The Complete and FINAL Version of Somali Origins

[Monk-of-Mogadishu]

This is Part II to James Dahl's other topic.

After reading a James Dahl topic, I tried looking for information on the Gallas and after reading an article, I stumbled upon the last clue to the puzzle I was trying to solve -- the history of the Somalis. I knew our origins (Omo and Tana Rivers of Southern Ethiopia) and now I was trying to find out how we conquered the horn of Africa and from who.

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In addition to the Somalis, the Cushites include the largely nomadic Afar (Danakil), who straddle the Great Rift Valley between Ethiopia and Djibouti; the Oromo, who have played such a large role in Ethiopian history and in the 1990s constituted roughly one-half of the Ethiopian population and were also numerous in northern Kenya; the Reendille (Rendilli) of Kenya; and the Aweera (Boni) along the Lamu coast in Kenya. The Somalis belong to a subbranch of the Cushites, the Omo-Tana group, whose languages are almost mutually intelligible. The original home of the Omo-Tana group appears to have been on the Omo and Tana rivers, in an area extending from Lake Turkana in present-day northern Kenya to the Indian Ocean coast.

The Somalis form a subgroup of the Omo-Tana called Sam. Having split from the main stream of Cushite peoples about the first half of the first millennium B.C., the proto-Sam appear to have spread to the grazing plains of northern Kenya, where protoSam communities seem to have followed the Tana River and to have reached the Indian Ocean coast well before the first century A.D. On the coast, the proto-Sam splintered further; one group (the Boni) remained on the Lamu Archipelago, and the other moved northward to populate southern Somalia. There the group's members eventually developed a mixed economy based on farming and animal husbandry, a mode of life still common in southern Somalia. Members of the proto-Sam who came to occupy the Somali Peninsula were known as the so-called Samaale, or Somaal, a clear reference to the mythical father figure of the main Somali clan-families, whose name gave rise to the term Somali.

The Samaale again moved farther north in search of water and pasturelands. They swept into the vast Ogaden (Ogaadeen) plains, reaching the southern shore of the Red Sea by the first century A.D. German scholar Bernd Heine, who wrote in the 1970s on early Somali history, observed that the Samaale had occupied the entire Horn of Africa by approximately 100 A.D.

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ADDING: The Hawiye are one of the earliest descendants of SAMAALE, thus it is shown here that they inhabited the Southern Shabelle region of Somalia as early as the 12th century, which is the start date of the Darood/Isaaq mythology.

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SO NOW, it is proven that Somalis conquered the horn of Africa by the time Islam reached the horn of Africa en mass.

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WHO did the Somalis conquer the Horn from during the earlier stages? The Nubians? Too far south. The Bantus? To far east.

The GALLAS!!

Also read the bottom, more references to Hawiye ownership of the region..

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[Voltage]

Paidmonk, the "Tana river" theory has been in circulation for over a quarter century now.

[Monk-of-Mogadishu]

I know, my sources are all from the 1960s (check bottom of article). Its just that, there are tons of pieces out there, so its my hobby to bring it together.

Clues:

-> Skinnies from Omo and Tana River
-> Galla as well
-> Galla and Skinnies both expanded during 1,000 BC to 1930 AD period
-> Trade was going on during that period and before with "Punt" people
-> Who were the Punt people? Galla, Somali, or another more advanced civilization

There's tons of information out there, but a lot of it contradicts itself. Like in my article, it says that the Somalis are from the Omo and Tana dating back thousands of years, but invaded through the Aden Gulf. How can that be explained?