Pre-Sale - - Aaluja Vol. II: Cyena-Ntu Religion & Philosophy

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Book Release Date: January 1, 2020
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Aaluja Vol. II: Cyena-Ntu Religion and Philosophy, picks up where Aaluja Vol. I left off and continues its efforts to situate current discourses concerning major Ancient Egyptian religious and philosophical themes within their proper African contexts. Drawing from an array of modern African languages and cultures, Asar Imhotep illuminates the primary assumptions, principles and concepts upon which African culture(s) and world-view are structured. He then utilizes these characteristics—which are shared among the ancient Egyptians—to provide us with the necessary conceptual grounding for a critical reassessment and reinterpretation of the major concepts and ideas that gave ancient Egypt its salience. Aaluja Vol. II adopts a new linguistic model, which Asar calls Cyena-Ntu (formally Negro-Egyptian), to provide the necessary framework in which to understand, on a scientific basis, the shared historical and cultural connections to be found within the Cyena-Ntu language family. This Vol. highlights more the role the ciBantu languages play in our understanding of ancient Egyptian language and philosophy. With the help of the Sumerian language, Aaluja Vol. II provides the necessary evidence for the argument that the ancient Egyptian language is a ciBantu language and that Ancient Egyptian religion and philosophy IS ciBantu philosophy. A parallel objective of this work is to aid in the reconstruction of the greater Cyena-Ntu religion via characteristic survivals among its daughter communities. This stimulating book will be appreciated by students, scholars and general readers alike and is a major contribution to the fields of Egyptology and Africology.

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I should note that those who pre-order 1) the price is discounted (will be $45 when published), and 2) you get a chapter to read to hold you down until you receive the book.

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[zarahan]

With the help of the Sumerian language, Aaluja Vol. II provides the necessary evidence for the argument that the ancient Egyptian language is a ciBantu language and that Ancient Egyptian religion and philosophy IS ciBantu philosophy.

It's a bold argument that requires detailed study and given the ancient cultural links
between the peoples of NE Africa on into East Africa some of these linkages are possible.


2- WHat's Wesley Muhammed's beef in a nutshell? Is he pushing an Arabist or Muslim
line? A number of years ago some claimed he seemed to be trying to pull Kemet into
a Muslim Arabist precursor framework, sidelining or minimizing the other intra-African
side of things as in Bantu linkages as far as Kemet is concerned.

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1) The book is pretty detailed and I have provided enough information that scholars will have to take serious consideration of the data.

2) Muhammad in his 2009 publication Black Arabia and the African Origin of Islam, posited that the ancient Egyptian god Ra.w "Ra" was an import (borrowing) of (Black) Semitic *?il- "Allah." In his second publication on the subject, Ra IZ Allah: Why Asar Imhotep is WRONG (2017), he no longer argues that Ra.w is a borrowing from Semites, but that Ra.w and Allah (El, Ilu, etc.) are cognate terms inherited from a common proto-language (i.e. Afro-Asiatic). I challenge both hypotheses and argue in the new text that Proto-Semitic *?il- is a borrowing from ancient Egyptian. It is connected to the history of Neolithic Nile Valley inhabitants moving into the Levant and helping to develop Proto-Semitic by way of convergence with native languages.

Oct 5, 2019 0:34:01 GMT -5 zarahan said:

With the help of the Sumerian language, Aaluja Vol. II provides the necessary evidence for the argument that the ancient Egyptian language is a ciBantu language and that Ancient Egyptian religion and philosophy IS ciBantu philosophy.

It's a bold argument that requires detailed study and given the ancient cultural links
between the peoples of NE Africa on into East Africa some of these linkages are possible.


2- WHat's Wesley Muhammed's beef in a nutshell? Is he pushing an Arabist or Muslim
line? A number of years ago some claimed he seemed to be trying to pull Kemet into
a Muslim Arabist precursor framework, sidelining or minimizing the other intra-African
side of things as in Bantu linkages as far as Kemet is concerned.

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The following excerpt is very informative for a number of reasons. In one sense, although focused on the Yoruba of Nigeria, it applies to the ancient Egyptian Nile Valley culture as well. Secondly, it underscores the fact that when you see “conflicting” stories or variations in myth in culture among one “tribe” of people, that this is more than likely reflective of a number of cultures converging in a single territory. Lastly, there is no such thing as a “purely” traditional way of doing culture and religion in these areas. Each subtribe alters, adds, does-away with various aspects of the tradition to make it unique and practical in their own time and geographical space. Thus, when these traditions travel and find new homes in the diaspora, it is not going to be exactly the same as in the home territory because it must adapt in its new space. The difference between the diaspora version of the religion and that at home is the same as one version in Location A at home with another variant found in Location B 50 miles away from Location A at home. Thus, the version in the Diaspora is just as valid as the version in Location A or B at home. This happens all over Africa. The same happened in ancient Egypt, which is how we get the god Ra.w “Re” in Location A and the god Jtn.w “Aten” in Location B. They are dialectical variants of the same deity. There is no such thing as “religious purity.” That is a myth.

<< In the face of the evidence presented above, it is no longer valid simply to compile a list of Yoruba gods and goddesses as if they originated in their present form -- their genealogical order, their substantive attributes and their hierarchical stratified statuses -- by means of an original primeval revelation to the Yoruba ancestors. Instead, we must see the divinities in terms of the social-political struggles within and between the various Yoruba groups, for their present form has been shaped by their history.

There are many Yoruba groups. Each Yoruba tribe or sub-tribe has its own cult considered by local people to be of the greatest social significance for themselves. In each locale, the cult which provides the overall festival and ceremony of the year is considered to be the most important cult. There are many cultural strands among the Yoruba. Therefore, we should expect to have various religious strands and traditions. >> (Adegbola, 1984: 417)

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Here is a recent conversation I had on Youtube concerning this topic of West African and Ancient Nile Valley connections:

Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzM4uXfR6fo