THE IGBO, JESUS CHRIST GOD IS DEFERENT FROM THE JEWISH GOD
The Nag Hammadi books such as The Secret Book of John (which is said to contain hidden mysteries revealed to John, the brother of James by Jesus Christ after the Ascension); The Holy Book of the Great invisible Spirit (a book that was most likely written or dictated by Jesus himself because it details mysteries that could not emanate from any man; The Revelation of Adam and a host of others insist that there were two Gods: the God of Shem and the God of “Ham and Japheth” (Ham was always mentioned before Japheth). One of the Savior’s central hidden messages in The Nag Hammadi Scriptures is that Ham and Japheth, together with Jesus himself, are the spiritual descendants of Seth, Adam’s true son from the One True God, while Shem, the ancestor of the Semitic family of nations, to which the Israelites belong, is the classical antagonist of the Sethian spiritual lineage. Another central message of the Nag Hammadi is that the God that is known in the Hebrew Bible through the Judaic religion, is not the same God whom Jesus refers to as ‘My Father’. Jesus’ crucifixion by Jewish leaders was because they recognized that his teaching was in direct opposition to their religion and that he cast aspersion at their God, Jehovah also called Yahweh. Jesus never mentioned God by name and insists in The Nag Hammadi Scriptures that God has no name, and that any being with a name could only have been named by some one pre-existent to itself. Jesus repudiated the Sabbath, saying that God being infinite and incorporeal does not need a day of rest as human beings do. This rejection was mutual because the Jewish people have rebuffed Jesus and his religion to this day and are still waiting for the “true” Messiah of the Jews to come.
In fact the Biblical record of Jesus’ ancestry clearly states that he was descended through David and Jesse from the unbroken lineage of a Moabite (Canaanite) woman named Ruth. This is the only message of The Book of Ruth. Jesus Canaanite origin through the husbandless Moabite woman, Ruth, and the equally ‘husbandless’ Mary underscores the fact that there was more Canaanite and less Hebrew blood in him. And this was a direct denial of the fierce injunction of Yahweh that Israelites must never mix their blood with that of Canaanites either by marriage or by spoils of war. Yahweh insisted that all Canaanite communities should be exterminated, man and beast alike, to prevent genetic, hence religious mix-ups. All Abraham’s wars and those of his descendants were fought for one reason and one reason alone – to exterminate the Canaanites and possess their land and in so doing, wipe out their religion. This injunction is clearly delineated in The Temple Scroll and The War Scroll among the books of The Dead Sea Scrolls:
In the cities of the people I give you as inheritance, you should not leave alive any creature. Indeed you shall utterly exterminate the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, the Jebusites … as I have commanded you, that they may not teach you to practice … (as they do) to their gods. (Gerza Vermes transl., The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, 2004, p. 217)
All the tribes mentioned in the text are Canaanite tribes. Clearly the enmity between the Israelites and the Canaanites and the latter’s brethren, which includes the Egyptians (the descendants of Ham’s first son Mizraim) - a land extolled in The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, is a direct fall-out of the war of two gods – the God of Jesus, Adam, Seth, Ham, Canaan and the Igbo – the kingless generation - on the one hand, and the God of Noah, Shem, Abraham, Jacob and the Israelites on the other. The Dead Sea Scrolls records (in The Temple Scroll) that Yahweh instructed Moses that “when you enter the land which I give you … you my surely appoint over you the king whom I will choose. It is from among your brothers that you will appoint a king over you.” (Ibid., p. 213) This clearly shows that the Israelites could not be the same “kingless generation” mentioned in the Nag Hammadi. A passage in The War Scroll demonstrates the eternal command by Yahweh to the Israelites to exterminate the sons of Seth:
A star shall come out of Jacob and a scepter shall rise out of Israel. He shall smite the temples of Moab (Jesus’ ancestral roots) and destroy all the children of Seth. He shall rule out of Jacob and cause the survivors of the city to perish. The enemy shall be his possession and Israel shall accomplish mighty deeds. (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, p. 176)
The Lost Book of Enki confirms the insinuations of the Forbidden Book of Enoch that Noah was a child of the Nephilim god Enki. Thus, by primogeniture, his first son was dedicated to the Nephilim tradition and worshipped the male deity, Jahweh whose other name was Marduk/Ra, the first son of Enki. Ham, Noah’s second son, thus became the first son in the lineage of the true God, the Great Invisible Spirit described in The Nag Hammadi as female in essence. Here we find the reason why the Hamites (Canaanites/Kwa, Egyptians, etc.) undertook to migrate to Africa after the Deluge to be united with the autochthonous Igbo who still held the true light of the living God – the only people who did not experience the Fall. But unfortunately Marduk followed them as Eri to divide and possibly rule them, in the hope to exterminate the memory, the worship, the religion and the light of the True God and convert them as his own. However, what happened was that rather than convert the Igbo to his own service, Marduk himself got converted and became a servant of the true God, albeit an imperfect one. But we do not have the space to go into all that in this short article.
