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olas24u:@olas24u Living in Bondage is NOT the first film in English language. It is an Ibo language film that was only subtitled in English. It is even funny that a lot of Ibos do NOT realise that the 1st Ibo language film to be subtitled in English was AMADI and that film was screened in 1975 in Lagos State. I still have the magazine with the photographs of prominent Lagos State government officials in attendance! They keep making misleading comment online and offline that living in bondage was the beginning of movies in Nigeria. What a PATHETIC behaviour indeed! Professor Wole Soyinka in 1969 produced Kongi's Harvest which is Nigerias acclaimed 1st commercially successful English language film. It was screened at the cinemas in Lagos. History has to be returned to schools. I copied you in my post directly above as well so kindly read it. All the best! |
BaaleOko:^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ @BaaleOko Living in bondage is an Ibo language film NOT an English film. It was only subtitled in English. The man who produced the film, Kenneth Nnebue in a 1997 This Day newspaper, that I have in my archival collections, actually gave credit to the Yoruba home video and movie industry for inspiring him to produce Living in bondage part 1 in 1992 and Part 2 was in 1993. Kenneth Nnebue said in that 1997 interview which I can upload when I check my Google Drive, that he understudied the Yoruba home video and movie industry and actually worked with them. Kenneth NEVER claimed to be the one that started the home video industry... it is some younger generation of Ibos who started spreading FAKE NEWS ONLINE and OFFLINE that should be held responsible for the misleading info because HISTORY is not being taught anymore. Even entertainment journalists are guilty of NOT knowing the true history of the Nigerian movie industry which STARTED with celluloid films, and then home video films in the 1980s with the Yoruba sector. Some of those Yoruba films and home videos were subtitled in English too. It is NOT true that they were not subtitled in English! Kenneth Nnebue even indicated that Living in Bondage was supposed to have been produced in Yoruba language, but eventually he did it in Ibo and it became a success, especially among the Ibo who had asked him for something in the home video industry like the popular Yoruba home videos that existed then! In the interview, Kenneth listed about 20 Yoruba home videos that were produced before living in bondage and he also gave REASONS why he used the English language as the title name of an Ibo language film. He said he did not want people to think the film was a local film and that is why he did not use Ibo language as the title of the film name. Tunde Kelani of Mainframe was also producing fantastic home videos in the early 1990s so it is not true that Yoruba videos were substandard and they were even subtitled. It is a BIG LIE and propaganda being peddled online that Living in Bondage was the start of the home video in Nigeria. Those of us who are older will tell you that we watched home videos on Beta Max and VHS tapes. This film was the 1st Ibo language home video and that is why it was popular among mainly Ibo speakers and some who could have the patience to read the English subtitle. Many non Ibos have not even watched that film till today! Please note that Amadi was the 1st Ibo langauge film to be subtitled in English and it was shown in 1975 in Lagos with Justice Adefarasin of Lagos State, and other notable government officials in attendance! I also have a copy of that magazine that reported the screening of Amadi in Lagos. When I have the chance I will DISGRACE a lot of these Nigerians who like mangling historical information by releasing all those historical documents to SET the Nigerian movie industry records straight. The misleading information online and offline has to stop. The Yoruba home videos and celluloid movies by people like Prince Alade Aromire, Ade Love who is Kunle Afolayans father were subtitled in English as far back as the 1980s. We had Chief Eddie Ugboma, Baba Sala, Prof. Ola Balogun, Ade Love, Prof. Soyinka... and more who produced movies from the 1960s, to the 1970s, 1980s, and then a group of misguided people will come out to FALSELY say that Kenneth Nnebues home video started the film industry... but that is a BIG LIE! Professor Wole Soyinka produced a POPULAR celluloid movie called Kongi's Harvest which was screened at the cinemas in Lagos and elsewhere in 1969! The Indian and American movie industries are based on multiplex cinema attendance ... NOT on sale of home videos! I hope this helps? Cc :olas24u Cc :kayfra |
