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9 of Top 20 African Sculptures (Ptah Statues)

9) Guanches, Canary Islands

Guanches is the name given to the native Berber occupants of the Canary Islands. It is accepted that they relocated to the archipelago around 1000 BC or maybe earlier, with some theorizing that they may have been descendents of the fanciful region of Atlantis. While it is largely considered that the Guanches no more exist as an unmistakable ethnicity, hints of their way of life can still be discovered intermixed inside Canarian traditions and conventions, for example, Silbo, the whistled language of La Gomera Island.

 

10) Ptah Statues
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In Egyptian mythology, Ptah  likely vocalized as Pitaḥ in ancient Egyptian is the demiurge of Memphis, lord of skilled workers and engineers. In the triad of Memphis, he is the life partner of Sekhmet and the father of Nefertum. He was additionally viewed as the father of the sage Imhote

 

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