Etymology of Africa

## Africa

Mother Continent

The origins of the term "Africa" have sparked lively debates among ignorant scholars and linguists, as they attempt to uncover the true roots of this ancient name for the continent. In this article, we delve into the ongoing controversy, presenting various theories and introducing a novel perspective based on the languages of Africa.

## Africa's True Meaning

### The "Ca" in Africa

Long ago, when the Earth was just starting out, earthquakes happened under the ocean. This made a part of the ocean floor come up above the water. That part became the first land on Earth. In the language of ancient Egypt, Kamit, they called this raised land "Ka" (pronounced kah). If it's the same kind of land but in a more feminine way, they called it "Kait" (pronounced kah-ette’), sometimes written as "Kat" (pronounced kaht). They also used the words "Qa" and "Qait" (or "Qat") for these. Interestingly, in Kamit, they also used the word "Ka" for the soul.

The two arms that stand for the soul, called "ka," are the same arms of a person reaching up in the picture for "ka" or high land. In the language of ancient Egypt, Kamit, "Ka" (pronounced Qa) means the land above the riverbanks, the high ground where the Creator first stood. They also say "Qaqa" or "Kaka" when they want to emphasize it more. In Twi, a language of the Akan people, "Koko" means a hill or raised land, just like "Kaka" in Kamit. In Akan stories, "Koko-Afuo" is where the ancestors and their family settled after coming down from the sky on a golden chain when the world began. This could possibly be the descension of Adam and Eve.

In the language of the Yoruba people in Nigeria, "Oke" means mountain or hill, similar to "Qi" or "Ke" in Kamit. They have five sacred hills, and "Oke Ara" is where the Creator first came down to create the world.

These words, like "ka" (qa), "koko" (kaka), and "oke" (qi; ke) in Kamit, Akan, and Yoruba, all talk about the same raised land, a special place connected to the beginning of the world. Many languages in Africa, including those from Ta Seti and Kemet, share these meanings. It shows that we are all one people. A significant meaning of "Qa" (Ka) in Kamit is the high ground where the Creator, in this case *Ra (as we will soon see)*, first stood.

God made the first Earth. After that, the Great Spirit moved through the Earth, making things shake and change on the ocean floor. There were vibrations, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. Because of all this, a part of the ocean floor came up above the water. This was the first Ka, the first land, high land, raised land, hill, mountain. Then, the Great Spirit moved through this land and made things separate and grow. This led to the creation of minerals, plants, animals, and eventually, humans.

### The "Af" in Africa

In the language of ancient Egypt, the word "Af" means both flesh and house. They are connected because your flesh is like a house for your spirit. When you talk about more than one flesh, you say "Afu" (ah-foo’). In the Twi language, the word for home or house is "ofie" or "ofi." In Yoruba, "aafin" means palace. "Af," "Ofie," "Ofi," and "Aafin" in Kamit, Akan, and Yoruba are all connected—they sound alike, have similar roots, and mean similar things.

In Twi, "Afo" means the carcass of an animal or what is discarded and taken up again. The 'o' in Afo is a special nasal sound. When said nasally, "Afo" sounds almost the same as "Afu." This is important because when the Creator moves through matter, matter becomes the house, the "flesh" of the Creator. That's why in Kamit, they call Ra "Afu Ra" when He moves through matter. As Afu Ra, the Creator takes on the form or flesh of a ram.

In the cosmology of ancient Egypt, Kemet, Ra works through the sun. Ra travels in a sun boat across the sky, going from one horizon to the other, covering the journey from sunrise to sunset. During the 12 hours of the night, Ra continues his voyage through the spirit realm or underworld in his boat. After this journey, the solar boat emerges from the underworld on the eastern horizon, marking the new sunrise and the start of a fresh day.

When the solar light (the energy of Ra) moves into the underworld at sunset, the Earth becomes the dwelling, the house, the place where the solar light resides.The picture below shows Ra his boat, and you can see the sun on his head and in front of Him:

The Creator guides the sun across the sky, moving from the eastern horizon to the western horizon. Subsequently, the solar boat descends beneath the western horizon and continues its journey from west to east—underground—illuminating the underworld during the 12 hours of the night. The second picture below illustrates Ra as "Afu Ra," portraying him after his barque has descended into the Earth, within the underworld. It's noteworthy that as Afu Ra, he assumes the form of a Ram-headed entity:

When the life-force energy of the sun enters your body through the air you breathe, it has now entered your dwelling, your flesh. The air within your lungs is internalized air, inside the matter. It can be referred to as "Afu-Air," while the air outside your body is simply "Air."

