Angola world heritage site of Unesco provides an exclusive insight into partnership of ancient world’s most diverse geographical situations by different tribes whose generalised belief in god cannot be linked with the arrival of Portuguese in the island during 15th century. Of course, Unesco finds, ‘The town then experienced the expansion of Christianity with the Westernisation of the local elites, without however renouncing its culture’.
Historians see Angola’s root in ‘aen goule’ which has an exclave province of Cabinda that borders both the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Luanda is the capital of Angola, and its ethnic communities are known mainly by the name of Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokowe, Mbunda, Ovambo, Gangela, Xindonga and other peoples. Languages its people speak similarly find interesting names from the ancient world like: Umbundu(language of Ovimbundi), Kimbundu(language of Ambundu), and Kikongo. Malanje province of Angola again presents another glimpse into the ancient world and its peoples.
Term Tocoists, Kimbanguism, and Zaire identifies place-names; Mani-kongo which scholars argue to have spread to some few other countries finds its root in ‘Mani’ , name of a Naga or the Serpent King whose kingdom was on the bank of the Manasarovara Lake or Manasseh of the Bible.
Kango or Congo’s root is in ‘Kleing’ of Ptolemy; and the latter identifies with it the Island of Birds, same as ‘Chhadeyya’(means the ‘bird’) of other ancient literature. It was land of the Chaldeans of ancient history to which Noah belonged. Plain of the river Ganges was in the neighbourhood of this Island of the Birds which is linked with the biblical story of the Flood.
Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokowe, Mbunda, Ovambo, Gangela, and Xindonga were Skythians belonging to various regions of the ‘inhabited world’’ like, Ovi, Amba, Ombo, Choko, Ganges, Alanda, Khanda and Kodanda regions; Ancient Gola-people were Skythinas and they were leading a nomadic life; they can also seen as people of Galilee and the Gouri country. In Homeric epics they were identified as Galloaphagus. Khoi and San peoples who were the first inhabitants of M’bunza-Kongo prior to Bantu migrants coming to the island, were the people of the region Vinjjha/ Vindhya. San people’s history is written in Asokan Rock Edicts.
The Kilukeni dynasty or the House of Kilukeni is linked to the House of Kwilu; the latter is exactly the same as Koili or Coili. This identifies the Peacock and the Island of Birds along with House of Noah. Lukeni ‘kanda’ is as same as Rumkuni(may be Laxman also) and the latter is name of a goddess that marks the Roman dynasty; Seat of ancient Rome sees Ceracani and Pompa geographically attached with it. Name Kilukenai seems to be the same as Cerakani and name of Laxman is a part of the Roman history linked to Caesarea near it. Kurukunda and its King Korkunda both were linked to the royal seat at Kolhana. Seat of worship of the goddess Rumkuni was near the Nimi’s kingdom. Kondanna was name of a ‘gotta’ or a clan name. The inhabitants of the Kingdom of Mankada( or Monkey) belonged to this ‘gotta’. Some scholars see Konda as same as Gonda. Both Konda and Gonda shared a common geographical situation on the bank of the river Ganges.
According to Pali texts, ‘Kanda-gallaka’ is name of a ‘bird’; a Jataka is also found in this name. Kandaraka was name of a wandering ascetic of Campa; this shows that there existed a place in the name of kanda in the ancient world whose inhabitants were known as ‘gollas’.
M’bunza-Kongo sits on the top of an impressive flat-topped mountain, to which scholars sometimes called Mongo a Kaila (means ‘mountain of division’) and legends recall that the king created the clans of the kingdom and sent them out from there. This name Kaila is a corrupt name for Mount Kailash, the sacred mountain linked to humans’ history. The Luenzi River reminds the name of goddess Lanji in this region near Galilee and Bethany.
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