Redheaded Pharaoh Ramesses II
by
Karl Earlson
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Pharaoh Ramesses II (of the 19th Dynasty), is generally considered to be the most powerful and influential King that ever reigned in Egypt. He is one of the few rulers who has earned the epithet "the Great". Subsequently, his racial origins are of extreme interest.
In 1975, the Egyptian government allowed the French to take Ramesses' mummy to Paris for conservation work. Numerous other tests were performed, to determine Ramesses' precise racial affinities, largely because the Senegalese scholar Cheikh Anta Diop, was claiming at the time that Ramesses was black. Once the work had been completed, the mummy was returned in a hermetically sealed casket, and it has remained largely hidden from public view ever since, concealed in the bowels of the Cairo Museum. The results of the study were published in a lavishly illustrated work, which was edited by L. Balout, C. Roubet and C. Desroches-Noblecourt, and was titled La Momie de Ramsès II: Contribution Scientifique à l'Égyptologie (1985).
Professor P. F. Ceccaldi, with a research team behind him, studied some hairs which were removed from the mummy's scalp. Ramesses II was 90 years-old when he died, and his hair had turned white. Ceccaldi determined that the reddish-yellow colour of the mummy's hair had been brought about by its being dyed with a dilute henna solution; it proved to be an example of the cosmetic attentions of the embalmers. However, traces of the hair's original colour (in youth), remain in the roots, even into advanced old age. Microscopic examinations proved that the hair roots contained traces of natural red pigments, and that therefore, during his youth, Ramesses II had been red-haired. It was concluded that these red pigments did not result from the hair somehow fading, or otherwise altering post-mortem, but did indeed represent Ramesses' natural hair colour. Ceccaldi also studied a cross-section of the hairs, and he determined from their oval shape, that Ramesses had been "cymotrich" (wavy-haired). Finally, he stated that such a combination of features showed that Ramesses had been a "leucoderm" (white-skinned person). [Balout, et al. (1985) 254-257.]
Balout and Roubet were under no illusions as to the significance of this discovery, and they concluded as follows:
"After having achieved this immense work, an important scientific conclusion remains to be drawn: the anthropological study and the microscopic analysis of hair, carried out by four laboratories: Judiciary Medecine (Professor Ceccaldi), Société L'Oréal, Atomic Energy Commission, and Institut Textile de France showed that Ramses II was a 'leucoderm', that is a fair-skinned man, near to the Prehistoric and Antiquity Mediterraneans, or briefly, of the Berber of Africa." [Balout, et al. (1985) 383.]
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Aryan consciousness is evident in all physical races on current earth...It is expressed through the fire of mind, the 5th principle, manas....
Note that under the law of esoteric correspondences, the 5th principle is equivalent to the 5th root race, the Aryan...which is also equated with the 5th ray of concrete science....
And so, we can see the works of Aryan consciousness as being very much within the domain of mental development and the harnessing of concrete science, as the modern world displays, both the negative and positive facets of such a development...as evolution of Earth's Aryans has been spiritual perfection of the vehicle of mind...the concrete logic mind, primarily...The race still has to learn intuition, YET, the task of the Aryan mission has been mostly completed now....
I had already described how the Aryan related to the other epochs of human development, as follows:
Lemurian consciousness: Development of the physical body: EARTH
Atlantean consciousness: Development of the astral body: WATER
Aryan consciousness: Development of the mental body: FIRE
And the first two root races, the Borean and Hyperboreans, were not physically manifest on the lowest earth densities of matter, so could not display true mastery over matter, as the Lemurians...
Now, these are esoteric facts.....and just as the rays are expressed through the physical bodies, they are all expressed through the mind, soul and emotions....
So there is an Aryan body type, also....which is what Hitler was crudely alluding to...However, his fixation on the physical body type was not the true meaning of Aryan and it's work through the 5th principle....
Having said all this from a factual perspective, as I always strive to accomplish, I will say that concrete science does have value and is correct in it's conclusions that Pharaoh Ramesses II was of CELTIC genetics...and had actual red hair and white skin.....Indeed, if he had been alive today, he would have been able to walk down an average town street in Ireland or Scotland and easily assumed to be a local... ;-)
I am surprised that some members here are offended by the FACT that Egyptians were caucasian and that their early ruling dynasties were related to the Celtic tribes of Europe....
I'm also surprised that some here believe the Norse Vikings to have been black-skinned....Truly surprising, that in spite of all the scientfic evidence to the contrary, as well as documentary, eg the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, some members here seem to be lost in deep fogs of glamour.....LOL
Sorry to disapoint these lost ones, but the Celts and Vikings were great people and were truly of white caucasian appearance....It really doesn't matter to me what someone looks like, but TRUTH IS TRUTH....and many Pharaohs were white, and the later dynasties were Greeks, again of the Caucasian racial type, known as "Hellenes."
As well as migrating eastward to Europe, from the sunken isle, many of these same people settled in the Atlas mountains region of North Africa....Note the name of the mountain range...
Yes, a study has concluded that although controversial, the early Pharaonic famlies of Egypt were genetically related to the Celts of Western Europe.....
And one thinks of the British Isles and France for evidence of great druidic astronomical observatories and stone circle constructs...Stone Henge, Avebury, et al....
Their skills were renowned and issued from an earlier civillisation...These were flood survivors who retained much knowledge from Atlantis...
See my IITM article on this same topic:
http://indianinthemachine.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/drekx-omega-egyp...