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ANCIENT HISTORY OF MALAWI

‘Sapitwa was like Hobbit and Lord of the Rings’ Middle Earth (pamchombo pa dziko)’

MAY 8, 2015 | AGNES DUMISANI MIZERE | LEAVE A COMMENT

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Malawi is a beautiful land rich in ancient history and myths & tales about spiritual beings (mizimu) which were close to chosen women who were given the gift of ancientAfrican prophecy (ulosi wakale).

This blog a empts to update an oral story told by some Sapitwa healers in Mulanje of a time many centuries ago before floods when creation began on a mound by spiritswhich they say existed way before that in the water and darkness.

Once again, this blog is not endorsing this oral story but only repeating words told by the healer and names used here are not the same ones used in other ancient Malawistories.

This blog also appreciates fellow Malawians who correct ancient sayings and words which might be spelled wrongly.

This is the myth and ‘bush’ science told to this blog about Malawi being the mchombo (navel) of the world because of an ancient being’s’umbilical cord said to have beenburied in a previously sacred termite mound making it the “centre of the world” and a few others around the world.

When many movie-lovers globally hear the word “Middle Earth” they most likely thing of the sewidely read works ‘The Hobbit and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ which take place entirely on Middle-earth.

According to online sources the term is equivalent to the term Midgard of Norse mythology, describing tworld “i.e. the central continent of world of Tolkien’s imagined mythological past.

Within his stories, Tolkien translated the name “Middle-earth” as Endor (or sometimes guages Quenya and Sindarin and sometimes referring only to the continent that the stories take place onern continent called the Dark Land.

In 2013, Henry Wismayer in the Washington Poste wrote an article titled ‘A trek across Malawi’s Mount moured to have inspired JRR Tolkien.’

He took readers back to the1930s in the old British protectorate of Nyasaland, and imagined “a young J.Rin this same view, his unique imagination fired by a new geographical talisman for Middle-earth.”

“Apart from Lake Malawi, it’s this southeast African country’s most outstanding geographical feature, anpropagated in forums as varied as travel blogs and scientific journals — has it that this sudden outcroppiprint for Tolkien’s Lonely Mountain, home to the dragon Smaug and his hoard of gold.

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M’manga Mudzi, Mpolowoni anthilltree/mound in Malawi believed to be theplace where Mlauli buried Mbona

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“There’s plenty of tenuous evidence to support the claim. Quite apart from its formidable dimensions, Mulanje is steeped in local legend. A community of diminu-tive people is said to have once lived on its plateaus (Hobbits, anyone?), andamong the more superstitious, its nearly 10,000-foot apex goes by an ominous so-briquet: “the place where you are not supposed to go.”

“But what of “The Hobbit”? Weeks later, back home, an e-mail from AdamTolkien, the author’s grandson, blows the myth away. “JRR Tolkien travelled veryli�le outside of the British Isles,” I read in dismay. “He most definitely never trav-elled outside of Europe,” further reads h�p://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/a-trek-across-malawis-mount-mulanje-long-rumored-to-have-inspired-jrr-tolkien/2013/12/12/0c45013e-5e9f-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html

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However in Sapitwa oral stories, the Abathwa/Abatwa pygmies were said to be the ancient guardians of Mulanje Mountain. The Abathwa are also called Akafula meaningdwarfs and are similar in size to the “Hobbits.”

The TWA pygmies of SapiTWA were also believed to be born of the spirit of the mountain and different from dwarfs who have disabilities but not inabilities.

According to Sapitwa mythology, in the beginning there was a world of spirits for an unknown time maybe millions of years including thewinged ones which have never been human and those who went on to occupy other “worlds” including earth.

These spirits called mizimu where believed to live in a spirit world under water.

On earth the spirit (mizimu) said to have existed in the beginning was Tomasi Bona (atom) or a word which sounds like atomic mass.

He’s said to have come from the universe to be born into a termite mound where his mchombo (navel) is believed to have been buriedhence making it an ancient place for a specific type of shrine.

Sapitwa oral stories talk of Mother Earth and the rest of the Universe resembling the womb of an Elephant (Njovu) and a spiritual worldexisting outside it in the Universe as loving motherly beings.

The being was known as Chauta, Namalenga, Mphambe (God) among many other names and according to ancient black science the entryto that world was difficult as one would bounce back like a ball which might have been their way of explaining gravity but this blog is notsure about that.

Now on earth, Tomasi Bona who is Napolo is said to have originated into a primordial mound/anthill as electrical energy with water bodiesbelow since in the beginning they believed there was water and spirits which lived in water because for them termite mounds are a goodindicator of ground water.

From there he is said to have exploded like lightning into other spirits in twos and this lightning was throughout the new created world.

Under the M’manga mudzi anthill tree or mound there was said to be several water bodies which healers refer to as Nyanja and insidethat mound the Tomasi Bona spirit is believed to look like an elderly man (munthu) who evolved from a serpent spirit in oral tales.

The Primordial Mound locally known as the M’manga Mudzi anthill tree (chulu) somewhere in a remote village of Malawi stands out inthe bush with three distinct trees growing out of it, mainly mpolowoni, m’manga mudzi, and msamba mwana.

Now mpolowoni is the main tree and udindo (responsibility of ancient Malawi’s first wingedspirit called Tomasi Bona (atom). M’manga mudzi is the one used for kusilika grounds beforesome sacred dances by digging it into the dirt they say while msamba mwana is used duringchildbirth.

According to a plant expert, mpolowoni in English is known as the Steganotaenia Araliaceatree and its family name is Umbelliferae.

But this blog just like many others have not dug into the mound as it’s forbidden and tabooso that will never ever happen. However studying the area and some ancient writings hiddensomewhere the anthill is believed to be a place where Tomasi Bona’s umbilical cord wasburied but this blog does not know if he has ever been a baby.

It is from that area where elders in ancient times calculated his symbolic mchombo (navel) to be the Midthe place where a chosen priestess would get oracles from.

In Chichewa the navel or belly bu�on is MCHOMBO and PAMCHOMBO PADZIKO means at the centre of the country while MCHOMBO WA MZINDAmeans at the centre of the city etc.

So the universe in ancient Sapitwa teachings is viewed like a WOMB hence the word THUMBA which is actually a BAG inEnglish.

In ancient Malawi the priestess mainly got her oracles either from Mbona the python of the West or Tomasi Bona the M’boboof the North wind. This blog however does not know how Makewana (Mother of the Children) got her oracles.

Elsewhere sacred rocks were placed in a unique way showing the magical ritual of crocodiles (ng’ona) which is not present inMulanje.

Ironically in ancient Egypt, there were suspected rituals and spells involving “Kom Ombo and Sobek”, the crocodile god of an-cient Egypt associated with the “wicked god Seth or Set” according to h�p://discoveringegypt.com/pyramids-temples-of-egypt/kom-ombo-temple/ (h�p://discoveringegypt.com/pyramids-temples-of-egypt/kom-ombo-temple/)

Kom Ombo online is defined as (Arabic: أمبو كوم ) (Coptic: Embo; Ancient Greek: Ὄµβοι Omboi, Ptol. iv. 5. § 73; Steph. B. s. v.; It. Anton. p. 165) or Ombos (Juv. xv. 35) or Latin Ambo (Not. Imp. sec20)”.

This blog would break down Kom Ombo and Sobek like this by looking at the first 2 or 3 le�ers using the ancient Malawi al-phabet:

What do the words “Kom Ombo” and “Sobek” mean? Online Sobek (also called Sebek, Sochet, Sobk, and Sobki), in Greek,Suchos (Σοῦχος) is said to be from Latin Suchus used for a crocodile.

Is “Set” an English word or does it mean where the sun sets as in the West (Ku madzulo, Kuzambwe)?


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So breaking it down using an ancient alphabet it’s SA E pronounced as EH and TA or SI EH TA and others.

That also has a meaning in Chichewa but not spelled as SAWETA but SITIMAWETA meaning we don’t farm as in livdiles etc.

KUWETA is defined online as “farm (v): kuweta (for livestock).”

Now what does Waset mean in ancient Egypt?

WA here can also be used to mean OF just like LA, KA, CHA, YA etc.

Now KU, MU and PA are AT so Ku madzulo means at the West where some god or goddess (spirit in Chichewa as iwould be said to come from.

In Chichewa Umbombo means greedy and Sobek in the ancient Malawi alphabet could be broken down to SA O BASaopa yekha meaning he does not fear himself. That is taken from to fear as in wopa or kuopa.