CotenantNIG:^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ Interesting bird's eye view information about Lasgigy. |
Hi MissRaine69, I hope you are OK? I am sending a 3rd mail tonight as well and want a short feedback. Take care! |
ahmedkoded95:^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ Word! ![]() |
"Captain Irene Koki Mutungi 1st Female African Pilot of a 787 Dreamliner" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GZ8lE_BJCs [4:39] Jun 5, 2014 - Uploaded by Rich Management KenyaAirways, @Boeing Dreamliner, Captain Irene Koki Mutungi ==> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Koki_Mutungi Born 1976 (age 42–43) in Kenya Certified in April 2018 to fly the 787 Dreamliner |
MissRaine69:^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ Raine, you're a big fan of classical music? Share some of them with me, and I just might like some of them and put on my playlist for mental relaxation. Some classical songs get on my nerves though... but I love Wolfgang Mozart and George Handel's "Water Music" classic which is sensual. These classical songs can send you to nirvana and deep sleep. "George Frideric Handel's - Water Music" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuw8YjSbKd4[4:23] Second, I absolutely love Joe Nichols' 2002 award-winning country song entitled "The Impossible." I've listened to it since 2002 and it's evergreen. He is one of the best American country music artistes. Its inspirational and when you listen to it deeply, you'll love it. Very calming mid-tempo ballad with brilliant lyrics too. "Joe Nichols - The Impossible" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce-pUKsJM6w&list...index=5[3:57] Oct 7, 2009 - Uploaded by JoeNicholsVEVO Enjoy! |
MissRaine69:^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ Hi Raine, I appreciate your detailed, and prompt feedback to the mailed questions I sent to you on Wednesday, last week. I have pondered intensely... so expect my feedback. You will have to GO BACK to your childhood to see how, when and why this "childhood insomnia" gravitated to "adult insomnia." There is such a thing as childhood STRESS and hyperactivity which leads to insomnia. Being awake for 3 days has got to be one of the most incredible 'biological snafus" I've ever heard. You are a superwoman to stay awake easily for 3 smoking days! 1] Just as I told you on another of your threads, when I feel like I CANNOT sleep, I simply take a HOT BATH a few hours before my timed sleep period. 2] Second, the aromatherapy massage works for me for deep relaxation. Cedar, lavender, musk are game for moi. I know you don't like lavender though but everyone likes it. The wiring of your nasal neurons which lead right up to the neurotransmitter in your brain are wired differently than the rest of the human population. By the way what fragrances of patchouli packs do you absolutely love... aside from the lavender which you don't like? SIDE NOTE: There are folks who CANNOT even perceive any smell. I once met a guy who said from childhood, he has never perceived any smell till his adulthood. So if there is smoke coming from the kitchen toaster, he wouldn't even know! 3] Exercises also work for me before bed time and then I find it easier to sleep off. I just do an imaginary skipping on the SPOT and then I tires me out... and BOOM, I just fall asleep... and this works for a lot of people who are finding it difficult to sleep. When you feel like doing the exercise, it can come in several stimulating forms... without making it seem like work! The Yoga and meditation you talked about are brilliant stuff. But you have to do some regression into your childhood to get a final solution to this. 4]Environmental Factors: Last but not least, these factors distort my sleep. So eliminating "noise," "heat," "cold", and very bright lights enables me to sleep. Especially for me... bright lights elimination when I have to travel via long-haul flights helps me to cope with sleeplessness from jetlags. #Brilliant topic. Your take care. |
"Adeola Ogunmola Sowemimo has become the first Nigerian female Pilot to work for Qatar Airways, and also the first to fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliner." Adeola Ogunmola Sowemimo etches her name in the history books by becoming the first Nigerian female pilot to be hired by Qatar Airways, a world-class airline. She is also the first Nigerian female pilot to fly the big bird, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner across the Atlantic. #Adeola Ogunmola Sowemimo #Qatar Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner #Nigerian Alpha Female # Highly impressive!
