THE ORIGIN OF THE SMITH
Seth married and bore a son about whom it is written that “by the name Enshi in the annals he was recorded, Master of Humanity meant his name…by his father (Adam) writing and numbers he was made to understand”. (Zecharia Sitchin, The Lost Book of Enki, 2004, p. 188) Enshi is the Sumerian equivalent of Biblical Enosh. He begot a son whom he named Kenan (Cainan), about whom it is written in The Lost Book of Enki (a Sumerian epic said to have been dictated in cuneiform by the Nephilim god Enki), “how to smelt and refine he was taught; in the smelting and refining of gold … he and his offspring toiled”. As in Igbo culture, the first human family named children according to circumstances of their birth and according to parents’ expectations of what the child would become. Kenan or Cainan meant “he of the kiln”, or simply “smith” (The Lost Book of Enki, p. 188) This is the origin of the name of Ham’s son Canaan and this connects directly with the Igbo word – Nka from which is derived Oka (Awka) - master smith. Nri mythology records that Awka, the smith was sent to Igbo land when Eri entreated his father to send him help to dry up the wet land he met on arrival. In the later part of this write-up we shall dwell on the identity of Eri. For now, suffice it to say that mounting evidence points to his being none other than the Egyptian god Ra, who was known in Sumer as Marduk the first son of Enki.
Enki was the Sumerian name for the god who was known among the Egyptians as Ptah. Ptah was the one who raised the land of Egypt from the Flood waters of the Deluge by building dykes (Zecharia Sitchen – The Earth Chronicles). Nri sources maintain that Eri was a sky being (a Nephilim, an extra-terrestrial) who came into Igbo land following the Anambra River, and on arrival made his home among the Igbo. Certainly this being knew where he was headed and who he was looking for, for when he found them after a journey of thousands of kilometers from Egypt, he made his home among them, instituting his brand of culture and religion. But most importantly, he learned from the autochthonous god-men whom he found there, which was the only reason he would have made the hazardous journey in the first place. Herodotus wrote that the River Nile used to flow through West Africa all the way to the Atlantic Sea coast (The Histories, p. 84, 89), and ancient maps of Africa had the River Niger flowing towards the mouth of the Nile rather than towards the Niger Delta region as it does today. The recent changes were brought about by the Desertification of the Sahara region. In The Gram Code we demonstrated that there was coming and going between Egypt and West Africa in remote and not so remote antiquity and that the name Nkannu (Royal Khennu) and WaWa (UaUa) - Igbo clan names closely connected with Awka - are recorded in Edfu Pyramid Texts of Egypt as the name of a West African close friend of the Egyptian god Ra. We also showed evidence that the name Ra makes up a sizable number of the inscriptions on the monoliths of Ikom, which go to prove the presence of Ra/Marduk in the region. Ham’s son Mizraim was the founder of Egypt. Ham can be dated along with the Deluge to 11,000 B.C. This was the same time when the division of the lands took place.
In The Lost Book of Enki it is stated that “the dark hued lands that included Abzu (Sub-Saharan Africa) were given to Ham; and Marduk/Ra, the son of Enki/Ptah was made lord over it (p. 239). The same book also reveals that marduk and his son Aser (Osiris) lived in the mountain lands of West Africa with Marduk’s brother Gibil, a skilled metallurgist who trained Horus secretly in the art of metal-working and war as well as how to battle from aerial vehicles (The Lost Book of Enki, p. 246). With Gibil’s aid, Horus secretly amassed and trained a secret army of earthlings (the first earthlings to be enlisted in the wars of the gods); and, arming them with iron weapons he marched “northwards” towards Tilmun (the lower Sahara/Fezzan regions, which was then a desolate Peninsula, leveled by the Deluge) to challenge his uncle Seth in combat. From these records, it can be confirmed that the Eri period was the time immediately after the Deluge (that is 11,000 – 10,000 B.C.). The divine smith mentioned in the Nri saga, who came to help the god Eri was most likely the god Gibil, and not Canaan. In fact Gibil’s first journey to the Abzu (Sub-Saharan Africa) was immediately after the Deluge when his father Enki (Ptah) took him there to survey the damage done by the Flood waters (p. 233). Yes, the Age of iron followeds the Age of Bronze in the rest of the world except Black Africa where iron and Agriculture were known as early as 9,000 B.C. By the time Africans began to colonize the world around 5,000 B.C. they took with them the knowledge of Bronze working.
We are aware that some leading Igbo historians are rejecting the Hamitic theory of Igbo origins and even of African origins, but there is over-whelming oral traditional, linguistic and ethnographic evidence to indicate that the migrant Kwa people and the rest of the migrants within Niger Congo family of nations are Hamitic. The North-South Kwa/Igbo migration which Igbo and other West African oral traditions frequently allude to was the same North-South migration of the children of Ham after the Flood, from the Middle East through North-east Africa into Sub-Saharan Africa. (See Nwosu, I.N.C Ndi Ichie Akwa Mythology or Folklore Origins of the Igbos, 1983; Omoregie, Osaren: Great Benin 1, 1997; Abosede, Emmanuel: Odun Ifa – Ifa Festival, 2000; Titi Euba “Ifa Literay Corpus as Source-Book of Yoruba History” in E.J. Alagoa ed. Oral Tradition and Oral History in Africa and the Diaspora: Theory and Practice, 1990).
