WAS INDIAN SANSKRIT LANGUAGE A CHILD OF AFA?
Our evidence on the Igbo origin of Sanskrit language is demonstrated at great length in our latest publication in the Adam Series where we dedicated a sub-chapter to this phenomenon. The use of linguistic evidence in the demonstration of common origins of peoples and cultures has advanced anthropological studies a great deal. Researchers like Martin Bernal, Charles William Johnson, Merritt Ruhlen Zecharia Sitchen and countless others have demonstrated convincingly that language is a powerful tool for synthesizing cultural and historical contacts between peoples and nations over millennia. Linguists see the existence of cognates (words of similar sounds and meanings occurring in different languages often continents apart) among languages as a sign of borrowing and/or common origin of languages. In the case of Igbo and Sanskrit words of similar sounds and meanings are legion. The fact that most, if not all, such words belong mostly to the defunct Igbo afa vocabulary, that is to say, words used by the Igbo Shaman/priests, but not by the common folk, has much to say about the period of contact or birth of the child language among the two, i.e Sanskrit, for Afa language was in use in Igbo land in the earliest days of the birth of the Igbo nation. Afa was the language of the immortal ‘First People’ whom the Igbo call by a range of names such as Adama, Ndi Agali Odi, Ndi Ichie Akwu. According to Emeritus Professor John Umeh, a practising Afa initiate, Afa was the oldest language on earth, a language handed down by God which was/is understood by all the members of the ecosystem including animals and trees; and afa was the earliest form in which Igbo was handed down to humankind at the beginning. Afa was the language of the first god-men who took up incarnation on earth. It was a language to which all life gave ear, out of which only a remnant still survives today, namely in the utterances of afa (native Igbo) priests. Afa language was not spoken but sung.
Sanskrit words originating from Igbo/Afa vocabulary include: Sanskrit Dev (god man/deity) – Igbo Ide-Ava or Ide-Afa (Afa deity); Sanskrit Manu (Divine man) – Igbo Mmanu (Man); Sanskrit Aum (the Divine Creative Word ‘I Am’) – Igbo A wum (I am); Sanskrit Kr (to create) – Igbo Kere (Created); Sanskrit Kush (Hindu genealogical name) - Igbo Akwu Nshi or Kwa Nshi (the First People from which the Igbo/the Kwa descended); Sanskrit Vishnu (the name of the Hindu Christ/Son of God) – Igbo Ava Nshi (‘the name of god-man’); Sanskrit Sindhu (the name of a river from which the word ‘India’ is derived. Like Egypt’s Nile, Sindhu is the main life-support of India) – Igbo Isi Ndi (pronounced Isindhu, means ‘Source of Life’); Sanskrit Indra (Solar deity) – Igbo Ndu Ora (Afa word meaning ‘Life of the Sun’); Sanskrit Sri (Sage) – Igbo Ose Ora (Sun-king). The word Sanskrit is regarded as a divine language and writing system. Its Afa equivalent is something like Ose ana kara ete, which means ‘Writing System in which Creator Meets Creation’. From such Igbo words like Ndhu/Ndu (‘Life’ Sanskrit Si-ndhu), Mmanu (‘Man’, Sanskrit Manu), Awu m (‘I am’, Sanskrit Aum), which are from the Imo/Abia dialectal family, it can be seen that Sanskrit contains words belonging to the autochthonous First People whose dialectal base was and still is Imo/Abia dialectal axis. This would suggest that the Speakers of Sanskrit had branched off from the direct descendants of the autochthons, and that they had been among the original settlers of Igbo land, beginning from a period that preceded the Sirian, Kush period. Their clan name Hindu Kush shows that they too were Kwa and that they were both followers of Osiris and, .like Osiris, they would be genetically classified as descendants of the First People.
Sanskrit words originating from Igbo/Afa vocabulary include: Sanskrit Dev (god man/deity) – Igbo Ide-Ava or Ide-Afa (Afa deity); Sanskrit Manu (Divine man) – Igbo Mmanu (Man); Sanskrit Aum (the Divine Creative Word ‘I Am’) – Igbo A wum (I am); Sanskrit Kr (to create) – Igbo Kere (Created); Sanskrit Kush (Hindu genealogical name) - Igbo Akwu Nshi or Kwa Nshi (the First People from which the Igbo/the Kwa descended); Sanskrit Vishnu (the name of the Hindu Christ/Son of God) – Igbo Ava Nshi (‘the name of god-man’); Sanskrit Sindhu (the name of a river from which the word ‘India’ is derived. Like Egypt’s Nile, Sindhu is the main life-support of India) – Igbo Isi Ndi (pronounced Isindhu, means ‘Source of Life’); Sanskrit Indra (Solar deity) – Igbo Ndu Ora (Afa word meaning ‘Life of the Sun’); Sanskrit Sri (Sage) – Igbo Ose Ora (Sun-king). The word Sanskrit is regarded as a divine language and writing system. Its Afa equivalent is something like Ose ana kara ete, which means ‘Writing System in which Creator Meets Creation’. From such Igbo words like Ndhu/Ndu (‘Life’ Sanskrit Si-ndhu), Mmanu (‘Man’, Sanskrit Manu), Awu m (‘I am’, Sanskrit Aum), which are from the Imo/Abia dialectal family, it can be seen that Sanskrit contains words belonging to the autochthonous First People whose dialectal base was and still is Imo/Abia dialectal axis. This would suggest that the Speakers of Sanskrit had branched off from the direct descendants of the autochthons, and that they had been among the original settlers of Igbo land, beginning from a period that preceded the Sirian, Kush period. Their clan name Hindu Kush shows that they too were Kwa and that they were both followers of Osiris and, .like Osiris, they would be genetically classified as descendants of the First People.