The Beja በጃ (Ge’ez language:) are an ethnic group dwelling in parts of North Africa and the Horn of Africa. The Beja are the descendants of the Medjay soldier class originating in Ta-Seti as the
archers called into service during the 12th Dynastic Period. Their Beja
name is derived from the municipality founded by Amenemhat I
called Amenemhat-It-jawy or Itjawy or Bedjawi or Bejawi (another modern
name for Beja). Amenemhat I created an army from his mother's home town
of Ta-Seti and the Beja are the descendants of those warriors-for-hire whose
name is derived from the municipality Amenemhat I founded.
During the times of Ancient Kemet the Beja were known as Ta-Seti and were fierce soldiers renowned for their skill as archers in the Kemetic Army. The Beja have also been named "Blemmyes" in Roman Times, "Bugas", in Axumite inscriptions in Ge'ez and, "Fuzzy Wuzzy" because of their Afro hairstyles by Rudyard Kipling.
Bowmen Archers of the Kemetic Army. Tomb of Meketre. Cairo Egyptian Museum
The Beja
themselves name themselves after whatever land they reside upon and
presently span from Sudan and Egypt into Eritrea and Ethiopia and even
Yemen. They are traditionally pastoral but some are nomadic. Their
language is Ta Bedawi / Bedawiye and although Cushitic is considered the
origin of the Semitic Ge'ez language and those that derived from Ge'ez
such as Tigre, Tigrinya, and Amharic. The Beja may also be a link to the
Kushite expansion into Mesopotamia as it was Henry Rawlinson who
deciphered cuneiform using Ta Bedawi not a Semitic language. It was
Rawlinson who said the language of the Kushites spanned from West Africa
through Western Asia to India.
It is also important to note that ancient Greeks
often referred to Babylonians as Ethiopians. So the link between African
Semitic and Western Asian Semitic most likely involves the Beja and
their Kushitic language influences. This migration of the Beja may
explain why there is correlation between Western Asian and Horn of
Africa languages to Kush-Kemetic languages. The Beja have adopted Arabic
as well because they are Islamic. The interesting aspect about their
internal naming system, since they do not refer to themselves as Beja,
is that in and of itself is very ancient Egyptian way of
self-identifying. Ancient Egyptians identified by the land
(nomes/villages) they were from and not by any specific ethnic name.
The Bejas attach a high importance to their hair, and their prominent crown of "Fuzzy Hair" called a Tiffa in their language, has characterized them for many centuries and was first recorded on the ancient rock paintings in Kemet and seen throughout many of the Kemetic miniature tomb models.
(Now
to address the evidence of the dispersal from the Hapi Valley of that
original "negroid" population from Nubia-Kemet. For comparison purposes I
will repost these maps below. The next spot that we migrated into from
Kemet was back south into Kush (Nubia).
This "modern"
scholarship that is getting credit for "verifying" that the ancient
Kemites were black are only verifying what black scholars (shown above)
have asserted with extreme confidence in the face of those whites who
claimed their evidence as "non sufficient" for their claims. Listen to
Diop break this down for everyone over a quarter century ago.
The following is supporting evidence from
The African Origins of Civilization: by: Cheikh Anta Diop
Evidence from Physical Anthropology
The
skeletons and skulls of the Ancient Egyptians clearly reflect they were
Negroid people with features identical to those of modern Black peoples
of Sub Saharan Africa.
Egyptologist
Cheikh Anta Diop invented a method for determining the level of melanin
in the skin of human beings. When conducted on Egyptian mummies in the
Museum of Man in Paris, this test indicated these remains were of Black
people.
Osteological Evidence
"Lepsius
canon," which distinguishes the bodily proportions of various racial
groups categories the "ideal Egyptian" as "short-armed and of Negroid or
Negrito physical type."
Evidence From Blood Types
Diop notes
that even after hundreds of years of inter-mixture with foreign
invaders, the blood type of modern Egyptians is the "same group B as the
populations of western Africa on the Atlantic seaboard and not the A2
Group characteristic of the white race prior to any crossbreeding."
The Egyptians as They Saw Themselves
"The Egyptians had only one term to designate themselves kmt= the Negroes
(literally). This is the strongest term existing in the Pharaonic
tongue to indicate blackness; it is accordingly written with a
hieroglyph representing a length of wood charred at the end and not
crocodile scales," singular. ‘Kmt’ from the adjective =kmt= black; it
therefore means strictly Negroes or at the very least black men. The
term is a collective noun which thus described the whole people of
Pharaonic Egypt as a black people."
