IGBO - THE KINGLESS GENERATION,
THE WORLD’S OLDEST AND ONLY INDIGENOUS DEMOCRACY:
PART 2
THE WORLD’S OLDEST AND ONLY INDIGENOUS DEMOCRACY:
PART 2
The similarities between these two stories are uncanny. The fact that Igbo accounts of their origins has the exact same details as the Nag Hammadi account of the origins of a kingless generation of sons of God, shows that these two accounts are speaking about the same group of people! This fact is critical to our thesis that the secret teachings of The Nag Hammadi scriptures which was hidden away in Egypt (Africa) by Jesus and his inner caucus disciples, and which is called the African Gospel , was directed at the Igbo and their Kwa brethren, the sons of God who are the hope of the earth! Neither is possible to gloss over the fact that in Igbo language, Adaa-m means ‘I have fallen’. Cleary there is a great mystery here. Between the Igbo who originally shared the consciousness of a God of Light, and the Israelites whose God moved about in waters that were covered by darkness, before creating physical light – Let there be Light! There is a discrepancy not just between those people who lay claim to being the chosen people of God and those who are convinced that they are a nation of Gods and Goddesses, a holy people, beings of Light whose true nature is the nature of the deity!
Afigbo divides Igbo History into two great epochs: “the epoch of the gods” or the “mythical Golden Age - what in the Christian Bible is called the Garden of Eden period” which was characterized by the reign of Eri, the sky being/ god-man who employed a native smith from Awka to dry up the waterlogged land before settling in it (p. 419, 417). There appears to be a mix-up in chronological time here because the coming of Eri was associated with the solving of problems associated with the Flood (11,000 B. C.), and the presence of the smith implied an already existing technology, perhaps early Bronze Age (9.000 B.C.) – the Kwa were bronze casters (a craft they share with Chaldeans). Therefore the coming of Eri could not have fallen within the period of non-time, but perhaps could be said to fall within the period immediately following it. This again would tend to suggest that Eri’s coming was in the immediate post-Diluvial period. Historians connect the coming of the Age of metal with the dawn of Agriculture. Like the Igbo, the San/Bushmen of Southern Africa narrate in their oral tradition that their ancestors lived in harmony with nature until the Bantu Zulu came to them with agriculture and metal working techniques. Martin Bernal (Black Athena) places “the expansion of Afro-Asiatic and African agriculture in the 9th and 8th millennium B.C.!” (p. 14). Bernal’s date is vital because Agriculture and metal working usually went together. This is the date which we have mentioned as the date of the dug-out canoe unearthed by German archaeologists in Yobe State, Nigeria. The natives, on the prompting of the archaeologists, replicated the canoe using hoes and machetes (Peter Breunig et.al., in Nigerian Heritage Journal, Vol. 4, 1995; “The Dufuna Dugout – Africa’s Oldest Boat”, Borno Museum Society Newsletter), demonstrating how the original makers of the canoe could have created it. Their task lasted a whooping eighty two man-hours, even though they only made a canoe half the length of the “prehistoric canoe at Dufuna”, and not so well finished, leaving the archaeologists to ponder whether it was not impossible to expect any one to make a similar canoe with stone implements.
The cosmologies of the Dogon people of Mali and Ivory Coast maintain that mankind had eight divine ancestors (saviors), the first being a smith brought also agriculture and taught civilization to mankind and pot-making. Potsherds found in the Sahara date to 9,000 B. C.! Certainly the facts suggest that the non-time period of Igbo oral tradition was before 9,000 B.C. What we can deduce from the foregoing is that even though Adam had experienced the Fall, the Igbo people of Nigeria had lived in a state of divine grace up to the time prior to the Deluge, i.e. 11,000 B.C. Change only came in the post Deluge period when Eri came to them in the forest and taught them to work metal.
