Waaq, Wagar and Eebe are the names floating around about our pre-Islamic deities. Also Xuur whos really more of an angle/messenger type.
Waaq was associated with Dab-Shid or the Fire Lighting / Bonfire. It was at the beginning of the year for Somalis which was before the first rain Gu. The second one Deyr was more important as it was more localized down south so we had to go to it rather than it coming to us like Gu. That's where the Intertropical Convergence Zone would hit
"The Gu rain season starts as early as the second half of March. Precipitation intensifies in April across the country, except for the north-eastern coastline which receives the least amount of rainfall during this season. In June, rainfall starts to reduce in most parts of Somalia. The southern coastline continues to receive little rainfall. Significant rains occur in July through August. The second rainy season (Deyr) is characterized by a shorter duration and less amounts of precipitation in the months of October to the end of November." - UN Climate change website.
That is important because before the first rain we would sight the astrological sign of the "Big Dipper" which we called Xiddiga Hal Toddobaaddo (Seven and 1 Star).
Which looks like either a big dipper or an animal with a tail perhaps a cow or a bear.
The Second Rain we sighted the astrological sign of .... the Southern Crux(cross)
Now etymologically Waaq might've been a bit too hard to say so they could've just dropped the Q. Waa sounds far too similar to Ra. Xuur sounds way too similar to Horus.
And Eebe is more interesting! Funny enough the Jews have a process called "Shaming the Name". When they defeated the Canaanites they shamed the god Baal and exalted YHWH by literally changing words that sounded similar to Baal. I think something very similar happened to us After Islam. Where exalting Eebe with a southern cross idolatry became pretty shameful. Especially as Somali scholars returned from Cairo later on and other areas where the Cross was more visible and associated with Christianity. Nowadays Eebe means .. well Shame!
Of course not to forget Wagar! Which Sada Mire even mentions its associations with fertility. Now there's a lot of phallic objects around not just AwBarkhadle site but also with Oromos taking wee-wees in battle and wearing it on their foreheads. Maybe Egyptian Ankh is really just a PIV scene with the top looking like a vagina and the long phallic object crossing a "threshold" along the cross.
Last but not least Xuur! Which was an angle (of death maybe?) and associated with a large bird.
This morphs into the Osiris Myth that transforms the Waaq/Wagar/Eebe/Xuur characters into Osiris/Isis/Horus/Seth(maybe Geb?)
Which of course inspired and informed the Greeks myth of Uranus/Gaia/Cronus and later Cronus/Gaia/Zeus.
Which of courses informs a man named Saul/Paul in the first century. Who welded Judaism with Greco-Egyptian-Somali folklore that explained the astrological, meteorological and theological systems early humans were weaving in East Africa/North Africa/Fertile Crescent and how they might have come about. Of course Jesus/Yeshua was a historical person but this brings the Trinity and "Dying for your sins and resurrecting" thing into question for some people (Christians who will hate us eternally).
Proof #1; Records of Egyptians referring to Punt as Brbrta which Greeks, Persians and even Chinese used in preislamic times to refer to Somalis as a whole because of the city of Berbera.
Proof #2; Secretary Bird
Proof #3; Use of Frankincense in religious rites
Proof #4; Donkeys, camels, and chickens
To start this thread off i have just one question. What do you think these two symbols might mean in the Las Geel paintings?
Waaq was associated with Dab-Shid or the Fire Lighting / Bonfire. It was at the beginning of the year for Somalis which was before the first rain Gu. The second one Deyr was more important as it was more localized down south so we had to go to it rather than it coming to us like Gu. That's where the Intertropical Convergence Zone would hit
"The Gu rain season starts as early as the second half of March. Precipitation intensifies in April across the country, except for the north-eastern coastline which receives the least amount of rainfall during this season. In June, rainfall starts to reduce in most parts of Somalia. The southern coastline continues to receive little rainfall. Significant rains occur in July through August. The second rainy season (Deyr) is characterized by a shorter duration and less amounts of precipitation in the months of October to the end of November." - UN Climate change website.
That is important because before the first rain we would sight the astrological sign of the "Big Dipper" which we called Xiddiga Hal Toddobaaddo (Seven and 1 Star).
Which looks like either a big dipper or an animal with a tail perhaps a cow or a bear.
The Second Rain we sighted the astrological sign of .... the Southern Crux(cross)
Now etymologically Waaq might've been a bit too hard to say so they could've just dropped the Q. Waa sounds far too similar to Ra. Xuur sounds way too similar to Horus.
And Eebe is more interesting! Funny enough the Jews have a process called "Shaming the Name". When they defeated the Canaanites they shamed the god Baal and exalted YHWH by literally changing words that sounded similar to Baal. I think something very similar happened to us After Islam. Where exalting Eebe with a southern cross idolatry became pretty shameful. Especially as Somali scholars returned from Cairo later on and other areas where the Cross was more visible and associated with Christianity. Nowadays Eebe means .. well Shame!
Of course not to forget Wagar! Which Sada Mire even mentions its associations with fertility. Now there's a lot of phallic objects around not just AwBarkhadle site but also with Oromos taking wee-wees in battle and wearing it on their foreheads. Maybe Egyptian Ankh is really just a PIV scene with the top looking like a vagina and the long phallic object crossing a "threshold" along the cross.
Last but not least Xuur! Which was an angle (of death maybe?) and associated with a large bird.
This morphs into the Osiris Myth that transforms the Waaq/Wagar/Eebe/Xuur characters into Osiris/Isis/Horus/Seth(maybe Geb?)
Which of course inspired and informed the Greeks myth of Uranus/Gaia/Cronus and later Cronus/Gaia/Zeus.
Which of courses informs a man named Saul/Paul in the first century. Who welded Judaism with Greco-Egyptian-Somali folklore that explained the astrological, meteorological and theological systems early humans were weaving in East Africa/North Africa/Fertile Crescent and how they might have come about. Of course Jesus/Yeshua was a historical person but this brings the Trinity and "Dying for your sins and resurrecting" thing into question for some people (Christians who will hate us eternally).
Proof #1; Records of Egyptians referring to Punt as Brbrta which Greeks, Persians and even Chinese used in preislamic times to refer to Somalis as a whole because of the city of Berbera.
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Proof #2; Secretary Bird
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Proof #3; Use of Frankincense in religious rites
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Proof #4; Donkeys, camels, and chickens
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To start this thread off i have just one question. What do you think these two symbols might mean in the Las Geel paintings?