Divine Epithets
Diop
demonstrates that "black or Negro" is the divine epithet invariably
used for the chief beneficent Gods of Egypt, while the evil spirits were
depicted as red.
Evidence From the Bible
The
Bible states"…[t]he sons of Ham [were] Cush and Mizraim [i.e. Egypt],
and Phut, and Canaan. And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and
Sabtah, and Raamah and Sabtechah." According to Biblical tradition, Ham,
of course, was the father of the Black race. "Generally speaking all
Semitic tradition (Jewish and Arab) class ancient Egypt with the
countries of the Black."
Cultural unity of Egypt With The Rest of Africa
Through
a study of circumcision and totemism. Diop gives detailed data showing
cultural unity between Egypt and the rest of Africa.
Testimony of Classical Greek and Roman Authors
Virtually all of the early Latin eyewitnesses described the Ancient Egyptians as Black skinned with wooly hair.
All of this new information is essentially
vindication for those older scholars works and claims in the face of
ridicule from Devils who through this modern research have now been
proven to be full of crap liars.
Original homeland of the Bantu up to 1500 A.D
Dark shading: Possible ultimate origin of the Bantu
Cross shading: Area of Bantu expansion into Kemet
Bantu Migration Routes from Cush and the Island of Meroe
Now given the information above this map
now becomes very interesting. Notice how the Hapi Valley and
particularly around northern - central Sudan and middle - southern Kemet
is the most noticeable abnormality on the map below for their complete
absence of the most dominant genetic marker of Tropical Africa which is
haplogroup E1b1a. This is the exact same region where the Bantu Homeland
and expansion is given by African scholar Alfred M M'Imanyara
(maps above) decades before the heavy use of genetics (compare the map
below to the black and white maps of the homeland and expansion above).
It explains the genetic marker's current distribution. This map
comparison is literally plugging the pieces of the puzzle, for this Hapi
Valley (Northeast African) origin and later dispersal from that exact
same region together.
Distribution of Y-DNA haplogroup E1b1a/E-M2 lineage (predominant African American lineage)
The origins and spread of E-M2 (the most
common genetic marker in equatorial Africa) verifies the oral traditions
of the descendants of the "Anu" people.
Anu Kemetic descendants:
Transatlantic slave trade routes
"The Akhenaten Gene.
Named for the pharaoh who attempted to convert Kemet to monotheism,
this autosomal ancestry marker like most of the Amarna family group’s
DNA is clearly African in origin. Akhenaten received it from his mother,
Queen Tiye.... But it is mostly absent in Asia and the Americas, except where brought there by Africans or people carrying some African ancestry. About 1 in 6 Africans or African Americans has it."
and
The King Tut Gene.
Tutankhamun is the most famous of all pharaohs. He was the son and
successor of Akhenaten, grandson of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye and
great-grandson of the royal matriarch Queen Thuya....Tutankhamun
actually carries a “double dose” of the allele named for him. Like most of the other genes in the family, it
is Central African in ancient origin, but unlike the other alleles it
has a widespread, albeit sparse distribution outside Africa. Still,
Africans (and African-influenced populations) are ten times more likely
to have it than non-Africans.
More on DNA
The exert below is confirmation of this northward migration from Nubia into ancient Kemet.
The
Distribution of E-M2 and it clades in Central and Southern Africa has
usually been explained by the ‘‘Bantu migrations" (which occurred
3000-2500 B.C), in which agriculture and iron technologies spread from
the Bantu's homeland located in the Benue complex i.e.
Nigeria/Cameroon’’ But their presence in the Nile Valley and in other Non-Bantu speakers Can Not be explained in this way. E-M2 distribution is probably explained by their presence in the populations of the “Early Holocene Sahara”, Who went on to people the Nile Valley in The mid-Holocene era (12,000 B.P.) according to Hassan (1988).
Keita and Boyce; Boyce, A. J. (Anthony J.) (2005). "Genetics, Kemet,
and History: Interpreting Geographical Patterns of Y Chromosome
Variation".
