egyptians ancestors came from land of “punt” -...

In my pr ev i ous ar ti cl e, I di scussed on the cul t of l or d Kr i shna bei ngw or shi pped i n Egy pt as Dei ty ‘amun’. I sy mbol i cal l y compar edEgy pti an Opet festi v al w i th Indi an r ath y atr a festi v al . In thi s ar ti cl e, Iw i l l be di scussi ng the or i gi n of Opet festi v al i n mor e detai l s byestabl i shi ng the l i nk betw een anci ent Egy pt and Indi a.

Egyptians ancestors came from Land of “Punt”Egyptians themselves said that they can from the land called'P unt', the land of gods . Egyptians believed their ances torscame from a land called ‘P unt’. Mention of punt can be found inplarmo s tone belonging to the reign of king Sahure(2500 BC ).Here, it talks about expedition to acquire incense, ivory, woodfor religious rituals , in which thousands of men were involved.Detailed desc ription of the P unt expedition is found inHatshepsut's mortuary temple, thebes . These desc riptions talksabout queen Hatsheptsut’s expedition to be headed by herC hancellor Senmut, on a fleet of five ships .

Egyptian ship model Warmly welcoming them , king parahu and queen ati laden their

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ships with tones res in, woods , gold, spices , ebony, cosmetics ,incense, pure ivory, along with animals like apes , dogs ,monkeys , skins of the panther ( as garment for Egyptian preis t),along with natives . This insc ription says the expedition travelledsouth eas t to Egypt and c rosses the red sea. Further, it is saidthat the whole journey through the great ocean is verydangerous and takes as long as three years for the expedition toreturn back.

Punt is in India Below is the point which makes India, the bes t choice for punt. 1 ) In Googl e maps, i f y ou l ook south east to r ed sea then al l y ou f i nd i sIndi an Ocean and no countr y ex cept countr i es of Indi an subconti nent.

So, most pr obabl y , punt shoul d be somew her e i n Indi a. 2) A ccording to Egyptians text, P unt means ‘Land of the gods ’.Now in anc ient times , there were very few c ivilizations with manygods and predominant among them were Greek and Indians .Greek cannot be punt because there is no need to c ross the redsea nor the commodities like ivory, rhino horn, spices etc can befound in Greece. So, again it is India who suits the title "land of‘punt’". I t is a well known fac t that India has many gods and asper the es timates , India has more than million gods andgoddesses .


M illions of gods in Lord Krishna V ishwa-Roop Darshan 3) Punt means l and of the gods. Fr om thi s meani ng, I can der i v e Indi an

ci ty ‘Pur i ’ as ‘Punt’. In Indi a, sages hav e been consi der ed as an i ncar nati on of god andaccor di ng to scr i ptur es, ser v i ng Br ahmi n sages i s equi v al ent to ser v i ng


god. Mahabahar at say s l or d Kr i shna ser v ed sage Ved v y asa and hi s gur usage ‘Sandi pani ’ w hi l e r amay aa say s l or d r ama ser v ed sage ‘Vasi stha’.Sage i s cal l ed ‘sant ’ i n Sansk r i t . Sant al so mean ‘God’. ‘Pur i ’ i s l and and‘sant ’ i s God. Combi ne the tw o w or ds pur i and sant. W hat do y ou get? Yupw e get the w or d “Punt” and i ts meani ng ‘Land of the gods’. N ote that Pur ihas been the top most spi r i tual c i ty si nce t i me unk now n but pr edatesthe Indus v al l ey per i od. It i s al so one of the four sacr ed pl aces (CharDham) of Hi ndui sm. Al so, r el ate the festi v al of r ath y atr a bei ng copi ed

i n Egy pt as ‘Opet festi v al ’. 4) Pur i i s l ocated i n Indi an state of Or i ssa. Or i ssa i s abundant i nnatur al r esour ces. Many of the w or l d's top mi ner al r esour cescompani es l i k e posco, Vedanta, ar cel or mi ttal oper ates i n Or i ssa.Fur ther y ou w i l l f i nd al l other commodi ti es l i sted i n queenHatsheptsut ’s ex pedi ti on. Rhi no hor n can be found i n nei ghbor i ngstates of ‘Assam’. Monk ey s, panther , apes and other ani mal s can be found

i n Or i ssa i tsel f . Spi ces ar e the major commodi ty of Or i ssa. When Ivisited the JagganathPuri temple in 2003, I remember buyingthe spices from the market situated next to Unesco worldheritage site konark(Sun god) Temple. 5) A ccording to Egyptian sc riptures , queen Hatsheptsutexpedition faced a daunting and difficult task of c ross ing thegreat ocean and their journey took as long as three years . Nextto Egypt, the only great ocean I can see is Indian O cean. NoDoubt venturing in the open Indian O cean is a daunting anddifficult task. Dis tance between Egypt and ‘P uri’ along the searoute of s rilanka is almost 10000 kilometres .


