Warning: Subject shift!

Well I woke up this mornin with my mind
stayed on Mudcat *

[a parody of the spiritual "Woke up this mornin with my mind stayed on Jesus" which was also used in the mid 1960s as a civil rights song "Woke up this mornin with my mind stayed on freedom]"

So anyway I'm checkin out the Mudcat threads and see this new one:
"Lyr Req: Cushie/Cushy/Coushy Buttercup

And I'm stuck by the words/names "Cushie/Cushy/Coushy".

In that Mudcat thread Joybell [who lives in Australia] writes that "Cushie" is a pet name for cow.

See, in my opinion, this is a prime example of what means one thing in one culture may mean something entirely different in another culture.

"Cush" for me means the ancient North African kingdom of "Cush" {also written as "Kush"}.

In his book "Black In Antiquity; Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience" {Harvard University Press, 1971, p. 112} Frank M. Snowden, Jr writes that "The history of the independent Ethiopian kingdom south of Egypt {Kush is the terminology of many Africanists and Egyptologist} is divided usually into three perioids-the Napatan {751-542 B.C.}, the Meroitic {542 B.C.-339/350 B.C.} and the X-group period {339-350-550 A.D.}"

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See this excerpt from an online site:

"Nubia (Kingdom of Cush)

People of northern Sudan and southern Egypt. With a history and traditions which can be traced to the dawn of civilisation the Nubians settled along the banks of the Nile from Aswan in the south of Egypt to the 6th cataract just south of Khartoum (capital of Sudan). Along this great river they developed one of the oldest and greatest civilisations in Africa. Until they lost their last kingdom (Christian Nubia) only 5 centuries back the Nubians remained as the main rivals to the other great African civilisation of Egypt. A great civilisation and great people who deserved equal or even more fame than their rival Egyptian civilisation instead were overlooked and its findings and monuments were attributed to their rivals. Belatedly recognised the Nubian culture and history is one of the main concern of archaeologists, scholars, museums and universities world wide nowadays .....

The Kingdom of Cush

Ancient kingdom of Nubia in today's northern Sudan whose rulers conquered southern Egypt in the 8th century BC and established a capital at Napata. From around 730 to 671 BC they ruled over entire Egypt after King Piankhi conquered the rest of Egypt. He had been Cushite ruler since around 751 BC. His son and the second king of the 25th dynasty, Taharka, lost against the Assyrians in 671 but continued to rule until 664 BC. In the 6th century BC the Cushites were forced to move their capital to Meroe where the kingdom flourished until around 350 AD when it was defeated and overrun by the Ethiopians"

http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Nubia.html