Home
Who were the White Aethiopians?

Who were the White Aethiopians?

 Rhesusnegative.net0
Share Button

If we pass through the interior of Africa in a southerly direction, beyond the Gætuli, after having traversed the intervening deserts, we shall find, first of all the Liby-Egyptians, and then the country where the Leucæthiopians dwell.

Pliny the Elder
Gaetuli was the Romanised name of an ancient Berber tribe inhabiting Getulia. The latter district covered the large desert region south of the Atlas Mountains, bordering the Sahara.

On those shores washed by the Libyan Sea, however, are found the Libyan Aegyptians, the White Aethiopians, and, a populous and numerous nation, the Gaetuli. Then a region, uninhabitable in its entire length, covers a broad and vacant expanse.

Pomponius Mela

The inhabited world according to Herodotus: Libya (Africa) is imagined as extending no further south than the Horn of Africa, terminating in the uninhabitable desert. All peoples inhabiting the southernmost fringes of the inhabitable world are known as Ethiopians (after their dark skin). At the extreme south-east of the continent are the Macrobians, so-called for their longevity.

The Indians are the wisest of mankind. The Ethiopians are a colony of them

Philostratus

A sultan and his forces (right) battling the Abyssinian King and his men (Le Livre des Merveilles, 15th century). Leo Africanus wrote that “olive” complexioned people were among the natives of the kingdoms in the Horn of Africa

designated as Ethiopia the whole of the southern countries towards the ocean

Strabo

White Aethiopians is a term found in ancient Greco-Roman literature, which may have referred to various light-complexioned populations inhabiting the Aethiopia region of antiquity. The exonym is used by Pliny the Elder, and is also mentioned by Pomponius Mela, Ptolemy and Orosius

Who were the original Berbers?
How different were the ancient Egyptians from the current population?
14% Rh- in Mali: Who are the Dogon people?
21.32 percent of Ethiopian “highlanders” in Gambella found to be Rh negative
Why are grey eyes common among the Amazigh?
Who built the Rock Hewn Churches of Lalibela?
The original picture of Mansa Musa

Senegal:

Who were the Sea Peoples?
A new 2022 DNA study reveals that Carthaginians were in fact Berbers

So who were the White Aethiopians?

Geographic distribution of the Y-chromosome Haplogroup E1b1b
Buda (Ge’ez: ቡዳ) (or bouda), in Ethiopian and Eritrean folk religion, is the power of the evil eye and the ability to change into a hyena. Buda is generally believed by the wider society to be a power held and wielded by those in a different social group, for example among the Beta Israel or metalworkers. The belief is also present in Sudan, Tanzania, and among the Berber people in Morocco.
The Dogon people of Mali are said to be descendants of the ancient Egyptians fleeing their home during the Arabic conquest.
Share Button

About The Author

Rhesusnegative.net

Disclaimer: This blog, all of its content and all of my posts are for Entertainment Purposes Only. Approval of comments does not equal agreement with content. Read at your own risk. Please note that comments will not be approved unless you use your real name. You can use first name only, if no one else has commented under that name before. Otherwise use first name and last initial. If that has been taken, use your full first and last name. No exceptions. Thank you for understanding.

Add a Comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.