Aquila of Zimbabwe II
Andre
Willers
21 Sept
2014
Synopsis :
Celtic genetic
and cultural influence in Southern Africa circa 50 BCE.
Discussion:
Celtic and Bantu cultures .
These are
so similar that we have to wonder if there is not cultural contamination .
Both used
the same huts , cattle as wealth , clan structure , border raiding , metallurgy
etc, etc .
Bantu
culture suddenly erupted from the West coast of Africa south of the Congo-delta
circa 50 BC and spread south-eastwards because of the cattle . No other
societies around them had the same cattle-based economy or iron metallurgy .
The iron-working (a variant of bog-iron folding) spread into Angola and
Southern Africa . The same with the cattle .
Where did
this come from ?
An intriguing
speculation is that it came from the Celts .
The Celts
had this mechanism of getting rid of surplus population : split the populace at
random in three . One third has to leave . By about 70-60 BCE , the Romans had
made it clear (after Marius massacred 500 000 at Aquiliae Sextae) that no
further volkewanderung in Gaul or Italy would be tolerated .
So they
tried the sea-route down the west coast of Africa . About 200 coast-hugging
ships of the time could take about 100 000 people . Another 100 ships for the
cattle and horses . A population of about 500 000 would be rich enough and
powerful enough to get the lowlanders to build the ships . The Druids probably
could see problems ahead either with the Romans . So they would also give their support , and
more importantly , money .
This is why
Julius Caesar invaded Britain . He knew that a powerful Gaul fleet had sailed
not long ago , and he had to know where they were . There was no way that he
could tell the Senate
“By the way
, a fleet of 100 000 Gauls can descend anytime on Rome , Egypt or Carthage . “
He knew
that they had not been recently sighted in the Mediterranean . His most
immediate danger would be that they had gone to Britain and would sally forth
at their leisure . So he took the initiative : a reconnaissance in force .
When he
found out the truth , he withdrew .
But he sent
pursuit forces to make sure they did not return .
Talk about
the last legion .
But he
probably sent no more than two maniples . About 1200 men . Enough for the job .
These were
real Romans with orders to make sure that the Gauls never return .
The highest
probability is that they caught up with the weather-beaten fleet and burned
most of it on the beach .
His policy
decision then to eradicate Druidism because of their demonstrated capability to
mobilize a fleet of about 300 ships coloured Roman and Roman-Catholic policy
since .
Prestor John Empire myths
The Prestor
John Empire myths stem from this episode . The ambivalence of the
Roman-Catholic Church is understandable . They knew very well there might be a
Western culture in Africa , but that it probably would have Druidic roots .
So what did happen to the Gauls ?
They hopped
down the western coast of Africa in true Peoples of the Sea fashion . The first
place suitable for cattle is south of the Congo .
This is
probably where the Romans caught up with them , catching them by surprise and
burning the ships on the shore .
After they
lost the horses and the ships , they made the best of a bad business and acculturated
, slowly drifting south-eastward . The Druids formed the core of the
traditional healers , and still has the old verbal knowledge .
What happened to the horses ?
They are
notoriously susceptible to diseases , especially African Horse sickness .
See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com
“Mongols of the Serengeti”
Horses
could survive , but only with a large initial influx or continual replenishment
.
Without
replenishment of new blood they would have died out . This implies that the
Gaulish force lost sea-going capability , which is consonant with pursuing Romans catching up with them .
What happened to the Romans ?
They
probably walked back . Well , most of them . They could sail as far as the
Niger and then up to Lake Chad . Then march back to Egypt (It was wetter then).
Take them about two years . There was little in Africa that could stop two
Roman maniples .
The Primus
Pilum probably retired on the shore of the Red Sea , telling unbelievable
stories to his grandchildren on their visits .
Scenario:
The
argument was that a Celtic migration (about 100 000 people) circa 60 BC coast-hopped down the West-African coast ,
pursued by a Roman force that managed to destroy their ships somewhere south of
the Congo delta .
The remains
should be findable (a lot of metal was involved) .
A
sensational dig !
The Celts
could not return , which was the Roman strategic objective .
The Romans
returned , as discussed , but what happened to the Celts ?
Genetic evidence:
I had a
look at some genetic maps . There are European genetic markers in the Bantu
population predating 1500AD . The problem lies in interpretation .
The
generally accepted interpretation is that the markers (mutations) originated in
North-Africa . Some of the population went to Europe (via landbridges like
Malta during the last ice-age) , and some went south into Africa to end up
south of the Congo at the start of the Bantu surge .
Refer to
Jared Diamond’s arguments about the difficulty of crossing latitude and climate boundaries . North Africa and
Southern Europe were climactically similar at the time .
But
crossing the Tropics has some major problems for a herder culture with subsistence
farming . (Impossible without water-transport . )
Some
remnants of the Bantu probably did arrive south of the Congo , but few cattle
. (Probable numbers : about 200 000 ,
but
hardened survivors in organized tribal groups . Every inch of the way they came
would have been contested .)
