To feast among the Sunburned*, and the gods

Accompanied him…

* "Sunburned" is not the correct translation of the word Ethiopia. In the original Greek the word used is ‘Ethiopians’. This is also the case in Russian, in Bulgarian, and in the Polish translations. In the original Greek the meaning Ethiopia came to mean the land of the sunburned (darkened by the Sun) people. Robert Fitzgerald’s translation is incorrect in this as well as in leaving out the very important word, "respectable", "pious" to describe Ethiopians.

If it can be said that the ancient Greek gods, led by Zeus, would visit Ethiopia in the very beginning of the Iliad – that is already evidence for the existence of something of great importance and worthy of the visit by ‘Zeus and all immortals’. By all immortals is meant all the gods in the Hellenic mythology. That mythology is in the very beginning of the main creation of the Ancient Greeks. And The Iliad making that relationship very early in the story gives evidence of an important place in the story. Ethiopian civilization is older than the Classical Hellas civilization, and probably older than the Egyptian civilization too. The river Nile starts from Ethiopia high up in the mountains, and civilization must have flowed down from there along with the flow of the Nile. In many archeological findings human habitations start in the mountains not in the plains. Second point of my base was the name Egypt. The structure of that word in English and also in Greek – Eg-ypt. Egg-ypt – means ‘egg’, or ovum. That is the second evidence - the original name of Egypt, Massur civilization precedes European civilization. Massur in Bulgarian means the person who mixes, or the mixer, and by that Egypt is known as a land of mixed races and nations. The same meaning is obtained in Amharic and in Arabic. Historically that is the truth. Europeans destroyed the manuscripts in the Alexandria library and after that rejected all past history of Africa "scientifically". This was done on purpose, and it opened the road for the creation of the racial theory. In English too, the word Eg-ypt can be traced to the ancient Greek word meaning Egg-hipt, ego, to itself, as in ego - centric, (self centered) and thereby, the center of the World, and no doubt, the beginning of civilization.

Now, Gorfu is a US citizen, founder and owner of an Educational Institute in California, a highly educated computer specialist with a degree from England, and author of several more new books. At our meeting in Addis Ababa 25 years ago my impression was that he was going to develop in the field of science. And I was sure of that. He has continued to work on his poetry and on the history of philosophy. Finally, I believe, he would open European eyes to their historical ignorance of Ethiopia, and its relationship with European civilization over the last 2000 years. He is the third generation in a line of important and remarkable Ethiopian thinkers. His great grandfather on his mothers’ side was the great scholar, Haleka Tewolde Medhin Gebru, who translated the Bible into the Tigrinya language from Hebrew, Geez and Swedish, and also authored a scholarly book on "The Existence of God". His father too, Zemenfes Kidus Abraha Gorfu, was a theological writer and scholar who authored half a dozen theological books. It is a natural phenomenon, therefore, that G. E. Gorfu should develop in the level that I see him now. I was definitely sure of this even a quarter of a century ago, and I have no doubt in predicting his next development. He will be the window for the coming science of the next millenium to open the hidden Ethiopian secrets that have been kept in the dark for all the past centuries.

Contemporary science needs the contributions of G. E. Gorfu. That neediness, that necessity, was not realized for the last two milleniums. One reason for this, probably, is that old haughty, aloof, and secretive Ethiopian characteristic, from the inside of the door. The other reason from outside the door: - the realization by the Greek Orthodox Church the schism over the Ethiopian Orthodox Church a thousand years ago. (The Bizantium Patriarch of the Orthodox Church had condemned and declared "anathema" on Ethiopian, and its Church.) I have no doubt that this was what practically closed the door for any relationship with the Ethiopian Civilization and Greek (European) model.

This is at the root of all the dark cloud hanging over the Ethiopian phenomenon, and the rest of the African continent. It has resulted in malicious and systematic denigration and racial discrimination against Africans throughout the past milleniums. That also explains Gorfu’s revolt against Nietzsche. That is his motto.

My past training and experience until 1990 was in the Communist science and philosophy. The Marx – Lenin theory rejected totally Nietzsche and his racial base. Yet, this was done without any analysis – only total rejection. In many ex-communist countries and in the philosophy books written in Russian, there are many rejections of Nietzsche from the time of Marx and Lenin, up to the new period. But there does not exist even a single work with such deep analysis covering all Nietzsche’s major works, while simultaneously quoting each of Nietzsche’s arguments. Gorfu does this by using the Bible as a base and a historic backdrop for the philosophy of racial purity and all the associated theories developed by Hitler and the National Socialists of Germany. The similarity is also comparable to the "Communist Dictatorship of the Proletariat’ developed in the Eastern block.

The research by Gorfu goes even deeper in describing the seeds of sociological racial hegemony in history from the religious point of view. Probably in his future works he will describe the biological side of that, as he pointed that to the next phase of his project. It is in conformity with a law of the society in which he lives that such research came to be published in the USA. That, in it self, is a victory for the tradition of North American Philosophy. This is possible only here, only in America.

