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He said Diop said there was a tribe of red haired Lebou living in AE
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Posted by Wally (Member # 2936) on 21 December, 2009 08:31 PM:
quote: Nehesy wrote: Balandier and Mercier 2 french scholars have shown in 1952 (before cheikh anta diop) that the lebus of senegal were from the nile valley.
There are a people living in Senegal called the Lebou and whose name means "fishermen or people who live by the sea."
So what do we have in Mdu Ntr?
"r" or "l" is a preposition meaning for example - to;against;at "bo" in Mdu Ntr and in Coptic means "canal" or "stream" "l_bo" means "at the stream" "l_bou" means "those at the stream" Lebou - "Those at the stream"
Thus it is accurate to state that Lebou in the Mdu Ntr language would mean and be consistent with "people who live by the sea (water)."
And the etymology also of Libya?
Budge: Lebu - Libyans
My own personal observation on this subject from Dec 2004...
According to the ancients, the portion of Africa to the west of Egypt was called Libya but according to the Moudu ro en Kemet, the region to the west of Kemet would be called Khasut Amenti ("foreign territories in the west"), and like "Nubia" to the south, it was only referred to vis-a-vis the tribes or peoples in that region. Here is the chronology of Kememou names for what the ancients referred to as "Libya" :
1) predynastic;early dynastic period (2920-2575bc);also in the Book of the Dead, one of the oldest Kememou texts.
Tehenu: ("The 'blue' people") Note: their name was often written with the ideogram for "sparkle, shine, coruscate, lightning, blue-glazed faience. (EWB) These people were portrayed by the Kememou as being very similar to themselves, and probably were closely related. Tehen: dazzling;sparkling; to dye something blue; faience or a glazed blue earthenware that was often used for amulets and some vessels.
In my opinion, these were the ancestors of the present day Tuareg people, who even today some of them are referred to as the blue people because some wear fabrics dyed by a process which involves pounding indigo powder into the cloth with a stone. So, if you were to use the Kememou language to describe these Tuareg people you would call them Tehenu...
2) 12th Dynasty onwards... While the Tehenu were still present, we had an addition:
Tamhu: "The Red people" (Wolof: honk nopp = red-eared people)
This was an ethnic term based upon Kememou ethnographic classifications (IE, *"the mural of the races") to indicate a white race of people. These were the blue-eyed 'Berbers' and were to become the favorites of modern Egyptology, as their presence allowed the creation of an erroneous association with the civilization of Kemet, even though their existence was only acknowledged during the 12th Kememou dynasty...
3) 20th Dynasty M'shawaasha: (?; "meshwesh") This was a Libyan people who appear to be self-named, as there doesn't appear to be a Kememou correspondence (at least I couldn't find any). We do have the name of one of their kings; M'shaken...
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