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Babayla Mikael:
Mashafa Mestira Samay Wamedr
(The Book of the Mysteries of Heaven and Earth).
(15th century)
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Taken from: Revue semitique d'epigraphie et d'histoire ancienne 1897
As for the children of Kam............
Qebti means Copte; Gebes means Egyptien; the Habasi are the Tigreens; the Nobi are the Nubiens; Fesi means Philistin; Zari means Zarawiens, people that live towards the mountains of fire; the Liba are west of these. The Bali live under the rule of a women, east of Yafet. About that women who rules, when her days are coming, the demons leave her and make another rule in her place. That is how that area is ruled till the end of the world. Zezi means Zagua; Zahi means Seho; Mesi means Mes; Hazi means Hazo, and Naki is called..........
This Ethiopian document is a redaction of an Arabic one. The specialists who studied it came up with Zagua must have been in the original Arabic document Zang or Zandj. The author not knowing this place translated it by a place he did know. The text is very deeply corrupted what makes that I will not give it completely. It would otherwise give us a list of more then 30 African nations known by the Arabs - Ethiopians. But the specialists studying it had to decide that it was too corrupted to have value.
Qebti means Copte; Gebes means Egyptien; the Habasi are the Tigreens; the Nobi are the Nubiens; Fesi means Philistin; Zari means Zarawiens, people that live towards the mountains of fire; the Liba are west of these. The Bali live under the rule of a women, east of Yafet. About that women who rules, when her days are coming, the demons leave her and make another rule in her place. That is how that area is ruled till the end of the world. Zezi means Zagua; Zahi means Seho; Mesi means Mes; Hazi means Hazo, and Naki is called..........
This Ethiopian document is a redaction of an Arabic one. The specialists who studied it came up with Zagua must have been in the original Arabic document Zang or Zandj. The author not knowing this place translated it by a place he did know. The text is very deeply corrupted what makes that I will not give it completely. It would otherwise give us a list of more then 30 African nations known by the Arabs - Ethiopians. But the specialists studying it had to decide that it was too corrupted to have value.