“Wokwatira kwa mphenzi saopa ku ng’anima”…literally meaning the one who marries where there is lightning does not fear the flash or flickers…so that is a self-explana-tory proverb.

That is an ancient crocodile ritual for those who believe in charms and the supernatural and connected to some Pharaohs.

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Now in ancient Greece, an omphalos (ὀµφαλός) is a religious stone artifact or baetylus according to online sources. In Greek the word omphalos means “navel”.

“In Greek lore, Zeus sent two eagles across the world to meet at its center, the “navel” of the world. Omphalos stones marking thecentre were erected in several places about the Mediterranean Sea; the most famous of those was at Delphi which is both an archaeo-logical site and modern town in Greece south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis.

The Pythia commonly known as the Oracle of Delphi was the name of any priestess throughout the history of The Temple of Apollo atDelphi located on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, beneath the Castalian Spring.

“The Pythia was widely credited for her prophecies inspired by Apollo and the Delphic oracle was established in the 8th century BCaccording to other online sources.

During that period the Delphic Oracle was the “most prestigious and authoritative oracle among the Greeks. The oracle is one of thebest-documented religious institutions of the classical Greeks.”

Authors who mention the oracle include Aeschylus, Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Ju-lian (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_the_Apostate), Justin (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_(historian)), Livy(h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livy), Lucan (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Annaeus_Lucanus), Ovid (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid), Pausanias (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)), Pindar (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pindar),Plato, Plutarch (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch), Sophocles (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles),Strabo(h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strabo), Thucydides (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides) and Xenophon (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophon).


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Dziwe la Nkhalamba: Secrets of ancient Malawi priestesses and Mibawa staff

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This blog is once again only sharing an oral story as told by a SapiTWA priestess the type of asing’anga (traditional healers) who were responsible for nsembe (offerings) inancient times.

In ancient times such a priestess would have a walking stick or cane made from Mbawa, an indigenous tree scientifically grouped as Khaya nyasica and known as Mibawawhen many.

Today they lost their shrines including one believed to be near Dziwe la Nkhalamba in Mulanje and are grouped together with other healers who don’t make offerings atancient shrines hidden in mountains.

In ancient times such priestesses only worked with royal families who gave many of their offerings to an ancient spirit known as Nyangu in the same way some Malaw---ians today freely make offerings elsewhere including donations.

In ancient times some of our ancestors made offerings whenever they wanted something from the spirit world and would go through ancestral spirits (mizimu yamakolo) orwinged spirits which have never been human (mizimu) which some call angels in English to get to Chauta, Namalenga, Mphambe (God) whom they believed was in theUniverse hence ABOVE.

The four winds of Sapitwa blow from the deep waters across the oceans and through the hilltops of Mulnounce the arrival of a priestess into a “village” led by the mythical but invisible spirit of Nyangu himbawa walking stick (ndodo) three times.

The ancient staff hits the ground as if waking up the world of the spirits believed to be in water throughoder most land including the mythical ones globally known as mermaids.

Her eyes wide and staring in front and around, the elderly scary looking woman keeps walking in front oprotect and clear her path to her destination.

Those who have the misfortune of seeing the elderly Nyangu would face her wrath because she only revwho tried to harm the priestess she protects and creates a straight path for her to walk in to reach her deQueen.

The one walking behind her was expected to hold their right hand towards the chest to symbolize holdinlosing one’s temper but remaining calm as the ancient elderly spirit led the way.

The elderly spirit (nkhalamba) would move the head and eyes like a chameleon (nanzikambe) until it reaa hunched back and face sometimes looking towards the ground meaning the area is a sacred place for mlamba (the rock of the elderly or elders).

This was in line with an ancient sacred place called Dziwe la Nkhalamba where elderly spirits and whiteappear to lucky ones but it no longer happens because the place has been defiled and is no longer considaccording to the priestess who still follows the ways of her ancestors.


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Ancient Malawi’s Nyangu spiritwas called Sungamwana (keep thechild) and resembled this statue ofancient Egypt’s Isis whom a healernicknamed ChinsinsiSungamwana (Secret, Keep theChild)

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This spirit was also believed to appear like a witch (mfiti) with a pointed chin when fighting ba�les in the astral realm because the elders believed it sometimes took a witchto fight a witch in the same way some in the West claim there is so-called “white magic” which they say is good and “black magic” which they say is evil.

The pointed chin is also part of the upside triangle of ancient Malawi which symbolized ziwanda (demons) and that the evil one of this ancient land now called Malawiturned everything of Chauta, Namalenga, Mphambe (God) upside down so go oral tales.

However some would tap into the powers of ziwanda during ba�les but in a different way from Christian and other beliefs.

In Malawi black magic is associated with kutamba as in witchcraft involving flying to harm innocent people and to graveyards in the spiritual form andwhite magic is viewed as kukhwima protection rituals which don’t involve harming innocent people but protecting oneself from harm.

When such problems arise, some elders do a primitive exorcism to get the possessing spirit out which was different from the banned ancient mwabvi poison concoction ritual to rid villages of suspected witches (afiti).

Now the elderly spirit known as the first Nyangu of this ancient land fell from grace and she’s said to walk with a cane and at times appear as a beautifulyoung woman but a Sapitwa oracle shows all her wrongs are being corrected by her descendant chosen to the ancient priesthood but with no one to serve.

This elderly spirit was the Queen of Magic and is said to possess a certain innocent village woman in Malawi who is expected to live over the age of 100 because of her.

Elders have been trying to tame this spirit which has become her shadow in order to dilute its kukhwima powers so that it can only do good and get back toher husband is what the priestess told this blog.

She has almond eyes, high cheekbones but white hair which in ancient times was also a symbol of royalty which would be the equivalent of a TraditionalAuthority who has land named after their name.

You see this elderly female spirit is said to have two hidden symbolic horns which resemble the one of some statues online described asbeing of ancient Egypt’s Isis.

She’s also said to have some magical (matsenga) words which only worked when she or those she possessed used them.

But this blog is not claiming that statue of Isis is definitely ancient Malawi’s Nyangu but just making an observation and would like tohear from those familiar with the ancient story of Isis to explain all her symbols.

It’s because of this ancient belief that elders would gather at Dziwe la Nkhalamba (swimming pool for the elderly) and start singing a sa-cred song as they called the spirit of Nyangu who also used the name Sungamwana (Keep the Child).

“Inu mayi ee, bwera, bwera ee, Sungamwana ee, uzamudalise ee….inu mayi ee, bwera, bwera ee” (oh you our mother yes, come, come yes,Keep the Child yes, bless this one yes….).

The elderly men and women would hold suspected Mibawa canes or walking sticks which might be a type of African Mahogany in Eng-lish and tap on the ground three times while moving their feet in rhythm with the sacred music.

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The sceptre or staff is said to be one of the most ancient symbols of authority.

In ancient Egypt the words “nobleman” and “official” both included the hieroglyph of astaff, so at an early stage the staff seems to have represented the authority of any personwith significant power, not just the king.

“One of the oldest staffs discovered in Egypt was recovered from a pre-dynastic grave in ElOmari Lower Egypt (a neolithic site now absorbed by the suburbs of Cairo). We do notknow whether the owner of this staff was a local chief, or priest, but it is generally agreedthat the staff was an emblem of his authority. The staff soon became associated with pharaonic authority

“An early scepter carved from wood to resemble a bundle of reeds was recovered from a First Dynasy mSimilar fragments were found in royal tombs at Abydos and the pharaoh Den is depicted on an ivory labA beautiful gold and sard ceremonial sceptre was recovered from the tomb of Khasekhemwy partly readegyptonline.co.uk/royalemblems.html (h�p://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/royalemblems.html

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Elder or Horusthe Great had in the second half of the god’s name a stooping old man leaning on a stick.

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Of ancient Malawi wild grape vine (mpesa or nthudza?) and Tomasi Bona (Atom)

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Is that an Orb or dust spot on the left side of the M’manga Mudzi mound photo?

Many ancient civilizations (Greek, Norse, Roman, etc.) have an extensive mythological story that has an explanation for just about everything that goes on in the world.From the reasons why the seasons change to why humans feel emotion, mythology allowed ancient people to be at peace with the way things are.

It’s a fact that a lot of Malawi’s ancient history involving female priesthoods as in those responsible for nsembe (offerings) has been erased and most Malawians don’tbother researching or caring to know about it.

This blog therefore tries to fill that void for the few who might be interested in ancient history the way it is done in many countries globally including in Europe.

