1965
cont.
The Early Inhabitants of the
"An evidence which might prove that the ancients had good
knowledge of the
In the Chapter Do que se diz das linguagens de todas estas Ilhas
Canaries of his manuscript, the author reports that the Canary Islands were not
inhabited by man and that they were peopled by Carthaginean prisoners who had
been conveyed to these islands by the Romans after having their tongue cut for
punishment. Owing to this fact, their descendants who could not learn any
speech whatever from their mute fathers, developed new languages which grew
independently throughout the islands as there was no communication among them.
This story might be considered to be a figment of Frutuoso’s mind, but actually
it isn’t as some basic statements he reports are quite correct. However, when
we turn to Frutuoso’s assertion that the Canaries were not inhabited by man in
ancient times, we find that such a statement lies beyond the scientific knowledge
of his times. Who told him that the
Ahemon "Water" in Lanzarote and Hierro (cf. Berber
"Aman")
Ataman "The Sky" in
Chamato "Woman" in
Faican "High Priest" in Gran Canaria (cf. Wolof
"Fayda" meaning "much esteemed")
Tagoror "Meeting" in
Tibicena "Dog" "Evil Spirit" in Gran
Canaria (probably from the old African linguistic background)
Zeloy "The Sun" in
We also give a Canarian original sentence as reported by Spanish
Historians:
"Ajeliles Juxaques Aventamares" meaning "Run
away! They are coming to take you."
(Tomas Arias Marin y Cubas, Historia de las Siete Isles Canarias,
origen, descubrimiento y conquista, an original manuscript-A.D. 1694.)
These words belonging to the dialect spoken by the native Gomera are a
proof that the language was of Berber extraction. In the reconstruction made by
Mr. G. Marcy, a well known expert in Berber languages, the above mentioned
sentence would be: "Ahel I-bes, huhak sa aben tamara-s", with
the same meaning. From the evidence which we possess, we know that the cardinal
numbers of the early inhabitants of the
Ben = One (webmaster comment- of the Egyptian-Celtic ‘Ben-Ben stone’)
Lini =Two (webmaster note- Remi was probably the original twin
Egyptian Goddesses)
Amiet= Three (compare with Egyptian HMT= Phallus, three lines, earth
and sky symbol hieroglyphs and meaning three in Ancient Egyptian)
Arba= Four (also Acodetti) webmasters note-‘Splendorous four trees?’
or cardinal points?
Cansa = Five (webmaster note- a kind of ‘Thoth’?)
Sumus = Six (webmaster note- ‘Priests’)
Sat = Seven (webmaster note- ‘Set’)
Tamatti= Eight (webmaster note- Lybian-Egyptian ‘Mother Goddess’)
Acot = Nine (also Alda Morana, meaning "One less than ten")
Webmaster note ‘Splendor –(Fire (Sun-Priest)) Beloved of Osiris’?
Marago = Ten (Webmaster note- Muluga, Moroca, Malaka i.e Milky
like Milky Way completed circle due to the less than expression of the above
nine.)
-The Webmaster admits speculation but with my years of research I know
I am fairly right on 80 percent of the above speculations along with Alf’s
thoughts. That a Semetic People left strong linguistic traces upon the Canary
Islands far more then
The whistle language given to sailor prisoners without tongues is an
interesting problem because within the whistle would be a meter that like in
poetry would possible mimick the native language of the Gaunche song’s or
story’s. This as a plausible substitute to deal with natives feeling sorry for
the Carthage prisoners who needed to communicate in another way. We could say
the bird language from the Bushman Hottentot clicks, to the western african
whistle language would not be out of place born out of hunting the creatures
with their own whistles, nor found on the early Canaries? Did the Romans
humiliate Carthage prisoners by substituting forcibly their language to what
they considered barbarians i.e click talkers, and whistlers, for it was a very
harsh punishment that involved towards Carthage personal humiliation.
