DIn the field of religious anthropology, it is customary to say that it is only through proselytism that religions (called "revealed") become "universal". Egyptologists have written extensively on the "racist" and racialist vision of the Abrahamic texts (ie. ethnogenesis). But how did we understand this notion of "type" among our Egypto-Nubian ancestors?
1. Iakounaatouna (Ȝḫ n Jtn) against “racism” and “xenophobia”: extract
[…] – “The colors of skins are distinct, for you differentiate foreign peoples. You create a Nile (jtrw) in the lower world and you make it arise according to your desire, to make the men of Egypt live according to the way of life designed for them, O Master of all lands.
You rise up for them, O Sun-Disc of the day, great majesty! All foreign countries, you make them live, for you have placed a Nile in the sky so that it descends for them and forms waves on the mountains, like the sea, to irrigate their fields in their territories.
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