PRE-HISTORIC STONE, POTTERY AND BRONZE INSCRIPTIONS IN ANCIENT NIGERIA - ANOTHER EVIDENCE THAT MYTHOLOGICAL EGYPT WAS A PREHISTORIC NIGERIAN CIVILIZATION?
Linguistic analyses of stone inscription conclude that ancient symbols left on rocks and stone tablets through-out the world by an ancient race of world travelers who mapped the world to its extremities, confirm one single source of language, writing and culture, from which the rest of the world learned all it knows in terms of astronomy, sacred science, geography and so on. They insist that parallel inscriptions have been found in Africa, Asia, Europe and America.
The discovery by the research team of the Catherine Acholonu Research Center, of stone inscriptions in Ikom, Cross River state, and of another set of inscriptions on bronze and pottery in Igbo Ukwu which have similarities with those of the Middle East (including Egypt), added to the fact of the existence of Igbo cognates in many languages of the world, have demonstrated convincingly that Africa, indeed Nigeria was the original source of the global distribution of the earliest writing forms. Further research has shown that almost every known symbol used by the early Igbos were divine and cosmic symbols. We also found that many symbols used yesterday and today in astronomy, Christianity and in Mathematics and secular literature, were invented and originally in use by ancient Igbo sacred scientists/Shaman/Afa Priests. The list of symbols found in inscribed on Igbo Ukwu bronze and pottery is long and includes the equal-armed cross, the Sine Wave, the Caduceus, the Aesculapius, the Christian chalice cup, the palm-frond/palm tree, the X-shaped ichi, the Duad, the falcon/eagle (ugo, as in the Ozo ichi, which imitates the shape of a flying falcon, which happens to also be the emblem of Egyptian god Horus – the son of Osiris by Isis). Most of these inscriptions were also in use among the followers of the Egyptian god Thoth, also called Hermes among the Greeks. The symbol of the swastika found among the archaeological excavations at Igbo Ukwu was globally very wide-spread by 2,000 B.C., up to ancient India, Greece, Crete, Phoenicia, etc. It is the symbol of the fire-bearer and marks the great milestone of the discovery of fire. In religious literature this symbol is a classical form of the Cross and represents the resurrection and the risen Christ. The presence of inscriptions of the Cross and the Chalice cup imply a deep link with Christian theology and to the myth of the Grail. Perhaps its implication is the Igbo land is the actual land of the Grail myth.
Ancient Egyptian emblems or totems found in Igbo Ukwu include also the beetle, the Serpent’s Tooth, the scorpion, twin eggs, the crescent, the sun disc, and many many more. Most of them are known emblems of Osiris, Isis and Thoth and other Egyptian gods. It is shocking that Igbo Ukwu had all the major emblems and symbols known to the ancient Egyptians as the symbols of their two most important gods - Osiris and Isis. In fact, according to the records provided by the archaeologists who excavated Igbo Ukwu, one of the graves they opened contained the highly dilapidated remains of a person wearing a crescent, metal crown and clothed in a regalia and a headdress strung with no fewer than one hundred and eleven thousand beads! This person’s metal crown was made of copper. The crown, like many other items found in the grave is highly decorated with many symbols associated with the goddesses of Egypt. The crown is a crescent crown – a tiara. Tiaras are worn by queens, and never by kings. Kings wear round crowns while their wives wear tiaras. The combination of metal tiara and 111,000 beads on the queen’s regalia, speak of a female monarch of global influence and power. Such a queen was Isis. Everything dug up by Thurstan Shaw- the British archaeologist who excavated Igbo Ukwu, shows that Igbo Ukwu was an ancient city of international importance, comparable to the greatness of ancient Egypt, Babylon, Mesopotamia.
