bbe o a Mate a6, oben ean 01 O00S po Gilosteeer icy wer cs ernie Cee Kele SIS: See eran noha Este We Rie Daye eae ies yes SLES CRY se ain Ue see WEE oe SS FelisAFRICAN ORIGINS OF THE KARNAKRELIGION MAJOR WORLD RELIGIONS ~— ANCIENT HISTORY Amon Saba Saakana, editor FRONTLINE JOURNAL NO. 17 I cp ermal i Micleclosintcomelacelahici SIUC) represent the proceedings from the Afrikan Origins of Civilization conference of 1986, The theme is the importance of the African in the birth and influence of the major world religions. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are shown to direct links with the precedence of ancient Kemetan (8 religion from the time of Ankhenaten and before. Not the now major world religions receive a religious doctlige, voy @ philosophy which imparted salvation in life after death, egalitarianism, the precedence of the woman as goddess or priestess, and a belief that governmental systems should be beholden to a morality that frees humanity from oppression. They influence and copies in other “holy” books of Egyptian religious tenets are demonstrated with clarity. The living continuity,of African religions in the current world religions is active'and present, rather than pedestrian. \ ; The ‘Songs of Solomon’ and the biblical ‘Proverbs’ have'been lifted from the Instructions of Amenemope. The ‘Ten Commandments’ are lifted from the Book of Coming Forth by Day, and numerous other examples. In Buddhism there are beginnings in the traditions of Asian Blacks personified in Gautama Buddha. ISBN 907045 75 4 £8.95 UK/$ 13.95 US CoverArt: Opal Downer-Cole Cover detail of Amon, monotheistic God of Kemit 2000 years before: Si Karnak House: 300 Westbourne Park Road, London W414 4EH Fesrorot Koga Wien oll) piece aeAFRICAN ORIGINS OF THE MAJOR WORLD RELIGIONS by Yosef Ben-Jochannan, Charles Finch, Modupe Oduyoye, Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, Wayne B. Chandler Amon Saba Saakana, Editor