But who was Eri? Who was this sky being who appeared among the forest people of Igbo land from no-where? In The Gram Code of African Adam (p. 301) we made reference to Edfu Pyramid records of a man called Khennu, who was the friend of the god Horus (Orisha) and his father Ra. Horus reigned around 9,000 B.C. in Egypt. Egyptian pyramid records describe the flight of the God Ra, the head of the Egyptian pantheon, to the far away West African land known as “the Land of Khennu” in “the district of UaUa”, to escape the conspiracies of his enemies. It was this period of hiding that gave Ra the name Atum, the Hidden One. Edfu records say “Ra went in his boat and his companions with him. He landed in the … Western District of the Throne Place of Horus”. The Throne Place of Horus is the Eastern and Western Horizon lands in the direction of the Southern Sea (the Atlantic Ocean), for Horus was called ‘Lord of the Horizon and the setting sun’. The Western district of the South-Atlantic Horizon is West Africa.
Eri was indeed none other than Ra, who was known in Babylon/Mesopotamia as Marduk. In reality Marduk was looking to build a secret human army with which to take over the rule of Gods and men. This is recorded copiously in Enuma Elish and in The Lost Book of Enki, (p. 203). Chronologically Marduk/Ra reigned in Egypt by 11,000 B.C., according to Egyptian records. His son Osiris ruled briefly, by 10,000 before his grand son Horus came into power after ousting his father’s antagonist Seth in the same millennium. By this time Ra and his grandson Horus were frequenting the Nigeria/Cameroon geographic environment.
In The Gram Code we demonstrated that Ra had built himself an underground kingdom within the bowels of the Cameroon mountain range which was known in Egypt as the Duat, which became the Heaven land of the great Pharaohs of Egypt who sought the Afterlife after death. We showed evidence that by 3,000 B.C. Gilgamesh visited this land in search of immortality. The term Eri was most likely a combination of the names Ra and Heru – the Egyptian vernacular name of Horus, for Heru means ‘Face’, just as its Igbo cognate Iru also means ‘Face’, and both must be cognates of the great god’s name ‘Ra’. There is a likely connection between the fact that Heru (Face) is the ancient name of the sun god (Robert Temple, 1987), which Ra represents and the fact that Eri was said to have made facial scarifications (ichi – an obvious sun symbol) on his son and daughter before sacrificing them to bring about the staples foods yam and cocoyam, palm and breadfruit trees. By this too, we know that Eri was most likely the Egyptian Sun god Ra. M.D.W Jeffreys, a British anthropologist conducted research in the 1930s in which he compared Igbo Ichi marks to the Winged Solar Disc of Egyptian gods Ra/Horus and came to the conclusion that the Igbo ichi mark was influenced by the Egyptian Winged Disc. He also noted the that Igbo word chi (sun, god) was a cognate of Egyptian word Shu (sun god), and that the Igbo word Anya-nwu (sun, Eye of the sun) as well as Adamawa word Anya-ra of the same meaning are both cognates of Egyptian word “Iwnw” (Sun/Ra) an ancient name for Heliopolis (Africa Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. xxi, Nr. 2, 1951, p. 58-59).
Elsewhere in this work we have drawn links between Ra and Rama of Hindu oral tradition, noting that it was most likely Ra’s son Osiris (Greek Dionysius) who took the Ra tradition to India because Egyptian and Greek mythologies insist that he undertook a civilizing tour to Asia where he founded kingdoms and instituted the worship of the Father-Mother God RA-MA. (George James, Stolen Legacy, 1989, 11) Thus one can argue that Osiris, the son of Ra was the carrier of Igbo thought across the continents. He was the instrument of Igbo civilizing influence to the rest of the world. Hindu records say that Rama ruled from the center of the world for 11,000 years. This is almost the length of Ra’s influence in Egypt from the time of his father to those of his children. The center of the word, as we have demonstrated elsewhere in this write up is Africa. Clearly Ra/Rama/Eri did bring what is called civilization to the ancient Igbo around 11,000 B.C. It would take another 7,000 years before the first human king would rule Egypt by 3,100 B.C. in the person of Menes/Mene. Eri instituted Nri kingdom and left a lineage of his children as priest-kings over it. By this time there was not yet a human king in Egypt. Eri’s friendship with the Awka black smith and the latter’s role in bringing about the spread of metal technology and agriculture led to the dawn of the Bantu colonization of most of Sub-Saharan Africa. Egyptian records say that Menes was a Black African from the unknown lands located south of Egypt. No one can say exactly where he came from, but from what we know about Ra’s Igbo connections, we can hazard the guess that he was most likely imposed by Ra from among his human friends in Igbo land. One cultural hint about the nationality of Menes was that the only full action image of him in existence portrays him with a fly-whisk on his waist – a identification mark of the Nwa-nshi and titled men of Igbo land.
