First People at Genetic Center

Alice C. Linsley

It is exciting when the truth of Scripture is confirmed by genetics and linguistics, as has happened with reference to the first people called the Ainu.

Luigi Cavalli-Sforza's Genetic Distance Chart

What do the following words have in common?

Kena, Canaan, Qatna, Kano, khinna/henna, Karnak (Egypt), Karnataka (India), Katakana, and Kana
They all share the KN root.

Kena and Canaan are related to the word Kain.

Qatna (Arabic قطنا, modern Tell el-Mishrife) is an archaeological site in the Wadi il-Aswad, a tributary of the Orontes, 18 km northeast of Homs, Syria.

Kano is a city in Northern Nigeria named after Kain.  It is north of Nok, which name appears as Hanock in the Bible.

Kinna and henna speak of the color red.

Karnak was the site of Ainu devotion to Horus, the "son of God." The Ainu had a red skin tone. Abraham's father was Terah the Ainu.  The Ainu originated in the Nile Valley.

In Japan, Katakana is used to write Ainu. 

Kana are the syllabic Japanese scripts.

The Ainu are at the center of Cavalli-Sforza's genetic distance chart. This supports the biblical assertion that they are "First People."


Related reading:  A Kindling of Ancient Memory, Syllabary Writing Systems; Abraham's Ainu Ancestors

Were Abraham's Ancestors Refugees or Rulers?

Alice C. Linsley

That is an interesting question raised by some theorists who are familiar with the pre-canonical Girgam, a chronicle of the rulers of Kano-Borno.  Kano-Nok-Borno is the region where some of Abraham's ancestors lived.  Bor-no means "Land of Noah."  Kano refers to Kain (Cain) and Nok appears in the Bible as the name Ha'nock.

Girgam, also called Dīwān, was discovered in 1851 by the German traveller Heinrich Barth. The chronicle lists Adam, Seth, Noah, Shem, Kenan, Enosh, Terah and many others. Some of the names appear to have been "corrected' by Arabic scholars. However, the orthography is closer to the presumed Hebrew original than that of the Arab authors.

The prologue and first section of Girgam name biblical patriarchs, ancient Mesopotamian kings, and the last Assyrian kings.  This has led to speculation that Kano-Borno was the home of refugees from the collapsing Assyrian Empire. According to this theory, the royal titles in the Girgam and the origin-chronicles indicate mass immigration of various peoples who formerly lived under Assyrian rule until that Empire collapsed in 612 BC. There is less evidence to support this view, however, than there is to support the biblical record of Kushite expansion.

Map shows Kano and Borno and related kingdoms extending to the Nile in 1750.

Another theory is that Kain and Noah were early rulers of this region and their rule is reflected in the place names. According to Genesis 10, their Kushite people spread far and wide. Nimrod, the son of Kush (Gen. 10:8), controlled the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley where tablets have been found that speak of the greatness of his rule. He is known in history as Sargon the Great.  Kushite rulers controlled a vast expanse from Nigeria to India, what I have termed "the Afro-Asiatic Dominion." This view is supported by the fact that girgam is a derivation of the Sumero-Akkadian term girginakku, meaning box for written tablets. Akkad was the center of Nimrod's ruler (Gen. 10:10) and Akkadian was the language of his empire.

Abraham's father Terah was no more a refugee than Nimrod. Both were Kushite kingdom builders. Terah 

controlled the length of the Euphrates, but his Ainu ancestors lived in the Upper Nile region.  This does not 

support the view that the names listed in Girgam represent displaced people from Assyria.

According to Epiphanies, the age of the Kushites extended from Noah to Terah. The authors of ancient Indian literature claimed that the Kushites ruled the world for 7000 years. 

Prof. Bator Vamos Toth has identified hundreds of place names that link the Sudan and Central Asia. For example, the places names Orissa and Kar-nak are found in Egypt and in Central Asia. The temples at Karnak in Egypt and at Karnak in Orissa, India, are Sun temples associated with the cult of Horus, who the Horite ruler-priests regarded as the "son of God", miraculously begotten according to an ancient promise. This Kushite migration has been confirmed also by DNA studies.

