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A quote from the book ‘Wonderful Ethiopians of The Ancient Cushite Empire’ by Drusilla Dunjee Houston states, “DIONYSUS, Hercules, Saturn, Osiris, Zeus and Apollo were Cushite kings of the prehistoric ages. Around these and other Ethiopian deities the people of the Mediterranean and the Orient wove their mythologies. Prejudice and ignorance may have marked their deeds as fabulous but the imperishable monuments that they left are not imaginary.”
Religion, civilisation, art, science, including pseudo-sciences, Cush and Cushites created, discovered or invented accordingly. On a global scale, covering vast amounts of territories, the Cushites created, developed and governed Empires.
Backed with scientific evidence, recorded in religious doctrines, used by numerous groups of people, the Cushite Empire descended from Ham, one of Noah’s sons. According to Genesis 9 and 10, Noah had three sons Japheth, Shem and Ham. Ham begot Cush/Kush, today’s Ethiopia among innumerable appellations including Nubia, the land of gold.
In this order, Ham begot Cush the founder of Ethiopia, Mizraim the founder of Egypt, Phut the founder of Libya and Canaan the founder of Canaan. Then Cush begot Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, Sabtechah and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan being city states, kingdoms or empires accordingly.
“And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. ‘‘He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
‘‘Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah. And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.” (Genesis 10:7-12 KJV)The land of Shinar is Babylon according to Daniel 1:1-2.
McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopedia proclaim, “Nimrod, the mighty hunter of the earliest imperialist power, is the grandest name, not only of the children of Ham, but in primeval history. He seemed to have been deified under the title of Bilu-Nipru, or Bel-Nimrod.” For a person to be deified they would have been exceedingly great.
The same as when a person’s name lives on till eternity in other people’s names, cultures and languages. For instance Hamilton, Waltham, Humphrey, Buckingham Palace and Hamburg which is a city in northern Germany.
Or Sebastian and Candice, a degenerate form of Kandake (Queen Mother) of Sheba whose most popular name is Makeda, progenitor unto Emperor Haile Selassie I Solomonic Dynasty.
The book ‘The Bible Does Not Teach the Curse of Ham’ argues that Cushites/Kushites or Hamites/Kamites were never an inferior and cursed people and instead they were great to the extent of being deified due to their contributions to civilisation and humanity.
From the above mentioned source we learn that, “Sir Walter Raleigh’s History of the World (1634) shows a map in which the Caspian Sea was once known as the ‘MardeBachu,’ or the Sea of Bacchus (Nimrod).
One of the chief cities of Assyria (modern Iraq) was named Nimrud, and the Plain of Shinar, known to the early Syrians as Sen’ar, was itself once known as the Land of Nimrod.
Iraqi and Iranian Arabs speak his name with awe even today (1634 AD), and such is the notoriety of the man that his historical reality is quite beyond dispute.
“Imagine the Caspian Sea, the largest inland body of water, was named after Nimrod, supposedly an inferior Hamite.
On the world map we have Nimrod and his fellow Hamites, East of Africa and North of Arabia in what is modern Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. Nimrod, a Hamite ruling over the descendants of Shem is further proof that the so-called curse of Ham is not true.”
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary describes Hamites as “a member of a group of North African peoples, including the ancient Egyptians and Berbers, supposedly descended from Ham, son of Noah.”
Another British writer Charles Wentworth Dilke in his book, The Athenaeum testifies, “A Cushite [Nimrod], and therefore a Hamite, founded this first world-monarchy or tyranny.
Another Hamite power arose simultaneously in Egypt.
A branch of the Cushites seem to have gone eastward, and spread over India.
But another branch spread through the South of Arabia, and, crossing into Africa, came into contact, sometimes into alliance, and sometimes into collision with the Egyptian monarchy.
The eastern empire is noticed particularly, because it intruded into Shemitic ground, and aimed continually at extending its sway over the nations descended from Shem.”
Drusilla Houston says, “The gods and goddesses of the Greeks and Romans were but the borrowed kings and queens of this Cushite empire of Ethiopians.
So marvellous had been their achievements in primitive ages, that in later days, they were worshipped as immortals by the people of India, Egypt, old Ethiopia, Asia Minor and the Mediterranean world… In the restoration we see the burying again of the dead, the Cushite gods Indra, Mithra and Krishna, ancient kings, reappear.
The deva had been turned from gods to devils.”
Esther 1:1 and Esther 8:9 ratify of the “lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces.”
These are the same Nagas who created Sanskrit and the name snake is derived from them (Wikipedia). In Indian truth-ology (mythology), they are presented as half snake and half human.
This is true of the ancient Arwe Dynasty of Ethiopia who worshipped the snake.
From a tender age, LidjTafari exhibited familiarity with the Cabalistic doctrines and the writings in Gilgamesh.
The Pagan rituals concerning the worship of Isis, of the serpent Arwe and of the Abyssinian Gods of Earth (Meder), Sea (Beher), and War (Mahrem), as well as the Arcane of Astrology and Numerology.
He could quote freely from the Book of Kufale, the Book of Enoch, Hermas the Shepherd, Judith, Ecclesiasticus, Tobit, the Mestahfa Berhan (Book of Light), the Sixth and Seventh Book of Eden all thirty one books of the Hebrew Bible, the twenty-one Canonical Books of the New Testament, plus numerous Apocryphal and Pseudo-pictographic Books.
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