What all these show is that the Igbo nations with their Kwa brethren have been in the epicenter of the world match of civilizations and the global struggle for supremacy among the gods of old. We have taken great pains to establish Igbo divine roots within the family of nations, its Pre-diluvial origins, its undeniable contributions to global civilizations and its Pre-Christian models of the message of Jesus Christ. Because we have delved into hitherto uncharted waters, it was unavoidable that this piece would be long. Our aim was to make our argument convincing enough to awaken new interest in this subject among scholars of Igbo and Kwa Studies and Sub-Saharan African Studies all over the world, and to induce a heightened sense of pride among Igbo people and their Kwa brethren in knowing who they are. The African Hamitic link is undeniable and ought to be researched by all Black Africans. This is just the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more that we cannot bring into this article, but which will be part of our soon to be published book on the subject.
It would, for example, be interesting to research into the many identities of the Sumerian/ Egyptian god Marduk/Ra as this entity seemed to have been connected with the West African god of the mountains, fire, rain and metal Vulcan, also called Yam in Palestine and Poseidon in the Aegean. Egyptians called the hidden lands of West African dwarfs Yam; Ra/Eri gave the Yam tuber to the Igbo. What link is there? Plato’s Timaeus records Poseidon as the god who constructed the magnificent city of Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean and surrounded it with concentric circles of land and water where he secured his wife Cleito, an earth woman he captured in the Altantean village of Cerne. Is there any link with Igbo obsession with concentric circles? There is a Cerne village in Ireland in the region associated with the ancient mound builders that could be linked to the West African mound builders of Panchea. What link is there between the Pancheans (Akwa-nshi) and the mythical Guancheas of the Canary Islands? What link is there between the Kwa and the Grooved Ware People, global builders of stone megaliths, so called because of the grooves they make on their pottery as the Kwa have always done and still do?
Marduk/Ra, like Poseidon married an earth woman, Sarpanit. Marduk’s father Enki/ Ptah was reputed to have been responsible for the Fall of divine Adam and Eve. His semen implanted into Eve (captured in the Biblical myth of the serpent and the apple) was responsible for the derailing of God’s plan of humanity as a race of god-men, because Enki and his band of extra-terrestrial gods were the same degenerate beings whom the Bible called Nephilim. The Greek god Zeus on his own part was reputed to have abducted a Canaanite earth woman from Tyre and to have planted her in Crete causing her father Agenor (also called Canaan), and brothers Phoenix (the founder of Phoenicia), Kadmon (the founder of the Cretan civilization), and others to migrate to the Aegean in search of her, transporting their culture and founding cities in the process. The girl’s name was Europa (meaning ‘Broad face’) – she gave her name to the continent of Europe. Her mother’s name was Telephassa (meaning ‘Far shining light’; see index pages Robert Graves, Greek Myths I). Iruopa is Igbo word for ‘Broad face’ and Telephassa is an obvious cognate of Igbo expression - Ife sateela - ‘When light shines far’. The fact that the names of mother and daughter are Igbo, is an indication that the family in question were of Igbo stock and that the indigenous occupants of the African continent who were met in situ by the Biblical Nephilim/Sky beings were a people who spoke the Igbo language (The Lost Book of Enki). At the same time the lending of Iruopa’s name to the continent of Europe, shows how far-reaching Igbo impact has been on the world at large. Is the story of Europa the missing link of how perhaps Nkannu of Wawa (Royal Khennu of UaUa recorded in the Pyramid texts, see The Gram Code) became Canaan, how his friendship with Ra (Eri) might have cost him his beautiful daughter Iruopa; how Igbo tradition left the shores of Igbo land to populate the world as Canaan and his sons sought after their beloved daughter/sister?