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Olu317: Arabic:Allah^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ @Olu317 Hi once again! I had to re-type this offhand in a notepad first before posting here. WOW! Olu, you are indeed a real "Prince of The Source" for making the "Ila" semitic connection or similarities in the name for God in Arabic, Hebrew, and Yoruba... Orunmila! You are the FIRST person to ever point this out to me! That was really uncanny! Semitic... in this historical context refers to the people who have mixed black and white ancestries from the ancient times originally in North/East Africa and the Middle East. It would be nice to know if the Yoruba are indeed semitic or partly semitic via DNA tests or that they simply ADOPTED some of these semitic loan words during their long migrations of over 1000 years to their current locations in West Africa, and interactions with other cultures via Egypt/Kush or Sudan/Nubia or Mali/Songhai Empires. I believe that different peoples coalesed via different streams of migrations to form the Yoruba peoples of today. This is the same situation with most ethnicities or peoples all over the world. READ MORE HERE: "West-African Yoruba DNA In Ancient Egypt" ===> https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-05-31/who-were-the-ancient-egyptians/8572076 Mummies from ancient Egypt have revealed another secret — some of them share very little of the sub-Saharan African ancestry that dominates the genetic heritage of modern Egyptians. DNA from mummies reveals that some ancient Egyptians shared very little of the ancestry that dominates the heritage of modern Egyptians. And yet, at some point in the past 1,500 years, there has been a major addition of sub-Saharan genetic material — largely West-African Yoruba — into Egypt's population. SIDE NOTES: 1. The use of "Ila" is quite similar to the Greek parent word: "Historia," which is known as "Histoire" in French, and "History" in English. 2. The Yoruba word for History is "Itan," Nupes call it "Etan," Binis and Idomas call it "Ita!" 3. The Arabic word for History is "Tarikh," the Hausa loan word is "Tariha," the Fulani call it "Tareha," Swahilis call it "Tarikh" as well! I am also aware that there are Arabic loan words in Yoruba language due to the over 500 years of Islam in Yorubaland which originally came from Mali. "Esin Imale" in Yoruba means the "religion of Mali." Iwo town had its first Mosque built in 1655! Download below the brilliant and insightful 8-page PDF of "An Inquiry into the Lexical Affinities between Arabic and Yorùbá Languages." 58 Arabic loan words are found in the Yoruba dictionary. This is quite similar to the fact that about 40 percent of Spanish language having Arabic loan words as well. More on that in the last paragraph of this post! READ MORE HERE: "An Inquiry into the Lexical Affinities between Arabic and Yorùbá Languages" ===>iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss/papers/Vol19-issue1/Version-2/H019124754.pdf ===>iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss/papers/Vol19-issue1/Version-2/H019124754.pdf ===>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Nigeria ===>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Nigeria#Islam_in_Southern_Nigeria PERSIAN EMPIRE AND ARAMAIC INFLUENCES: You do know that Aramaic was the lingua-franca of the Persian Empire, and the ethnic groups all over the Persian Empire used Aramaic to communicate. I read a book years back indicating that Arabic was NOT standardized with tonal dots, and marks like you see in the tonal Yoruba or French languages for instance. It was centuries later after the death of the founder of Islam that Arabic was standardized. I got to know from that book that Arabic took several loan words from the Aramaic language! Indeed the Jews or ancient Israeli were deeply influenced by their 3 Colonial Masters in the Assyrian Empire, Babylonian Empire, and most especially, the Persian Empire. Did you know that it was the Persians that created Judaism which is an imperfect copy of the Zoroastrian religion of the Persians colonial masters. The story of the Old Testament tells the story of Persian rule and religion over the conquered peoples. The Magis are the ancient priests of the Zoroastrian religion of Persia or modern Iran, and they share very strong religious similarities with the Jewish Rabbi priesthood. Without the Magis who are the chief religious priests who are the Cup Bearers, the Persian emperors could not crowned. The Cyrus Cylinder and other BURNT CLAY TABLETS that have been very well preserved for centuries show that the precepts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are direct copies of the Persian Zoroastrinism. READ MORE HERE: "Persia and Creation of Judaism - Cais-soas.com" "How Judaism was created by the Persians in the fifth century BCE" Table of Contents: ===>http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Religions/non-iranian/Judaism/Persian_Judaism/Persia_created_judaism.htm ===>katehon.com/article/how-persia-created-judaism-persian-and-jewish-religion Abstract: This article explains how Judaism was created by the Persians in the fifth century BCE. Colonists were deported into Yehud. Their reward was to have control of a temple state which collected taxes for Persia. Only priests of the temple state were Jews—a nation of priests to serve Persians. - Dr M. D. Magee. "THE INVENTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE" Written by Shlomo Sand, an Israeli professor of history. READ MORE HERE: ===>https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20140125-the-invention-of-the-jewish-people/ ===>https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20140125-the-invention-of-the-jewish-people/ “The invention of the Jewish people” January 25, 2014 at 1:14 am | Published in: Article, Middle East The Invention of the Jewish People was a book written by Shlomo Sand, an Israeli professor of history at the University of Tel Aviv. The author wasn’t probing a belief system, but Zionist fabrications of a spurious common lineage for people of the Jewish faith. Sand argues the implausibility of Jews having a common ethnic identity as Judaism was originally, like Christianity and later Islam, a “proselytising religion”. The notion of Judaism as a “race”, rather than a religion of various races, is incompatible. The results of a recently published study by Israeli-American geneticist Dr Eran Israeli Elhaik at John Hopkins University have scientifically and genetically validated Sand’s research. The idea of a “nation race” was progressively developed and reinforced over centuries of segregated Jewish communities in Europe. In addition to the descendants of the Canaanites, the original denizens before patriarch Abraham’s arrival from Mesopotamia, Sand concludes that today’s Muslim and Christian Palestinians are actually the true progenies of the original Jews. So if there was no exile, where did European Jews come from? Sand suggested that most of today’s Jews did not originate from the Middle East. He argues that the Ashkenazi (European) Jewish ancestry can be traced back to the Caucasus region. In the 8th century, the Khazar’s subjects and subordinate tribes experienced the largest religious conversion in the history of Judaism. The recent study by John Hopkins geneticist Dr Elhaik confirmed that the common genome structure of the Ashkenazi (European) Jew gravitated towards an origin in old Khazaria. “The majority of Jews do not have Middle Eastern genetic component,” he told Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Book 2. How Persia Created Judaism The Universal God http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Religions/non-iranian/Judaism/Persian_Judaism/book2/pt8.htm "Returning" Exiles or Persian Colonists? http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Religions/non-iranian/Judaism/Persian_Judaism/book3/pt1.htm The Foundation of Judaism (part I): The Work of Nehemiah and Ezra http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Religions/non-iranian/Judaism/Persian_Judaism/book3/pt2.htm The Foundation of Judaism (part II): The Work of Nehemiah and Ezra http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Religions/non-iranian/Judaism/Persian_Judaism/book3/pt3.htm Who Wrote the Hebrew Scriptures? http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Religions/non-iranian/Judaism/Persian_Judaism/book5/pt1.htm The Prophets: The Persian Propagandists http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Religions/non-iranian/Judaism/Persian_Judaism/book5/pt2.htm Olu, on another note, did you know that about 40 percent of Spanish has Arabic loan words as well? The Arabs and Berbers came via North Africa and ruled what came to be known as Al-Andalus or Muslim Spain and parts of Portugal from the years 711 CE to 1492 CE! It was in not until 1492 that the indigenous owners of Spain and Portugal led by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabela were ableto muster enough military power to defeat and expel the Arab muslim rulers and their followers out of Europe. Spain and Portugal would have been muslim countries today like Turkey if the military events of 1492 had not taken place. READ MORE HERE: ===>http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/spain_1.shtml ===>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Spain ===>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliphate_of_C%C3%B3rdoba ===>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Granada [The fall of Granada in 1492 marked the end of Muslim rule in Iberia] ===>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_history_of_the_Iberian_Peninsula ===>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Muslim_presence_in_the_Iberian_peninsula It is good to be well informed historically or you will fall for ANYTHING. A popular ancient maxim goes thus: "Man Know Thyself." I will keep you updated on more historical information as-and-when-due so as not to overload us with too much info. "Die die ni o!" I appreciate your research work. Thanks again! Cheers! P.S. I have attached the maps of the defunct Muslim Spain or Andalusia/Al Andalus below.
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Yusufnairaland2:@Yusufnairaland2 Good morning. I hope you are doing great ![]() How can I be of assistance to you in real terms since you said you sent a DM? Cheers! |
Olu317:^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ @Olu317 How was your weekend? Thanks for the feedback. I had already posted another message to you on this thread on wed 3rd April 2019 successfully. Then I added the Web link of the map of Muslim Spain of the years 711 to 1492 for you to see how 40 percent of Spanish words have Arabic loan words and that is how the crazy NL spam bot banned me. I contacted the Super Mods section to UNTAG or UNBAN me, which I did successfully in the past years, but I can see that the important post that I made to you was NOT RESTORED by the Super Mods. This is very strange. I feel pained because I had to type everything off hand and did not save the message I typed to you. Seun needs to do something about removing this spam bots completely from NL! The Super Mods too are not functioning like before when they would have UNBANNED or UNTAGGED a post within 10 minutes. In 2018 I was conversing with Naptu on a Ben Enwonwu painting thread and added an incorrect Web link of a YouTube video of Dr. Bruce Onobrakpeya and his art works, then the spam bot banned me but I was able to get it restored via the Super Mods. Mail Supermods: https://www.nairaland.com/mailsupermods I will rack my brain and try to post another one to you using almost the same sequence this week. Please bear with me. All the best. |