Afigbo divides Igbo History into two great epochs: “the epoch of the gods” or the “mythical Golden Age - what in the Christian Bible is called the Garden of Eden period” which was characterized by the reign of Eri, the sky being/ god-man who employed a native smith from Awka to dry up the waterlogged land before settling in it (p. 419, 417). There appears to be a mix-up in chronological time here because the coming of Eri was associated with the solving of problems associated with the Flood (11,000 B. C.), and the presence of the smith implied an already existing technology, perhaps early Bronze Age (9.000 B.C.) – the Kwa were bronze casters (a craft they share with Chaldeans). Therefore the coming of Eri could not have fallen within the period of non-time, but perhaps could be said to fall within the period immediately following it. This again would tend to suggest that Eri’s coming was in the immediate post-Diluvial period. Historians connect the coming of the Age of metal with the dawn of Agriculture. Like the Igbo, the San/Bushmen of Southern Africa narrate in their oral tradition that their ancestors lived in harmony with nature until the Bantu Zulu came to them with agriculture and metal working techniques. Martin Bernal (Black Athena) places “the expansion of Afro-Asiatic and African agriculture in the 9th and 8th millennium B.C.!” (p. 14). Bernal’s date is vital because Agriculture and metal working usually went together. This is the date which we have mentioned as the date of the dug-out canoe unearthed by German archaeologists in Yobe State, Nigeria. The natives, on the prompting of the archaeologists, replicated the canoe using hoes and machetes (Peter Breunig et.al., in Nigerian Heritage Journal, Vol. 4, 1995; “The Dufuna Dugout – Africa’s Oldest Boat”, Borno Museum Society Newsletter), demonstrating how the original makers of the canoe could have created it. Their task lasted a whooping eighty two man-hours, even though they only made a canoe half the length of the “prehistoric canoe at Dufuna”, and not so well finished, leaving the archaeologists to ponder whether it was not impossible to expect any one to make a similar canoe with stone implements.
The cosmologies of the Dogon people of Mali and Ivory Coast maintain that mankind had eight divine ancestors (saviors), the first being a smith brought also agriculture and taught civilization to mankind and pot-making. Potsherds found in the Sahara date to 9,000 B. C.! Certainly the facts suggest that the non-time period of Igbo oral tradition was before 9,000 B.C. What we can deduce from the foregoing is that even though Adam had experienced the Fall, the Igbo people of Nigeria had lived in a state of divine grace up to the time prior to the Deluge, i.e. 11,000 B.C. Change only came in the post Deluge period when Eri came to them in the forest and taught them to work metal.
But who was Eri? Who was this sky being who appeared among the forest people of Igbo land from no-where? In The Gram Code of African Adam (p. 301) we made reference to Edfu Pyramid records of a man called Khennu, who was the friend of the god Horus (Orisha) and his father Ra. Horus reigned around 9,000 B.C. in Egypt. Egyptian pyramid records describe the flight of the God Ra, the head of the Egyptian pantheon, to the far away West African land known as “the Land of Khennu” in “the district of UaUa”, to escape the conspiracies of his enemies. It was this period of hiding that gave Ra the name Atum, the Hidden One. Edfu records say “Ra went in his boat and his companions with him. He landed in the … Western District of the Throne Place of Horus”. The Throne Place of Horus is the Eastern and Western Horizon lands in the direction of the Southern Sea (the Atlantic Ocean), for Horus was called ‘Lord of the Horizon and the setting sun’. The Western district of the South-Atlantic Horizon is West Africa.
