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Minoans 2 1 by Clyde A Winters PhD Uthman dan Fodio Institute ? C A Winters The ancient people of Crete are called Minoans or Eteocretans The Egyptians knew these people as the Keftiu The Keftiu or Minoans spoke the Malinke-Bambara language The MalinkeBam

by Clyde A Winters PhD Uthman dan Fodio Institute ? C A Winters The ancient people of Crete are called Minoans or Eteocretans The Egyptians knew these people as the Keftiu The Keftiu or Minoans spoke the Malinke-Bambara language The MalinkeBambara language is a member of the Mande group of languages which belongs Cto the Niger-Congo superfamily of languages spoken in Africa Here is a picture of Keftiu from the Egyptian tombs They are bringing goods to Egypt in their distinctive ceramics Minoans Keftiu in Egyptian Relief CMen on a boat from Thera LIBYAN ORIGIN OF MINOANS Every since Sir Arthur Evans discovered the hieroglyphics and Linear A writing of Crete there has been a search for the authors of this script Evans l suggested that the Minoan civilization found its impetus from the arrival of refugees from Libya to Crete Evans supported this hypothesis by discussing the a ?nities between Crete and Libya e g l the writing of Crete and Libyco- Berber Manding writing are similar Winters both groups wore the cod piece and Cthey share the identical customs of leaving a lock of hair hanging down in front of the ears The protruding tuft of hair was associated with an initiatory rite dedicated to the goddess Neith Bruson The goddess Neith or Athene was a Libyan goddess Other scholars have also found a Libyan in uence an Crete A B Cook noted that the Libyan ram with horns curved downward occurs in Minoan art The ram is associated with the goddess Athene Neith In addition Pendlebury l postulated a Libyan immigration to southern Crete in the area of Messara c - B C Hammond l feels that the Libyans settled the plains of Phaestos between - B C In addition Dr Alain Anselin has done a ?ne study of the Black Libyans of Crete LINEAR A WRITING Linear A writing is a variant of the Proto-Saharan writing used by the Manding in the Sahara The earliest Manding Cinscriptions have been found at Oued Mertoutek The Oued Mertoutek inscription has been dated to B C by Wulsin The Proto- Manding script has around - signs and around di ?erent forms It is a syllabic script Winters b Due to the early date assigned to the Oued Mertoutek site we can infer that the Proto-Saharan writing was invented sometime earlier than B C Up to this day the Manding writing is used by Manding secret societies Winters The hypothesis that the Eteocretans spoke a Manding dialect is supported by a comparison of Minoan Linear A signs and the Manding signs which were used in the Western Sahara Many of these signs are clearly cognates To further test this hypothesis that the Eteocretans probably spoke a Manding language we compared Manding and the Keftiu or Cretan names collected by the Egyptians Peet Crete is mentioned in Egyptian documents of Cthe First Intermediate Period and th Dynasty Strange - Vercoutter - The Ketiu personal names come from a schoolboy's writing board