This blog is also still researching the English names for some fruits, plants and trees and appreciates all assistance to ensure information shared here is accurate especiallythe translations into Chichewa.

In Egyptian mythology, the world started out as a chaos of churning water, known as Nu or Nun.

“Out of Nu came Atum, the lord of Heliopolis. He stood on a single mound he created called ben-ben and this is where the temple of He-liopolis was built.

“The creation of ben-ben brought light into the world and Atum became known as Atum-Ra. Ra, the sun god that rises in the east anddies in the west. Ra then created the gods Shu (the air) and Tefnut (the moisture) through asexual reproduction. Together, Shu andTefnut produced Geb (the earth) and Nut (the sky).

“Geb and Nut conceived Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, and Seth (or Set). After conceiving, Geb and Nut were separated by their father, Shu.

“Now the sky is high above, while the earth is way below with air in the middle. Many ancient drawings of this show Geb the earth laying


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down with Nut the sky arched over him with Shu the air holding her up. Ra the sun is usually traveling along Nut’s body,” reads the 2013Great Discoveries in Archaeology website at h�p://anthropology.msu.edu/anp264-ss13/2013/02/28/the-gods-of-egypt/ (h�p://anthropol-ogy.msu.edu/anp264-ss13/2013/02/28/the-gods-of-egypt/).

Now this blog is not posting this 2014 information again to debate whether the ancient Egypt belief was right or wrong or to endorse anybeliefs but just to document things posted online and some ancient Malawi oral stories never documented before.

Similar to some elements of the ancient Egypt creation myth in ancient Sapitwa mythology everything began with water and there was aspirit (mizimu) kingdom in the water led by the Dziwe la Nkhalamba elderly spirit and 7 others mainly Tomasi Bona of the North Wind,Tagoneka Mbona of the West, Chandiona Goneka of the South and Nthanda mwana wa mwezi of the East.

Tomasi Bona also known as Napolo has never been human but is said to have mounted from one of the M’manga Mudzi anthill hill mounds somewhere in Mulanje nearthe mountain.

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It’s not easy to get to the mound as some vines or something grab your hands and feet and trip you over so one has to be patietie themselves from the mess and make sure they don’t touch any buffalo bean (Chitedze) which causes extreme itching of the

This anthill locally known as chulu represented the triangular mountain above and all the water bodies underneath and healerwith the area call the vines surrounding it mpesa or nthudza which in English is Rhoicissus tomentosa but this blog failed to getthem.

Could mpesa or mphesa be the vines and nthudza the fruit?

“The name Rhoicissus is derived from the Greek rhoia, meaning pomegranate and kissos, ivy. Perhaps not the most accurate of ivy, it is a climber, but it has tendrils; and the small fruits, although spherical, do not seem very like that of a pomegranate.

“The Latin species name tomentosa means felt-like, with a dense woolly covering, and alludes to the rust-coloured hairs that coyoung growth, the underside of the leaves, buds and tendrils. It has picked up an impressive number of common names, mosting its resemblance to the cultivated grapevine, or its rope-like stems.

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“The grape family (Vitaceae) is a large, with approximately 1000 species spread throughout the warm countries of the world and is famous for its most celebrated member,the grapevine, Vitis vinifera. In southern Africa this family is represented by five genera (Ampelocisssus, Cayratia, Cissus, Cypostemma and Rhoicissus) and 53 species.

“In southern Africa, the genus Rhoicissus is represented by 10 species that occur in all the provinces of South Africa except the Northern Cape and all other southernAfrican countries except Namibia and Botswana.

“Rhoicissus tomentosa is relatively easy to tell apart from the others because it and only three of the other southern African species have simple or shallowly lobed leavesand it is the only canopy climber among them,” partly reads h�p://www.planfafrica.com/plantqrs/rhoicistom.htm (h�p://www.planfafrica.com/plantqrs/rhoicistom.htm)

According to online sources this wild grape occurs from the Cape Peninsula, where it is abundant in the kloofs of the eastern slopes of Table Mountain, and along thecoastline in a narrow strip all the way through the Eastern Cape up to northern KwaZulu-Natal and then inland through Mpumalanga into Limpopo Province, Zimbabweand Malawi.

It is almost always associated with forest and grows in riverine fringes where it clambers over trees and bushes. This type of Mpesa is in the grape family and it’s commonnames include wild grape, bush grape, African grape, forest Grape, monkey rope, wild vine (Eng.); Bosdruif, Wildedruif, Bostou, Bobbejaantou (Afrikaans), isaQoni, iDiliya(Xhosa), isiNwazi (Zulu), Moaparo (Sotho); isiNwati (Swati) and Dyathoho, Makhulu-wa-khundwi (Venda).

“Rhoicissus tomentosa is a handsome, vigorous, evergreen tendril climber with ornamental, vine-like leaves and bunches of pur-ple grape-like fruits which are edible and “pleasant tasting but acidic.”

“The juicy, pulpy ripe fruits boiled with plenty of sugar (7 grapes to 30 g sugar) make a brilliantly coloured and delicious jamor jelly. A reasonable wine can also be made from the fruits, described as sour with a pleasant fragrance. The fruits are alsoused to make vinegar. The pliant branches are split and used as rope for tying down thatch and also in basket-making.”

“The tuberous rootstock is poisonous and is used in traditional medicine The roots boiled in milk are given to calves to expelintestinal worms. They may also be used during pregnancy to facilitate delivery, although R. tridentata is the more commonlyused species for that remedy,” further reads the same online source.

It’s role in pregnancy would connect it to a female spirit known as Chinsinsi Sungamwana (Secret, Keep the Child) as in an-cient times female healers were also experts in childbirth unlike today when azamba (traditional midwives) have been banned.


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Common Rhoicissus vine photo taken fromh�p://www.ispotnature.org/species-dictionar-ies/sanbi/Rhoicissus%20tomentosa(h�p://www.ispotnature.org/species-dictio-naries/sanbi/Rhoicissus%20tomentosa)

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Now Tomasi Bona who is also the elderly spirit of Dziwe la Nkhalamba is born of women to make them powerful ancientpriestesses of the Nyangu blood who no longer exist as they can no longer freely practice their ancient ways.

Oral stories talk of that spirit implanting itself in their wombs but disappearing before delivery to appear as a full-grown adultman.

The same is said of the Sapitwa version of Mbona on how his mother conceivedhim just like in other stories in Africa and Asia. This blog is only repeating what healers say and not endo

Now Nyangu’s spirit is said to be an elderly woman who walks using a cane with a serpent head but likealso believed to appear in the form of a young woman.

She stands with very bright presence, her veil covering her kno�ed black hair as her wide eyes stare blanher and seek guidance.

Her name is hidden but Chinsinsi Sungamwana and her title is Nyangu, the goddess of the mythical Sapning of time and not any of the ones who have lived on earth including Mbona’s mother Nyangu. Her codeep ocean and her origins, a sad mythical story about goddesses locally known as

Sometimes she sits under the shade of a fig tree locally known as mkuyu to breastfed her baby. The womwith very smooth skin that makes her face look like she dipped it in a jar of cocoa-bu

Her black eye-lashes stand out together with her eyebrows which seem well drawn and her uncombed hbut her hair is not necessarily dread-locked.

Also standing out on her beautiful face are beauty spots on her cheek. Her brown almond shaped eyes apiercing as if searching a person’s soul.

However, the strange thing with this woman is that whenever people see her she’s holding a small baby later….the baby does not seem to grow.

An elderly man suddenly calls out to her “makewana” (mother of the child) and she greets him politely bher eyes of her baby whom she sometimes carries on her back.

She wanders from place to place like a lost and mad person ever since she lost her husband, the elderly sNkhalamba. Her symbol is similar to one of the ancient Malawi female winged spirits known as Sungamwana (Keep the child) because that is who she is too.

The others are Tomasi Bona (world in one’s hands), Tagoneka Mbona (put to sleep Mbona), Chandiona Goneka (It’s seen me, put to sleep), Nthanda mwana wa mwezi(Child of the moon, Sirius), Dziwe Ntambawana (Magic pool) and Ife Zonse (All of us).

In ancient teachings these 7 pulled each other to create energy viewed as light like that of lightning which today will probably be called elec-tricity. Now in physics there are two types of electric charges…positive and negative.

“Positively charged substances are repelled from other positively charged substances, but a�racted to negatively charged substances; nega-tively charged substances are repelled from negative and a�racted to positive. An object will be negatively charged if it has an excess of elec-trons, and will otherwise be positively charged or uncharged.

