WARNING, this story will change the way you see the world forever.

“The truth always prevails” – From the Chinese movie ‘The Promise’

We all heard the stories about who is a popular Habesh celebrity and who is not. Some roomers say Kobe Bryant is a Habesh and some mothers gossip that Obama is a Habesha, hoping that one day one of us will stand together with others on top to inspire us as a role model. “Fishich kibil kelo Habesha yimesel, Iwe Habesha ko’yu” lol

I am not writing this, because I would take a superficial topic serious. I write about this topic just because I have been confronted with it too many times. Racial issues are always annoying, if they are not meant to be funny.

If your father says to you how “dichum” your people are, because they haven’t managed to produce a “merfe”, can you really stay cool? IIf your biology teacher looks at you and says: “you should be a professional athlete” would you believe him? If a rasta-man seems to know the history of your people more than you do, would you ignore it?

The lack of confidence as well as the level of inferiority among our people (despite our infinite proud) seems to be related to colonial-thinking and the lack of education and imagination in Western and African societies.

The limitation of perception was never CLEARER illustrated than by the fact that there has been a link between the Eritrean/ Ethiopian people and the Ancient Egyptian people.The first experience I have made regarding this link was when I was delivering pizza in Cologne (Germany). While I was wearing my rain coat with my ears showing out (to be able to hear better), German people use to say to me spontaneously:

“You look like a Pharaoh”

The geographer Humbold said rightly: “guessing is the first step towards discovery.” Since I like to discover anything mind-blowing, I kept my eyes and my ears open. As a creative person (like all of you) I was also interested in the artefacts that were designed thousand years ago in the North East of Africa and I was always wondering, like many people, why they were brown and had a Habesh-like profile.

Not long time ago I had interesting conversations with some well educated friends in London, who told me that the Ancient Egypt’s originated from Ethiopia, because the Nile originated partly there and people use to sail up north using the stream, but had returned rarely.

To really believe what was hard to believe, I researched many sources and read the MOSTLY AFRICAN historical evidence, that has convinced me that the story is actually “real = real”.

Habeshas from Eritrea and Ethiopia were ruling Ancient Egypt as Pharaohs back to 6000 years ago.

When we say Habeshas from Eritrea and Ethiopia, we refer to the people who’s origin are the tribes of TIGRIGNA/ TIGRE and  AMARA, who even today share the same properties stating from the way they look up to their language, costume, and tradition. In recent past, this tribes were more known under synonyms such as Cush, Axumit, Abyssinian, Burnt Face Men ect. Habeshas see always themselves only as Habeshas, regardless of territory and religion. Habeshas also have never defined themselves by their skin tone, but by some typical characteristics in their profile.

E.A. Wallis Budge stated that “Egyptian tradition of the Dynastic Period held that the aboriginal home of the Egyptians was Punt …it’s location is either southern Sudan or the Eritrean region of Ethiopia, where the indigenous plants and animals equate most closely with those depicted in the Egyptian reliefs and paintings.”

An article published in the New-England Magazine from 1833 says: “Ancient Egyptians were adduced, affirmed to be Eritreans/ Ethiopians.”

Not only did they came from the source of the Nile, but they also inherited language and cultures that were established in the Horn of Africa. The month ‘Meskerem’ (which we all know) was for example the beginning of the calender for both regions. And they both also had the calender concept of 13 month with 30 days per month and a last month with 5 days, that is still in use in Eritrea and Ethiopia today.

“Examination of the countenances of any of these first Pharaohs reveals all of the true Eritrean/ Ethiopian types.” (D. D. Houston)

The fact that Habeshas haven’t even managed to design a needle, but have set the basis for following cultures is something only few people know or want to know. Today, because of the period of colonialism, no one can really IMAGINE that Habeshas could ever build something like the pyramids and create a complex cultural system.

Eventhough the earliest foreign invasion of Egypt started around 500 B.C., hence 3500 years after the arrival of the first Habeshas in the North of Africa, Western artists and scientist still can not provide us an authentic representation of Pharaohs that looked like Habeshas.

The embarrassing part of it is that any drawing, sculpture, and mummy has been proofing this fact for over two hundred years. The commonly used excuse was, “they used the skin tone just as symbols”. To talk about Pharaohs being brown or not is as useless as talking about the chance of humanity to be able to live on the sun.

Until today, no one, apart from us, seems to know about the meaning of HABESHA in relation to Ancient Egyptians. Even “National Geographic” would disappoint me by showing the Pharaoh Tutankhamun as a transvestite alien (I call it the Michael Jackson Syndrome or  Crime on Human History), even-though his mask looks more like my mum when she was young and his sculpture like a random Habesha friend of mine. Here you can SEE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY that Tut was looking like an average Habesha from Eritrea and Ethiopia.

