The Tehenu

By

Dr. Clyde Winters

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Copyright© Clyde Winters 2012

Uthman dan Fodio Institute

Chicago,Illinois 60643

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Preface

Welcome. In this monograph we will discuss the history of the Tehenu People. Information about this ancient African population is sparse and mainly based on the idea that the original Tehenu people were Berbers. In this monograph we put this myth to rest and explain the origin and spread of the Tehenu from Africa to Anatolia.

Clyde Winters, PhD

Table of Contents

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Page

Preface

Introduction………………………………………………………4

Chapter 2: Tehenu were the C-Group and

Niger-Congo Speakers…………………………………………8

Chapter 3: Origin of Tehenu………………………………..10

Chapter 4: The Tehenu in Anatolia……………………….13

Chapter 5: The Tehenu and the Meshwesh…………….15

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Introduction

The Tehenu are also called Kushites. The Kushites were mainly speakers of Dravidian, Elamite, Niger-Congo and Sumerian languages. They formerly lived in the highland Sahara. We call these people the Proto-Saharans, they founded the River Valley Civilizations 6- 5kya. Their ancestors belonged to the Ounanian culture that dates back to 12kya.

The Ounanians were members of the Capsian population.There was continuity between the population in the Maghreb and southern Sahara referred to as Capsians, Iberomaurusians, and Mechtoids . The Niger-Congo speakers are decendants of the Capsian population.

Using craniometric data researchers have made it clear that the Dravidian speakers of South India and the Indus valley were primarily related to the ancient Caspian or Mediterranean population. Lahovary and Sastri maintains that this population was unified over an extensive zone from Africa, across Eurasia into South India. Some researchers maintain that the Caspian civilization originated in East Africa.

The Kushites early settled Libya and the Sudan. The inhabitants of Libya were called Tmhw (Temehus). The Temehus were organized into two groups the Thnw (Tehenu) in the North and the Nhsj (Nehesy) in the South . A Tehenu personage is depicted on Amratian period pottery. Some Tehenu wore a pointed beard, phallic-sheath and feathers on their head. But , if you look at the second figure in the Table of Nations you will notice that his dress is Middle Eastern he represents an ancestor of the Arabs, no way he can be associated with the C-Group peoples ( which included Proto-Dravidians , Mande speakers Fulani and etc.).

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The Temehus are called the C-Group people by archaeologists . The central Fezzan was a center of C-Group settlement. Quellec [15] discussed in detail the presence of C-Group culture traits in the Central Fezzan along with their cattle during the middle of the Third millennium BC.

Phylogeography Kushites

The mtDNA haplogroups L1, L2, L3 and U5 are associated with Niger-Congo speakers. Phylogenetically all the Eurasian mtDNA branches descend from L3.

The Pan-African haplotypes are 16189,16192,16223, 16278,16294, 16309, qnd 16390. This sequence is found in the L2a1 haplotype which is highly frequent among the Mande speaking group and the Wolof.

There is mtDNA data uniting Africans and Dravidians. Some researchers attempt to portray the Dravidians as Caucasoid people and try to link these people to western Eurasian populations.Other researchers in India attempt to postulate an Indian origin for Dravidians because they mainly belong to the M haplogroup (HG) [40-41].

The M lineages are not found only in East Africa. Rosa et al [46] found a low frequency of the M1 HG among West Africans who speak the Niger Congo languages, such as the Balanta-Djola. Gonzalez et al [47] found N, M and M1 HGs among Niger-Congo speakers living in Cameroon, Senegambia and Guinea Bissau.

The phylogeography of y-Chromosome haplotypes shared among the Niger-Congo speakers include A,B, Elb1a, E1b1b, E2, E3a and R1 [57] (See: Figures 1-2). The predominate y-Chromosome among the Niger-Congo is M2, M35, and M33.

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Haplogroup E has three branches carried by Niger-Congo populations E1, E2 and E3. The E1 and E2 clines are found exclusively in Africa. Haplogroup E3 is also found in Eurasia. Haplogroup E3 subclades are E3b, E-M78, E-M81 and E-M34.

The majority of Niger-Congo speakers belong to E1b1a, Elb1b, E2 and R1. Around 90% belong to y-Chromosome group E (215,M35*).

Y-Chromosome haplogroup A is represented among Niger-Congo speakers. In West Africa, under 5% of the NC speakers belong to group A. Most Niger-Congo speakers who belong to group A are found in East Africa and belong to A3b2-M13: Kenya (13.8) and Tanzanian (7.0%).

