So far we have given little or no attention to the evidence of comparative religion. The study of ancient religious history is important, for religion, like philosophy, changes but slowly. Institutional religion, being conservative and static in its outlook, has preserved much ancient lore that would have otherwise been lost to the modern student.
The Greek philosopher Xenophanes (572–480 B.C.), pointed out a profound truth when he observed that the gods men worship very closely resemble the worshippers. In the words of this ancient sage: “Each man represents the gods as he himself is. The Ethiopian as black and flat-nosed the Thracian as red-haired and blue-eyed; and if horses and oxen could paint, they would no doubt depict the gods as horses and oxen.” This being the case; when we find the great nations of the world, both past and present, worshipping black gods, then we logically conclude that these peoples are either members of the black race, or that they originally received their religion in toto or in part from black people. The proofs are abundant.
The ancient gods of India are shown with Ethiopian crowns on their heads. According to the Old Testament, Moses first met Jehovah during his sojourn among the Midianites, who were an Ethiopian tribe. We learn from Hellenic tradition that Zeus, king of the Grecian gods, so cherished the friendship of the Ethiopians that he traveled to their country twice a year to attend banquets. “All the gods and goddesses of Greece were black,” asserts Sir Godfrey Higgins, “at least this was the case with Jupiter, Baccus, Hercules, Apollo, Ammon. The goddesses Benum, Isis, Hecate, Diana, Juno, Metis, Ceres, Cybele were black.” (Anacalypsis, Vol. I, Book IV, Chap. I.)
Even the Romans, who received their religion mainly from the Greeks, admitted their debt to Egypt and Ethiopia. This may be well illustrated by the following passage from The Golden Ass or Metamorphosis, by Apuleius. The author, as an initiate of the Isis cult is represented as being addressed by that goddess: “I am present; I who am Nature, the parent of things, queen of all the elements … the primitive Phrygians called me Pressimunitica, the mother or the gods; the native Athenians, Ceropian Minerva; the floating Cyprians, Paphian Venus … the inhabitants of Eleusis, the ancient goddess Ceres. Some again have invoked me as Juno, others as Bellona, others as Hecate, and others Rhamnusia; and those who are enlightened by the emerging rays of the rising sun, the Ethiopians, Ariians and Egyptians, powerful in ancient learning, who reverence by divinity with ceremonies perfectly proper, call me by my true appellation, Queen Isis.” (Doane’s Bible Myths, Note, p. 478.)
A study of the images of ancient deities of both the Old and New Worlds reveal their Ethiopic origin. This is noted by Kenneth R. H. Mackezie in T. A. Buckley’s Cities of the Ancient World, p. 180: “From the wooly texture of the hair, I am inclined to assign to the Buddha of India, the Fuhi of China, the Sommonacom of the Siamese, the Zaha of the Japanese, and the Quetzalcoatl of the Mexicans, the same, and indeed an African, or rather Nubian, origin.” Most of these black gods were regarded as crucified saviors who died to save mankind by being nailed to a cross, or tied to a tree with arms outstretched as if on a cross, or slain violently in some other manner.
Of these crucified saviors, the most prominent were Osiris and Horus of Egypt, Krishna of India, Mithra of Persia, Quetazlcoatl of Mexico, Adonis of Babylonia and Attis of Phrygia. Nearly all of these slain savior-gods have the following stories related about them: They are born of a virgin, on or near Dec. 25th (Christmas); their births are heralded by a star; they are born either in a cave or stable; they are slain, commonly by crucifixion; they descend into hell, and rise from the dead at the beginning of Spring (Easter), and finally ascend into heaven. The parallels between the legendary lives of these pagan messiahs and the life of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Bible are so similar that progressive Bible scholars now admit that stories of these heathen Christs have been woven into the life-story of Jesus. (These remarkable parallels are discussed and interpreted in a pamphlet, Christianity Before Christ, by John G. Jackson, New York, 1938.)
The late Mr. Maynard Shipley, President of The Science League of America, made a very scholarly study of the various mythologies and religions of the world, and in the concluding passage of a brilliant essay, Christian Doctrines in Pre-Christian America, he offers a profoundly thought-provoking statement:
That the ancient pagan creeds, legends and myths—part of the universal mythos—should be found embodied in the religion of the ancient Mexicans, and that all these again are found to be but the original sources of the modern orthodox Christian religion, is by no means inexplicable, and need not be attribute to the subtlety of the Ubiquitous Devil. The explanation is that all religions and all languages of the civilized races of men had a common origin in an older seat of civilization.
