Robotic wrote:My ancestors doesn't need to point out to me the obvious, that we are black. At that time people never thought about those things. All they were thinking about was their own survival. Do you need to follow everything you ancestors did back then? If you did, why are you muslim because our ancestors were never muslims all the way back.
How exactly is that obvious to you? Are you referring to skin tone? If so, you should know that a slight majority of Somalis, Ethiopians and Eritreans actually carry the same main gene for lighter pigmentation as found in all West Eurasian populations, not the ancestral pigmentation allele that is carried by most Sub-Saharan Africans, Aboriginal Australians, etc.:
Ironically, modern studies on ancient peoples have now established that many old populations outside of Africa were dark-skinned, including
in parts of Europe. This is because all human populations were originally swarthy, carrying the ancestral pigmentation variant. The lighter skin pigmentation allele evolved only a few thousand years ago.
So even if most Somalis didn't carry that allele, it wouldn't have changed their
actual ancestry one bit:
“The result of HLA class I and class II antigen frequencies show that the Somali population appear more similar to Arab or Caucasoid than to African populations. The results are consistent with hypothesis, supported by cultural and historical evidence, of common origin of the Somali population. This study will serve as a reference for further anthropological studies, as well as studies of associations between HLA and disease.”
Further proof of this is that only around 30% of Afars carry the lighter pigmentation allele. Yet despite this, they too, like Somalis and other Afro-Asiatic-speaking Horn groups, are still essentially of Puntite descent.
By the way, if you want to know what the Puntites themselves actually looked like, see the murals on the Hatshepsut temple; they were virtually identical to the ancient Egyptians.
Puntite King Perahu, Queen Ati and a Puntite royal official:
Other Puntite royal attendants:
Or see the Keftiu wall paintings from the tomb of Rekhmire, who was the Vizier to Pharaoh Thutmosis III. The Puntites are the reddish folks at the top, near the Nilotes; the other reddish individuals are Cretans, Kushites and Ancient Egyptians:
Or see the actual Puntite statuettes that were recently excavated in northern Somalia:
Robotic wrote:If you did, why are you muslim because our ancestors were never muslims all the way back.
Sweetheart, ancestral Somalis (the Puntites) practiced a religion closely related to that adhered to by other Afro-Asiatic populations in the Middle East, just like modern Muslim Somalis do now. Even the old Somali term for God,
Ebbe, is the same in Aramaic:
"While the Cananite god ‘Pal’ was still present in Somalia in the same sense in one or two words, the ancient Aramaic name for the almighty, EBBE, was to this day the most commonly used names for God besides the Islamic ‘Allah’[...] Pagan Arabia’s most important god, HUBAL, was none other than the Somali HUBAL, co-opted and given an Arabised sound."
http://sayidka.blogspot.ca/2006/01/land ... omali.html
