CHAPTER 9

UNSHACKLE YOUR MIND

KING TUT: QUEEN TIYE: PHARAOH AKHENATEN: NEFERTITI

It should now be clear that a lot of what people have and are still being taught about Black people was written in collusion with the slave merchants who had European world domination in mind. You can now see how racism corrupts and distorts everything in its path. Black parents should further see the need to question everything that western education proclaims to be gospel, because as you have noticed, many things that were created by Black Afrikans have now been given a white face.

Here is a picture of Amenhotep II (left and middle), the grandfather of King Tut and Pharaoh Akhenaten. On the right is the nurse of Amenhotep II. Notice that they are clearly Black people. This is an attempt to display more of a family portrait.

This would be Amenhotep III, the father of Pharaoh Akhenaten and also the father of King Tut. Now there was some argument as to whether King Tut's father and Akhenaten's father were the same, which would make King Tut and Akhenaten brothers.

There is a red granite lion in the British museum on which King Tut said, "my father was Amenhotep III". The Greeks changed his name to Amenophis.

This is Amenhotep III with his wife Queen Tiy /Tiye. It is not known if she was King Tut's mother, but she was Akhenaten's mother, so King Tut and Akhenaten would be half brothers at least.

Observe that both are native Afrikans, and also note that the man and woman are portrayed as equals. She is sitting beside him with her hand around his waist, and it is in this playful mood that the carving springs to life.

This again emphasizes the point that there was great equality of the sexes in the ancient Egyptian culture, where women and men held equally prominent roles.

Here now is a close up of Queen Tiy(Tiye), the world’s first secretary of state, who as you can see was a very beautiful Black woman, the mother of Pharaoh Akhenaten and perhaps also the mother of King Tut.

Here is another image Queen Tiye on the left, but notice the destruction to the face of this Black Afrikan Queen because of the hatred against the idea that a Black Afrikan civilization was responsible for bringing light to the entire world.

Also in this carving is her son Neferkheperre-waenre whom we know as Amenhotep IV, Amenophis (the Greek variation) or Akhenaten.
These are some pictures of Akhenaten. In another picture from the San Francisco Chronicle (not shown here) there was a piece of writing pointing out that the writer was concerned about Akhenaten's physical appearance, commenting on the fact that he had "swollen lips," or puckered lips and a fleshy nose. In other words, they were discussing his Negroid features as if they indicated some kind of illness. That was on the article that had done a report on the exhibit.

Of course if those features represented illness then there are a lot of Black people who even today are suffering from that same illness.

This is the famous picture of Akhenaten's wife Nefertiti that is known all over the world. She was a foreigner. During the 18th dynastic period in particular, the Pharaohs, especially the Thutmosis went to Asia and Syria and married the daughters of kings as a way of solidifying the empire which was a political move. Many Asian women were also brought in and married the ruling Pharaohs in Egypt. So this particular picture of Nefertiti which is the one that is displayed in the Berlin museum may seem less Africoid.

However, there is one detail that should be noted about this head, it does not have Nefertiti's name on it. It was found in an artist's workshop on the floor, and so the assumption was that it must have been Nefertiti because it has a royal head dress, but it could just as easily have been one of the daughters of Nefertiti and Pharaoh Akhenaten.

On the right is another picture known to be that of Nefertiti which is located in her temple, but this image is not shown all over the world like the previous one. Notice that she contracted the same kind of "sickness" that her husband was suffering from, which was supposed to Frolic Syndrome.

According to some doctors, this would cause a European to swell around the lips and so on, but the problem with that explanation is that Frolic Syndrome makes you sterile, and Akhenaten was anything but sterile since he had six daughters.

In any case, it is evident that the physical features of Nefertiti in her temple and in this carving on the left portray her to be like all the other native Afrikans, Black. So this is an image of the Nefertiti that we know to be Akhenaten's wife that was found carved into the wall of her tomb.

Here are more images of sculptures and busts of Nefertiti found in museums around the world, with the final one reproduced using forensic methods.

Here is Akhenaten and wife Nefertiti. Akhenaten was credited as having started monotheism - the belief in one God, but as indicated before, this is totally an error. If you pick up the Book of the Dead or "the Book of Coming Forth from Darkness into Light" which is the oldest religious literature in the world, you will see that it comes from a position of total monotheism. In fact there is no point in Egyptian history where there was not the one great God who was depicted with many manifestations and many powers.

So what Akhenaten gave to the world was not the concept of monotheism, but the concept of a particular kind of monotheism which was later picked up and seen as alien. In other words there was a group of priests at Luxor called the priests of Amon (the hidden God). Akhenaten turned that monotheism into a new type of monotheism and chose the sun as its symbol. He worshipped Aten, so that meant that the old bishops were being put out of power. Imagine what would happen in the Baptist Church, the Methodist Church or the Catholic Church if there was suddenly a new religion that would put all the priests out of power.

There was an internal warfare over this move by Akhenaten which was really a move to dominate the country politically, and in fact it is believed that Akhenaten may have been assassinated because he was taking the country in new direction religiously, since it appears that he might have met an untimely death.

