The god Bes in Ur of Mesopotamia ~3500 BC (2A) and Egypt (1C) was the first god in human form and a precur- sor of Ptah (1D), Amon, and Ra. These, along with Enlil in Mesopotamia (2C) and Bel 1800 BC (3C) and El (3D) in Syria, were prototypes of the Christian god. Row 2 are some of the black-headed people / gods frequently referred to in Sumerian literature. Early maternal goddesses in Egypt of 3300 BC (1B) may have, along with the Babylonian goddess Asarte, 1100 BC (2D) to served as prototypes for the Greco-Roman goddess, Venus. Yet, the early Greco-Roman gods and goddesses were African, contrary to prevailing belief. The following shows the point: The Minoan snake goddess, 1650 BC (4A) and Circe, 1600 BC (4B) of the first -- or African phase of Mycenae -- were early forms of goddesses later bearing their names and natures but who came to hold Western facial features. Odyesseus, 1600 BC (4B), Zeus of Ithomatas, 500 BC, (4C) as well as Zeus again of Delos (4D); Mercury of Gall / Germany, 500 BC, (5A); Silenus of Rome, (5B); Neptune also of Gall / Germany, (5C); and Jupiter and Juno of Pannonia / West Hungary, c. 300 AD, (5D) are all African. These are just a tiny representation of the gods of religion and mythology that began history as African before becoming part of world- wide society but with different facial appearance. As captured in The Odyessy, by Ulysses, the Western type of Greco-Romans-to-be coming from the Russian Steppes joined prosperous, learned African societies in the Mediterranean and elsewhere absorbing and transmitting the details of cultures they encountered creating the society, myth and religion of today’s world. ..art, art history, Paul Marc Washington, paleoneolithic@yahoo.com

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