Post by hamiticsister101 on Aug 10, 2011 19:03:06 GMT -5
The Temahu are and were a people described by the ancient Egyptians as living nearby. The other names that the ancient Egyptians used for these people are Ribu, Libu, or Tehenu. They were described as a pale skinned, bearded, tall, and having colored eyes. They also had tatoos on their bodies, they wore long robes made of animal hide, also they shaved the back of their heads keeping long locks on the side (which the Hebrews adopted in their stay in Egypt). The main gods of the Temahu was a sky goddess named Nieth and Amon, they also worshipped other Egyptian gods but these was the main gods of the Temahu people.
The Temehu were described by the Egyptians as living in all the lands west of Egypt and also living in the south of Egypt. This whole land was called Libya and later the Greeks adopted it, before the Romans called it Africa after the Temahu tribe of Ifri or the Temahu Afri. However there is debate where the name "Africa" came from, some assert it to the Afar tribe in the Horn. The Temahu were not strangers to the Egyptians at all since they had contacts with them from the pre-Dyanstic times till the New Kingdom and till the Ptolemic times the Temehu people existed and after Islam as well. So who are the Temehu people?
The Temahu/Temehu are the modern day Tamazight or Temehqt people otherwise known as the Berber people of North Africa. The Hebrew Bible says that the Libyans or Lybyos or Lebahim were the children of Mizr or Mizraim (Aegyptus/Egypt) this is because they lived closely approximately to the Egyptians. However another part of the Hebrew Bible describes the Temehu as being the children of Phut or Put or Phunt/Punt. The Jewish Roman scholar Titus Flavius Josephus said: "Phut also was the founder of Libya, and called the inhabitants Phutites (Phoutes), from himself: there is also a river in the country of Moors which bears that name; whence it is that we may see the greatest part of the Grecian historiographers mention that river and the adjoining country by the appellation of Phut (Phoute): but the name it has now has been by change given it from one of the sons of Mezraim, who was called Lybyos." (AotJ Book 1:6/2). Pliny the Elder Nat. Hist. 5.1 and Ptolemy Geog. iv.1.3 both place the river Phuth on the west side of Mauretania (modern Morocco). Ptolemy also mentions a city Putea in Libya (iv.3.39)."
He clearly said that the Libyans were descedents of Phut or Punt, when the Romans went to war with the Carthiginians in modern day Tunisia it was specifically called "The Punic Wars". The name "Punt" has been referred to also as the Phoenicians. Herodotus describes the Phoenician origin as: "Herodotus's account (written c. 440 BC) refers to the Io and Europa myths. (History, I:1).
"According to the Persians best informed in history, the Phoenicians began the quarrel. These people, who had formerly dwelt on the shores of the Erythraean Sea (modern day Somalia), having migrated to the Mediterranean and settled in the parts which they now inhabit, began at once, they say, to adventure on long voyages, freighting their vessels with the wares of Egypt and Assyria…"
Whatever the case Phut or Punt's location was in Africa both in North Africa and the Horn, and later colonized modern day Lebanon which has been called Phoenicia. In the Book of Nahum in 3:9 it is said "Put and Lubim, helpers of Egypt...". Other verses describes the Phutites/Puntites in North Africa as being warriors and helpers of Egypt. In Jeremiah 46:9, they are again described as being supporters of Egypt. This clearly indicates that the Egyptians and the Temehu were not really seen as foriegners to one another but as friends and helpers of one another and as being of the same origin, all being Hamites. The Libyan tribe of pỉdw shows up in Egyptian records by the 22nd dynasty, while a Ptolemaic text from Edfu refers to the t3 n nꜣ pỉt.w "the land of the Pitu". The word was later written in Demotic as Pỉt, and as Phaiat in Coptic, a name for Libya Aegypti, northwestern Egypt. A fragment of Nebuchadnezzar II's annals mentions his campaign in 567 in Egypt, and defeating the soldiers of Putu Yavan, ie. Greek Libya (Cyrene). A multilingual stele from al-Kabrît, dating to the reign of Darius I refers to the Put as the province of Putiya (Old Persian) and Puṭa (Neo-Babylonian), where the equivalent text written in Egyptian has tꜣ ṯmḥw "Libya".