Today, this knowledge should be vital to Black people, since we call ourselves monotheist, and Black people are the most religious people on the face of the planet. So to know the history of the religion that we uphold is crucial to understanding that religion. For example, the idea that Afrikans were not monotheists before the Hebrew religion or the Christian religion is completely false, as Afrikans were always monotheist. The notion that Afrikans had no religion so missionaries from Europe or other places had to come in and save Afrikans so we owe an eternal debt of gratitude to them is again totally false and misleading.

This is Meritaten, one of the daughters of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.

Notice the hairdo.

When you see the actual royal wigs on the heads like this in the Cairo museum, they look as if they came from those huge afros that were worn in the 60's, even to the extent that they had peppercorn curls on the wigs.

But the wigs were very typical, and depicted the native Afrikan hair style.

Here is another daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. Whenever mummies are dug up that are Black, or carvings with big noses, big lips and elongated heads which to a European may suggest something "abnormal" but is typical for an Afrikan, instead of admitting that they are Afrikans, scholars will offer incredulous explanations suggesting that they were deformed Europeans as they said about these daughters. Akhenaten was said to be "deformed" because of his mis-shapen body and certain features of his face. Well his daughters were supposed to be "deformed" because of their elongated heads, and it was even said that no normal person has a head that would be that elongated.

The truth is that all over the Afrikan Nile Valley and with many Black people all over the world, this is the most typical head shape among Afrikan (Black) people, once you scrutinize the shape of the head.

The following images were taken from different parts of the Afrikan continent. The same characteristics would be true for almost any Black person that you look at, so it is not even necessary to go outside the Nile Valley to explain what you are seeing on the monuments.

This is Akhenaten's brother, King Tut, who as a young boy took over around the age of 9, but when he became a teenager it appears as though the priesthood might have reached him too, because originally he started out believing in the religion of Aten which his brother had started, that was symbolized by the sun. He then changed his name from Tutenaten to Tutenkamen which meant that he went back to the old religion.

In other words, King Tut had backslid from Amon to Aten, which meant that the Amon priesthood who was in control during the 18th dynasty at the city of Luxor, was back in power again, and shortly after that, King Tut's uncle Ay came to the throne.

Now take a look at King Tut's mummy on the right, and notice that he has the same head "problem" that his little sisters had, and then compare it to the Golden Masks.

This is the red granite lion in the British museum, mentioned earlier. The inscriptions on this lion state that his father was Amenhotep III, therefore his brother would have been Amenhotep IV, since both of them had the same father.

This crown was part of King Tut's jewellery. Note the snake and the vulture. Everything in ancient Afrika was symbolic. For example, the vulture can assimilate diversity; it eats a lot of different kinds of dead matter and assimilates or turns it into something.

The snake symbolizes the splitting function which leaves you compelled to wonder if they did not have some indication of how the brain worked, when you notice that one side integrates like a vulture and the other side disintegrates or dissects like a snake which has a forked tongue, and also a forked penis.

You will also notice the snake's body going across the top of the head, which approximates some of the sutras that go across the top of the brain dividing it into two hemispheres, so that we have the left brain and the right brain functions which can be associated symbolically with these two animals, both of which, when the crown is worn, will appear just above the third eye or the pineal gland on the head of the king.

These are some boomerangs that came out of the tomb of King Tut dating back to the 18th dynastic period. Many people are inclined to believe that the boomerang is indigenous to Australia with the aboriginal or native populations which may be the case, but these were found here in Kemet even earlier than they have been found in Australia, suggesting maybe a cultural connection between Australia and Afrika.

Here again is a copy of the golden mask of King Tut as seen through the eyes of his sculptor. Keep this image in mind as you view the next picture of a news advertisement in the Los Angeles Times for the king Tut exhibit in Los Angeles, so that you can .see the real thing and then compare it to what an artist does, to give you an indication as to why we should never accept artist’s sketches. You should always try to view the original document or carving whenever possible.

Here is King Tut the way he looked to the artist in the Los Angeles Times, he becomes Caucasoid or white, and this happens frequently with the Egyptian figures whenever they appear in sketches. For this reason, the use of sketches in text books is not recommended. Wherever possible it is better to have photographs or better still, the actual objects, because even in photographs it is possible that the colour may not a true depiction of the original colour.

This is the famous image of Maherpra, from the 18th dynasty which has a plate attached suggesting that he might have been the son of Thutmose IV and a Negress, according to Maspero the curator.

In a copy of the sacred text of Per-em heru (/hru) or the Book of the Dead, so named because the treasure hunters were stealing from the tombs of the dead, Maherpra is depicted with his face Black instead of the normal red. A detailed examination however revealed that he was indeed Negroid but not actually a Negro according to the sceptics, so when Maspero realized that Maherpra was Black, he had to fabricate a statement to place on the wall of the Cairo museum to accompany the image, hoping that visitors worldwide would see it through his eyes - a Negroid that is not actually a Negro.

This piece was being excavated and televised, but when they were about to open the tomb, for some unexplained reason the sarcophagus of this great vizier was hidden from view.
However, to give an idea of the ridicule and ever present racism still permeating our society, note how the nose and lips were smashed off and then put in the Metropolitan museum in New York City.
This shows that even today the historical and cultural legacy of the Afrikan people continues to be denigrated, desecrated and demeaned in all forms and fashions.

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