We salute Fatai Rolling Dollar of Nigeria as he goes home to the ancestors in pride and glory…

Ancient Egyptian

At the end of the cycle of epochs, water and fire come down to recleanse and restart things anew.

This week the event of the waters and floods is on Europe.

The entire Eastern and Central Europe is stirred-up and gravely disturbed. Waters are coming down from the fountains of the earth and the heavens. Floods have arisen. And with them, come mud and debris.

More than 20 thousand people have turned refugees and are fleeing the land. More are getting ready to flee the rising floods.

Central European capitals are flooded out or under threat.

The capital of Hungary, Budapest is under a flood watch and there are sand banks lined up through entire neighbourhoods in a hopeless bid to keep the waters out. They hold back the river floods, but they cannot do nothing about the fountains of the heavens which pour down oceans of rain on them. They are getting ready to flee.

The capital of Poland Warsaw was under water this weekend. Goodness knows when it will recede. Entire neighbourhoods have been turned into lakes and ponds.

The capital of the German province of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Magedeburg is completely under water. Its dams broke down yesterday under the weight of the surging waters and the city is on the run. The residents are become refugees in their own country.

Magdeburg is situated on the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval capital cities of Europe. Emperor Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor, lived for most of his reign in the town and was buried in the cathedral after his death.

Other parts of Saxony-Anhalt and neighbouring Brandenburg state are equally threatened as the flood crest moves north. Flood defences as seen in the case of Magdeburg are already weakened by days of heavy rain.

Even the German capital Berlin is no longer safe.

A dyke at Fischbeck, west of Berlin, was reported to have breached overnight, forcing the closure of a major train line linking Berlin to Cologne, Frankfurt and Amsterdam.

And so it goes on. From one battering to the next. Economy weakening, political paralysis, military stagnations and defeats, have come on Babylon.

And just like the Prophet Marley foretold, there will also be the events of nature, in forms of lightening, thunder, rainstorms, and fires…..

The Story of Princess Scota – Princess Meritaten

In 1955, archaeologist Dr. Sean O’Riordan of Trinity College, Dublin, made an interesting discovery during an excavation of the Mound of Hostages at Tara, site of ancient kingship of Ireland. Bronze Age skeletal remains were found of what has been argued to be a young prince, still wearing a rare necklace of faience beads, made from a paste of minerals and plant extracts that had been fired.

The skeleton was carbon dated to around 1350 BC. In 1956, J. F. Stone and L. C. Thomas reported that the faience beads were Egyptian: “In fact, when they were compared with Egyptian faience beads, they were found to be not only of identical manufacture but also of matching design.

The famous boy-king Tutankhamun was entombed around the same time as the Tara skeleton and the priceless golden collar around his mummy’s neck was inlayed with matching conical, blue-green faience beads”. An almost identical necklace was found in a Bronze Age burial mound at north Molton, Devon.

Lorraine Evans in her compelling book, Kingdom of the Ark, reveals archaeological connections between Egypt and Ireland. Evans argues that the connections between the two distant lands were plausible and there is archaeological evidence to support the theory.

In 1937 in North Ferriby, Yorkshire, the remains of an ancient boat were discovered. While thought to be a Viking longship at first, continued excavation produced additional ships, wrecked in a storm.

Further investigation showed that the boats were much older than Viking ships and were of a type found in the Mediterranean. It was concluded that these boats originated from 2000 years before the Viking age and were radiocarbon dated to around 1400 to 1350 BC.

Evans then makes connections to argue that these boats could originate from Egypt, as the timeframe fits the dating of the faience beads.

While investigating the origins of the people of Scotland in the Bower manuscript, the Scotichronicon, she discovers the story of Scota, the Egyptian princess and daughter of a pharaoh who fled from Egypt with her husband Gaythelos with a large following of people who arrive in a fleet of ships. They settled in Scotland for a while amongst the natives, until they were forced to leave and landed in Ireland, where they formed the Scotti, and their kings became the high kings of Ireland. In later centuries, they returned to Scotland, defeating the Picts, and giving Scotland its name.