“The SI derived unit of electric charge is the coulomb (C), although in electrical engineering it is also common to use the ampere-hour (Ah),and in chemistry it is common to use the elementary charge (e) as a unit. The symbol Q is often used to denote charge.

“The early knowledge of how charged substances interact is now called classical electrodynamics, and is still very accurate if quantum eff-ffects do not need to be considered,” partly reads h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_charge (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_charge)


Ancient Malawi priesthoods and their Phoenician like alphabets

MARCH 2, 2015 | AGNES DUMISANI MIZERE | 2 COMMENTSSome ancient SapiTWA healers also known as the Nganga or asing’anga amizimu (traditional healers dealing with the spirit) in Malawi have been using an alphabet similarto the Phoenician one online despite being “illiterate”.

Such healers were responsible for nsembe which included mapira (sorghum) hence them being priestesses (nsembe). The sole remaining one in a village in Mulanje cannotread and write this alphabet but she uses an ancient alphabet which resembles the Phoenician one especially when she writes what she calls Ah on the ground as in A andBa which is B and Ca which is C.

Other le�ers she draws using a stick are Ka for K which looks like a bowl but meaning a cupped hand for making nsembe offerings and M which is drawn like water. In an-cient times the female priesthood was in charge of the ancient rain shrine on Mulanje Mountain and the priestess would do ULOSI WAKALE which is ANCIENTAFRICAN PROPHECY.


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“Akka a modern Ba-Twa noticethe x cross as is shown on PtahPtah lord and of Memphis itwas from his name Egypt wasderived, as Hwt-ka-Ptah (homeof the ka (soul) of Ptah) translit-erated as Aígyptos by the laterGreeks…Pan was connected toBes, a central African or GreatLakes God worshiped all overthe Med he is a Ba-twa orPygmy he may also be linked toPtah who is also a Ba-twa.”Photo from h�p://egypt-searchreloaded.proboards.com/thread/1698/batwi-gods-kemet(h�p://egypt-searchreloaded.proboards.com/thread/1698/batwi-gods-kemet) (h�ps://ag-

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Ancient Egypt’s Ptah internetphoto

The priestesses worked with the king and his induna and spoke in code languages just like the mizimu (spirits) in their beliefswho don’t say many things at once. Sapitwa priestesses draw A (ah) EAST similar to the Phoenician one but others are notthere as they don’t have a Q etc in their rituals using WORDS (MAU/MAWU) from the SapiTWA oracle.

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Words are drawn on the ground like this

They draw some le�ers to the EAST (kum’mawa) and some to the WEST (ku madzulo) etc with the EAST meaning the spirit (mzimu) should be behind the word. In one oftheir ancient alphabet, the le�er T was also drawn as an X in the ways of the TWA “pygmies” by the now nearly extinct Sapitwa priesthood.

T means KULIMBITSA (MAKE STRONG) in Chichewa/Chinyanja of Malawi hence priestesses say Kulimbitsa mabere or some say mabele (breasts) meaning put an X onthe chest like the TWA pygmies of the forest with an X on their chests.

Ptah lord and of Memphis it was from his name Egypt was derived, as Hwt-ka-Ptah (home of the ka (soul) of Ptah) transliteratedgyptos by the later Greeks…Pan was connected to Bes, a central African or Great Lakes God worshiped all over the Med he is a BPygmy he may also be linked to Ptah who is also a Ba-twa.

If one looks carefully that means two triangles hence As ABOVE SO BELOW ….meaning the spirits (mizimu) of the air and thosewater (madzi) etc. This blog wonders if PTAH is ABATHWA/ABATWA or BATWA as in PI as -PITA (TO GO) which also sounds TER in English. Another phrase used is SESANA MADZUWA which means RESURRECTION as in rising from the dead.

They use the code DZUWA LAOMBA as in KUTULUKA (COMES OUT) and LIWOMBO is the part of the head which “breathebaby. KUOMBA M’MANJA means to CLAP HANDS in Chichewa/Chinyanja. When some priestesses say Sesana madzuwa thayour eyes are open and you have enlightenment hence no darkness.

Then there is BONA and MBONA with -ona meaning TO SEE and CHOONADI meaning the TRUTH hence akunena zoona as ishe speaks the Truth… When enlightened the RIGHT EYE PROTRUDES and sticks out as in SHINING (KUWALA) more than tone representing DARKNESS (MDIMA).

The RIGHT EYE (KUMANJA) and MANJA is hands sticks out like this “Osiris” statue unlike the LEFT EYE (KUMANZERE). Mtiriza (the last Seer) as in MBONA from -ONA to see and TOMASI BONA also with -ONA as to see has a right protruding eye likSNAKE (Njoka) and not a left protruding one like a GOAT (Mbuzi).

They call that MASOMPHENYA (VISION) and being able to see what is hidden in the DARK like an OWL (KADZIDZI), the nigso the NGANGA as in asing’anga African doctors and healers can also see the MIZIMU (SPIRITS) who are hidden and also the MYAMAKOLO (ANCESTRAL SPIRITS).

Sapitwa is SApitwa and SapiTWA which is also Sapita which means “don’t go there” in Chichewa/Chinyanja……in other words man goes. Sapita is from -pita and in KUPITA which means to go. However there are others words that need to be broken downing KEPETA or KHEPETA, or KE PE TA or KHEPERA as told by Sapitwa healers.

Kepeta is what they call Capetown and with the Table Mountain but the spelling needs to be verified.Words are also spoken briefly as codes. For example when they said bowa muntengo (tree ear mush-rooms which grow on dead wood or trees) it would mean those who have ears, listen.

Bowa is a mushroom and mutengo is in the tree so mushrooms in the tree. And those who have eyes“see” not with the two eyes we know but with your “other eyes”….this we call masomphenya (vision)to see even what is hidden in the dark like owls created by the Great Spirit who is God (Chauta, Na-malenga, Mphambe).

According to Asar Imphotep in his blog, Kulu is also one of the words used for God in Africa with“Proto-Bantu /l/ was /d/, so it was KuDu.” What is interesting is that in Chichewa/Chinyanja Akulu-akulu are the elders and mkulu is an elder hence sayings like akulu a mvula ya kale to mean the eldersof old rains and mawu a akuluakulu akoma akagonera etc.

Then there is Gule Wamkulu as in the Great dance and the Nguni’s Bonaabakulu Abasekhemu re-wri�en in Kikongo as Bana ba NkuluabaSe N’semi hence: “Bona abakhulu base Khemu meaning We see or have seen (Bona) the great (Abakhulu) from KMT (Khemu) whilean Elder is Mkhulu or Khulu”- Nguni/Ngoni and the ancient god called KhuluKhulu” is some information that has been made availableto this blog about their presence in ancient Egypt.

Like the Nguni/ Ngoni word Khulukhulu meaning “a grandparent of our great great-parents” then Akuluakulu amati is the great-great ones say.


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Western side of Mulanje Mountain in Sunset, seen from Likubula Fallsh�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulanje_Massif#mediaviewer/File:Mulanje_Mountain_west-ern_side.JPG (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulanje_Massif#mediaviewer/File:Mu-lanje_Mountain_western_side.JPG)

And then there is something like “mawu a akulu akoma akagonera” (elders‟ words are always good advice) besides the popularMalawi proverb “Akulu ndi mdambo moz-imira moto” (elders are fountains of wisdom that solve all problems).

In Malawi Bona and Mbona as in -ona also means to see and Akuluakulu means elders so Mbona was like a seer and some South Africans on Facebook explained that “theancient god called KhuluKhulu has been distorted to be Nkulunkulu. Khulukhulu is a grandparent of great great-parents. “Bona abakhulu base Khemu means We see orhave seen (Bona) the great (Abakhulu) from KMT (Khemu).

An Elder is Mkhulu or Khulu”- Nguni/Ngoni Excited to confirm from a SA friend the words “Bonaabakulu Abasekhemu” re-wri�en in Kikongo as Bana ba Nkulu abaSeN’semi as explained in the book ‘The Quantum Vision of Simon Kimbangu: Kintuadi In 3D’ by Dom Pedro V in the below link. h�ps://books.google.mw/books?id=Jql8gymEI_kC&pg=PT42&lpg=PT42&dq=%22Bonaabakulu+Abasekhemu%22&source=bl&ots=Gv07nnhYIY&sig=hbSky-_h2esnk5UzV6Y-ObJoJzw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PDjoVPqdD9XWaoOqgLAN&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Bonaabakulu%20Abasekhemu%22&f=false (h�ps://books.google.mw/books?id=Jql8gymEI_kC&pg=PT42&lpg=PT42&dq=%22Bonaabakulu+Abasekhemu%22&source=bl&ots=Gv07nnhYIY&sig=hbSky-_h2esnk5UzV6Y-ObJoJzw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PDjoVPqdD9XWaoOqgLAN&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Bonaabakulu%20Abasekhemu%22&f=false)

Many rain shrines were abandoned but the history of many ancient priestesses of Malawi was never ever wri�en about till last year. Some of the ancient writings they haveresemble hieroglyphics so it would be interesting to know how many other existing priesthoods have such writings including the ones that were forced into extinction.

