lacagyahan 🪽

#DarkGoiyomaro, Ashari , Sufi , Zayla’i

[lacagyahan 🪽 @spiralintodead]

What a surprise that cattle pastoralists , experts at domesticating animals, have somehow found a way to domesticate humans. Our extreme xenophobia is how you get Omotic dwarf jesters, Bantu slave plantations, and Ethio-Semitic concubines. These Somalis have no sympathy from me.

[lacagyahan 🪽 @spiralintodead]

Hierarchy and discrimination are the most fundamental aspects of Somali culture. We take aristocracy to its extreme, which is why we look down on fishing, smithing, farming, etc. We have Midgans to beat our metal, Jareers to do our farming, and Bajuni to do our fishing.

[Gallad @niyow_7]

@haloarmanti Jareer isn't even bad word. Barya and tether literally means slave meanwhile jareer basically means bantuiod

[lacagyahan 🪽 @spiralintodead]

Of course those people came and just shat all over everything.

[lacagyahan 🪽 @spiralintodead]

In Latin the letter V is used to represent a U or W. So when you see the word Avalite in old Latin sources, it would be pronounced “Aualite” which is Latin for “People of Aual” a bastardization of the Somali word “Awdal.” This is for the idiots who think Adal is something new

[lacagyahan 🪽 @spiralintodead]

@AaveHan Many of the sources you tied together are conjectural to your original point. I fail to see how Ibn Arabi's mention of Waaq has any relation to the main topic. Interesting thread nonetheless

[Lo'Qore @LohQore]

Historically, Egyptologists interpreted the first three hours of the Amduat (Egyptian myth of Ra’s/Re’s journey to the underworld) through cosmographic and Jung-inspired psychoanalytical lenses. Re's night-boat travels through a quasi-physical landscape beyond Egypt's western horizon - a world of harsh deserts, steep mountains and divine waterways - were thus understood by many as occurring “in the spaces of the human soul”.

Recently, Thomas Schneider has been arguing for something less mystical, yet just as interesting: that the places in the text has a basis in reality.

He finds not only linguistic evidence to support this, but that the text accurately describes the geography of the (somewhat) Green Sahara's incredibly vast paleolakes - remnants of the once unrivalled Lake Mega-Chad.

A short thread 👇

[lacagyahan 🪽 @spiralintodead]

Perhaps the meaning behind the sky and the tree in Proto-Cushitic culture represents a dualistic lens of the world, with the sky referring to the immaterial and unseen, and the tree referring to the material and the world.

[lacagyahan 🪽 @spiralintodead]

Hathor Cult in Egypt, figs, Sheikh Darod, the sky, and Oromo tree hugging might seem random, but there's a common motif connecting them.

[lacagyahan 🪽 @spiralintodead]

Even today within horn African cultures the symbol of the Sycamore is imbedded in society. Clan elders deal with clan politics and law all under one of these trees. It is deeply spiritual for various communities and used in sacrifices and divination.

[lacagyahan 🪽 @spiralintodead]

These were called the Pitati, mercenaries from the Red Sea coast and the Nile. They were garrisoned in forts dotted across the eastern Mediterranean to fight local Semites and even occasionally the Hittites.

[lacagyahan 🪽 @spiralintodead]

If you are a Palestinian with E-V32, there is a high chance you are a descendant of Bronze Age warriors from the Upper Nile.

[lacagyahan 🪽 @spiralintodead]

One likely explanation for these clades is the Amarna letters. One of these letters was sent to the Pharaohs in Egypt, detailing requests for support and help. They needed protection from the Apiru and neighboring Semitic bandits and forces.

[lacagyahan 🪽 @spiralintodead]

The worst X accounts on Somali tariq are the ones who post a random historian from the 16th century saying some bullshit like “Mogadishu is a Barbar city” or “look at this random guy from Zayla”

Like duh can we learn about something actually new for once. Boring fucks

[lacagyahan 🪽 @spiralintodead]

Nolan’s next hit will be Sydney Sweeney as the lead in The Aethiopica, an epic romance about an Aethiopian princess and her journey through both Greece and Africa

[︎ ︎venom @venom1s]

"The face that launched a thousand ships."

People are saying, "Don't blame Lupita Nyong'o. The casting decision wasn't hers."

But she chose to accept the role, right?

Imagine if a white actor decided to play Michael Jackson, Barack Obama, or T'Challa.

They're saying The Odyssey is fiction. So, Black Panther is a comic book.

Can a white person play Black Panther?

Helen is one of the most important characters in The Odyssey. Her beauty plays a huge role in the story. She was Greek.

Casting a Black actress ruins everything.

She's a good actress, and people may find her beautiful. But that's not what Helen of Troy was like.

Woke Hollywood is destroying thousand-year-old history.

[lacagyahan 🪽 @spiralintodead]

@motalamematska Yes Axum was so bad compared to the legendary civilization such as Gafat and Kaffa empire.