Open Your Mind to the Fullness of Africa and KMT

by Atiba King © 2004

Science and Technology on the African continent

Iron and steel manufacturing technology was present in the Eastern African nations of Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, and others dating back to the 7^th century B.C. (Van Noten and Raymaekers, 1988).  The smelters used to make iron and steel were far superior to that used by the rest of the world.  This may account for the absence of a Bronze Age in much of Africa.  Until 200 years ago European steel making technology consisted of “bloom” iron production and “cold-blast” steel production.  The Haya of Tanzania and the Yoruba of Nigeria used technology in their steel furnaces that pre-heated the air to produce carbon steel that was significantly more advanced than European steel (Schmidt and Avery, 1978).  The invading nations of Europe stopped all metal production by traditional African methods in the late 1800’s.  In 1978 the elders of a Haya village made a new furnace according to the ancient instructions that were kept alive through their oral tradition.  The steel made by the elders was found to be resistant to any impressions at all by an alloyed rotary diamond blade (Van Der Merwe, 1980).

There are thousands of abandoned gold mines in Western Africa dating back hundreds of years before the colonial era.  Raymond Mauny estimated in 1961 that during the sixteenth century gold production in this area was approximately nine tons per year.  Ghana was a trading capitol for Western Africa during the tenth and eleventh centuries.  They had so much gold that to preserve its scarcity the rulers decreed that all gold nuggets were the property of the Royal house.  The people were restricted to using gold dust for business transactions (Jackson, 1995).  In 1324 the Islamic Mansa (ruler) of Mali conducted a royal pilgrimage to Mecca with an entourage of 60,000.  The Mansa brought 80 camels each loaded with 300 lbs. of gold dust to finance his trip.  He gave so much gold away as gifts that the Gold market in Cairo, Egypt fell.  It took twelve years for the price of Gold to recover (Jackson, ibid.).

In 1897 the government of Great Britain sent a “Punitive Expedition” to the Republic of Benin in an act of war against the people of Nigeria (Eyo and Willett, 1980).  After the Nigerians were defeated the British shipped more than 2,000 art pieces to museums in Britain.  These modern pieces were of such high quality that collectors and archaeologists began scouring the sites of ancient towns for more Bronze works.  One of the sites near the village of Nok contained so many Bronze sculptures of great archaeological importance that the village name became the name for the culture of the area. 

The people of the Nok culture inhabited an area covering 300 miles along the Bennu River.  The culture is conservatively dated at between 500 BCE and 200 ACE (Eyo and Willett, 1980).  They were agriculturists who are noted for introducing iron metal to sub-Saharan Africa.  The ancient and present day people of Nok used a “cire purdue or lost wax” method of metal casting that is not commonly used throughout the African continent.  This lost wax method was known in KMT throughout its entire pre-dynastic and dynastic period (Gadalla, 1999; Finch, 1998).  The lost wax method is remarkable due to the ability it gave the caster to create fine, intricate details on the pieces.  The family of the Oni (ruler) of Benin maintained a royal monopoly on the process and used it to create decorative, expressionistic busts and statues.  The art of Africa was so beautiful that it set off a firestorm of creativity in Europe.  This culminated in Pablo Picasso of Spain and Georges Braque of France modeling new conceptual styles of art based on the African works they viewed in the museums of England, France, Belgium, and Germany.

Cultural Continuity on the African Continent

Social and cultural stability supports stability of language.  The social organizations of African nations have been relatively stable for thousands of years.  A study of linguistics is important to show the cultural and social connection between KMT and Africa also Africa and Black Americans.  The language of KMT shares many linguistic similarities with African cultural groups throughout the continent.  The word Nok is linguistically the same as the Kemetic word Nuk which means, “I am” (Gadalla, ibid; Baba Heru, 1998).  The Nok named the river Bennu.  Bennu is linguistically similar to Ben-Ben, which is the stone that symbolizes the mound of creation at On/Annu in KMT.  On/Annu was the worship center for Ra the principle of the Sun.  A neighboring group of Africans, known as Jukun, which arrived to the area later, during the Muslim onslaught, called the Bennu River “Anu”.  The Jukun are known to worship the Sun (Ra in Kemetic cosmology) (Gadalla, ibid.). The following chart contains words obtained from Dr. Theophile Obenga and Dr. Mario Beatty (1997) that lists more examples of the similarities in Kemetic and western/central African languages:

 The similarities between Kemetic and African languages are unmistakable.  This is true even though the language of KMT has not been spoken for two thousand years. Take into consideration the transformation of Latin into Spanish, French, and Italian languages in a little more than one thousand years.  Spain, France, and Italy have undergone a great deal of social upheavals.   If there were no written testimony of the Latin foundation of these three European languages we would be hard pressed to believe it existed.  A linguistic comparison of Kemetic and Wolof, a Central Afrikan language, is startling in its preciseness (Diop, 1974).