The Bantu expansion is usually associated with the spread of y-Chromosome E3a-M2. In Kenya the frequentcy for E3a-M2 is 52%; and 42% in Tanzania. In Burkina Faso high frequentcies of E-M2* and E-M191* are also represented. It is interesting to note that among the Mande speaking Bisa and Mandekan there are high frequentcies of E-M2*. This is in sharp contrast to the Marka and South Samo who have high frequencies of E-M33.

The pristine form of R1-M173 is found in Africa. Y-Chromosome R is characterized by M207/ V45. The V45 mutation is found among NC speakers. The R1b mutations include V7, V8, V45, V69 and V88.

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The frequency of R1-M173 varies among Niger-Congo speakers. The frequentcy of R-M173 range between 3-54%. The most frequent subtype in Africa is V88 (R1b1a). Haplogroup R1b1a ranges between 2-20% among the Bantu speakers.The highest frequentcy of R1 is found among Fulbe or Fulani speakers.

Chapter 2: Tehenu were the C-Group and Niger-Congo Speakers

The Tehenu are often associated with the C-Group people. Dravidians and Niger-Congo speakers can trace their descent back to these groups.The Tehenu used red-and-black pottery.

Amratian Pottery

The Tehenu are often associated with the C-Group people. Dravidians and Niger-Congo speakers can trace their descent back to these groups.

The Egyptians and West Africans formerly lived together in the highland areas of Africa, I call "The Fertile African Cresent", until they moved into the Nile delta (the Egyptians) and West Africa (Niger-Congo speakers).

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These Proto-Saharans were called Ta-Seti and Tehenu by the Egyptians. Farid(1985,p.82) noted that "We can notice that the beginning of the Neolithic stage in Egypt on the edge of the Western Desert corresponds with the expansion of the Saharian Neolithic culture and the growth of its population" (emphasis that of author).

A Tehenu personage is depicted on Amratian period pottery (Farid 1985 ,p. 84). The Tehenu wore pointed beard, phallic-sheath and feathers on their head.

Tehenu on Amratian Pottery

The red-and-black pottery was probably created by the C-Group people. They spread this ceramic style throughout Asia and Middle Africa.

The inhabitants of the Fezzan were round headed black Africans (Jelinek, 1985,p.273). The cultural characteristics of the Fezzanese were analogous to C-Group culture items and the people of Ta-Seti . The C-Group people occupied the Sudan and Fezzan regions between 3700-1300 BC (Jelinek 1985).

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The inhabitants of Libya were called Tmhw (Temehus). The Temehus were organized into two groups the Thnw (Tehenu) in the North and the Nhsj (Nehesy) in the South (Diop 1986).

The Temehus are called the C-Group people by archaeologists (Jelinek,1985; Quellec, 1985). The central Fezzan was a center of C-Group settlement.

Members of the C-Group probably entered Egypt and founded some of the Southern nomes associated with the Inyotefs.

Quellec (1985, p.373) discussed in detail the presence of C-Group culture traits in the Central Fezzan along with their cattle during the middle of the Third millennium BC. The Temehus or C-Group people began to settle Kush around 2200 BC.

The kings of Kush had their capital at Kerma, in Dongola and a sedentary center on Sai Island. The same pottery found at Kerma is also present in Libya especially the Fezzan. There are similarities between Egyptian and Saharan motifs (Farid,1985). It was in the Sahara that we find the first evidence of agriculture, animal domestication and weaving (Farid ,1985, p.82).

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Chapter 3: Origin of Tehenu

The inhabitants of Libya were called Tmhw (Temehus). The Temehus were organized into two groups the Thnw (Tehenu) in the North and the Nhsj (Nehesy) in the South(Diop 1986). A Tehenu personage is depicted on Amratian period pottery. Some Tehenu wore a pointed beard, phallic-sheath and feathers on their head. But , if you look at the second figure in the Table of Nations you will notice that his dress is Middle Eastern he represents an ancestor of the Arabs, no way he can be associated with the C-Group peoples ( which included Proto-Dravidians , Mande speakers Fulani and etc.).

The Temehus are called the C-Group people by archaeologists (Jelinek, 1985; Quellec, 1985). The central Fezzan was a center of C-Group settlement. Quellec (1985, p.373) discussed in detail the presence of C-Group culture traits in the Central Fezzan along with their cattle during the middle of the Third millennium BC.