{The Scotichronicon is a 15th-century chronicle by the Scottish historian Walter Bower. It is a continuation of John of Fordun’s earlier work Chronica Gentis Scotorum. The National Library of Scotland has called it “probably the most important mediaeval account of early Scottish history”, noting that it provides both a strong expression of national identity and a window into the world view of mediaeval commentators.}

Evans then posits the questions: Was the Tara necklace a gift from the Egyptians to a local chieftain after their arrival? Or was the Tara prince actually Egyptian himself? According to Bower’s manuscript, Scota’s descendants were the high kings of Ireland. In her quest to discover the true identity of ‘Scota,’ as it was not an Egyptian name, she finds within Bower’s manuscript that Scota’s father is actually named as being Achencres, a Greek version of an Egyptian name. In the work of Manetho, an Egyptian priest, Evans discovers the translation of the name—the pharaoh Achencres was none other than Akhenaten, who reigned in the correct timeframe of 1350 BC. Evans believes that Scota was Meritaten, eldest daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.

Princess Meritaten

The third eldest daughter, Ankhesenpaaten, married her half-brother, King Tutankhamun, son of Akhenaten and his secondary wife, Kiya. The controversial religious shift to the god Aten caused conflict with the Amun priesthood, who reasserted their authority after Akhenaten’s reign ended and he disappeared from history. This conflict and the rumored deaths by plague would have been sufficient motivation for the pharaoh’s eldest daughter to accept a foreign prince in marriage, rather than being Tut’s wife as would have been normal protocol, and to flee from the conflicted country.

What happens to Scota and her people? For this, we must return again to the myths of the people inhabiting Ireland at the time, the Tuatha de Danaan, the magical children of the Goddess Danu: “It was they who originally established the site of Tara, in the Boyne river valley, as the ritual inauguration and burial place of the ancient kings of Ireland. They were generally regarded as the gods and goddesses of the Celtic tribes, but it is believed that their true origins date far back into prehistory”.

In the Annals of the Four Masters, dating to 1632-36, Scota’s husband is named Eremon, and it is Eremon and Eber who divide the land of Ireland between them, with Eremon in the north and Eber in the south. What is interesting to me about this version is the similarity between the division of Ireland and the division of Egypt itself. Egypt was divided into Upper and Lower Egypt, unified by a central connecting city, Memphis. If we consider the existing myths of Ireland’s legends, it, too, was divided to have a central site of unity, known as Mide, the omphalos of Ireland. Within Mide is where the Hill of Tara is situated, as a site of the High Kingship, representing the unity of the land and all of its people.

Sadly, it is in the battle for Ireland at Slieve Mish, as recorded in the Lebor Gabala, that Scota meets a tragic end and is killed. After her death in this battle, the war continued on at Tailtinn against the three kings of the Tuatha de Danaan, the husbands of the Goddesses Banba, Fodla, and Eriu: MacCuill, MacCeacht, and MacGreine. The sons of Mil, after prolonged battle, conquered the de Danaans and took the seat of Tara. According to the Bower manuscript, Scota was buried “between Sliab Mis and the sea,” and her grave, Fert Scota, is found in a glen located in Glenscota.

The exact location of Scota’s resting place remains a mystery, much like the particulars of her past, which are slowing being unveiled. As with many myths, a real person lent her persona and identity to the landscape of the land she became a part of, giving Scotland her name, giving the Celts an additional layer to their unique heritage that is unsung and still somewhat new in theory, as the truths of history do their slow unraveling of their yarns.

From a recorded conversation with Time magazine editor, Stengel:

Conversations with Richard Stengel about meeting Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia:

STENGEL: So tell me about the Emperor, Haile Selassie. You met him.

MANDELA: That was an impressive fellow, man, very impressive. It was my first time to watch…a head of state going through the formalities… the motions of formality. This chap came wearing a uniform and he then came and bowed. But it was a bow which was not a bow –he stood erect, you see, but just brought down his head…then…took his seat and addressed us, but he spoke in (Amharic)…Then, at the end of the conference he saw every, each delegation…and Comrade Oliver Tambo asked me to speak for our delegation, to speak to him. And I explained to him very briefly what was happening in South Africa…He was seated on his chair, listening like a log…not nodding, just immovable, you know, like a statue…The next time I saw him was when we attended a military parade, and that was very impressive (whistles), absolutely impressive. And he was then giving awards…to the soldiers; everyone who had graduated got a certificate… A very fine ceremony-a very dignified chap- and he also gave medals. There (were) American military advisors… (and) groups of military advisers from various countries …And so he gave medals to these chaps too. But to see whites going to a black monarch emperor and bowing was also very interesting.