From all the works of Nietzsche only "Zarathustra" (1942) was translated into the Bulgarian language. But even that work was largely ignored by the Communist system because of its religious metaphors, and treated like other religious books like the Bible, the Koran, etc.

For that reason, in his important book "The Fascism", the Bulgarian author Zheliu Zhelev, (1990 Columbia University Press, N.Y.) did not get into any research on Nietzsche. His research is very important for the history of Nazism. The similarity between the description by Z. Zhelev’s "The Fascism" and the Communist model of government put that book in a special camp, - the jail. And it was banned. Incidentally, the same thing had happened to Gorfu’s father, Zemenfes Kidus Abraha, as he was arrested, and his books banned, for criticizing some of the traditional practices of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

Now even at the end of 1999 we still see, again and again, many attempts for racial discrimination. The existence of Neo Nazi organizations, WAR, (White Aryan Resistance), The Aryan Brotherhood, The National Front, etc., as well as many Nietzsche Societies in US, and around the World, is an evidence of this. This is not exclusive to the West. As the Aryan Superman was a direct derivative and product of Nietzsche’s philosophy, that same image was multiplied in all Communists literature like a standard, and re-labeled ‘the healthy part of society’, - and absorbed into all the work of philosophers of Communism.

Africa –That is the main conflict in history. This is what has been kept a secret in history for so long. Ancient pharaohs, the government and the administrative system of ancient Egypt, were black Africans. The black ruling people dominated the white people and made them slaves in ancient Egypt. All complexes of historical understanding resulted from this domination and discrimination over the white people of Israel by the black Africans. The revolt of Mosses was the revolt of the white Israelis against their black rulers. In the next three milleniums the discriminated whites had already become the discriminators. We need to have this understanding to fully comprehend Gorfu’s book.

Darwin, in his theory, placed the white people on the top of human evolution, but historically, that is not the reality. That is simply not true. Darwin needs to ‘change’ some aspects of his theory. But he is not alive, and cannot do that now. The question is how, by a genetic way, the white race was geologically produced from black people? And that is the new point. New, because Darwin’s theory is now only a hypothesis. We need the real explanation to come from genetic understanding how the white and the yellow people were produced from the black, with the axiom that the black race existed first. The blacks are the beginners of civilization. All succeeding civilizations have come down from that model.

From cythogenetics we already have a good understanding of the cytology of non-pigmented, non-colored people, the white people. The larger quantity of melanin in the skin of black people is the difference. The Eskimos who live six months in the dark and six months in daylight have geological reasons to lose the melanin from the sun and from the food they eat. Throughout geological past the Eskimos have used foods with much less chlorophyll than the Africans, who never even experienced an ice age. That gives a geological advantage for the black races to start civilization. All other cultures were students of that African model. The next evolutionary explanation is the duty of cythogenetics. These specialists should give us the specific explanations of human development by biochemistry and the development from chromosomes.

Definitely, after a long geological period, some black people who lost the base of forming melanin became white, and transformed into the snow white Eskimos in the north.

To be understood in the best way Gorfu needs to be evaluated with all this attempts. Many of the secrets of the Egyptian architectural tradition could find the key now in the Ethiopian past. The Agricultural History and experience of the river Nile has its beginning experience in the source, the Blue Nile part of Ethiopia. The art of preparing writing materials for manuscripts from ancient past still exists now in Ethiopia, by papyrus, by leather, by ceramic… The Ethiopian tradition with stone work and the building of large monuments predates the Egyptian experience. Probably, ancient Ethiopian stone engineers taught Egyptian builders. The use of caves for religious ceremonies is totally native to Ethiopia. The range of secrets in Ethiopian agricultural tradition started in Upper Nile and moved down to Lower Egypt and was then adopted by ancient Egyptians in the Nile Delta.

After his, section by section, analysis of Nietzsche’s life and philosophy, Gorfu discovered that, "Nietzsche never worked with his hands, never planted or harvested, never carved or painted. He never married or fathered any children, legitimate or illegitimate… he never even experienced normal sexual intercourse with a human being" (p.51). Gorfu observes the same in Hitler’s image. This is true of Lenin, too, and with some gaps in Marx and Stalin’s life, we see these similar defects the same as in Nietzsche, and with the same behavior. In Nietzsche, Gorfu finds some manliness only in his exaggerated mustached face (p.59). The same can be said of Hitler’s face, and that small goatee in Lenin’s chin.

Stalin also had some behavioral and hereditary physical defects, which formed his image. But all that exists in Gorfu’s analysis like an undivided part of Nietzsche’s individuality and all his followers who accepted his ideas of the "Superman". Only the defective needs to prove superiority. Gorfu has discovered this important and remarkable phenomenon as a major philosophical category.