Kadmon, Agenor’s eldest son was said to have eloped with his mother while this tragedy lasted. There is a similar story in Ndi Ichie Akwa Mythology about Oduduwa, the perceived father of the Yoruba nation, eloping with the wife of his brother Nkwo, the father of the Igbo nation and begetting Edo by her. Edo oral traditions say that the Sky god Iso, was angry with his younger son Oto for violating his marital bed by sleeping with his younger wife and begetting a son called Igbon (the ancestor of the Igbo nation). (The Great Benin 1, p. 30-32) The Old Testament Hebrew Bible says that Noah was angry with his son Ham for seeing his nakedness and instead of cursing Ham, he cursed the latter’s youngest son Canaan. Why? Was it perhaps, his mother’s nakedness that Ham saw, and did he, as a result of this encounter, beget Canaan by his mother? This sounds more plausible than the Biblical reasoning. Considering that Noah was fathered by the Nephilim and was born white/hybrid/mutant as a result, did Ham, the only black son of Noah, in having a son (Canaan) by his mother, seek to maintain a fully divine (100% Sethian/black) bloodline? What, if any, was Igbo connection to Atlantis, whose submergence has been equated with the Flood of Noah in Sumerian texts? Was Igbo the thriving civilization in Atlantis before the Flood? These questions are answered in our forthcoming book on the subject.
1,500 B.C. was the precise time the Linea A (column writing) script was introduced to Crete (plate 21) and the dawn of the Iron Age in Europe! Herodotus reported that the Carians, who were related by lineage to Minos - the son of Europa (Iruopa), had an egalitarian society like the Igbo, where all men were considered equal. Like the Igbo they paid no tribute to any king and had no king themselves. Like the Abia Igbo they observed matriarchy and like all Igbo clans they maintained an age grade system. Like the Igbo in Africa, they were the most famous people of their time. Like the Igbo of Nigeria/Biafra were great inventors. They were worshippers of Apollo (Canaanite pronunciation is Oparra), the Aegean Christ. And to crown it all, they bore fore-head scarification marks made with knife cuts just like the Igbo ichi. Their tribal name Car might have been derived from Okwara, Igbo word for First Son. Even the word Christ seems to be related to the Igbo word Okwara-Eshi – ‘Son of the Mother Goddess’! Did the Igbo call themselves Okwara in ancient times? Is this the origin of the generic name Kwa? These are questions begging for answers. We believe that if as Ndi Ichie Akwa Mythology states, leadership of the world fell on the Igbo nation by primogeniture from Aam through Ham, it is Canaan who was most likely conceived through a union of his father Ham and his grand mother (Noah’s wife) that the only remaining true Black race was preserved, and that these Canaanites who followed Marduk’s family to Sub-Saharan Africa to be joined with their true Black Pre-Adam Acheulian Mega Igbo kin, were the same people who accompanied the Marduk lineage of Gods in their civilizing missions around the world. These were the Kwa of West Africa! It must be noted that their discovery of the autochthons, “the little heaven beings”, the Akwa Nshi or Igbo Nwanshi in Punt/Panchea/Nigeria-Cameroon geographic environment was the ticket to the colonization of the world.
Through his affiliation with these sons and daughters of the True God (the Nameless Unknowable One, whom The Lost Book of Enki calls The Creator of All), Marduk gained global power over all the Nephilim gods, whom he then banished to remote places under the earth, where they still remain, having been barred from returning to their home planet! Then, with the dawn of the Age of the Ram (ca. 4,000 B.C.), Marduk, an extraterrestrial humanoid, a Nephilim, reinvented himself and began his unchallenged reign as the ‘representative’s of the One God, the Creator of All, adopting all the names of all the great Gods of his time including Yahweh. Being unable to exercise absolute control over the Canaanite god-men, he soon fell out of love with them. The answer was to create a clan of attack dogs to exterminate them for him and sell him to the world as the only God there is. Thus was the new monotheism of Abraham’s lineage born, for as the Igbo say, agwochaa ara ofodu ochi, The now recycled Marduk still could not abandon his egocentric and war-mongering excesses, which was what prompted Mahatma Gandhi to say that “the problem with Jahweh is that he thinks he is God”.
