In the beginning
Our journey to discover who and when the first match was created has led us on an epic journey through history,
revealing, probably, the first humanlike civilisation to exist on earth.
Traditional African religion is the oldest religion in the world. Well, this is obvious since Africans are the
oldest human beings on earth. African traditional religions led to the system of alchemy founded some fifteen
thousand years ago by the first human genius whom Africans described as the "Thrice Greatest." The greatest
of all philosophers, the greatest of all priests, the greatest of all kings. His African names included, Thoth,
Tehuti and Theuth. The west later knew him as the deity, Hermes Trismegistus.
He was the world's first "Adept" or "Master" he created the science of alchemy for the spiritual development
of humankind. After the traditional African Hut, he inspired the building of the first Pyramids in Egypt,
and the pyramid of Gizeh served as his shrine and academy. Wise men journeyed from all over the world to study at
his feet. He was considered a personification of wisdom with inexhaustible supply of knowledge, some of which were recorded
in about 20,000 books. These were among the 400,000 invaluable African documents destroyed 13,000 years later under
the Roman edict of Theodosius in the 4th cent. AD to force European hegemony on the world.
Thoth was immortalised in African myth as the great Anu called Onian in Chapter XV of the Book of the Dead and
in the texts of the Pyramids. Thoth and his people, or even an earlier forgotten race, were the creators of the first fire stick or match using sulfur
from the volcano's in the west of the oecumene, now known as NE Africa and Yemen after the red sea divide.
Thoth also pioneered what is now known as science, Astrology, and Language, and we reveal the
first form of communication methods used by these people or perhaps even by an earlier civilisation, with our set of 'Phillumeny Times'
collector edition matchbox newspapers, presenting pre-Thoth-stickwriting.

[Pictures here - pre-THOTH-stickwriting & visual binary]


The philosophical links and meanings that these pictures conjur up are endless, and some beleive that the images or 'visual binary'
is divine having created itself at the beginning of existence within and containing Tusos. The
divine law of ecclesiastical brain, building blocks and mechanics of the universal body, housing, and the word and seals of GOD,
the conquering lion of Judah and the covenant between god and man.