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“In the black African conception of time and eternity, going back to pharaonic times, there are also various ideas of ‘order’ and ‘measure’ designed to enable human beings to create a sense of self based on what is essential in the universe. In a practical process of independent thinking that has advanced beyond any need to fall back on revelation, such ideas enable humans to forge an ontology, a philosophy of being attuned to what is real and essential. Reality, unmediated, is diverse and dispersed. To live usefully, we need first to organize this scattered reality through thought. Abstract reflection, in a word, draws order out of the primal disorder of unmediated consciousness.”

“That is the process through which the ancient Egyptians really felt the unity of nature stretched between present time and unfolding time (3wt), between time as a practical medium, cut up, measured, apportioned into manageable pieces to facilitate the business of living, and time as eternal, perennial duration. In one cohesive, consubstantial process, the unification of space and time merges into the unity of self and world, in a solidary, consubstantial process.”

Theophile Obenga
“African Philosophy: The Pharaonic Period: 2780-330BC”
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