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Although not referred to by name, the first terrestrial Meroë is in the heart of the Great Lakes Region in Africa, near the Nile and near Nyanza ya Tanganyika and Nyanza ya Ukerewe.The most likely location for the second terrestrial Meroë (Mauru, Arua, Aru) is in the area now bounded as northwest Uganda and northeast DRCongo where they meet southwest Sudan. We know this because:
1. The earliest Meru was celestial as the mount of the seven stars of the Hippopotamus Constellation, the water-cow Mehuru, the mountain serving as a pole around which revolved the cow, sow, tortoise, water-bird, rhinoceros, or other Great Mother types. The Hippopotamus Constellation is the Great Bear Constellation in the north, the hinder part, the thigh in the sky of Nut in the great waters of Nun.
Celestial Mount Meru is said to signify lake, north, place of fulfillment and re-birth. Ru is the mouth of emanation. Meh-ru is the north outlet from the Abyss . This outlet shown as a Mountain. The seven stars revolved around this figurative mount to make the first circle of time and earliest enclosure in heaven, called Eden, Paradise, Meru or Airyana. (NG2)
The mountain is a high place that connects the deep abyss below and the deep blue sky above. Mountains are the first altar for death, rebirth and a grand focal point reminder for acknowledgment and respect of truths.
3. While reckoning from the south and facing north, land lying north-west of the African center wherever the Maori (Mauri, Maurui, Mauru, Moors) lived, deposits the names of the Mauri land such as Meroë, Mauritania, Marocco (Morocco) and Marmarica **
4. Meh-ru (Mehru, Meh-rru, Meh-ru-ru, Tameri, Meri-ta) is the northwest outlet. Though it is said that Ancient Meroë as Meh-ru was once the capital of the Two Lands called Egypt, we should not be confused by the widely accepted deceptive location of Meroë above Khartoum and east of the Nile.5. The names Arua and Aru are in the area of NW Uganda and NE DRCongo.
6. Uganda-Ruanda, in what was ancient Meroe. (Diop, Precolonial)7. In Uganda-Rwanda, we also find the Kara tribe. (Diop, African Origin)
8. “There are many things in the manners and customs and religions of the historic Egyptians that suggest that the original home of their ancestors was in a country in the neighborhood of Uganda and Punt.” (Diop, Civilization or Barbarism)9. The close proximity to, and details relating to the Reru-Khe-nsa-ru-ru Mountains (Rwenzori). One of several Mountains of the Moon.
10. Meroë must be located near one of the Mountains of the Moon since Meru is Moon Goddess, Hathor (The Hat of Horus), whose name is also Meri (BB)11. Meru (Ma-ru, Mauru) is the mountain paradise, place of new beginnings and renewal that connects the abyss of water below and the horizon of wind above. Thus, the most likely birthplace of the Maori. Mer is the company or circle of people joined together. Meruni are the inhabitants of the water-region and the land-limit. Meroë is the place of transformation, rebirth and fulfillment where the eye is filled full and the cycle, final stage and process are completed.
12. Meroë is Meru which signifies an island, mountain, lake and river. Be not confused if there are no present day islands in the area.13. The second or third Meroë became the capital of Aethiopia and served as the birthplace of the Egyptian priesthood and religion which were earlier derived from farther south in the first India (Khentu in the Great Lakes Region, the first Meroë).
14. Gizeh (Giza) and Rhakotis (Ra-Kedet, Alexandria) in Egypt are forms of Meroë15. Meroë is said to have been discovered by Cailliaud. (Diop, Precolonial Black Africa translated from the 1960 CE L'Afrique noire precoloniale)
16. Meroë is also said to have been discovered by James Bruce who found the true limits and position of the Island of Meroë (enclosed by the Atbara, the Nile, the Blue Nile and its tributaries). per (Crowfoot, Island of Meroe).This reference goes on to say that Bruce, though hazarding the guess that this site was really Meroë, he devotes some pages elsewhere to proving that Meroe was farther south.
17. In those primitive days, the central seat of Ethiopia was not the Meroe of our day, which is very ancient, but a kingdom that preceded it by many ages; that was called Meru. (Drusilla Houston, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire)
18. Unlikely the original Meroë birthplace would be revealed to plunderers. Jehovah did not reveal all things to humans and neither did Africans worldwide leave everything to be found and raped. Furthermore, why assume there was only one place called Meroë? Especially when we know, place names are used many times in one country, state and region. It is good to not know the two primary sources of Nile and further good that there are multiple Mountains of the Moon in Africa and worldwide.** Likely leads to the names, Armorica and America. Thus telling us who the first inhabitants of the Americas were and that the America's became yet another Meru, Meroë birthplace.
Kush comes from Khepsh above which means the hinder female thigh as the north. Thus Kush was named from the Great Lakes Region, and at least portions served as Meroës in essence if not in name.
All mentions thus far of Meru and Meroe, except those by Diop himself, prove Cheikh Anta Diop is mistaken when he says “The name Meroë does not seem to derive from an African root”. There are too many African words in Egyptian and other African languages that indicate an African root. African Origin p. 316, referencing the word Meroitic on p. 143.