The Temehu were described by the Egyptians as living in all the lands west of Egypt and also living in the south of Egypt. This whole land was called Libya and later the Greeks adopted it, before the Romans called it Africa after the Temahu tribe of Ifri or the Temahu Afri. However there is debate where the name "Africa" came from, some assert it to the Afar tribe in the Horn. The Temahu were not strangers to the Egyptians at all since they had contacts with them from the pre-Dyanstic times till the New Kingdom and till the Ptolemic times the Temehu people existed and after Islam as well. So who are the Temehu people?
The Temahu/Temehu are the modern day Tamazight or Temehqt people otherwise known as the Berber people of North Africa. The Hebrew Bible says that the Libyans or Lybyos or Lebahim were the children of Mizr or Mizraim (Aegyptus/Egypt) this is because they lived closely approximately to the Egyptians. However another part of the Hebrew Bible describes the Temehu as being the children of Phut or Put or Phunt/Punt. The Jewish Roman scholar Titus Flavius Josephus said: "Phut also was the founder of Libya, and called the inhabitants Phutites (Phoutes), from himself: there is also a river in the country of Moors which bears that name; whence it is that we may see the greatest part of the Grecian historiographers mention that river and the adjoining country by the appellation of Phut (Phoute): but the name it has now has been by change given it from one of the sons of Mezraim, who was called Lybyos." (AotJ Book 1:6/2). Pliny the Elder Nat. Hist. 5.1 and Ptolemy Geog. iv.1.3 both place the river Phuth on the west side of Mauretania (modern Morocco). Ptolemy also mentions a city Putea in Libya (iv.3.39)."
He clearly said that the Libyans were descedents of Phut or Punt, when the Romans went to war with the Carthiginians in modern day Tunisia it was specifically called "The Punic Wars". The name "Punt" has been referred to also as the Phoenicians. Herodotus describes the Phoenician origin as: "Herodotus's account (written c. 440 BC) refers to the Io and Europa myths. (History, I:1).
"According to the Persians best informed in history, the Phoenicians began the quarrel. These people, who had formerly dwelt on the shores of the Erythraean Sea (modern day Somalia), having migrated to the Mediterranean and settled in the parts which they now inhabit, began at once, they say, to adventure on long voyages, freighting their vessels with the wares of Egypt and Assyria…"
Whatever the case Phut or Punt's location was in Africa both in North Africa and the Horn, and later colonized modern day Lebanon which has been called Phoenicia. In the Book of Nahum in 3:9 it is said "Put and Lubim, helpers of Egypt...". Other verses describes the Phutites/Puntites in North Africa as being warriors and helpers of Egypt. In Jeremiah 46:9, they are again described as being supporters of Egypt. This clearly indicates that the Egyptians and the Temehu were not really seen as foriegners to one another but as friends and helpers of one another and as being of the same origin, all being Hamites. The Libyan tribe of pỉdw shows up in Egyptian records by the 22nd dynasty, while a Ptolemaic text from Edfu refers to the t3 n nꜣ pỉt.w "the land of the Pitu". The word was later written in Demotic as Pỉt, and as Phaiat in Coptic, a name for Libya Aegypti, northwestern Egypt. A fragment of Nebuchadnezzar II's annals mentions his campaign in 567 in Egypt, and defeating the soldiers of Putu Yavan, ie. Greek Libya (Cyrene). A multilingual stele from al-Kabrît, dating to the reign of Darius I refers to the Put as the province of Putiya (Old Persian) and Puṭa (Neo-Babylonian), where the equivalent text written in Egyptian has tꜣ ṯmḥw "Libya".