Somali Folklore Dance Group Dancing Dhaanto

Dhaanto

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[Baahalow]

Great Poet and songwriter Mohamoud Abdullahi Sangub who is the Lead Dancer in this Video was once Told me that many Somali Elders had a great knowledge of the Mixtire of theMedicine used by Pharoah's to Mummify the Bodies of the Pharoah's. but would never reveal due to the religious complications, That is ISlam opposes mummyfying or Preserving the Dead Body, and he added that he inherited a lot of Stuff through a poems along with my friend who is a video journalist we hope to make a documentary

[Ruweyn]

this is Ogaden dance & is always played in Ogadenia region

[Baahalow]

@Ruweyn

The Only Ogaden individual in this Band is Abwaan Sangub the rest of the band are hawiye and Jareer weyn, it is rather a Somali Dance Predominantly play in Ogaden but keepin mind not only Lives in Ogadenia there are other Somali entities in Ogadenia who ain't Ogaden indeed,

[BattleAngel]

its funny us african americans always get so offended when we feel like some one has stolen are steps or our dance moves. but now we can see where it REALLY came from. God bless Africa!

[CushiticSomalianMale]

This traditonal Somalian dance is called Dhaanto...

a traditional dance..

Blesss the Horn of Africa= Somalian peninsula

[Casha16]

this should be on worldstar

[sajokal20]

@Baahalow thank you Bro Baahalow , make your documentary ,it is a nice subject and join us in the facebook page " HOYGA-DHAQANKA: Somali Cultural Museum .S.C.M." thanks !

[hiilqaran]

DADKAYAGA SOOMAALIYEED HA'NOOLAADEEN,CADOWGU HA JABO

[CushiticSomalianMale]

Keepin mind folks anything authentic in Kemetian nature in modernday world, is hard to find, especially from a African nation thats wartorn, but nevertheless nuthing is immposibble folks, thanks to God, that we can still see till this day n age the Representatives of ancient kemetian, folklore, dance tradition, Poetry chanting tradition and most immportantly the clothes thats weared in this Somali folklore poetry chanting dance display The sistas speaceially, notice the head-dresses are Kemetian

[sajokal20]

“The Making of Egypt” (1939). Petrie states that the Land of Punt was “sacred to the Egyptians as the source of their race.”/ In “Short History of the Egyptian People,” by E. A. Wallis Budge. Budge stated that “Egyptian tradition of the Dynastic Period held that the aboriginal home of the Egyptians was Punt.”

[sajokal20]

Encyclopædia Britannica describes Punt as follows: “in ancient Egyptian and Greek geography, the southern coast of the Red Sea and adjacent coasts of the Gulf of Aden, corresponding to modern coastal Eritrea, Somalia and Djibouti .”/

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[sajokal20]

“« Again the representations of the early Puntites, or Somali people, on the Egyptian monuments, show striking resemblances to the Egyptians themselves. » By Brian Brown New York: Brentano’s[1923]/”

“”The Egyptians sometimes called Punt land Ta-Netjeru, meaning “Land of the Gods,” and considered it their place of origin .” (Richard Pankhurst, The Ethiopian Borderlands:1997)/

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[sajokal20]

History : According to the historian Brian Brown « Again the representations of the early Puntites, or Somali people, on the Egyptian monuments, show striking resemblances to the Egyptians themselves. » By Brian Brown New York: Brentano's[1923]/

According to the historian Richard Pankhurst :"""The Egyptians sometimes called Punt land Ta-Netjeru, meaning "Land of the Gods," and considered it their place of origin ." (Richard Pankhurst, "The Ethiopian Borderlands":)