- The Black Woman pt 2
- "Have we forgotten who she is?"
First I'd like to start by saying I am disgusted with the way women in general but more specifically Black women are projected on the tell-a-lie-to your-vision as well as popular so called "artful" forms of expression. Our sons and daughters are exposed to these same sexually debased images that feed the big monster we call colonialism. This has been the historical reality since the days of slavery until today. It started from how she was portrayed and disrespected on the auction block until she was taken advantage of by the slave master. Keep in mind that Arabs also enslaved Europeans and sold them on auction blocks as well. They also prized European women as concubines and sold them amongst Sultans and the like in auctions similar to how they and Europeans eventually sold African women. In actual fact the Arab slave trade is still taking place in Africa and it started earlier than European colonialism and the African Holocaust Europeans inflicted upon African people. We wonder why our young men and young adults don't respect women in general regardless of race, entertainment in all it's forms plays a major role as does societal conditioning and even religion. The truth is.......
- Yes some women do decide to let themselves be used in the manner they are sometimes depicted in for the public to consume her image but in reality, the society that we live in has oppressed women no differently than it has Native Americans, Africans, both Continental and Diasporan and other people of color including white people (classism). We have all forgotten that we all came into this world through the life giving body of the female vessel. She was our original Deity( see this book: Merlin Stone's When god was a Woman) she was the wombniverse upon which the foundations of human destiny stands and the first teacher of every child( See the Book: Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture by Chris Knight). She is to be respected and protected because without her none of us would exist literally. There is an ancient Egyptian story I want to relate which tells how human beings specifically females were given the ability to procreate.
Khnum (Khenmew, Khnemu, Khenmu, Chnum), from the Egyptian 'unite', 'join' or 'build', was an ancient deity of fertility, water and the great potter who created children and their ka at their conception. He would make man at the request of the Neteru (Supreme Beings not Gods). After which he would fashion man and his Ka(loosely translated as spirit). He would also command the creations of man’s organs etc to create a viable being. After which Amun would breathe the breath of life into the child and make the child a living being. After millennia of creating man he tired of this job and consulted the Neteru on what he wanted to do. They agreed and he then broke his potter’s wheel into pieces and placed a piece in the womb of every woman making her fertile. He was said to have placed the seed of the male in the womb and he along with Heket (the Frog faced) Netert of Child birth would assist at the delivery.
- The mystery of creation dwells within the holy temple of the females’ womb. No one knows how uniting of spirit and matter takes place in her womb. She is a mystery unto herself inexplicable and within her she carries the micro universe in which creation takes place. Within her “holy of holies” is where spirit puts on the outer garment of flesh directed by deity in the formation of a genetic reproduction of herself and her child’s father. We must be taught to respect that to utmost and put her in her rightful place and honored being she is.
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Heaven is between the legs of an African Woman.
Nut swallowing the sun at night and giving birth to Ra in the morning.
- I don’t make that statement lightly. Dr Ben (The illustrious Dr Yosef Ben Jochannan) made the statement captured above and it couldn't be more true. The first person who said that was Peraa (Pharoah) Pepi II. He made this observation which was very accurate. Above Netert Nut is shown swallowing the sun at night the stars on her body symbolizing the heavens itself (Esoterically the Woman is Heaven because it is through her physical person the direct combination of spirit and matter [Heaven and Earth] takes place) and she is shown giving birth to Ra from her vagina in the morning, showing that even God the father has a mother.
Heaven for the unborn child is the wombniverse of it's mother. It is warm, well fed and in the eternal peace of the blackness of it's mother's womb. It knows no hunger , no pain, no suffering, the child resides in eternal bliss while developing. It is only when the child is born into the cold world of the hospital and sees the light of physical reality once born that it feels hunger and the physical shock of being cold and true separation from it's living deity it's MOTHER!!!! We grow in the womb and leave heaven when born and as men we try or hardest to get to heaven as much as possible…lol
If we taught our children both male and female the role of the women and how important she is to our survival and her role as the primary creator in the scheme of humanity how can a young woman disrespect herself or a young man mistreat or impregnate and abandon a young woman. These 2 (at right) are good symbolic examples in stone of the origins of the phrase “Behind every good man is an even better woman.”
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MenKau Ra flanked by Het Heru(Also known as Hathor) and the Deified Hare Nome(City)
Maat the Netert that represents law, order, balance, abundance and universal law. She is the feminine principle upon which the universe stands. Without her the universe and world as we know it could not function. There would be chaos and disarray without the order imposed by feminine principle. He same way that it is in the female womb that the order of the development of the cells of the human body from two cells the sperm and the egg into the multi-celled living being we call a human being. It is in the Womb of the universe Nut that the universe (Outer Space, the galaxy and stars and planets arrangement takes place.The Male principle like Imin (Amun) for example would defend Maat (order) from Isfet (disorder, evil, chaos) represented by the enemies of Ra like Apep and Set.
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Sudanese Woman from Oulad-Hamid, Sudan Notice Maat Feather Ornament another tangible connection between Egypt and Sudan.
