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These pre-dynastic statues of Ancient Egyptians wearing the Koteka are not a cultural influence or transfer. I’ve attached a map where we can see Tropical Africa = the geographic zone where some of the tribes wear the Koteka (some used to wear them, now not). Egypt is not part of that specific zone yet the Koteka was a clothing tradition, part of their culture, in Ancient Egypt. This implies that at least some parts (the nomes) of the Upper Egypt, if not all of Ancient Egypt, had tribes that used to live in Tropical Africa and they “migrated” later on; bringing along with them their clothing habits. Do anons realize what this means? It means at some point in time, at least a part of the Egyptians used to live in the zone of the Tropical Africa. There were some migrations and people moving along the NILE just like what we saw with the Euphrates River and Mesopotamia.
But this is not just the case of the African continent, we see the Koteka in South-East Asia and in the Amazone = all are situation in the same ZONE. So ask yourself this question anons: how can the Koteka be found in 3 very different parts of the world which we are certain didn’t have any contact with each other during this specific time in history? We might find some logical or geographical explanations and connect the African continent with South-East Asian region via trade and such stuff; but how can you explain the existence of the Koteka in the Amazon as well?
At the stage we are at in this research, we cannot explain that in a logical way.
3 – Just a quick visual look at the similarities between this Male Ivory Statuette from pre-dynastic Egypt (3650-3300 B.C.) and the Sumerian Statuettes. We can say it’s due to the trade relations between the 2 civilizations, but the similarities between them just keep on pilling up.
4 – The next statuette is very peculiar since it’s one of a female sporting some tattoos. It’s estimated to date back to 3650-3300 B.C. Apart the fact that body INK was used amazingly in the pre-dynastic times, the tattooed person seems to be some sort of magician or some sort of “religion” related person, maybe the occult or divination.
Some Mummies found from the dynastic period also sport some tattoos; so this means this practice kept on going for hundreds of years, maybe even a few millennia. Here is some reading material for anons: it may be of a dynastic era tattooed mummy, but I think the information can be applied to pre-dynastic era - apart the fact that in the older period, the tattoos designs were simpler, they got elaborated in dynastic times.
https://www.sciencealert.com/egypt-council-of-antiquities-announces-deir-el-madina-tattooed-religious-women-hathor
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