Recent genetic analysis of two separate New Kingdom families. This first one is King Tut's family (Amarna):
Geographical analysis of the Amarna
mummies was performed using their autosomal STR profiles based on 8
tested loci.Results are summarized in Table 1 and illustrated in Figure
1. Maps for individual Amarna mummies are included in Figures 2-8 in the
Appendix.
Discussion: Average MLI scores in Table 1 indicate the STR profiles of the
Amarna mummies would be most frequent in present day populations of
several African regions: including the Southern African (average MLI
326.94), African Great Lakes (average MLI 323.76), and Tropical West
African (average MLI 83.74) regions. These regional matches do not necessarily indicate an exclusively African ancestry for the Amarna pharaonic family. However,
results indicate these ancient individuals inherited some alleles that
today are more frequent in populations of Africa than in other parts of
the world (such as D18S51=19 and D21S11=34).
We
amplified 16 Y chromosomal, short tandem repeats (AmpF\STR Yfiler PCR
amplification kit; Applied Biosystems).........Genetic kinship analyses
revealed identical haplotypes in both mummies (table 1⇓); using the Whit
Athey’s haplogroup predictor, we determined the Y chromosomal haplogroup E1b1a
DNAtribes follow up.
These
results indicate that both Ramesses III and Unknown Man E (possibly his
son Pentawer) shared an ancestral component with present day
populations of Sub-Saharan Africa..A
previous issue of DNA Tribes Digest identified African related ancestry
for King Tut and other royal mummies from the Amarna Period. In this
issue, results indicate that the later pharaoh
Ramesses III also inherited alleles that are most frequent in present
day populations of Sub-Saharan Africa. This provides additional,
independent evidence of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (possibly among
several ancestral components) for pharaonic families of ancient Egypt....In
addition, these DNA match results in present day world regions might in
part express population changes in Africa after the time of Ramesses
III. In particular, DNA
matches in present day populations of Southern Africa and the African
Great Lakes might to some degree reflect genetic links with ancient
populations (formerly living closer to New Kingdom Egypt) that have
expanded southwards in the Nilotic and Bantu migrations of the past
3,000 years (see Figure 1)
Anthropological and archaeological evidence confirms this as well:
"Nutter
(1958) noted affinities between the Badarian and Naqada samples, a
feature that Strouhal (1971) attributed to their skulls possessing “Negroid” traits. Keita (1992), using craniometrics, discovered that the Badarian series is distinctly different from the later Egyptian series, a conclusion that is mostly confirmed here. In the current analysis, the Badari sample more closely clusters with the Naqada sample and the Kerma sample. However, it also groups with the later pooled sample from Dynasties XVIII–XXV.
-- Godde K. (2009) An Examination of Nubian and Egyptian biological
distances: Support for biological diffusion or in situ development?
Homo. 2009;60(5):389-404."
As
displayed with the Jebel Sahaba skull (Pleistocene Nubians) earlier
when the word "Negroid" is being used it is in reference to the
Niger-Congo speaking, E-M2 lineage carrying African populations
(except in some cases the vast "Sub Saharan" regions diverse black
populations are regarded as one). Our skull shape is the most unique of
everyone else (somewhat close
to the aboriginal Australian skull however, but everyone can spot the
facial distinctions) as a result of our prognathism, wider teeth, and
wide nostrils. Below is a "Negroid" skull from Kerma (Nubia);
Needless to say that the modern
inhabitants of "Egypt" today are remnants of those "Caucasians" who
invaded Kemet along with some ethnic groups who remained along the Hapi
(mostly in Upper Egypt
and the rural areas) over the last 2,500 years. Those African ethnic
groups that have remained in modern day "Egypt" are Ethiopic and Nilotic
(with some genetic remnants of Bantu admixture in southern "Egypt" per
SOY Keita 05'). When scientist lie and say that the "Egyptians" of today
are genetically descended (or have "continuity") of the ancient Kemites
they are referring strictly to the continuity of one African segment of
the diverse African Hapi Valley population. That segment is the
"Ethiopic" branch of Africans who have remained on the Hapi and mixed
with the Caucasian invaders, and this is evident through their
characteristic E1b1/M-215 (green) still seen in "Egypt" today.
The real descendants of the founders of
ancient Kemet are highlighted in the dark-mid green (along with A & B
explained below) on the map above as explained through the evidence
laid out before it. Those in modern day "Egypt" know this themselves.
