GOD/S and Goddesses Across The World From Ancient Times

[yeezevee]

So, We have God folder with plenty of threads in it. Out of 25 pages or so I casually looked through 15 of them just to see whether I can read and learn anything about ANY GOD/S and Goddess/es since the Human race is separated from its nearest ancestors. But we have NOTHING in this God's folder but we have lots of useless threads. So going back in time 5 to 10K years let us put a thread of Gods and Goddesses that we can get from the History of mankind across the Globe dividing our earth in to the usual four continents Africa, America, Asia and Europe.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_continents

I am not sure how many of you know, but the earth being the only planet that presents life, the four continents are usually depicted as Women.



Africa



America



Asia



Europe

So we will start with Africa go around the countries end with Europe on the way we describe as many Gods and Goddesses as we can find.

With best
yeezevee

[yeezevee]

Oshun is one of the few native African Goddesses whose name is recognized in the West. She is honored by the Yoruba people of Nigeria primarily as a Goddess of fresh water, an element important to any people. She is also responsible for fertility, love and divination.

Other well know African Goddesses are

[sahara]

I am looking forward to reading the rest of the stuff you add to this thread Yeezevee, thank you for doing this I love this idea.

Also I did not know that all four continents were depicted as female. hmmmm what came first, the chicken or the............?

[yeezevee]

Well, it doesn't matter dear Sahara, Chicken, Egg, Chick. Spontaneous Sex change.. whatever., Life is Life. Any way let us put some links here for African Gods and Goddesses. Apparently in the general Anicent African mythology, there is no distinction between tribe, culture, or country. famous examples are Ashanti, Fon, Dinka, Yoruba, Khoikhoi, Ibo, Xhosa, Shongo, and Zulu mythologies.

http://inanna.virtualave.net/african.html
http://www.scns.com/earthen/other/seanachaidh/godafrica.html
http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/africa/african/articles.html
http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/1582/africang.html


with best regards
yeezevee

[yeezevee]

This link http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/african-mythology.php?_gods-list

Lists around 290 Gods and Goddesses from Africa., Infact every letter of English A to Z are filled with names of Gods and Goddesses, Let us pull osme Good ones here .. leave the bad ones at the link.. lol..

[shanker333]

Yeezevee

tujh ko nahin dekha hamne kabhi
par is ki zaroorat kya hogi
hai maa teri soorat se alag
bhagwan ki soorat kya hogi

insaan to kya devta bhi
anchal mein paley tere

brgds

[chetha1]

[kinetic]

[yeezevee]

Going back to African Gods/Godesses, Although not very well established and the origin of modern Homo sapiens is not yet resolved. The two models and two groups of scientists that fight each other in the Human evolutionary concepts involve

1). Modern human populations in different regions was inherited from local populations of Homo erectus and all modern humans evolved in parallel from earlier populations in Africa, Europe and Asia, with some genetic intermixing among these regions. Support for this comes from the similarity of certain minor anatomical structures in modern human populations and preceding populations of Homo erectus in the same regions.

2). The other model proposes that a small, relatively isolated population of early humans evolved into modern Homo sapiens, and that this population succeeded in spreading across Africa, Europe, and Asia -- displacing and eventually replacing all other early human populations as they spread. In this scenario the variation among modern populations is a recent phenomenon.

The 2nd model dates Modern Human being to around 200,000 years ago, apparently that is too young for the "Multiregional Hypothesis." Molecular genetics also point to an African origin for all modern humans, implying that the ancestral population of all living people migrated from Africa to other parts of the world -- thus the name of this interpretation: the "Out of Africa Hypothesis." Irrespective of the models the oldest fossil evidence of modern humans is ~ 130,000 years old in Africa, and there is also evidence for modern humans in the Near East sometime before 90,000 years. Any we don't care about that as we are more interested in God and Godesses. So starting from Africa let us look at the modern map o fit



The most popular Gods from the continent ar



African Deities around the continent

[yeezevee]

Dr. Molefi Kete Asante, professor of African American Studies at Temple University writes at http://www.africawithin.com/asante/africangods.html

[patriot]

[yeezevee]

There you go, I was thinking People are going to add God's and Godesses of their Countries.., But Patriot goes Sucks and dicks..

[yeezevee]

So, Going back to Gods/Godesses of Africa, a continent with 51 independent countries (until today), hundreds of independent tribes each one having its own way to practice religion indeed is a big continent. In essence before the European migration, it is essentially Inhabited by two major groups, The "Caucasoid" of North Africa, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and Sudan, with brown eyes, light olive kin, and narrow noses. And the "Africans" of rest of Africa. Some, such as Tutsy being very tall in east central Africa and the Pygmies being shortest people living in tropical central Africa

Looking in to the Linguistic structure of Africa, Even in tropical Africa alone literallty 1000 different languages are spoken and with in each linguistic group there are many tribes and religious systems. After Mr. PBUH and his Allah religion, Islam has replaced original Panthiestic cultures/Gods and Arabic replaced original languages of North Africa. original Berber is still spoken in in northern Africa.

Bantu languages are spoken throughout central and eastern Africa. Zulu is also a Bantu language spoken in South Africa. Sudanic is spoken in the large grassland region south of the Sahara. Hausa spoken in western Africa... and on top of it, many countries, after their independence, kept as official along with a European language such as French, English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Dutch.



Let us start with bottom of the continent, South Africa. And go to the Gods of that country., It is rich with Local Gods., Christian, Muslim and Hindu Gods.

yeezevee

[Kalu]

[Arjuna Haridas]