Ancient Nigeria, Lejja, Nsukka, Ugwuele

Igbo,  Ele, El, Aka Ushi, Gods

Archaeologists of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in their excavations carried out in the early 1970s discovered huge stacks of various kinds of stone tools – hand axes, knives, picks, cleavers - in the Igbo town of Ugwu-Ele (‘Hill of Ele’), Isuikwuato, Abia State, Nigeria. The archaeologists concluded that the tools spanned the period from the Early, Middle to Late Stone Age (at least 500,000 – 80,000 B.C.)

The British member of the UNN Archaeology department at the time, Professor D. David concluded that “the site was the largest stone axe factory in the world!
We are not aware of any other site in the world with such an enormous amount of stone axes and other tools.” Anozie argued that since “the technology and typology of Acheulian culture is very similar everywhere in Africa and other parts of the world, (and) the hand-axes from

Ugwuele very much resembles those from (Stone Age sites in) France, England, India, East Africa, North Africa, etc., in terms of form and techniques of manufacture. It is mainly because of this that the Acheulian culture is regarded as a worldwide culture and a heritage of all humanity”.

The ‘Out of East Africa’ phenomenon, as the world has been made to believe, was based on the discovery of a three million-year-old ancestor of Homo-erectus (Lucy) in East Africa. In 2002 a joint French and Chadian team of palaeontologists led by Professor Michel Brunet of the University of Poitiers, found a seven million-year-old ancestor of Homo-erectus in the southern Chad region, close to the Nigerian border.

This means that Igbo Homo Erectus could be a direct descendant of the seven million-year-old Proto-Hominid of what could have been a Niger, Chad and Nigerian migration. We can theoretically put, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, the Congo in general and Gabon as one of the cradles of humankind.

Atum is Ele - the Manu of the Igbo Cavemen of Ugwuele (500,000 B.C.) According to Professor Achonolu "Ele Biblical El, El-Elyon - the ‘God of the Heights’ whom Melchizedek represented in the Old Testament - is the God/Manu/Group Soul of the cavemen of the wilds (Homo Erectus).

This is consistent with our thesis propounded in all our previous publications on this and related subjects. This God, also called Sokar lives in a Tomb in the lowest rung of the Duat called Restau. Sitchen further reveals that “in Olden Times, El was the Principal deity of Heaven and Earth. He lived in semi-retirement (Hidden), aloof from daily affairs.

His abode was in the mountains (Lejja Hills) at the two headwaters (Niger and Benue)”, El is the ruler of the affairs of the gods, Judge of the Dead and author of Destiny".  "El/Ele began his entry into human affairs as the Group-Soul of the first ape-men/cavemen.

As the First Human to rise from the Deep Waters of Nun, he was the Group-Soul of the First Hominids - the cavemen of the wilds, otherwise called Homo-erectus”. Yoruba people also have their own narratives about these myths, albeit slightly different.

The Grave as a Pyramid Representing the Womb of the Earth Mother: Pharaoh Dan/ Du Dunu was said to have called his grandfather, Gani Eri/King Eri, by the title “Shukunni, the Great Ukush, the Gut/God”.

This obviously translates into Igbo as, “Chukwuani, Chukwuini or Chukwunna – God of the Earth/God in the Tomb/God the Father, Great Aka Ushi"!

Aka Ushi implies this Immortal God is dwelling in the circular Womb of the Mother. It is also a collective term for all Ape-men. Aka Ushi is nurtured in the pyramidal womb of the Earth Goddess, which the Igbo call Akwu, ‘Nest’ (Egyptian Akh/Akhet is a term for the pyramid) - the Igbo concept of the Earth-Mother as the Womb that incubates the embryo and harbours the dead.

Ancient Igbos were buried in huge step-pyramids the size of single-storied buildings. The Nsude pyramids. Osiris wears traditional Igbo double plumes with his Igbo conical hat and carries the Igbo flail (fly whisk) and metal staff – all part and parcel of the traditional Igbo regalia of kings and Nze na ozo initiates.

Archaeologists: Professor Michel Brunet, Professor D. David UNN
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Professor Achonolu