The Distinct African Groups who Comprised Early Ancient Kemet
*The Twa or "Pygmies" (European
name) are often credited by various African groups and scholars as the
ultimate creators and teachers of science, mathematics, dance etc. These
Africans were also apart of the initial northward migration from
Central/East Africa along the Hapi. They were an integral part of
ancient Hapi Valley culture and beliefs. The so called "leprechauns" of Ireland were none other than the Twa, who were massacred by Catholic "jihadist" lead by Saint Patrick.
In Taiwan there is an annual festival in which the Taiwanese adhere to their ancient tradition and obligation to honor the "Little Black People"
who taught them the arts of singing, dancing, and civilization or they
will face the wrath of the curse laid upon them by the last remaining
Twa. Some may chuckle at the superstition, but these East Asians are not
playing about their obligation to maintaining this truth. It was simply the returning of a cycle,
for it was the Inner African, the Original Twa, who first went in and
civilized the Hapi Valley. While Kushite-Kemetic culture represent a
technological climax in African culture, technology is not synonymous
with civilization. Civilization: the science of harmony with (being
CIVIL) the world of man and nature, was first mastered by the Proto-Twa
(misnamed pygmies) of Central Africa. They, not the Kushite nor Kemetyu,
are the Mothers and Fathers of Civilization. They taught human
beings how to live in prosperity and peace for 2 million years. The
so-called Homo-Erectus that dates to this period is not a distinct
species of man but a race of when all of man was a Proto-Twa or
Twa-Papua.
While the European's system is considered more "civilized" by some, their system of civilization is unsustainable and is sure to feed on itself into extinction after only 2,000 years of power. That is a mere blink in time compared with the 2 million year sustainability of the Twa system. What
is your technology worth if you are not at harmony with the world and
nature? You will simply exhaust all the resources and your species will
become extinct. True civilization is not what you make but what
you preserve. Thus, the Twa people of the Congo Rainforest remain the
most civilized of all man.
This is why the Kemetyu revered
them and documented them as the Twa race of man that civilized the Hapi
and Mesopotamia. They founded the temples of Annu at the Delta and were
considered gods by the people of Mesopotamia, who called them the
Annunaki. The people of Papua New Guinea are direct descendants of
the Twa settlers of Oceania, untouched by an external conquest. For this
reason, the Proto-Twa would have appeared to have features similar to
both modern Twa and the Papua.
The reverence for the Twa was
deified as Bes in Kemet. Bes is the divinity of healing. The Twa are
master healers. Those that live away from Westernization, deep in the
Congo Rainforest, live to be over a 100 years old on average. They
have the science of healing so accurate that they can cure AIDS, Cancer,
and all other ailments. This is why the Europeans waged a war on them because
European society is based on sickness turned into capitalist benefit
and a culture that can cure all diseases is an ultimate threat to a
wicked economic system based on sickness as a business. Upon discovering their mastery over all ailments, the Belgians had millions of Twa round up and executed.
So,
know, that the Kushite-Kemetic are the mouthpiece of civilization but
not as the architects. That title goes to the Proto-Twa of the Congo
Rainforest, Mother and Father of Harmonious Civilization.
The earliest God worshiped in Nubia and eventually ancient Kemet was a Twa God by the name of "Bes".
(Egyptian) Bes - The god of childbirth. Imported from Nubia, can be traced to pre-dynastic Hapi Valley culture.
(Yoruba) Obatala -A sculptor-god, has the responsibility to shape human bodies, ultimately responsible for child birth.
The
worship of this very popular God and presence of these "little people"
is seen from Africa all the way into parts of Europe, Asia, and yes the
ancient Americas.
The Twa were the creators of arts and sciences that form the basis of
all civilizations that were created by those other groups of Africans
listed below.
"There
has long been a discussion about the origins of the inhabitants of the
ancient northem Hapi valley. Probably for many reasons the discussion
has focused on the “Africanity” of the ancient “Egyptian” populations.
“Africanity” has been frequently inappropriately defined. Specifically,
there has been a question about the degree or presence of “Negro” influence (e.g., Diop 1974; Robertson 1978; Robertson and Bradley 1979; Bemal 1987). “Negro” has been used to mean different things.
Frequently earlier writers displayed a bias against “Negroes,”
“Blacks,” and “Africans,” although the terms have been used in many
ways—consistency has not been a strong point.
