Before addressing the real meaning of the curse of Canaan, let first clarify who the biblical Canaanites are.

According to Scriptures, Canaan begat Sidon, Heth, Leboussi, Emori, Gigarshi, Hivi, Harqi, Sini, Arvadi, Semari and Hamati. According to the official narrative, his sons settles in the following regions:

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► Zidon: father of the sidonians or phoenicians, who lived in the present Lebanon.

► Heth: father of the Hittites, they lived in the city of Hebron, one of the most famous cities of Palestine, which was then called Kir-jath-arba.

►  Jebus: father of the Jebusites, who took their name from the city of Jebus, the ancient name of Jerusalem, where they lived.

► Amor: father of the Amorites / Amoreans. They lived in the west of Mesopotamia, present-day Syria.

► Girgash: father of the Girgasites / Guirgasians. They lived in the area known as Gadara in the New Testament. When they left their country for Israel, they went to Gurgestan which was Georgia. They are the descendants of Georgia.

► Hivi: father of the Hivittes or Horite. They lived in the mountainous region of Lebanon.

► Ark: father of the Arkites. They lived either in the city of Irquata, a Phoenician coastal city today in Syria, or in the city of Arce, located at the northwestern foot of Mount Lebanon.

► Sin: father of the Sinites. They lived in the south in the Sinai region.

► Arvad: father of the Avvites. They lived in Hazerim, or "the villages", at the southwest corner of the sea coast. 

► Zemar: father of the Zemarites / Tsemarians. They lived in Zemar, a city near the coast of present-day Syria.

► Hamath: father of the Hamathites. They lived in the kingdom of Hamath, located in what is today western Syria and northern Lebanon.

In chapter 10:29-30 of the Book of Jubilees, it is written that Canaan and his descendants did not migrate to the territory that was rightfully his, but instead appropriated part of Shem's territory, namely: present-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Jordania. His father and brothers admonished him, saying:

"You have settled in a land which is not your, and which did not fall to us by lot: do not do so; for if you do so, you and your sons will fall in the land and (be) accursed through sedition; for by sedition you have settled, and by sedition will your children fall, and you shall be rooted out for ever." |The Book of Jubilees, Chapter 10:30|.

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Indeed, the territory that Canaan unjustly appropriated is to this day plagued by sedition, with two groups claiming legitimacy as their own, under the name they have chosen. One land, but two names, hence the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has spawned countless agitations, uprisings, riots and subversions.

​A few facts about the Canaanites

► It has been shown that the Canaanites had become polytheists enslaved to idolatry, and whose principal gods were the Ba'als, Astarte, Molech, Dagon, etc., to whom they erected sacrificial altars practicing Canaanite magic, snake worship and child sacrifice. The Canaanite fertility ritual was characterized by the presence of male and female prostitutes in temples and sanctuaries. Due to their moral depravity or slavery to idolatry, ELOHIM subjected them to destruction through the numerous wars they waged against the sons of Jacob.

• Numbers 21:3 "And the LORD heard Israel’s plea and delivered up the Canaanites. Israel devoted them and their cities to destruction; so they named the place Hormah."

• Deuteronomy 9:5 "It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

• Exodus 23:28 "I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.."

► Note that Jezebel was a Canaanite princess, daughter of the priest-king Ethbaal, ruler of the Phoenician (present-day Lebanon) coastal cities of Tyre and Sidon (Ṣaydā or Arabia). Raised in Sidon, she married Ahab of Israel for diplomatic reasons. She introduced the Canaanite pagan religion to the Israelites, bringing in foreign gods and goddesses, in particular Baal and his wife Astarte.

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► Interestingly, a team of researchers from the Hebrew University led by Professor Liran Carmel (an expert in computational biology from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences) and Professor Binyamin Yakir (a statistician from the Department of Statistics and Data Science), with the help of a research grant from the National Science Foundation, sought to decipher the genetics of the Canaanites. Through DNA analysis, it was discovered that the Canaanites were a mixture of populations that had migrated to the southern Levant, mainly from the Caucasus region (or western Iran), with ancient local populations that had stayed behind, a process that lasted at least 1,000 years.

If the biblical Canaanites and the land of Canaan refer to populations originating from the Caucasus and the Middle East, then why has the curse of Canaan been associated to Africans and black people as a whole?

The more you deepen your understanding of the curse of Canaan, the more a sinister agenda to justify the atrocities and mistreatment inflicted on the black race as a whole will begin to take shape.

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