Yet Igbo Ukwu had many cultural elements specifically associated with the Igbo through the ages, such as the facial scarification called ichi, the metal spiral anklet worn by married women and by girls going through the rite of marriage, which is also an emblem of the mother-goddess of Mbari, all confirm confirming that this was not a foreign, but rather a native Igbo civilization. There only three pits excavated by Thurstan Shaw, and these three pits yielded were hundreds and thousands of highly ornate bronze objects, more than three thousand earthenware and over five thousand coloured carnelian beads. The implication of the sheer mass, number and sophistication of the finds is that Igbo Ukwu was not a chance burial of ancient goods, but a city and the remnant of a highly sophisticated civilization. The fact that this city and its history has been lost to all living memory means that Igbo Ukwu was a lost city belonging to time immemorial. A Lost City with all the trappings of Egyptian gods and Egyptian civilization speaks for itself and speaks volumes about the credibility of the British archaeologists who gave a 900 A.D. date to the artifacts whereas the gods whose story it bears lived in Egypt between 12,000 B.C and 10,000 B.C.Igbo Ukwu was a lost city of mythology, whose name and identity must be sought Egypt – the one African civilization known for its meticulous records.
However, analysis conducted, and evidence provided in They Lived Before Adam, suggest that there were two major strings of Igbo dialects – of which the first was spoken by the cavemen, the natives also called Autochthons or First People. These were variously known in Igbo land as Ndi Agali Odi, Ndi Ichie Akwu, Ndi Ezeana or Adama - the cave-men, the descendants of the Homo Erectus (Forest People).
The second dialectal string was spoken by the immigrants. In They Lived Before Adam, we indicated that the notion of ‘Forest ‘People’ (Ndi Ugbo) and ‘First People’ (Ndi Gbo) gave the Igbo their generic name Igbo. This means thatthe autochthons were the original speakers of the Igbo language, and that if the Atlanteans spoke Igbo, it was either because they learnt it from the Igbo First People or that Igbo was the Lingua Franca of the whole world at that time. In any case, the fact that the leading Atlantean god, Poseidon, married an Igbo-speaking Atlantean native, would tend to support the thesis of an Igbo native language of Atlantis! All these would then suggest that the Nri descendants of Eri/Thoth, whom we have described in They Lived Before Adam as migrant Igbo,or descendants of Adam might have inherited the second string of Igbo dialect from their Atlantean ancestors. These two dialectal strings of Igbo are spoken today in Imo/Abia and Anambra areas of Igbo land, for the autochthons, whose original base was in Ugwuele in Abia State could only have been the speakers of the original Igbo dialect by virtue of being the First People. Herein lies the main difference between Anambra dialect and Imo-Abia dialects.
Our comparison of ancient inscriptions found on thousands of bronze, copper and pottery utensils and wares dug up in Igbo Ukwu, with ancient inscriptions of countries of the Middle East, show that Igbo Ukwu shared a number of letters with some Middle Eastern Alphabets such as Cretan Linear A & B, Proto-Phoenician, Proto-Sinaitic, Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite and Indic, to name a few, most of which developed between 2,000 and 1.500 B.C. (plate 1). This research, now published under the title The Lost Testament of the Ancestors of Adam, Unearthing Heliopolis/Igbo Ukwu – The Celestial City of the Gods of Egypt and India also provides evidence that Old Kingdom Egypt which, according to Egyptian records, was ruled by the gods between 12,000 and 4,000 B.C. (the latter-day Egypt ruled by men sprang up by 3,100 B.C.) was actually located in Nubian West Africa, and precisely in ancient Nigeria, with Igbo Ukwu as its Divine Capital. It was from this divine capital city that Osiris took off with a large band of followers on the world civilizing mission reported in many world mythologies, notably those of the Middle East and India. It was also this world- civilizing mission of Osiris that transported Igbo language and the mystical traditions of their earliest ancestors all over the ancient world, as demonstrated in They Lived Before Adam (2009). The achievements of Osiris in this world-civilizing mission are recorded in ancient mythologies, worldwide, under the general name of Kush, a word derived from the ancient Kwa clan-name Akwu Nshi – the Mega-Igbo name of the West African First People.
Those who excavated and studied Igbo Ukwu artifacts are surprised bythe obvious Indian features of these artifacts. This is further proof of the con-quest of India by Osiris (whom the Indians called Rama) and of the Mega-Igbo origin of his followers, and that the Indian civilization was a product of the early Igbo civilization which had been fashioned by Osiris/Eshi/Kush in the days of yore, remembered as the Days of Eshi (Kamgbe Eshi) in Igbo heartland dialects, while the Anambra speakers remember those early days as the ‘Days of Eri’ (Eri Mbosi). Incidentally Igbo Ukwu people speak the dialect of the Autochthons, showing them to have been directly descended from the Manu/Group Soul of the First People Ele otherwise called Igbo.