P uri (A ) and Egypt (B) from Google maps A s per the Egyptians ship model, they must be travelling at thespeed of 25-50km/hr. Since the maximum time span of theirjourney is 3 years , I will calculate us ing the minimum speed.Dividing 10,000 by 25, I get the number of days as 400.Multiplying 400 by 2(Return journey), I get 800 days which isalmost 2 years 3 months . Now I can safely assume theremaining time must be their period of res t or vis iting c ities inIndian sub continent. Further, I think, they s topped at differentshores of India to get their commodities . For Ex they must haves topped at Kerala for their world c lass spices . 6) One hor ned r hi no i s i ndi genous to Indi a and i s found onl y i n nor theaster n Indi a. Onl y Indi ans had the tr adi ti on of mak i ng i v or y f r omel ephant tusk s. Or i ssa has abundance of el ephants w hi ch has been usedby k i ngs of many empi r es l i k e the gupta and Maur y a Empi r e. Thi sagai n mak es ‘Pur i ’ as punt.


Left (O ne horn rhinoceros of A ssam), right (Horn cut bypoachers for medic ine)

I w as qui te sur pr i sed that the hi stor i ans thought Punjab, Indus v al l ey ,Ker al a, Somal i a and ev en Amer i ca as ‘Punt’ but nev er thought of sacr edci ty Pur i as ‘Punt’. I guess these for ei gn hi stor i ans w er e not aw ar e ofthe r ath y atr a festi v al of Pur i and i ts si mi l ar i t i es w i th dei ty Amun andOpet festi v al . One poi nt I for got to menti on i n my l ast ar ti cl e w as theex act si mi l ar i t i es betw een l or d Kr i shna w i th amun and k honsu w i thbal ar ama. Check the bel ow i mage. Lor d Kr i shna (Ex tr eme r i ght) andamun both ar e bel i ev ed and show n as bl ack i n col our w hi l e k honsu andbal ar ama)Lef t of r i ght i mage) both ar e cl ai med to be fai r i n col or


w her eas subhadr a i s of the same col or as ‘Mut’.

In addition to these evidences , the fac t that the Egyptians hadbuilt a canal from the N ile to the Red Sea implies a cons iderablevolume of trade toward the south and eas t. This s tudy was further supported by two another s tudies done byberry and berry in 1972 and loring blace in 1993. They bothdec lared s imilarity with Europeans and V edic Indians but not atall with wes tern A s ia, sub-Saharan A frica, O ceania, or the NewWorld More evidences were found in the cranial remains in pre-dynas tic Egypt. Cranial Study of 59 skulls excavated at badariconcludes that these skulls differs from native Africans andresembles closely with Indian Aryans and Dravidians .O ne more evidence is the insc ription on the wall of queenHatsheptsut mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri. She mentionsthat she had compiled the wish of the god A mun-Re, her father,to have a grove of myrrh trees “for ointment for the divine limbs”.She says: "I have hearkened to my father...commanding me to


es tablish for him a P unt in his house, to plant the trees of God's

Land bes ide his temple, in his garden”. India is well known forA yurveda, an anc ient medic inal sc ience us ing herbs and plantsfor making medic ines . A yurveda also has the technique ofmaking ointment from myrhh leaves .


Some of the A yurvedic produc ts made of myrrh A lso myrrh (locally called as “Dhoop”) is used widely in Indiafor religious rituals and poojas . You will find myrhh in shops ,roads ide s talls , temples etc .


Incense s ticks made of Myrhh This c learly shows that Egyptians ances tors were Indian inorigin which raises the doubt if pyramid and sphinx werecons truc ted by Indian invaders .

A big round of applause to the original writer and also to me, forextending his research.