With all that has been said, it seems safe to conclude at this point that the original language spoken by the Kwa linguistic family (Proto Kwa) has been preserved to a large extent among today’s Igbo speakers. We believe this was the point that Afigbo wanted to stress in his Proto-Kwa or Mega-Igbo hypothesis. (Afigbo, Ibid., p. 34) It is possible to determine how far backwards in time this original Kwa-Igbo language can be traced by checking how far backwards in time the Igbo words go, because, as Merritt Ruhlen states in The Origin of Language, similarities in form and meaning between words from different languages can only be accounted for through “convergence, borrowing and common origin.” (p. 11-12) Thus Igbo words like Adaam – I have Fallen (Adam); Nna oha – ‘Father of nations’ (Noah); Chinese name for Noah is Nuwa, its Igbo equivalent is Nna uwa - ‘Father of the whole world’; Nshi/Eshi Igbo equivalent of Enosh/Enshi (son of Seth) – ‘Lord of mankind’, ‘Righteous Shepherd’; Igbo observation of leadership by primogeniture (first son) as observed from Adam and his entire lineage, all add up to link the Igbo stock directly, through Canaan and Ham to the family of Adam and Eve and to the language they spoke – the Proto-proto-language of humanity – the one-world language of the autochthonous earthlings whose remnants still go by the name Igbo!
In fact the Biblical record of Jesus’ ancestry clearly states that he was descended through David and Jesse from the unbroken lineage of a Moabite (Canaanite) woman named Ruth. This is the only message of The Book of Ruth. Jesus Canaanite origin through the husbandless Moabite woman, Ruth, and the equally ‘husbandless’ Mary underscores the fact that there was more Canaanite and less Hebrew blood in him. And this was a direct denial of the fierce injunction of Yahweh that Israelites must never mix their blood with that of Canaanites either by marriage or by spoils of war. Yahweh insisted that all Canaanite communities should be exterminated, man and beast alike, to prevent genetic, hence religious mix-ups. All Abraham’s wars and those of his descendants were fought for one reason and one reason alone – to exterminate the Canaanites and possess their land and in so doing, wipe out their religion. This injunction is clearly delineated in The Temple Scroll and The War Scroll among the books of The Dead Sea Scrolls:
In the cities of the people I give you as inheritance, you should not leave alive any creature. Indeed you shall utterly exterminate the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, the Jebusites … as I have commanded you, that they may not teach you to practice … (as they do) to their gods. (Gerza Vermes transl., The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, 2004, p. 217)
All the tribes mentioned in the text are Canaanite tribes. Clearly the enmity between the Israelites and the Canaanites and the latter’s brethren, which includes the Egyptians (the descendants of Ham’s first son Mizraim) - a land extolled in The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, is a direct fall-out of the war of two gods – the God of Jesus, Adam, Seth, Ham, Canaan and the Igbo – the kingless generation - on the one hand, and the God of Noah, Shem, Abraham, Jacob and the Israelites on the other. The Dead Sea Scrolls records (in The Temple Scroll) that Yahweh instructed Moses that “when you enter the land which I give you … you my surely appoint over you the king whom I will choose. It is from among your brothers that you will appoint a king over you.” (Ibid., p. 213) This clearly shows that the Israelites could not be the same “kingless generation” mentioned in the Nag Hammadi. A passage in The War Scroll demonstrates the eternal command by Yahweh to the Israelites to exterminate the sons of Seth:
A star shall come out of Jacob and a scepter shall rise out of Israel. He shall smite the temples of Moab (Jesus’ ancestral roots) and destroy all the children of Seth. He shall rule out of Jacob and cause the survivors of the city to perish. The enemy shall be his possession and Israel shall accomplish mighty deeds. (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, p. 176)
The Lost Book of Enki confirms the insinuations of the Forbidden Book of Enoch that Noah was a child of the Nephilim god Enki. Thus, by primogeniture, his first son was dedicated to the Nephilim tradition and worshipped the male deity, Jahweh whose other name was Marduk/Ra, the first son of Enki. Ham, Noah’s second son, thus became the first son in the lineage of the true God, the Great Invisible Spirit described in The Nag Hammadi as female in essence. Here we find the reason why the Hamites (Canaanites/Kwa, Egyptians, etc.) undertook to migrate to Africa after the Deluge to be united with the autochthonous Igbo who still held the true light of the living God – the only people who did not experience the Fall. But unfortunately Marduk followed them as Eri to divide and possibly rule them, in the hope to exterminate the memory, the worship, the religion and the light of the True God and convert them as his own. However, what happened was that rather than convert the Igbo to his own service, Marduk himself got converted and became a servant of the true God, albeit an imperfect one. But we do not have the space to go into all that in this short article.
