More on the word "SHA".

It seems my post on why Botswana should be called SHASHE has touched some raw nerves somewhere. I readily acknowledge that the words SHA and CHA mean BURNING in a number of languages, Tswana and Sotho among them. But I still think that in ancient Kalanga, the word SHA also meant residence, or domicile. If we accept that at the "Tower of Babel" the Lord did scramble one common language to produce many, then it will be futile to argue over what SHA meant when the gods walked the earth. However, if we undertake to "prove" that it meant what it means in Setswana today, we should live up to our undertaking and provide the proof; something which some columnists are dismally failing to do.

One columnist's quest for the "ancient" root of the word SHA, starts with what the word means in Setswana today - BURN. He then jumps to the Hebrew word SHEM and claims that there is a link between the two words. I dispute this. The way ancient text is rendered in modern writing has one big flaw. Ancient text often "embedded" a vowel into a consonant, especially into the last consonant. Thus the last M in SHEM may actually be MA, ME, MI, MO or even MU.

An Anunnaki rocket was called CHIMA or CHIMI which mean the same thing - something that stands (Ku MA, in Kalanga). An oxen whip is also called CHIMI. I believe it got so called because of the explosive sound it makes - just like an Anunnaki rocket. A very good pointer to the word CHIMA for a rocket is that a maize cob is called CHIMANGA in Kalanga. CHIMANGA literally means "resembling CHIMA". Another word used for the rocket was SHAMU. In modern Kalanga SHAMU means a lash. And so we have two Kalanga words, CHIMI and SHAMU, both referring to an Anunnaki rocket, and both also referring to a lash/oxen whip. The graphic/mnemonic representation of these words has been shown in the "ancient Maori hieroglyphic script" found on Pitcairn Island. That script has a picture of a person brandishing a whip, which picture I interpreted as CHIMI/SHAMU meaning A ROCKET.

 It can be argued that the word SHAMU does conform to the "Tswana root" :- SHA (meaning BURN), and the word MU (meaning ground). That would vindicate our Tswana friend, because a rocket (SHAMU) would mean BURNING THE GROUND. But it can also be argued as I do, that the SHA in SHAMU means domicile, while the MU still means ground. In this case the word for rocket i.e. SHAMU means "the one that sits on the ground". Maybe I am right, maybe our Tswana friend is right; hard to say for sure.

But like I said, subsequent to the scramble of the original common language at Babel, it is possible that the Tswana root SHA may have also originated then. Let us examine a few words in Kalanga with the SHA component:

SHAmbnga or SHAngwa: meaning "dirt"; breaks down to SHA (residence or domicile), MBNGA or NGWA (dog). In other words the Kalanga word for DIRT has its roots in "a dog's house". This makes a lot more sense than our Tswana friend's "SHA" for burn, and MBNGA for dog; burning dog or hot dog? LOL, doesn't make any sense at all!

NSHASHA is a roof-less enclosure, usually made of reeds or twigs to mitigate against wind. There is usually a fire in such an enclosure, therefore the SHA here can refer to "domicile", or to "burn"!

SHANGU is a shoe. NGU is "cover", as in NGUbo (blanket) or NGUpe ( a girl under initiation, who gets covered). SHA here could mean "burn" - the shoe covers the foot from burning. But it could also mean "the ground where we STAY/SIT, in which case the word SHANGU means covering the ground. Both meanings are quite plausible.

Just about any human emotion is sometimes referred to as a "burn": - will; anger; love; happiness; desire; loathing. It could therefore be sheer coincidence that the Tswana word SHA (meaning BURN) is spelt the same way as the Arabic word for WILL (i.e. sha), and not an indication that the two words share a common root.

What all this shows is that our Tswana friend has really not demonstrated, contrary to his claims, that the morden Tswana word SHA has any root more ancient than today, where SHA means BURN, in SeTswana language. My claim that SHA means "residence or domicile" still stands, and therefore I still believe that SHASHE means "King's domicile", i.e. King Anu's domicile, and that the Republic of Botswana is best named Republic of SHASHE!

