GRANDMASTER TEACHER DR. BEN

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AFRICAN HISTORY CANNOT BE TOLD BY WHITES, THEY WEREN'T EVEN WRITTING DURING THE TIME WE WERE TRAVELING THE WORLD

I had two important starting points for this. First - in the very first
poetry of the Iliad by Homer, where he express in the beginning of the first
song about Zeus who, together with all immortals, went to visit the
respectable Ethiopians.

Yesterday Kronus went beyond the Ocean,

To feast with the respectable Ethiopians and,

Along with him went all immortals...

(Homer, The Iliad, first song Lines: 418-420)


From another translation we have it rendered thus: -

Zeus made a journey to the shore of Ocean

To feast among the Sunburned*, and the gods

Accompanied him... (Lines: 418-420 from the translation by
Robert Fitzgerald, winner of the 1976 Harold Morton Landon Translation
Award)

* "Sunburned" is not the correct translation of the word Ethiopia. In the
original Greek the word used is 'Ethiopians'. This is also the case in
Russian, in Bulgarian, and in the Polish translations. In the original Greek
the meaning Ethiopia came to mean the land of the sunburned (darkened by the
Sun) people. Robert Fitzgerald's translation is incorrect.

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