Enough of c lapping..Let's get back to work

Dr . H.R. Hal l , thought referred Punt to some part of India, Dr. H.R.Hall, an acc laimed his torian said “The Indus V alley c ivilizationis , according to Sir John Marshall who was in charge of theexcavations , the oldes t of all c ivilizations unearthed (c . 7000B.C .) I t is older than the Sumerian and it is believed by manythat the latter was a branch of the former. “ C ol. Henry Steel O lcott, a former pres ident of the TheosophicalSoc iety said “By the pic torial hieroglyphic insc ription found on the walls of the


temple of the Q ueen Has litop (Hatshepsut) at Der-el-babri, wesee that this P unt can be no other than India. I t is tes tified byHerdotus , P lato, Salon, P ythagoras , and Philos tratus that thereligion of Egypt proceeded from India. For many ages theEgyptians traded with their old homes , and the reference heremade by them to the names of the P rinces of P unt (King P arahuand Q ueen A ti) and its fauna and flora, espec ially thenomenc lature of various prec ious woods to be found but in India,leave us scarcely room for the smalles t doubt that the oldc ivilization of Egypt is the direc t outcome of that the olderIndia." The intention of Hatshepsut to expedite the land of P untwas to import incense, flowers , sac red and exotic goods , so asto offer these goods to deity A mun. Hatshepsut may havethought offering the goods from the land of his forefathers , andalso the place from where the A mun originated, she would bedoing a great deeds and service not only to deity A mun but alsoto his forefathers , and thereby eligible for their power, bless ings ,benedic tion and good fortune.”


A boat process ion of Deity ‘A mun’ at Hatshepsut’s temple, Deirel-Bahri

Dr. A dolf E rman dec lares P unt as 'a dis tant country full ofvalleys , prec ious metals and s tones , washed by the great seas ,incense, balm, rich in animals , long tailed monkeys , cheetahs ,panthers , dog-headed apes , winged c reatures with s trangefeathers to fly up to the boughs of wonderful trees , espec ially thecoconut and the incense trees .' There are many other scholars who believe Somalia, A merica orsome other country as ‘P unt’ but none of these countries fits to


the detailed insc riptions found in temples of Egypt nor havethese scholars provided any solid evidences to prove theirc laim. A c tually whatever is mentioned in Egyptians sc riptures can befound in Indian sub continent. Egyptians also said that theirforefathers were the most c ivilized, spiritually advanced and thegreates t of all c ivilization. With the discovery of dwarka, Indiahas been regarded as the greates t advanced anc ient c ivilization.So again punt should be India. I t should not be surpris ing that punt is Indians s ince manyscholars have accepted E thiopia to be colonized by H indutraders . E thiopia, as is universally admitted now, was colonizedby the H indus . Sir William Jones , an A nglo-Welsh philologis t andscholar said: "E thiopia and H indus tan were possessed orcolonized by the same extraordinary race." Ethi opi an tr adi ti on say s thei r or i gi n comi ng f r om a l and l ocated nearmouth of r i v er Indus, conf i r med by the testi mony of Phi l ostr atus andEusebi us. W hi l e r esear chi ng about Dei ty amun and opet festi v al ofEgy pt, I found another l i nk w i th Indi a. I w i l l f i r st star t w i th the stor yof Egy pt i nv asi on.

Egyptians were living peacefully and happily under theleadership of pharaoh until the end of eighteenth century BC .Then the tyrant, irreligious , c ruel invaders known ashyskos(meaning foreign rulers ) invaded Egypt during 1700 BC .They burnt Egyptians c ities , des troyed temples , capturedwomen’s and children’s as s laves . In this difficult times ofsuffering, Egyptian retreated south in the neighboring kingdom ofKush (Nubia), known as “E thiopia” and “Sudan” today. To gainfavor of Kushites , pharaoh king ahmose married Nefertari, theblack princess of Kushites .


Nefertari, the black princess of Kushites She was of a very dark complexion, and was the most veneratedwoman in all of Egyptian his tory. With the financ ial and militaryhelp of the Kushites , Egyptians defeated Hyskos and threw themout of the country after 200 years in 1550 BC . A fter theirvic tory, pharaohs Kamose and A hmose venerated deity ‘amun’as the supreme god of the s tate. Huge s tatues and temples ofA mun were cons truc ted in Karnak and Luxor. Since Egyptians