What all these show is that the Igbo nations with their Kwa brethren have been in the epicenter of the world match of civilizations and the global struggle for supremacy among the gods of old. We have taken great pains to establish Igbo divine roots within the family of nations, its Pre-diluvial origins, its undeniable contributions to global civilizations and its Pre-Christian models of the message of Jesus Christ. Because we have delved into hitherto uncharted waters, it was unavoidable that this piece would be long. Our aim was to make our argument convincing enough to awaken new interest in this subject among scholars of Igbo and Kwa Studies and Sub-Saharan African Studies all over the world, and to induce a heightened sense of pride among Igbo people and their Kwa brethren in knowing who they are. The African Hamitic link is undeniable and ought to be researched by all Black Africans. This is just the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more that we cannot bring into this article, but which will be part of our soon to be published book on the subject.
It would, for example, be interesting to research into the many identities of the Sumerian/ Egyptian god Marduk/Ra as this entity seemed to have been connected with the West African god of the mountains, fire, rain and metal Vulcan, also called Yam in Palestine and Poseidon in the Aegean. Egyptians called the hidden lands of West African dwarfs Yam; Ra/Eri gave the Yam tuber to the Igbo. What link is there? Plato’s Timaeus records Poseidon as the god who constructed the magnificent city of Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean and surrounded it with concentric circles of land and water where he secured his wife Cleito, an earth woman he captured in the Altantean village of Cerne. Is there any link with Igbo obsession with concentric circles? There is a Cerne village in Ireland in the region associated with the ancient mound builders that could be linked to the West African mound builders of Panchea. What link is there between the Pancheans (Akwa-nshi) and the mythical Guancheas of the Canary Islands? What link is there between the Kwa and the Grooved Ware People, global builders of stone megaliths, so called because of the grooves they make on their pottery as the Kwa have always done and still do?
Marduk/Ra, like Poseidon married an earth woman, Sarpanit. Marduk’s father Enki/ Ptah was reputed to have been responsible for the Fall of divine Adam and Eve. His semen implanted into Eve (captured in the Biblical myth of the serpent and the apple) was responsible for the derailing of God’s plan of humanity as a race of god-men, because Enki and his band of extra-terrestrial gods were the same degenerate beings whom the Bible called Nephilim. The Greek god Zeus on his own part was reputed to have abducted a Canaanite earth woman from Tyre and to have planted her in Crete causing her father Agenor (also called Canaan), and brothers Phoenix (the founder of Phoenicia), Kadmon (the founder of the Cretan civilization), and others to migrate to the Aegean in search of her, transporting their culture and founding cities in the process. The girl’s name was Europa (meaning ‘Broad face’) – she gave her name to the continent of Europe. Her mother’s name was Telephassa (meaning ‘Far shining light’; see index pages Robert Graves, Greek Myths I). Iruopa is Igbo word for ‘Broad face’ and Telephassa is an obvious cognate of Igbo expression - Ife sateela - ‘When light shines far’. The fact that the names of mother and daughter are Igbo, is an indication that the family in question were of Igbo stock and that the indigenous occupants of the African continent who were met in situ by the Biblical Nephilim/Sky beings were a people who spoke the Igbo language (The Lost Book of Enki). At the same time the lending of Iruopa’s name to the continent of Europe, shows how far-reaching Igbo impact has been on the world at large. Is the story of Europa the missing link of how perhaps Nkannu of Wawa (Royal Khennu of UaUa recorded in the Pyramid texts, see The Gram Code) became Canaan, how his friendship with Ra (Eri) might have cost him his beautiful daughter Iruopa; how Igbo tradition left the shores of Igbo land to populate the world as Canaan and his sons sought after their beloved daughter/sister?
Kadmon, Agenor’s eldest son was said to have eloped with his mother while this tragedy lasted. There is a similar story in Ndi Ichie Akwa Mythology about Oduduwa, the perceived father of the Yoruba nation, eloping with the wife of his brother Nkwo, the father of the Igbo nation and begetting Edo by her. Edo oral traditions say that the Sky god Iso, was angry with his younger son Oto for violating his marital bed by sleeping with his younger wife and begetting a son called Igbon (the ancestor of the Igbo nation). (The Great Benin 1, p. 30-32) The Old Testament Hebrew Bible says that Noah was angry with his son Ham for seeing his nakedness and instead of cursing Ham, he cursed the latter’s youngest son Canaan. Why? Was it perhaps, his mother’s nakedness that Ham saw, and did he, as a result of this encounter, beget Canaan by his mother? This sounds more plausible than the Biblical reasoning. Considering that Noah was fathered by the Nephilim and was born white/hybrid/mutant as a result, did Ham, the only black son of Noah, in having a son (Canaan) by his mother, seek to maintain a fully divine (100% Sethian/black) bloodline? What, if any, was Igbo connection to Atlantis, whose submergence has been equated with the Flood of Noah in Sumerian texts? Was Igbo the thriving civilization in Atlantis before the Flood? These questions are answered in our forthcoming book on the subject.
