Tag: African Philosophy

  • From Nabta Playa to the Osirian Mysteries: Africa’s Claim to the Primordial Wisdom Tradition

    From Nabta Playa to the Osirian Mysteries: Africa’s Claim to the Primordial Wisdom Tradition

    How nineteenth-century esotericists ignored Africa’s ancient Wisdom Traditions, limiting their focus to Biblical interpretations, which expanded into understanding Indo-Iranian roots. INTRODUCTION The concept of a single primordial Wisdom Tradition, or even just the origins of “Holy Wisdom” as it was constituted in Western religious and philosophical literature (particularly in the nineteenth-century, to the medieval Alchemists…