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What was the spiritual system of Ethiopia before it became the first place in Kmt to be colonized by christianity?

The Black Gods: Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization Part 4 – By John G. Jackson (1939)         So far we have given little or no attention to the evidence of  comparative religion. The study of ancient religious history is  important, for religion, like philosophy, changes but slowly.  Institutional religion, being conservative and static in its outlook,  has preserved much ancient lore that would have otherwise been lost to  the modern student.
 The Greek philosopher Xenophanes (572â€"480 B.C.), pointed out a  profound truth when he observed that the gods men worship very closely  resemble the worshippers. In the words of this ancient sage: "Each man  represents the gods as he himself is. The Ethiopian as black and  flat-nosed the Thracian as red-haired and blue-eyed; and if horses and  oxen could paint, they would no doubt depict the gods as horses and  oxen." This being the case; when we find the great nations of the world,  both past and present, worshipping black gods, then we logically  conclude that these peoples are either members of the black race, or  that they originally received their religion in toto or in part from  black people. The proofs are abundant.
 The ancient gods of India are shown with Ethiopian crowns on their  heads. According to the Old Testament, Moses first met Jehovah during  his sojourn among the Midianites, who were an Ethiopian tribe. We learn  from Hellenic tradition that Zeus, king of the Grecian gods, so  cherished the friendship of the Ethiopians that he traveled to their  country twice a year to attend banquets. "All the gods and goddesses of  Greece were black," asserts Sir Godfrey Higgins, "at least this was the  case with Jupiter, Baccus, Hercules, Apollo, Ammon. The goddesses Benum,  Isis, Hecate, Diana, Juno, Metis, Ceres, Cybele were black."  (Anacalypsis, Vol. I, Book IV, Chap. I.)
 Even the Romans, who received their religion mainly from the Greeks,  admitted their debt to Egypt and Ethiopia. This may be well illustrated  by the following passage from The Golden Ass or Metamorphosis, by  Apuleius. The author, as an initiate of the Isis cult is represented as  being addressed by that goddess: "I am present; I who am Nature, the  parent of things, queen of all the elements … the primitive Phrygians  called me Pressimunitica, the mother or the gods; the native Athenians,  Ceropian Minerva; the floating Cyprians, Paphian Venus … the  inhabitants of Eleusis, the ancient goddess Ceres. Some again have  invoked me as Juno, others as Bellona, others as Hecate, and others  Rhamnusia; and those who are enlightened by the emerging rays of the  rising sun, the Ethiopians, Ariians and Egyptians, powerful in ancient  learning, who reverence by divinity with ceremonies perfectly proper,  call me by my true appellation, Queen Isis." (Doane's Bible Myths, Note,  p. 478.)
 A study of the images of ancient deities of both the Old and New  Worlds reveal their Ethiopic origin. This is noted by Kenneth R. H.  Mackezie in T. A. Buckley's Cities of the Ancient World, p. 180: "From  the wooly texture of the hair, I am inclined to assign to the Buddha of  India, the Fuhi of China, the Sommonacom of the Siamese, the Zaha of the  Japanese, and the Quetzalcoatl of the Mexicans, the same, and indeed an  Kmtyw, or rather Nubian, origin." Most of these black gods were  regarded as crucified saviors who died to save mankind by being nailed  to a cross, or tied to a tree with arms outstretched as if on a cross,  or slain violently in some other manner.
 Of these crucified saviors, the most prominent were Osiris and Horus  of Egypt, Krishna of India, Mithra of Persia, Quetazlcoatl of Mexico,  Adonis of Babylonia and Attis of Phrygia. Nearly all of these slain  savior-gods have the following stories related about them: They are born  of a virgin, on or near Dec. 25th (Christmas); their births are  heralded by a star; they are born either in a cave or stable; they are  slain, commonly by crucifixion; they descend into hell, and rise from  the dead at the beginning of Spring (Easter), and finally ascend into  heaven. The parallels between the legendary lives of these pagan  messiahs and the life of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Bible are so  similar that progressive Bible scholars now admit that stories of these  heathen Christs have been woven into the life-story of Jesus. (These  remarkable parallels are discussed and interpreted in a pamphlet,  Christianity Before Christ, by John G. Jackson, New York, 1938.)
 The late Mr. Maynard Shipley, President of The Science League of  America, made a very scholarly study of the various mythologies and  religions of the world, and in the concluding passage of a brilliant  essay, Christian Doctrines in Pre-Christian America, he offers a  profoundly thought-provoking statement:
 That the ancient pagan creeds, legends and mythsâ€"part of the  universal mythosâ€"should be found embodied in the religion of the  ancient Mexicans, and that all these again are found to be but the  original sources of the modern orthodox Christian religion, is by no  means inexplicable, and need not be attribute to the subtlety of the  Ubiquitous Devil. The explanation is that all religions and all  languages of the civilized races of men had a common origin in an older  seat of civilization.
 Where that original center of culture was is another story.