Where that original center of culture was is another story.
The evidence seems to show that the “original center of culture,” referred to by Mr. Shipley, was that vast domain known to the classical geographers and historians as Ethiopia. A study of religious images throws much light on this early civilization. The tau (T-shaped) cross is thought by many Christians to be a unique emblem of their faith. The fact is that this cross is of ancient Ethiopian origin. In the words of an outstanding student of symbolism: “The Ethiopic form of the tau is an exact prototype of the conventional Christian cross; or, to state the fact in its chronological relation, the Christian cross is made in the exact image of the Ethiopian tau.” (Sex Symbolism. P. 9, by William J, Fielding, Little Blue Book No. 904.) The cross was known to all the great ancient nations, and was sometimes shown with the image of a man upon it. The Church Father, Minucius Felix, writing in the early part of the third century, severely rebukes the Pagans for their adoration of crosses: “I must tell you that we neither adore crosses nor desire them; you it is ye Pagans … for what else are your ensigns, flags and standards, but crosses gilt and beautiful. Your victorious trophies not only represent a cross, but a cross with a man upon it.” Commenting on the preceding extract, the American scholar, T. W. Doane, notes that:
It is very evident that this celebrated Christian Father alludes to some Gentle mystery, of which the prudence of his successors has deprived us. When we compare this with the fact that for centuries after the time assigned for the birth of Jesus Christ, he was not represented as a man on a cross, and that the Christians did not have such a thing as a crucifix, we are inclined to think that the effigies of a black or dark-skinned crucified man, which were to be seen in many places in Italy even during the last century, may have had something to do with it. (Bible Myths, p. 197, 7th Edition.)
The same writer also refers to “the Mexican crucified god being sometimes represented as black,” and that “crosses were also found in Yucatan, as well as Mexico, with a man upon them.” (Ibid., p. 201.)
The numerous black madonnas and infants in European cathedrals are discussed in detail by Sir Godfrey Higgins in The Anacalypsis, Vol. I, Book IV, Chap. I, to which the interested student is referred. However, the remarks of Mr. Shipley on this point are worthy of our attention:
Very suggestive is the fact that representations of the virgin mother and infant savior are often black. This is true in the case of the paintings and images of Isis and Horus, of Devaki and Krishna, and in many cases of Mary and Jesus. The most ancient pictures and statues in Italy and other parts of Europe, which are adored by the faithful as representations of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus, reveal the infant draped in white, but with face black and in the arms of a black mother. … How does it happen that the Virgin Mother of the Mexican Savior-God so closely resembled the Black Virgins of Egypt and Europe? Had they not all a common origin?” (Sex and The Garden of Eden Myth, pp. 50–51, by Maynard Shipley, Little Blue Book No.1188.)
Mr. A. H. Verrill, an American archaeologist, visited an Indian shrine in a small town in Guatemala a few years ago, and found that on a special festival day Indians traveled to this little church to bow down to the image of a Black Christ. From the attendant ceremonies, Verrill judged the rite to be of Mayan origin. (see Verrill’s Old Civilizations of the New World, New York, 1938.) The Mayas possessed knowledge of the arts and sciences equivalent to that of the ancients of the Old World, but upon that we cannot dwell, since limitations of space forbid it. The reader is referred to Professor Paul Radin’s fine book on the American Indians, where after surveying the marvelous scientific achievements of the Mayas of Yucatan and Central America , Dr. Radin admits that: “No excavations have ever revealed to us any civilization of a simpler nature from which this very elaborate culture could possibly have been developed.” (The Story of the American Indian, p. 77, Garden City, 1937.)
Egypt and Western Asia tell the same story. “In each case we have a standard or measuring-rod of authentic historical record,” declares Samuel Laing, “of certainly not less than 8,000 and more probably 9,000 or 10,000 years, from the present time; and in each case we find ourselves at this remote date, in the presence, not of rude beginnings, but of a civilization already ancient and far advanced. We have populous cities, celebrated temples, an organized priesthood, an advanced state of agriculture and of the industrial and fine arts; writing and books so long known that their origin is lost in myth; religions in which advanced philosophical and moral ideas are already developed; astronomical systems which imply a long course of accurate observations. How long this prehistoric age may have lasted, and how many centuries it may have taken to develop such a civilization, from the primitive beginnings of Neolithic and Paleolithic origins, is a matter of conjecture. All we can infer is, that it must have required an immense time, much longer than that embraced by the subsequent period of historical record.” (Human Origins, by Samuel Laing, p. 30, London, 1913.)
