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ENTRY 1

3,000,000 BCE Overview of Hominid Evolution Including Dark Mothers and Later Migrations

INTRODUCTORY CITATIONS

Emergence of Human Evolution.

One African Dark Mother.

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Three Million Years Ago.

In South Africa,

an ancient hominin stumbled onto a red jasperite pebble

weathered in such a way as to resemble a face.

He or she was mesmerized enough to make the stone a keepsake,

carrying it back to a home base several miles away,

where it was found by modern researchers.

Paleolithic hominins also had a penchant for collecting

fossilized coral, snails and shellfish.

(ARSL: 20.)

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Ancient Symbolic Images.

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A powerful mental heuristic design

to conjure a particular emotion,

a memory, an idea.

Rather than directly changing the world around us,

symbols change the way we perceive it.

(ARSL: 20.)

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Migrations.

From their African homeland, humans have colonized

all continents and inhabitable islands,

from seashores to alpine mountains,

from high–latitude arctic tundra

to tropical deserts and forests.

(DH: 192.)

Single Species.

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Today, the idea that all humans

belong to a single species is taken for granted,

and kinshipping is still used

to mark the outer boundaries of humankind.

(DH: 32.)

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One Human Race.

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According to geneticist, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

‘in the DNA, there is one human race,

and it originated in Africa.’

(AO: 1-2.) (PB; GE; GPL; GHD; HGHG; DEHE.)

KhoiSan, Namibia.

“We know there were multiple dispersals out of Africa,

but we can [now] trace our ancestry back to a single one.”

Joshua M. Akey.

(HWG: A1.)

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African Dark Mother.

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Not only were these true human Africans

the first to sail and use technology

but they also appear to have been the first

to venerate the African dark mother.

(RGS.)

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Human History.

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Migration across great distances

is one of the fundamental processes

of human history.

(DH: 192.)

Cradle of Humankind.

Primary locations include the

Gregory Rift Valley in East Africa

and the southern caves in the high veldt or veld.

(See below.)

Africa-Asia.

Out of Africa

vs.

Out of Asia.

(FDH: BPE.)

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ENTRY 1 GODDESS SITES AND ARTIFACT IMAGE COLLECTIONS

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Black Meteorite

Location NYC Natural History Museum

LUCY NORTH AFRICA

Black Meteorite

Location NYC Natural History Museum

ReGenesis

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Decolonizing Ancient Knowledge.

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Tan-Tan.

 

‘Represents the oldest currently known figurine’ [figure]

that predates the Late-Acheulian Berekhat Ram.

(FAA: 411.)

The dark African Palaeoart figure known as Tan-Tan from Morocco appears to be the earliest of the Afrocentric (dark mother) figures. Surrounding sediments indicate that the timeline is c. 500,000 to 300,000 BCE. In Bednarik’s archaeological report, “A Figurine from the African Acheulian 1,” the Tan-Tan female icon is c. 400,000 BCE * and represents the oldest known figure, therefore predating the Late-Acheulian Berekhat Ram. Even though both Tan-Tan and the Berekhat Ram show evidence of ocher (or ochre), the Tan-Tan figure is the first “known instance of pigment application, although older indirect evidence of such a practice does exist.” (FAA: 411.) In regard to calling the Tan-Tan figure an icon, he says “unmistakable traces of moderating the level of visual ambiguity of the Tan-Tan specimen define it as iconic.” (FAA: 411.)

* (500,000-300,000 BCE.)

 

This intentionally enhanced icon measures around six centimeters and was discovered by German archaeologist, Lutz Fiedler. Location of the find was in a river deposit on north side of the River Dra (or Draa) just south of the township of Tan-Tan. Painted with red ocher (symbolic blood), the figure is made from quartzite and suggests ritual or spiritual importance. As discussed by Francesco d’Errico and April Nowell, archaeological evidence consistently confirms, “Neanderthals produced and used symbolic objects.” (NLBR: 163.) The dating, engravings, location, female attributes, and use of ochre (iron oxide), mirror other African dark mothers or “Venus” (?) * carved statues. Additional examples in Re-Genesis are: the Berekhat Ram followed by Brassempouy; Willendorf; Laussel; Dolni Vestonice and Lespugue. (WKP: 11-26-05; EKP: 89-135.)

* “Venus”: Medieval Latin Uenus is a de-sacralized/de-sanctified term for goddess or ancestral matrix.

FURTHER RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS

Further keyword research on ancient African Dark Mothers and related trade routes:

 

3,000,000, Overview of Hominid Evolution Including Dark Mothers and Later Migrations; 280,000-250,000; The Berekhat Ram Figure; 70,000, Blombos Cave and V Shaped Engraving; 50,000, African Homo Sapiens Migrations and Matrilineal Motherline; 40,000, Har Karkom; 30,000-25,000, Aurignacian Age; 30,000-25,000, Goddess of Willendorf, Austria; 26,000, Grimaldi Caves; 25,000-20,000, Gravettian Age; 25,000, Caravanserai, Trade Routes, and Dark Mothers; 25,000-20,000, Goddess of Laussel; 24,000, Dolni Vestonice; 23,000, Austrian Goddess of Lespugue; 10,000, Grotta dell’Addaura; 7000, Jericho, Canaan/Palestine: Mesolithic to Neolithic; 7000, Hieros Gamos; 6000, Sicilians to Malta; 5200, Malta and Gozo; 4700, Dolmens; 2200, Nahariyah and Ashrath-Yam; 1900-1800, Dawning of the African Alphabet and the Aniconic Goddess Triangle; 1000, Ephesus, Anatolia; 800, Tanit; 800, Carthage, Africa, the Goddess Tanit and Sacrifice; 750-650, Cybele and King Midas, Anatolia; 664-525, Neith and the Black Virgin Mary Temple at Sais, Egypt; 600, Goddess Kaabou at Petra, Jordan plus Mecca, Saudi Arabia; 400, Cathedra Goddess Isis; and 370, Isis and Philae, Egypt. (RGS.)

 

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For further keyword research on the production of hand axes, including pre-and-post the Acheulian, see keywords:

 

“hand axe” AND Oldowan OR “Olduvai Gorge” OR Mousterian OR Pleistocene OR Holocene “Homo Ergaster.” Additional searches might include: “hand axe” AND Saint-Acheul OR “Venerque France” OR Madrid OR “Moldavian Plateau.”

 

Further keyword research on ancient ochre: 285,000, Ochre at Kapthurin Formation plus Other Sites;

 

280,000-250,000, The Berekhat Ram Figure; 92,000, Qafzeh Cave and Ochre Symbolism; 70,000, Blombos Cave and V Shaped Engraving; 50,000, African Homo Sapiens Migrations and Matrilineal Motherline; 31,000, Chauvet Cave and Vulva Engravings; 10,000, Grotta dell’Addaura; 2600-2000, Early Bronze Age, Crete, Chthonian * Prepalatial/Early Minoan (EM I-III); and 1500, Lachish Ewer, Triangle, and Menorah. (RGS.)

* (Earth mother, Chthonia.)

ENTRY 4 GODDESS SITES AND ARTIFACT IMAGE COLLECTIONS

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