A PLACE CALLED "CUSH"
The modern day country of Ethiopia was a separate kingdom founded by Sabeans, known later as the Kingdom of Aksum…
“Hermes” is just an Egyptian synonym for the "Son of Ham"
The composition of “Her-Mes” is, first, from "Her", which in Chaldee is synonymous with "Ham", or "Khem", "The Burnt One"
Then, secondly, "Mes" is from Mesheh, meaning "to draw forth"
There is a connection between this word and birth...
“Now Nimrod, as the son of Cush, was black, in other words, was a negro. "Can the Ethiopian change his skin? "is in the original, "Can the Cushite” do so?”
“I have already noticed the fact that Nimrod, as the son of Cush, was a negro”
“Now there was a tradition in Egypt, recorded by Plutarch, that ''Osiris was black" which, in a land where the general complexion was dusky, must have implied something more than ordinary in its darkness”
“Nimrod, over all the world, is represented with the features and complexion of a negro.”
“Bacchus, the Greek Osiris, was the son of Ethiops, and Plutarch records the tradition that Osiris was black, and therefore an Ethiopian or Cushite, the black colour being peculiar to the Cushite race as implied by the prophet Jeremiah, "Can the Ethiopian (Cushite) change his skin" (Jer. xiii. 23)”
“We have also seen that Osiris was black, or of Cushite race, and this was the characteristic of the Egyptians”
“There were two races in Egypt, viz., the Mizraimites who first colonized the country, and the black Egyptians, the latter receiving their name from “Ægyptus”, the son of Belus, i.e., Cush”
SOURCES;
(Alexander Hislop, "The Two Babylons; Or, the Papal Worship Proved to be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife"; 1873)
(John Garnier, “The Worship of the Dead: Or the Origin and Nature of Pagan Idolatry and Its Bearing Upon the Early History of Egypt and Babylonia”; 1904)
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