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SAPITWA hidden name revealed…Malawi’s ancient mountain of SAN and TWA?

MARCH 2, 2015 | AGNES DUMISANI MIZERE | LEAVE A COMMENTSAPITWA means the ancient mountain of the ones nicknamed “San” pronounced as sun but SAMALANI (WARNING) and the TWA of ABATHWA/ABATWA for THAWA (RUNAWAY)….it’s the mountain of mizimu (spirits) who are different from ancestral spirits (mizimu yamakolo).

This blog is not endorsing the use of the name “San” as the correct name of the actual great people is the /XAM Ka !Ke…this blog is only repeating an oral story about themythical side of SapiTWA as told by a descendant of ancient Malawi’s Abathwa about the ancient SANDAWE people.


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Mulanje Mountain known for its majestic Sapitwa peak is an important and mythological mountain in ancient Malawi myths and tales.

However the mythological side of Mulanje Mountain should not be confused with the real geographic Mulanje Massifsaid to measure approximately 22×26 kilometres witha maximum elevation of 3,002 m at its highest point, Sapitwa Peak.

The mythical Sapitwa is described as a dwelling place for various spirits including gods and goddesses, and marvelous plants and trees like the cedar. Mulanje Mountain isalso known as the “Island in the Sky” and the place of mizimu (spirits) in various tales.

Amwandionerapati or Abathwa (short people) also known as Akafula and strong fighters were believed to be found on Mulanje Mountain. (h�ps://ag-nesmizere80.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/mulanje-mountain.jpg)

The mythical spirits of the short people with protruding bellies and armed with axes in myths are believed to still guard a sa-cred entrance to the mythical kingdom and ask the dreaded question, “Mwandionera pati.” (“From where did you see me?”)

If one answers the question wrongly, the Abathwa (short people) slap the person hard on the right cheek and that could ei-ther cause death or serious injures according to myths.

The said people never liked being referred to as being short and were believed to be very strong and warriors. Their legend istold by many traditional healers in Malawi who source their herbs and concoctions from the mountain.

If the person answers “From very far away”, they are believed to have access to the first entrance of the mythical realm of themountain before having to pass a serpent spirit.

Sapitwa is mythically known as a “forbidden place” because it is home to a royal spirit family who get offended when certain rituals are not followed when one goes thereaccording to some healers in Mulanje.

The origins of the word SapiTWA as told by an elderly priestess (nsembe) explains a bit about the other Abathwa of Africa and not the one given the term “Bushmen” whoalso used the Abathwa name.

“In this context we use the word ABATHWA for the people of the /XAM Ka !Ke instead of the term ‘San’ and ‘Bushman’. Our ancestors used to call themselvesABATHWA.

“Both two terms ‘Bushman’ and ‘San’ were taken on and used by the Anthropologists in connotation, while the term Bushman was given to us by the European se�lersand the term San was given to us by the Khoi-Khoi” partly reads h�p://www.khoisanpeoples.org/peoples/abathwa-1.htm (h�p://www.khoisanpeoples.org/peoples/abathwa-1.htm)


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Now the Abathwa/Abatwa of SapiTWA are pygmies and they are also the ones who guard the astral realm of Mulanje Mountain so the priestesses are told the ways ofTWA.

SApitwa is the “San” but they have a correct name and their history and they are different from the TWA. Sapitwa healers don’t speak on behalf of them but only as thosewho have learned some of the ways of the TWA of SapiTWA.

PI is Phiri which is a mountain in Chichewa/Chinyanja but one with a high peak giving it the shape of the sacred triangle somewhere like a Pyramid.

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Sandawe online photo: Are these the same ones a village woman in Mulanjetalks about?

PI might also like PTAH also said to be pronounced like Pteh or Peteh which for Sapitwa priestesses sounds like Abathwa or Abatwa.

“The Batwa, also known as Twa, Abatwa or Ge-Sera people of the Great Lakes Region are ancient tribe once specialists in hunting and gathering, and are said to have beenthe first inhabitants of the mountainous forests of the Rift Valley and one of the first homo sapiens in the world with Kalahari San people,” reads h�p://kwekudee-trip-downmemorylane.blogspot.com/2013/03/batwa-people-one-of-first-people-on.html (h�p://kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.com/2013/03/batwa-people-one-of-first-people-on.html)

Now in Chichewa/Chinyanja the word SAPITA means DON’T GO THERE and comes from -PITA hence KUPITA which means TO GO.

In Malawi the word SAPITWA is also used to mean DON’T GO THERE and it was the ancient name of the whole of MULANJE MOUNTAIN and not only the PEAK astoday.

So SAPITWA means the ancient mountain of the ones we nicknamed “San” and the TWA….it’s the mountain of mizimu (spirits) who are different from ancestral spirits(mizimu yamakolo).

It’s also the mountain where MBONA as in -ona to see and BONA also as in -ona and feast can be found as they’re found in so many other places. So Sapitwa oracles arealso from MBONA and TOMASI BONA.

Most Malawians don’t know the real meaning of SAPITWA and tourists have never been to the hidden part as claimed online because no MORTAL BEING GOES THEREUNLESS THE SPIRIT TAKES THEM THERE say Sapitwa priestesses.


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Ancient Egypt’s Ptah internetphoto

There is also some confusion between the Pygmies called TWA as in Abathwa/Abatwa and the dwarf life spirits many healers fightagainst known as Ntokoloshi or Ntokoloshe but “Tikoloshe, Tokoloshe or Hili” in “Zulu mythology.”

A certain lady after reading a blog about the Abathwa of Mulanje Mountain thought they are evil spirits and this has been a problemwhere pygmies have sometimes been viewed with suspicion.

However Sapitwa stresses that the Abathwa are not evil and similar to the one known in ancient Egypt or KMT as PTAH hence Abatwa.PTAH was not evil and he was not a Tokoloshe.

So Abathwa as in the Amwandionerapati who guard SapiTWA are not the Tokoloshe dwarf-like water spirits but are like the ones in thefiction movie called HOBBITS who are fighters but not called evil.

Besides wars where anything is used and allowed in ba�le some who are not fighters use Tokoloshe to harm those they’re jealous of orhate for various reasons.

The Tokoloshe “can become invisible by drinking water and they’re are called upon by malevolent people to cause trouble for others.” –according to h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikoloshe (h�p://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=h�p%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTikoloshe&h=rAQExDEUs&enc=AZN_3Oce7opJ19BimgJwCkno4ltr9o5XF4vzCKU-HAzFJ44me72UA76ZxHFl7VxuXnUozz517rZ8FudqI4SFYZKVVcqPHK1B_UdHBuuj5IIgIJBx3-DgTLUejezOgIL8-Xjmq_G0NlcxinisO-TeM4Lvz&s=1)

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Ptah – The God of Craftsmen,Rebirth, and Creation travelpictures from Egyptby Dr. Günther Eichhorn notconnected to this blog’s oralstory.h�p://guenther-eichhorn.com/egypt_ptah.html(h�p://guenther-eichhorn.com/egypt_ptah.html)

The way to get rid of him is to call in the n’anga as in the NGANGA who include Sapitwa healers.

Some internet sources claim that Akka is “a modern Ba-Twa with an x cross as is shown on Ptah the lord of Memphis, it was from his name Egypt was derived,asHwt-ka-Ptah (home of the ka (soul) of Ptah) transliterated as Aígyptos by the later Greeks, what’s interesting is his apparent connection to the Great lakes region.

“Pan was connected to Bes, a central African or Great Lakes God worshiped all over the Med he is a Ba-twa or Pygmy he may also be linked to Ptah who is also a Ba-twa.”

According the unofficial online Wikipedia a pygmy is a member of an “ethnic group whose average height is unusually short; many anthropologists define pygmy as a mem-ber of any group where adult men are on average less than 150 cm (4 feet 11 inches) tall. Other anthropologists do not agree to group peoples based on stature as height isneither an accurate reflection of culture nor genetics.

