IGBO ORIGIN OF EGYPTIAN AND GREEK PHILOSOPHIES
There is enough evidence preserved in various surviving languages of the globe to indicate that the earliest global colonialists actually spoke the Igbo language. Through them were sown in the world, the first seeds of the belief in one God (actually it was one Goddess, the God-element came much later) and of the god-man and god-woman – the sons and daughters of the Supreme Being – what in Igbo cosmology is called mmadu chukwu (literally god-human) or nwa-anyanwu (child of the Sun). There is ample linguistic and cosmological evidence to suggest that the Igbo concept of god-man represented by the etymon Chi does exist in the cosmology of other nations such as Egyptian ki, Chinese Chi, I Ching, Hindu Chrisna/Khrisna as well as Greek Chi/Christos (already discussed). The god-man Krishna (the incarnation of the second person of the Hindu Trinity) is a black deity also known by the name of Ham’s fourth son ‘Canaan’!
Thus was the Pre-historic root of Christianity was sown several millennia before the birth of Jesus Christ with ichi representing the cross and the rays of the sun, and Oji (kolanut) representing the Eucharist. The hallmarks of Igbo culture and cosmology were – Democracy or Self-government of the people, Kingless-ness; Divine Justice (Ogu or what the Egyptians call Maat); Freedom of Thought and Expression, and the Divinity of the Human genus. George James in his much celebrated Stolen Legacy, propagated the thesis that Greek philosophy was stolen from Egyptian Philosophy because all Great Greek philosophers studied in Egypt. But what is most shocking is that every great milestone of Greek Philosophy is an adaptation of Igbo philosophy. This statement is not even the tip of the iceberg. In fact we require a separate book to propound our thesis, but as for the notion that the Greeks borrowed word for word from Igbo High Theology, there is absolutely no doubt.
Else Elsewhere we have made the point that the Egyptian God, Osiris, the son of Ra was the carrier of Igbo thought across the continents and that he was the instrument of Igbo civilizing influence to the rest of the world. That Osiris marched out of Africa with an army of Black Africans is well known in the history and mythology of Egypt and Greece. It is also known that many of these Osirian soldiers dropped off on many Ports of the Aegean and Asia where they settled and founded cities and nurtured civilizations. But what is not known is where he took this black army from. Osiris’ journey round the world was intended ab initio as a civilizing mission. What we know today about the Igbo and their strategic position in the divine mission of man on the planet emboldens us to suggest that Osiris would have been proud to establish the Igbo stock as the priest-kings of the earth. We have reason to suppose that this was exactly what Osiris did.
Space does dot allow us to propound our thesis in detail, that Greek and Egyptian Philosophies were off-shoots of Igbo Cosmology. We can just summarize here and say that Greek/Egyptian Philosophy (as enumerated by George James in Stolen Legacy) like Igbo cosmology upholds 1. The Deification of man; 2. The Right of man to hold Communion with immortals; 3. Reincarnation; 4. The Importance of Initiation and bodily Asceticism for the attainment of Illumination and Perfection; 5. A Theology of Salvation which taught the individual to become god-like while on earth through a life of virtue (impeccability), for there was no mediator between man and his salvation. 7. The Pythagorean doctrines of Union of opposites for the cultivation of harmony; the Summum Bonum (Supreme Good) which says that man’s greatest attainment is to become Godlike; and the importance of Purification and Disciplining of Body and Soul. As in Igbo culture, the Greeks divided man into tree grades: the Mortals (Ndi Nkiti); the Intelligences – those who have attained inner vision (Ndi Okacha mara); the Creators/ Sons of the Sun/ Immortals, those who are united with the Light (Nze na Ozo, Ndi Ichie). Like the Igbo, the Greeks and Egyptians before them valued Oratory, Rhetoric and Logic (Amala Okwu, Ilulu, Apka Uche)…”by which the individual became a living witness of the Divine Logos”. They strove for the same virtues that the Igbo strove for: “Temperance – complete control of the passion nature”, Fortitude, Courage, Prudence, “Justice, the unswerving righteousness of thought and action”, etc., etc. (Stolen Legacy, p. 27-30, 57) One only needs to read Things Fall Apart to see all these elements at play.
Thus was the Pre-historic root of Christianity was sown several millennia before the birth of Jesus Christ with ichi representing the cross and the rays of the sun, and Oji (kolanut) representing the Eucharist. The hallmarks of Igbo culture and cosmology were – Democracy or Self-government of the people, Kingless-ness; Divine Justice (Ogu or what the Egyptians call Maat); Freedom of Thought and Expression, and the Divinity of the Human genus. George James in his much celebrated Stolen Legacy, propagated the thesis that Greek philosophy was stolen from Egyptian Philosophy because all Great Greek philosophers studied in Egypt. But what is most shocking is that every great milestone of Greek Philosophy is an adaptation of Igbo philosophy. This statement is not even the tip of the iceberg. In fact we require a separate book to propound our thesis, but as for the notion that the Greeks borrowed word for word from Igbo High Theology, there is absolutely no doubt.
Else Elsewhere we have made the point that the Egyptian God, Osiris, the son of Ra was the carrier of Igbo thought across the continents and that he was the instrument of Igbo civilizing influence to the rest of the world. That Osiris marched out of Africa with an army of Black Africans is well known in the history and mythology of Egypt and Greece. It is also known that many of these Osirian soldiers dropped off on many Ports of the Aegean and Asia where they settled and founded cities and nurtured civilizations. But what is not known is where he took this black army from. Osiris’ journey round the world was intended ab initio as a civilizing mission. What we know today about the Igbo and their strategic position in the divine mission of man on the planet emboldens us to suggest that Osiris would have been proud to establish the Igbo stock as the priest-kings of the earth. We have reason to suppose that this was exactly what Osiris did.
Space does dot allow us to propound our thesis in detail, that Greek and Egyptian Philosophies were off-shoots of Igbo Cosmology. We can just summarize here and say that Greek/Egyptian Philosophy (as enumerated by George James in Stolen Legacy) like Igbo cosmology upholds 1. The Deification of man; 2. The Right of man to hold Communion with immortals; 3. Reincarnation; 4. The Importance of Initiation and bodily Asceticism for the attainment of Illumination and Perfection; 5. A Theology of Salvation which taught the individual to become god-like while on earth through a life of virtue (impeccability), for there was no mediator between man and his salvation. 7. The Pythagorean doctrines of Union of opposites for the cultivation of harmony; the Summum Bonum (Supreme Good) which says that man’s greatest attainment is to become Godlike; and the importance of Purification and Disciplining of Body and Soul. As in Igbo culture, the Greeks divided man into tree grades: the Mortals (Ndi Nkiti); the Intelligences – those who have attained inner vision (Ndi Okacha mara); the Creators/ Sons of the Sun/ Immortals, those who are united with the Light (Nze na Ozo, Ndi Ichie). Like the Igbo, the Greeks and Egyptians before them valued Oratory, Rhetoric and Logic (Amala Okwu, Ilulu, Apka Uche)…”by which the individual became a living witness of the Divine Logos”. They strove for the same virtues that the Igbo strove for: “Temperance – complete control of the passion nature”, Fortitude, Courage, Prudence, “Justice, the unswerving righteousness of thought and action”, etc., etc. (Stolen Legacy, p. 27-30, 57) One only needs to read Things Fall Apart to see all these elements at play.