Re: [ranchos] Ashkenazi Levite and Joseph Puentes

I just came in town and saw all the emails--taking my time to go through them all, so I apologize if I am a little late on this response, which caught my attention.

When I went Ghana, Africa, I learned about the "adrinka" symbols whose origins are said to be of the Ivory coast, originating by the Asanti people. As I stared at the beauty of the symbols, one struck my attention - I had seen it before. I asked the professor about this particular symbol, and guess what - it is one that can be seen in Spanish architecture - probably coming from the Moors. What the professor was claiming that the adrinka symbols was unique to Ghana was probably erroneous, especially considering that Ghana was a center of trade long time ago --- so the poor professor had to acknowledge that the Ghanaian symbol probably evolved from a combination of other northern or eastern African cultures as well as the Ashantis. Nothing is pure, which makes everything we do even more fascinating.