Comments by "Ptolémée Sélénion" (@ptolemeeselenion1542) on "African Royal Family Trees" video.
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Three months too late, but y'all already know me: I'm here to be his worst nightmare when it comes down to African historical inaccuracy.
Edit: @2:10 Solomonic propaganda. The earlier dynasties (both the Aksumite and Zagwē dynasty) descends back from a pagan demigod named Mahrem, or Maher by some South Arabian tribes. Mahrem/Maher was an anthropomorphic leonine God of W4r and Kingship, born of a mortal man and the Goddess Ashtar: his counterpart in other African kingdoms was the Kushite demigod Apedemek (also known as Maahes in ancient Egypt) , a mythical protohistoric ancestor of both the Royal Kushite and Pharaonic blo%dlines and also God of W4r and Kingship, but also of Blo%dshed and Medicine born from the Goddess Sekhmet (Hathor's warlike avatar) and of a mortal man. Not of Solomon. The historic ties between the Davidic blo$dline and Abyssinian royalty started to establish following a succession of intermariages between J&daicized royalties in Southern Arabian kingdoms and Aksum around the IIIrd to VIth centuries onward, if not earlier (since the IInd century BCE via the connections between South Arabia, Aksum and D'mt) .
@2:44 "Considered" . A big word. There used to be richer than him in Africa. The Mali Empire traded frequently with the heart of Africa.
@2:49 Less of three minutes in, and so many errors??? The Amazulu Dynasty ( not Zulu Dynasty ) started historically with Zulu kaMalandela (reigned 1627-1709) , founder of the kwaZulu nation which was originally located in Mozambique (with some of their pastoral dominions already well-settled in the Natal) and of their dynasty, not his descendant Shaka kaSensangakhona. Zulu kaMalandela was the son of Malandela kaLuzumana, a Nguni ruler who reigned around the late XVIth to early XVIIth century, and of an Angolan queen named "Nzinga" according some oral traditions: so to speak, Malandela's mother was affirmed to be Queen Njinga/Nzinga "Ana de Sousa" Mbande of Ndongo and Matamba, and thud it could be surmised that Malandela was perhaps Azeze (Aziz) , a local chieftain who passed away in combat in 1603, leaving her widowed with children. Amazulu oral traditions asserts that their ancestors lived in different regions of Central Africa around the 11th to 16th century, were living in present-day Angola nearby the Kwango river for a time in 16th century and intermarried frequently with Bakongo royalty. It is very plausible that they entertained some intermarriages alongside the Ndongo-Ambundu royalty too, due to their common connections to both the Jagas/Yakas or Vangues/Banguis, Imabangalas/Bangalas/Ngalas, Lundas/Vundas and Bakongos/Kongos (as the Amazulus can traces some of their ancestral origins back to the Anamongos, Chwezis and Great African Lakes, as well as to the Kongo kingdom) .
Azeze's Africanized Arabic name may or may not indicate that he was of Muslim or Pagan-Muslim faith, least belonging from a family with such roots: which may hypithesizes toward either a Bachenzi/Shenzi (so-called "Swahili" or East African) , Musongye/Songye, Katangan-East Zambian, Muluba/Luba, Mushonge/Shonge or Mozambican descent.
@6:58 Mwene Kongo (not its European pronunciation Manicongo) means "Lord of the river" or "Lord of the territory" as Kongo amuse to describe both the region of the mouth of the river Congo inhabited by the Bakongos and their ethnic kindred, as well as an extended territory or stretched-out animal (often cow) skin. This DOES NOT means "mountain" at all!!!
Btw, the reason why they were titled "lords" (Mwene) instead of Kings (Nkosi) was because of the fact that the Kongo kingdom was not an independant kingdom originally, but a Principality and fiefship of the Lunda Empire (hence why the "Manivunda" or "Lord of the Vundas/Lundas" blo%dline always had more spiritual and political power in Kongo than any of the Mwene Kongos themselves, least until their demise by the Portugese-enabled Lukeni Dynasty in the 1600s following the decline of the Lunda Empire's econopolitical sphere. The Lunda Empire itseld being a province of the greater Anzicana Kingdom tjat covered much of Central, South-Central and Eastern Africa.
The Kongo Kingdom, same as the Lunda Empire, Kuba Kingdom and Luba Kingdom, were nothing short but rogue states. A cohort of Portugese protectorates via Kongo, Arab-Zanzibarite or direct colonial Portugese proxyism, serving to undermine and destabilize the influence of both the Anzicana, Mutapa, Malavi and rogue Zanguebarite/Shenzi Kingdoms in the region.
@7:10 What did you just say??? Nzinga "Alfonso I" Mvemba never converted ALL of Kongo into Roman Catholicism: only a portion of his own royal clan, of the aristocracy and nobility. Jesuit missionaries were the ones who attempted the most to approach the common class of the cities and peasantry in the backwater regions with the conversion of Bakongos into Catholicism, and even there their attempts has proven to be not entirely successful until at least the mid-17th century to 18th century: the elites adopted a syncretic mix of Catholic and indigenous religions and hidden Pan-African wisdom older than some of its roots in pre-Dynastic Egypt and Kush, combined with some vaguely scarse echoes of both Ethiopian Pagan-J%daism dating back from the Abyssinians's short-lived conquests in the African Great Lakes, of Dharmic and of South Arabian both pre-Islamic and early Islamic beliefs under a Christian Catholic front, while others - notably the Kongo royalty itself, from the early mid-16th century to 17th century onward - simply and gradually rejected the Christian component wholly after feeling dejected by the r4cially motivated, backst4bbing, heinous treatments that the Portugese and the remainder of the European Christendom reserved toward their people since Nzinga Mvemba's lamented about the permanent ensl4vement and inhuman treatment done toward both his subjects and embassies sent to the plantations in Brasil.
