Strange Symbols and Their Meanings in Southern Africa's Oldest Cities 

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Wow, this was very informative. I had no clue what many of these symbols mean aside from a few like the Shiriyadenga (Birds of Heaven, aka lightening birds). Many of those symbols, btw are seen on the historical attire of our ancestors in Zimbabwe. Good to know their meaning now. The more digging done into the history, the more fascinating things become. And welcome back again bro 😁👍🏿

This is currently my favorite RU-vid channel by far. Our history is so fascinating

You've been quiet, but I see you've not stopped researching 😁. You make a comeback with the culture of my ancestors. I'm honoured, bro. The soap stone birds are said to represent our ancestor Tovera Shiriyadenga (Bird of Heaven) Nemapungubwe who ruled at Mapungubwe. Tovera Shiriyadenga Nemapungubwe, who is also known as Raluvhimba (Father Eagle) by our Venda brethren, was the first recorded lord of Mapungubwe. Mapungubwe was one of the first major cities of the Shona and Venda ancestors in Southern Africa. Mapungubwe in the old ChiShona-ChiKaranga and ChiVenda language means "Rock of the Great Bateleur Eagle” / “Eagle Rock”. The Kalanga or Western Shona name for the bateluer eagle bird is Tjipungu / Chipungu (Chapungu in Karanga), and the plural form is zwipungu / zvapungu. The prefix "Ma"- represents personification. So "Mapungu" means the "great bateleur eagle" (in description of a person), just like the Venda VhaKwevho call their king MaGuluvhe aLuonde, meaning “the Great Pig of Luonde”. So, if we assume the meta language of Mapungubwe is similar to Venda, then Mapungubwe would mean "Rock of the Great Bateleur Eagle". In other words, a personification of the great king, Shiriyadenga Tovera.

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Great video

Thank you so much for contributing to this Untold Black History playlist! I feel like I've learned something new today!

Thank you for bringing this great collaboration together!

Good morning dear friend 🙏🙏 Very good sharing 👌👌 Very informative video 👍👍 Thanks dear friend 🙏🙏

Been waiting for this!

I hail from the clan of the needle. Our liturgy states that we are not the needle that sews up fabric but the rocks and the land. And yes the bird 🦅 symbolises the Messenger of the Most high creator. I am of the Royal Thobela/Tovera clan of Venda origin and I would vouch that you have explained this quite well especially towards the end🙂

Great video! I'm glad we got to do another fantastic collaboration together. :D

i love symbols and what is associated with them. it gives us a glimpse at what their beliefs and culture were/are like.

I love your breakdowns of African symbols!!

Everytime i learn more about ancient African architechture , crafts and technology it infurates me knowing that the world assumes that Africa has always been some primitive unadvanced place where people just used sticks, cloth and mud. Entire cities like this were constructed with great care and with no mortar for the bricks but can still stand up for hundreds of years. Racial propaganda has been used to dismiss the idea that Africans can build things like this and when colonizers saw structures like this and even brass/gold art pieces crafted they wanted to dismiss the idea that Africans can even come up with crafts this beautiful - Thank you for spreading this kind of information about Ancient cities.

Man I love exploring cultures, and I am so stoked Metatron let me know about your channel

I got a new book to read, thanks for inviting me for this wonderful project

Your best program!

There is also a bird on the roof of ancient Edo palaces called ahianmwen-oro or "bird of prophecy"

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Great video - very informative, as always!

Thanks jabari 😁

Are you aware of the Great Zimbabwe zodiac bowl? I would like to hear your thoughts on that.

The good thing is there are still people who live in these drystone walled settlements to disprove the abandonment myth.

Very interesting indeed! A shame that this civilization did not get to continue its legacy to the modern day.

9:09 I can definitely see the eagle sculptures representing ancestors, but could they have served a practical purpose, as well? Maybe a scavenger type of bird was a nuisance to the villagers, and the sculptures were erected as scarecrows Love the Star Fox soundtrack btw

6:10 this crocodile vegetation is fascinating as in Pakistan we have a big diaspora of black people from Africa who culturally still venerate crocodiles. They associate themselves with East Africa with Kenya and Tanzania mostly. They're known as the "Sheedi" people. And they're more numerous than people think. There's 2 million of them on the Pakistani southern coast. I'm a country of 200 million, they're statistically not that huge. But the number itself is quite large.

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Truly wonderful how diverse the Humans got in their culture from that bottleneck of 2000 surviving people. Still, we all are much more related in some ways than other species because of that event. For an extreme example of this, see cheetas

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Zimbabwe birds were also on the flag and coat of arms of Rhodesia, not just those of Zimbabwe. Rhodesia also had Zimbabwe birds on its coins and stamps and even on the badges of at least nine military units.

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This was a nice video, although I have personally no issue with the title "Untold Black History", it did bring me flash backs to how some afrocentrist title their propaganda videos, like with "Hidden Colors" by Tariq Nasheed, ughh! Not saying that your videos and this playlist is like that, it just brought back a funny memory is all.

GREAT ZIMBABWE?

Showing egypt as part of black africa is dangerous be careful some Egyptologist dont play

These we wuz kangs Americans really love spreading inaccurate information about our continent.😢

Are you saying that you agree with europeans - that america was populated by humans AFTER united kingdom? If not, why do you refer to the so called americas as the "new world".

Thank you so much for contributing to this Untold Black History playlist! I feel like I've learned something new today!