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[Dama]

In its wild form, it is native to the eastern edge of the Great African Plateau, extending northwards from South Africa through Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to Ethiopia, and west to the Congo, being found in high-rainfall forests on mountains, and along forested ravines and streams.

The domesticated form of the plant is cultivated only in Ethiopia, where it provides the staple food for approximately 20 million people.


The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reports that "enset provides more amount of foodstuff per unit area than most cereals. It is estimated that 40 to 60 enset plants occupying 250–375 square metres (2,700–4,000 sq ft) can provide enough food for a family of 5 to 6 people."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensete_ventricosum

[Horus]

But you missed the important point.

"Bruce also discussed the plant's place in the mythology of Egypt and pointed out that some Egyptian statue carvings depict the goddess Isis sitting among the leaves of what was thought to be a banana plant, a plant native to Southeast Asia and not known in Ancient Egypt."

goddess Isis was worshiped between 2350 BC and 400 AD. In other words Enset was a Blue Nile plant. In fact James Bruce found it in Gonder. Gurages are the first people who domesticated it. This even today while most Omo people pant it, no other people has perfected Enset like Gurages. It is our authentic plant.

https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/isis ... ess?page=3

[Horus]

ጊመ ፤ የጉራጌ ሴት ባህላዊ ትራስ! ብቸኛው በኢትዮጵያ ይህን የትንታዊ ግብጽ ባህል ይዘው ያሉት ጉራጌዎች ናቸው! ጉራጌዎች እንዴት ይህን ባህል ወረሱ? ይህ በጢያ ሃውልትላይ ሁሉ አለ ! ጊመ ምን ማለት ነው?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m--bbTBmWwI

[Odie]

Unfortunately the fake high IQ Italian chef, Egyptian shoeshiner የቀቤሳ/ሃማሴን italian foot soldier will have problem understanding this because s/he is subhuman to understand science and technology! But can change car tiers, oil and water for broken down car for few coins as s/he copied from his Italian handlers.

[Dama]

But you missed the important point.

"Bruce also discussed the plant's place in the mythology of Egypt and pointed out that some Egyptian statue carvings depict the goddess Isis sitting among the leaves of what was thought to be a banana plant, a plant native to Southeast Asia and not known in Ancient Egypt."

goddess Isis was worshiped between 2350 BC and 400 AD. In other words Enset was a Blue Nile plant. In fact James Bruce found it in Gonder. Gurages are the first people who domesticated it. This even today while most Omo people pant it, no other people has perfected Enset like Gurages. It is our authentic plant.

https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/isis ... ess?page=3

It might just be a myth to state that the banana plant that was known to be one was rather an enset that was never known to grow on the flood planes of the Nile River. There is no proof to suggest in the past nor in the present enset presence in Egypt.
The freedom exists for the banana plant in Egypt to be given an enset identity to link it to the glory of ancient Egypt but that is outright intellectual dishonesty.

[Dama]

ጊመ ፤ የጉራጌ ሴት ባህላዊ ትራስ! ብቸኛው በኢትዮጵያ ይህን የትንታዊ ግብጽ ባህል ይዘው ያሉት ጉራጌዎች ናቸው! ጉራጌዎች እንዴት ይህን ባህል ወረሱ? ይህ በጢያ ሃውልትላይ ሁሉ አለ ! ጊመ ምን ማለት ነው?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m--bbTBmWwI

Insulting Gurage? You never know who learnt from whom, who invented it first. Granted Egyptians documented it but it does not imply they invented it.

Many African cultures produce and use wooden headrest. Just google Yiutube, "headrest".

[Horus]

Dama,
what you don't know is that the Abune - Gebre Menfes Kidus (1450/1460s) the Abune of Gurage esp. Kistane) was an Egyptian. You don't know that the great Monastic institutions such as Mdre Kebd Abo, Zequala Abo, Adai Mariyam were built by this Egyptian Abune 1460s.

የጉራጌ ሴቶች ጊመ በቀጥታ ከግብጽ የመጣ ብቻ ሳይሆን በመላ ኢትዮጵያ የሚጠቀሙት ጉራጌዎች ብቻ ናቸው ። አብክህን አንድ ነገር ሳታጠና መደምደሚያ አስትጥ!

[Dama]

Dama,
what you don't know is that the Abune - Gebre Menfes Kidus (1450/1460s) the Abune of Gurage esp. Kistane) was an Egyptian. You don't know that the great Monastic institutions such as Mdre Kebd Abo, Zequala Abo, Adai Mariyam were built by this Egyptian Abune 1460s.

የጉራጌ ሴቶች ጊመ በቀጥታ ከግብጽ የመጣ ብቻ ሳይሆን በመላ ኢትዮጵያ የሚጠቀሙት ጉራጌዎች ብቻ ናቸው ። አብክህን አንድ ነገር ሳታጠና መደምደሚያ አስትጥ!

So you know you were colonized by Egyptian church. You talk like it was a good thing. But in many of your posts, you stated Egypt is a historical enemy of your Ethiopia of Christians. And you assumed I did not know all this You were just igonrant of what I know.

After Byzantium thru its colony Egypt helped enthrone Yekuno Amlak in 1270, Egypt's priests pacified Christians of Abyssinia, until the 1950s by imposing their priests as colonies send their missionaries to their subject peoples. How does that translate the Egyptian priests taught the technology of carving the headrest from woid to Gurages? Where is the proof? In fact are you not recklelssly and without facts degrading Gurage just so you will glorify your faith as importing technology to Gurage and civilizing it? It could as well be that ancient Egyptians learned carving headrest from Gurages or other African traditions.
So many African traditions make their own headrests. I told you to goole youtube. But you did not and you refused to learn remain uninformed.

1. Take for example Birchuma. Abundant in Gurage. A chair with 3 legs carved out of trees of wide diameters.

2. Take for example. A wooden sandal, carved out of a
wood log.
I have not seen any African societies producing these two furnitures.
3. Gye Qerqir. A short gate attached to the outer door openings, left and right, of a house, whose primary function is to block stray dogs from entering the house in the absence of adults.

These are Gurage wood technologies, manufactured by Gurages, sold in Gurage markets and used by Gurages.

To glorify your Orthodox faith, as archaic as it was a cult rejected by ancient Syrian Orthodox Christians populations, has not been reformed and modernized ever since 330 A.D.
Dumped in a remote hinterland of Africa on Axum by Byzantine powers of Syria for tgeir own colonial purpose which remained hidden from Christian reformations, not fitting with the Greek or Russian Orthodox, nor with Catholicism and protestantism, some say, it is blasphemous and totally superstitious sharing much with paganism.

It should not blemish the achievements of the Gurage craftmen and women.

Stop your absurdity!