Bilis come back.Bilis wrote:Excellent question sxb.PrinceNugaalHawd wrote:http://www.wardheernews.com/Articles_20 ... y_said.pdf
Have you ever heard of Tiiri & Madaale pre-Somalis?
or s Gabra Somali clan lost to Oromo?
The Madaale, also known as the Mandanle and Mandileh, were basically the ancient Azanians. Who were the Azanians?
They were the tall Cushitic folks that inhabited southern Somalia, southeastern Ethiopia and northern Kenya before the arrival of the first Somali language speakers from the north. In other words, they were the Cushitic peoples that originally spoke Maay, Jiddo, Dabarre, Tuuni, etc. and possibly some Oromo dialects i.e. the other Cushitic languages that are spoken today in Somali territory besides Somali proper. Ever wonder how those languages came to be spoken in Somalia? Now you have an idea.
The 6th century artefact below was excavated from the Merca area. Given the its date and place of excavation (southern Somalia), the artefact appears to depict an Azanian individual -- the first visual representation of its kind to be unearthed. This is also confirmed by the figure's tall stature, overall appearance, attire and agropastoral activity:
The Azanians are described in the 1st century CE Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, a travelogue which indicates that they inhabited the southern Somalia littoral and just below that (i.e. in ancient commercial ports like Nikon, Sarapion and Rhapta on the Azania coast). By the 10th century, the Azanians in the Great Lakes area would be completely absorbed or displaced by incoming Bantu/Nilotic populations.
"Rhapta is described as a place inhabited by big-bodied men. Many authorities remark that there is no specific mention of negroid people in the Periplus or of any distinction between the fair-skinned people of the Somali coast and the dark-skinned people south of the Juba. The implication is that Bantu-speaking people had not at this stage moved north of Rhapta. The phrase 'big-bodied' has also been taken to refer to Cushitic-speaking people (there are survivals of Cushitic languages in East Africa)."
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElA ... ilton.html
"The Periplus records the names of ports, gives advice on how to comport oneself with local leaders, and describes the goods for trade. The Africans were tall and described as "red men" who fish, hunt, and herd cattle, sheep, and goats. These Azanians were most probably Cushitic speakers who had migrated into eastern Africa from Ethiopia, and were not the darker-complexioned inhabitants described by Muslim traders on the East African coast several centuries later. They had valuable items to trade -- ivory, rhinoceros horn, tortoiseshell, spices, particularly cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum), the most profitable spice in the trade, and perfumes (frankincense, myrrh, and ambergris) -- that were exchanged for iron, wheat, cloth, and porcelains."
http://www.google.com/books?id=PZcX2jQF ... &q&f=false
"it is significant that the [Periplus of the Erythraean Sea] author remarks only on [the Azanian's] stature. He seems, therefore, to assume that they were Caucasians, for, to a Greek of his day, Negroes would have been strange beings whose characteristics would certainly have been noted. In this assumption, of course, he was right, since, as noted above, the archeological evidence demonstrates indisputably the complete absence of Negroes in this part of Africa for centuries to come. The Cushitic peoples, however, are noted for their tall stature. The inhabitants can therefore have been no other than Megalithic Cushites who had descended the few miles from the Kenya highlands to the coast and there turned to maritime pursuits. This is attested by the numerous megalithic remains, including stone phalli, which still dot the Azanian coast."
http://www.google.com/books?id=Wt5xAAAA ... CDAQ6AEwAA
https://landofpunt.wordpress.com/2015/07/
