LEGEND: The Boii, who largely but not wholly, disappeared from their ancestral lands in the latter half of the 15th century were replaced by incoming Germanic peoples. The Boii were Celts and until the last two decades, the name given to their land by Germanic tribes is what their country was known as - Bohemia - today’s Czech Republic. Their art portrayed illustrious historical figures, Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and the disciples ofChrist. Their ranks, betrayed by their full noses & mouths & visibly wiry hair, was African. Those shown here are 1. Wenceslas IV,** King of Bohemia, King of the Roman people, & the King of the House of Luxembourg; 2. Jan Zizka, Commander of the outstanding Hussite army during the Bohemian War (1419 - 1434). It was Zizka who has the dubious honor of being the first commander whose soldiers successfully use gunpower on the battlefield; 3. Rudolf II, also King of Bohemia as well as Holy Roman Emperor. 4. A detail in a rug carpet of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, & the disciples; 5. A Bohemian king plays chess with courtiers in Prague; 6. The Celts were diminuitive people resembling the San or Khoi Khoi of South Africa with gentle features. In the silk is a diminuitive David confronting a towering Germanic Goliath. 7. Is the Christ Child and his Mother, Virgin Mary, as Africans. Germanic peoples would come to rule the church but when they entered Europe, Christianity was an African religion alone. The African presence in Bohemia is traced back beyond 35,000 years ago. They dwelled there until the end of the 15th or 16th century...art, art history, Paul Marc Washington, paleoneolithic@yahoo.com

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