The discovery by the research team of the Catherine Acholonu Research Center, of stone inscriptions in Ikom, Cross River state, and of another set of inscriptions on bronze and pottery in Igbo Ukwu which have similarities with those of the Middle East (including Egypt), added to the fact of the existence of Igbo cognates in many languages of the world, have demonstrated convincingly that Africa, indeed Nigeria was the original source of the global distribution of the earliest writing forms. Further research has shown that almost every known symbol used by the early Igbos were divine and cosmic symbols. We also found that many symbols used yesterday and today in astronomy, Christianity and in Mathematics and secular literature, were invented and originally in use by ancient Igbo sacred scientists/Shaman/Afa Priests. The list of symbols found in inscribed on Igbo Ukwu bronze and pottery is long and includes the equal-armed cross, the Sine Wave, the Caduceus, the Aesculapius, the Christian chalice cup, the palm-frond/palm tree, the X-shaped ichi, the Duad, the falcon/eagle (ugo, as in the Ozo ichi, which imitates the shape of a flying falcon, which happens to also be the emblem of Egyptian god Horus – the son of Osiris by Isis). Most of these inscriptions were also in use among the followers of the Egyptian god Thoth, also called Hermes among the Greeks. The symbol of the swastika found among the archaeological excavations at Igbo Ukwu was globally very wide-spread by 2,000 B.C., up to ancient India, Greece, Crete, Phoenicia, etc. It is the symbol of the fire-bearer and marks the great milestone of the discovery of fire. In religious literature this symbol is a classical form of the Cross and represents the resurrection and the risen Christ. The presence of inscriptions of the Cross and the Chalice cup imply a deep link with Christian theology and to the myth of the Grail. Perhaps its implication is the Igbo land is the actual land of the Grail myth.
Ancient Egyptian emblems or totems found in Igbo Ukwu include also the beetle, the Serpent’s Tooth, the scorpion, twin eggs, the crescent, the sun disc, and many many more. Most of them are known emblems of Osiris, Isis and Thoth and other Egyptian gods. It is shocking that Igbo Ukwu had all the major emblems and symbols known to the ancient Egyptians as the symbols of their two most important gods - Osiris and Isis. In fact, according to the records provided by the archaeologists who excavated Igbo Ukwu, one of the graves they opened contained the highly dilapidated remains of a person wearing a crescent, metal crown and clothed in a regalia and a headdress strung with no fewer than one hundred and eleven thousand beads! This person’s metal crown was made of copper. The crown, like many other items found in the grave is highly decorated with many symbols associated with the goddesses of Egypt. The crown is a crescent crown – a tiara. Tiaras are worn by queens, and never by kings. Kings wear round crowns while their wives wear tiaras. The combination of metal tiara and 111,000 beads on the queen’s regalia, speak of a female monarch of global influence and power. Such a queen was Isis. Everything dug up by Thurstan Shaw- the British archaeologist who excavated Igbo Ukwu, shows that Igbo Ukwu was an ancient city of international importance, comparable to the greatness of ancient Egypt, Babylon, Mesopotamia.
Yet Igbo Ukwu had many cultural elements specifically associated with the Igbo through the ages, such as the facial scarification called ichi, the metal spiral anklet worn by married women and by girls going through the rite of marriage, which is also an emblem of the mother-goddess of Mbari, all confirm confirming that this was not a foreign, but rather a native Igbo civilization. There only three pits excavated by Thurstan Shaw, and these three pits yielded were hundreds and thousands of highly ornate bronze objects, more than three thousand earthenware and over five thousand coloured carnelian beads. The implication of the sheer mass, number and sophistication of the finds is that Igbo Ukwu was not a chance burial of ancient goods, but a city and the remnant of a highly sophisticated civilization. The fact that this city and its history has been lost to all living memory means that Igbo Ukwu was a lost city belonging to time immemorial. A Lost City with all the trappings of Egyptian gods and Egyptian civilization speaks for itself and speaks volumes about the credibility of the British archaeologists who gave a 900 A.D. date to the artifacts whereas the gods whose story it bears lived in Egypt between 12,000 B.C and 10,000 B.C.Igbo Ukwu was a lost city of mythology, whose name and identity must be sought Egypt – the one African civilization known for its meticulous records.