One would think Carthage prisoners would welcome the Guanche and as a
beautiful peaceful people even more civil then the Romans not treasure there
wives stories, for they could not speak the same? -
"Our knowledge on Canarian numbers is mainly based on Spanish and
Portuguese accounts. We wish to mention a manuscript by Antonia de Cedeno, Breve
Resumen o Historia muy verdadera de la conquista de Canaria, as it seems
that this well known historian could avail himself of first hand information
including some transcription of the cardinal numbers. Acodetti (Four) and Alda
Morana (Nine) come from a manuscript in Latin giving the account of a
Portuguese expedition made in 1341 under the direction of Angiolino del Tegghia
of Florence, Itlay. We wish to point out that the author of this manuscript was
not Giovanni Boccaccio (the famous Italian writer and poet), as it has
erroneously been reported by some scholars. The evidence given by the number
three, which sounded almost in the same way both Egyptian (HMT., where
"H" is like "Ch" in Scoth Loch) and in Canarain (Amiet)
proves that there was a common background from which many languages and
dialects of North Africa derived. It is interesting to say that some scholars
believe that the Egyptian names of Cardinal Numbers from one to five were of
African extraction while the following numbers show a Semetic influence. Other
Canarian Cardinal Numbers, such as Ben (one) etc., have their counterpart in
the dialect spoken by the native tribes of the Western Coast of Africa (Wolof,
Zenaga, Silha, etc.) We give hereunder some Canarian words of Berber
extraction:"
Achich =’Son’
Adarg =’ Shoulder’
Ahemon = Water
Ara, Axa = ‘Goat’
Cuna = ‘Dog’
Taharenemen = ‘Dry Figs’ webmaster note- Medi-Terranean
Almogaren = ‘Temple’
Ataman= ‘The Sky’
Falcan ‘High Priest’
Arba ‘Four’
Cansa= ‘Five’ webmaster note-same as Cuna or Dog but Egyptian Thoth
extended.
All notes by webmaster date from June 25th-26th
afternoon 2002 as first revealed.
"The appellative "Guanche", which became widely used in
the Nineteenth-Century to indicate all the early inhabitants of the Canaries,
comes from an original word of the native speech of Tenerife. Its actual
meaning was nothing but, ‘Son of’ and the ‘Native of ‘ as it is proven by its
Arabic counterpart ‘Ben’ meaning the same thing, which was employed in the
first names as a translation of Guanche. Ex.: "Guanche-Tinerf" and
"Ben-Tinerf", both meaning "Native of Tenerife".
Webmaster note-it can only be speculated that the ‘Native’ had a
doublet terminology i.e. there was a dualistic meaning to ‘Son of’ and ‘Native
of’ for it would not have been necessary to 'Ben' it or 'Guanche' it
with distinction from one another when it originally meant 'Son, or
Native of' both. It would seem that 'soul or way of a clan' was first then 'Son
of' after for give 'directional implications' of 'way' as a kind of taboo of
life giving and sense of place. In this sense both Guanche and Ben mean the
same thing in Life and pillars of Life. Canary Islands were a life beyond the
pillars!!! But before the pillars was the Ova that formed a internal pillar in
its on making symbology wise and creating a town city by its Ova outline.
Tinerf name gives a clue to why Guanche as well?
Almost a 'Land or Islands of Life' would thus be its original likened
name not 'Fortunate' for finding as secondary.
The antiquity of some of the words (in some cases) are pre-4,000
B.C. in its use or beginnings and which can make scholars conclude from this no
doubt 6,000 B.C. with this date at least that the beginning of Canary Island
inhabitants migration and possibly older as being very plausible. For Guanche
is actually older by name then Ben. Ben is well known at least 3,400 B.C. in
Egyptian description, or language. We know there was a great migration of Azilians
a Cro-Magnon descendant at around 10,000-8,000 B.C. which ironically the word
'Azil' was a Canary word? Could they be the one and the same?
The Early Inhabitants of the Canary Islands, By Alf
Bajocco, Part III or Hmt