The Temple of the Sun and the Lost Eden City of Heliopolis in Enugu State
All Sumerian emperors bore the title “King of Eden (Edin) Land”. Their symbols for Eden are: A Crescent Moon hugging a Sun disc (plate 3), and an X with two opposite ends joined (plate 4a). This latter symbol is the commonest earth-goddess symbol in Igbo land (plate 4b). According to Sumerian texts, these two symbols also have the meaning of “rising and setting sun”. Sargon’s father claims to have conquered the “land of the Rising and the Setting Sun and his great grand-son king Gani-Eri was recorded to have ruled a Sun Temple. Archaeologists of the University of Nigeria have been conducting research in Pre-Historic iron smelting sites in Enugu State since two decades. Smelting materials from one of the sites, recently returned a date of 2,000 B.C., which is so far, the oldest date for iron smelting in the world and coincides with the demise of the Sumerian civilization. This particular iron smelting site houses a Pre-historic monument of a ‘Temple of the Sun’ created with hundreds of huge iron slag piled into the shape of a crescent Moon hugging a Sun-disc (plate 3b, compare with 3a above)! The native priests who worship at the ancient shrine claim that the disc (mound) in the center of the crescent moon symbol is covering a hole leading into a bottomless pit! The Egyptian Book of the Dead records that the Duat where the Pharaohs go for the Afterlife is an underground construction located in Heliopolis (‘City of the Sun’) in Eden, and that it has an opening into the earth called An/Anu (Biblical On), meaning “Hole”. The Igbo word for ‘Hole’ is Onu. We have demonstrated in a recent write-up published in the “Migration and Diffusion” website by Christine Pellech that all landmarks associated with the Duat of Heliopolis in Egyptian texts are found in and around this prehistoric shrine of the metal people of Enugu State. And our conclusion based on hardcore evidence, is that the Enugu ‘Temple of the Sun’ located in Lejja, Nsukka is the Egyptian Sun Temple of the lost Eden city of Heliopolis. It actually has an opening into a bottomless pit (plate 3b).