THE LANGUAGE GOD SPOKE DURING CREATION OF THE WORLD WAS IGBO LANGUAGE
Countless elements within the mythologies of the ancient Egyptians confirm that the origins of their ancestors and of their oldest myths and legends lay in West Africa, and precisely in the area of the Niger Delta and Igbo land. According to the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Benben or Primeval Mound or Plateau was a mound-city said to have been raised by God at the moment of creation when he rose from the deep, divided the Waters of Chaos (known in Egyptian records as the Chaotic/Primeval Waters of Nun) and thereby caused the first primeval plot of land to appear from the Abyss.
Oriental researcher Ralph Ellis has revealed that Egyptian and Hebrew Genesis stories use the same vernacular words to describe the creation story. Both say that God stood on a Divine Mound and began the process of creation, by saying “Let there be Light…Let the Waters under heaven be gathered together”. Ellis says that Hebrew traditional book of records, Torah says in its version of Genesis that the words God spoke onto the Waters were “Qavah! which means ‘Sweep the Waters together!’ and Khef! - ‘Tie them together!’ (Igbo equivalents with the exact same meanings are Kwoo vah! Kee fah! Kwo vah or Kwo fah is Anambra dialect meaning ‘Sweep (the Waters)’, for Kwoo is a verb for ‘sweep’ only used when referring to water.
Kee fah means literally ‘Tie them!’This is not a coincidence but a historical proof that the Eden story in Hebrew Genesis was an Igbo story as more examples continue to indicate. Ellis also confirms that God’s creative decree, ‘Let there be Light!’ is recorded in the Torah as Hayah uwr! which again derives from an Igbo original Haa ya owuru (Let it be allowed it to Be!). The Torah word for God’s ‘Command’ is Hamara, which in Igbo means ‘Command with a Thundering Voice’! The Torah says that God‘s name is Hayawu, which is a cognate of Igbo (Anyanwu ‘Sun’). All these similarities are too many and too close to be allotted to chance. The Torah records furthermore that when creation was finished, God said: Towb! (Hebrew meaning - ‘It is good!’).
Again this expression is derived from Igbo Otu obu! which means, ‘It is as it should be!’(God is not judging but affirming the existence and be-ness of his work!) All these provide water-tight evidence that the origin of the Hebrew creation story is primordial Igbo land/Nigeria, that the original authors of these oldest, traditional Hebrew mythologies/Genesis were Igbo-speaking and that the Semitic language family has its roots in the Mega Igbo phenomenon within the Niger-Congo family of languages. Even the Niger-Congo language group must now be reinterpreted, for it is looking more like the Mega-Igbo linguistic phenomenon is older than the Niger Congo which is supposed to be it mother. Perhaps, Niger-Congo was in itself a Mega-Igbo phenomenon.
From the above quotation from the Torah and from the fact that Ndi Igbo call themselves Umu Anyanwu – ‘Children of the Sun’, Umuchukwu –‘Children of God’, we know that Creation was an originally Igbo story. This gives a new interpretation to the Yoruba notion that the ancestor of the Igbo was the ‘FirstSon of God’, an immortal who was the king of all deities on earth; as well as the equally compelling notion in Ifa that the name of the Creator/the Almighty was ‘Igbo Olodumare’. This also explains the myth of the ancient serpent goddess shared by the Egyptians, the Nri Igbo, the Chinese and not the least of which is the Biblical notion of a Leviathan an ancient water Serpent of gigantic proportions that was reputed to be God’s playmate
Oriental researcher Ralph Ellis has revealed that Egyptian and Hebrew Genesis stories use the same vernacular words to describe the creation story. Both say that God stood on a Divine Mound and began the process of creation, by saying “Let there be Light…Let the Waters under heaven be gathered together”. Ellis says that Hebrew traditional book of records, Torah says in its version of Genesis that the words God spoke onto the Waters were “Qavah! which means ‘Sweep the Waters together!’ and Khef! - ‘Tie them together!’ (Igbo equivalents with the exact same meanings are Kwoo vah! Kee fah! Kwo vah or Kwo fah is Anambra dialect meaning ‘Sweep (the Waters)’, for Kwoo is a verb for ‘sweep’ only used when referring to water.
Kee fah means literally ‘Tie them!’This is not a coincidence but a historical proof that the Eden story in Hebrew Genesis was an Igbo story as more examples continue to indicate. Ellis also confirms that God’s creative decree, ‘Let there be Light!’ is recorded in the Torah as Hayah uwr! which again derives from an Igbo original Haa ya owuru (Let it be allowed it to Be!). The Torah word for God’s ‘Command’ is Hamara, which in Igbo means ‘Command with a Thundering Voice’! The Torah says that God‘s name is Hayawu, which is a cognate of Igbo (Anyanwu ‘Sun’). All these similarities are too many and too close to be allotted to chance. The Torah records furthermore that when creation was finished, God said: Towb! (Hebrew meaning - ‘It is good!’).
Again this expression is derived from Igbo Otu obu! which means, ‘It is as it should be!’(God is not judging but affirming the existence and be-ness of his work!) All these provide water-tight evidence that the origin of the Hebrew creation story is primordial Igbo land/Nigeria, that the original authors of these oldest, traditional Hebrew mythologies/Genesis were Igbo-speaking and that the Semitic language family has its roots in the Mega Igbo phenomenon within the Niger-Congo family of languages. Even the Niger-Congo language group must now be reinterpreted, for it is looking more like the Mega-Igbo linguistic phenomenon is older than the Niger Congo which is supposed to be it mother. Perhaps, Niger-Congo was in itself a Mega-Igbo phenomenon.
From the above quotation from the Torah and from the fact that Ndi Igbo call themselves Umu Anyanwu – ‘Children of the Sun’, Umuchukwu –‘Children of God’, we know that Creation was an originally Igbo story. This gives a new interpretation to the Yoruba notion that the ancestor of the Igbo was the ‘FirstSon of God’, an immortal who was the king of all deities on earth; as well as the equally compelling notion in Ifa that the name of the Creator/the Almighty was ‘Igbo Olodumare’. This also explains the myth of the ancient serpent goddess shared by the Egyptians, the Nri Igbo, the Chinese and not the least of which is the Biblical notion of a Leviathan an ancient water Serpent of gigantic proportions that was reputed to be God’s playmate