Khalid, there are many, many moments, even when someone is not in agreement with you, where you are a thoughtful, introspective, seriously deep contributor who provides valuable feedback that adds to everyone's understanding participating in discussion.Waaq is not a cushite god afar beja saho never worshiped Waaq. Only darood and oromo and rendile worshiped Waaq. Waaq is a pagan galla God.
This is not one of those moments.
Furthermore, I will turn this around on you so you actually understand something you have never understood before.
- So in social organization what people most value is the reference to "originality" ("old blood") and they call that "pedigree"/patrician/aristocracy.
- This is why the Ethiopians have that theory of Queen of Shrba and Abraham making their former Kings as an extension of their people "the oldest continuous bloodline in power"
- ]This is why our modern concept of voting government is directly given Greek referencing like "Democracy" and even institutions like " Senate" named such by the first modern voting society (the US) bevause it alludes to the originality of the system and it's legitimization
- This is why the first established schools in the US group themselves "Ivy League" cannoting themselves all sorts of distinguiable features based on allusion to old patrician blood/origins when many of them do not measure up to MIT, Standford, Berkeley, etc
- You see Khalid, if a clan has "Waaq" in their geneology---that is actually PEDIGREE. It is originality. It speaks to a longer existence of its organization recognized in Somali social grouping. Conversely, if a clan does not have "waaq" in their geneology, or the less of it, it speaks to the more recent foundation of the group being informed by how waaq gradually started falling out of favor as Somalis accepted Islam and over the ages replaced more indigenous reference to God. If a clan has completely Islamic naming, for example, it is possible they were even formed social just yesterday and last week could bave been foreign to Somali identity. Like genetic testing uses markers to identify the "period", waaqnis actually one of the markers establishing OLD BLOOD and OLD, CONTINUING social organization in Somali culture.
- This is similar to another huge misunderstanding which concerns tribal leader nomenclature. Do you notice ALL the groups farthestwest or important to Harar and Adal historically and today have UGAAS as a leader? Mareexaan, Geri Koombe, Gurguure, Bartirre, even Gudabiirsi, Ciise Madoobe, etc etc etc. They all have UGAAS as their leader---do you think this is a coincidence Khalid? Only the leader of Adal was SULTAN and the clans had an Abogasoch with 1 Abogaz for the most important groups (basically a "Warden" like Game of Thrones) who makes decisions at the council table with the Sultan of Adal. And after the separation between Adal and Harar when Adal moved to Aussa defeated in Harar did Harar under Ali Dauud dynasty rebrand itself as an EMIRATE (recognizing the Sultan in Istanbul) still keeping the Abogasoch system for the clans. There was no clan "Sultan", and even more no existence of the real borrowed Oromo title of "Boqor" until the 1800's when European colonialism entered the land and the Abbysinians given guns started weakening and ultimately destroying Harar. So the fact of even having SULTAN and BOQOR is itself indicative of what we urban Americans call "new money." It means "nice car, but it sure isn't a classic"
You think this is about them, when it is about you.
It's not a question of why do you have it, it's a question of "so I don't have it because...."
It means your building looks like money sure as the rest of the block, but there sure isn't "ivy" growing on it for a reason.
Ivy takes a long time to grow.