Since Science is the empirical (experience based) observation of the truth, Habesha people are in a much better position to uncover the truth as they spend their entire life looking at each other. In other words:

Give me a skupture, an illustration or a mummy and I will find for you the living proof.

The mummy’s reveal the connection as much as the sculptures do. The sculptures were designed with so much perfection, that we can simply sense how the people have looked like. The reason for the yellow/ brown skin tone among women in Ancient Egyptian illustrations can also be explained very easily from a Habesh perspective. Light skinned Habesha women have this kind of skin tone. In general many Habesha women have a more yellowish skin tone than men. Today our parents talk about someone being red to say that someone has a nice skin tone.

As Habeshas we know that the variety of people’s faces, hair texture and skin tone is extremely diverse. Typically a round narrow nose, round smooth lips and distinctive big eyes. But sometimes the features can be small eyes, big nose and small lips as well. Habesha families spend an entire sunday talking about these characteristics.”Kab abo hagu-u koyu wesidwo” lol. The features that makes the difference between a Habesh and European face is very familiar to us, but we were told by our recent ancestors, that our version is a result of mixtures with Israelis, even though there were already Habeshas based in the Horn of Africa 8000 years ago, hence before the bible was even written and the rise of the legend of King Solomon and Queen Saba.

This suggests that the typical Habesh-Profile is more likely an adaptation to the highlands of Eritrea/ Ethiopia rather than a mixture with other non-African groups. The European, Arabian or Indian like features may have to do with the exodus of  humanity from a single group of 150 people in East Africa, who crossed the Red Sea from todays Eritrea and Djibouti 80 000 years ago.

That’s why Habeshas look irritatingly like anybody from outside Africa or everybody from outside Africa looks like Habeshas. That’s why many Europeans who saw the Ancient Habesha sculptures and drawings couldn’t imagine, that there were Africans in Africa that looked like Europeans before their arrival (the Yo Yo Effect). My grandfather for example is dark as hell, but has a European-like profile. lol

That’s why many Egyptologists, who are STILL unfamiliar with Habeshas were struggling to find an answer, because they have been thinking only in BLACK AND WHITE, in the non-sense definition called “Negroid and Europid”, which doesn’t work for Habesha people.

Moreover, because Science is profoundly based on Aristotelian Thinking (), many intellects have been trying to understand how anybody and any culture that came thoooooooooooooooooooooooousand years before Aristotle can ever be more advanced or sophisticated, especially if they came from the depth of Africa.

From my readings about Aristotle, I know that he himself was regarding other cultures and ethical groups who were not Greeks as less civilized, less cultivated and  even less smart. So his attitude of Greek Superior-Thinking has found it’s way into almost any Proffessor and any Dr. throughout the world. That’s why it has been almost “IMPOSSIBLE” for the public to recognize the fact that there has been a connection between Eritrean/ Ethiopian people and the Ancient Egyptian people.

Today everyone is told that: If anything is supposed to be true, someone needs to find a Scientific proof, isn’t it? What if the Scientific proof has been manipulated from the beginning?  The answer is simple:

Science has not been true to itself after giving birth to Egyptology!

That’s why 65 percent of the statues of Ancient Egyptians in the British Museum (that I saw today again from a new angel) are unfortunately presented to the world with a BROKEN NOSE and we have got the legend of the scary mummy.

Look at the lips of the Ancient Egyptian sculpures and compare it with most Habesha lips and you will see that the upper lip is often bigger than the bottom lip. Look at the way the eyes are always illustrated and you will see the big white eyes with black eyelash in most Habesha eyes. Look at their skin tone and you will find out that they were mostly brown and had some bright and dark extrems just like us.

We all know someone who has the eyes of “Meron”, someone who has got the lips of “Henok”, someone with the flesh of “Nefèti”, (by the way this is most probably Nefèti’s real face), and I have a friend who just looks like “Yonathan” – that’s why I gave him the name. lol

“Dynasty IV was 3700 B. C. Recent excavations have enabled us to look upon the face of Khufu. He possessed a giant Eritrean/ Ethiopian profile.” (D. D. Houston)

Here it is, the untold story that almost nobody knows today:

Habeshas created the Ancient Egyptian AND Ancient Greek Culture.

The Greek Culture, which is based on the Ancient Habesha Culture, has than been a role model for the Roman and European Culture – especially through the rise of Renaissance (Re-Birth).

This development fits with the explanation of recent evolution process of humanity (), with the stream of the Nile to the north, with the period of time in which the big influential cultures had their climax.

