ִֶָ𐀔𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָde Nile 𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ𐀔

K.D. Aubert in The Scorpion King (2002) Dir. Chuck Russell

(𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑏𝑠 23:7, 𝑰𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒂𝒉 45:7 ⬇️)

𝑰 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔: 𝑰 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒍: 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒅𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒/𝑒𝑔𝑜 (𝑌𝑎ℎ𝑤𝑒ℎ) 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡.

https://youtu.be/dQrWwGZuUyg

…𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝘰𝑢 𝑑𝘰 𝑦𝘰𝑢𝑟 𝘵ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑖𝘵’𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝘵ℎ𝑒 𝛨𝑒𝑎𝜈𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝘵 𝑦𝑎~

(𝘚𝘰𝑛𝑔/𝛫-𝑦𝘰𝑢𝑛𝑔: 𝛨𝘰𝑛𝑒𝑦)

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𝄞𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָwhy don’t we fall in love?

A redhead African  is about as common as a European with red eyes. And there’s a good reason for this – being an albino causes them both.

Except when people are of mixed ancestry, red hair in Africans is usually caused by a kind of albinism. When people think of albinos, they tend to think of white hair, pale skin and red eyes. While this is true for Caucasians, albinism works differently in people of African descent.

There are a few different kinds of albinism in people of African descent, but the one that gives red hair is called rufous albinism. People with this condition have a red-bronze skin color, ginger-red hair, and blue or brown eyes.

How is someone an albino? All of our coloring – our skin, hair, and eye colors – comes from melanin. Melanin is just a pigment, or colored chemical substance, like the ones that are used to dye your clothes or maybe even your hair! Melanin comes in two different forms – pheomelanin (the red kind) and eumelanin (the brown kind). 

 It is significant that in ancient Egypt, as Manetho tells us, human sacrifices were offered at the grave of Osiris, and the victims were red-haired men who were burned, their ashes being scattered far and wide by winnowing-fans. It is held by some authorities that this was done to fertilize the fields and produce a bounteous harvest, red-hair symbolizing the golden wealth of the corn. But these men were called Typhonians, and were representatives not of Osiris but of his evil rival Typhon, whose hair was red Set was the black boar who swallowed the moon each month, obscuring its light. He was also identified with the hippopotamus, crocodiles, scorpions, turtles, pigs and donkeys - all animals which were considered to be unclean or dangerous. Some fish were considered to be sacred to Set (most notably the Nile carp and the Oxyrynchus) as they had apparently eaten the penis of Osiris after Set had dismembered the dead king. However, he was most often depicted as a “Set animal” or a man with the head of a “Set animal”. The Set animal (sometimes known as a"Typhonian animal" because of the Greek identification with Typhon) is a dog or jackal like creature, but it is not clear whether it exactly represented an extinct species, or was a mythological beast uniquely associated with Set himself.

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He was thought to have white skin and red hair, and people with red hair were thought to be his followers. He was associated with the desert (which takes its name from the Egyptian word “dshrt” - the red place). He represented the fierce dry heat of the sun as it parched the land, and was infertile like the desert. Initially he probably represented the desert near Nubt, but soon he represented all deserts and foreign lands, becoming a god of overseas trade. Set had been associated with the desert and foreigners for some time before the Hyksos took over parts of lower Egypt. However, when they took him as their main god, this broke Set’s association withLower Egypt. His name was erased from monuments and his statues destroyed. All of his negative attributes were emphasised and his positive side was ignored.

The thing is that these days, having red hair and light skin can’t really hurt you because we spend a lot less of our time outside than our ancient ancestors did, and we have modern day conveniences like sunscreen. But 100,000 years ago when the first humans were evolving, things were a lot different.

Our ancestors most likely first developed in Africa where the sunlight is really strong, so they needed the protection that comes from darker skin. Red hair and light skin would have been very unhealthy, so it was selected against. As people moved farther north, the sun’s rays were less intense and they could afford to have mutations in their melanin system that gave them lighter skin and hair. That’s probably how we got the Caucasian red heads we have today who so often trace their roots to Northern Europe.

Groups who stayed in Africa would have still had some people with melanin mutations who survived and passed this trait on to future generations. That’s how there are modern day Africans with red hair. It just turns out that the most common mutation that stayed in the African population is different than the one that traveled north, and that’s why the African redheads are different from the Caucasian redheads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu0z6zyc2J8

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~𝓂𝓎 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒, 𝒹𝑜 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂 𝑜𝒻, 𝒸𝒶𝓃𝒹𝓎 𝒸𝑜𝒶𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓇𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝒹𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓈~

𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑, 𝑜ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑

"𝑇𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠" - 𝐶𝑦𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑎 𝐸𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑜