Were they proto somalis? That’s what I keep hearing. Can somebody shed some light on their origins and include sources
Were the Macrobians proto somalis?
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Apollo
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It's a term from Herodotus' travels for some kind of Horn Africans:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrobians
But many people don't trust Herodotus, a lot of what he wrote was secondhand hearsay:
See this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus#Reliability
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrobians
But many people don't trust Herodotus, a lot of what he wrote was secondhand hearsay:
See this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus#Reliability
Wasnt there a macrobian kingdom? On the formation section on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia you’ll see Macrobian kingdom that rose in 247 BCE
Apollo
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Those claims are dubious, probably somebody who wanted to make Somalia seem super ancient.
lol tbh I’m not the type that really cares a whole lot about ancient kingdoms and civilizations, it’s interesting to read about it but I’m more focused on the presentThose claims are dubious, probably somebody who wanted to make Somalia seem super ancient.
I'm more interested in Atlantis. It did exist in Western Africa. I wonder who the inhabitants were. Macrobians were definitely the aabo of ilma Soomaal
Macrobians waa GOB
One of my adeers lived up to 120 years and was tall I guarantee you Macrobians waa Soomaal same description
Wallahi soomaal waa modern day macrobians even the microbes in my macaroni know soomaal waa GOB iyo macrobian
Wish I knew sxb very mysterious people
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I have a strong feeling they were the ancestors of Beja/North Sudanese people.
Shame there's not much info on these ancient people.
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The alchemist
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Herodotus mixed myths with his work. Shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater, but be more scrupulous and not digest every info just because it's in our favor.
No one really knows but it seems that Herodotus was referring to lands mostly in Ethiopia and maybe Sudan. Tbh it was prob just Greek waffle. They always venerated Ethiopia as a mystycal land and even had Ethiopian characters in their mythologies.
The alchemist
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Ethiopia then wasn't the modern nation of Ethiopia. Ethiopia means "land of burnt faces." Africans were all Ethiopians in their eyes. Ancient Nubia/Kush (modern Sudan) was aethiopia for the Greco-Romans. The Axunites appropriated the name for their own kingdom after they conquered Nubia.
World
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No it weren’t the axumites, habeshas appropriated the term Ethiopian literally during the colonial period.
The alchemist
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It was in their inscriptions before that, but it became official and mainstream during the colonial times according to Wikipedia. The seed for appropriating the demonym was planted way back if you know what I mean.
There's been misconception about Aksum renaming themselves 'Ethiopia' because they simply didn't. the word 'Ethiopia' comes from the 12th king of Aksum and the Ge'ez alphabet. the king was called 'Aethiopis' and meant 'yellow gold' in Ge'ez and thus named his kingdom 'Ethiopia'. Also, the grandon of the biblical son of Noah, Kush, was called Ethiop...see the connection? The Greek meaning of the word came much later and after that the name got thrown around and changed by later Romans etc. Therefore Greeks prob meant current Ethiopia when talking about the Macrobians.
Ethiopia never stole the word lol.
So what did they call themselves before the colonial period lol the whole idea that they changed up their country's name with no recorded evidence of doing so isn't possible.
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Ethiopia is a Greek word. There are no linguistic disputes on this.
"The Greek name Αἰθιοπία (from Αἰθίοψ, Aithiops, 'an Ethiopian') is a compound word, derived from the two Greek words, from αἴθω + ὤψ (aitho "I burn" + ops"face"). According to the Perseus Digital Library, the designation properly translates as Burnt-face in noun form and red-brown in adjectival form. The historian Herodotus used the appellation to denote those parts of Africa below the Sahara that were then known within the Ecumene (inhabitable world). However, the Greek formation may be a folk etymology for the Ancient Egyptian term athtiu-abu, which means 'robbers of hearts'. This Greek name was borrowed into Amharic as ኢትዮጵያ, ʾĪtyōṗṗyā.
In Greco-Roman epigraphs, Aethiopia was a specific toponym for ancient Nubia. At least as early as c. 850, the name Aethiopia also occurs in many translations of the Old Testament in allusion to Nubia. The ancient Hebrew texts identify Nubia instead as Kush. However, in the New Testament, the Greek term Aithiops does occur, referring to a servant of the Kandake, the queen of Kush.
Following the Hellenic and Biblical traditions, the Monumentum Adulitanum, a third century inscription belonging to the Aksumite Empire, indicates that Aksum's then ruler governed an area which was flanked to the west by the territory of Ethiopia and Sasu. The Aksumite King Ezana would eventually conquer Nubia the following century, and the Aksumites thereafter appropriated the designation "Ethiopians" for their own kingdom. In the Ge'ez version of the Ezana inscription, Aἰθιόποι is equated with the unvocalized Ḥbštm and Ḥbśt (Ḥabashat), and denotes for the first time the highland inhabitants of Aksum. This new demonym would subsequently be rendered as ’ḥbs (’Aḥbāsh) in Sabaic and as Ḥabasha in Arabic."
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