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Dwarf-god, grotesque in appearance, benign in nature
Bes (Bisu, Aha) was an ancient Egyptian dwarf god who was a god of protection against evil with his tambourine or harp, swords, maces and knives. Previous to being given the name 'Bes', he was known as 'Aha' ('fighter') (Ras Khalif: Addition this is the name given to Egypt’s 1st dynastic King Mena (aka Narmer to the Greeks) also known as Aha ‘the Fighter’) because of his ferocity - he was thought to have been able to strangle bears, lions, antelopes and snakes with his bare hands. In this role, he was seen as a supporter of Ra, helping to defeat his serpent enemies. He was usually depicted as a somewhat leonine full faced (unlike the usual profile in Egyptian art) bearded dwarf with his tongue sticking out (just as the Maori men stick out their tongues during their war dance), standing on bow legs, his genitals prominent and often with a lion's tail. He wore a plumed crown and a lion or panther skin, which was often worn by the stem priests. In earlier times, though, he was not a dwarf - he had the body of a normal human, though he did sport the lion-like beard and tail. Bes info borrowed from Crystalinks website except where noted: http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptgods4.html One thing that isn’t explained above is that before Bes was known as a male deity, he was also the oldest known hermaphrodite deity (the importance of his hermaphrodite status will be discussed in the section on Neter Hapi). He was originally a deity of the south he came to Egypt from Nubia and he was depicted as a hermaphrodite by the Nubians again linking the ancestral tree of the Nile with Southern Nile Valley people. Before the Nubians he was known as a Hermaphrodite deity in the Great Lakes Region as well. He is one of Africa’s oldest deities (see: Sir Albert Churchward’s Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man.) He played Hapi’s role before Hapi existed in the Kemetic pantheon of Supreme Beings. When Bes became a patron of the household, child birth and ally of Heru Pa Khart (the Child). Hapi took on his role as hermaphrodite the deity of the Nile. Dr Ben traces the deity Bes to the Twa (diminutive blacks) and Hutu people of Nile Valley which have been traced back to 400,000 years in terms of artifacts. They are the source of the Ankh, the Crook and the Flail. All symbols of power and kingship carried down the Nile to the Egyptians. He also speaks of Bes as a Hermaphrodite and his history as such in his lecture: “The Origin of the God Concept in Ancient Egypt.”
Hapi - God of the Nile, Fertility, the North and South. He is a hermaphrodite having the breast of a woman and the penis of a man showing the Ancient Kamau’s sacred connections to the Nile River. The Egyptians stated in the Papyrus of Hunefer and I quote: “We (meaning Egyptians) came from the beginning of the Nile at the Foothills of the Mountains of Moon where Neter Hapi dwells” In Africa there are 2 mountains of the Moon one is Kilimanjaro on the Kenya / Tanzania border and the other is the Rwenzori Mountain Range in Uganda both the Names Kilimanjaro and Rwenzori mean Mountains of the Moon. This is the source of the White Nile and other Source is Lake Tana in Ithiopia which is the source of the Blue Nile and the Atbara River. Both places are also sources of the oldest human remains in the world. Both of these places named as source of the origins of the ancient Egyptians are today and always were inhabited by BLACK Africans.
The Edfu Text located at Edfu Temple dedicated to Neter Heru states Egyptians were a colony of Ithiopians lead by Heru (Greek: Horus) and that they settled Kemet in ancient times. So even esoterically the fact that Hapi a deity with both males and female organs being used as the patron deity of the Nile shows their connections to Nile and the fact that they saw their own Mother’s and Father’s in the form of Hapi the Hermaphrodite deity as the source of their male and female ancestors. Which coincides with the Egyptian accounts of their own origins, Greek accounts of Egyptian origins (Herodotus, Strabo, Diodorus Sicilus to name a few), modern anthropology and archeology as well as the accounts of African historians and Egyptologists which would include early white Egyptologists like Budge and Count Volney. Egyptians knew of their own ancestral roots and the roots of their culture (which resides with the world’s oldest human beings the Twa, San,and Hutu all of which whom Dr Ben see: The Nile Valley Civilization and the Spread of African Culture and Sir Albert Churchward (in his landmark work Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man)in their research found the roots of Nile Valley as well as human culture) without having to result to disrespecting the dead by violating their graves(so called ”modern” archeology) to do so. They were the best record keepers bar none of any of the ancient literate people.
Min is a very ancient god and was ithyphallic. He is closely related to Amun, Amen, Amin in which his name is found. One would ask how he relates to the equation. In his symbolism we find a most interesting visual esoteric connection to the feminine principle being the primary principle in that he is shown at times like in the image above left for example with his penis in the region of his navel. So in essence the penis (umbilical cord) is an extension of his connection to the mother Goddess. God the father at all times had a mother. At other times he is shown with his penis in the anatomically correct position because he does carry out a role as a male creator deity symbol is lettuce another aphrodisiac vegetable item utilized by ancient Kemetic males for sexual vitality. But again the esoteric symbolism of the penis being in the region of the navel cannot be overlooked. Simply because it connects the concept of a creator, being created himself of a female deity. This was expressed so heavily culturally so as to remind Egyptian people especially men of the females’ importance and the reverence that should be shown her. The feminine principle is primary or first then the masculine principle is the equal opposite and dynamic active side of crqation while the feminie is the receptive passive side.
Woman as deity again visual proof of the Origins of Xtian symbolism in Kemet.
- Without the woman the savior of humanity couldn’t be born. In ancient Egypt that was Heru and God Ausar(Osiris) could only be raised from the dead with the help of his wife Auset(Isis). She has a pivital role to play in the salvation of humanity.
We don't teach these things to our children & over time they are saturated with the same explicit sexual images we all as adults have now become anesthetized to. No different to our children being anesthetized to the concept of death by watching how ever many millions of images of people dying or being shot to death in film, the media, cartoons and the like by the time they are young adults.
We must control how we are portrayed in order to foster a change in the societal mindset. We must start our own media outlets or at least control one of our own. There must be boundaries both moral and spiritual boundaries placed on the concept of freedom in terms of how the human being in all of its facets and forms are depicted. If a woman is portrayed with respect and respect for the woman is taught in schools and the home first of course we will see a difference in how our children and future adults treat them. If we stop supporting programs that depict our women and our people in a shameful and negative light we can start to see some improvement. If we learn our history then we don’t have to allow society or any one else to tell lies to our children.
Ras~