Since the begining of the 19th century 99.9999999999999999 % of academics were unable to make authentic conclusions despite available evidence. Their “Aryan Filter” has been holding them back until now. “It wasn’t the evidence of Greeks themselves, it was in their world view, that they found the Ancient Model intolerable.” says the english Prof. Martin Bernal.

The Greek historian Diodorus wrote: “The Ethiopians (Habeshas) say that the Egyptians `are one of their colonies, which was led into Egypt by Osiris. They claim that at the beginning of the world Egypt was simply a sea but that the Nile, carrying down vast quantities of loam from Ethiopia in its flood waters, finally filled it in and made it part of the continent. . . They add that the.Egyptians have received from them, as from authors and their ancestors, the greater part of their laws.”

“The first ‘Greeks’ were Egyptians (Habeshas), who had colonised the Greek isles and mainland,” (Philip Coppens)

“Some Ethiopians fought on the Trojan side in the war under their king Memnon” (J.D. Gardener) – Because the inhabitant of Troy were Ethiopians (The Greek synonym for Habesha people).

Philip Coppens states in the Frontier magazin that “Kekrops originated from Egypt and founded Athens as a colony of the Egyptian (Habesha) town of Sais.” – Kekrops was an outcast/ exile from Egypt.

“After Socrates death, PLATO left for Egypt, where he studied for a period of 13 years” from Habesh-Priests (), just like Pythagorus and others.

Another clear link of Habesh-Philosophy that had found it’s way into Greeks Philosophy is for example the idea of the FOUR ELEMENTS in Aristotle’s writings, which are clearly represented by the four status of Ramses II. – “The four square of matter”

Here is a simple evidence that I found in the Greek and Amrahic/ Tigrigna word: Table = Trapezion = Terepeza.

In his amazing book “Ethiopia and the origin of civilization” John G. Jackson states that “Ethiopia was the first established country on earth; and the Ethiopians were the first who introduced the worship of gods, and who established laws.”

On the right you can see a list of letters that I put together to show how the Greek Alphabets (1000 B.C.) derived fom the Eritrean/ Ethiopian Alphabet Fidel, which ia a simplified version of the Hieroglyphs (4000 B.C.). A comes from “Amora” the eagle, B comes from “Bat” the leg, M comes from “Mai” water and so on. Apart from “Bat” and “Mai”, some letters have even names/ meanings that are still in use today like: Geml (Camel), Saat (Time), Ain (Eye), Af (Mouth), and Tzadai (White). This insane discovery is the clear evidence, that the Ancient Greeks were Habeshas.

I was always wondering why the Fidel T was the same like the Greek/Latin T and of course why some Greek letters looked so much out of the box. Now it makes sense to me that Eritrean and Ethiopian people are the only ones who have their own writing system in East Africa.

Now it makes sense why the same 26 Latin alpha-beths can be pronounced and written EXACTLY using the 231 Ge’ez “alphabeth” called Fidel, but not vise versa. This is why Fidel still incoporates the heavy letters “tshe”, “teh”, “kqe”, ect, that were part of the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs as well. Now it makes sense why the letter M was drawn as a wave of water in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs, because ‘mai’ is the Tigrigna word for water.

In short, the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs AND the Greek Alphabets were originally used in Ethiopia.

Ptolemaic writers said: “The hieroglyphic script was more widely known to the vulgar in Ethiopia than in Egypt. This knowledge of writing was universal in Ethiopia but was confined to the priestly classes alone in Egypt. This was because the Egyptian priesthood was Ethiopian.”

According to Legesse Allyn, the northern part (Lower Egypt) was speaking Tigrigna and the southern part (Upper Egypt) was speaking Amarigna. This means that Tigrigna and Amarigna was spoken in the north as well as in the highlands of Africa between 4000 B.C. and 500 B.C.

Forget about semitic languages and all the other top down classifications. It’s the other way round. “Issak” comes from Amharigna and Tigrigna meaning “He should laugh”. To have a full sentence in a single word like “Issak” is typical in the Amharigna and Tigirina. And that’s even if we are humble, because there are quite a lot sources that verify the possibility that Israelis were Habeshas as well.

An Armenian friend of mine said to me once how surprised she was when she could read what was written on an Eritrean wedding banner, because Fidel looks almost the same like their alphabet.

The in-credible cultural contribution of Eritrean/ Ethiopian people to HUMAN HISTORY includes:

Writing System, Writing Technology, University, Story Telling, Calender, Material Processing, Astronomy, Architecture, World Religion, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy, Sport, Politics, Art, Literature, and on and on…

This is the answer to the brief of my father who said to me: “Iski hadde Habesha amtsialey ab alem kumneger ziserehe!/ Get me one Habesha, who has done something significant in the world.” lol

The evidence was always there, but no one has admitted it yet.

