Egyptian Edfu Texts, Igbo, Smith, Dunu, Lejja, Nsuka, Nigeria

Painted image of Egyptian God Horus

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.

It is not a coincidence that Wawa and Nkannu are the aboriginal clan names of the people of Nsukka and the people of Enugu state! This is recorded in Egyptian history as having taken place ca. 8,970 B.C. during the wars of Horus and Seth!

Note: In any balance research, debate or supposition you need to have an argument for and against, including documentary evidence. We will, therefore, introduce documentary evidence contrary to Professor Achonolu viewpoints and assertions. Sometimes we will also present documentary evidence to strengthen and support a particular point of view she asserts. They will be formatted as For and Against.

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.

This Oka smith of the Eri fame was no doubt the Dunu Oka smith of Lejja! It is also clear from here that the famous Akwa smiths of Igbo land are descendants of the Oka smiths of Prehistoric Nsukka (The word ‘Nsukka’ appears to be derived from Nshi-Oka – meaning ‘Dwarf Smiths’).

Before Egypt, There was Sumer – An Igbo-Speaking Ancient Nigerian Civilization? L.A. Waddell in his path-breaking work, Makers of Civilization in Race and History, provided evidence to the effect that Egyptian civilization was a fall out of the earlier Sumerian civilization. mmannu, shortened to Khe’nnu/Khennu - Nkannu) and whom the rest of the world called ‘gods’ for want of a better term.

Edfu Temple Egypt

The Sumerian civilization was destroyed by 2,023 B.C., the very time when the Lejja shrine monument was in its heydays.

Evidence provided in this work demonstrates that the so-called ‘gods’ of ancient Egypt were dare-devil ancient Nigerian Sumerians who had built a thriving prehistoric civilization that spanned all of North and West Africa.

With Egypt as its political capital, while preserving the homeland as the no-go area reserved only for the great Lords of Antiquity whom the Egyptians called Khemennu (Oke). 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.

These ape-men Khemennu were the Ndi Ushi of Igbo land. Their population was mostly dwarfed, who were also associated with metallurgy throughout antiquity.

Egyptian Dwarf God Pataeke or Pataikos, son of Ptah 

Africa’s most renowned archaeologist elix Chami of the University of Dar-es-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). This Nehsi, Chami argued, were “the founders of Egyptian civilization”, and the Egyptians and Greeks called them Pancheans.

Herodotus and Homer spoke of a race of Black West Africans, “who came to Egypt and colonized it”
Zecharia Sitchen in The Stairway to Heaven notes that the Egyptian God Amun/Atum-Ra – the God of Heliopolis - was called Vul-can, a name associated with fire (as in furnace) and that the land associated with him was called the Land of the Race of Can/Khan. Khenites/Qenites, who, according to Zecharia Sitchen, are reputed to be the world’s Oldest Blacksmiths, and their name Can/Khan (Igbo Nkannu) means “smiths and metallurgists.”

Egyptian God Amun-Ra

It is the original homeland of the Canaanites or

The fact that in Igbo Oka means ‘smith’ and ‘metallurgist’ implies that the Canaanites/Khenites were Igbo-speaking and that they were one and the same with the Oka/Nkannu people of Igbo land.

The added fact that the village of smiths in Lejja is called Dunu Oka, meaning ‘Master Smith’ in Igbo, is conclusive proof that Nsukka in Enugu State in Igbo land, Nigeria is the original homeland of the ubiquitous Canaanites who gave metallurgy to the world! M.A. Pinkham in Return of the Serpents of Wisdom noted that Ham, the father of Canaan, was called Vulcan and that as Khem – a Khemennu ape-man - he was the one who gave civilization to Egypt (Khemet) by becoming its first Pharaoh.

Pharaoh Min (Menes). Pinkham posits that: Khan/Khem/Kha/Ka/Ca/Qa and variations of this etymon are derived from the lineage of Ham and Canaan and allude to the same race of god-men. Accordingly, the words Nkannu, Oka, and Nsukka as self-explanatory in this context. From the translations of Sumerian texts conducted by L.A. Waddell, we now know that Many Sumerian kings proudly bore the title Qa in imitation of Sumer’s earliest divine kings, who ruled before the Deluge.

