9 World Chronicles

Western African-Congo Efik   Anansa, goddess of the Sea, allure and beauty. Vodun Erzulie Freda Dahomey, loa of love, beauty, jewelry, dancing, luxury, and flowers. Yoruba   Oshun, goddess of luxury and pleasure, sexuality and ferti...

Papyrus   A symbol of life merging from primeval water. The plant is used to produce the papyrus paper, the world’s first paper   Papyrus, writing material of ancient times and also the plant from which it was derived, Cyperus papyrus (...

Hotep: An offering table that is set before the gods. Certain pharaohs names connected to the word Hotep to the god. Amun hotep, Mentuhotep. In this form Hotep means pleasing to the god, The name of the physician Imhotep means bringer of peace. It is...

Canopic Jar: One set of a set of 4 jar in which the liver lungs stomach and intestines of the dead were stored. These jars were generally fashioned after the sons of Horus. Canopic jars were used by the ancient Egyptians during the mummification pro...

1542• Portugal helps Ethiopia end the Arab invasion. c. 1550  In Italy the Beretta family branched into guns Africans, bought in the Portuguese trading posts of west Africa, are shipped across the Atlantic as slaves. 1562• Britain begins sl...