Clyde A. Winters has shown that the "Elamites, Dravidians, Sumerians and Manding are all of Proto-Saharan origin. In the history of mankind they were called the Kushites. Testimony of the great heritage of the Kushites, resulted from their boldness in trade and seafaring expeditions.

There appears to be a relationship between the words gir or gar and ghar or khar. Bulghar was spoken by the Asiatic Ghars (Khars) from which the territory of Bulgaria takes its name. The Bulghar language was spoken in the Onogur tribal confederation. Ono pertains to On or ancient Heliopolis, the Horite shrine city to which the great pyramids of Giza, Saqqara and Abusir are aligned.

The word ghar means house, as in royal palace or royal city and is a cognate to word khar. In ancient Egyptian, khar refers to a measure of fuel used to offer sacrifice in the temple.  The temple (wat) was in the precinct of the royal palace. Among the Guruntum-Gar, a West Chadic people, khar appears as har in last names.  An example is Andrew Haruna.  Haruna is the Chadic name for Aaron, suggesting a very ancient connection between the priesthood of Israel and their Kushite ruler-priest ancestors.

The Kushites also spread along the Shari and the Benue rivers, establishing kingdoms as far as Lagos in Nigeria and into the southern Kordafan. This explains the linguistic connections between Yoruba and Akkadian.

Related reading: Biblical patriarchs from a pre-canonical source mentioned in the Diwan of Kanem-Bornu; Horite and Kushite Rulers Linked; Noah's Descendants

Nilotic Cattle Herders

“Africa has the most genetic diversity in the world, but it is one of the least-studied places,” said Brenna Henn, a doctoral student in anthropology who was the study’s lead author. “I’ve always felt like there were a lot of stories there that nobody’s had the time or interest to look into.”

The Stanford scientists picked the Y sex chromosome to examine for clues to migration because it changes very little from one generation to the next. Autosomes - the non-sex chromosomes - come in pairs, and the members of a pair can exchange bits of DNA during reproduction, making each autosome a mishmash of DNA from all of an individual’s ancestors. But the Y chromosome is a singleton; males inherit one Y chromosome and one X chromosome, while women have two X chromosomes. In men, only a tiny region of the Y chromosome can swap DNA with the X chromosome. This means almost all of the Y chromosome moves intact from father to son, changing only infrequently when a new mutation arises. That allows researchers to examine several generations of ancestry by looking at the Y chromosomes of living men.

“The family tree of the Y chromosome is very, very clear,” Mountain said.

The team analyzed Y chromosomes from men in 13 populations in Tanzania in eastern Africa and in the Namibia-Botswana-Angola border region of southern Africa. They discovered a novel mutation shared by some men in both locations, which implied those men had a common ancestor. Further analysis showed the novel mutation arose in eastern Africa about 10,000 years ago and was carried by migration to southern Africa about 2,000 years ago. The mutation was not found in Bantu-speakers, suggesting that a different group - Nilotic-language speakers - first brought herds of animals to southern Africa before the Bantu migration.

This new genetic evidence correlates well with pottery, rock art and animal remains that suggest pastoralists - herders who migrated to new pasture with their flocks - first tended sheep and cattle in southern Africa around 2,000 years ago. The genetic finding also helps explain linguistic similarities between peoples in the two regions.

“I like the fact that the linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence all line up,” Henn said. “When you see lines of evidence converge on a single model, it means that’s probably something that actually happened.”

Read the full report here.

The first representation of Jesus Christ was as a calf born in a manger to his virgin queen mother, Hathor. This image is found in temples along the Nile and was known to Abraham's Horite ancestors.


Relatd reading:  Evolutionists Reveal Ignorance of Culture, The Horus Myth Speaks of Jesus Christ; Terah's Nubian Ancestors

The Nazareth-Egypt Connection

Alice C. Linsley


Since Jesus grew up in Nazareth of Galilee, it is not surprising that his closest followers were from Galilee. It was to Galilee that the Master returned and met with His disciples after His resurrection.  At the Last Supper He informed his disciples: "After I have been raised, I will go before you to Galilee.” (Matt. 26:32)

An angel at the empty tomb told Mary Magdalene and the other women that they were to notify the Disciples: “He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him.” (Matt. 28:7) As the women were on their way to inform the disciples, Jesus appeared to them and said: “Rejoice!… Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brethren to go to Galilee, and there they will see Me.” (Matt. 28:9-10)

Later, “the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them” and “worshiped Him” (Matt. 28:16).

