The Hebrews' Kush

[tutlual]

Question everyone! The word kush was used by accient Jews to mean a region south of accient Egypt. Likewise, accient Egyptian themselves called the region nubia, notably the present day Sudan. Then came our modern era, the word has been shifted to mean, the lighter skin people of some part of Northern Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia. Hasn't, the word been hijacked by the half-bake 1900 European historians to justify their 1900 intentions, when we know kush was nothing to do with modern day Ethiopia or its people, the modern day Ethiopians were known as Abeesh or Abyssinians.

[maiherpra]

Aug 8, 2011 3:20:49 GMT -5 tutlual said:

Question everyone! The word kush was used by accient Jews to mean a region south of accient Egypt. Likewise, accient Egyptian themselves called the region nubia, notably the present day Sudan. Then came our modern era, the word has been shifted to mean, the lighter skin people of some part of Northern Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia. Hasn't, the word been hijacked by the half-bake 1900 European historians to justify their 1900 intentions, when we know kush was nothing to do with modern day Ethiopia or its people, the modern day Ethiopians were known as Abeesh or Abyssinians.

I think you are right about Kush being used by Hebrews to describe thhe Ancient Sudan. But i believe the AE's used the same word among others to describe the same region. I think Ta netjer is the word they used to describe the whole of Tropical Africa, which means God's Land. And yes even Somalia and Ethiopia may have been considered as Ta Netjer. here is a link which may help you out:

egyptiansociety.co.za/2011/01/ancient-egypt-and-africa-2/

[anansi]

The word Kush seems to have been an ethnic name ,that grew into a civilization and then an Empire that included many other people.



The text takes the form of an address to the living by Sobeknakht: "Listen you, who are alive upon earth . . . Kush came . . . aroused along his length, he having stirred up the tribes of Wawat . . . the land of Punt and the Medjaw . . ." It describes the decisive role played by "the might of the great one, Nekhbet", the vulture-goddess of El Kab, as "strong of heart against the Nubians, who were burnt through fire", while the "chief of the nomads fell through the blast of her flame".

The discovery explains why Egyptian treasures, including statues, stelae and an elegant alabaster vessel found in the royal tomb at Kerma, were buried in Kushite tombs: they were war trophies.
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