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What seems to be is not always what it is

What seems to be in this world is not always what it is.

Sugar, white bread, fried foods, and cakes, for example, may taste delicious, but they are not necessarily healthy. Similarly, male characteristics could be feminine and feminine characteristics could be masculine.

It is no surprise that most of the guys I used to have crushes on are simple and quite sensitive, and many of them ended up marrying tomboys. Many of the marriages between such men and tomboys still stand strong. This might be a sign of the end times, or indeed, it could be that what we have always believed were feminine characteristics are actually male traits.

When I mentioned this to a friend, he observed that women, much more than men, are inclined to talk about money and material things, are prone to public opinion, and compete with each other far more than men. If left to their own devices, most men, aside from a car and possibly a TV, would be uninterested in a fully furnished home.

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The origin of the Bantu must be investigated. Did you know that the Sumerians had goddesses and gods with Bantu sounding names such as Enten, Baba, Antu, Damu, Anunna, Enki, Erra, Girra, Gula, Haya, Inana, Nanna, Nisaba, Ninisinna, Utu, Bunene and Kakka?

But perhaps the similarities between the names of the Sumerian deity and the Bantu language is simply because both languages have repetition of sounds such as ‘na,’ ‘ne’, ‘ka’ and so on.

Enten was the god of vegetation, created to take responsibility on earth for the fertility of ewes, goats, cows, donkeys and birds. So I can't help linking it to the word 'ente' for cow in some Bantu languages.

Gula – Babylonian goddess of healing (means ‘buy’ in Luganda)

Damu (meaning the child) – Vegetation god (means ‘blood’ in Kiswahili)

Baba – Akkadian goddess of healing (means ‘father’ in most Bantu languages)

Antu – Babylonian goddess (Suffix of the word ‘Bantu’ that means 'people,' in many Bantu languages)

Annuna – a group of ancient Sumerian gods (‘Anuuna’ in Luganda means he/she is sucking)

Annunaki – a group of ancient Sumerian gods (offspring of the Sumerian god of the sky, An) – (‘Anuuna kyi?’ means what is he/she sucking?)

Enki – Sumerian god of water (means ‘what’ in some Bantu languages)

Erra – Akkadian god of chaos and epidemics (can mean ‘and’ in Luganda)

Girra – Babylonian and Akkadian god of fire and light (suffix of the word ‘okugira’ that means ‘to finish’ in Luganda)

Haya – Sumerian god of the scribes (means ‘okay’ in Kiswahili)

Nisaba – Sumerian goddess of writing, learning, and the harvest (‘Ni saba’ means ‘it’s seven’ in Kiswahili)

Inana – Ancient Sumerian goddess of love, beauty, sensuality, war, justice and political power. Her most prominent symbols included the lion and the eight-pointed star. (Inana sounds like ‘munaana’ which means ‘eight’ in some Bantu languages such as Luganda.  It also sounds like Nanna, the Sumerian god of the moon)

Ninisinna – Sumerian patron goddess of the city Isin (sounds like ‘nini?’  ‘sina’ which mean ‘what?’ ‘I don’t have’ in Kiswahili)

Utu – Sumerian god of the sun, justice, morality, and truth (sounds like the suffix of the word ‘mutu’ which means ‘person’ in Kiswahili and most Bantu languages)

Bunene – chariot driver of the sun-god Šamaš (means ‘bigness’ in Luganda)

Kakka - attendant and minister of state to both the gods Anu and Anshar (‘Kaka’ means ‘brother’ in Kiswahili)

References:

“List of Mesopotamian Deities.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 23 Apr. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mesopotamian_deities.

Mark, Joshua J. “Sumer.” World History Encyclopedia, World History Encyclopedia, 6 June 2021, www.worldhistory.org/sumer/.