Botswana best named Shashe

What is Shashe?

The simple answer is "It is the name of the river partly forming the boundary between Botswana and Zimbabwe, and depositing its waters into the Limpopo river right next to Mapungubwe heritage site". But is that all? Why was the river named Shashe?

As I have written before, Kalanga language is largely composed of monosyllabic words which were combined to bring out various meanings: KA (meaning spirit)combined with NYO (meaning penis) to make NYOKA - a snake; WA/WE (meaning fall) combined with NGA (meaning resembling) to make WENGA - a parrot (which resembles the Illui (fallers)).

It would seem that the word SHA means residence, or domicile or living (place). This can be deduced from the word NSHA which means the open place where a family sits for meals or just chatter in their compound. Another word is SHAKA, which means a nest, i.e. SHA (residence) and KA (something alive, such as a bird).

The word SHE of course means KING. And so the composite word SHASHE (with high probability) means WHERE THE KING RESIDES. I believe the king referred to here is none other than King Anu himself.

 I understand Sumerian records, as translated by Zecharia Sitchin, show that King Anu of the Anunnaki visited planet Earth sometime in the ancient past. Considering that man was engineered to work the gold mines of earth, and that some of those gold mines were, and still are in Francistown, it stands to reason that King Anu must have at least set foot at Mapungubwe, from where the Francistown mines are reachable by dry bed of the following rivers SHASHE, TATI (DATI), NTSHE.
The TATI is a tributary of the SHASHE, while the NTSHE is a tributary of the TATI. Indeed the gold mines are at the confluence of the TATI and the NTSHE.

And so the dry river bed path from Mapungubwe to the Francistown gold mines suggests that the correct names for the rivers SHASHE, TATI and NTSHE are SHASHE, TATE (father) and NTSHI (the digger). The "father" referred to was of course King Anu himself. These names must have been given to the three rivers in remembrance of King Anu's visit to earth.

It is for this reason that I think that there is no better fitting name for our Republic than Republic of SHASHE. Note that there is another SHASHE river near the North Western town of Maun. My research has so far not identified the reasons why that river was also named SHASHE, but I am working on it.  

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Versions of the Kalanga letter "B"

From what I have often written about the Kalanga pronunciation of the letter "B", a non-Kalanga speaker would have difficulty reading three Kalanga infinitive verbs: Ku Bika; Ku Bika and Ku Vika.

The "B" in the first verb, "Ku Bika" (To cook) should be pronounced like the "B" in the religious "Gautama Buddha".

The "B" in the second verb, also written "Ku Bika" (To report) is the soft "B", which in Shona language has been transformed to a "V"; but in Russian remains a "B", although when Russian is translated to English, this "B" becomes a "V". All Kalanga words relating to people groups (or types) e.g, Ba-Kalanga, Ba-Ngwato, Banhu, Bathu, Ba-English, have their "B" in this category.

The "V" in the third verb, "Ku Vika" (To block (a blow)) is pronounced the same way as a "V" in English.

It was with the above in mind that I was pleasantly surprised to find that according to Russian history, the first people to settle in ancient Russia, around the present-day city of Kiev, were called Varangians. Correctly written in Kalanga, these people were Ba-Ra-nGi, meaning "Ra's people on Earth".  "Gi" meaning Earth, is not Kalanga; it's Anunnaki language. It is consistently written with a "G" as in I-Gi-Puta (Egypt), and never with a "K", contrary to what some Tswana language writers (TLWs) would have us believe. Some TLWs claim that the last "ki" in Anunnaki refers to Earth, and that Anu-Nna-Ki means Anu who lives on Earth. I mean really? Aren't these the people whom ancient Russian history has called "Varangians"? I maintain that Anu-nnaki is Kalanga, and it simply means Anu-the-Good.

You see, Setswana language developed out of Kalanga. It is a version of Kalanga which is especially suited to be audible in a noisy animal environment. Try saying "Nthu" (meaning "Person"), when cows are moo-ing for their young ones and you will not be heard. But the Setswana version "Motho/Muthu", or for that matter the Shona version "Munhu", is well audible even under those conditions.

