Evidence of somali pharaonic tradition from xiis grave goods

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Related to this i think its intresting how people talk about the other name for punt which was ta -ntr which is translated everywhere as land of the gods and if you go on Wikipedia they'll say that some early eygptologists translated it as "land of ths ancestors " i had just assumed it was for some pseudhistory reasons.

But when you look at the word for god in ancient eygptian that is being used. Its very clear there is more than one meaning and that referring to it as just "land of the gods" is honestly kind of deceptive .

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There is actually no ancient eygptian word for "ancestors" so its not like they would've been able use to some other word.

Because their gods were based on forefathers that lived in the past i think their biggest gods were the oldest forefathers. Its like how in somalia they have qabriga of the progenitors of a lot of clans and the saints which they do tawasul from But in this indigenous religions it would be on a much larger scale because there is no islaam discouraging it. So it would be like if every qabiil and sub qabiil father was venerated and like hawiye and darood and those people would be biggest in the pantheon

Land of the gods is a bad translation to use as you said because it doesnt explain what the ancient egyptions considered a god, could be animalistic or idol or fictional or just hyperbole like they do in english now the word god godly and other forms are lost their proper meaning

However i think land of the ancestors though better in that regard might be an even worse translation to use because it implies without context that the ancient egyptians just came from wherever that place is when it is probably more complicated than that. I think Proto somalis and ancient upper egyptians split from each other and moved separately into eritrea/woqooyi region and egypt respectively and the egyptians belief system changed from just venerating forefathers to being more rigid in the pantheon and more organised as they encountered nile and farming and agrarian llife. But the proto somalis stayed venerating their ancestors when they migrated east and south as they maintained pastoralism in the arid regions. So when egyptian traders trading with proto somali traders in punt they name it land of gods/ancestors for that reason

 

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However i think land of the ancestors though better in that regard might be an even worse translation to use because it implies without context that the ancient egyptians just came from wherever that place is when it is probably more complicated than that. I think Proto somalis and ancient upper egyptians split from each other and moved separately into eritrea/woqooyi region and egypt respectively and the egyptians belief system changed from just venerating forefathers to being more rigid in the pantheon and more organised as they encountered nile and farming and agrarian llife. But the proto somalis stayed venerating their ancestors when they migrated east and south as they maintained pastoralism in the arid regions. So when egyptian traders trading with proto somali traders in punt they name it land of gods/ancestors for that reason

Ancient eygpt only became a unified country in 3000 b.c. before that you had the upper eygptian kingdoms and the lower eygptian kingdoms.
But these proto somalis were already trading with the ancient upper eygptians by 4,000 b.c and likely earlier.

Also keep in mind that the eygptian looked down on all their neighbors as less than them . It seems incredibly weird to associate some random land as a divine place. I get why it might seem random but doesnt it also seem strange how 75% of upper eygptians who are farmers all seem to share a single haplogroup and the only people who also seem to have that same haplogroup in over 70% of their pouplation is somalis ? I could at least understand if you had a decent amount of Ethiopians or Eritreans who had this haplogroup. But it's also missing from them .