#ZANZI BA ZANZI BA

[yung-goos]

can we please take it the fuck back to zanzibar

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I was not expecting this

Tracing the etymology of the ancient term �zu�

L M Leteane | Friday November 20, 2015 15:32

As such, apara – which evidently relates to “apparel”, a dress – is “put on cover” and apola is “remove cover”. This is but one case to illustrate my learned contention that we once all spoke the same language.

The symbol for AP.SU was evidently wave-like, hence the mistaken association with water. Actually, it likened “darkness” to a wave form (just as “light” certainly is). But scholars were not too far off: they were no doubt influenced by the biblical phrase (Genesis 1:2) “In the beginning…the earth was dark and without form…and the spirit of God moved over the waters of the deep”. Indeed, in scientific terms, the “eruption” of the sun not only brought forth light, the molten material (the “waters”) it flung out cooled and solidified into spheres (“earth” or soil) in the weightlessness of space, which became planets. These then orbited the sun due to the effects of gravitational pull. (The earliest parts of Genesis, however, were not written by Moses but adapted from Babylonian legend which in turn derived from the Sumerian culture.) But even so, why does the term “sun” appear to entail a polar-opposite term su (darkness)?

The original Sumerian term for “sun” was evidently ZU.AN.ZI.A. ZU means “darkness”, AN means “space/heavens”, ZI means “here” and A means “there/away”. ZU.AN would mean “darkness of the sky” and ZI.A (sia in Setswana) means “run!” – but literally, “[from] here, [go] away!” The sun was thus the triumphant chaser away of darkness. ZU.AN.ZI.A eventually abbreviated to zanzi, which hardened to tsatsi in Setswana.

Zu also appears in many much-used compound words found in Sumerian mythology. One evocative term is AB.ZU. AB (later abba: see Mark 14:36) commonly means “father/ancestor” and the term literally means “source/root/depth [of something]”. As such, the AB in “abyss” literally means “the depths” and the compound word AB.ZU therefore means “dark depths”. Abzu was slightly miscued by scholars as meaning “underworld” – but not totally.

AB.ZU actually referred to Africa in three distinct senses. Firstly, Africa was called “underworld” because the continent lay south of (“below/under”) Europe and Asia. But the world is actually a globe and there is no real “under” and “over”. Secondly, it was a celebrated “Land of the Mines”, most of which were evidently of the “deep shaft” type: the feared “black depths” which, even today, many people would not like to venture into. This is where the concept of the AB.ZU as a feared “underground” place was reinforced. But Atra Hasis only noted that the primordial LU.LU (“mixed creature”) originated in the

AB.ZU and was created specifically to relieve the gods of their toil in the mines.

He carried the DNA of the gods and at least one of Earth’s now extinct hominids – most likely Cro-Magnon man. It is indeed in Africa that scientists hope to find the elusive “Cradle of Humankind”.

Regarding mankind’s roots, scholars miscued the Sumerian Myth of the Hoe which said that Enlil used a hoe to dig out LU.LU from inside the ground by concluding that they were initially planted there as seed to be later harvested! Actually, the god Enlil and his half-brother Enki were quarrelling over the LU.LU in Africa. Enlil needed them for land reclamation in Europe and Asia but Enki hid them in an underground bunker. A determined Enlil fashioned a “penetrating hoe” which he loaded onto the roof of his light aircraft, sped with it to the AB.ZU, and then used it to smash into Enki’s bunker from which the LU.LU broke out in numbers. Third and lastly, Africa was where – certainly in the post-Flood era – a-ba-zu (black people) abounded. All the above takes on the term AB.ZU, it seems, became semantically related.

Zu can also mean “potent/fertile” though this semantic shift derived from the metaphor of rich soil, which is typically dark. The association is clear when looking at the name “Khem”, Egypt’s ancient name. It was short for Khemet (kgemetha in Setswana: “rich to overflowing”) and referred to the rich, black soil annually deposited in Egypt’s delta area by the river Nile. Al-khem (alchemy) thus literally meant “Black Arts”. As such, the epithet SU.EN (“Sin”) meant “Multiplying (i.e. fertile) God”. EN (Lord) is indeed ene (“the One”) in Setswana. In Ugaritic texts, where he was simply known as “El”, Su-en was reputed to have fathered as many as 80 sons. From this, we can easily see why he was the same god as Egypt’s AT.EN (ata means “multiply” in Setswana). Given that ata relates to “add”, and ene/one both mean “the One” in Setswana, Canaan’s AD.ON was also Su-en! Indeed, “Sinai” and “Adonai” relate to each other.

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Sandi jău Môshi. Ta tsộng zanzi shuè bà ta. Ta shue, jàng kệ Israelites. Gen ta shue, yọ rên bà họng bàdău sandi. Tadèi bà yogô tọngwu gàulăi. Yưgo yọ rên gàulăi yigo họng, ta dèi ba yigo landi tọngwu. Bu lên yọ che. Bà ta făng dau zanzi chênmien. Sandi fei sọta. Bà tadi sọ făngdau tọ sang. Gêgo fei pei tadi zêi.

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LUNDI 30 JANVIER 2017 (Billet 2 / 4)

Un endroit où nous nous sommes beaucoup plu, c’est Zanzibar !

Dans l’avant dernier numéro du Fig Mag nous avons lu un article qui lui était consacré et que nous avons trouvé spécialement bien écrit (et bien vu !).

Pour vous mettre l’eau à la bouche, nous nous contenterons de vous en retranscrire les premières phrases. Vous trouverez par contre en fin de Billet un lien pour accéder à son intégralité.

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Une promenade à Zanzibar (par Patrice De Méritens)

Vous êtes allés à Zanzibar ? Aaaaaahhhh… Zanzibar !». C'est la réaction classique, quasi pavlovienne, de ceux à qui vous en parlez. Mot magique ! Idem pour Pondichéry, Trébizonde ou Valparaiso : peu de gens savent précisément où les situer, mais «ça fait rêver».

Les lettrés évoquent aussitôt Arthur Rimbaud se désolant de ne pouvoir jamais s'y rendre ; les seniors fredonnent avec Juliette Gréco : «Zanzi, Zanzi, à Zanzibar, à Zanzibar il y a un bar…» ; les bad guys sanglotent au souvenir de l'immense Freddie Mercury, disparu il y a un quart de siècle, qui a vu le jour là-bas ; et les plus jeunes pianotent sur leur smartphone pour consulter Wikipédia :

En langue swahilie, « Funguvisiwa ya Zanzibar » est un archipel de l'océan Indien situé en face des côtes tanzaniennes, formé de trois îles principales : Unguja, Pemba et Mafia.(…)

(Source : « Le Fig Mag du 20 janvier 2017 »)

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«Jambo», le nom inscrit sur l'auvent de la pirogue (photo N° 2) signifie « bonjour » en swahili. Vous rencontrerez aussi des «Hakuna matata» : « pas de problème ! » Et vous apprendrez que «safari» veut dire « voyage »…

Les photos 4, 5 et 6 ont été prises sur la plage du « Melia Zanzibar », le très beau Resort dirigé par notre ami Nicolas (K.).

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Le lien :

http://www.lefigaro.fr/voyages/2017/01/20/30003-20170120ARTFIG00293-une-promenade-a-zanzibar.php