Postby qardasay » Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:44 pm
("Ham's sons were said to have fathered the peoples of Africa. Of Ham's four sons, Canaan, fathered the Canaanites, while Mizraim fathered the Egyptians, Cush the Cushites and Phut the "Libyans".[1]
Hebrew word for Egypt was Mizraim (probably literally meaning the two lands and was the name of one of Ham's sons. The Egyptian word for Egypt was Khem plausibly the origin of the name Ham, or vice versa, according to sound change between languages. The names of Ham's other children correspond to regions within Egyptian influence
Cush (sons were Seba, Havilah Sabta, Raamah and Sabtecha- also Chus, Kush, Kosh (Nubians, Ethiopians Somalis, Sudanese ,Dravidians Sumerians , Babylonians , Eriteans, Yemenis, and other related groups.
Mizraim "double lands" (sons were Lud, Anom, Pathros, Chasloth and Chaphtor[2]) - (Egyptians Khemets Philistines, and other related groups. "))