Cola no longer uses either kola or coca in its original recipe.[7]

the company presents the formula as a closely held trade secret known only to a few employees.
The coca plant remains part of the formula; it is believed that coca leaves are imported from Peru, then treated by US chemical company Stepan, which then sells the de-cocainized residue to Coca-Cola. The Coca-Cola Company declines to comment upon whether or not Coca-Cola contains spent coca leaves, deferring to the secret nature of the formula.


Reed recipe
This recipe is attributed to pharmacist John Reed.

30 lb (14 kg) sugar
2 US gal (7.6 l; 1.7 imp gal) water
1 US qt (950 ml) lime juice
4 oz (110 g) citrate of caffeine
2 oz (57 g) citric acid
1 US fl oz (30 ml) extract of vanilla
3⁄4 US fl oz (22.18 ml) fluid extract of kola nut
3⁄4 US fl oz (22.18 ml) fluid extract of coca
Merory recipe
Recipe is from Food Flavorings: Composition, Manufacture and Use. Makes one 1 US gallon (3.8 l; 0.83 imp gal) of syrup. Yield (used to flavor carbonated water at 1 US fl oz (30 ml) per bottle): 128 bottles, 6.5 US fl oz (190 ml).[24]

Mix 5 lb (2.3 kg) of sugar with just enough water to dissolve the sugar fully. (High-fructose corn syrup may be substituted for half the sugar.)
Add 1 1⁄4 oz (35 g) of caramel, 1⁄10 oz (3 g) caffeine, and 2⁄5 oz (11 g) phosphoric acid.
Extract the cocaine from 5⁄8 drachm (1.1 g) of coca leaf (Truxillo growth of coca preferred) with toluol; discard the cocaine extract.
Soak the coca leaves and kola nuts (both finely powdered); 1⁄5 drachm (0.35 g) in 3⁄4 oz (21 g) of 20% alcohol.
California white wine fortified to 20% strength was used as the soaking solution circa 1909, but Coca-Cola may have switched to a simple water/alcohol mixture.
After soaking, discard the coca and kola and add the liquid to the syrup.
Add 1 oz (28 g) lime juice (a former ingredient, evidently, that Coca-Cola now denies) or a substitute such as a water solution of citric acid and sodium citrate at lime-juice strength.
Mix together
1⁄4 drachm (0.44 g) orange oil,
1⁄10 drachm (0.18 g) cassia (Chinese cinnamon) oil,
1⁄2 drachm (0.89 g) lemon oil, traces of
2⁄5 drachm (0.71 g) nutmeg oil, and, if desired, traces of
coriander,
neroli,

lavender oils.
Add 1⁄10 oz (2.8 g) water to the oil mixture and let stand for twenty-four hours at about 60 °F (16 °C). A cloudy layer will separate.
Take off the clear part of the liquid only and add the syrup.
Add 7⁄10 oz (20 g) glycerine (from vegetable source, not hog fat, so the drink can be sold to Jews and Muslims who observe their respective religion's dietary restrictions) and 3⁄10 drachm (0.53 g) of vanilla extract.
Add water (treated with chlorine) to make a gallon of syrup.

Pembertson's son Woodruff reclaimed the secret formula and returned it to Atlanta and placed it in the Trust Company Bank, now SunTrust Bank, where it remained through 2011.[29] On December 8, 2011, the Coca-Cola Company moved the secret formula to a purpose built vault in a permanent interactive exhibit at the World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta.

see: Stafford, Leon (December 8, 2011). "Coke hides its secret formula in plain sight in World of Coca-Cola move". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved December 19, 2011.

1700 report: "It comes once a year, is of a harsh, sharp taste, but quenches the thirst, and makes water relish so well, that most of the Blacks carry it about them, wheresoever they go, frequently chewing, and some eat it all day, but forbear at night, believing it hinders their sleeping. The whole country abounds in this Cola, which yields the natives considerable profit, selling it to their neighbours up in the inland; who, as some Blacks told me, sell it again to a sort of white men, who repair to them at a certain time of the year, and take off great quantities of it."

Dyula, also spelled Diula, Dioula, or Jula, people of western Africa who speak a Mande language of the Niger-Congo language family. Most are Muslims, and they have long been noted as commercial traders.

The Dyula were active gold traders as long ago as the time of the ancient African kingdom of Ghana. They flourished under the empire of Mali, when they provided a link between the gold-producing forestlands in the south and the trading network of the western Sudan and North Africa. Kola nuts were another important trade item. The Dyula were also skilled craftsmen. They began to disperse and settle in towns about the 16th century. In the mid-19th century some of these towns expanded into larger states, but they declined by 1900.