In ancient times, when Ra first moved through the primordial hill (the Ka) infusing it with vitality and life, the raised land (the Ka) became the dwelling for Ra. This is why he was given the title Afu Ra. As a result, the initial landmass is known as the Ka of Afu Ra, representing the land of the Creator. Afuraka refers to the *Ka of Afu Ra.*

From a geological standpoint, this first emergent landmass is associated with the continental plate called Africa. Unfortunately, the term "Afuraka" underwent distortion due to the influence of non-Africans, eventually becoming "Africa."

The first picture comes from the papyrus of Khensumose. If you look at it from up high, it's like a map showing the Ka/Kait, the raised land, which was the first land on Earth. They talk about this Ka in many ancient texts from Kamit as the "primordial mound of Creation" in a place called Khemennu or Kaka (Qaqa) or Qa in Khemennu, later called Hermopolis by the Greeks.

In the picture, Ra and it's polar contemporary Rait are moving through the Ka as Afu Ra inside the Solar disk in two parts. They are called Afu Ra because they are moving through matter, flesh, *the house* or "temple." Eventually, Afu Ra rises within the Solar disk above the horizon, making the first sunrise ever. After this, they transform into Ra and Rait.

The eight figures on the mound are Amen and Amenet, Ka and Kait, Nun and Nunet, Hehu and Hehut—these are the contemporaries of Ra and Rait, often called the Ogdoad, the primordial entities who existed before the world in the service of the Creator NTR. Auset and Nebt Het are shown through the forms of Merit Meht and Merit Shema, the Northern and Southern Nile spirits of the inundation. These Two Spirits pour water from vases into the first waters that nourish the Ka/Kait.

The second picture beside is a drawing of a fertilized egg in a woman. Just like how Ra and Rait shaped the first land on Earth in service of God, it's like the fertilization of an egg. Earth became fertile and able to support life when the angelic forces who worked through the sun, entered the Ka and "fertilized" it—making it able to sustain life. This idea is part of our African beliefs, and that's why we put these geological and biological processes into our language and pictures in Kemet.

It's important to know that the name Afu Ra or Afra is used in the language of the Akan people. In Akan culture, they know a spirit called *Afram*. The feminine version of this name in Akan culture is Afra. Also, in Akan stories, there's a place called Koko-Afuo, where an Ancestress settled with her people after coming down from heaven on a golden chain. Koko means hill, raised land in Twi (the Akan language) and in Kamit (Kaka or Qaqa). Afuo in Twi means fertile land, vibrant farmland. When pronounced in some dialects, Afuo sounds like and is often written Afur. So, Koko-Afur means a land of origins—a fertile, Afur, raised land, Koko. Koko-Afur is like Afur-koko (Afurko/Afuraka). The land is fertile because the energy of Ra and Rait circulates through it, making it full of life.

Today, the name Koko-Afuo has become Kokofu, a well-known region in Ghana. It's also interesting to note that the Twi term "fura" means to put on (like putting on clothing). This is connected to the idea that Ra, when entering matter, takes on matter as His flesh or house, and that's why He has the title (A)fura. He "puts on" flesh/matter. As shown in the picture before, when Ra moves through the underworld, he also takes on the form of a Ram-headed entity. He "puts on" (fura) the animal form that will later become a carcass. It's a form that Ra will leave behind when he comes out of the underworld and appears on the horizon as the energy from the sun at sunrise.

The shape of these 10 animals will be worn again, put on again, when Ra goes back to the underworld. It's like the meaning of "Afo" in Twi: the body of a dead animal, something that is thrown away and picked up again later.

The Twi word "fra" or "afra" also means to get mixed together or blend. This tells us that when Ra and Rait mix or blend with matter/flesh, they become Afu Ra and Afu Rait. "Afura," "fura," and "afra" all sound similar and have similar meanings. Another Twi word, "fram," means to be on fire, burn, or have flames. This term "fram," connected to the name of the entity Afram (Afura), shows the link to the life-force energy coming through the sun (solar-fire).