and E thiopians fought under the banner of deity amun, cult ofamun spread widespread and dominated all the other gods of theEgyptian pantheon. When I firs t heard about Kushites , the firs t thought that came tomy mind was "is this the cas te I belong to". I research aboutKushites and found that they indeed had the Indian link. InIndia, this cas te is known as kushwaha and can be found ins tates of Bihar, U ttar P radesh, Madhya P radesh, O rissa,Rajas than and Gujarat. In Rajas than and Gujarat, this cas te isknown as Kachwaha. A c tually, kushwaha/Kachwaha c laimsthemselves to be the descendants of Kush, son of lord Rama andhence, the descendants of sun dynas ty. There are many furtherdivis ions (Sub-cas te) in kushwaha cas te. Sec tion of kushwaharace that belonged to the great Mauryan Empire call themselvesas ‘Maurya’. Inc identally, I found that my c lan also belongs tothe maurya dynas ty. O ther sub cas tes in kushwaha cas te areKoeri, Kachhi, Murao etc Sec tion of mighty H imalayas s ituated near the fertile areas ofIndus , Ganges and other major river is known as Hindu Kushmountain range. H indu refers to term s indhu (Sanskrit name ofriver Indus) and Kush refers to Kush, son of lord Rama andhence to Kushites of E thiopia. Jus t like native of India is calledas Indians , native of A merica is called as A mericans; native ofhindu-kush terrain was called as Kushites in A rab world.Kushites are none other than the c itizens of anc ient Indus-Saraswati C ivilization. These Kushites were very skillful and fierce warriors and areprobably related to the Kushan E mpire which controlled more or

less whole of Indian subcontinent in 1 st century A D.


C handragupta maurya and King A shoka- the great are thesupreme examples of the valiant and courageous warriorsbelonging to the Kushites /Kushwaha race. Kushites attacked

Babylonia in the 9 th year of Samsuiluna, the son of Hammurabi.Subsequently, they capture Babylonia in 1600 BC and ruled itfor almost 400 years . Kushites most primeval deity was Suriash(Sanskrit Surya) and as I said above, Kushites were thedescendants of the sun dynas ty and so no doubt, theyworshipped sun god. O ther deities inc luded Maruttash (SanskritMarut) and Indas (Sanskrit Indra, lord of heaven). Kushiteskings favored diplomacy and forged alliances with kingdom ofEgypt, alam, hitties etc . They introduced advancedtechnologies , spirituality, and brought in the V edic cus toms andtraditions into A frica. Kingdom of kushittes is regarded as anextens ion of vedic civilization. The mi gr ati on of the Kushi tes f r om the Indus Val l ey to the N i l e,


someti me ar ound 27 00 - 2500 BC, or ev en ear l i er , as a r esul t of thecatacl y smi c ev ents i n the Indus Val l ey post the di sappear ance ofsar asw ati r i v er . These k ushi tes mi gr ated w estw ar ds i n sear ch ofami ghty r i v er and k ept on mi gr ati ng unti l they found the mi ghty r i v erN i l e. They f i nal l y sett l ed on the bank s of r i v er N i l e and sur r oundi ngar eas.

Map of A frica in 400 BC . See the nile river flowing through Kush


empire.

These migrated E thiopians (Kushites ) were highly c ivilized,pious , and virtuous . A pollonius , a philosopher from the

1 st century BC , in a conference told that “southern E thiopianspraise Indian c ivilization very much". A pollonius in a waymocked E thiopians by saying, "You praise Indians so muchwithout cons idering the fac t you are Indians yourself”. N ilus , theEgyptian philosopher informed that, “the V edic Indians are themost intelligent and knowledgeable of all mankind andEthiopians are a part of that c ivilization and resembles themvery c losely”. Britannica Encyclopaedia confirms that: “A ll thephilosophers and his torians say E thiopians of dual race, one innative A frica and another in India”. Even Mahabharata says theBharat (India) empire to be extended upto the mlechha country.M lechha meaning unc ivlised, was referred as race beyond theIndian subcontinent (i.e Beyond P ers ia). Those day, Indiansubcontinent inc luded P akis tan, A fghanis tan, parts of iran andMyanmar, Thailand upto Indones ia in the south, thus roughlycovering an area of 1 .2 million sq. km.


A bove map shows the portion of the world covered by legendaryruler “bharat”. Even today, E thiopian culture, compared to res t of A frica,resembles c losely with cultures and tradition of India. C as tesys tem, vegetarian diet, spicy food, dress , jeweler, rich c lass icalmus ic all reflec ts the rich cultural heritage of India. Sumerians called Kushites as “Meluha-Kas i”. Interes tingly,res idents of anc ient Indus-saraswati c ivilization were alsocalled as “Meluha” (or Mehluha Malaha, Meluhha) by Sumerians .Sumerians texts belonging to A kkadian king Sargon confirmsextens ive trade relations with its neighboring countries whichinc ludes Meluha. Further, Meluha is desc ribed as the land ofexotic and sac red commodities . A ll this evidences is enough toprove Kushites as native of the Indus-saraswati c ivilization.