Nazareth sat in a basin. It was described as a flower or a shell protected all around by hills. It was not isolated however. A caravan route connected Nazareth and Jerusalem.  To the south of Nazareth there was a road that went all the way to Egypt. This would have been the route that Joseph traveled with Mary and Jesus. The angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother with you, and escape into Egypt." (Mat. 2:13).

Nazareth was also near the cities of Tiberias, Genneseret (Kinnaret) and Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee. This the was the region of Jesus' Galilean activities and where He taught in the local synagogue. It was also the home town of the apostles James, Andrew and John, and Matthew.

A first-century AD dwelling in Capernaum was remembered by early Christians as Peter's home. According to the Matthew 8:14-16, Jesus stayed here. An octagonal Byzantine church was built atop the ruins of the dwelling.

Capernaum was under the control of the the Canaanite fortified town of Kinna-ret (Gennesaret) as early as 3100 B.C.  Kinna-ret is mentioned by ancient Ugarit scribes and appears to refer to the Kinna people who were called kinah-hu in the Nuzi tablets.  This is the origin of the name Canaanite.

Kinah is related to the name Kenan. Genesis 5 lists Kenan as Cain's grandson by his un-named daughter. The name Kenan is a variant of Kain and Ghayin.  Geoffrey W. Bromiley (2007) writes that ghayin lies behind the word kinah-hu at Nuzi.  In the Canaano-Akkadian, "hu" is a pronominal suffix.



Galilee under Egyptian Rule

Pharaoh Tuthmose III captured several cities in Galilee in 1468 BC, including Kadesh, Hazor and Beth She'an. At one time Egypt ruled from Nubia to Syria. Galilee would have been at the center of this vast kingdom.

Dr. Tom McCollough of Centre College (KY) has excavated in Galilee and found many amulets that date to Jesus' time. His team excavated at Sepphoris, a sprawling site on top of a large hill in Galilee.  Here there was an amphitheater, a synagogue, a rich collection of mosaics and several nearby villages and roads. Sepphoris is located only 5 miles from Nazareth, northwest across the rolling hills.

The influence of Egypt is evident in the mosaic floor of the Nile House in Sepphoris (shown below).

Mosaic depicts scenes from the Nile

Likewise, the flora and fauna of Canaan appear on reliefs in two of the smaller rooms in Tuthmose III's temple at Karnak near Luxor. The Babylonian Talmud (Jasher 7:50) indicates that Abraham's mother was the daughter of a Horite priest associated with Karnak (Karnevo).

Karnak was dedicated to Amun-Ra, the Hidden Creator, whose son was called Horus. Horus was born in a manger to Hathor. The Horites and their metal-working brethren were devotees of Horus and Hathor.

Chalcolithic metal works at Timnah were found at the Wadi Nehushtan in the foothills along the western fringe of the southern Arabah Valley. The smelting works, slag and flints at this site were found to be identical to those discovered near Beersheba where Abraham spent much of his time.  The metal workers of Timnah and the metal workers of Beersheba were kin. The patroness of their mining and smelting operations was the Hathor, the mother of Horus.  In his book Timna, Beno Rothenberg (Hebrew University) concluded that the peoples living in the area were "partners not only in the work but in the worship of Hathor." (Timna, p. 183)

Egypt is mentioned more than 300 places in the biblical narratives. Some of Jesus' ancestors (Horim/Horites) were ruler-priests in Egypt.  The Horites expected the Son of God to be born to a woman of their ruler-priest lines. This expectation can be traced to the first promise and prophecy of Scripture - Genesis 3:15 - given to Abraham's Nilotic ancestors.

The Horites observed the death of Horus in a 5-day festival. The first 3 days were marked by solemnity (as Plutarch noted in Isis and Osiris, 69). The last 2 days were a time of feasting and rejoicing. Horus is said to have died on the 17th of Athyr. His death was commemorated by the planting of grain. On the third day, the 19th of Athyr, there was a celebration of Horus’ rising to life. It is no coincidence that Jesus alludes to the Horite myth when describing his passion and resurrection. “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." (John 12:24) He identifies himself as the "Seed" of Genesis 3:15.