Meeting up
with the Celtic castaways (probably about 50 000 at this time ) was a stroke of
luck for both parties .
A new ,
vital culture was forged .
(If these
numbers seem large , remember that the area was teeming with game . The main
competitors were other humans who were already at optimal population densities
for their environment . Foreigners in these numbers could not be tolerated , as
the local’s own grandchildren would be endangered .)
Skin Colour .
Melanin
concentration has been shown to a strict function of UVB radiation per latitude
.
The Melanoma Gradient
Populations
too white (not enough melanin) suffer higher incidences of skin cancers , as
well as problems with the folic acid-vitD balances . The effect is that
children who are too white will be much healthier the further away from the
equator . Populations free to move will move to where children have a higher
survival rate .
The Bantu light skin colour .
This
evolved in North-Africa .
They were
forced south by climate change and enemies to move south through some very
hostile territory .
Then they
met the Celts .
There was a
fusion of Celtic genes and technology .
The present
accepted model presupposes that lower
melanin concentrations were caused by assimilating San and Koi , who had low
melanin concentrations because of their high latitude . The problem is numbers
. There simply was not enough numbers of San/Koi slaves to turn a ebony
population into a latte .
The latest
evidence is that areas like North-Africa were populated from Southern-African
regions . The high-melanin (extreme black) concentrations evolved in the
tropics after medium-melanin . White-skins evolved after this in extreme
northern Europe .
So the
proto-Bantu were medium-melanin to start with , as well as the high cheekbones
and pointed chins . (Cf Mongols) . Big bums in older females are found in every
peasant society where there is no food preservation . Fat has to be stored for
childbearing .
Fusion .
Ubuntu .
The Celts
and proto-Bantu fused into a new vital culture , enabling them to survive
together where they could not apart .
Most
important was the meme of co-operation , instead of conflict .
Win-win .
Technology : iron working , huts , cattle , fermented
milk , pottery , preservation , etc
Software : culture : shares in cattle , a typical Celtic
technology . This increases the population carrying capacity by at least a
factor of ten . But limited by the lack of written records .
Raiding
(continual low-level aggression to keep everyone on their toes. Works for
non-professional armies)
Matrilineal descent
Rather
contentious , as there was a lot of Egyptian cultural contamination via
Ethiopia. The three waves of skilled agricultural refugees from Yemen after the
successive failures of the Maghreb dam stirred the pot .
The One-Third Diaspora Meme :
This is
telling .
In their
movement south-eastwards , the Bantu were never hemmed in , so the
meme-machinery of hiving off a third was never activated .
Until they
ran into whites moving northwards .
The extreme
facility in which the Xhosas shifted one
third of the population of the Eastern Province to the Western Province in
1994 argues that this meme is alive and
well .
Think about
it . In most African states like Somalia , Ruanda , etc , the inhabitants have
to be at death’s door before they relocate . And they want to be back in the
old country as soon as possible .
But in
south Africa , the Bantu say “ Ho-Hey! Where’s the bus ?” This actually
happened .
The old
meme-machinery kicked in . The whites experienced the one-third volkewandering
at a 2 000 year remove !
What
delicious irony !
The Celtic
Revenge !
This is one
of the main driving forces of the xenophobic attacks .
The whites
have something similar .
The second Great Trek.
About a
third of the white population left after 1994 . The problem was that this was
not random . Only the ones who could find a job overseas left . The skilled ,
graduate lot .
But still ,
it was only a third .
A very good
thing . The benefits of a captive skill pool is far outweighed by the
instability they would have engendered .
Better
incompetent management than war .
Anything is
better than a civil war (except starvation a-la-Zimbabwe)
To get back to the Eagles .
Roman Eagle Zimbabwe
Eagle
Roman Eagle at
Zimbabwean Eagle at
Note the similarities .
Roman Eagle
Roman Legions
liked to march over the top of a hill with the Aquila showing first , then the
other standards , then the serried ranks of the legions . In total silence .
Terror tactics . It worked , too .
Shamanist
groups like the Druids ascribed mystic powers to the symbols (ie Eagle) . For
centuries keeping the standard up was a major thing . It was at the most
defended center . If you cannot keep this up , what use are you ?
Hence the Zimbabwe bird : a Roman Eagle , captured and it’s
power transferred .
Huts
Gaelic
hut
Southern African (Basotho)
http://kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.com/2013/02/basotho-people-bantu-people-with-unique.html
The terrace agriculture : from Yemen (Maghreb , Sha’aba)
Queen of Sheba .
There were
three breaks in the Maghreb dam . Each one was accompanied by a a refugee flux
. The Maghreb dam was a single point of failure for an entire civilization.
From
genetic evidence , there are still descendants in Zimbabwe .
