Wow brehs... I'm reading about the DOGON tribe from the mountains Mali, untouched by white slavery.
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Crayola Coyote
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As if we gonna believe a European riding on a elephant from North Africa running a train on every damn roman army that comes his way like he is the crimson tide playing Norte dame bcs game
cacs crack me up 
Crayola Coyote
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Was looking at some pictures of the Pende people. They remind me of the Dogon.
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Yo! This shyt use to trip me out as a kid when me and my dad use watch African dance videos with ppl dressed up like this.
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
The Fulani are from West Africa. They hail from Futa Djallon.
K.O.N.Y
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Remember this episode and its kinda Eurocentric.
Oceanicpuppy
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I love the dogon very charismatic people.
to further add on to what i was saying in my previous comment
Two things we have to remember. 1) The connection between Amma and Jmn have been made since the time of Diop in the 50's/60's. So it is not a new connection. 2) We have to keep in mind that all of these names are built off of similar sounding roots, that may not have anything to do with each other. They were combined in a sense based off of folk-etymology. Your renderings of Nyame to mean "sky, heaven" would coincide with /mn.t/ "heaven" [Wb 2, 69.2; Wilson, Ptol. Lexikon, 438]. However, there is a similar root that is centered on "light" and can be gleaned from the following:
Arabic 'ay-yaam "days"
Hebrew yam- "day (light)
Adjukuru N-yam "God"
Chamba Leko N-yam-a "God, sun"
Akan N-yam-e "God"; N-yan kupon "God"; N-yan konton "rainbow"; ye n-yam "be glorious"; n-yam n-yam "glorious"
Egyptian m mn.t "daily"
ciLuba Dya Munya "day of solar heat; clarity of day; solar light-heat"; Munya "solar light or clarity, warmth, day"
Kikongo mwini "light of sun"; minika "show a light."
This would explain why Jmn is associated with the "sun" in Egyptian, and later combined with ra.w to give us Jmn-ra.w.
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Two things we have to remember. 1) The connection between Amma and Jmn have been made since the time of Diop in the 50's/60's. So it is not a new connection. 2) We have to keep in mind that all of these names are built off of similar sounding roots, that may not have anything to do with each other. They were combined in a sense based off of folk-etymology. Your renderings of Nyame to mean "sky, heaven" would coincide with /mn.t/ "heaven" [Wb 2, 69.2; Wilson, Ptol. Lexikon, 438]. However, there is a similar root that is centered on "light" and can be gleaned from the following:
Arabic 'ay-yaam "days"
Hebrew yam- "day (light)
Adjukuru N-yam "God"
Chamba Leko N-yam-a "God, sun"
Akan N-yam-e "God"; N-yan kupon "God"; N-yan konton "rainbow"; ye n-yam "be glorious"; n-yam n-yam "glorious"
Egyptian m mn.t "daily"
ciLuba Dya Munya "day of solar heat; clarity of day; solar light-heat"; Munya "solar light or clarity, warmth, day"
Kikongo mwini "light of sun"; minika "show a light."
This would explain why Jmn is associated with the "sun" in Egyptian, and later combined with ra.w to give us Jmn-ra.w.
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It also exist among the Akan as the God Nyame (Nzambi in Kikongo and ciLuba). Here is the symbol of (Gye) Nyame (< mAa.t). Notice a pattern here? I should note that Amma, Nyame, Maat, Nzambi, etc., all derive from a word meaning "hand." The image below is also an abstract closed hand. In Egyptian we have jmm "grip, grasp" (Vygus); Am "to seize, to grip" (Budge 6a). Remember in Egyptian that /jmn.t/ or /wnmj/ means "right hand" and is used to mean "The West." The hand is used to "build, create, arrange, put in order, regulate, turn, spin, coil, fold, stack, etc." In N-E, the "foot, leg" and "arm, hand" have the same etymology
I'm feeling generous. To show you guys what I mean when I argue that the spiral/coil/spin in African tradition means "order, stability" (<mAa.t) here is an example of what I mean using the snake as a symbol of that ordering process.
Chukwunyere Kamalu—Person, Divinity, & Nature: A Modern View of the Person & the Cosmos in African Thought (1998)—on the Fon (Benin, W.Africa)
In the beginning was Nana Buluku (an androgynous being) out of whom came the female-male pair, Mawu-Lisa. The union of these twins is the basis of the organization of the universe. The creator or demiurge, Mawu-Lisa, two beings in one, is assisted by a semi-personal power named Da, who acts “at once as instrument and conscious assistant in the work of ordering the world. Da, like Maw-Lisa contains both male and female principles. This organizing power, this force of life and motion, is sometimes described as the first created being . . .” Da has many incarnations, one of which is the serpent, Da Ayido Hwedo who, whilst submerged in the ocean of primeval waters, coiled around the unformed earth to hold it together. The vastness of this ocean signified Da’s greatness. Da is thus the continued sustainer of the order and stability of the universe. Whilst coiled around the earth, Da is not still but continually moving in a spiral motion. This motion was also identified with water, which is part of Da’s essential being and caused the cosmos to be set into rotation. Da was believed to have set up four iron pillars to support the sky at the four ends of the earth: hence keeping the sky and the waters below separated. These pillars coincide with the four cardinal points, north, east, south, and west. This is succeeded by the springing forth from Da, of the gods (vodu), who represent the different forces that act upon human beings. (Kamalu, 1998: 126-127)
I'm feeling generous. To show you guys what I mean when I argue that the spiral/coil/spin in African tradition means "order, stability" (<mAa.t) here is an example of what I mean using the snake as a symbol of that ordering process.
Chukwunyere Kamalu—Person, Divinity, & Nature: A Modern View of the Person & the Cosmos in African Thought (1998)—on the Fon (Benin, W.Africa)
In the beginning was Nana Buluku (an androgynous being) out of whom came the female-male pair, Mawu-Lisa. The union of these twins is the basis of the organization of the universe. The creator or demiurge, Mawu-Lisa, two beings in one, is assisted by a semi-personal power named Da, who acts “at once as instrument and conscious assistant in the work of ordering the world. Da, like Maw-Lisa contains both male and female principles. This organizing power, this force of life and motion, is sometimes described as the first created being . . .” Da has many incarnations, one of which is the serpent, Da Ayido Hwedo who, whilst submerged in the ocean of primeval waters, coiled around the unformed earth to hold it together. The vastness of this ocean signified Da’s greatness. Da is thus the continued sustainer of the order and stability of the universe. Whilst coiled around the earth, Da is not still but continually moving in a spiral motion. This motion was also identified with water, which is part of Da’s essential being and caused the cosmos to be set into rotation. Da was believed to have set up four iron pillars to support the sky at the four ends of the earth: hence keeping the sky and the waters below separated. These pillars coincide with the four cardinal points, north, east, south, and west. This is succeeded by the springing forth from Da, of the gods (vodu), who represent the different forces that act upon human beings. (Kamalu, 1998: 126-127)
Remember, you can always hop on a plan and visit also 
Not everyone has the money to hop a plan & book room board
But we don't have to rely so heavily on Europeans disseminating info also
Sidenote: Dudes comes off a bit
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Not everyone has the money to hop a plan & book room board
But we don't have to rely so heavily on Europeans disseminating info also
Sidenote: Dudes comes off a bit
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Mindfield333
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i was waiting for the book to be posted to be realare you reading a book or various internet sites?
Their masks remind me of the Olmec heads in South America.They've definitely seen/know things that most people in this world haven't/don't know.
