Houston
The 'irrefutable' arsenal of facts that Houston, an
early 1900s woman, teacher, journalist, self trained historian and
author of the book,
The Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient
Cushite Empire chronicles, recognizes, celebrates, and
explores to a level not
previously known by this present day civilization, the African
people's history. Theirs is nothing short of a glorious past, so rich,
so magnificent, so awe-inspiring that one can only gape in astonishment
at such an ocean of forgotten knowledge and such an unknown expanse of
significant material.
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Ethiopians at Ark of The Covenant Shrine
Courtesy of the British Museum
In Ethiopia |
Europe and its bastions have horrendously and, most deliberately, misrepresented
the African past. How many ancient sculptures have lost their obviously
African noses, lips etc.? How many great historical figures, among them
Jesus the Christ, have been stripped entirely of their blackness? Where
great African accomplishments have been made, how many times have they
been relegated to obscurity or the credit usurped? Certainly the veracity
of Houston's statement that " there seems to be a world wide conspiracy
to conceal the facts that this book unfolds" cannot be questioned.
The Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire contains
an education in itself and an education without which the modern man, whether
he is an academic or not, remains ignorant, misguided, miseducated, and,
in the case of African peoples, mentally enslaved. Such has been the case
in North America and Europe and any other place where the history of the
people of Cush has been almost totally obscured.
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Cushite History is the World's History
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Cushite history is the world's history and the history of an amazing
people; the people of Africa and the African Diaspora. It is a history
that demands great respect, for these people were the definitive
masters of many things and many disciplines, long before the much-touted
scholars, 'firsts' usually chronicled in modern schoolroom text. This was
a romantic, highly moral, and well diversified culture, a progressive civilization
many thousands of years before England, that celebrated monarchy of yesteryear,
progressed even to the barbaric feudal system of war, upon war, upon murderous
war.
Houston's little arsenal of facts, and the word little can have meaning
in the most idiomatic of fashion here, does much to stir the hearts of
African-Americans and to enrich the consciousness of other Blacks, historians
and people of all races, whomever they might be, that consider themselves
a part of humanity. These things that have so long been swept under the
rug of deceit, neglected in historical testaments of modern day and often
known only to God, are finally set forth for the upliftment of all mankind
in The Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire.
It cannot be surprising then, that Houston commences her journey
through the history of mankind in Ethiopia! the site of the origin
of civilization. Truly, the ancient Ethiopians, people of the Blue Nile
are antecedent even to the Egyptians of the lower Nile, and were citizens
of the first and oldest established nation on this planet. In fact "the
story of what lay behind Egypt fascinated the whole ancient world...It
was the ancient Cushite Empire of Ethiopians which ancient authorities
tell us ruled over three continents for thousands of years," wrote Houston
in the first few chapters of her book.
There in those first chapters, are other, no less interesting, jewels
of information. How many people in this world realize that ancient Cushite
Art stands all over the world even today? Their monuments stand in Siberia,
the Mississippi Valley, in America, in Mexico and in Peru. How many realize
that Ancient Cushite Kings live as the glorified Gods of the Greeks. Amongst
them are Zeus, Apollo, Hercules, Dionysus,Saturn, and Osiris? Houston's
book later reveals Amen-Ra , Cush the son of Ham and Zeus are all one and
the same. Said she, "That is why they (the Greeks) said the God's banqueted
with the Ethiopians." Even Indra, King of Meroe and chief God of the Hindus
was a royal son of Cush.
According to Houston's research, it is the same people's genius that
built the Sphinx, The tower of Babel, The Taj Mahal and other architectural
wonders of India and the world. It is they that provided the blueprints
for the castles of the Rhine for, indeed, the castles of Nubia(Ethiopia)
sport the same designer label.
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The Gods Banqueted With The Ethiopians
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It is easily apparent, even today, that the natives of Cush had quite a
link to the Egyptians and were greatly revered by them. Houston observed
that many of the Egyptian monuments depict figures wearing the very same
clothing that is indiginous only to native Ethiopians. This dress is not
found among the Egyptians themselves. It is not so shocking that it should
be thus, since these nations were once collectively referred to as "The
Two Lands" and since Ethiopian Kings ruled over both. The Wonderful
Ethiopians moves on , quite logically then, to Egypt.
Of Egypt, the book quotes Reclus when he said that "when the whole of
Europe was still over run by savage tribes, that have left no records behind
them, Egypt existed...a civilized power of greatness." For six thousand
years, Houston wrote, :the world did not advance beyond the level of Egyptian
arts. Printing is barely a 300-year-old development.
In those chapters devoted to the Cushites in Egypt, some might be quite
surprised to learn that Egypt is not at all Semitic in origin. In a section
of Egypt's golden age the book informs that semites hold the herding profession
in high esteem and that "shapers and swineherds were the lowest strata
of Egyptian society. These people obviously do not share a common cultural
beginning. Many will be surprised to learn that to build the original Memphis,
Egyptians diverted the Nile itself! Even more might be surprised to find,
in these pages, Memmom, the Black Prince of the Illiad" who came to the
aid of Troy." Others, especially those of Judeo-Christian identifies, will
be quite interested to find that the Egyptians both began and terminated
their prayers with a customary Amen. "Amen was the name of the black god
of the Sudan and Egypt."
Continued in the March '98' Edition
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