 The evidence seems to show that the "original center of culture,"  referred to by Mr. Shipley, was that vast domain known to the classical  geographers and historians as Ethiopia. A study of religious images  throws much light on this early civilization. The tau (T-shaped) cross  is thought by many Christians to be a unique emblem of their faith. The  fact is that this cross is of ancient Ethiopian origin. In the words of  an outstanding student of symbolism: "The Ethiopic form of the tau is an  exact prototype of the conventional Christian cross; or, to state the  fact in its chronological relation, the Christian cross is made in the  exact image of the Ethiopian tau." (Sex Symbolism. P. 9, by William J,  Fielding, Little Blue Book No. 904.) The cross was known to all the  great ancient nations, and was sometimes shown with the image of a man  upon it. The Church Father, Minucius Felix, writing in the early part of  the third century, severely rebukes the Pagans for their adoration of  crosses: "I must tell you that we neither adore crosses nor desire them;  you it is ye Pagans … for what else are your ensigns, flags and  standards, but crosses gilt and beautiful. Your victorious trophies not  only represent a cross, but a cross with a man upon it." Commenting on  the preceding extract, the American scholar, T. W. Doane, notes that:
 It is very evident that this celebrated Christian Father alludes to  some Gentle mystery, of which the prudence of his successors has  deprived us. When we compare this with the fact that for centuries after  the time assigned for the birth of Jesus Christ, he was not represented  as a man on a cross, and that the Christians did not have such a thing  as a crucifix, we are inclined to think that the effigies of a black or  dark-skinned crucified man, which were to be seen in many places in  Italy even during the last century, may have had something to do with  it. (Bible Myths, p. 197, 7th Edition.)
 The same writer also refers to "the Mexican crucified god being  sometimes represented as black," and that "crosses were also found in  Yucatan, as well as Mexico, with a man upon them." (Ibid., p. 201.)
 The numerous black madonnas and infants in eureurasiaan cathedrals are  discussed in detail by Sir Godfrey Higgins in The Anacalypsis, Vol. I,  Book IV, Chap. I, to which the interested student is referred. However,  the remarks of Mr. Shipley on this point are worthy of our attention:
 Very suggestive is the fact that representations of the virgin mother  and infant savior are often black. This is true in the case of the  paintings and images of Isis and Horus, of Devaki and Krishna, and in  many cases of Mary and Jesus. The most ancient pictures and statues in  Italy and other parts of eureurasia, which are adored by the faithful as  representations of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus, reveal the  infant draped in white, but with face black and in the arms of a black  mother. … How does it happen that the Virgin Mother of the Mexican  Savior-God so closely resembled the Black Virgins of Egypt and eureurasia?  Had they not all a common origin?" (Sex and The Garden of Eden Myth, pp.  50â€"51, by Maynard Shipley, Little Blue Book No.1188.)
 Mr. A. H. Verrill, an American archaeologist, visited an Indian  shrine in a small town in Guatemala a few years ago, and found that on a  special festival day Indians traveled to this little church to bow down  to the image of a Black Christ. From the attendant ceremonies, Verrill  judged the rite to be of Mayan origin. (see Verrill's Old Civilizations  of the New World, New York, 1938.) The Mayas possessed knowledge of the  arts and sciences equivalent to that of the ancients of the Old World,  but upon that we cannot dwell, since limitations of space forbid it. The  reader is referred to Professor Paul Radin's fine book on the American  Indians, where after surveying the marvelous scientific achievements of  the Mayas of Yucatan and Central America , Dr. Radin admits that: "No  excavations have ever revealed to us any civilization of a simpler  nature from which this very elaborate culture could possibly have been  developed." (The Story of the American Indian, p. 77, Garden City,  1937.)
 Egypt and Western eurasia tell the same story. "In each case we have a  standard or measuring-rod of authentic historical record," declares  Samuel Laing, "of certainly not less than 8,000 and more probably 9,000  or 10,000 years, from the present time; and in each case we find  ourselves at this remote date, in the presence, not of rude beginnings,  but of a civilization already ancient and far advanced. We have populous  cities, celebrated temples, an organized priesthood, an advanced state  of agriculture and of the industrial and fine arts; writing and books so  long known that their origin is lost in myth; religions in which  advanced philosophical and moral ideas are already developed;  astronomical systems which imply a long course of accurate observations.  How long this prehistoric age may have lasted, and how many centuries  it may have taken to develop such a civilization, from the primitive  beginnings of Neolithic and Paleolithic origins, is a matter of  conjecture. All we can infer is, that it must have required an immense  time, much longer than that embraced by the subsequent period of  historical record." (Human Origins, by Samuel Laing, p. 30, ukkk,  1913.)
 Much more could be said on this subject, but since this essay is  addressed mainly to readers who have little time for the study of  history, it must be made as concise as possible. The numerous citations  from standard scientific and historical works, it is hoped, will be of  some benefit to students who are out of reach of large public libraries,  or who lack the leisure time necessary for reading and research along  these lines.

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