The fascinating real ancient history of Africa
When considering ancient Africa, most people think of Egypt, mainly because of its pyramids, Sphinx,
hieroglyphics and mummies. But this video is not so much about that. Egypt, after all,
is covered in my presentation “The true origins of ancient Egyptian civilisation:
India”. This one however is about the rest of the African continent.
In Indian Vedic lore, Africa was known as Kushadvipa. Two reasons are given for this:
First - Because of Africa’s large stretches of grass-land. (with Kusha, been a sacred grass).
The other reason is that long, long ago one of Lord Rama’s sons Kush was
given the role to oversee that region, and so he probably visited there.
Until relatively recently, a significant part of Africa was still named after
Kush. This fact is supported in the Shatapatha Brahmanas, an ancient commentary on the Vedas.
Although the active history of that part of the world goes much further back,
many historians say that the Kushite Empire began around 2400 BCE. Later, around 730 BCE,
Kush's warriors conquered a weakened Egypt. This event established the black Pharaohs of Kush.
Their empire extended from the Mediterranean to the confluence of the Blue and White Niles.
A thousand pyramids belonged to their kingdom, in what is now
Sudan. Note that in the Vaastu sastras, pyramids are said to invoke auspiciousness.
But prior to the Mahabharat war around 3000 BCE.
The land to greater Kush’s south was what I am calling ‘greater Punt’,
with borders defined by its cultural and tribal influence spreading far south. Its eastern coast
including important trade links with India, Sumer and other parts of Africa.
A lot of people from the Indus valley had settled in Punt. Most likely many were tradesmen,
but some groups were compelled to leave India after killing a king.
Lets look at some examples of Vedic influence in Africa:
The Swahili language and other languages bare the remnants of Sanskrit.
Most notably the Swahili word for lion is simba and in Sanskrit it is simha.
Somalia is named after Soma, meaning land of people who worshipped the moon.
Tanganyika (from Sanskrit ‘Tung Nayak’ meaning ‘great leader’) and Zanzibar, merged - - to
become the single name of Tanzania today. Kilimanjaro, the tallest free-standing mountain
the world, had a sacred status. The Masai tribe still call it House of God,
(as Creator). Other local tribes say it is a place where spirits seek everlasting rest.
This can be compared to the Vedic Mount Meru. Interesting, just 43 miles from Mount Kilimanjaro
is a Mount Meru, a dormant strato-volcano. Meru means Shining Light in Kimeru language
Significantly, and unfortunately, from around the beginning of this inauspicious
Kali Yuga, international slavery phased into urban societies. It started in Sumer and Mesopotamia.
A Kali Yuga symptom indeed Today it is still possible however
to trace ancient traditional Africa’s large variety of religions. And one finds that were
in line with essential Vedic principles. Throughout Africa, in one ancient tribal
territory after another, there was belief in an omnipresent Supreme Being. Most notably
personifications of nature’s forces as creators and sub-creators were very common. Similar of
course to the principle of Vedic demigods. The honouring of ancestors also very common.
There were rites of passage in life, and African culture is full of ritual dancing,
singing and feasting. There are multitudes of
faith sects in ancient Africa, but then all were accommodated, just like in India.
Many tribes wear wooden neck beads, similar to the Vedic kunti mala.
In certain communities, women shave their heads after their husband's death.
This is the same in parts of India. Many traditions have stories of the
distant past when the Gods walked on the Earth and created people, sacred places,
animals and the ways of human society. But Africa’s ancient history also has a lot of
fascinating mysteries. The Dogon tribe within Mali,
west Africa teach that the primal Cosmic Egg was shaken by seven huge stirrings of the universe.
Their traditions are aligned with the movements of a star invisible to the naked eye, Sirius B.
The Dogon knew it orbited around Sirius A every 50 years. That was something which
was unknown to Western astronomers until 1970, with the use of powerful telescopes.
The Dogon also knew that Saturn has various moons. Yet these also cannot
be seen without telescopes. How did they know? Interaction
with a technological civilization based on earth, or even an extra-terrestrial one?
The area of Morocco has been inhabited since at least 8000 BCE. And at Agadir, a complete
arsenal of weapons were discovered that are twenty times as heavy as those needed for a modern man.
Who needed tools of this size? They could have only been…giants!
Stone circles and other megaliths are found in Senegal and Gambia.
Over 1,000 monuments are in a 100 km by 350 km area around the River Gambia.
I’ll finish with two extraordinary examples in South Africa.
Archaeologists conclude that the Bakoni ruins, a series of stone terraces,
could be anywhere between 75,000 and 250,000 years old.
Elsewhere in South Africa, miners found small metal spheres
with three man-made parallel grooves…in rock estimated to be about 2.8 …billion years old!
Their very existence is a huge challenge to the theory of evolution.
But the Vedic view of that human civilisations come and go in 4.32 million year cycles,
again and again over billions of years, is supported by the age of the spheres.
Of course, Africa was probably not a separate continent then.
Rather, part of the single land mass of Pangea. But that’s a subject for another time.
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