O ne of the book commiss ioned by Unesco “His tory ofcivilizations of Central As ia” which was attended by scholars ofmore than thirty countries including India, Pakis tan, I ran, turkey,Russ ia, china , USA, UK, etc conc ludes the, “invas ion of Babyloniaby the Kushites - and their connec tion with the P roto Indians ofIndus-saraswati c ivilization.” Further, linguis tic s terms ofKushites is said to be s trikingly s imilar to Sanskrit. I t also saysthat Kushites were chariot and horse warriors .” Horse has a very c lose relationship with kushwaha race in india.Ramayana speaks about the Luv -kush, son of lord Rama,C apturing sac red royal horse of lord rama. In the subsequentbattle, they defeated the armies of lord rama inc luding his threebrother lakhsman, shatrughan and bharat who arrived at thescene on their horse chariots . This episode c learly depic ts lordrama as horse warrior and hence Kushites as horse warriors .


Luv and kush holding a royal horse. In addition to kushites , hitties and mittani are supposed to be ofindo-A ryan vedic race. Their major deities inc luded M itra, Indra,V aruna, and the Nasatyas . There is lack of evidences of thesetwo tribes . However, Kushites warriors left their footprint all overC entral and West A s ia. Many c ities and towns were name afterthem- Kussara, Kashan, Kiss ia, Kossea, Kashmir, Kashband,Kashgar, Kashi etc . Jacob Bryant his book An Analys is of AncientMythology says : "Kushites sent out their warriors and because oftheir sc ientific advancement and courageous warrior skills ; theydefeated many nations inc luding Babylonia. They mixed withlocals by adopting their culture where the locals accepted them


and in other places , they threw away the natives and ruled solelyand separately”. However, many wes tern his torians seem to beneglec ting the contributions of the Kushites in anc ient world.Editor of book “In the His tory of civilizations of Central As ia”,V adim M ikhailovich Masson writes , “In the present writer’sopinion recent research tends to underes timate or even to denythe role played by P roto-Indians in Mesopotamia in general andin the M itanni kingdom in particular.”However, we can conc lude the might of Kushites . They initiallyconquered Babylonia and Sumerians (Mesopotamia) to reach thesouthern part of the A rabian P eninsula. There they foundkingdoms like Sheba (present day Yemen), before c ross ing thered sea and finally settling in the kingdom of Kush whichs tretched from Ethiopia to Sudan. David Gibson says “thedescendants of Kush may have split, one part remaining in A s ia,the other migrating to A frica to become the E thiopia we s tillknow to this day”.


A n aerial view of the Kushite pyramids at Meroe Or i ental i st Edw ar d Pocock e appl aud thi s l ong tr av el of the Vedi cIndi ans f r om thei r mother l and r i v er Indus to fer ti l e pl ai ns of ni l e as"At the mouths of the Indus dw el l a seafar i ng peopl e, acti v e, i ngeni ous,and enter pr i si ng...these peopl e coast al ong the shor es of Mek r an,tr av er se the mouth of the Per si an Gul f , and agai n adher i ng to the sea-boar d of Oman, Hadr amant, and Yemen (the Easter n Ar abi a), they sai lup the Red Sea; and agai n ascendi ng mi ghty str eam that fer ti l i zes a l andof w onder s, found the k i ngdom of Egy pt, N ubi a and Aby ssi ni a.”

Many his torians c laim A frica to be the c radle of humanc ivilization while some cons ider india to be the c radle of humanc ivilization. Buy they forget to cons ider the fac t that millions ofyear ago, A frica and India belonged to the same plate and hence


were one and the same and this is the reason why the DNA ofmany native A fricans matches with Indians . Due to continentaldrift, A frica drifted away from India and they los t much of thecultures assoc iated with India. Jus t like P akis tan, A fghanis tan,Myanmar, Bangladesh, C ambodia, Thailand was once part ofIndia, A frica too was part of India millions of years ago.


A bove image shows present India to be very c lose to both SouthA frica and china. Few more millions of years ago, India wasjoined to A frica. Indian sc riptures mentions about variousyugas , ice ages , earthquakes , des truc tion, c reation etc which isthe proof of Indian c ivilization being the c radle of human


c ivilization. I will come up with the series of artic les on this topiconce I am done with the research. A ll the above fac ts are true to my knowledge, well supported byviews of acc laimed his torians and sc ientis ts . There are manyother proofs of Egyptians and A fricans cultures coming fromIndia which I shall take up in my coming artic les . I find it verydifficult to do my research on weekends , after doing a hec tictask of software development on weekdays . In spite of being amovie fan, I spend most of the time doing my research ratherthan watching movies these days . So, I expec t you to supportand apprec iate the efforts I put on my artic les . Jai shree Krishna References:

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