Much more could be said on this subject, but since this essay is addressed mainly to readers who have little time for the study of history, it must be made as concise as possible. The numerous citations from standard scientific and historical works, it is hoped, will be of some benefit to students who are out of reach of large public libraries, or who lack the leisure time necessary for reading and research along these lines.
I am an Ethiopian and well I didn’t quit see the facts that this book says about Ethiopia and the belifs of the ppl that used to leave there I mean I never have heard about this things and well am intrested in knowing more well other than that I think the Papaer is good and very intresting
Wasn’t Apuleius a Berber ?
This is excellent research which is supported by facts which makes it believeable. This is imformation that one soon will return the Black race to world supremacy. It must be taught to our children to prepare them for leadership in the near future…
An Ethiopian Emperor somewhere in the history of Ethiopia required all of his subjects wear a cross and be buried with this cross. I have one and was told it was dug from an Ethiopian cemetery. Can you give me the name of this cross. Cryptic or some such? Four or five hundred years ago I was told. Thanks
Why would u want a cross from Ethiopia one that was in a grave already? Whyd they dig it up because your white and whatever u want u receive. Damn racist put it back where it came from…hope the ancestors who were buried come back and haunt you to the point where u commit suicide. White Supremacy (DOMINATION) is a global system one which was created by racist white man and woman that abuses/subjugates those whom racist white man and racist white woman have classified as non-white/black. The reason for this revelation of histories is because White people have rewritten, skewed, and confused us to the point of destruction. You are the problem, you dont see anything wrong from purchasing because you have the resources and those that need the resources must sell even their history to live.
Dude you need to relax bro he didnt mean it that way
I am a Filipino, but I join the Blacks in rediscovering their past glory. As a man of color, I have always thought there is nothing in the claim of white people that they are of the superior race. The Anglo-Saxons do have the upper hand these days, but that’s only because of luck. The English defeated the Spanish Armada, for instance, not because of superior intelligence but because of some accident of history, and that set Great Britain on the road to world conquest. If the Spaniards had won the war? Well, that wouldn’t mean innate genetic superiority either. It was the Moors, a black people from Africa who gave Iberia and all of Europe the gift of civilization. Mabuhay!
Samson who is liken to Hercules, Chrisna and Christ and Heru is Black. However the wicked ones have Samson the sun,Killing Philistines with a jaw bone of a ass. The Philistines are Black, Hamitic people. They also have Hercules the sun, killing Egyptians.The book of Psalms even call the Egyptians, children or sons of Ham. They tell nothing but lies. As the book of Psalms, chapter 2, states. In their vain imagination, they try to separate Aton-Ra from his people. See http://www.pyramidoftruth.com and listen to pyramid of truth at http://www.live365.com
I want to say that Roly Eclevia is right, but it was more than luck that the white nations rule. In the beginning the Paul was first to go to Africa to spread the Good News. God changed it and told him to go to the gentiles. The gentiles will rule til JESUS return. They were give the job of telling the entire world that Jesus came and will be returning to receive them. They have misused that authority which is why many nations have suffered. They have the blessings of GOD which is why they are so successful in the Earth and around the world. This will end when Jesus return. He will correct the things that man got wrong. One nation is not better than the other, but use your nation as an example to the world, this is The purpose of Israel who originally where dark skinned people. Who are the Hamitic people? Africa once include parts of what is known as Portugal and Spain all the way to what is Asia Minor today. Hamitic people are African, Indians, or any dark skinned or brown skinned people. We are all from the same family of people of the earth. Noah , Ham,Shem, and Japhet
There is no such thing as “Hamitic” people. To belive that is to believe in the story of the “Curse of Ham”. Genetically, we now know for certain that the origins of all human kind is from black people. By continuing to push the story of Ham as true is to prop up mythological racism.
Until we return to a simple way of life, we will continue to see our CREATOR in all sorts of lite. Spirituality is natural simple and pure….. Religion is the reason people are confuse as to who is the true and living CREATOR, and so what we find is stories of all sorts. it is simple there is nothing supernatural about our CREATOR, a all natural force,spirit,energy .
I find the article to be very Educational, logical and use-full. What i would love to know is when we die then what?