Eri was indeed none other than Ra, who was known in Babylon/Mesopotamia as Marduk. In reality Marduk was looking to build a secret human army with which to take over the rule of Gods and men. This is recorded copiously in Enuma Elish and in The Lost Book of Enki, (p. 203). Chronologically Marduk/Ra reigned in Egypt by 11,000 B.C., according to Egyptian records. His son Osiris ruled briefly, by 10,000 before his grand son Horus came into power after ousting his father’s antagonist Seth in the same millennium. By this time Ra and his grandson Horus were frequenting the Nigeria/Cameroon geographic environment.
In The Gram Code we demonstrated that Ra had built himself an underground kingdom within the bowels of the Cameroon mountain range which was known in Egypt as the Duat, which became the Heaven land of the great Pharaohs of Egypt who sought the Afterlife after death. We showed evidence that by 3,000 B.C. Gilgamesh visited this land in search of immortality. The term Eri was most likely a combination of the names Ra and Heru – the Egyptian vernacular name of Horus, for Heru means ‘Face’, just as its Igbo cognate Iru also means ‘Face’, and both must be cognates of the great god’s name ‘Ra’. There is a likely connection between the fact that Heru (Face) is the ancient name of the sun god (Robert Temple, 1987), which Ra represents and the fact that Eri was said to have made facial scarifications (ichi – an obvious sun symbol) on his son and daughter before sacrificing them to bring about the staples foods yam and cocoyam, palm and breadfruit trees. By this too, we know that Eri was most likely the Egyptian Sun god Ra. M.D.W Jeffreys, a British anthropologist conducted research in the 1930s in which he compared Igbo Ichi marks to the Winged Solar Disc of Egyptian gods Ra/Horus and came to the conclusion that the Igbo ichi mark was influenced by the Egyptian Winged Disc. He also noted the that Igbo word chi (sun, god) was a cognate of Egyptian word Shu (sun god), and that the Igbo word Anya-nwu (sun, Eye of the sun) as well as Adamawa word Anya-ra of the same meaning are both cognates of Egyptian word “Iwnw” (Sun/Ra) an ancient name for Heliopolis (Africa Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. xxi, Nr. 2, 1951, p. 58-59).
Elsewhere in this work we have drawn links between Ra and Rama of Hindu oral tradition, noting that it was most likely Ra’s son Osiris (Greek Dionysius) who took the Ra tradition to India because Egyptian and Greek mythologies insist that he undertook a civilizing tour to Asia where he founded kingdoms and instituted the worship of the Father-Mother God RA-MA. (George James, Stolen Legacy, 1989, 11) Thus one can argue that Osiris, the son of Ra was the carrier of Igbo thought across the continents. He was the instrument of Igbo civilizing influence to the rest of the world. Hindu records say that Rama ruled from the center of the world for 11,000 years. This is almost the length of Ra’s influence in Egypt from the time of his father to those of his children. The center of the word, as we have demonstrated elsewhere in this write up is Africa. Clearly Ra/Rama/Eri did bring what is called civilization to the ancient Igbo around 11,000 B.C. It would take another 7,000 years before the first human king would rule Egypt by 3,100 B.C. in the person of Menes/Mene. Eri instituted Nri kingdom and left a lineage of his children as priest-kings over it. By this time there was not yet a human king in Egypt. Eri’s friendship with the Awka black smith and the latter’s role in bringing about the spread of metal technology and agriculture led to the dawn of the Bantu colonization of most of Sub-Saharan Africa. Egyptian records say that Menes was a Black African from the unknown lands located south of Egypt. No one can say exactly where he came from, but from what we know about Ra’s Igbo connections, we can hazard the guess that he was most likely imposed by Ra from among his human friends in Igbo land. One cultural hint about the nationality of Menes was that the only full action image of him in existence portrays him with a fly-whisk on his waist – a identification mark of the Nwa-nshi and titled men of Igbo land.
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