* I think if you overstood what my point is, you would not be so upset - that is unless you base your trod in Rastafari solely on the bible as historical record as your measurement for what Rastafari is.

"In the same area lived the Sumarians, 'inventers of writing', who called themselves Saggig which means BLACK HEADED ONES. Ancient pictures proof that people in that area were NEGROES... the Bible agree on that, by stating that from east Africa to Babylon there lived HAMITES!"

*I have previously ackowledged in my posts that Ethiopians were found from Africa to India to Asia and even into the Americas - I am not refuting your point.

"When YOU PEOPLE cite some ancient AFRICAN(continent) scriptures this is pure truth... but when you think it is NOT African(what is WRONG!) it is authomatically a hear-say, or even PSEUDO HISTORY!?? You have NO right to call the History and Culture of an African People PSEUDO, man!"

* I have already acknowledged that many stories in the bible can be found amongst some of the oldest remnants of the ancient Black African family. I have showed examples. I do not know how the African claim to the origins of Judaism could be more thoroughly proved than by citing these examples! Did you miss this point?

"Abraham came from Ur . . ."

* Africa knew of Ur and Abraham allegorically before these ideas were interpreted as a geographical locality with a purported actual historical figure OUTSIDE of Africa -- 'we are told that Abraham came from Ur of the Kasdim, or the Magi, which was his birthplace, that goes far to identify him as a solar god, just as Laban, the white one, was a lunar deity, and Ur a mythical locality. Ur is an Egyptian name for that which is eldest, first, great, principal. The course of the sun-god by day is reckoned to run from Ta-Ur to Am-Ur, i.e. from east to west. Ta-Ur then is Egyptian for the land of the east, and the migration thence is solar, that is — mythical, — and would be astronomical when the [Page 637] birthplace is designated “Ur of the Kasdim” or Chaldees. Ur of the Kasdim is self-identified by name with the Magi, astrologers or astronomers. Moreover, the frequent coupling of Ur and Martu in the astrological tablets points to Ur as a name for the east being juxtaposed to Martu for the west, “Ur and Martu” meaning east and west, and not Ur a city on earth and Martu a quarter in the heavens.'

* I will repeat something I posted previously -The people in Ethiopia, regardless of ethnicity, whether they be Oromo of Tigre or Amhara carry some of the oldest bloodlines in the world. It was these ancient bloodlines that built the Nile Valley Civilizations. It was from amongst these bloodlines and those that even preceeded these that the foundational ideas that are today attributed to the Jews came from.

If one wants to define the Jews as the progenitors of the ideas such as the 10 commandments, circumcision, monotheism, the Exodus story, the 12 tribes based on a totem and zodiacal equivalent, etc., etc. then I WILL DEFINE THESE PEOPLE AS BEING THOROUGHLY AFRICAN - because these were the original who were COPIED by ones who care nothing for Africa - who use the bible as a distorted and infactual account of history to justify a false sense of superiority amongst themselves.

* Bredren I think we believe some of the exact same things - it is just our point of reference is different.