A member of a slightly taller group is frequently termed “pygmoid”. The term is best associated with peoples of Central Africa, such as the Aka (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aka_people), Efé (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ef%C3%A9) and Mbuti (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbuti)”, partly reads h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_peo-ples (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_peoples)

“The term pygmy is sometimes considered pejorative. The term pygmy, as used to refer to diminutive people, derives from Greek πυγµαίος Pygmaios via Latin Pyg-maei (sing. Pygmaeus), derived from πυγµή – meaning a fist, or a measure of length corresponding to the distance between the elbow and knuckles.

“However, there is no single term to replace it. Many prefer to be identified by their ethnicity, such as the Aka (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aka_people) (Mbenga), Baka (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baka_people_(Cameroon_and_Gabon)), Mbuti (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbuti), and Twa (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twa_peoples). The term Bayaka (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayaka), the pluralform of the Aka/Yaka, is sometimes used in the Central African Republic (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_Republic) to re-fer to all local pygmies. Likewise, the Kongo (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongo_language) word Bambenga is used in Congo(h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Basin).”

The online sources also describes African pygmies as living in several ethnic groups in Rwanda (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda), Burundi (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi), Uganda (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda), the Democratic Republicof the Congo (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo) (DRC), the Republic of Congo (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Congo) (ROC), the Central African Republic (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_Republic), Cameroon(h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameroon), the Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Angola, Botswana, Namibia and Zambia.(h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea)


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“Note the X running across thechest of both,also of interest isthe fact that the this ethnic groupstill goes by the name Akka orBakka pural while the ancientKemities regards them as be-longing to the world of the an-cestral spirits.” Read more:h�p://egypt-searchreloaded.proboards.com/thread/1698/batwi-gods-kemet#ixzz3TEyZymLK(h�p://egypt-searchreloaded.proboards.com/thread/1698/batwi-gods-kemet#ixzz3TEyZymLK)


Was ancient Malawi Mbona’s Thyolo Mountain shrine like Stonehenge or not?

DECEMBER 8, 2014 | AGNES DUMISANI MIZERE | LEAVE A COMMENTThis blog is appealing to mountain hikers to confirm if there are rocks like the 3 stone traditional cooking place on top of Thyolo Mountain and the size of the huge rocksaid to be in between them.

Or are the villagers who gave this blog that information lying?

Are the rocks like Stonehenge in the UK? According to UNESCOS’s World Heritage list “Stonehenge and Avebury, in Wiltshire, are among the most famous groups ofmegaliths in the world.

“The two sanctuaries consist of circles of menhirs arranged in a pa ern whose astronomical significance is still being explored. These holy places and the nearby Neolithicsites are an incomparable testimony to prehistoric times,” reads h�p://whc.unesco.org/en/list/373 (h�p://whc.unesco.org/en/list/373)

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Stonehenge photo and the sun taken from h�p://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stone--henge_(sun) (h�p://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stonehenge_(sun)).jpg

The author of this blog captured Thyolo Mountain from a distance and it barely can be seen but there is an obvious part standing out like a sharp peak or rock. So far on-line the only beautiful photos of Thyolo Mountain show it looking flat and easy to climb near Tea Estates as in this blog h�p://gavemandjoshi.blogspot.com/2011_09_01_ar-chive.html (h�p://gavemandjoshi.blogspot.com/2011_09_01_archive.html)

Besides ancient Malawi’s Mlauli burying Mbona’s body in the M’manga Mudzi termite mound in Mulanje and a shrine being at Sapitwa, this blog has confirmed that aMbona shrine also existed on Thyolo Mountain and that is where Mbona’s heart (mtima) was buried according to oral stories told by a Sapitwa healer.


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Sacrifice to Mbona photo taken from h�p://ex-ploremalawi.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-to-make-it-rain-malawian-ancestral.html(h�p://exploremalawi.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-to-make-it-rain-malawian-ances-tral.html)

Oral history also talks of Mbona’s head being buried at Ndione where it sprouted a river to this day that flows into the Shire River.

However online photos don’t show the “forbidden part” of Thyolo Mountain where the ancient shrine is believed to have been just like many online photos don’t show the“forbidden side” of Sapitwa on Mulanje Mountain where an ancient shrine is believed to have been.

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“A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a place that is listed by the United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization as of special cultural or physical significance.”

Shrines and sacred sites in Malawi have been in existence since 1500 AD They were used by our ancestors to offer sacrifices to their Mphambe (God) in times of drought orother calamities. These sites are spatially located in different areas throughout Malawi reads a Malawi National Commission for UNESCO submission about Khulubvi andAssociated Mbona Sacred Rain Shrines on 1 February, 2011.

Khulubvi sacred shrine is located in Nsanje District, in the lower Shire Valley in Southern Region of Malawi.

“It is an important spiritual place among the people of Mang’anja tribe. It is a place where the Mang’anja worship the spirit of Mbona. According to Mang’anja oral tradi-tion, Mbona was a legendary figure with super human powers who lived in the area during the rise of the Lundu Kingdom.

“Mbona is said to have had magic powers of bringing rain, creating wells of water on sandy lands, creating forests where theydid not exist and hiding from enemies by turning into other creatures such as guinea fowls.

“It is said that Mbona’s uncle Mlauli, who was also a magician envied his nephew and wanted to kill Mbona. Mlauli, however,failed to kill Mbona because he wished to die on his own by telling Mlauli and his enemies to cut his throat with a leaf of areed after other weapons had failed to harm him.

“His head was cut and placed at Khulubvi sacred groove, where the shrine exists today. People who knew his magic worksbegan coming to the place periodically to worship the spirit of Mbona. A traditional hut within Khulubvi natural thicket of ap-proximately 100 square metres was constructed as a worshipping site,” further reads the UNESCO website on h�p://whc.un-esco.org/en/tentativelists/5602/ (h�p://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5602/)

Some ancestors believed some ancient royal spirits could be re-born through a woman by somehow implanting themselves intheir womb. It was believed that a spirit could only become man by being born of a woman.

Mbona whose name means Seer as in –ona to see was one such mizimu (winged spirit).

Tomasi Bona of the spirit of the North Wind also known as Napolo was also believed to become man when born of a womanand also to be at the centre of the 4 winds of Sapitwa (mphepo zinayi) which in oral Myths and Tales were put in one place asChivomerezo (agreement).

In Sapitwa Mythology, the West wind was Tagoneka Mbona (we’ve put to sleep Mbona) who was in the beginning but born again of a woman, the South was ChandionaGoneka (it’s seen me put to sleep) and the East was Nthanda mwana wa mwezi Nandi, (Sirius, child of the moon).

However this part of ancient Malawi has never been captured by scholars and historians for reasons best known to themselves unlike scholars and historians in other coun-tries who don’t edit the ancient history of their own countries.

There is a possibility some scholars and historians deleted that part because they found it “primitive” and “pagan” despite it being part of ancient history no longer believedby the majority of Malawians today.

Online there is rich information from a Cherokees of California in the United States in a blog about the “Four Wind Messengers” by David Michael Wolfe, Virginia Chero-kee Descendant, Cherokee American Artist N.G.E.D and Historian.

He partly wrote on his blog without erasing any part of his culture that “the Four Winds in that culture are spirit beings, the Creator’s messengers that were placed at fourcorners of the world in the beginning of time by the Creator.

“The task of the Messengers is to a�end to the cycle of the four seasons of the year.

“When people do wicked things, disobey their priests and refuse to listen to their counsel, the Creator, “Ouga”, sets all four wind messengers against the earth to destroycrops and bring hunger to punish people for their wicked actions,” further reads h�p://www.powersource.com/cocinc/ceremony/fourwind.htm (h�p://www.power-source.com/cocinc/ceremony/fourwind.htm)


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Is that an Orb or dust spot on the left side ofthe M’manga Mudzi mound photo?

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Four winds in other different cultures like this online one about “Four Wind Messengers by DavidMichael Wolfe, Virginia Cherokee Descendent Inage.i AniYunwiya Cherokee American ArtistN.G.E.D. and Historian” taken from h�p://lightworkers.org/wisdom/knight-shadow/179678/four-wind-messengers (h�p://lightworkers.org/wisdom/knight-shadow/179678/four-wind-messengers)

In Malawi there is nothing online about the ancient 4 winds of Sapitwa (mpepho zinayi) and nothing drawn by artists to capture this. There is also nothing about a Sapitwariver called Tambani which was believed to be like an “oracle” of future events as it would change colour from blue to black and when it was red it meant bad news in oralmyths and tales.

