"Many of the madonnas painted in the earliest centuries of Christ- iandom were black, according to historians, and it wasn't until the Renaissance that it became popular to give the mother of Christ the features of a Florentine maiden [a white woman]" Washington Post (Religion) May 4, 1979.Did Christianity Evolve From The Egyptian (African / Kemet) Spiritual Tradition?
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i think Europeans have taken those paintings out of their original context. i don't think it was meant to say 'Jesus is white' and this is what he looked like. I think it was just meant to bring life to the stories they had heard. I thought the painter just used his family members as models when asked to paint jesus and other biblical figures. Given the self-absorbed nature of europeans, we couldn't expect the painter to do actual research and paint Jesus to look like anything other than european. if my memory serves me correctly, the image used today in christianity of Jesus is actually the painter's cousin. that's an LOL
there are so many striking similarities between the kemet and yoruba traditions and christianity that you hae to believe there's some kind of influence there. someone i know believes Jesus is what they call and 'avatar'. i don't agree at this time, but i do think that is a very intresting perspective that i've never heard before.
"someone i know believes Jesus is what they call and 'avatar'. i don't agree at this time, but i do think that is a very intresting perspective that i've never heard before."
-kalena
kalena, you have a beautiful mind.
-j
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