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Are Copts descendants of pharaohs?
The Copts regard themselves as direct descendents of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs. The word Coptic originally meant ancient Egyptian. One of the first Christian missionaries, Saint Mark, introduced Christianity to Egypt in the first century A.D. Even back then, the Copts suffered persecution, first by the Romans.
What does the word Kemet mean?
A popular ancient name for Egypt was “Kemet,” which means the “black land.” Scholars generally believe that this name derived from the fertile soil that was left over when the Nile flood receded in August.
Are Egyptian Copts Arab?
We [the Copts] are Egyptians, and we are not Arabs, with all due respect to the Arabs. We may live in some sort of cultural Arabism and we may speak Arabic, but we are not Arabs. This is a historical fact, whether some people like it or not.
What is Osiris the god of?
Osiris, also called Usir, one of the most important gods of ancient Egypt. This dual role was in turn combined with the Egyptian concept of divine kingship: the king at death became Osiris, god of the underworld; and the dead king’s son, the living king, was identified with Horus, a god of the sky.
Who are the kemites and Alkemi?
We called ourselves Kemites we called our science, or our highest spiritual principle, Alkemi and we called the land Kemet or Alkebulan (Land of ultimate black science.) The word chemistry was deduced from Alkemi or Alchemy. The ‘AL’ in Kemet signified first and or ultimate, or to the highest power i.e. Almighty.
What does the word “Kemite” mean?
“Kemite” is an English coinage derived from the ancient Egyptian word km.t, which is written like this in Egyptian hieroglyphs: The ancient Egyptians did not normally include vowels in their writing, so the reconstruction of km.t as “Kemet” is really nothing more than a conjecture on the part of modern scholars.
Who were the Kenites in the Bible?
Answer: The Kenites were an ancient people living near the land of Canaan around the time of Abraham (Genesis 15:18–21).
What is the meaning of Kemetism?
Kemetism (also Kemeticism; both from the Egyptian kmt, usually voweled Kemet, the native name of Ancient Egypt), also sometimes referred to as Neterism (from nṯr (Coptic ⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ noute) “deity”), or Egyptian Neopaganism, is the contemporary revival of Ancient Egyptian religion and related expressions of religion in classical and late antiquity,