The Temehus or C-Group people began to settle Kush around 2200 BC. The kings of Kush had their capital at Kerma, in Dongola and a sedentary center on Sai Island. The same pottery found at Kerma is also present in Libya (and

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even India) especially the Fezzan the ancient homeland of the Mande speaking people. The C-Group founded the Kerma dynasty of Kush. Diop (1986, p.72) noted that the "earliest substratum of the Libyan population was a black population from the south Sahara". Kerma was first inhabited in the 4th millennium BC (Bonnet 1986). By the 2nd millennium BC Kushites at Kerma were already worshippers of Amon/Amun and they used a distinctive black-and-red ware (Bonnet 1986). Amon, later became a major god of the Egyptians during the 18th Dynasty.

Refereferences

Bonnet,C. (1986). Kerma: Territoire et Metropole. Cairo: Instut Francais D'Archeologie Orientale du Caire.

Anta Diop.(1986). "Formation of the Berber Branch". In Libya Antiqua. (ed.) by Unesco,(Paris: UNESCO) pp.69-73.

Jelinek,J. (1985). "Tillizahren,the Key Site of the Fezzanese Rock Art". Anthropologie (Brno),23(3):223-275.

Quellec,J-L le. (1985). "Les Gravures Rupestres Du Fezzan (Libye)". L'Anthropologie, 89 (3):365-383.

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Chapter 4: The Tehenu in Anatolia

Some of the Tehenu or Kushites settled Anatolia. Some of the major Anatolian Kushite tribes were the Kaska and Hatti speakers who spoke non-IE languages called Khattili. The gods of the Hattic people were Kasku and

Kusuh (< Kush).

The Hattic people, may be related to the[b] Hatiu, one of the Delta Tehenu tribes. Many archaeologist believe that the Tehenu people were related to the C-Group people. The Hattic language is closely related to African and Dravidian languages for example:

English ……Hattic …..Egyptian…….. Malinke (Mande language)

powerful ……ur………. wr'great,big' ………fara

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protect…….. $uh……… swh …………………solo-

head …………tup ………tp ……………tu 'strike the head'

up,upper….. tufa ………..tp……………… dya, tu 'raising ground'

to stretch put… pd ………pe,……………….. bamba

o prosper …….falfat …..-- …………………..find'ya

pour ……………duq …….---………………….. du 'to dispense'

child …………..pin………,pinu………………… den

Mother ………..na-a ………--…………………….. na

lord …………….sa ………..--………………………. sa

place ………….-ka………… -ka

The languages have similar syntax Hattic le fil 'his house'; Mande a falu 'his father's house'. This suggest that the first Anatolians were Kushites, a view supported by the Hattic name for themselves: Kashka.

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Chapter 5: The Tehenu and the Meshwesh

The use of different names to describe theTehenu and Asian in the Ramses III Table of Nations isunderstood in relation to the political and ethnicconditions in Egypt and Western Asia during thisperiod. The research appears to indicate that thephysiognomy of the Libyans had changed by this time .This resulted , for the most part from the invasion ofEgypt by Sea Peoples in association with the Libu(Libyans).

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The figures on Ramses III Table of nations areassociated with the nations Ramses was dealing withiduring his reign. The Libyans attacked Egypt duringthe 5th and 11th years of Ramses III's reign.Beginning around 1230 Sea People began to attackEgypt. In 1180 Ramses III had his decisive battle withthe Libyans. Among the warriors fighting with the Libuwere Sea People.

Ramses III made multiple versions of hiscampaigns against the Libyans. To understand thenaming method for Ramses III Table of Nations you haveto understand that the term Tehenu was a generic termapplied to the Libyans, who by this time were mixedwith Palestinian-Syrian people(who were descendants of the Gutians), and People ofthe Sea (Indo-Europeans).

The attack against Egypt in 1188 was a coalitionof tribal groups led by the Meshwesh, who arebelieved to be a Tamehu nationality. As a result, wefind that the Meshwesh were referred to asTehenu\Tamehu. This may not be correct because theMeshwesh are not mention in Egyptian text until the14th Century BC.

The members of the coalition were led byMeshesher the wr 'ruler' of the coalition.Each groupwas led by a "great one" or a magnate. The Meshweshwere semi-nomads that lived both in villages anddmi'w 'towns'.The Tehenu lived in the Delta between

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the Temehu and the Egyptians. The Egyptians referredto all of the people in this area most often by thegeneric tern "Tehenu".