Many would deny that prejudice had any role in the extreme concem
about the “origins” of the Egyptians, but Morton’s comments at least
are clear: “...civilization...could not spring from Negroes, or from Berbers and never did. . .”
(quoted in Nott and Gliddon 1854). “Berbers” in this instance probably
means Nubian. On the other hand Gilman (1982) reports the strong
esthetic bias of Winckelmann, an eighteenth-century scholar, against
Egyptians be-cause of their phenotypic “blackness.” Thomson and
Randall-Maclver (1905:110) noted the prejudice in the early twentieth
century."
The deliberate misclassifications of
indigenous African types is one of the primary tools that white
scientist have used to label the remains of two of the distinct yet
primary groups (Nilotes and Ethiopic) of ancient Kemites as
"Mediterranean" or generally "Caucasoid", and deceptively leaving the
"Negroid" Niger-Congo speaking population as sole the "true"
representatives for "the black race".
(See future post regarding the Kemetic/Nubian Soldiers)
Zulu Warriors (same cowhide shields as the ancient Kemitic soldiers above)
Below is Tera Neter Tile from Ta-Seti. It is the oldest civilization on Earth.
The people of Ta-Seti as you can see below were the "Anu" or people of
the "Bantu" town in the Sudan (direct descendants of Pleistocene
Nubians).
"The Anu People
courtesy of Wally
The
most significant fact of the founding of Pharaonic Civilization by the
Anu people is rarely, if ever, mentioned in texts on Ancient Egypt. Not
to mention the Anu is actually worse than, say, writing a history of the
United States of America and not mentioning the Pilgrims (aka
"Founders"/"Forefathers"). One has to look at earlier texts for this
vital information:
The French Egyptologist Abbe Émile Amélineau
is credited with the discovery of the Anu and their contribution to
Egyptian civilization. It was Amélineau who designated the first black
race to occupy Egypt as the Anu. He showed how they came slowly down the
Hapi and founded the cities of Esneh, Erment, Qouch and Heliopolis...
According to the Ancient Kemites, a second Kemetian ruling ethnic/class's ancestral homeland was Punt.
They referred to this land as "Ta Nteru" ('Land of the Ancestors'). To
emphasize their Puntite origins, the Kemites portrayed the Puntites in
the exact same manner in which they portrayed themselves.
Somali
Afar man (Ethiopian)
Bisharin woman, Aswan Egypt
Eritrean women
(See future post for more info on Ancient Hair styles of Africa)
Migration from Kemet of Ethiopic Africans into Saharan and Sub Saharan East Africa
The map below details the Ethiopic Y DNA M-125's initial migration from Punt (Eritrea-Ethiopia) north into Kemet and it's descendants (V-12 and V-32) later leaving Kemet. This is showing the back migration of these "Cushitic" speaking Ethiopic Africans who left Kemet and also migrated further south into the eastern parts of Sub Saharan Africa such as Somalia and Oromia, Ethiopia (V32). In modern day northern-Sudan-southern "Egypt" V-12 signals these Ethiopic people as descendants of Kemet.
The African groups above are remnants of those Ethiopic Kemites who migrated from these civilizations with the Anu from the constant threat of war along the Mediterranean with the chaotic whites who were using their newly obtained knowledge from blacks of civilization, bathing, speech, and what not to put the once peaceful advanced civilization into a war state. To this day, Somalis are warring with the self righteous pale invaders who vilify the liberation efforts of the people whom they have divided through their media to hide their white supremacists imperialistic intentions.
Beja/Medjay
(see future post for more info about the Beja Tribe of Sudan)
This group of ethnic Kemites were originally living along the Red Sea in the Eastern desert of Kemet and Nubia (Sudan). The Medjay were a semi-nomadic culture separate from that of ancient Kemet. The Medjay were first mentioned back in the old Kingdom as "Nubians". Prior to the Hyksos occupation like other Nubian ethnic groups the Medjay warred with Kemet, and Kemet succeeded in repelling them. During the Hyksos invasion they were recruited into the Kemetic army as soldiers and scouts, and from that point forward were fully integrated into the society. This group of militant Kemites became integral in maintaining order in daily affairs and guarding towns. One famous Kemetic Commander of the Army was a Medjay by the name of Amenemone during the reign of King Tut. The modern day Beja are the descendants of these ancient warriors.
Part 4 of the Hapi Valley Origins and Dispersal of the Niger-Congo Speakers will be posted soon Thanks for reading!