I am Haitian. And I have been doing some researches on Africoid race, which embraces all beings within this planet. So, it is amazing how the black africans or africoids have given birth to humans, and they still do not have any respect.
I am not black, thankfully, I say this because it must be of such soul crushing despair to awaken every day and feel so dejected by “society” that now you now resort to “selectively” brushing through history for some sort of hope that says “We were once great”. Get your act together as individuals and stopped leaning on each other, And seriously stop acting like you are owed a debt of gratitude. Black Gods… yeah right
U know we are the mothers and fathers of civilization are biggest mistakes was thinking we can civilize the seen of Canaan and it’s many sub races which the bible Quran and Torah consign as the cursed leper race! We don’t think we better just cuz we birthed all the other races just as parents don’t think they are better than their kids just cuz the hV birth to them. Let us have our moment in the sun brother for we are called soul people they all say we eAt soul food they say James brown is the king of soul and aretha the queen, they say the drums are the sound of the soul yet Hansen disease or leprosy if you dont mind me saying put classical music above all and rock which has lil d
Soul and most of the time is violent and vulgar you can have all ya bad habits back, if you go home which white don’t have really the world would be good, without ya industrialism, and ya other destructive ideas that have lead the planet into the worst state it has ever been in ever since the white race took leadership denouncing the women and taking credit for the wonders or the world, I got my white rulers back as always but he don’t have mine or will he tell the truth of who negroids are in order with nature and beyond, this article Is on point and right on time as we enter future in the sun cycle getting ready for the 24,000 year shift as the ante tries to correct the axis by the the 23 degrees, whites folks call this existence heaven on earth cuz they have no soul scientifically thAts why they so mean and cannibalistic cuz this the last stop for the six ether force overlOrds who wish only to eat them and anything going against the order of nature that resembles the beast like sistas wit weave try to look sumthing we been programmed to want to look like why they hang out at he beach where light Kim brother and sister live and Nebraska develop skin cancer? How come the natural sun don’t like them their rulership moon cycle is over the gig is up respect the race order of nature which is black first which shall also be the last cus if mother earth, nature decides to take us out one by one she will start with the weakest genes the albino leper Hansen gene which is also documented in albino snakes, aligators, monkeys, etc. Etc so bottom line respect and embrace ya black rAce or far away as nature gets rid of the beast nature that has done too much devastation and ya time is up that was allotted we are know start to remember how it was before we let whites inslAve our minds body’s and souls we are more awake everyday respect and acknowledge negroids the supreme ever living being any it many sub races or watch nature fade you out, so how many people learn to love the earth and farming again when the wicked ruling class takes away kroger foods and the likes , don’t matter what ya races is if u get back in tune with nature and respect her order, I come in peace, please contact me if u wish to build further on this subject, peace!! Swarren52000@yahoo.com
I just wish that us children of the most high creator can just come together and live lik ewe once have and be proud of who we are and move forward like the wind.
we cant just move forward without clearing up our past..
Thank you for bringing information that is rarely brought to revelation, I was wondering if you also have any info on the black people who reside in Ethiopia, how come they dont classify themselves as black and why are their futures different from Western Africans? what occured for this to happen? I know that trading took place but what happened to create the diff. look of pointy nose, lighter brown, and soft hair come from? versus flat nose dark complected, and curly hair that you see in Western African black?
i once met this wonderful ethiopian sister who told me ” if they dont call u brother, then they r ignorant, lost like the rest of us, or they r not our people.” what we have to remember is our mathematical equation of two halves make a whole approach, which means africa.it symbolizes the upper and the lower joined as one unit(the southern regions and northern one..how can an ethiopian say theyre not black when the very name means the black ones or the sun burned people, compliments of the outsiders who found these branch of africans to be different from there own..dont worry about the variation of our appearance.we are the most diverse people, which makes it difficult to be classified.
