The mystery of punt deepens.

[Midas]

What inspired to me begin taking this idea of a deeper ancient eygptian and somali connection seriously. Was that one video I saw on Twitter of an old eygptian folk song. That began with the line "waxa waayey waxa waayey" I got chills when i saw that video. How was it possible for something like waxa which is one of the most basic grammatical constructions in somali to be used in an pre-islamic coptic eygptian folk song.

It would be like finding the word "the" in a medieval arabic poem pronounced in exactly the same way it is English

 

[Midas]

What inspired to me begin taking this idea of a deeper ancient eygptian and somali connection seriously. Was that one video I saw on Twitter of an old eygptian folk song. That began with the line "waxa waayey waxa waayey" I got chills when i saw that video. How was it possible for something like waxa which is one of the most basic grammatical constructions in somali to be used in an pre-islamic coptic eygptian folk song.

It would be like finding the word "the" in a medieval arabic poem pronounced in exactly the same way it is English

Its actually more extreme than this because focus particles heavy lanaguges with are called topic-prominent in lingustics are extremely rare thing in a language and the only languges in cushitic that have them besides somali are the somaloid lanaguges of rendille and darbarre.

 

[Emir of Zayla]

According to ancient egyptians, there were some Puntites who “invaded” (migration?) the Nile Valley from the East or Southeast and settled in Qena, Egypt. Interestingly enough, the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor known for being the “Mistress of Punt” had its largest temple near the city

 

[Midas]

According to ancient egyptians, there were some Puntites who “invaded” (migration?) the Nile Valley from the East or Southeast and settled in Qena, Egypt. Interestingly enough, the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor known for being the “Mistress of Punt” had its largest temple near the cityView attachment 370002

She also has horns just like the zebu cattle.

She is also seen as "the mother of pharaohs" and is connected with kingship.

 

[Riftvalley]

Interesting stuff lad

 

[NidarNidar]

Also the zebu horned cattle of the indus valley which was supposed "domesticated" between 7-6 thousand years ago is likely actually from somalia. Since we have the lass geel horned cattle paintings which date at the latest from 3500 b.c (and are likely older) . Since why would these indian horned zebh cattle only appear several millenia after the mespotomian and Iranian hornless cattle.

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The zebu originates from India, arriving in the Horn between 300-1000 BCE, though it was bred with other cows, originally it was susceptible to the tsetse fly, but has good heat resistance. It arrived in Egypt via Mesopotamia around 4,000 BCE.

 

[Midas]

The zebu originates from India, arriving in the Horn between 300-1000 BCE, though it was bred with other cows, originally it was susceptible to the tsetse fly, but has good heat resistance. It arrived in Egypt via Mesopotamia around 4,000 BCE.

I got this from a friend their are apparently middle stone age sites around dire dawa with the remains of huge quantities of fauna including gazelle and the African buffalo. I think it was us sxb.

 

[Midas]

Looking at eygptian mythology it seems like the oldest layers suggest that the very first predynastic eygptiann were likely more monoethestic. Since there seems to be a distinction between the earliest "creators gods" vs the "pharaoh gods"

It might be possible that the ancestor reverence we still see in somalia for clan founders was transformed into full blown ancestor worship in eygpt. But they still recognized there was " supreme creator gods" who were distinct from "pharaoh gods" who it seems like were originally human

 

[Midas]

It seems that lower eygptian hunter gatherers who lived in the qaurnian lake right next to the fayyum 8,000 years ago ( so around 5000 b.c) had skulls that were the most similar to the wadi halfa skulls and modern african pouplations.

 

[Midas]

Also Im beginning to think that the presence of these berberoid phenotype skulls were likely due to th eef-mixed farmers finally arriving in eygpt after they had touched down in morcco around 5000 b.c.

 

[Midas]

Now I'm actually curious when proto-somalis arrived in the horn of africa? Considering that the we likely domesticated these horned cattle millenia before we domesticated the donkey. That easily puts us at about 10,000 years. Considering that the African humid period only started to begin between 14-12,000 years and before that it was a desert even harsher than today. our west eurasian ancestry which makes up 40% of our dna might actually date back to before the last glacial maxium period which only started to ended around 14,000 years ago.

This would also match something I vaguely remember @Shimbiris mentioning once about how upper Paleolithic phenotypes in western europe were very different from earlier periods.