Afro-Asiatic world - Where does the term "Pharaoh" cited in the Bible and Quran come from ?
Where does the term “Pharaoh”, which is related in the Bible or Quran come from? Is this term of African origin ?
Did the Kamits of antiquity know this term "Pharaoh"? These are questions that deserve clarification ...
It is in many documentaries intended for general audiences that it is often easy to see that the kings of the Nile Valley are often referred to as "pharaohs".
Most of the time, they are called by this title of: “ooh pharaoh", which implies that this term was used to designate the chiefs of the Nile valley.
However, in reality, the noun "pharaoh" is primarily a Greek name. It derives from the substantive Kamit or Egyptian:
Per-aa designating “the palace”. “Per” means “the domain or the place” And the “aa” means “great”.
Therefore, the phrase “Per-aa” simply meant “the great building or the great palace”.
This expression therefore initially designated the royal palace and not the kings.
This amalgam still exists to this day since we find expressions like “The white house has decided”
or “The Elysee has decided” but we do not address the minister or the head of state by using the name of the place.
For example, a journalist or a citizen will say "Mr. the President ”or even“ Your majesty ”or“ Mr. the minister "etc...
Nobody will call the King Mohammed 6 by saying "Dar el makhzen" or "house of the makhzen" it makes no sense ! It was the same in ancient Egypt ...
However, the term Per-aa was not part of the titles of the kings of the New Kingdom.
The king was called Heru or Nezout, which translates as king and it could be accompanied by epithets such as "king of Upper and Lower Egypt" etc….
However, it is important to know that it was from the reign of Taharqa, penultimate king of the 25th dynasty (c. -609 to -664) that the term per-aa was inserted in walls.
It therefore became a royal title, but this practice became widespread at the beginning of the Greco-Roman period.
This term will cease just after the reign of Nero, in 68 AD.
Therefore, it was with the massive influx of Greek mercenaries and merchants during Dynasty 26 (ie -672 to -525) that the term "Pharaoh" was born.
During the Roman period, the emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero had many cartouches engraved containing the term “Grand Palais” or “Per-Aa”.
All the African kings before these Greco-Roman periods, that is to say the Cheops, Touthmosis, Menkaure, Hatshepsut, Amenhotep III, Akhenaten or even Ramses II were never "pharaohs".
Because the indigenous peoples who lived in their time never named them like that! It is true that many researchers,
Egyptologists tend to designate the kings of Egypt as pharaohs, but in reality these are anachronisms...
But why is it important to know this ? Quite simply because in the Bible and the Quran, there is often mention of the term “Pharaoh”,
which implies that the Bible was not written at a period prior to the Ptolemaic period since if the Bible had really been written in a period older than the Ptolemaic period,
meaning before -270, it would not mention this term of “Pharaoh”…
It is because it was made in the Greco-Roman period that we find this term of “Pharaoh”, which is a “Greek” term and not an African one…
Just with this demonstration based on historical facts,
we can move forward without being mistaken and with certainty that there have never been divine revelations in the so-called revealed religions,
but rather a spiritual invention modeled on African sacred texts...
The Quran being a resumption of Judeo-Christian texts is no exception to the rule since this term of “Pharaoh” is also cited in the book allegedly called “holy” of the Arab-Muslims...
An African aware of the historical reality can no longer accept these lies of the so-called revealed religions,
which continue to brutalize ignorant and poorly educated families in the world... The truth is one but the lie is multiple ... Hotep!