The detailed description of this sociological phenomenon exits in history, not only with Nietzsche, but also with a range of bad political leaders. In Nietzsche, however, that is the model. This discovery is the great contribution of Gorfu.

Gorfu’s conception starts with Alexander the Great (p. 20) and ends with Stalin, (p. 133) and in its own category, contains all strange historical monsters between these two dark heroes. Here Gorfu explores with very interesting terminology, and describes the Aryan/Superman, ‘Ubermenschen’ and the concept of the process of ‘National egoism’. The people chosen by the gods for something special are the Mandarin class, the blue blood, the noble, and the ruling caste. This analysis is done mobilizing all philosophical tools on three levels. Fist, using all the theological traditions in the history of Europe, from Moses to Gandhi. Second, using the classical dialectics from Socrates and Aristotle to Hegel, Newton and Leibniz. Third, contradicting, and defeating the first two with the Ethiopian tradition based on theological grounds, and supported by concepts of ancient Chinese wisdom. All this is typical of Gorfu’s method of dialectical analysis.

Every short piece quoted from Nietzsche is immediately followed by Gorfu’s philosophical irony, coming from a healthy logic. Gorfu’s complete analysis is constructed by the first part of 48 levels of arguments, followed by the second part of 83, and the final conclusions of 21. With these 152 main arguments Gorfu destroys all Nietzsche’s pseudo philosophy, coming two centuries after him. Gorfu comes to the conclusion that the barbarian period is repeated by a natural law in succeeding stages of civilization.

The main conclusion of Gorfu’s analysis results after the work and action of Nietzscheanism in all its variants and the racial development – that is "An eye for eye" – the result is two blind people. "A tooth for a tooth" – the result is two toothless people. In his 152 arguments Gorfu touches on all world knowledge from ancient Oriental wisdom and The Old Testaments to Moses and Trotsky, and down even to present day Professor Bernd Magnus, a Nietzsche scholar, teaching in the University of Riverside, California. That is a pretty large canvas depicting an anti-racial subject. It is amazing how Gorfu gives only one explanation of his victory over Nietzsche - backed by the tradition of old Ethiopian philosophy his arguments work perfectly.

Another important part of the book is the eleven appendixes and the bibliography. That is the part where Gorfu quotes and criticizes Nietzsche’s original philosophy. Appendix four contains the classical dream of Nietzsche. But this is not just a dream. This is the real Nietzsche. The same is in all the other appendixes. On the next issue of this book, Gorfu should, perhaps, add the examples from Stalin’s philosophical ‘wisdom’, in detailed, picturesque contours to express in full the Nietzsche-Hitler-Stalin phenomenon. All three, philosophers with moustaches, fit the phenomenon. Here is the irony discovered by Gorfu.

Gorfu’s background is his engineering education from England. He never studied formal philosophy in the European style. And he stands on the correct position for his logic based on his Ethiopian tradition of philosophy. For us in the West that knowledge is terra incognita. His mind works first in Amharic, after that in English. The same is with his logic.

But during his engineering studies in London he must have read all the British philosophers from Hobbs and Newton, to Marx. And he has examined all European philosophers from the ancient times to the present. That is clearly visible from his book.

Leon Trotsky is the symbol of World Revolution with real scientific meaning. This is what created the conflict with Stalin. In Gorfu’s book Trotsky, victim of Stalin, is a positive historical hero. With that metaphor, Gorfu gives the perspective for scientific structure for the future of the world. And this will be the agreement between the Old World and Africa.

No doubt, Gorfu takes an important place in the fight with the misanthropic Nietzsche and his philosophy, and achieved victory over that. Even if that is his only book, Gorfu will always have a place in the History of Philosophy. That is a definite theoretical creation. That book was possible only in the US tradition of Philosophy. That is an achievement of the Northern American style of philosophy, a new start for mankind after the Old World. That final conclusion was possible only for one coming from a country equivalent to ancient Egypt, and from a thinker coming from a long and ancient tradition.

The phenomenon discovered by Gorfu gives us the key for a new basis of understanding the main events in the Twentieth Century, as well as in all previous history. That is a remarkable sociological discovery.

I would give Gorfu the Nobel Award, for the year 2000 for exceptional contribution for the Philosophy and the Literature with great meaning, if that were in my hands. And that would be with a deep sense of respect. Such an action will be greatly constructive, and would show the wisdom, and visionary perspective of the Nobel Committee. African development is in the horizon, and the down of tomorrow will show this to be a truth. The developing of Africa is coming. Gorfu says Europe should not be watching only for its own interest and ignore this important continent, Africa, and its past. The circle finally will be closed. A dawn of a new knowledge is coming by the old water of river Nile…

The cultural revival of Africa is surely coming, and Gorfu has put a remarkable order for that with his book by a dialectical analysis over the dark philosophy of aggression and dictatorship by disabled people, which created the deformations in history.

Dr. Iskren Azmanov

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