Somali Culture:Ancient Egypt and the Land of Punt.New Anthropological Movie by RAGEEDI Films 2012
Somalia is
The Land of
Punt:Land of
Myrrh and Frankincense. Ancestral HomeLand of
The Pharaohs .
History :
«
Again the representations of the early Puntites, or
Somali people, on the
Egyptian monuments, show striking resemblances to the
Egyptians themselves. » By
Brian Brown New York: Brentano's[1923]
In "The
Making of Egypt" (
1939). Petrie states that the
Land of Punt was "sacred to the Egyptians as the source of their race" : ""The Egyptians sometimes called
Punt land Ta-Netjeru, meaning "
Land of the
Gods," and considered it their place of origin ." (
Richard Pankhurst, The
Ethiopian Borderlands:
1997)
"
The King Sahure (2458-2446
B.C.) from this Egyptian
Old Kingdom,
Dynasty V (2498-2491 B.C.) made a trade expedition to the Land of Punt . Egyptian ships also reached the shores of the land of Punt on the
Somali coast to procure highly valued cargoes of myrrh, ebony and animals, among other goods. "
Text Reference: The
UNESCO General History of Africa:
Ancient Civilization of
Africa, Vol, II, General History of Africa, G. Mokhtar,
1990, p 64-68 .
The greek historian
Diodorus of Sicily in his book "
Universal history "said that in
6th century before-J-Christ , because of a political crisis in Egypt and the euro-asiatics's infiltrations in Egypt , more than
200 thousands of ancient-egyptians migrated in the south of the
Nile by crossing Nubia-Ethiopia with their ships , in
the direction of the ,
North/East Africa (Now, Somalia ,
Djibouti,
Ethiopia ...). This last historical fact can explain why the somali language is a survived ancient-egyptian language ,according to the british linguist :"
The language of ancient Egypt belonged to the
Hamitic group;
Surviving Hamitic languages are spoken across a large part of
North Africa and include Somali." (The english language ,A Historical
Introduction," by
Charles Barber .)
Even, the genetic research prove that the Somali
DNA is originally from Egypt :
Haplogroup E1b1b1a (V68) :
19th century before J-Christ :
Place of origin : Egypt and northern Soudan .
Extract of the research : More recently, Tillmar et al. (2009) typed
147 males from Somalia for 12
Y-STR loci, and observed that 77% (113/147) had typical E1b1b1a1b haplotypes. This is currently the highest frequency of E1b1b1a1b found in any single sample population.Similarly,
Hassan et al. (2008) in their study observed this to be the most common of the sub-clades of
E-M78 found in
Sudan, especially among the
Beja, Masalit and Fur. The Beja, like
Somalis and
Oromos, speak an
Afro-Asiatic language and live along the "corridor" from Egypt to the
Horn of Africa.)"
Egyptian-Somali
Vocabulary:
"The language of ancient Egypt belonged to the Hamitic group...Surviving Hamitic languages are spoken across a large part of North Africa and include Somali." (The english language ,A Historical Introduction," by the british historian and linguist Charles Barber .)
1) In ancient-egyptian language "Hes" = song,sing with musical instrument / in somali language :" Hees"= song,sing with musical instrument.
2) "
AAR" means "
Lion" in both languages .
3) "
Usha" means "Scepter" in both languages .
4)In Somali-Egyptian" Shub" means a)"pour out , " b) construction made of concrete .
5) In Somali-Egyptian languages :"Sekedseked" means " Redoubling of the building blocks ,
Stacked building blocks or something else .
6) In Egyptian-Somali :
Neter/Neder (divine being) Hipo/Hibo (it means "gift" and the sound "p"it is not mainly used in Hamitic languages ): Heru/
Huur (a stork) : Tuf/Tuf (spit) : Habi (the Nile)/ Habi,ᵓAbi (source of water,to drink ,give him drink )
Wabi ( a river) ; Kab/kab (shoe) brq/biriq (lightning) :"Qbb/Qaboob (cold,cool,fresh ): 'ayah/dayah (moon) ; dab/dab (fire) anka/aniga (pronoun "I" ): su,asu/usi (he) ; Ka,Kaah /Ka,Kaah (Him,the man's appearance, spirit,vital essence,) ; Xi/Ki (a such ) ; Hati,Hat/Haat,Haati (widen wings,flying birds) ; medu/muud (liquid), Hoo/Hoo (to offer ) , Gundhate ,Gunti/Gundhate ,Gunti (loincloth) ,Maanta/Maanta (today,morning ); Kaua/Kaw (standard number one ,1,first ) ; NefNefi/NefNef,Neef (respiration,breath ), (Râ,Horakhty /Râh, Horrahthy (the Sun)
In Ancient-egyptian "Râ" is the sun-god / in Somali "Qor-Rah" means the "neck of Rah ,sun-god . ( Qor= neck / Rah: sun-god) the letter " a" is pronounced with the voiceless pharyngeal fricative [ħ]
7) Egyptian Somali :Awoow /Awoow (grandfather,old man) ;
Ayeeytha/Ayeeyda (grandmother,old woman, old age )
8) In Ancient-egyptian "Hun, Hunnu" = young man ,young girl/ in Somali "Hun, Hunnu,Huunno" = young man , young girl .
9) Two Somali/Egyptian
Similar Names of the
Pharaonic Enthronement :
Sare,Hore/Sare,Hore ( the
High and the
First )
10)In ancient-egyptian :Ausar =god
Osiris ,ancestor of egyptians /.In Somali : Ausar,=
Father Sar (AW-father ; Sar), Isir,Ausar = Ancestor , venerated in the Somali
Culture in the antiquity according to a Somali
Historian and linguist Diriye .