Kush Never Lost in Translation

ANCIENT EGYPT AND KUSH NEVER EVER LOST IN TRANSLATION

Let Bronze be brought from Mizraim; Kush shall stretch forth its hand to Elohym ”. Psalm 68:31
Further Readings and Mizraim and Kush: Gen 10: , Numbers 12:1, 2 Sam 18:32, Judges 3:8-10; Isaiah 19:20 - 23: 6; 18:1; Jer. 36:14, Ezek. 29:10; 38:5, 28:10, Zeph. 1:1; Heb. 3:7E extra- literary readings: The Making Of Egypt by W.M Flinders Petrie.Nouvelles Foule d,Abydos by E .Amelineau.

Responsible translators cannot render /ksh/, Kush automatically as Ethiopia. As done in most eurocentric versions of historical documents in circulation within modern Western European thought. It would be simply ignorant for us to just plain follow suit. Most Afrocentrists who have always been critical of the worst aspects of the traditional eurocentric Aryan model know they ought to hold the line and say no retreat, no surrender (Van Binsbergen 2000). Even though Afrocentrists may well pay better attention to how they present reasonable arguments as facts.
When the Romans finally came to power in the late period they sort dominion over the entire Nile region. Not unlike their predecessors the Greeks, Persians, Assyrians, Hyksos and others who coveted the region as prime real estate in sort of early realpolitik gambit they named the entire region Ethiopia. The area today we know as Ethiopia they called Abyssinia (Ethiopic; Habesh). Yet Ethiopia still remains a Greek origin word, which became part of modern lexicon meaning literally “burnt skin” Snowden (1970). Various discussions on
this word which really was popularized in usage by Greek commentators such as Herodotus and Strabo of the Classicist period. However this was the same route in which the word Egypt was derived. From the Greek word Eaigypto hailing from Greek pronunciation of the old indigenous name for Memphis – HT – KA – PTH, a palatize word initial which the Greeks pronounced in the present manner of Egypt. But since the Egyptian language cannot now be spoken with certainty that seem to some mute point. The name meant temple of the essence of Ptah. Hence when aspects of the Church talk about Peter or Petra one understands the code. The Ancient Egyptians had quite a few other names that accompanied their fecundity to their indigenous land. They named it Kham or Khemet. This has been thoroughly debated back and forth between Afrocentrists and their distracters. On whether it means black, refers to the land and so forth. A few other names used amongst the Egyptians for example Ta-meri, the beloved land, Tawi, the two lands, Ret; meaning men, and the Middle Eastern term Misr, from which the term Mizraim came into being were also used hence the biblical and exraliterary source of the name.
In The Chronicles of Tutmosis the Third Kush and Wawat can be gleaned as major areas of what can now be regarded as part of ancient Nubia or Ta-seti. Both Kush and Kimet (Egypt) formed part of a unitary structure of North and South with the Egyptian power in dominion most of the times. The Egyptian power usually placed Garrisons, Forts and an administrative apparatus replete with a Viceroy in submission to Pi-ti-Re’s (pharaoh) whims. The usual political assumption despite the ever present Nubian population within Egypt was always tension, rivalry and political upheaval with the political power of Ta-seti. The constant mouthing by Eurocentrics of the Egyptian reference as a wretched cannot explain the complex relation of both brother and neighbouring states at that time. For example, many soldiers from Nubia formed part of the Egyptian Army and from the walls of Del-El-Bahari not only as soldiers but also as royal officials conducting exploration into the land of Ta-Netjer or Punt. This in the time not only of Hapshetsut but other rulers. The land of Punt, which encompassed today’s Eritrea and Somalia and surrounding areas close to the Red Sea was seen as a kind of homeland of the Ancient Egyptians since Ta-Netjer means literally land of the Neter (g-d). Keita (1990) believes that both were peopled from the Sahara by Neolithics from the Western (Nubian) desert near the Sudanese border. The peopling of the area dated around seventh century B.C with core cultural traits noted in the Saharan and within Egypt and Nubia in pre-dynastic sites. These encompassed Kush from the First Cataract to present day Khartom and Egypt further to northern lowlands called by various names by Eurocentrists. Whether these and other strands of the peoples can be linked to Nakada period, Thininnite or other Proto-historical peoples Williams (1987) believes that they were all parts of an entire Nubian origined theatre of eventuality. Whence this can be observed in the culmination of cemetery L. At Qustul from where the famous Qustul incense burner depicting Royal Egyptian-like Rulers of Nubian origin.
The question of whether both Kush and Kimet were responsible for the indigenous variations of the many African types which emerged in wooly hair, curly hair, straight hair, dark skin, brown skin, and other types have been a constant legacy of debate
about the Black origins of especially Egypt or not. One must note that even a tendency to blondism exists amongst many Blacks of varying hues of skin as exampled in the Solomon Islands (Mbanta and Supia 2001). The traditional debated beautiful wooly hair, dark skin and broad nose was hence only one of the many standards of the heritage of the Nile which Afrocentrists are now grappling with in their struggle to present Kush to Egypt as factual Nile Valley civilizations and not some creature of Indo-European myths.
J.T. Modeire