Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt

unspeakable. Many scholars believe it was a sexual act or perhaps even castration. (The castration interpretation comes
from the fact that Canaan is Ham’s fourth son, and so Noah’s banishing of Canaan from the family lineage could be
revenge for Ham prohibiting Noah from having a fourth son himself.)
*38. Religious Jews and Arabs today both consider themselves sons of Ham’s brother Shem through Abraham, who is
considered to be a descendant of one of Shem’s five sons, Arpachshad (eighth generation descendant, according to the
Book of Genesis), via Abraham’s two sons, Isaac and Ishmael. Further, according to the Exodus story, Moses is the
fifth generation descendant of Isaac.
*39. In this chapter, we are focusing on the evidence regarding the color of the people who were the progenitors of the
ancient Egyptian civilization. Regarding the term race, we note that contemporary specialists in human genetics, such
as S.O.Y. Keita, point out that there are and have been human population groups with variation and fluent
characteristics, such as skin color, but the genetic variabilities are such that the classical use of the term race has little
scientific value.
*40. Thomas Brophy notes that from recent generations, he himself is a mix of European ethnicities, but he does consider
himself a member of humanity, and thus, as we describe in this chapter, about two hundred thousand years ago, he was
Black African. Brophy was raised mostly secular with some attendance at Christian churches, but after obtaining a
Ph.D. in physics, he wrote a book that describes a view of the unity of all major religions within the context of modern
physical science. 41
*41. A franchise that sells evergreen trees at Christmas and pumpkins at Halloween.
*42. In 1934 Enrico de Agostini discovered a prehistoric burial ground at Ain Doua on the Libyan side of southern
Uwainat. It offered well-preserved pottery and two skeletons, which were apparently taken to Florence, Italy, but were
very damaged during transportation and during the famous flood that hit the Florence area in 1966. The pots, however,
are displayed today at Florence Archaeological Museum.
*43. In 2001 Robert Bauval and John Anthony West went to examine the cow stone at the Nubian Museum and, sadly,
found it damaged and broken into two pieces. Apparently, the accident happened during transportation from Nabta
Playa.
†44. In the Dendera zodiac, Isis-Sirius is shown as a crouching cow, and elsewhere she appears as a woman wearing a
headdress with cow horns.
*45. Azimuth is measured in degrees all around the horizon: 360 degrees, with the zero point being due north.
†46. Note that this change in rising azimuth depends on the starting azimuth of the star. Roughly about 1 degree applies,
for example, to Sirius.
*47. Like the Masai of Kenya and the Dinka of Sudan, the Nabta cattle people probably drank the blood of live cattle by
inserting a straw into their jugular, and they likely only rarely slaughtered a calf for meat, perhaps only on special feast
days or for ceremonial purposes.
*48. A cataract is a change in the level of the river. In all, on the Nile there are six main cataracts, and the sixth is just
north of Khartoum in Sudan.
*49. The first phase of the Satet (Satis) temple was an early-dynasty hut built into the corner of the three-boulders
enclosure. In the third dynasty this was enlarged and a fore-court was added. Further work took place in the sixth
dynasty, and various new temples were constructed on top of the ruins of the earlier one during the eleventh and
twelveth dynasties, especially by the pharaoh Sesostris I. In the New Kingdom, the eighteenth-dynasty queen-pharaoh
Hatshepsut had the Satis temple completely rebuilt some 2 meters (7 feet) higher than the original three boulders. The
eighteenth-dynasty edifice was then extended to the east during the Ramesside period and again in the twenty-sixth
dynasty. Finally, a totally new temple was built over the ruins of the last one during the Ptolemaic period.
*50. The Egyptologist Gaston Maspero explains that Krophi and Mophi are Qer Hāpi (Cavern of the Nile God) and Mu-
Hāpi (Water of the Nile God).
*51. The latitude of Elephantine Island, 24.08 degrees north, precisely equaled the Tropic line circa 3760 BCE. By 3300
BCE, the Tropic line had moved down to 24.045 degrees, which was essentially the same.
†52. According to Ron Wells, Sirius had to be at an altitude of 10.48 degrees in order to be seen when observers took
into account the high knoll that rises on the east bank of the river (today occupied by the Old Cataract Hotel).