Tagged: Setesh

“The cultural unity in Africa is not only linguistic, not only philosophical, it is also historic. It binds us as a people historically, linguistically and philosophically. It is important that we see this and know this and look at the work of Chekh Anta Diop and others who have come before us, so that we can begin to develop the kinds of information that will allow us to see this information for what it’s really telling us because much of what’s written on the walls of ancient Kemet applies to us today, particularly if you go to Abu Simbel and you go into the tomb, or I should say into the temple at Abu Simbel and you look at the Battle of Kadesh that Ramses II is talking about. Holistically speaking, this Battle of Kadesh is not just with outside people, it is not just with your own people, it is with yourself. The Battle of Kadesh was a multi-referential story of how we could liberate ourselves. And what Ramses was trying to tell us, and his scholars were trying to tell us, was that the first person that you must defeat, is the Setesh [“This is another form of the word, ‘Set or Seton’” the Egyptian god symbolic of evil] within yourself. Before you go out here and you go save the world, go into your bathroom and look in the mirror because most of the time, your first enemy is yourself.” — Booker T. Coleman, Jr.

Here are some pics of the magnificent Abu Simbel Temples in Nubia, southern Egypt:

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And they say we were primitive?!?! Hahaha!! #whitelies