Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: baboons in ancient egypt, from punt

Well my initial response was to

categorize the post as a baboon 

baiting trip but then I decided to

delete the cryptic response because

there was the danger that Ken would 

say I called him a baboon.

So I told myself that I would keep 

quiet- not knowing that Cornelius the

Wise would lure me into the discussion.

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association

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Many Thanks, Ken.

At first, I thought someone was being deliberately provocative -

"fascinating piece in scientific america. gloria might like. ancient egyptian worship entailing baboons being studied.

ken"

She responds maybe an unorthodox response, the love fight continues, after war some peace and love, peace or at least a truce, a period of recovery, stocktaking, regrouping, a lull in hostilities, a suspension or cessation of hostilities, subtle hostilities, an interregnum and then war, next war continues, a whiff of the Ted Heath & Margaret Thatcher...

Just this line from Ishmael Reed, about "the untrustworthiness of Egyptologists who do not know their trips " has inflicted a complex on some of us, to the extent that not only Gloria, Prof, curiosity sure got the better of the trickster in the signifying monkey and Cornelius Ignoramus too thought that perhaps at long last Scientific American had unearthed something about his monkey forefather (Darwin's baboon) or the mysteriously divine ancestry of Hanuman who the monotheistically intolerant and irreverential Pakistani Muslims love to ridicule as "the monkey god of the Hindus", such a reprehensible put-down

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mysteries-of-ancient-egypts-sacred-baboons-revealed/

On Sunday, 3 April 2022 at 12:10:36 UTC+2 Kenneth Harrow wrote:

fascinating piece in scientific america. gloria might like. ancient egyptian worship entailing baboons being studied.

ken

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