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Africa is where the oldest human bones are found, and it is also where some of the oldest mining on earth took place. In my research it shows up twice: once in the science of human origins and once in the oral traditions of the Zulu, the Yoruba and the Dogon, which remember a first man, a wet new earth and visitors from the water. These are the pages where Africa comes up.
The oldest mine
On The Ngwenya Mine I look at the hematite mine in Eswatini, which was worked for tens of thousands of years. For a site whose story is about the Anunnaki mining gold in Africa, a real prehistoric mine on that continent matters.
Out of Africa
On Is the Out of Africa Theory Outdated? I follow the 2017 finds at Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, which pushed the age of Homo sapiens back and spread its origin across the continent:
Furthermore, it shows that the evolutionary processes behind the emergence of H. sapiens involved the whole African continent.
Jean-Jacques Hublin et al., Nature (2017)
The first man and the reeds
On Unkulunkulu: The Zulu Tradition of Creation and Ancestral Origins the first man breaks off from Uthlanga, a bed of reeds, and breaks the nations off after him. On A Heavenly “Lord” (Inkosi) in Zulu Cosmology I look at the lord of the sky who stands above him. On Earth was initially deemed too wet for habitation. Obatala took soil and materials to earth the Yoruba earth is at first too wet to live on, until Obatala brings soil down to it.
Visitors from the water
On Dogon oral traditions from Mali interpreted here as Atlantis the Dogon speak of a first land tied to the Nommo, and on The Nommos, being part-human, part-fish, creators or civilizers who established order these amphibious beings are called the Masters of the Water. Water spirits appear again on Mami Wata.
The sangomas and Credo Mutwa
On Sangoma visions from Southern Africa pertain to stories of lost civilizations Zulu and Xhosa healers describe a place of the first people and submerged lands. On Atlantis-like lost civilizations, with a focus on the claims of Credo Mutwa the Chitauri mine gold in Southern Africa.
Related pages
- The Ngwenya Mine
- Is the Out of Africa Theory Outdated?
- Unkulunkulu: The Zulu Tradition of Creation and Ancestral Origins
- Earth was initially deemed too wet for habitation. Obatala took soil and materials to earth
- The Nommos, being part-human, part-fish, creators or civilizers who established order
- Mami Wata
- Sangoma visions from Southern Africa pertain to stories of lost civilizations
- Ta Seti, Africa’s Early Powerhouse
- African Flood stories
- The Dogon people of Mali know of Sirius B, a dense white dwarf star
- Atlantis in North Africa
For every page I tagged with African, see the African tag archive.
