5 Black Gods Whitewashed in Recent History

Krishna (Before) The Brahma Samhita is a Sanskrit Pancaratra text composed of verses of prayer spoken by Brahma glorifying the supreme Lord Krishna or Govinda at the beginning of creation. The lyrics, chapter 5 verse 38 reads: “I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who plays on His transcendental flute. His eyes are like lotus flowers, He is decorated with peacock plumes, and His bodily color resembles the color of a fresh black cloud, although His bodily features are more beautiful than millions of Cupids.” Chapter 6, verses 1-2 reads: "The Lord was dressed in yellow garments and had a blackish complexion." The Sanskrit word "Krishna" has the literal meaning "black," "dark" or "dark-blue." Krishna is also called "Śyāma," the blackish one, or the beautiful dark boy with a blackish color. (After) Buddha (Before) In a two-volume work entitled, "A Book of the Beginnings," originally published in 1881, author Gerald Massey recorded: “It is not necessary to show that the first colonizers of India were black, but it is certain that the black Buddha of India was imaged in the Africoid type. In the black god, whether called Buddha or Sut-Nahsi, we have a datum. They carry in their color the proof of their origin. ” (After) Imhotep (Before) The father/god of medicine was deified two thousand years after his death. James Henry Breasted, an American archaeologist and historian, says of Imhotep: "In priestly wisdom, in magic, in the formulation of wise proverbs; in medicine and architecture; this remarkable figure of Zoser's reign left so notable a reputation that his name was never forgotten. The people sang of his proverbs centuries later, and 2,500 years after his death, he had become a god of medicine in whom Greeks, who call him Imouthes, recognized their own Asklepios." (After) The Black Madonna (Before) According to Stephen Benko, author of "Pagan Rome and the Early Christians," "The Black Madonna is the ancient earth-goddess converted to Christianity." Ivan Van Sertima in “BLACK MADONNAS OF EUROPE: Diffusion of the African Isis” added: “The Black Madonnas of Europe have a tradition which goes back hundreds of years, before the advent of Christianity. The African Isis was prototype for the Black Madonnas of Europe. As the worship of Isis was suppressed, the Virgin Mary was elevated into the European Christendom. The African Isis was worshiped under the name of the Virgin Mary.” (After) Heru/Horus (Before) Thomas Inman affirms the Egyptian roots of the Christian trinity in his work, "Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism." Inman writes: "The Christian trinity is of Egyptian origin, and is as surely a pagan doctrine as the belief in heaven and hell, the existence of a devil, of archangels, angels, spirits and saints, martyrs and virgins, intercessors in heaven, gods and demigods, and other forms of faith which deface the greater part of modern religions." Egyptologist Erik Hornung noted in "The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West": "There was an obvious analogy between the Horus child and the baby Jesus and the care they received from their sacred mothers; long before Christianity, Isis had borne the epithet 'mother of the god.'" (After)

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