Dn the field of religious anthropology, it is customary to say that it is only through proselytism that (so-called “revealed”) religions become “universal”. Egyptologists have written extensively about the “racist” and racialist view of Abrahamic texts (ie. ethnogenesis). But, how did we apprehend this notion of “type” among our Egyptian Nubian ancestors?
1. Iakounaatouna (Ȝḫ n Jtn) against “racism” and “xenophobia”: extract
[…] - “The colors of the skin are distinct, because you differentiate the foreign peoples. You create a Nile (jtrw) in the lower world and you make it arise according to your desire, to make live the men of Egypt according to the way of life conceived 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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