24/07/2025
🔥 BREAKING THE COLONIAL SPELL ON ANCIENT EGYPT’S WISDOM 🔥
Why a famous "Book of the Dead" translation gets it dangerously wrong – and how to reclaim the truth.
Dua Seba! (Thanks, stars ✨)
For 150 years, Western translators have distorted sacred Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian) texts. Let’s dissect one powerful declaration – and expose the colonial mindset hidden in your history books.
THE VERSE IN QUESTION
Hieroglyphs: 𓎛𓅓𓏏 𓉔𓂋𓏭 𓉔𓅱
(ḤMṬ ḤRY ḤW)
Faulkner’s full line:
❌ "I have not committed sin against humanity"
True Melanin meaning:
✅ "I honor humanity in all beings."
Table 1 in picture is a side by side comparison of the meaning, now let's dive into why it becomes different when one reasons from Melanin and from Colonial White Privilege veiled as Christianity.
🤔 WHY THIS MATTERS
Christian Bias: Faulkner injected "sin" (a foreign Abrahamic concept) when Kemetic philosophy speaks of Ma’at (𓌴) – cosmic balance & social justice.
Violating Ma’at = chaos (isfet), NOT "sin".
Passive vs. Active:
Colonial frame: 😨 "I avoided evil" (fear-based)
African truth: ✊🏾 "I actively uphold life" (Ubuntu: "I am because we are")
Dehumanizing Language:
"Against humanity" frames relationships as adversarial.
Truth: 𓉔𓂋𓏭 (ḤRY) implies sacred reciprocity – protecting communal bonds.
💥 THE UGLIEST DISTORTION
Faulkner: Reduced 𓉔𓅱 (ḤW) – a tender image of sheltering a chick – to cold, abstract "humanity."
This erases:
Nature-based symbolism
Kemetic focus on protecting the vulnerable
Concrete African cosmology
⚠️ EVEN THE BOOK’S TITLE LIES
Real Name: 𓉐𓂋𓏏𓏭𓇯𓏤𓈖𓏏𓂋
"Peret em Heru" (Coming Forth by Day)
= A text about daily rebirth & solar cycles ☀️
Colonial Name: "Book of the Dead" (coined 1842)
= Projects Europe’s obsession with death onto a life-affirming tradition.
🧠 SCHOLARS CALL IT OUT
"Victorian translators projected Christian guilt onto Ma’at’s ethics. These are Affirmations of Life – not ‘confessions.’"
– Dr. James P. Allen (Top Egyptologist)
"‘Book of the Dead’ is a genocidal misnomer. It is the African Bible of Eternal Life."
– Ogonna Chuks-orji (Decolonial Theologian)
✨ HOW TO HONOR THIS TRUTH TODAY
Say the affirmation correctly:
"I honor humanity in all beings."
Reject "sin" language – this is about aligning with cosmic balance (Ma’at 𓌴).
Share the REAL title: Peret em Heru (Coming Forth by Day). (Literally the instructions for going outside during the day and playing with other children of the sun without hurting yourself or them...such beauty is called "death" by the colonizer)
Remember ! "Colonial translations are knives that cut tongues from ancestral mouths."
