A final farewell to all my loyal readers

L M Leteane | Friday April 28, 2017 14:58

Such is life. Not that I have ever got any negative or incredulous or challenging comments in the email address I judiciously appended every week. All I ever got was praise, pleas for further explanation on specific topics, and requests to purchase any books I have written. People, I suppose, really can sense Truth from go goga letlhaku (yarn-spinning)…it’s only that some can’t face it.

Regarding my books, I long allowed them to quickly go out-of-print because they kept getting overtaken by events as my discoveries ran deeper and deeper. In the process I had to dodge orders from established retailers like Exclusive Books and great libraries like the US Library of Congress – establishments any author would ‘kill’ to have their books displayed in. And I could dodge only because I fully self-publish and control my own work; I am able to write, design and format a complete, illustrated and indexed book. (Note: this was not because I had no offers from publishers; for better or worse I actually turned down overtures from at least two established publishers.) I instead decided that I will only write again once my knowledge-gathering reaches a plateau of sorts…a stage where I had now satisfied myself of all the major questions that were still swirling in my head. But never in my wildest dreams would I have believed that I could unearth so much so quickly…questions that have flummoxed researchers for centuries, even millennia.

In my mind’s eye I can of course see many a lip curl in utter cynicism at my words. “He is full of himself, isn’t he?” However, gauging me and my capabilities exclusively from my Digging Tswana Roots articles is like believing you have the full measure of an iceberg just from the part visible above the surface of the sea. Actually, the greater part lies beneath the surface: much of my work has not yet been seen. I will not go through everything, but let me quickly itemise some of the pioneering work that I have already hinted at, or have given brief samples of. Loyal readers who have followed me from very early on will know that I have discovered that Setswana (even Sotho) is a genuine protolanguage that is still very close to a single global language that Genesis 11 insists was once there, and gave copious examples of this. They also know that I have an ever-expanding Dictionary of Protolanguage Terms that I am yet to publish – one that formalises this stunning discovery.

Another of my first-evers is the discovery that Sumerian, the language of the world’s earliest [post-Flood] civilization, is but an ancient form of Setswana. To prove this, right in this column, I selected well-known epics and went further than a mere, basic, phonetic comparison with Setswana; I demonstrated how the scribes cleverly layered multiple meanings in each line – the most superficial one appearing to praise the gods, but other layers sinking deeper and deeper into insults against those very gods, yet using the same phonetics...something only Setswana could uncover. In private, yet-unpublished work, I have tackled entire epics (averaging about 90 lines each) and proven to myself that the present scholarly translations are wide off the mark; that my own are far more humorous, revealing, and thematically cohesive. The importance of such a discovery cannot, of course, be underestimated…as seems to be the case here in sleepy Botswana.

My adventure with research and writing first sparked off when I deciphered a puzzling Sotho poem that begins with the words “Khama-Roggo, Roggo-Tshese…” When I found that I could trace the name ‘Khama-Roggo’ to ancient Egypt, that, along with other research, affirmed that Bantus once indeed resided in Egypt…which they alternatively called M’siri (‘Shield’) – and which in Hebrew is I-sira-El (‘Shield of El’). From this, a whole new and cohesive story unfolded before me – and that, along with another beloved project I will not even hint at in this article, made me decide to resign my position as a Finance Manager. (Yes, I resigned my executive position and was not retrenched as some outsiders seem to take for granted without necessarily asking me; I was actually given a new offer to stay on…but I instinctively knew that I would achieve much more in my new career path). Indeed, after reading Michal Tellinger and Zecharia Sitchin’s books, my perspective on organized religion changed forever…especially since I found that I could interpret Sumerian words much better and thus quickly assembled a far more cohesive view of the ancient roots of our present religiosity.

But where I really outdid myself was when, one day, I found myself irritated by the biblical-scholarly-scientific squabbles about best dates for certain ancient history events and personalities. I decided to attempt the ‘impossible’ – a seamless, unchallengeable timeline from Genesis (i.e. when the universe ostensibly began) to Daniel – still the only seriously-disputed period of history. I did it…hence my latest book A New Harmonized Biblical-Secular History. And what of my future work? First of all, I view my latest book (now finished) as the best work ever written…as you will duly agree with me when I start my internet blog. But there is yet more: much, much more… Meantime, Alekum sal’laam (a le kome sa-lulamo: peace be unto you)!

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