Oshuru, Osiris, Shrine, Igbo

Dun, Duni, Dunu, Utu Lejja, Nsukka

Zachariah Sitchen reveals that the Sumerian term Dun/Duni (which survives to this day in Dunu Oka village in Lejja) is equivalent to the Assyrian word Ka’ini (the root of the word Canaan), and that Sumerian and Assyrian texts maintained that “Ashur is the Lord of Duni”.

Duni is of course a reference to Dunu Oka, and Ashur is the title of Egyptian god Osiris and the origin of his name. Osiris is the Sun Disc.

He is represented in the ancient Dunu Oka Shrine with the Sun disc symbol called Oshuru. Oshuru is thus the original word/concept from which Osiris derives his name. Ralph Ellis in Eden in Egypt, notes that Ashura means ‘Sacred Groove” or Shrine.

This is in keeping with the fact that Oshuru is the most sacred part of the Dunu Oka Shrine. It is indeed a mound of iron slag covering the Hidden Hole that leads into what the native priests call a “bottomless pit” – which no doubt is the Underground Duat of Osiris and Atum.

The name of the first of the two magical Trees - Utu Udeleigwe means ‘Utu – the Vulture of the Sky’. This cannot be a coincidence, rather it implies that the sacred tree with that name is actually a totem representative of the god Utu himself.

Also the name of the god Adad occurs in Lejja in the female form of Adada, who is the main deity female of Lejja. Her shrine is not far removed from the Dunu Oka Shrine.

Therefore the “House of Shamash” located in the “Place of Palms” referred to by Biblical prophet Amos, is Lejja in Nsukka, Enugu state. The reference to this place as a place of palms is self-explanatory. Igbo land, Eastern Nigeria is the traditional home of the palm tree. It is an interesting revelation that this place is referred to in Jeremiah as the “Houses of the Gods of Egypt”. Edwin Eme Okafor, "Economy and Politics: Factors of Technological Change in Nsukka Bloomery."

Egyptian Edfu Texts say unequivocally that the oldest evidence of iron smelting in Egyptian records was that conducted by the God Horus in a hidden place called UaUa in the land of Khennu. Horus was said to have established a hidden iron smelting industry in the territory of a man called Khennu, in the UaUa region in the Southern lands, far away from Egypt, where he forged weapons for his war with Seth.

This is recorded in Egyptian history as having taken place around 8,970 BCE, during the wars of Horus and Seth.

In the 363rd year of his reign Ra-Harmakhis I was in Nubia with his army with the intention of destroying those who had conspired against him; because of their conspiracy (auu) Nubia is called "Uaua" to this day.

From Nubia Ra-Harmakhis sailed down the river to Edfu, where Heru-Behutet entered his boat, and told him that his foes were conspiring against him. Ra-Harmakhis in answer addressed Heru-Behutet as his son, and commanded him to set out without delay and slay the wicked rebels. Then Heru-Behutet took the form of a great winged Disk, and at once flew up into the sky, where he took the place of Ra, the old Sun-god. "Uaua" does not equate to "Nubia."

Horus was said to have established a hidden iron smelting industry in the territory of a man called Khennu, in the UaUa region in the Southern lands, far away from Egypt, where he forged weapons for his war with Seth.

Nri/Eshin/Obatala

It is not a coincidence that Wawa and Nkannu are the aboriginal clan-names of people of Nsukka and people of Enugu state! This is recorded in Egyptian history as having taken place around 8,970 BCE, during the wars of Horus and Seth! Further evidence that Enugu State smelters were well known in world mythology is the fact recorded by Prof Afigbo in Nri mythology that when Eri came into Igbo land, the land was soaked with water, but God advised Eri to employ an Oka smith to dry the land with his bellows.

Egyptians called Khemennu (Oke mmannu, shortened to Khe’nnu/Khennu - Nkannu) and whom the rest of the world called ‘gods’ for want of a better term.

A Chi Shrine

These ape-men Khemennu were the Ndi Ushi of Igbo land. Their population was mostly dwarfs, who were also associated with metallurgy throughout antiquity. Africa’s most renowned archaeologist Felix Chami of the University of Dares Salaam wrote that the dwarfs, known throughout antiquity as the Neshi/Nehsi (Igbo Nshi) were Black Africans who served a hidden god of sun and fire known as Vul-can (a derivative of Nkannu).

These Nehsi, Chami argued, were “the founders of Egyptian civilization”, and the Egyptians and Greeks called them Pancheans.  

That the Khemennu were known in Egyptian Book of the Dead as ape-men, on the one hand and as gods on the other – Primeval Ancestors of man and gods - tells the primitive African origin of Canaan and connects him with Nkannu clan.

Archaeologist: Felix Chami
Researchers: Prof Catherine Achonolu, Zachariah Sitchen, Prof Afigbo
Books: Ralph Ellis, Eden in Egypt, Edwin Eme Okafor, "Economy and Politics: Factors of Technological Change in Nsukka Bloomery."