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| The late Professor Catherine Acholonu |
The location of the Two Magical Trees One of Which is Called by the Name of the Sumerian Sky God, Utu? The location of "The Stairway to Heaven" in Egyptian Mythology?
The Geographical Environment of the Duat A place with a name that has the root DN or Dunu associated with three Hills and Two Hills, a mound? or A ‘Hole’ in the ground called ‘the Mouth of the Earth’, leading into an Underground abode of the gods (Duat)?
The kings of Heliopolis bear two Plumes on their heads, a white-feathered crown, a flail, a U-forked staff. (The fact that Osiris wears two plumes as on his conical hat, shaped like Igbo Okwu agu, and he carries the Igbo metal staff (Alo) and flies whisk (Nza), as seen in all his images in Egyptian texts, shows him to be an Igbo royalty)?
The second called 'correspondence', of the eight principles of natural law stated; as below so above, as above so below and what is unbeknown shall be made knowable. We will break all the answers to all these questions into a bite-size. Using, history, religion, philosophy, occultism, psychology, and logic. Let us start the process via Occulist Encrypted Creations Myths. It is speculated that our world has been created, then destroyed, only to be re-created again, specifically four times. We are living in the year of the Fifth Son of The Sun, while the year Sixth Son of The Sun is fast approaching.
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| Sphere Earth |
The first replenishing of the earth first occurred during the time of Apsu (Freshwater) = “One who existed from the beginning” and Tiamat (Freshwater) = “The Maiden of life.” Both Fresh and Seawaters mingled together to become the first Adam and Eve, Nun and Naunet = the Primeval waters and the counter heaven, (Egyptian version).
All marine life-forms were supposed to have evolved from both Fresh and Seawaters. They existed during the period of the “First Moon or Silver Cycle,” known as “Morning.”
When on high the heavens had not been named, Firm ground below had not been called by name, Nothing but ‘Primordial Apsu’ the Begetter, [Fresh Water] and ‘Mummu Tiamat’, She Who Bore them All, [Salt Water] their waters commingling as a single body No reed hut had been matted, no marshland had appeared, Uncalled by name, their destinies undetermined. Ile-Ife, ile Owuro Ile-Ife, the land of the most ancient days (Ile-Ife's version).
The second replenishing of the earth occurred during the time of Lahmu (Mr. Mud) = “Deity of war” and Lahamu (Mrs. Mud) = “Lady of the battle,” Huh and Hauhet, = the boundless and its opposite, (Egyptian version). They existed during the period of the first Sun Cycle known as “Evening.” Then it was that the Gods were formed within them. Lahmu [‘mud’] and Lahamu ‘Mrs. Mud’ was brought forth, by the name they were called Before they had grown in age and stature. Ile-Ife, Oodaye Ile-Ife, where the word of creation took place (Ile-Ife's version).
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| The Egyptian Ogdoad |
The third replenishing of the earth occurred during the time of Anshar (Upper Firmament) = “Foremost of the heavens” and Kishar (Lower Firmament) = “Foremost of the firm-lands,” Kuk and Kauket, = darkness and its opposite (Egyptian version).
They existed during the period of the “Second Moon or Silver Cycle,” known as “Morning.”Anshar ‘Upper Firmament’ and Kishar [‘Lower Firmament’] were formed, surpassing the others. They prolonged the days, added on the years. Ile-Ife, Ibi ti ojumo ti mowa Ile-Ife, where the dawn of the day was first experienced (Ile-Ife's version).
The fourth replenishing of the earth occurred during the time of Anu = “The Heavenly one” and his spouse Antum. Amun, or (Amon) and Amaunet, = the hidden and its opposite (Egyptian version). They existed during the period of the second Sun Cycle known as “Evening.” This cycle was the last cycle of an equinox which occurs every 24,000 years.
Anu was their heir, the rival of his fathers; Yes, Anu, Anshar’s first-born, was his equal. He begot in his image Nudimmud [Ea]. This Nudimmud was the master of his fathers; Of broad wisdom, understanding, mighty in strength, Mightier by far than his grandfather Anshar. He had no rival among the gods, his brothers. Ile-Ife, Ori aye gbogbo Ile-Ife, head of the whole universe (Ile-Ife's version).