 In an attempt to break the mental and social connection and will of Africans during slavery many horrendous tortures were committed by European people in what has been euphemistically called “the seasoning process.”  In spite of this, many Africans in America held onto memories of their African culture and ancestors.  Evidence can be found in the following linguistic similarities (Harris et.al, 1974)

Kemetic Wisdom: The Foundation

Over the last three hundred years Eurocentric historians have taught that the African race has made no scientific contributions to civilization (For the People, 1994).  It is important to keep in mind that during this same period W.E.B. DuBois and other “Negroes” were being taught that Africans had no civilization, culture, etc. worth studying.  However, the individuals credited as the originators of the scientific wisdom of civilization tell a different story.  They consistently wrote that KMT provided the foundation of their scientific achievements.

Johannes Kepler is credited with discovering astronomy.  In the introduction to his book “Harmony of the World” Kepler writes:

“…it is my pleasure to yield to the inspired frenzy, it is my pleasure to taunt mortal men with the candid knowledge that I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far, far away from the boundaries of Egypt.” (Pg. XXXII)

People educated in the Western tradition are taught that all civilization began in Greece.  This statement may possibly be correct if it was phrased that a model of civilization understandable to the western world began in Greece.  According to the self-penned words of all the Greek philosophers, mathematicians, and scholars KMT was the source of their education.  Rather than quote each Greek scholar individually allow me to quote Diodorus of Sicily from his Book I, section 96:

“We must enumerate what Greeks who have won fame for their wisdom and learning visited Egypt in ancient times to become acquainted with its customs and learning.  Homer and Lycurgus of Sparta; Plato and his student Cnidus the astronomer, mathematician, and geographer; Pythagoras of Samos and Eudoxus the mathematician.”

Our current day calendar of 365¼ days was first used in KMT.  Diodorus of Sicily also wrote in Book I, section 16-1:

“It was Tehuti according to the ancient Egyptians who was the first to observe the orderly arrangement of the stars…”

On the same subject the historian Dio Cassius wrote in Roman History, Book 37; sections 18-19:

            “The custom of referring the days to the seven stars called planets was instituted by the Egyptians.  Its adoption by the other countries has been comparatively recent; at any rate the ancient Greeks never understood it.  But since it is now quite the fashion with mankind generally and with the Romans themselves.  And for the Egyptians it is already an ancestral tradition.”

KMT possessed a depth of knowledge with a spiritual base so strong that it has been the foundation of many of today’s most powerful religious teachings and beliefs.  Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all have roots in KMT (Haykal, 1993).  Many more esoteric spiritual organizations have drawn deeply from the well of Kemetic wisdom. Unity Temple, The Huna of Polynesia, and the Rosicrucians are a few organizations who publicly state their debt to KMT.

Charles Fillmore, the creator of Unity Temple, wrote the following in Unity magazine Feb. 1983:

“The Unity emblem, the winged globe, symbolizes the mind conscious of its spiritual origin and power.  The design originated as a symbol of the perfect soul in Egyptian occultism.  It emblematizes the soul in its flight back to the Supreme- its original source in absolute love and wisdom.  It is a sacred symbol of the illumined of antiquity; it is also the distinctive insignia of an occult society that existed in Egypt some thousands of years ago.” (Pg. 20)

In the Secret Science Behind Miracles (1988) Charles F. Long wrote:

The spiritual leaders of pre-european Hawaii society are known as Kahuna.  Their oral history reports that they came from “the Red Sea of Kane” which fits neatly into the idea that they came from Egypt by way of the Red Sea. The eleven tribes of Polynesia all speak dialects of the same language. Polynesian words may be found scattered all the way from the Pacific to the Near East”. (Pg. 55)

In the preface to Egyptian Arch-Gnosis (1982) by J. van Rijckenborgh, the leader of the Rosicrucians in the Netherlands, wrote:

“It is with particular joy that we may once again place the ancient message of the Egyptian Gnosis in the full light of day, now that world and mankind have reached a periodic turning point in the great cosmic tides. This message, which was and is the foundation of all liberating activity in the Aryan period of humanity, irrespective of when and where and under what name it is given, is directed to all who perceive the tragedy of human events.” (Pg. XI)

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