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"circumcision

the egyptians practiced circumcision as early as prehistoric times; they transmitted this practice to the semitic world in general(jews and arabs), especially to those whom herodotus called syrians. to show that the colchians were egyptians, herodotus cited these two indications:

“my own conjectures were founded, first, on the fact that they are black-skinned and have woolly hair, which certainly amounts to but little, since several other nations are so too: but further and more, on the circumstance that the colchians, the egyptians, and the ethiopians, are the only nations who have practiced
circumcision from the earliest times. the phoenicians and the syrians of palestine themselves confess that they learnt the custom of the egyptians; and the syrians who dwell about the rivers thermodon and parthenius, as well as their neighbors the macronians, say that they have recently adopted it from the colchians. Now these are the only nations who use circumcision, and it is plain that they all imitate herein the egyptians”

anticipating the agreement of all logical, i call negro a human being whose skin is black; especially when he has frizzy hair. all who accept this definition will recognize that, according to herodotus, who saw the egyptians as plainly as the reader is now seeing this book, circumcision is of egyptian and ethiopian origin, and the egyptians and ethiopians were none other than negroes inhabiting different regions.

thus, we can understand why the semites practice circumcision despite the fact that their traditions present no valid justification for it. the weakness of the arguments in genesis is typical: god asks abraham(and later moses) to be circumcised, as a sign of a covenant with him. without explaining how circumcision, considered from the standpoint of jewish tradition, can lead to the notion of an alliance. this is all the more curious because abraham was allegedly circumcised at the age of ninety. in egypt he had married a negro woman, hagar, mother of ishmael, the biblical ancestor of the second semitic branch, the arabs. ishmael was said to be the historical ancestor of mohammed. moses, too, wed a madianite, and it was in connection with his marriage that the eternal asked him to be circumcised(?). what should be noted in these legendary tales is the idea that circumcision was introduced among the semites only as a result of contact with the black world---which conforms to the testimony of herodotus.

only among blacks does circumcision find an interpretation integrated in a general explanation of the universe, in other words, a cosmogony. specifically, the DOGON cosmogony that marcel griaule reports. in “dieu d’eau”, he reminds us that, to make sense, circumcision must be accompanied by excision. these two operations remove something female from the male and something male from the female. to the archaic mentality, such an operation is intended to fortify the dominant character of a single sex in a given human being.

*insert---what does this mean for the acceptance and spread of homosexuality in and by the west?----seshatasefekht*

according to dogon cosmogony, a newborn baby is to a certain extent androgynous, like the first god:

“so long as it retains its foreskin and clitoris, indications of the sex opposite to the apparent sex, masculinity and femininity have equal strength. thus it is not accurate to compare the uncircumcised to a woman; like a girl on whom excision has not been performed, he is both male and female. if this indecision about his sex were allowed to continue, he(or she) would have no interest in PROCREATION……. these ,then, are the various reasons for circumcision and excision:

THE NEED TO RID THE CHILD OF AN EVIL FORCE, THE NEED FOR HIM(OR HER) TO PAY A DEBT OF BLOOD AND TO TURN DEFINITELY TOWARD ONE SEX.”

for this explanation of circumcision to be valid, divine androgyny, the traditional cause of this practice in african society, must also have existed in egyptian society. only then can we be justified in identifying the ritual causes of circumcision among egyptians and in the rest of black africa. as a matter of fact, chapollion the younger writes in his letters to champollion-figeac about the divine androgyny of amon/AMEN, supreme god of the meroitic sudan and egypt:

‘amon is the point of departure and the focal point of all divine essences. aAmon-ra, the supreme, primordial being, his own father and termed the husband of his mother, has his feminine portion enclosed in his own essence that is both male and female.”

the nile is also represented by an androgynous personage. amon is likewise the god of all black africa. in passing it may be said that in the meroitic sudan, black africa, and egypt, amon is connected with the idea of humidity. his attribute in all these countries is the ram. thus, in the significantly entitled volume, “dieu d’eau” (god of water), when marcel griaule writes of the dogon god amma, this deity appears in the form of the ram-god, with a gourd between his horns. in dogon cosmogony, amon descends from the sky on a rainbow, symbol of rain and humidity.

although some blacks have abandoned circumcision, through forgetfulness of their traditions or for various other reasons, although thire is a growing trend in black africa to renounce excision, and although circumcism is a technically operation for egyptians and semites, this does not alter the root of the problem. yet, for the identification to be complete and the argument convincing, excison must also have existed in egypt. strabo tells us that this was the case:

“the egyptians are expecially careful in raising all their children and circumcise the boys and even the girls, a custom common to the jews, a people originally from egypt(?), as we observed when we discussed that subject.”

-----cheikh anta diop(1967), “the african origin of civilization”, chapter7- arguments supporting a negro origin-circumcision.

ras heru, why do our western enemies(not diop) collect this and other knowledge? is it to benefit us or them? a few years ago i found out about human reations to the introduction of male and female hormones in livestock-food production. more scary stuff.

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