- For quite sometime I have been fascinated by the nomenclature "Hodanbari"
- It exists very high in Marehan geneology where the majority of Marehan come under it
- It is a compound word in Somali
- Hodan = prosperity, wealthy, rich [often used to describe land]
- Bari = East or Sunrise, both interchangeably; May you safely "pass through" or "jump over"; a porral or entrance
- It seems awfully phonetically similar to one of the Gates of Harar called ASSUMBARI which is a compound word in Harari
- Assum = Salt
- Bari = Entrance of a Gate or a Wall or Opening into a Compound or enclosure
- Now the walls of Harar were built by Emir Nur Mujahid and presumably he would have named the Gates
- Emir Nur is considered Marehan by Marehan and the textual scholars like Cerulli and Wagner
- Within Marehan, he comes under HODANBARI
- Emir Nur is considered Marehan by Marehan and the textual scholars like Cerulli and Wagner
- Going by the assumption there is a connection between the name of the gate and the name of his family
- Hodan Bari = Assum Bari
- Hodan = Assum
- Hodan Bari = Assum Bari
- Then somehow Hodan AS PROSPERITY and Assum AS SALT are linked
- HODAN (prosperity) = SALT (Assum)
- Which means Hodanbari = SALTWORKS FROM THE LAND WHERE THE SUN RISES (OR THE EAST) = THE LAND OF PROSPERITY
So I just got curious and put "Somalia salt hodan" on google to see what turns up, no tweaking search, just regular unbiased

Then...

Then...

I feel like I made a connection here more important to research on Punt and Somalia and about our origins than 100 years of the random, disparate stuff written on it.
Thisbis magnificent, we are going back DEEP IN TIME.