We have dwelt extensively on the Garammante phenomenon of this migration in The Gram Code of African Adam and there is no space to go into it here. We recommend this publication to our readers as well as other articles on similar topics on our website HYPERLINK "http://www.catherineacholonu.com/" \t "_blank" www.catherineacholonu.com. As a paraphrase of our thesis in this regard, we would like to mention that in our transcription of the serpent inscriptions on the Igbo Ukwu alter stand as well as the letters formed by the position of the limbs of the woman (plate 2, 3), we came to the conclusion that the letters read “Ga-ra-mma-rag mama Kheme”! The words were formed with letters whose cognates we found in the Dravidian Malayalam language. Graramarag means in Malayalam, “Sing the Ramma song!” Or “Intone the name of Rama!” The full text can be read, “Intone the name of the Mother of Ra (God), the Mother of Kheme (Ham)!” These words connect Igbo Ukwu with the Hindu and Egyptian mythology, and also with the lineage of divine son-ship of Ham. The woman on the alter stand is the same one we have identified as bearing the ichi marks. These words explain her as the same Mother/Father whom The Nag Hammadi extols, and who is the God of Seth and Ham. The implications of the information contained in these inscriptions are very far-reaching and we hope to follow it through as we go deeper into the identity of Eri in later chapters. (For the details of the deciphering of the inscriptions, see The Gram Code, Chapter 23)
What we have demonstrated here is how linguistic evidence leads us to conclude that the Kwa are of the line of Canaan, the post-diluvial master-smith of the world and why it is important for scholars of Igbo and African Studies to begin to widen our horizon of search for Igbo and Kwa ancestral roots. Some Western historians propagate the theory of a Caucasian-Hamitic family tree with roots in Egypt. This is untenable because Ham was said to be the only truly black member of the Noah family since his name also meant “dark hued, burnt” in Hebrew. There is strong evidence to suggest that Adam and his entire lineage up to the time of Lamech, were black in color and that Noah was the first person born white in the family tree of Adam. The Book of Enoch records that Lamech’s wife became pregnant and brought forth a child who was to be called Noah, the flesh of which was as white as snow and red as a rose; the hair of whose head was white as wool and long… Then Lamech his father was afraid of him; and flying away came to his own father Mathusala and said, I have begotten a son unlike no other children. He is not human; but, resembling the offspring of the angels of heaven (the Nephilim) is of a different nature from ours, being altogether unlike to us. (The Gram Code, p. 391, quoted from E. C. Prophet, Forbidden Mysteries of Enoch, p. 224, emphasis mine.)
Ham’s divine mandate may be directly connected with his black color for evidence abounds in all ancient civilizations – Egypt, Hindu Kush, Meso-America, Europe, the Aegean and the Middle East - that all the great gods of the ancients were black - Osiris, Dionysius, Shiva, Khrishna, Vishnu, Quetzalcoatl, Mithras, Memnon, Rama and they were Christs (god-men) of their people, often allowing themselves to be killed for the salvation of their people.
Enki was the Sumerian name for the god who was known among the Egyptians as Ptah. Ptah was the one who raised the land of Egypt from the Flood waters of the Deluge by building dykes (Zecharia Sitchen – The Earth Chronicles). Nri sources maintain that Eri was a sky being (a Nephilim, an extra-terrestrial) who came into Igbo land following the Anambra River, and on arrival made his home among the Igbo. Certainly this being knew where he was headed and who he was looking for, for when he found them after a journey of thousands of kilometers from Egypt, he made his home among them, instituting his brand of culture and religion. But most importantly, he learned from the autochthonous god-men whom he found there, which was the only reason he would have made the hazardous journey in the first place. Herodotus wrote that the River Nile used to flow through West Africa all the way to the Atlantic Sea coast (The Histories, p. 84, 89), and ancient maps of Africa had the River Niger flowing towards the mouth of the Nile rather than towards the Niger Delta region as it does today. The recent changes were brought about by the Desertification of the Sahara region. In The Gram Code we demonstrated that there was coming and going between Egypt and West Africa in remote and not so remote antiquity and that the name Nkannu (Royal Khennu) and WaWa (UaUa) - Igbo clan names closely connected with Awka - are recorded in Edfu Pyramid Texts of Egypt as the name of a West African close friend of the Egyptian god Ra. We also showed evidence that the name Ra makes up a sizable number of the inscriptions on the monoliths of Ikom, which go to prove the presence of Ra/Marduk in the region. Ham’s son Mizraim was the founder of Egypt. Ham can be dated along with the Deluge to 11,000 B.C. This was the same time when the division of the lands took place.