According to this blog’s own amateur Sapitwa mythology, in the beginning there was a world of spirits for an unknown time maybe millions of years including the wingedones which have never been human and those who went on to occupy other “worlds” including earth.

On earth the spirit (mizimu) said to have existed in the beginning was Tomasi Bona (atom) or a word which sounds like atomic mass.

He’s said to have originated elsewhere into a primordial mound/anthill as electrical energy with water bodies below since in the beginning they believed there was waterand spirits which lived there because for them termite mounds are a good indicator of ground water.

From there he is said to have exploded like lightning into other spirits in twos and this lightning was throated world.

Under the M’manga mudzi anthill tree or mound there was said to be several water bodies which healerand inside that mound the Tomasi Bona spirit is believed to look like an elderly man (munthu) who evolvspirit in oral tales.

The Primordial Mound locally known as the M’manga Mudzi anthill tree (chulu) stands out with three dout of it, mainly mpolowoni, m’manga mudzi, and msamba mwana.

Now mpolowoni is the main tree and udindo (responsibility of Tomasi Bona. M’manga mudzi is the onegrounds before some sacred dances by digging it into the dirt while msamba mwana is used during child

According to a plant expert, mpolowoni in English is known as the Steganotaenia Araliacea tree and its fliferae.

A female healer in the village in Mulanje says mpolowoni is some kind of “bush” science.

“Chochepa chimakulitsidwa ndi kuima pamwamba anthu apansi azafuula ngati mphambe mpolowoni,” she explains.

In a nutshell it means a small thing is made big by standing on top and the people (anthu but mizimu like in spirits) below will shout like thunder mpolowani which is likelightning. The above Chichewa saying also briefly means “as above so below.”

“Mlauli drew his kandalanga dagger to stab Mbona, but its blade bent as if it were something u�erly soft. He thought that he could cut Mbona’s throat like a chicken’s butMbona told him mockingly, “Uncle, when your rival stands on an anthill, never say ‘I have caught you’ until you are up there yourself.”

He went on, saying, “If you want to kill me do not bring against me anything made of iron as an arrowhead or spears and knives. Those have no power over me as

I’ve eaten medicine against them.

“Instead, use the sliver of a maize stalk or the leaf of a reed: those are the things dreadful to me. You will see that I die like a chicken. However uncle when I’m dead, I be-seech you to bury m head at Khulubvi where I ended my journey.

“But my body is to be buried here, ” – wrote Fr J. M. Schoffeleer in his book ‘River of Blood: The Genesis of a Martyr Cult in Southern Malawi c. A.D. 1600′ about “Mbona’sdeath.”h�p://books.google.mw/books?id=4S4G7Lo5OZwC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=When+your+ri-val+stands+on+an+anthill+never+say+Ive+caught+you+till+youre+up+there+yourself.&source=bl&ots=ma_i5d-PJY&sig=597bVaumlcpHOMFpgIBKUFv4qCk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CziBVP_EJNDjuQSXi4HIBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false (h�p://books.google.mw/books?id=4S4G7Lo5OZwC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=When+your+rival+stands+on+an+anthill+never+say+Ive+caught+you+till+youre+up+there+yourself.&source=bl&ots=ma_i5d-PJY&sig=597bVaumlcpHOMF-pgIBKUFv4qCk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CziBVP_EJNDjuQSXi4HIBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false)

If Mbona’s head was buried at Khulubvi then on which anthill was his body buried this blog asks many authors, scholars, historians and experts in ancient asing’anga (tra-ditional healers) like Mbona of royal blood.

It remains a mystery why Fr J. M. Schoffeleer and those who wrote about Mbona for reasons best known to themselves only wrote where Mbona’s head was buried but nothis body yet the author clearly states in his book that he was buried in an anthill which is also known as a termite mound and that he used medicine.

This blog can reveal that when Mbona said when one stands on an anthill they’re untouchable he was talking about “sambani chulu” which is only found at Sapitwa and


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River of BloodThe Genesis of aMartyr Cult inSouthern Malawi, c.A.D. 1600J. Ma�hew Schoff-

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not Khulubvi.

Mbona sourced Sambani Chulu from Mpolowani (the Steganotaenia Araliacea tree) which held upwards and bathed in so that those with nyangacharms could not touch him.

It is also drawn as an E in the man shouting of the 3200 BC African alphabet.

This tree was believed to make his skin (khungu) as slippery as a tortoise (kamba).

Mpolowani and Sambani Chulu also played a role in the area where the Tomasi Bona (Atom) meteorite or asteroid known as Nthanda fell in theEAST in Mulanje and the source of the M’manga Mudzi anthill/termite mound.

Names given to this spirit are Napolo, Mbewula as in run away so fast or get away from me and Robert.

Tagoneka Mbona was the spirit believed to have been born through a woman called Nyangu and it’s his head that is believed to have been buried atKhulubvi.

The spirit/snake Mbona was often mentioned by the early missionaries and travellers, and was specifically associated with 2 shrines, one on Thyolo Mountain, the other atKhulubvi forest at the foot of Malawi hills near Nsanje is information wri�en in the ‘Animals and Ancestors: An Ethnography’ by Brian Morris to prove that Mbona shrineswere not only in Khulubvi.

Morris online is described as an “emeritus professor of anthropology at Goldsmiths College at the University of London an a “specialist on folk taxonomy, ethnobotany andethnozoology and on religion and symbolism.

“He has carried out fieldwork among South African hunter-gatherers and in Malawi. Groups that he has studied include the Objibwa.” h�p://books.google.mw/books?id=pwWUUqApcj8C&pg=PA212&lpg=PA212&dq=Thyolo+mountain+and+mbona&source=bl&ots=am7aj4Jz34&sig=gmy9AILrAkpmFbHj6I1fgyT3ZUI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0juEVOCrBtCPuATFzILQDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Thyolo%20mountain%20and%20mbona&f=false (h�p://books.google.mw/books?id=pwWUUqApcj8C&pg=PA212&lpg=PA212&dq=Thyolo+mountain+and+mbona&source=bl&ots=am7aj4Jz34&sig=gmy9AILrAkpmFbHj6I1fgyT3ZUI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0juEVOCrBtCPuAT-FzILQDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Thyolo%20mountain%20and%20mbona&f=false)

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Animals and Ancestors: An Ethnography Pa-perback – October 1, 2000 by Brian Morris(Author)

For those who like adventure, some villagers in Thyolo around Satemwa Tea and Coffee Estate who live near Thyolo Mountain claim there are huge rocks on the mountainlike mafuwa meaning the three rock traditional cooking place with fire.

Now they claim in the middle of that is a huge rock which is shaped like a termite mound and that can clearly be seen right behind the Mwala wa Mthunzi rock along theThyolo road.

That rock belonged to an ancient chief called Mthunzi and it was used for nsembe (sacrifice offerings) and is directly across Thyolo mountain because somewhere therewas an ancient shrine for Mbona where Mlauli is believed to have buried his heart meaning ancient Malawi’s Mbona’s heart is in Thyolo.


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Ancient Malawi’s Mbona symbol to representfire and the Sirius ‘star’ and black rooster(tambala)

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Mwala wa Mthunzi belonged to a Mang’anja chief whose name was Mthunzi and not the“Rock of Shade” or “Rock of Shadow” online translations says a Mang’anja priestess (nsembe)in Mulanje

This blog has not seen those huge rocks yet but it’s worth exploring and photos are needed.

So that is the Thyolo Mountain shrine of Mbona and the 3 rock traditional cooking place with fire means Sirius, the brightest star which in Chichewa is Nthanda mwana wamwezi, Nandi of the East.

The sign for that is holding the hands close to the chest near the heart to represent 2 triangles which symbolize Sirius. Chifuwa is the chest.

That is where Mbona’s heart is…as UNESCO on their heritage site only mentioned a head being at Khulubvi and the rest of his story involves Sapitwa of Mulanje Moun-tain where Menno Welling found an ancient rain shrine but said he “did not know the deity”.

There is a possibility that the rocks on Thyolo Mountain were used for ancient Astronomy and not Astrology…could it be the the ancient Stonehenge of Malawi….if sothen the information UNESCO has needs to be updated because it’s incomplete and just as important.

The University of Texas under ‘Astronomy in ancient Africa online shows classes about the Ng’amoritung’a stones and rockswhile we most likely have something similar on Thyolo mountain but some are growing maize there.