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| The Sumerian depiction of Lahmu (Mr. Mud) |
The fifth replenishing of the earth or the first replenishing of a new set of four cycles occurred during the time pertaining to the Bible Genesis Chapter 1. Adam (Kadmon) son of Atum and Lillith, and Eve daughter of Ptah and Anath. Ile-Ife, Ooye Lagbo Ile-Ife the city of the Survivors (Ile-Ife's version).
In addition, there are also, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Aboriginal and Native-Americans Creation Myths. If you search this blog using the keywords like Chinese Creation Myth, Indian Creation Myth, Aboriginal Creation Myth, or Japanese Creation Myth, an so on, you can locate them in the archive, as being covered before.
The only thing debunked now that we know for a fact; is that the world creation and destructions stories, came for multiple myths, pertaining to many races.
And this is very important because it demonstrates Multiplicity rather than Singularity, even in the World's Creation Myths. Without any further delay let us start with assertions of Professor Catherine Acholonu and the evidence presented to make those bold assertions.
In December 2012, under the resourceful organization of the Honourable Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Enugu State, Barrister Joe Mmamel, a team of ten African American Tourists visited various parts of the Enugu State under the Ebo Landing Project. The project was designed by Professor Catherine Acholonu and Sidney Louis Davis of Catherine Acholonu Research Center, Abuja in partnership with NAGAS International Consortium Inc., USA and Ebo Landing Incorporated, USA. The 2012 Ebo Landing tourism trip was facilitated by the Honorable Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, Chief Edem Duke who personally wrote letters to four State governors in the Federation urging them to play host to the Tourists.
Ebo Landing was born out of the growing need by DNA tested African Americans, 85%? of which are of Igbo extraction, to return ‘home’ to Igbo land and support the course of development in the home country. Note: the statement above is problematic unless the 85% represent Igbo Immigrants living in the USA, after the slave trade. If it meant that 85% of African Americans DNA tested are of Igbo descendants, excluding Igbo Immigrants after the slave trade living in the USA, after the slave trade. Then the latter statement is at best wild speculation and at worst totally incorrect. There is no singular or cumulative DNA evidence for her to boldly assert this point of view.
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| Map of Nigeria, pin-pointing Enugu State, Eastern-Nigeria |
Onuigbo informed the visitors that the Lejja prehistoric iron smelting site was recently dated 2,000 B.C. by the Oxford University laboratory in the UK and that this date confirms Lejja as the oldest iron smelting site in the world!
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| Egyptian Model of a Votive Temple Gateway at Heliopolis |
The international visitors led by researchers Professor Catherine Acholonu and Sidney Louis Davis, initiators of the Ebo Landing project, therefore made a fervent plea to the Hon Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, that the government of Enugu State and the Federal Republic of Nigeria should quickly see to it that the Lejja iron smelting technology should be made known to the world, being the only physical proof that Africa was the origin of world civilization!
They promised to join hands with the government and people of Enugu state in spreading the word worldwide, and by so doing initiate global tourism to Enugu state. The Follow-Up Trip to Lejja: Subsequently in January 2013, a combined team of international researchers from the Institute for African Studies UNN the Catherine Acholonu Research Center, Enugu South-Eastern zonal office visited the Lejja site for the second time to critically examine what is there. The research team who undertook this follow-up reconnaissance trip was made up of Professor S.M. Onuigbo, Head of the Institute of African Studies, UNN, Dr. Chukwuma Opata, Department of History and International Studies, UNN, Sidney Louis Davis, Fellow of the Catherine Acholonu Research Center (CARC), Professor Damian Opata, Department of English and Professor Catherine Acholonu, Head CARC.
That visit opened the floodgates of knowledge, throwing up more than enough physical evidence that Lejja is housing the most ancient and most world-renowned Shrine of antiquity – a shrine known in all world mythologies like the Egyptian ‘Temple of the Sun’. Ancient Egyptian records say that the ‘Temple of the Sun’ is located in Heliopolis – ‘City of the Sun’ – a city lost in antiquity; which means that to find the Temple of the Sun is to find Egypt’s lost city of Heliopolis – the world’s most famous city of mythology – a city dedicated to the Olden God Amun/Atum-Ra, the Father of all Gods and Creator of men.