Egypt was a safe place for Abraham's divine Seed, as it was for Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in times of famine.  Joseph, like his famous namesake, did not arrive in Egypt under the best of circumstances, but his obedience to the angelic warning preserved the life of Mary's Son.

The Apostles believed that the return of Jesus from Egypt fulfills the prophesy of  Hosea 11:1: "I called my son out of Egypt."  Jews insist that this refers to Israel as a people, and certainly that is the context of the Hosea passage.  Matthew's Gospel says:  So Joseph got up and, taking the child and his mother with him, left that night for Egypt, where he stayed until Herod was dead.  This was to fulfil what the Lord had spoken through the prophet:  "I called my son out of Egypt."  (Matthew 2:15)


Related reading:  Egypt in the Book of Genesis; Egypt in the Christmas Narrative; Exploring Hosea 11:1 - "Out of Egypt"; Who Were the Canaanites?; Why Jesus Visited Tyre

Abraham's Faith Central to Genesis

Alice C. Linsley




Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He saith not, and to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy Seed, which is Christ… And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. (Galatians 3:16, 29)

Abraham is a pivotal figure in the Bible.  He is mentioned in 230 verses and he is the central figure of the book of Genesis.

The first part of Genesis is the story of God’s dealings with Abraham and his Nilotic ancestors. The second half deals with his descendants before the Israelites became established in Canaan. The sections are joined by the account of Abraham’s death and his burial attended by his sons. The transition tells us that Isaac ruled after Abraham’s death and lived among the Egyptian Ishmaelites near the well of Lahai Roi. Issac and Ishmael were together at the burial of their father (Gen. 25:9).

Ishmael and his children must be regarded as an Egyptian since his mother and his wife were both Egyptian.
Isaac's ascension to Abraham's throne took place after his marriage to his cousin wife. Cousin or niece wives were usually the second wives.  Assuming that Isaac continued to marriage and ascendancy pattern of his Horite people, his first wife would have been his half-sister, as was Sarah to Abraham.
 
When we recognize the centrality of Abraham to Genesis, numerous verses of the Bible fall into context.  Consider the following:

Romans 4:1 calls Abraham "the chief of our forefathers."

John 8: God promised to provide through Abraham’s seed (see Acts 7:2ff.). Paul adds that the “seed” of Abraham, through whom blessings are bestowed on all who believe is Jesus; not Israel.

Lazarus called out to "Father Abraham" (Luke 16:22-31) as one who was not gathered to the bosom of Abraham.  Jesus here illustrates that the Jewish rulers were wrong to claim heavenly recogition by virtue of being Abraham's descendants. This is clearly Jesus' intention, because He said to them, “If you are Abraham’s children, do the deeds of Abraham. But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do."

Hebrews 4:2 states that the Gospel was preached to the Apostles and to their ancestors in Moses's time. However that generation died in the wilderness because they were not united with their Horite ancestors in faith. Christians often assume that living in the dispensation of the Church we are the sole recipients of God's grace and revelation of His Son. Hebrews indicates that Abraham and Moses did share the faith of their ancestors to whom God first revealed the plan of salvation. That plan concerned a divine Son who would be born of the Horite ruler-priest lines. He was expected to pass through death to life and lead his people from the grave to eternal life.

Abraham died at age 175 and was “gathered to his people” (Gen. 25:8). This phrase is used interchangeble with "gathered to his fathers" and both are used only for rulers among Abraham’s people. Among the ancient Egyptians 175 was regarded as the ideal lifespan, further evidence of Abraham's Nilotic context.

Genesis is the story of God’s dealings with Abraham and his ancestors (chapter 1-12). The other chapters deal with Abraham's descendants before the establishment of Israel. Because this is so, we must recognize that the promise concerning the coming of the Seed of God by the Woman (Gen. 3:15) does not originate with the Jews. It is much older. The expectation was preserved by Abraham's ancestors to whom the promise was first made in Eden, a well-watered region that extended from East Africa to the Tigris-Euphrates Valley. This appears to be the point of origin of the Proto-Gospel and the faith of Abraham.