The side near Satemwa Tea Estate looks green while the other side away from the estate they have cut trees!

We might not value ancient rocks and history but there are many in the world who do and study such things so maybe the ex-perts and the learned can get researchers to investigate and foreign colleges to have such things in their syllabus one day.

Part of the University of Texas website reads and I quote:

“Lastly, a Turkana concept which made me smile: back in 1996, I was in Eliye Springs, supposedly also researching the RoughGuide, but actually taking a short break from it all. Problem was that the lift back to Lodwar I’d arranged never turned up, andto cut a long story short, I ended up having to hire a local to guide me 50km across the desert to Kalokol on foot and night.

“Wonderful for the first few hours, the mzungu’s feet began ge�ing sore rather quickly thereafter … “How far are we fromKalokol” I’d ask. “Not far”, he said. Same question an hour later, then at half-hourly intervals.

“Finally, he turned and explained, “if you walk faster, the distance will be shorter”. He’s absolutely right, of course – except ittook us wazungu until Einstein and our modern comprehension of space-time to work that one out,” – h�p://www.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/namoratunga.htm(h�p://www.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/africa/namoratunga.htm)

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Ancient Malawi ink: Kachere fig tree, Mlombwa (Bloodwood) and Acacia (Mpamba)?

NOVEMBER 30, 2014 | AGNES DUMISANI MIZERE | LEAVE A COMMENT

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Detail of “Thoth” the creator of writing, science and medicine from the Book of the Dead ofHunefer 19th Dynasty British Museum EA 9901/3 Room 62, Egyptian Funerary Archaeology,Case 24, No. 8

Travelling to a certain village in Mulanje one cannot help but notice the various tree branches and sticks some real traditional healers (asing’anga) use besides the finger towrite on the ground.

Some elderly healers claim that only a few trained ones are left as there are many vendors allegedly masquerading as healers and giving the profession a bad name.

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When asked some insist that is the only way they can get a “message” from the spiritual world.

Some healers in Malawi and in the Sadc region use sticks or a certain type of tree branch to write on the ground and claim the drawings theymake are messages and words they can read which are told to them by mizimu (winged spirits).

Winged spirits are the African version of angels and not ancestral spirits locally known as mizimu yamakolo.

Some of the main winged spirits include Mikolo Njinjinji (Ritual of the African sacred Ibis) and Kabadula nicknamed Kaba to mean Kabudula (shorts) and Thewera (nappy)of the Universe and Tomasi Bona (Atom) of the Earth.

Now the Ibis is a bird known to sleep with it’s head folded beneath its wing with its body assuming the shape of a heart, which online sources about the Nile Valley Civi-lization regard as “the seat of the soul and true intelligence.”

“The footstep of an ibis was said to be equal to one cubit, which was considered a sacred unit of measurement.”

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Now the winged spirit Mikolo Njinjinji was similar to ancient Egypt’s Netcher Djhuiti and the Greeks’ Thoth/Hermes said to be the “keeper of the sacred cubic and the cre-ator of science, writing and medicine.

The Romans identified him with Mercury and the Nether Djhuiti was portrayed with an ibis head and he represented “articulation of speech and intelligence” furtherreads the same Nile Valley source.

However ancient Malawi’s Mikolo Njinjinji showed his dark skinned and smooth chocolate face to women “called” or “chosen” to be priestesses.

This blog has also discovered that some ancient healers also known as priests and priestesses of this land also used their finger to write on the ground thousands of yearsago. They were responsible for nsembe (sacrifices and offerings).

When talking to a “patient” or “client” they would write whatever the spirit tells them. If they drew a plain circle on the ground and a cross either inside or next to it, thatwould symbolize “blessings”.

Those who knew that symbol would be happy and expect blessings because in ancient times they believed in the power of words. Mind you they did not use this alphabetwe are using to type on this blog but they had drawings which they could read.


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African sacred Ibis photo fromh�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_sa-cred_ibis (h�p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_sacred_ibis)

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“Bloodwood” tree taken fromh�p://www.amusingplanet.com/2014/05/the-bloodwood-tree.html (h�p://www.amus-ingplanet.com/2014/05/the-bloodwood-tree.html)

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Kachere tree leave with white sap

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Cut Kachere Tree

Another symbol cross-like with black soil wri�en on the left and what looked like the healer’s blood but was actthe Mlombwa tree (Bloodwood) was used to write on the right which would scare the person who saw it as thethey have been cursed and so forth.

All this was done using the index finger which some Malawians on Facebook referto as chala chamkomba phala which describes the way it was used to scoop and stirporridge etc.

This was believed to be similar to the ancient Malawi symbol of the cupped handstill used today to clap for chiefs of this generation and for greeting or showing po-liteness among other things.

The same cupped hands were also used by the ancestors of this land when askingChauta, Namalenga, Mphambe (God) for things.

They would kneel down and clap their hands three times and then start the ancientAfrican way of praying through their ancestor whom they assumed were closer toGod in the spiritual realm.

The ancestors felt only spirits could communicate with the Great Spirit and other spirits among other things and not physicalbeings on earth. This was also captured through “writings” and “drawings” including some on rocks where the cultures whiteand red where mostly used.

In ancient Malawi these two colours were also used in waist-beads with the white meaning all is clear for the husband and thered….a no-go zone. Red was also the colour of POWER as in MPHAMVU.

This red was also used in the ancient bark cloth of Malawi’s asing’anga known as Nyanda. This first “paint” was the “Bloodwood Tree’s” red sap known in Malawi asMlombwa. h�p://www.amusingplanet.com/2014/05/the-bloodwood-tree.html … (h�p://t.co/w9sPcBIPK4)

And the Kachere fig tree was used for some white drawings and was different from Mkuyu which is the Sycamore fig with Nkhuyu (figs). Its Scientific name is Ficus syco-morus and online sources show that in Swahili it’s mukuyu and mkuyu among other names.

Online sources say the Sycamore fig is native to Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Cote d’IvoireRepublic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Israel, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic, TUganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

However it is also found in Malawi with mainly two important Mikuyu types. One has figs which can be eaten whilefigs which are not eaten.

The edible figs sometimes dry out including inside making them not edible because of the sun while other dried out be eaten.

Now the other fig tree is Kachere which is native to Malawi. It’s the one which has a white sap which was used for wcient times together with the Bloodwood tree (Mlombwa) for making the Nyanda bark cloth.

This blog is yet to establish how the ancestors wrote using the red and white sap andwhat role the chicken and rooster feathers played when used to “write” or draw including on some rocks.

There is also a high possibility that the Acacia nilotica tree locally known as Mpampa or Ngagaga was used for black ink as it issometimes also used for dyeing cloth black.

And like many trees of Malawi, many also had medicinal purposes. What is also interesting to note is how the Ancient Egyp-tians thought it was important to record and write down information.

“It was believed they wrote things down to honor the God, Thoth, the god of writing and knowledge. Their writing languagethat is mostly known today was hieroglyphics – drawing and symbols, and Latin.

“The ancient writing can be found in temples, on clay boards, on papyrus (an ancient form of paper made from ground reeds),on limestone flakes and on pieces of ancient po�ery, such as plates, vases and basins. The hieroglyphics were also used tocommunicate, tell stories to others, cautions and warnings, feelings, record-keeping and also for government uses.

“People who were able to read hieroglyphics were called Scribes, and were used to interpret the symbols and pictures drawnby others. They were also thought of as very important people and were highly paid for their job because they could commu-nicate very well.

“The fact that ancient Egypt had ways to interpret, communicate and write symbols as a message to others, gave them an advaother countries, as they could document and refer back to history; as well as also being able to account for different things sucable set prices for goods, tokens, supplies and services more consistently.

“Many different countries used different ways to tell other information. In some countries, people used their fingers to write tsand, on trees and just in the air to express stories and expressions to an audience; whilst other countries used twigs, leaves an

“Some countries even just used an early form of Sign Language. However, these ways could not be referred back to. But, the aEgyptians were one of the first countries to use pens to write down their language. The pens they used were used for thousanand were made from inter-twined reeds, vines, wood and leaves.

They mostly wrote on papyrus sheets with ink that was made of tree gum, honey, sap and soot. They also used firm and bendabranches to write and also painted with their fingers. It is believed that the ancient Egyptians were some of the first people to create an older version of today’s ink,” partly reads h�p://ancientegyptianwritingandart.weebly.com/information.htmlgyptianwritingandart.weebly.com/information.html)

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