However, analysis conducted, and evidence provided in They Lived Before Adam, suggest that there were two major strings of Igbo dialects – of which the first was spoken by the cavemen, the natives also called Autochthons or First People. These were variously known in Igbo land as Ndi Agali Odi, Ndi Ichie Akwu, Ndi Ezeana or Adama - the cave-men, the descendants of the Homo Erectus (Forest People).
The second dialectal string was spoken by the immigrants. In They Lived Before Adam, we indicated that the notion of ‘Forest ‘People’ (Ndi Ugbo) and ‘First People’ (Ndi Gbo) gave the Igbo their generic name Igbo. This means thatthe autochthons were the original speakers of the Igbo language, and that if the Atlanteans spoke Igbo, it was either because they learnt it from the Igbo First People or that Igbo was the Lingua Franca of the whole world at that time. In any case, the fact that the leading Atlantean god, Poseidon, married an Igbo-speaking Atlantean native, would tend to support the thesis of an Igbo native language of Atlantis! All these would then suggest that the Nri descendants of Eri/Thoth, whom we have described in They Lived Before Adam as migrant Igbo,or descendants of Adam might have inherited the second string of Igbo dialect from their Atlantean ancestors. These two dialectal strings of Igbo are spoken today in Imo/Abia and Anambra areas of Igbo land, for the autochthons, whose original base was in Ugwuele in Abia State could only have been the speakers of the original Igbo dialect by virtue of being the First People. Herein lies the main difference between Anambra dialect and Imo-Abia dialects.
Our comparison of ancient inscriptions found on thousands of bronze, copper and pottery utensils and wares dug up in Igbo Ukwu, with ancient inscriptions of countries of the Middle East, show that Igbo Ukwu shared a number of letters with some Middle Eastern Alphabets such as Cretan Linear A & B, Proto-Phoenician, Proto-Sinaitic, Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite and Indic, to name a few, most of which developed between 2,000 and 1.500 B.C. (plate 1). This research, now published under the title The Lost Testament of the Ancestors of Adam, Unearthing Heliopolis/Igbo Ukwu – The Celestial City of the Gods of Egypt and India also provides evidence that Old Kingdom Egypt which, according to Egyptian records, was ruled by the gods between 12,000 and 4,000 B.C. (the latter-day Egypt ruled by men sprang up by 3,100 B.C.) was actually located in Nubian West Africa, and precisely in ancient Nigeria, with Igbo Ukwu as its Divine Capital. It was from this divine capital city that Osiris took off with a large band of followers on the world civilizing mission reported in many world mythologies, notably those of the Middle East and India. It was also this world- civilizing mission of Osiris that transported Igbo language and the mystical traditions of their earliest ancestors all over the ancient world, as demonstrated in They Lived Before Adam (2009). The achievements of Osiris in this world-civilizing mission are recorded in ancient mythologies, worldwide, under the general name of Kush, a word derived from the ancient Kwa clan-name Akwu Nshi – the Mega-Igbo name of the West African First People.
Those who excavated and studied Igbo Ukwu artifacts are surprised bythe obvious Indian features of these artifacts. This is further proof of the con-quest of India by Osiris (whom the Indians called Rama) and of the Mega-Igbo origin of his followers, and that the Indian civilization was a product of the early Igbo civilization which had been fashioned by Osiris/Eshi/Kush in the days of yore, remembered as the Days of Eshi (Kamgbe Eshi) in Igbo heartland dialects, while the Anambra speakers remember those early days as the ‘Days of Eri’ (Eri Mbosi). Incidentally Igbo Ukwu people speak the dialect of the Autochthons, showing them to have been directly descended from the Manu/Group Soul of the First People Ele otherwise called Igbo.