AF AM 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cretan Bull, Afroasiatic Languages
24 Sep 2017
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The three volumes of black athena: the afroasiatic roots of classical civilization, first published in 1987, 1991, and 2006 are the basis of a very controversial discussion regarding ancient greece and her history. Written by martin bernal, black athena sheds a new light into who colonized greece. Bernal believes ancient egyptians and phoenicians colonized ancient. Greece and this belief clashes with the belief that ancient greece was white. Discussed in the video bernal showed distinct links of religion from the egyptian civilization to the greece civilization. At this point in the video supporters of bernal suggest that africa"s. Egyptian people colonized greece due to religious symbols, the building techniques, and mythology. Bernal"s greatest connection of mythology is the cretan bull cult of minos and the. Minotaur to origins in the egyptian god min who frequently required bovine sacrifices. To break all 3 volumes of text down into a simple math equation black athena is a thesis of ancient.
