24659: VISHNUSURF (comment) re: 24656: jolierosey re: 24633: Fleury re: 24622: VISHNUSURF/ Ezili ...

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VISHNUSURF@aol.com

I did not realize that some people considered this list to be "academic" 
and therefore never thought that anyone expected citations of schoarly 
works to back up points made in this increasingly-more-often-than-not 
propagandist arena.   And while I will not apologize for jolierosey's 
being "perturbed" by my note that the thesis about the Egyptian roots of 
Vodou is tenuous, and though I ceratinly do not have the time to produce 
a bibliography for her/him in this regard (anyone with /genuine/ 
interest in objectivity could surely do so on her or his own in half a 
day), I can suggest one source for consideration, which is more 
concerned with Afrocentricity's claims that the Greeks stole all of 
their ideas from Kemet than with Diop's equally dubious claims about 
Egyptian influences on West African culture, which people have picked up 
to argue for the Egyptian roots of Vodou, which is in fact a MODERN 
WESTERN RELIGION, however much of its mythology that it derives from 
West and Central Africa:

Mary Lefkowitz, _Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to 
Teach Myth as History_ (Basic Books, 1997).