1,500 B.C. was the precise time the Linea A (column writing) script was introduced to Crete (plate 21) and the dawn of the Iron Age in Europe! Herodotus reported that the Carians, who were related by lineage to Minos - the son of Europa (Iruopa), had an egalitarian society like the Igbo, where all men were considered equal. Like the Igbo they paid no tribute to any king and had no king themselves. Like the Abia Igbo they observed matriarchy and like all Igbo clans they maintained an age grade system. Like the Igbo in Africa, they were the most famous people of their time. Like the Igbo of Nigeria/Biafra were great inventors. They were worshippers of Apollo (Canaanite pronunciation is Oparra), the Aegean Christ. And to crown it all, they bore fore-head scarification marks made with knife cuts just like the Igbo ichi. Their tribal name Car might have been derived from Okwara, Igbo word for First Son. Even the word Christ seems to be related to the Igbo word Okwara-Eshi – ‘Son of the Mother Goddess’! Did the Igbo call themselves Okwara in ancient times? Is this the origin of the generic name Kwa? These are questions begging for answers. We believe that if as Ndi Ichie Akwa Mythology states, leadership of the world fell on the Igbo nation by primogeniture from Aam through Ham, it is Canaan who was most likely conceived through a union of his father Ham and his grand mother (Noah’s wife) that the only remaining true Black race was preserved, and that these Canaanites who followed Marduk’s family to Sub-Saharan Africa to be joined with their true Black Pre-Adam Acheulian Mega Igbo kin, were the same people who accompanied the Marduk lineage of Gods in their civilizing missions around the world. These were the Kwa of West Africa! It must be noted that their discovery of the autochthons, “the little heaven beings”, the Akwa Nshi or Igbo Nwanshi in Punt/Panchea/Nigeria-Cameroon geographic environment was the ticket to the colonization of the world.
Through his affiliation with these sons and daughters of the True God (the Nameless Unknowable One, whom The Lost Book of Enki calls The Creator of All), Marduk gained global power over all the Nephilim gods, whom he then banished to remote places under the earth, where they still remain, having been barred from returning to their home planet! Then, with the dawn of the Age of the Ram (ca. 4,000 B.C.), Marduk, an extraterrestrial humanoid, a Nephilim, reinvented himself and began his unchallenged reign as the ‘representative’s of the One God, the Creator of All, adopting all the names of all the great Gods of his time including Yahweh. Being unable to exercise absolute control over the Canaanite god-men, he soon fell out of love with them. The answer was to create a clan of attack dogs to exterminate them for him and sell him to the world as the only God there is. Thus was the new monotheism of Abraham’s lineage born, for as the Igbo say, agwochaa ara ofodu ochi, The now recycled Marduk still could not abandon his egocentric and war-mongering excesses, which was what prompted Mahatma Gandhi to say that “the problem with Jahweh is that he thinks he is God”.
With all that has been said, it seems safe to conclude at this point that the original language spoken by the Kwa linguistic family (Proto Kwa) has been preserved to a large extent among today’s Igbo speakers. We believe this was the point that Afigbo wanted to stress in his Proto-Kwa or Mega-Igbo hypothesis. (Afigbo, Ibid., p. 34) It is possible to determine how far backwards in time this original Kwa-Igbo language can be traced by checking how far backwards in time the Igbo words go, because, as Merritt Ruhlen states in The Origin of Language, similarities in form and meaning between words from different languages can only be accounted for through “convergence, borrowing and common origin.” (p. 11-12) Thus Igbo words like Adaam – I have Fallen (Adam); Nna oha – ‘Father of nations’ (Noah); Chinese name for Noah is Nuwa, its Igbo equivalent is Nna uwa - ‘Father of the whole world’; Nshi/Eshi Igbo equivalent of Enosh/Enshi (son of Seth) – ‘Lord of mankind’, ‘Righteous Shepherd’; Igbo observation of leadership by primogeniture (first son) as observed from Adam and his entire lineage, all add up to link the Igbo stock directly, through Canaan and Ham to the family of Adam and Eve and to the language they spoke – the Proto-proto-language of humanity – the one-world language of the autochthonous earthlings whose remnants still go by the name Igbo!