Related reading:  Is it Possible to Speak of the Proto-Gospel?; Challenge to Shaye Cohen's Portrayal of Abraham

Evolutionists Ignorant of Culture

Alice C. Linsley


Culture and human ingenuity are rarely noted in the Evolutionist scheme. Instead, humans evolve mechanistically.  No wonder many find the evolutionary view of human origins laughable and insulting.

Evolutionists maintain that our ancestors emerged in southern East Africa and evolved from fruit-eating primates to scavengers and then to hunters.  Their bodies and social customs adapted to changing environmental conditions.  This view is exemplified by the assumed gradual "development of lactose tolerance in adult humans—a genetic mutation selected for in populations that herd animals and consume dairy."

This reasoning fails to consider breast milk, goat milk and milk mixed with cow's blood. In other words, it reveals ignorance of African practices. In tribal areas, and among the nomadic Maasai, infants are typically breast fed for up to 6 years. By that age most children are able to tolerate cow milk, and if not cow's milk, goat's milk. Archaic East African peoples had cows and goats, as well as sheep.


Nubian goat milk

The Nubian goat has been herded by Nilotic peoples for thousands of years. Goat milk is more easily tolerated by children than cow's milk. An estimated 20 to 50 percent of all infants tested with cow's milk protein intolerance reacted adversely to soy proteins (Lothe et al., 1982), yet 40 percent tolerated goat milk proteins (Brenneman, 1978; Zeman, 1982).

The Nubian goat is the oldest known species of goat

Swedish studies have shown that cow milk was a major cause of colic in 12 to 30 percent formula-fed, less than 3-month-old infants (Lothe et al., 1982). In breast-fed infants, colic was related to the mother's consumption of cow milk (Baldo, 1984; Cant et al., 1985; Host et al., 1988). In older infants, the incidence of cow milk protein intolerance was approximately 20 percent (Nestle, 1987).

Goat milk fat normally has 35 percent of medium chain fatty acids (C6-C14) compared to cow milk fat 17 percent. Three are named after goats: Caproic (C6), caprylic (C8), capric (C10), totaling 15 percent in goat milk fat vs. only 5 percent in cow milk fat (See Table 1 here).

Capric, caprylic and other medium chain fatty acids are used to treat malabsorption syndrome, intestinal disorders, coronary diseases, pre-mature infant nutrition, cystic fibrosis, and gallstones. They provide energy and lower, inhibit and dissolve cholesterol deposits (Schwabe et al., 1964; Greenberger and Skillman, 1969; Kalser, 1971; Tantibhedhyangkul and Hashim, 1975, 1978).


The healthy Maasai

The Maasai of East Africa have a limited diet. It consists mostly milk and blood, which one might expect would result in a poor health. However, German researcher Nadja Knoll found the opposite proved true.

Maasai  making "porridge"

Knoll was part of a joint project with Kenyan scientists from the Jomo Kenyatta University and the Jena University which focused on the diet of the nomadic Maasai in Kenya's Kajiado District. She found that "the Maasai are in a good health status in spite of a limited diet."

Blood tests showed that there is a high content of healthy omega-3 fatty acids in the Maasais' red blood cell walls, even though these acids are not ingested.

The scientists discovered that the Maasai have strongly sweetened milk tea for breakfast. Some Maasai eat a kind of "porridge" in the morning, a liquid mixture of cornmeal, water, some milk and sugar.

For lunch and dinner there is milk fermented in calabashes, producing a yoghurt-like drink with pro-biotic benefits. This is taken with "Ugali," a kind of polenta made from cornmeal and water.

According to this study the Maasai diet is more than 50 percent vegetarian. The preferred meat is that of sheep and goats. Cows are slaughtered and eaten only for ritual festivities, though their blood is draw once a month and mixed with milk. This mixture of milk and blood is taken at weddings, at rites of passage and is given as a tonic to the sick, the elderly, and women who have just given birth.

Maasai cow bleeding
(Photo Claudia Chang and Christina Erb)

A leather strap is tightened around the cow's neck to force a vein to the surface. A warrior shoots an arrow into the vein and the blood is drained into a gourd. No more than 3 liters of blood is taken at a time. The wound is sealed with mud and the animal is released to the herd.

Bovine serum albumin (BSA) has an unusually high bioavailability, allowing for the absorption of many amino acids that aid healing and health. Studies show that the immunoglobulins extracted from healthy bovine peripheral blood are effective in boosting the immune system.