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Three months too late, but y'all already know me: I'm here to be his worst nightmare when it comes down to African historical inaccuracy.
Edit: @2:10 Solomonic propaganda. The earlier dynasties (both the Aksumite and Zagwē dynasty) descends back from a pagan demigod named Mahrem, or Maher by some South Arabian tribes. Mahrem/Maher was an anthropomorphic leonine God of W4r and Kingship, born of a mortal man and the Goddess Ashtar: his counterpart in other African kingdoms was the Kushite demigod Apedemek (also known as Maahes in ancient Egypt) , a mythical protohistoric ancestor of both the Royal Kushite and Pharaonic blo%dlines and also God of W4r and Kingship, but also of Blo%dshed and Medicine born from the Goddess Sekhmet (Hathor's warlike avatar) and of a mortal man. Not of Solomon. The historic ties between the Davidic blo$dline and Abyssinian royalty started to establish following a succession of intermariages between J&daicized royalties in Southern Arabian kingdoms and Aksum around the IIIrd to VIth centuries onward, if not earlier (since the IInd century BCE via the connections between South Arabia, Aksum and D'mt) .
@2:44 "Considered" . A big word. There used to be richer than him in Africa. The Mali Empire traded frequently with the heart of Africa.
@2:49 Less of three minutes in, and so many errors??? The Amazulu Dynasty ( not Zulu Dynasty ) started historically with Zulu kaMalandela (reigned 1627-1709) , founder of the kwaZulu nation which was originally located in Mozambique (with some of their pastoral dominions already well-settled in the Natal) and of their dynasty, not his descendant Shaka kaSensangakhona. Zulu kaMalandela was the son of Malandela kaLuzumana, a Nguni ruler who reigned around the late XVIth to early XVIIth century, and of an Angolan queen named "Nzinga" according some oral traditions: so to speak, Malandela's mother was affirmed to be Queen Njinga/Nzinga "Ana de Sousa" Mbande of Ndongo and Matamba, and thud it could be surmised that Malandela was perhaps Azeze (Aziz) , a local chieftain who passed away in combat in 1603, leaving her widowed with children. Amazulu oral traditions asserts that their ancestors lived in different regions of Central Africa around the 11th to 16th century, were living in present-day Angola nearby the Kwango river for a time in 16th century and intermarried frequently with Bakongo royalty. It is very plausible that they entertained some intermarriages alongside the Ndongo-Ambundu royalty too, due to their common connections to both the Jagas/Yakas or Vangues/Banguis, Imabangalas/Bangalas/Ngalas, Lundas/Vundas and Bakongos/Kongos (as the Amazulus can traces some of their ancestral origins back to the Anamongos, Chwezis and Great African Lakes, as well as to the Kongo kingdom) .
Azeze's Africanized Arabic name may or may not indicate that he was of Muslim or Pagan-Muslim faith, least belonging from a family with such roots: which may hypithesizes toward either a Bachenzi/Shenzi (so-called "Swahili" or East African) , Musongye/Songye, Katangan-East Zambian, Muluba/Luba, Mushonge/Shonge or Mozambican descent.
@6:58 Mwene Kongo (not its European pronunciation Manicongo) means "Lord of the river" or "Lord of the territory" as Kongo amuse to describe both the region of the mouth of the river Congo inhabited by the Bakongos and their ethnic kindred, as well as an extended territory or stretched-out animal (often cow) skin. This DOES NOT means "mountain" at all!!!
Btw, the reason why they were titled "lords" (Mwene) instead of Kings (Nkosi) was because of the fact that the Kongo kingdom was not an independant kingdom originally, but a Principality and fiefship of the Lunda Empire (hence why the "Manivunda" or "Lord of the Vundas/Lundas" blo%dline always had more spiritual and political power in Kongo than any of the Mwene Kongos themselves, least until their demise by the Portugese-enabled Lukeni Dynasty in the 1600s following the decline of the Lunda Empire's econopolitical sphere. The Lunda Empire itseld being a province of the greater Anzicana Kingdom tjat covered much of Central, South-Central and Eastern Africa.
The Kongo Kingdom, same as the Lunda Empire, Kuba Kingdom and Luba Kingdom, were nothing short but rogue states. A cohort of Portugese protectorates via Kongo, Arab-Zanzibarite or direct colonial Portugese proxyism, serving to undermine and destabilize the influence of both the Anzicana, Mutapa, Malavi and rogue Zanguebarite/Shenzi Kingdoms in the region.
@7:10 What did you just say??? Nzinga "Alfonso I" Mvemba never converted ALL of Kongo into Roman Catholicism: only a portion of his own royal clan, of the aristocracy and nobility. Jesuit missionaries were the ones who attempted the most to approach the common class of the cities and peasantry in the backwater regions with the conversion of Bakongos into Catholicism, and even there their attempts has proven to be not entirely successful until at least the mid-17th century to 18th century: the elites adopted a syncretic mix of Catholic and indigenous religions and hidden Pan-African wisdom older than some of its roots in pre-Dynastic Egypt and Kush, combined with some vaguely scarse echoes of both Ethiopian Pagan-J%daism dating back from the Abyssinians's short-lived conquests in the African Great Lakes, of Dharmic and of South Arabian both pre-Islamic and early Islamic beliefs under a Christian Catholic front, while others - notably the Kongo royalty itself, from the early mid-16th century to 17th century onward - simply and gradually rejected the Christian component wholly after feeling dejected by the r4cially motivated, backst4bbing, heinous treatments that the Portugese and the remainder of the European Christendom reserved toward their people since Nzinga Mvemba's lamented about the permanent ensl4vement and inhuman treatment done toward both his subjects and embassies sent to the plantations in Brasil.
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