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Oromo Sorority, Christian Fraternity, and the Homosexualization of History

[ Posted On: 2008-03-24 ]

History is not in danger at the hands of cruel dictators and nationalistic politicians; falsification of History is being attempted in our times by marginal groups of power and people who want to impose their exceptional and extraordinary identity on the outright majority allover the world. In fact, it matters very little whether a false version of history and a grave misinterpretation of textual evidence are carried out by a tyrannical elite or the lobby that represents the social and financial interests of a social pressure group. Any similar attempt has to be always properly denounced and unveiled to the many.

Allan Tulchin - an intellectual terrorist

A while back, a horrendous and blasphemous effort was carried out, taking the form of a preposterous publication. In the September issue of the Journal of Modern History, an intellectual terrorist, Allan Tulchin of Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, attempted to convince billions of people allover the world that History can be more homosexual that what we may have throught!

In an unprecedented effort to disfigure a religious practice that was common in several European and Middle Eastern medieval backgrounds, Allan Tulchin pretended that brotherment was not as we have practiced and considered it but a form of civil union between male couples! The statement would make many Christian brothers turn in their tomb, but in effect what is supported in the infamous article is a simple rhetoric that the historical documentation "could be interpreted” otherwise.

The "strong point” of Tulchin’s argumentation is that the brotherment, according to which two men were linked and meant to share bread, wine and money, had to be sworn before a notary and witnesses, like marriage contracts. Of course, this is not a source of evidence. The contracts were markedly different, and the eventuality of a ‘same-sex loving relationship’ would be considered as an abnormal and severely punishable act.

In fact, there is nothing in these contracts that could possibly prove that "the affrèrés were using affrèrements to formalize same-sex loving relationships"; this is pure invention of the author who attempts to portray his wish as ‘historical reality’.

As the evidence is missing, the character of the text becomes shadowy and ambivalent: "I suspect that some of these relationships were sexual, while others may not have been". As a matter of fact, Tulchin admits that he cannot effectively prove anything in the direction he tries.

However, when we are in front of a well-orchestrated plan, the original author accomplishes his work with a mere collage of personal convictions and personal ideological projections on the ‘studied’ object. The rest is the work of the others.

The next step is made by the ignorant but equally committed journalists who turn the incertitude of the original author into a certitude of the posterior propagandist. Quite indicatively, Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Staff Writer, found good reason to select as title for the article she published about the issue (http://www.livescience.com/history/070827_civil_unions.html) the following:

"Gay Civil Unions Sanctioned in Medieval Europe".

However, it is truly impressive that an article with a title like this ends up with the conclusion: "I suspect that some of these relationships were sexual, while others may not have been," Tulchin said. "It is impossible to prove either way and probably also somewhat irrelevant to understanding their way of thinking. They loved each other, and the community accepted that”.

At a moment the Western Crusade of Misinformation advances much in the direction of portraying homosexuality as normal, evident, and historically-proven, more articles are written (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-clemons/when-the-intolerant-kill-_b_78201.html) to persuade naïve masses in America and allover the world that they have to simply imitate Vice-President Dock Cheney for his tolerance towards his lesbian daughter.

The religiosity of the act, the fact that the two people who entered the relationship had to be good Christians and therefore not to share same-sex experience, everything is deliberately forgotten, History tells us that in provinces with minimal resources and in places that were most isolated, such as Corsica, Mani, Sicily, Calabria, etc. the brotherment was common and effective. It was the correct means for a person to strengthen his social position and eventually find solidarity and support in his endeavours. It is absolutely impossible that the Christian priests of these areas accepted wholeheartedly and even eulogized the same-sex loving relationship.

Addooyyee – Oromo sorority

Similarly deprived of any same-sex loving relationship is the case of the Oromo sorority (Addooyyee) that was reported to me analytically by the Oromo intellectual Asafa Dibaba.

In Addooyyee, two Oromo Virgins take a vow of lifelong Sisterhood or Sorority.
They swear in the name of Ateetee, Atis, the Oromo female goddess of Fecundity. They both pierce their palm sitting by the River and mix the blood with Milk, water and dew of their Tear drop. They dip a long grass in the mix and one smears on the forehead of her Friend of a Common Factor. They say words of promises not to betray in the faces of adversities etc. Here are the words:

yaa dhallaadduu
Addooyyee laliftuu kanaa
hoo'u callee Addooyyee kanaa...

jaalallii keenya akka jabaatu
hiriyyoommi keenyas akka jabaatu
akka luubbuu dheeratu

hoo'u aanan Atee-Loon uni--
afaan kee xobbee kanatti
dhallaadduu loosha waliin

hoo'u dhadhaa Atee-Loon
gubbee kichaa kanarratti

harka irraan nyaadhe

harka koorraa nyaatte

irbuu Addooyyee waliin seenne

Ateeteen walitti nu haa hiitu

nu foon tokko
nu dhiiga tokko

foon kee foon kooti

Ateeteen nama afaan tokkoo,

Ateen nama garaa tokkoo
nu haa gootu. Nu waliin Addooyyee dha

hamtuu nurraa haa qabu

nagaa ta'i

Ateeteen si haa tiksitu
si hinfudhatin

Waaqni si haa tiksu
si hinfudhatin
Waaqni si haa tiksu
hamtuun si hinmudatin....

(in Anaan'yaa, in the poem Aanaaf' Saafoo, pp62-63)

The promises are literally to mean: may Ateetee protect you from all evils,
may Waaqa Providence protect you, may you succeed in all your endeavours,
may Ateetee help us to keep our promises and to remain men of our words,
your flesh is my flesh, your blood is my blood, we are One and only One at
Life and Death, your pain is my pain, your success is my success, go in Peace,
in Peace etc.

The promises is kept unconditionally to remain sisters-in-vow lifelong.

That is Addooyyee Durbee Oromoo, i.e. Addooyyee of the Oromo Virgins.

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About The Author: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis - is Orientalist, Assyriologist, Egyptologist, Iranologist, Islamologist, Historian and Political Scientist. Dr. Megalommatis, 51, is the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of encyclopedia entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and writes more than 15, modern and ancient, languages.

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