Who Were the Canaanites?

Alice C. Linsley


"Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, and Heth and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites." (Gen. 10:15-18 NRSV)

This passage lists related Kushite peoples and attempts to establish Canaan as the eponymous ancestor of the Canaanite clans who spread, according to Genesis 10:19, from "Sidon to Gerar near Gaza, and all the way to to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim near Lesha."  All of the Canaanite clans named in Genesis are also listed as the original inhabitants of the land in Exodus 3:8; Deuteronomy 7:1; Joshua 3:10; 24:11 or in extant texts of the period.

Melchizededk, the high priest of Jerusalem, was a Jebusite.  He ministered to Abraham after the bloodshed between the kings. (Gen. 14)  The Jebusites were a Kushite people.

The Hivites were likely a Horite clan (Genesis 14:6).  It is not surprising then that Abraham the Horite was living among them and was buried among them at Machpelah.

The Arvadites (residents of Arvad) and Arkites (Gen. 10:15-18) were clans of royal scribes and related to the Amorites. During Abraham's time, the Amorites were centered in Engedi, a large oasis on the western shore of the Dead Sea bounded on the south by the Wadi Arnon.
The Amorites were the Am-Ar, meaning the people/tribe/caste of Ar. Their name appears in the titles of many of their rulers, including Ar-Shem, Arsames, Artix, and Araxes. The name Ar is found in the names of biblical places, such as Wadi Arnon. Ar-non (originally Ar-nxn) means the Ar of Onn, also called Heliopolis. Joseph married the daughter of the high priest of Heliopolis, a Horite shrine city.

The terms “Amorites” and "Canaanites" are used synonymously in Genesis 15:15-16 and Joshua 24:15, 18. The Amorites were already living in Palestine by 2300 B.C., 260 years before the time of Abraham (c. 2039-1964). The first biblical ruler of this name is Ar-pacshad, who lived four generations after Noah. He was a descendant of both Ham and Shem.

The Curse of Cannan

According to Genesis 9:20-26, Noah's curse fell upon the Canaanites.  This transparent attempt to obfuscate the Kushite origins of Israel clearly entered the text long after the time of Moses the Horite. Noah's three sons were Shem, Ham and Japheth and their lines intermarried. Therefore, if Noah cursed his grandson Canaan, the curse fell upon all his descendants.

The Kushite Connection

Noah's other grandson was Kush, the father of Nimrod.  From ancient Kush Abraham's ancestors spread far and wide as rulers in the ancient Afro-Asiatic Dominion. Genesis is the most reliable record of Horite rule.

Some scholars believe that "Canaan" is derived from an Aramaic word meaning “to be low.” William F. Albright suggested that "Canaan" originally meant “a merchant” because the people who lived there, called "Phoenicians" by the Greeks, were merchants.

The word kinah-hu, found in the Nuzi tablets, refers to the Canaanites and to the color red. This aligns with what is known about Abraham's Annu ancestors, who had a red skin tone. Some equate the word "Canaan" with the red purple dye used to make the garments of Tyrian rulers. However, it is more likely that kinah-hu relates to the Horites of Edom (red), to whom Abraham was related and from whom Moses descended.  This is substantiated by Joshua 15:21,22 which reports that, "The southernmost towns of the tribe of Judah in the Negev toward the boundary of Edom were: Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur, Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah..."

Kinah is related to the name Kenan. Genesis 5 lists Kenan as Cain's grandson by his un-named daughter. The name Kenan is a variant of Kain and Ghayin.  Geoffrey W. Bromiley (2007) writes that ghayin lies behind the word kinah-hu at Nuzi.  In the Canaano-Akkadian, "hu" is a pronominal suffix.

To speak of Canaan as the eponymous ancestor of the Canaanites makes less sense than to speak of Kenan as their eponymous ancestor.  Since Kenan lived six generations before Noah, we may also consider that the Canaanite or Kenanite people existed before Noah's time as well as after the flood.



Related reading:  The Amorites: caste of royal scribes?; The Descendants of Noah; Moses and Abraham: Different Origins of Israel?; Jebusites: An Extant Biblical Tribe; The Edomites and the Color Red