The unpopularity of the relationship between Habesha people and the Ancient Egyptian people has also to do with the abstinence of us to investigate and re-construct this fact from within. Of course, after the collapse of the Ancient Habesha Culture around 500 B.C. and the introduction of Christianity and Islam our ancestors kept only record of religious literature. My grand-grand father went to Egypt to study more about Christianity and the first thing my grandfather did when we visited him in Eritrea is to read out loud a chapter from the bible.

The discovery of the relationship between the two regions was always in the hands of Western societies, who still can not believe what they have seen. Of course, there were some exceptions, before the systematic introduction of the “Aryan Model” at the beginning of the 19th century like the Scottish traveller James Bruce.

“In the 1760s and 1770s Bruce went through Egypt and spent several years in Ethiopia. He saw connections between the civilizations of Ethiopia and Egypt, and believed that the Ethiopian form was the older. For Bruce, the source of the (Blue) Nile was the source of civilization.” (Prof. Martin Bernal)

A Habesha Pharaoh called Tshewefew (Kufuh) had build the Great Pyramid of Giza.

The lost connection has also to do with the MYTH OF PROGRESS and the IDEA OF BORDERS that limit our IMAGINATION.

“If the Sphinx, with its Ethiopian face, is a memorial to an ancient Mayan prince,…” (J. G. Jackson)

The ancient Habesha Culture can more be seen as a cultural and ethnical entirety that stretched from Eritrea/ Ethiopia, Sudan up to the North of Egypt thousands of years before someone started to draw lines on earth and before any foreign invasion started. It was an organic snake-like distribution of Habesha people and culture to the north, which was possible through the use of the Nile as a “street”. They lived along the Nile where LIFE was possible.

“The connection between Egypt and Eritrea/ Ethiopia from at least as early as the Twenty-second Dynasty was very intimate and occasionally the two countries were under the same ruler, so that the arts and civilization of the one naturally found their way into the other.” (Dr. A. Molla)

660 B C.: “He married an Eritrean/ Ethiopian princess as so many Pharaohs that had preceeded him.” (D. D. Houston)

The world has to except the fact, that the well known Ancient Egyptian culture including many.of.the 300 Pyramids in Sudan were created by AFRICANS from the Highlands of Eritrea and Ethiopia and that it was able to keep up with any other culture that came afterwards.

To acknowledge this fact, the world has actually to give up the idea of progress – give up the notion that humanity has reached a higher cultural and spiritual state than ever before – give up the model of third world and first world and all the other self-blinding categories.

In general, this discovery is extremely important for Habeshas as well as for the rest of the world.

After hundreds generations of priests and farmers, Habeshas in Eritrea and Ethiopia have now the chance to reflect upon their history from a totally new perspective. The role-model most Habeshas were looking for can possibly be found in reliefs, temples, and statues along the Nile, which is a much more powerful support than ‘A Rain of Rice’.

On top, this discovery can also play a major role in conciliation of the separated countries, who have got an incredible common history of over 6000 years, which is an ETERNITY compared to the 30 years of useless struggle. A struggle that divided a region of todays central Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, who can look back on one of the oldest history of the world.

This fact can really change the perception of history and humanity among all of us.

The reason I post this story is also to eliminate any inferiority that has been created in the event of colonialism and to demonstrate that a lack of comprehensive knowledge and imagination can lead to underestimation of ones own cultural and ethnical significance.

Obviously I am not encouraging any superior or inferior thinking, but an understanding of the EQUALITY of all human potential!

Amen = Emen = Believe

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Written by Esayas Gebremedhin, Master in Applied Imagination (University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins)
Powered by the groundbreaking creative method LALIAFLIA, where “The star (life) beats the tree (logic) in creativity”
Initiated by the cool, multicultural, and multidisciplinary MA course “Applied Imagination”, where Esayas has been asked  to question conventions, to challenge authorities, to go beyond the predictable, to lead instead of follow, to raise the bar, to apply his imagination, to get out his comfort zone, to unleash potentials, to create dimensions, to become something instead of being something ect.

About the author:

Esayas speaks fluent Tigrigna, Amharigna, German, and English. For over 10 years he has been interested in Media Design, Product Design, 3D Design, Architecture, Innovation, Life (Biology), Science, Anthropology, Ancient Egyptian Art, and Ancient Greek Philosophy in particular. His recent project LALIAFLIA is a tool for INNOVATION. To his surprise, Esayas has discovered that 99 % of any creative or innovative work comes from INSPIRATION – In best case scenarios from living things.