The Sunday Mail
Ibo Foroma Rastafarian Perspectives
Some people believe that white people were created first and they solely created civilisation and all its related attributes. Adam, Eve, David, Solomon, Moses, Jesus and some non-biblical religious characters are all perceived as white people.
Marcus Mosiah Garvey thinks differently and says:
“We, as Negroes, have found a new ideal. Whilst our God has no colour, yet it is human to see everything through one’s own spectacles, and since the white people have seen their God through white spectacles, we have only now started out (late though it be) to see our God through our own spectacles.
“The God of Isaac and the God of Jacob let Him exist for the race that believes in the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. We Negroes believe in the God of Ethiopia, the everlasting God. That is the God in whom we believe, but we shall worship Him through the spectacles of Ethiopia.”
It is overwhelming to note that black Africans know not that all ancient concepts of divinity, theology, deities, gods, goddesses, governance, civilisation, socio-economic development, medicine, etcetera, were of African origin. The first people to construe divinity and contemplate matters of the soul were blacks originating from Africa.
In the Bible, mankind is last to be created amongst the creatures. Genesis 1 narrates creation events in a sequence that mentions first the existence of plants from seeds (Genesis 1:11-12), then water creatures followed by birds (Gen 1:21-22).
Walking or creeping creatures follow (Gen 1:24-25) and then mankind is made in the image of God (Gen 1:26-27). At last “male and female created He them.”
These are the Adapa in Eastern Ethiopia or Arabia an Ethiopian/Cushite/Hamitic jurisdiction and these characters are black Africans to be proven even by the historical record.
According to Baldwin(1869),the old race of Cushites, consisted originally of 13 tribes with the following designation: “Ad, Thamud, Tasm, Djadis, Amlik, Oum, Ayim, Abil, Djourhoum, Wabar, Jasm, Anten, and Hashen.”
These ancient Arabs are known in local national traditions by the name of Adites, from their progenitor, who is called Ad. According to Lenormant (1869), Ad is the grandson of Ham through Amalec/Amalek or Lamech.
Cheikh Anta Diop in his book “African Origins of Civilization” states “The Adites, descendents of Cush from the line of Ham, lived originally in Arabia. Cheddade (aka King Shaddad in Ad), a son of Ad and builder of the legendary “Earthy Paradise” mentioned in the Koran, belongs to the Epoch called the first Adites.”
As confirmed in “When Arabia was Eastern Ethiopia” their land was called Adan or Aden which is the biblical Eden. In Islamic traditions it was also known as the Garden of Iram.
According to Allgood’s map, territories concerned adjoin Iran/Iram/Elam, Iraq/Iruk/Erech, (Mesopotamia), Yemen, Syria, Sheba, Seba, Havila, Tigris, Euphrates, the Gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean, Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, Mediterranean Sea and back to the Red Sea.
These Adites were the people of the legendary Atlantis or Ad-lantis. That Atlantis/Ad-lantis originated from ancient Cush. To this point, Marcus Allgood in “Kush in the Kuran” reinforces “there can be little doubt.”
Philologically the d- sound degenerates to t- sounds. At-on becomes Ad-on, hence Adonai. Atum/Atom becomes Adam (ignore vowels).
The h- in Ham transforms to k-/ch-/kh- resulting in Kam, Cham, or Kham/Khem/Khemit/Khemitic etcetera. The ch- sound transforms to sh- then s- evident in Cheikh and Sheikh as well as Shem and Sem/Semite/Semitic.
“Atlantis: The Antediluvian World,” by Ignatius Donnelly (1882), and James Bramwell’s “Lost Atlantis” (1938), place Atlantis/Adlantis/Ad-land in Ad(en)Arabia/Eastern Ethiopia.
Allgood (2011) says: “A mythological ‘man from Ad’ was “Adapa” in Babylonian texts whose name was also that of the ancient ruler Ityop of the Abyssinian King lists.” This is the Adapa/Ityopa people from whence Adam and Eve arise in the Garden of Aden.
As noted by J. Garnier in ‘The Worship of the Dead’ (2006), ‘son of Ethiops’ is a title of Bacchus/Dionysus.”
Iacchus/Bacchus/Dionusos/Dionysus/Deva-Nahusha is Nimrod the son of Kush/Cush/Chus and founder of Babylon. Nimrod was the King of Bab-El (the Gate of God) and surrounding cities in the Land of Shinar/Sumer but had already moved to Assyria and began building Nineveh before the Tower of Babel was started (Genesis 10:10-12).
Adapa, the Babylonian Adam, was a legendary (mythical) figure who unknowingly refused the gift of immortality. Parallels can be drawn to the story of Genesis, where Adam and Eve are expelled from the Garden of Aden/Eden by God, after they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thus losing immortality.
References:
Garvey (2009); The Journal of Pan African Studies: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus
Drusilla Dunjee Houston (1926); Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire
Donnelly (1882); Atlantis: The Antediluvian World
Bramwell (1938); Lost Atlantis
Garnier (2006); The Worship of the Dead”
London (1876); Cory “Ancient Fragments Of Phoenician, Carthaginian, Babylonian, Egyptian and Other Authors,”
Francois Lenormant(1869); Manual of Ancient HistoryTo be continued