Today, the Dyula are settled in towns and villages in Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, and parts of Mali and Ghana. Some Dyula communities have become agricultural, but most remain active in commerce, at least during the dry season.

The legend continues for its usage in modern America. The cola seed is a main ingredient in woman's products like Estee Lauders Advanced Night repair

Sun of Righteousness

5/18/16

“But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings.” Malachi 4:2 Bible

I came across this passage today and it caught my attention. I first noticed the capitalization of Sun of Righteousness. A friend who is an attorney brought to my awareness to pay attention when you see capitol letters in a sentence, they signify something and are not to be used lightly. So I took the passage to refer to a person, place, or thing. So I wondered who or what is the "Sun of Righteousness"it is worded in a way Egyptian titles have been translated, so who or what could this have been to them?

The healing in the wings was a dead giveaway for me that this title had an earlier history in Egypt and that would be the best place to find more meaning on its usage. So hear I go on my quest to find out what the ancient scribes may have really been talking about.

7/2/2017
Sun of Righteousness also can mean "Sun of Justice" or in Egypt "Ra-n-mat Ra", the sun, Maat the scales of justice.

Pyramidion for the Black Pyramid, Dashur, Egypt

Pyramid of Hawara, Black Pyramid, Imenemhat Qanefer,
Amenemhat is Mighty & Perfect

I found this image in "Master Plan of the Pyramid of Cheops: Meaning, shape and size better understood" By Hans-Joachim Trumpp (2014). It shows the image in hieroglyphs of the words Ra-n-Maat with the wings overtop and the solar disk. It also shows the symbol for son of Ra in context of "child of", not solar disk. But even this symbol includes the solar disk. This to me connects the term son we use to denote male child of with the sun disk itself. I wonder if this translation of the same symbol could have caused confusion among ancient scribes in interpreting the meaning of the sun disk symbol in reference to son of and sun (Ra).  

This was etched in stone for Amenemhet III. This image is of the Pyramidion, pyramid capstone, from the pyramid of Pharaoh Amenemhet III (1840-1795 BCE) at Dahshur, Egypt, Middle Kingdom (12th dynasty). So who exactly was Amenemhet III? He presided over the building of at least 2 pyramids, The Black Pyramid of Dashur and The Pyramid of Hawara in the Fayum, as well as what the Greeks called the legendary labyrinth. His father was Sesostris III. Amenemhat III's throne name, Nimaatre, means "Belonging to the Justice of Re."

Pharaoh Amenemhat III, From the Pantheon of Rome; Ludovisi Collection
Discovered in Rome

Portrait of Amenemhat III at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek of Copenhagen

Amenemhat III, Egyptian Museum in Cairo

The passage I referenced is from the Book of Malachi. It is the last book in the Old Testament, before the New Testament. Malachi or  מַלְאָכִי‎‎, Malʾaḫi, Mál'akhî, My Messenger. This book was written sometime around 515BC. Some websites speculate that Amenemhet IV is Moses of the Bible. Malachi 4:4 mentions Moses. This book is ancient and connected to the people of Kemet (Egypt). It may very well have been using a title of something or someone known among the ancients. The author may be have calling on the reader to recall the "Sun of Rightousness" and the "wings" associated with this historical teaching. The word used in Hebrew was "Kanaph". Kanaph has several meanings: wing, extremity (skirt, corner of a garment), winged, border, corner, feathered, and ends or to be hidden from view, cornered, thrust aside. Provided are the counts of the usage of this term in the Holy bible.

Numbers 15:38 states that they put upon the fringe of the borders(H3670, H3671) a ribband of blue. Tekhelet is a blue dye mentioned in the bible. 

Hezekiah's reign during the 8th century BC has winged solar disk on hebrew seals connected to the royal house of the Kingdom of Judah.

"Hezekiah's royal seals feature two downward-pointing wings and six rays emanating from the central sun disk, and some are flanked on either side with the Egyptian ankh ("key of life") symbol."  Deutsch, Robert (July–August 2002). "Lasting Impressions: New bullae reveal Egyptian-style emblems on Judah’s royal seals". Biblical Archaeology Review. 28 (4): 42–51. Retrieved 12 October 2014.

The tragedy of today is that The Black Pyramid is not sturdy and made of mudbrick. Water from the Nile has seeped into the walls and the entire pyramid is sinking into the ground and cracked. Since the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 there has been looting at this site. It is am important part of African history, biblical history, and world history.