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 the Egyptian god Osiris and the origin of his name.

Igbo Dwarf early 1900s

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.

Another pointer that Canaanites were the Nsukka iron smelters is the fact that the word Khem, a title of Osiris and Biblical Ham, means ‘Black’, ‘Burnt’, implying that Biblical Ham, the father of Canaan was Osiris of Egypt and that he worked in the scorching furnaces of Nsukka with Canaan and the latter’s descendants. This confirms the involvement of Horus, the son of Osiris in Nsukka smelting technology.

Apparently Ham worked for the god Osiris and bore his title Khem, while his son Canaan worked under Osiris’ son Horus, as confirmed in the Egyptian Edfu Texts, where Horus is said to have made friends with a man called Khennu or Khannu in whose territory Horus established a metal “foundry of divine iron” (an industry for iron smelting) in the district of UaUa (Wawa)!

This also explains the astounding, industrial amounts of iron slag found in Lejja; and it calls for a government-supported archaeological work to establish the correct date of the Lejja smelting, which Egyptian records put within the 9th millennium B.C. (a whopping 11,000 years)!

Oshuru, Osiris Groove, Lejja, Igboland Eastern-Nigeria

Physical Evidence of the Egyptian ‘Temple of Heliopolis’ Located in Lejja. It is said in the Egyptian Edfu texts that the place where Horus built the world’s first iron smelting industry, was the same site where he also built a Holy City and a Temple in which he housed his Winged Disc in a hidden enclosure. The Holy City is Heliopolis, City of the Sun and the Temple is the Sun Temple found in Lejja. Horus, of course, is the Egyptian god of the Rising Sun, and Igbo Land is the ‘Land of the Rising Sun!

The following are the characteristic geographical landmarks, features, and symbols leading to and located in and around the ‘Temple of Heliopolis’ as recorded in ancient Egyptian texts, notably The Egyptian Book of the Dead:

River Nigern & River Benue Confluence, Nigeria

⦁ A Land in the South and West of Egypt beyond the Sahara desert, identified with the word “East” or “Eastern side of Heaven”; the northern part thereof.
⦁ Double Nest Rivers (confluence) of which one is called the Traverser of Millions of Years and the other a purifying Lake.
⦁ A Body of Water called ‘a Bight’ and ‘Lake of Fire’.
⦁ A place associated with the palm tree.
⦁ Chains of Mountains
⦁ A Horizon marked by Two Hills and Three Hills
⦁ A place with a name that has the root DN or Dunu associated with three Hills and Two Hills, a mound and/or earthworks.
⦁ A ‘Hole’ in the ground called ‘the Mouth of the Earth’, leading into an Underground abode of the gods (Duat)
⦁ A Conical Structure (which the Egyptians call the Benben)

Bight of Biafra, Nigeria

⦁ A Stairway
⦁ A Celestial Disc symbol of the Sun rising and setting in the horizon
⦁ A Circle with a dot in the Center – the Symbol of Ra
⦁ A Crescent Moon (the Sun and Moon are symbols of Atum-Ra)
⦁ Two Magical Trees
⦁ A Fortified Circle
⦁ A Place of Pillars
⦁ The House of Fire associated with a furnace
⦁ A Place for computing the Years and telling the Months
⦁ “The Great House of Two Truths”
⦁ 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 fly whisk (Nza), as seen in all his images in Egyptian texts, shows him to be an Igbo royalty).

Map of West, Central & West Africa

By looking at the map of West-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. And Professor Alchonolu has not provided or use as an example, a single point of view that contradict her assertions.  In any balance research, debate or supposition you need to have an argument for and against.

First of all, there are the Khoisan with the oldest human DNA, including the Yoruba tribes who are the next-door neighbour to the Igbo tribes, as well as Cameroon, the Ethiopians also made similar claims followed by the Gabonese and Congolese. This is professional research but reeks of too much Igbo-centricity. End of part 2 of 10. Next blog 08/02/19. We will be debunking some of Professor Alchonolu's point of views and reasserting others with documentary evidence.