The TjemhuTemehu which included the Meshweshcontroled an area from Cyrenaica to Syria. As aresult, in textual material from the reign of RamsesII, there is mention of Temehu towns in Syria. DavidO'Connor makes it clear that Ramses III referred tothese Temehu by the term Tehenu/Tjehnyu (p.64).The Temehu were very hostile to theTehenu/Tjehnya. In fact, the first mention of theMeshwesh in Ramses III inscriptions relating to 1188,was the attack of the Tehenu, by the Meshwqesh, Sopedand Sea People . David O'Connor makes it clear thatthe the records of Ramses III make it clear that theMeshweshy "savagely" attacked the Tehenu and lootedtheir cities during their advance to Egypt (p.35 &105).

The coalition of the Meshweshy had each unit ofthe army organized into "family or tribal ' unitsunder the leadership of a "great one". As result tounderstand why the fAsian and Tehenu figures on theTable of Nations are identified differently you haveuse both the pictorical and textual material from thereign of Ramses III to understand the representations.As a result, Palestianian -Syrian personage or figureD, is labled Tehenu because he was probably a memberof one Meshwesh units, thus he was labled Tehenu.

The personage that is second from the Egyptians whichis labled an Asian, eventhough he is clearly a Tehenu,was probably a member of a Syrian Palestinian unitwhen he was captured by the Egyptians thusly he waslabled Asian. You can find out more about thisreality if you check out: David O'Connor, "The natureof Tjemhu (Libyan) society in later New Kingdom; inLibya and Egypt c1300-750 BC, (Ed.) by Athony Leahy

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(pp.29-113), SOAS Centre of Near and Middle EasternStudies and the Society for Libyan Studies, 1990.In the Table of Nation figure B we see thetraditional depiction of a Tehenu, the sidelock,shoulder cape and clean face. The Temehu, calledMeshwesh are different from the Tehenu and theoriginal Tamehu recorded by the Egyptians prior to theNew Kingdom. Below is a Meshwesh

The Meshwesh wore Tehenu traditional costumes butthey are not believed to be real Tehenu. The Tehenuand the Temehu usually wore different costumes. In theNew Kingdom depictions of the Temehu, the Meshwesh

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have "long chin beards", like the Syrian-Palestiniansand Peoples of the Sea. They wear kilts, sheaths andcapes open at the front tied at one shoulder. Like theearlier Tehenu they wore feathers as a sign of HighStatus.

David O'Connor makes it clear that there was"marked hetergeneity of the Tjemhu" (p.41).The first attack by Libyans on Egypt were led bythe Libu during the 5th year of Ramses III's reign.Diop has provided convincing evidence that the Libu,later migrated into Senegal, where they presenly livenear Cape VerdeThe difference in dress among the Meshwesh andtheir hostility toward the Tehenu, have led manyresearchers to see the Temehu of the New Kingdom as adifferent group from the original Temehu of Egyptiantraditions. O'Connor (p.74) in the work cited abovemakes it clear that the Temehu in Ramses IIIday--"[have] hairstyles, dress and apparently ethnictype [that] are markedly different from theTjehnyu/tjemhu of the Old Kingdom (Osing,1980,1018-19). Various explanations have been offered:Wainwright, for example, concluded that 'Meshwesh wasa mixed tribe of Libu like tribesmen with their nativechiefs who become subject to a family of Tjehnuorigin'(1962,p.92), while Osing suggested that the NewKingdowm Tjemhu had displaced or absorbed the earlierTjehnyu but had selectively taken over or retainedsome Tjehnyu traits, in the case of the rulers forMeshwesh (1980,1019-1020). Dr. O'Connor is of theopinion "that some rulers of the later New KingdomTjemhu deliberately adopted traits they discoveredfrom the Egyptians to be chracteristic of ancientTjehnyu/Tjemhu, so as to increase there prestige, orin some way had these rtraits imposed upon them by theEgyptians" (p.74).

It is my opinion that given the organiztion ofthe Libyans into mhwt "family or tribal groups',

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sometime prior to 1230 BC over an extended period oftime Indo-European speaking people later to be knownas Peoples of the Sea entered Western Asia and Libyaand were adopted by Tehenu families. This adoption ofthe new immigrants by Tehenu/Tamehu probably led tothe Meshwesh and Soped adopting Tehenu customs butmaintaining their traditional beards,. The originalTemehu, like the Libu probably saw the integration ofSea Peoples into Temehu society as a way to increasetheir number and possibily conquer Egypt. It isinteresting to note that the Meshwesh were very surethey might be able to conquor the Egyptians becausethey brought their cattle and other animals with themwhen they invaded the country. Moreover whereas theMeshwesh, were semi-nomadic, the Sea Peoples:Akawashu, Lukki, Tursha., Sheklesh, and Sherdenremained nomadic. and used the spear and round shield.