Speaking about a "person", the Russian word for a person/human being is quite revealing. In Russian, the word "Vek" (written in Russian alphabet, of course) means 100 years or an age or a lifetime! The Kalanga verb "Ku tjila (pronounced Ku Chila)" means "To live". The Russian word "Chilavek" (written in Russian alphabet of course) means "human being".

We thus have it in Russian that a human being is an animal which lives for about a hundred years. Is this proof that there have been non-human beings, but beings all the same, whose lives used to last either a lot longer or a lot shorter than a hundred years?  

Thank you!

To all those who (possibly) had a part in causing my Internet bandwidth to "significantly self-improve", I say "Thank You".

I have just read a fascinating article on Space.com, relating to the theory that our Universe may be just a simulation.  I am not a scientist, as I have written on numerous occassions. I just speak Kalanga, and through the medium of Kalanga, I have become completely convinced that the human race did not originate from this planet.

In Kalanga the verb "Ku budha" means "To get out". The word "bana" means "children". The Kalanga phrase "Ne bana" would mean "with the children". Bearing in mind that the "B" in Kalanga is pronounced rather like a "V", I can't help wondering if the Buddhist concept of "Nirvana", simply points to finding a backdoor into the computer simulation, getting out, and "living among the children", whatever such a life would entail.

It's done; Nkalanga wotji zwida!

For close to a half year I have been fighting to have my bandwidth restored, to no avail. I have just enough bandwidth to post on my blog, but not enough to search for anything else, nor simply to surf the net.

I therefore continue to pay monthly installments for an internet connection that is effectively a "one-way" engagement with the net. It is unsustainable. I quit!

Some transformational names

I have come accross  some names, not for the first time, which initially bore no significance  to me, but which now seem highly significant. These are historical Zimbabwe names. They are written differently by different authors. I will write what I believe they really are. The first name CHIKULA-U-JE-MBEU is of an ancient ruler.

Let's break this name down. The verb KU KULA means TO GROW UP. Chikula is an imperative - "It's time you grew up!" The verb KU JA means TO EAT. U-JE is an imperative - "and eat!". The noun MBEU (here) means GRAIN, otherwise means SEEDS.

The name CHIKULA-U-JE-MBEU therefore loosely translated means IT IS TIME YOU GREW UP AND STARTED EATING GRAIN! Well, what is there to say other than just Voila! A child born in transformation from crap-and-milk eating Anunnaki to grain-eating Human was eagerly awaited to be King.

The next name I met was that of the TORWA dynasty of Nkami (Khami) near Bulawayo. In my recent post titled "Barwa are Barua", I showed that the people of Nkami are the Bangwato, Bakwena and Bangwaketse of present day Botswana. Following the same lexicon, Torwa should correctly read TO-RUA, a word that is partly Kalanga and partly Tswana. "TO" is Kalanga meaning "WE". The word "RUA (dikgomo)" is a Tswana verb meaning "To rear or to raise (cattle)".

What the above shows is that the TORWA were a transformation from a Kalanga speaking to a Tswana speaking dynasty. Some may ask "why not the other way around?" The answer is simply that the names of the listed tribes remain Kalanga names to this day, but a good portion of those tribes speak Setswana (Tswana) today.

A tribe of Kalangas known as Bahumbe, meaning "diggers/miners", evidently identify with the Changamires of the Zimbabwean plateau. I knew a very old woman who died in the early 1970's.
She used to say "Iswi ti ba Makulukusa, uno busa ku BuChanga", meaning "We are of the clan of Makulukusa, who reigns at Changa". In my view this directly links to the "Guruuswa" and their "Changamire" rulers. She also told us that traditionally, their clan rode oxen (Tanangombe?). What this shows is that the Butua (Buthuwa) dynasty of the Changamire's which routed the Barwa from Nkami, extended all the way into present day Botswana. And these are the Barwa to whom the British gave up to 80 % of the land area of Botswana, resulting in the Barwa naming our country after themselves - Botswana!