WHY DO AFRICAN-AMERICANS HAVE SUCH A HIGH PERCENTAGE OR RATIO OF WELSH SIR NAMES?( THE STORY OF PRINCE MADOC AND THE WELSH MOORS)

by (AMIR) ISHAQ D. AL-SULAIMANI

The original British were Moorish-Israelites. The name British is Hebrew in origin and derives from the compound words Brit meaning covenant and Ish meaning man. In this regard the original British were counted among those who inherited the Covenant of Abraham,Isaac and Jacob. During the 6th century the Brits were invaded by the Germanic tribes known as the Angles,Saxons and Jutes.(The Angles became known as the English.) In response the Brits fled nearby to a land of refuge which they called Armorica, and thus the Armorican identity was that which secretly preserved the Moorish Israelite heritage of the original Britons or British. The Moors were also the original settlers of Ireland which was originally known as Hibernia meaning the Land of the Hebrews, while the Scottish Hebrides Islands were a manifestation of the Moorish Hebrew identity of the original inhabitants of Scotland. However it was the Welsh known as the people of Cymru who best preserved the Armorican identity of the original British Israelites.

In 1170, the Moorish Welsh Prince Madoc sailed to the ” New Word ” or ” Western Lands ” as they were known and established the Moorish Settlement of the Mandan or Mendanne. In the Western Lands Prince Madoc sought to establish another Armorica(America) or place of refuge where the British Moors could preserve their Israelite identity and heritage. The name Mandan or Mendanne(Mandanne) is rooted in the Mande(Mende) tribal origins of the Moors who in the Great Moorish Kingdom of Mali were most prominently known as the Mandingo. (In 1311 Abubaker II the Emperor of Mali set sail across the Atlantic with a 1,000 vessel fleet and thus the Mandingo Moors who in the Americas became known as the Nantego(Nanticoke) joined the earlier Welsh Moors who became known as the Mandan. The Malian voyage is recorded by the Egyptian historian Ibn Fadlullah Al-Umari. In fact in 1750 a Moravian Missionary, J.C. Pyrlaeus visited the Nanticoke Nation on Maryland’s eastern shore to compile a vocabulary of their language. Years later all their words were discovered to form a language that was pure African Mandingo(Black Indians William Loren Katz Page 109)

In regards to the above migrations the Moors who came from Wales(1170) under the leadership of Prince Madoc became known as the Mandan or Mandanne (Mendanne) while those who came from Mali(1311) under the leadership of Abu Baker II became known as the Nanticoke or Nantego an alternate variant of Mandingo.

In recent years a number of individuals of Welsh descent began to curiously question the reason why so many African-Americans have such a high percentage or ratio of Welsh Sir names. The most commonly expected response that African-Americans with Welsh Sir names are simply those who descend from Welsh owned slaves has been totally proven false. The percentage of Welsh immigrants who came to the Americas prior to 1865 was extremely low in relation to most other ethnic communities. Among those who did arrive prior to 1865 many were active in Abolitionist movements and settled in areas where slavery was either rare or non-existent. Factual statistics have logically eliminated the possibility that African-Americans inherited such a high percentage of Welsh names from Welsh Slave Masters. There are now a number of theories that have tried to account or explain away this phenomenon. However the fact of the matter is that many African-Americans are descended from the Moorish communities who arrived in the Americas prior to Columbus from both Mali and Wales. Those who would identify or adopt Welsh Sir names descend from the latter.

WHY ARE WELSH NAMES SO COMMON IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY
Welsh

When the Welsh Moors came to the Americas in 1170 under the leadership of Prince Madoc they came at a time when the Welsh still maintained knowledge of their African Mande(Mende) Moorish origins and had not mixed with the Angles(English), Saxons and Jutes to the extent that later Welsh who remaind in Wales did. Welsh immigrants who began to arrive in America approximately 600 years later were much lighter or Anglicized from the 600 year period of mixing with the Angles. However even the Welsh of present day Wales are known to be predominantly of the Black haired type and at times appear recognizably darker than the average Anglo-Saxon.

THE DARK WELSH

WHY ARE THE WELSH CELTS DARK….

Black Monctezuma meets Henand Cortes

Chota Valley modern Ecuador