mmoa_writes

I have been going slightly crazy lately:


Igboness:http://server1.fandm.edu/departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/link2.html#Igbo

http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/afrstory.htm

http://unicode.org/charts/

http://www.members.aon.at/africanfonts.at/nsibidi.htm

http://www.geocities.com/ctesibos/new-inv/other-african.html

http://www.bl.uk/about/policies/endangeredarch/tuchscherer.html



My outlook on human history has been completely reversed thanks to these people's sites. For example, I had absolutely no idea that writing was so common in Africa - this is all the more ironic because I have actually seen Nsibidi writing in our home village, but always assumed they were just patterns or decorations. I suppose, in a way, that's what I ought to think anyway as it part of a men's cult (more insight into the development of writing? The use of an entire alphabet for specific cults, reminds me of how the Hebrew and Norse cultures considered writing to be a gift from the gods). No wonder my mother never told me about it. She would have if she had known...



http://www.uwandiigbo.com/wb

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/igbo/igbobooks.html

http://www.teachyourselfigbo.com/ - alright, so I did get a little commercial, but the rest of the links are all completely academic...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukwuani

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukwuani

http://www.dawodu.net/guosa1.htm

http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?LangID=13&menu=004



These are also brilliant because I have always been interested in the origination of the Igbo people. Our legends say that we were always in Igboland, but that can't be true: it's just our way of saying we've been here for a very long time (and archaeology agrees with this). You can tell I'm having a ball here, though, can't you...




* means, watch out for Bible quotes! (grrrr)

http://www.fjkluth.com/minoan.html

http://projects.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/lessons/les/15.html

http://lexicorient.com/e.o/hyksos.htm

http://www.valdyas.org/hyksos.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaean_alphabet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform_script

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cuneiform_signs

http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/thera/hapiru.html

http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/hyksos.html

http://nabataea.net/edomch1.html*

http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/edition2/cuneiformwriting.php

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Minoan_civilization

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/opcuneiform.htm

http://www.farvardyn.com/oldpersian.php

http://www.ancientscripts.com/cuneiform.html



I've noticed how so many of the people interested in ancient history on the web tend to be so clearly religiously biased (after the Christians (never Jews, and that fascinates me...), I'm sorry to say it's the Wiccan-ites who own the most sites *sighs*) but I guess that makes it all the more interesting as I have to cross reference.

Went to see Trachiniae on Wednesday and witnessed one of the best chorus I have seen in a while (it was their make up that got me, I'll admit). The rest of the production, I also loved but I suspect for the wrong reasons. Some of the performances were average, though the guy playing Herakles' son was excellent, and I found the use of Renaissance/jazz song to be both disturbing, pretentious and ultimately quite brilliant. I was also amused by their accents, as I usually am.