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| Map of Enugu, Eastern Nigeria |
Lejja is located in Old Nsukka division in Enugu State, in Igbo land, South-Eastern geopolitical zone of Nigeria in West Africa. It is one of the many communities in Old Nsukka that have evidence of Prehistoric iron smelting up to industrial proportions. Evidence abounds in these communities that a vast industry of iron smelting thrived in Old Nsukka involving entire populations of several communities.
In these communities which include Orba, Opi, Umundu, Owerri-Elu, Eha, Agu, Isiakpu, Eguru, archaeologists have found evidence of prehistoric mining of iron ore as well as local furnaces used for smelting. Huge amounts of tuyere, charcoal and iron slag litter the villages, hills, and streams, attesting that in the dim past, these villages and towns had developed a thriving iron smelting technology and that Lejja, though the oldest by the current dating result, was not an isolated phenomenon in Enugu state.
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| Lejja Village, Enugu, Eastern-Nigeria |
In Nsukka communities, iron ore is called Nne nkpume, slag is called Nsi Igwe and furnaces are called Utu. Knives forged in the area are called Idu. The Nsukka industry for iron smelting must have been the industrial hub of a very thriving prehistoric civilization long gone and forgotten.
There are 500 to a thousand huge lumps of slag in the Dunu Oka village square, Lejja site alone. Shaped like broken pillars, each weighs between 34 and 57 kilograms and measures up to 50 centimeters in diameter and more than 40 centimeters in height!
Lejja iron smelting technology was dated 2,000 B.C by Carbon-12 laboratory analysis conducted at the Oxford University Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, London in partnership with the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, through the professional instrumentality of archaeologists Professor Edwin Eme Okafor, Dean of Archaeology, UNN and Professor Pamela Eze-Uzoamaka, Head of Department of Archaeology, UNN. These two have worked with Universities of Sheffield, London and Oxford University consistently for upwards of two decades to bring about the dating we now celebrate. In a recent interview on the Lejja archaeological dating, conducted in July 2012, Professor Edwin Eme Okafor elatedly announced that “2,000 B.C. is the oldest iron smelting date so far obtained for any smelting site in the world! There is no older date!”
Lejja/Nsukka Iron Smelting Technology Calls for a Rewriting of History:
The implication of this discovery is far-reaching for human history. It calls for a rewriting of the world’s history books to enshrine the achievements of the Prehistoric Nsukka iron smelters of Enugu State, Nigeria. Any nation that was the world’s “first” in the development of iron technology, was, without doubt, the Superpower of the ancient world, for it was the discovery of iron that fast-tracked world civilization in every respect. Iron technology brought about the development of Agriculture, trade, and commerce. It encouraged the drive for the building of empires through warfare and conquests.
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| Backdrop Image of one of the many Ancien Lejja Furnace, divided by Iron Slags |
It is claimed the global root of metallurgy and of civilization itself lies in Sumer. It is also claimed that the Bantus who occupy over two-thirds of Sub-Saharan Africa were migrants “from South-Eastern Nigeria” and that it was their possession of iron technology that facilitated their migration and their development of Agriculture.
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| Map of Africa |
What we know so far for sure via zooming into the map of the world, and away from World Creation Myths and into the map of Africa, followed by zooming into Nigeria, then Enugu and finally Lejja is that; there is an ancient metallurgy factory in pre-historic West-Africa incorporating Eastern-Nigeria in Enugu State called Lejja. Dated between approximately 10,000 and 2,000 BCE. Linking many of the very many different Igbo tribes from far and wide to a particular place called Lejja in their common history.
But yet to be proven are the assertions linking ancient Sumer to Igboland, linking Egyptian ‘Temple of Heliopolis’ to Lejja, linking Bantu peoples and their migrations to Igbo origin and specifically stating Igbo tribes as a singular entity rather than Multiple entities that it is. Including constantly painting the picture of Igbo evolution into Modern-Man without any contact from other tribes, cultures, other civilizations, or people from the North, East, West or South of West-Africa.
By looking at the map of Africa as a whole it is totally impossible for the Igbo tribe to evolve to modern-man independent of the many other African tribes all around them, including the San and Khoi people of Southern Africa. End of part 1 of 10. To be continued. Next blog 04/02/19.
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