The Nehasyu were ancient members of theTehenu/Temehu. This would explain the reason why theMeshwesh and Nehasyu were mainly bowman.In conclusion, the names for the personages in theTable of Nations from Ramses III tomb were labledcorrectly. These personages were recorded in the theTables based on the military and family units wereattached too, not the country identifiable by theirdress.

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__________. (1983a). "The Ancient Manding Script". In Blacks in Science:Ancient and Modern. (ed.) by Ivan van Sertima,(New Brunswick: Transaction Books) pp.208-215. This paper discusses the Manding origin for many of the so-called Libyco-Berberinscriptions and explains how these inscriptions can be read. It makes it clear that literacy was widespread in Africa 5000 yearsago.

__________. (1983b). "Les Fondateurs de la Grece venaient d'Afrique en passant par la Crete". Afrique Histoire (Dakar), no.8:13-18. This rich historical account refutesthe idea that Greece was founded by the Indo-European speakers. Winters arguesthat credit should be given to the African settlers of Anatolia from Libya, Egypt and Palestine.

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_________. (1983c) "Famous Black Greeks Important in the development of Greek Culture". Return to the Source,2(1):8. In this article Winters' discussed the famousGreeks like Socrates, that were of African/Pelasgian origin.

________. (1984). "Blacks in Europe before the Europeans". Return to the Source, 3(1):26-33. This paper provides insights into the long history of Blacks in Europe, including the Old Europeans, Danubians and other groups.

_________.(1985a). "The Indus Valley Writing and related Scripts of the 3rd Millennium BC". India Past and Present, 2(1):13-19. The author describes theunity of the writing systems used by the Sumerians, Minoans, Egyptians and Harappans. He shows that these scripts have a common ideological origin and that they can all be read due to the genetic unity of the langauges spoken by these people.

__________. (1985b). "The Proto-Culture of the Dravidians, Manding and Sumerians". Tamil Civilization,3(1):1-9. Winters uses linguistics , historical and archaeological evidence to argue that the Dravidian, Manding and Sumerian speakersoriginated in the highland regions of the Sahara which he called the "Fertile African Crescent". Many of the culture terms of these groups are discussed and the proto- terms are reconstructed. It also provides numerous maps to delienate the migrations of these people from their archetype homeland.

__________. (1988). "Common African and Dravidian Place Name Elements". South Asian Anthropologist, 9(1):33-36. This paper provides an analysis of the common roots toponyms found in Asia of African origin.

__________. (1989a). "Tamil, Sumerian, Manding and the Genetic Model". International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, 18(1):98-127. Winters discusses the genesis of the common culture of the founders of ancient civilizations in Africa and Asia. It also refutes the myth that the Sumerian and Dravidian languages are unrelated to any other languages on earth. Here you will find a detailed explanation of the morphological,semantic and lexical affinities shared by these langauges that indicate their genetic unity.

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__________. (1989b). "Review of Dr. Asko Parpola's 'The Coming of the Aryans' ,International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, 18(2):98-127. This anthropologicaland linguistic account of the prehistoric linguistic-history of South and Central Asia outlines the fallacy of Parpola's theory for an Indo-European founding of the Harappancivilization. He provides numerous examples of the Dravidian and African influenceson the Indo-European languages.

__________. (1990). "The Dravido-Harappan Colonization of Central Asia". Central Asiatic Journal, 34(1/2):120-144. This paper discussed the settlement of Asia by African people 4500 years ago. Special attention is placed on the type and expression of African civilization in ancient Asia.

___________. (1991). "The Proto-Sahara". The Dravidian Encyclopaedia, (Trivandrum: International School of Dravidian Linguistics) pp.553-556. Volume l. This is a detailed account of the Proto-Saharan origin of the Elamites, Dravidians, Sumerians , Egyptians and other Black African groups. We also find here a well developed illumination of the cultural features shared by these genetically related groups.

Yurco,F. (1989,September/October). "Were the ancient Egyptians Black?". Biblical Archaeological Review, 15(5):24-29,58.Yurco argues that the Egyptians have always been "light skinned", and that they got darker as you went south into Nubia.

Wainwright, G. 1962. The Meshwesh", JEA 48, 89-99.

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