black is black despite the efforts of sabeteurs who refuse to accept the greatness of the originals
First of all, a individual must be enlightend by the force of energy itself. I take pride in knowing that I have came from something so natural as the night or (black space). I was created from pure, raw energy with the help of Ra (sun) to form a intelligence made for the purpose to SUSTAIN the Earth and be leaders to all mankind as we all live our lives. For those of you who are still confused or lost by those who have raped, destroyed, and betrayed my ancient heritage should be ashamed of yourselves. Every time the Sun rises should be glorified!! THAT’S THE REASON WE ALL ARE THINKING, BREATHING, AND CREATING LIFE THROUGH A MAN AND WOMAN AS I WRITE THESE WORDS TODAT!!!! Everything revolves around energy, matter, and atoms. We were created with melanin because that’s what has created everything else in this universe. ONCE THAT KNOWLEDGE HAS BEEN DISCOVERED WE HAVE BEEN A HATED AND DECIEVED NATION EVERY SINCE. Wake up my people and rejoice in knowing that we are something greater than what the so called educational system teaches our youth while we go on our jobs and make these people rich because we cant do fo ourselves and be willing to be a true Man and Woman to each other. I am one of the chosen, I WILL CONTINUE TO BE A BLESSING TO MYSELF AND THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO LIVE IN A RIGHTIOUS PATH IN TRUTH AND HARMONY.
as it is written ,the world was given to the devil to rule first , together with the white race.after the coming of the son of man( rastafari) , all things shall be taken back to the true ruler of rightiousnee (blackman). black people are the only nation with the heart closer to god. look at their ancient civilisatin.
u make a very valid point when u say that our heart is closer god..look at language and we can see black, god, and love all intwined in the same context..in the ancient lingua, they mean the same thing interchangeably..all the ancient gods were described as black, and the color of black(if there is such a thing as color) symbolizes the divine principle of god..when we return to what made us the jewel of creation, then we can get over this genocidal and mind altering poison that has us divided and in contrast to each other..even as we march along in this new africa, we must bear in mind how we got here and never forget our struggle or our brothers and sisters in it..we must educate ourselves and know what black means, what africa means, and what do we have in common with god, love and dominance mean..
As for Samuel you have a lot of nerve. Blacks are not leaning on each other to search back in to the past to find that they were once great. They are great people and their history is written in stone. It is about appreciation, gratitude, respect and reverence and never forgetting where they (black people) came from. It is about inclusion and discovery, sounds like you want them to forget about who they are. It is ok for white people to discover, but, of course, not black people. Everything that has ever happened to them (black people) they have survived! They have shown the world that they can overcome anything. Yes that is right, anything including captivity! I don’t blame black people for realizing that there were once black gods, just like Mayan gods, Aztec gods, Olmec gods, Indian gods and pale face European copy cat gods. I certainly would not want to be a particular race praying, giving offerings and gratitude to a god that didn’t look like me. In truth, it has always been a shameful thing to be black and pray to a white Jesus!
You wouldn’t dare tell a Jew to stop crying over the Holocaust and acting like the world owes understanding of their suffering! Hyprocrit!
One of our first understanding in knowing GOD is that no mind, never mind how great can conceive him. However, all his MESSENGERS were AFRIKKANS who are : KRISHNA, ABRAM, BUDDHA, ZOROASTER, MOSES aka MUSA, JESUS aka HORUS aka ISA, MUHAMMAD, BAB, B AHAULLAH. Although the SPIRIT of GOD manifested in all the messengers we are to worship that which we cannot see and not the body for in time the body perish but the spirit is everlasting. With this it matters not what color they paint their GODS we know their is but one GOD. May ALMIGHTY ALLAH guide you unto all truth.
THY WILL BE DONE. 11112011 – 11th NOVEMBER, 2929.
If anyone has any references to the blackman or woman in the ancient history of religion and the Bible please contact me at kenfrye40@yahoo.com,
I am curI am currently researching material for a book which is entitled “Keys to the kingdom”. I need all the help I can get because I know that the truth is shroulded in mystery and deception. I personally cannot believe all that white people or hristians say abut us or omit about us as a people. I hope to bring truth into the young peoples mind so that they can feel good as a race of people and pull away from the poison that has been duped on us from the avent of slavery. I believe in righteousness and a people who bear the same essence of wanting to know what is right and true in order that we wil finally find out what salvation is for us which stems to the rest of the sons of Adam (creation).
Peace
There is a lot of referrences to the ancient history of blackman or woman.It is only written in a very subtle way that blacks or whites for that matter can understand us if it does not exist.For example, ancient Ethiopia is substtuted with Egypt or Nubia.Most of the ancient history you read is a black mans history,only you are not aware of it!
Black the Alpha the Omega the beginning and the end and that is all. We were civilized while you were in caves………Having guns to spears doesn’t make you superior it makes you a bully……….Hiding the history of us was your goal to bad we now have Google now the truth will set us free.