The normal stone walls :
Ever tried
to farm a stony ground ? You have to move the stones somewhere . And obviously
where you will not have to move them again . This is the iterative definition
of a wall .
The conical
stone towers : This was standard in Celtic countries . Some still survive .
See photos
below .
Southern
Africa : Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
Scotland :
Glenelg
 |
4th century BC to 1st century AD
|
.
Roman Ruins
See
Appendix A
Romans were
exploring into Africa in the first century ACE .
Why did
they stop ?
Or did they
?
Ave atque
vale
Andre
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Appendix A
Roman
expeditions to lake Chad and western Africa
From
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Roman
expeditions to lake Chad and western Africa were a group of military
and commercial expeditions undertaken by the Roman Empire in order to explore the area
of western and central Africa south of the
Sahara desert.
These
exploration were undertaken between the first century BC and the second century
AD, when was created the Roman limes from Roman Mauritania to Roman Libya. There were five recorded by Roman
historians:
·
The first expedition -according to Plinius- was the one of Cornelius Balbus, who in 19 BC reached the
river Niger near actual Timbouctou. He moved from Libyan Sabratha and conquered with ten thousand
legionaries the Garamantes capital
in actual Fezzan and sent a small group of his
legionaries further south across the Ahaggar mountains in order to explore the
"land of the lions": they found a huge river (the Niger) that in
their opinion was going toward the Nile river [1] Indeed in 1955, many
Roman coins and some Latin ceramics were found in the area of actual Mali[2]
·
The second was done in the year 41 AD by Suetonius Paullinus, afterwards
Consul, who was the first of the Romans who led an army across Mount Atlas. At
the end of a ten days' march he reached the summit,—which even in summer was
covered with snow,—and from thence, after passing a desert of black sand and
burnt rocks, he arrived at a river called Gerj...he then penetrated into the
country of the Canarii and Perorsi, the former of whom inhabited a woody region
abounding in elephants and serpents, and the latter were Ethiopians, not far
distant from the Pharusii and the river Daras (modern river Senegal). From the first century after
Christ there is evidence (coins, fibulas) of Roman commerce and contacts in Akjoujt and Tamkartkart near Tichit in
actual Mauritania.[3]
·
The third expedition was done by Valerius Festus in 68-70 AD. He
-probably by orders of Nero- repeated the travel
done by Balbus, but this time he started from the Tunisiansouth.
·
The forth expedition was done by Septimius Flaccus in 76 AD and reached
the lake Chad through the Tibesti mountains[4]
·
The fifth was done by Julius Matiernus in 86 AD and reached lake Chad
and territories of actual northern Central African Republic. Ptolemy wrote that Matiernus did a travel
of four months from southeastern Libya in order to reach the land called Agisymba, populated by rhinoceros and
elephants.[5]
Romans explored
the coast of western Africa and reached even the Gulf of Guinea.
Indeed the
western coast of Africa was explored by the Romans after the conquest of
northern Maroc (then called Mauretania Tingitana): the Roman vassal king Juba
II organized a successful trade from the area of Volubilis. Pliny the Elder, a
1st-century Roman author and military officer, drawing upon the accounts of
Juba II, king of Mauretania, stated that a Roman expedition from Mauritania
visited the islands of the archipelago of the Canaries and Madeira around 10 AD and found great
ruins but no population, only dogs (from those animals he called the islands,
using the Latin word "canarius" or "canis" for dog).
According to
Pliny the Elder, an expedition of Mauretanians sent by Juba II to the
archipelago visited the islands: when King Juba II dispatched a contingent to
re-open the dye production facility at Mogador (historical name of Essaouira, Morocco) in the early 1st century AD Juba's
naval force was subsequently sent on an exploration of the Canary Islands,
Madeira and probably the Cape Verde islands, using Mogador as their mission
base.
We have even
recorded historically that, according to Pliny the Elder, the Greek Xenophon of
Lampsacus stated that the Gorgades (Cape Verde islands) were situated two days
from "Hesperu Ceras" (today called Cap-Vert), the westernmost part of
the African continent, showing a knowledge of the area by the Romans. They even
knew of the Hesperides: some researchers, like Duane Roller, have even
identified the Hesperides with the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.
Furthermore,
according to Pliny the Elder and his citation by Gaius Julius Solinus, the sea
voyage time crossing the Gorgades (Cape Verde islands) to the islands of the
Ladies of the West ("Hesperides", actual São Tomé and Príncipe and
Fernando Po) was around 40 days: this fact has created academic discussions about
the possibility of further Roman travels toward Guinea and even the Gulf of
Guinea. A Roman coin of the emperor Trajan has been found in Congo.
3.
Jump up^ Sahara in classical antiquity: Map of Roman presence and
archeological findings in the Western Sahara region (p. 514)
·
Henry Lhote. L'expédition de Cornelius Balbus au Sahara, in
Revue africaine, 1954.
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