The Anu

[M.Panther]

Anu, On, Heliopolis and Zion
I love Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop. Every time I read the African Origins of Civilization or Great African Thinkers I get something new out of it and it starts my mind to wondering and questioning. Recently, I’ve turned my interests to the ancient term Anu. Anu was called Heliopolis by the Greeks and On in the Bible. As I started to research those three seemingly divergent names I wondered if On could possibly be related to the Biblical name Zion. Zion, Jerusalem, the City of David and often used to refer to Israel and then the heavenly place, the promised land.

I wondered why the nation of Israel in 1946 did not name the land of Israel the most important name in the Bible…Zion. I had read when a vote was taken the name Zion lost by one vote. I had also read that the nation of Uganda [the mouth of the Nile] was in the running as a sight for the New Israel after WWII, but that is indeed another story.

Anu was also the Sumerian [African] name for the sky or sky god. An being the first cause [man]. The sky god whose wife was Antu in the Babylonian culture and Uras in the Akkadian or Sumerian was also on occasion called Ki. There symbol of authority was the ‘horned cap’ the headdress of heroes [Heru] and gods [mighty men].

Sumer, Akkad, Babylon all were relatives of the sons of Cham and related to Khemet according to the Biblical account.

Question:

Did the concept of Zion or the Holy city/city of righteousness originate in Egypt with the city of Anu/On?

Zion does not seem to be a mythical [heavenly] place but a people, a nation.

“But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me." Shall a woman forget her suckling child, from having mercy on the child of her womb? These too shall forget, but I will not forget you (again referring to the nation).� Isaiah 54: 14-15.

Here Zion is saying something…’The Lord has forsaken me and the Lord has forgotten me. Sounds like Zion is a nation possibly Israel speaking up to God.

The definition of ON or ANU -

According to Godfrey Higgins the writer of the book Anacalypsis the word On may be of Indian [Dravidian] extraction. this is possible in my mind since the Ethiopians had a colony in India according to all ancient scholarship.

"It is written in the Old Testament two ways, aun and an. It is usually rendered in English by the word On. The word is suppose to mean Sun, and the Greeks translated it by the word sol. but I think it only stood fro the emblem of the procreative power of nature. thus in Genesis xlix :3, Reuben, thou art my first born, my might, and the beginning of MY STRENGTH: It meant the beginning of his pro-creative power....It was from Oenuphis, a priest of On that Pythagoras is said to have learnt the system of the heavenly bodies moving around the sun in unceasing revolution. The priest of this temple was first esteemed in Egypt. " pg 109

Zion is mentioned in connection with Jerusalem and more specifically the ‘City of David’ . The Jebus or Canaanites originally controlled Jerusalem before and after the time of Melchezedec, who was the King of peace and righteousness. Melchezedec received tithes from Abraham, the patriarch or the Hebrews and as the scriptures said: ‘the lesser was bless by the greater, meaning Abraham was blessed by Melchezedec being the greater one.

GENESIS 14:18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High. 19 And he blessed him and said: "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth; 20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." And he gave him a tithe of all.

What does the name of Jerusalem mean how does it relate to Egypt?

'The name of Jerusalem (literally meaning "to establish peace or submission") certainly symbolized the role that it played in establishing and maintaining Egyptian control over Palestine during the 18th Dynasty. Both names are found in Chapter 11 of Nehemiah where the Hebrew reads as "Yurushalayim ha Qudesh," meaning, "Jerusalem the Holy City."

Can Jerusalem and Anu [On] be the same place or two sides of the same coin?

The capture of Jerusalem/Kadesh by Thutmose III also resolves the formerly unknown source of the name Zion. Zion consists of the components On (Hebrew for the holy city of On/Heliopolis in Egypt) and the Hebrew word Zi (meaning arid place). Literally translated, Zion appropriately becomes "Holy City of the Desert." [House of Messiah. Ahmed Osman].

Jerusalem became a Holy City during the reign of Tutmoses III.

As an adult ruler, Tuthmoses III conducted 17 successful campaigns that served him a position as the most successful Pharaoh ever — in military terms. He extended Egyptian territory and power considerably, into Mesopotamia, Canaan [Megiddo] and Nubia. He fought the Syrians [Assyrians] seeking refuge in Megiddo [King David?] The conquered territories were put under control of vassal kings and chiefs, who paid taxes to Egypt. He extended the temple at Karnak, as well as constructing new monuments at Abydos, Aswan, Heliopolis and Memphis. His mummy was said to be found in 1881 at Dayru l-Bahri.

The sacredness attributed to Jerusalem by the Egyptians initially derived from the transport of the Barque of Amun, a holy shrine carried on poles in much the same manner as the Israelite Ark of the Covenant, to the city by Thutmose III. The shrine was normally kept within the Holy of Holies in the Temple of Amun at Karnak, however Thutmose III had carried it with him into battle. It remained with him when he took up residence in Jerusalem during the prolonged siege of Megiddo.

Please Read carefully!

The Jerusalem Jews were opposed to the Alexandrian temple, and jealous, because they saw it as a rival temple. When they got their version of the Septuagint, they minutely altered the word for “Sun� (cheres) so that it read “destruction� (heres) instead. Calling On/Anu the City of Destruction or Desolation instead of the City of the Sun or City of Righteousness.

The Septuagint [Greek] version speaks of On/Anu reads “ir-ha-zedek� = “a city of righteousness�, but the altered version read “a city of destruction�. It is because of this tiny variation between the two versions of the Septuagint that the King James and Authorized versions have a marginal note about the alternative reading. The correct rendering is “city of the sun�, or “Heliopolis� is City of Righteousness.



The Strong’s and Young’s concordance – the one every Christian stakes their life on…Is in error many, many times, this is just one incident.

If you are using a Strong's Concordance they will try to redirect your thinking and use the word 'destruction or desolation' from the root word Aven in describing On/Anu, but it is purely a matter of choice and blatant prejudice on their part when defining On or Anu. They usually translate anything that has to do with Egypt, Africa, and Ethiopia with contemptuous linguistics, so beware.



I have found, due to the System of White Supremacy that manifests itself as Euro-centric History and on the other side Arabic History, our minds are always being manipulated by the choice of words and phrases that are employed when describing our people in ancient secular or Bible history. The commentaries like, concordances, bible dictionaries and other ‘aides to biblical understanding’ follow the same pattern.



In the case of Anu they made the choice of tying idolatry, destruction or desolation to the name of On/Anu [Innu] to make it and the inhabitants and founders of that religious city, a curse and a shame in history, but why? To make us believe that everything black is evil and cursed by the Creator.



Based on the original true evidence On/Heliopolis should be considered the original City of Righteousness and it was a mother or sister city to Jerusalem. Why else did Joseph marry Anuset, the daughter of a priest of Anu. The same reason Moses married Zipporah the daughter of Jethro the Priest of Midian the bloodline.



We will understand that better when we compare King David of Israel and Tutmoses III Pharaoh of Egypt.


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Greetings! ImHotep!

Asante sana for the astute and in depth critique!

As we continue to unravel the "gibberish" that has been substituted into our sacred texts we will become enlightened indeed AND in thought!

I give thanks for your diligence and sharing!

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