In The Lost Book of Enki it is stated that “the dark hued lands that included Abzu (Sub-Saharan Africa) were given to Ham; and Marduk/Ra, the son of Enki/Ptah was made lord over it (p. 239). The same book also reveals that marduk and his son Aser (Osiris) lived in the mountain lands of West Africa with Marduk’s brother Gibil, a skilled metallurgist who trained Horus secretly in the art of metal-working and war as well as how to battle from aerial vehicles (The Lost Book of Enki, p. 246). With Gibil’s aid, Horus secretly amassed and trained a secret army of earthlings (the first earthlings to be enlisted in the wars of the gods); and, arming them with iron weapons he marched “northwards” towards Tilmun (the lower Sahara/Fezzan regions, which was then a desolate Peninsula, leveled by the Deluge) to challenge his uncle Seth in combat. From these records, it can be confirmed that the Eri period was the time immediately after the Deluge (that is 11,000 – 10,000 B.C.). The divine smith mentioned in the Nri saga, who came to help the god Eri was most likely the god Gibil, and not Canaan. In fact Gibil’s first journey to the Abzu (Sub-Saharan Africa) was immediately after the Deluge when his father Enki (Ptah) took him there to survey the damage done by the Flood waters (p. 233). Yes, the Age of iron followeds the Age of Bronze in the rest of the world except Black Africa where iron and Agriculture were known as early as 9,000 B.C. By the time Africans began to colonize the world around 5,000 B.C. they took with them the knowledge of Bronze working.
We are aware that some leading Igbo historians are rejecting the Hamitic theory of Igbo origins and even of African origins, but there is over-whelming oral traditional, linguistic and ethnographic evidence to indicate that the migrant Kwa people and the rest of the migrants within Niger Congo family of nations are Hamitic. The North-South Kwa/Igbo migration which Igbo and other West African oral traditions frequently allude to was the same North-South migration of the children of Ham after the Flood, from the Middle East through North-east Africa into Sub-Saharan Africa. (See Nwosu, I.N.C Ndi Ichie Akwa Mythology or Folklore Origins of the Igbos, 1983; Omoregie, Osaren: Great Benin 1, 1997; Abosede, Emmanuel: Odun Ifa – Ifa Festival, 2000; Titi Euba “Ifa Literay Corpus as Source-Book of Yoruba History” in E.J. Alagoa ed. Oral Tradition and Oral History in Africa and the Diaspora: Theory and Practice, 1990).
We have dwelt extensively on the Garammante phenomenon of this migration in The Gram Code of African Adam and there is no space to go into it here. We recommend this publication to our readers as well as other articles on similar topics on our website HYPERLINK "http://www.catherineacholonu.com/" \t "_blank" www.catherineacholonu.com. As a paraphrase of our thesis in this regard, we would like to mention that in our transcription of the serpent inscriptions on the Igbo Ukwu alter stand as well as the letters formed by the position of the limbs of the woman (plate 2, 3), we came to the conclusion that the letters read “Ga-ra-mma-rag mama Kheme”! The words were formed with letters whose cognates we found in the Dravidian Malayalam language. Graramarag means in Malayalam, “Sing the Ramma song!” Or “Intone the name of Rama!” The full text can be read, “Intone the name of the Mother of Ra (God), the Mother of Kheme (Ham)!” These words connect Igbo Ukwu with the Hindu and Egyptian mythology, and also with the lineage of divine son-ship of Ham. The woman on the alter stand is the same one we have identified as bearing the ichi marks. These words explain her as the same Mother/Father whom The Nag Hammadi extols, and who is the God of Seth and Ham. The implications of the information contained in these inscriptions are very far-reaching and we hope to follow it through as we go deeper into the identity of Eri in later chapters. (For the details of the deciphering of the inscriptions, see The Gram Code, Chapter 23)
What we have demonstrated here is how linguistic evidence leads us to conclude that the Kwa are of the line of Canaan, the post-diluvial master-smith of the world and why it is important for scholars of Igbo and African Studies to begin to widen our horizon of search for Igbo and Kwa ancestral roots. Some Western historians propagate the theory of a Caucasian-Hamitic family tree with roots in Egypt. This is untenable because Ham was said to be the only truly black member of the Noah family since his name also meant “dark hued, burnt” in Hebrew. There is strong evidence to suggest that Adam and his entire lineage up to the time of Lamech, were black in color and that Noah was the first person born white in the family tree of Adam. The Book of Enoch records that Lamech’s wife became pregnant and brought forth a child who was to be called Noah, the flesh of which was as white as snow and red as a rose; the hair of whose head was white as wool and long… Then Lamech his father was afraid of him; and flying away came to his own father Mathusala and said, I have begotten a son unlike no other children. He is not human; but, resembling the offspring of the angels of heaven (the Nephilim) is of a different nature from ours, being altogether unlike to us. (The Gram Code, p. 391, quoted from E. C. Prophet, Forbidden Mysteries of Enoch, p. 224, emphasis mine.)
Ham’s divine mandate may be directly connected with his black color for evidence abounds in all ancient civilizations – Egypt, Hindu Kush, Meso-America, Europe, the Aegean and the Middle East - that all the great gods of the ancients were black - Osiris, Dionysius, Shiva, Khrishna, Vishnu, Quetzalcoatl, Mithras, Memnon, Rama and they were Christs (god-men) of their people, often allowing themselves to be killed for the salvation of their people.