It's worth noting that the Twi word "kua" means farm. "Kua" or "Koa" is connected to "Ka" as land. Specifically, the land that becomes fertile (farmland is fertile) because of Ra and Rait moving through it to make it full of life.

See correspondences below:

## False Etymologies

The idea that the Romans, Greeks, Arabs, Jews, or any of these non-Africans created the name Africa is completely wrong. Also, the land wasn't named after Scipio Africanus or Leo Africanus. The Arabic version, Ifriqia, comes from the Roman version, Africa. Some say the Romans used this term because the Roman suffix "-ca" means 'land,' and Afri is the name of a Berber tribe who lived there when the Romans came. So, they say the Romans called the northern part of the continent "the land, ca, of the Afri people," hence Afri-ca. The Berber group mentioned is called the Aourigha, often written Afarik.

But, we've already shown that the term "ka" (qa) really does mean land (high land), although it wasn't a word made up by the Romans. The Roman "ca" is a version of the term "ka" that the Romans learned about when they invaded Kemet. The Afri people or Afarik (Aourigha) were already there when the Romans came. Their ancestry, language, and their ethnic name reflect the culture of the region they lived in, North Africa. This region includes Kemet and the areas to the west and east, where the Pharaonic culture was also found.

The ancient Aourigha lived in these areas more than 10,000 years before the arrival of non-African invaders. Today's Berbers or Amazigh are the true descendants of the original people of North Africa, but they are often misrepresented by the mixed descendants of Europeans and Arabs who invaded and mixed with some of the original people. These mixed descendants falsely call themselves Amazigh (Aourigha) and Berbers, just like how some mixed descendants of Arab invaders in Egypt today falsely claim to be "real Egyptians" (despite the genetic evidence that they're over 70% non-African)

The terms Afarik and Afri are connected to Afura and Afurai(t), predating the arrival of non-Africans. The idea that the term "Africa" comes from the Greek word "aphrike," meaning "not cold" or "hot," is incorrect. In the language of ancient Egypt, the term "Afer" means to burn or be hot, and "Afri" means smoke or hot vapor. The Greeks learned about these terms after invading Kemet, so they used the term "aphrike," "not cold." Similarly, the Latin term "aprica," meaning sunny, is also derived from terms in Kemet. The suggestion that "aprica" is the origin of "Africa" is inaccurate and reflects the misunderstanding that the non-Africans assumed Rato be the "sun-god." They associated "aprica" with a land that was "sunny," thinking it meant the "land of the sun" or the "sunny land."

One honorific title of Ra is Pa-Ra, meaning "The Ra." Pa Ra was often written Pra in Kemet. This became Phra and Phre in the Coptic dialect (Late Egyptian):

Even today, non-Africans often translate Pra or Pre, as Ra or "Helios" (the Greek version of Ra), or simply as "the sun." Similarly, the Romans referred to Pre as the sun and called the land "pre-ca" (aprica) the "sunny land." Looking at these examples, we can see how Afer, Afri, and Afra are not only connected but also because Ra and Rait work through the sun, the land can be linked to solar energy, heat, and fire. The roots of the name Afri people or the Afarik can be found in these terms.

The idea that Africa comes from the Phoenician word for corn or the Phoenician terms "friqi" or "pharika" meaning land of fruit is also incorrect. In the language of ancient Egypt, Kamit, the word "per" is defined as grain, corn, wheat, field produce, or fruit of any kind:

Coptic is a later version of the Egyptian language, Kamau, spoken in the final years of the ancient civilization about 2,000 years ago. In Coptic, the word "per" is written and said as "fre." The sounds "p," "ph," and "f" often change in this language. The word "per" or "fre," meaning corn or fruit, is where the Phoenician term "friqi" or "phari-ka" comes from, meaning land (qi, ka) of corn or land of fruit. This refers to a *fertile land*. The Phoenicians were obsessed with Kemet, and that's why the terms are related. The idea that the Phoenician root "faraq," meaning separation, including the concept of diaspora, is the origin of the term is also incorrect. One meaning of "per," shown with a symbol of two walking legs, is s defined in the metutu as: a sign of subtraction; to go forth, to go out, to go away, to leave one’s country, to evade a calamity