MissRaine69:^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ MissRaine, How are you doing today? I hope you, like me are having a great day. ![]() It's alright, I can understand your view about the indecent emails. Perhaps the indecent emails come from those you have carpeted for making online love advances towards you in the past... and they find it hard to handle. So, they revert to immature and ludicrous behavior by sending indecent emails. 1. Females and children especially get bullied or targeted the most on all Internet platforms such as Twitter, FB, etc., according to research statistics. The BEST bet is to ignore or NOT respond to such emails like you have done, and blacklist unsolicited email addresses. Whenever I encounter a troll who quotes me on NL, I simply ignore him... it takes the "winds out of his sail" and that fixes him up! 2. Alternatively, use the "(Report) button," [which is next to the (Quote) (Like) (Share) links] and/or report any complaints to the "Super Mods" if you have strong misgivings about any troll on NL... and give specifics via the link below: Mail Supermods: https://www.nairaland.com/mailsupermods 3. I've used NL since 2005 and never had such nasty email experience. NL is a fantastic online resource or discussion forum, and I have met and interacted with real men and women, professionals and fantastic folks from across the world on NL. So, it is important to use your discretionary powers to discern who you want to follow and interact with, so you don't miss out on the opportunities here. Discussion forums such as NL... from around the world have been known to generate 6-figure and even 7-figure annual incomes in USD for those who know how to use them for advancing their professional and entrepreneurial careers, and that's why I haven't deactivated or left NL since 2005. You take care. ![]() |
I was once on a plane flying over the Atlantic on an Airbus A310 in 1988 and we experienced a very violent turbulence, I braced up and thought it was all over for all of us, because the lights onboard the plane went off and the plane started dropping sharply, like it was going to drop into the Atlantic Ocean! Fortunately, the plane stabilized again after what seemed like a long time to me, and some passengers jubilated over that. ![]() The Lebanese man sitting right in front of me shouted "up NEPA" when the lights came back on and the pilot spoke to us for the first time after the violent turbulence. I am much calmer now during turbulences... but that was my first time encounter! |
Olu317:^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ Hi Olu, Thanks for this information. I have a bit of jet lag right now from my long international air trip, but I have to quickly respond to your last post so it gets to you on time for onward digestion. I had already typed most of the information in this post before now and saved it on my mobile device. I actually read about your post on how you have DECODED the iconic Oranmiyan Obelisk on one of your threads. Well done for your insights. I think you linked your findings to a Yoruba/Hebrew connection. Also read more about: "The Nupe and the Origins and Evolution of the Yoruba c. 1275-1897" Published in ©2005. By Idris Shaaba Jimada. A HISTORY OF THE NUPE, C.1068 – 1810 A.D..pdf ==>http://kubanni.abu.edu.ng/jspui/bitstream/123456789/9972/1/A%20HISTORY%20OF%20THE%20NUPE%2C%20C.1068%20%E2%80%93%201810%20A.D..pdf However, I have some archival materials that I have had for... cumulatively within the last 20 years now that I would like to share with you on the history of Ancient Near Eastern archaelogy. Middle Eastern or bible archaeology used to be the old name, but the FORMAL TERM used by archaeologists now is Near Eastern Archaeology. This information and more, have been in the public domain for decades among scholars and archaelogists... and even among some knowlegeable religious scholars in the orthodox churches for over the past one hundred and fifty years! Some include Prof. Ze’ev Herzog [born in 1941 and still alive as of 2019], an eminent Israeli archeologist, professor of archaeology at The Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University specializing in social archaeology, ancient architecture and field archaeology. ==>http://noahkennedy.net/zeev-herzog-and-the-historicity-of-the-bible/ "Deconstructing the Walls of Jericho: Biblical Myth and Archaeological Reality" ==>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/704190/posts ==>http://www.umich.edu/~proflame/neh/arch.htm ==>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze%27ev_Herzog This post which I have written as ARCHIVAL MATERIAL #1 to ARCHIVAL MATERIAL #4, fits into the Culture thread as well... because it deals with culture, archaeology and religion, and will also help you to REFINE... if needed, your insightful research work on the Opa Oranmiyan. Please read them with an open mind and you can contact me later on your observations. We live in an AGE OF REASONONING and must ASK QUESTIONS. We will NOT accept anything less than the truth instead of mythology! Also see the book: "The Age of Reason," by one of America's founding fathers, Thomas Paine, in which Paine labels the OT as "spurious." ARCHIVAL MATERIAL #1. Prof. Ze'ev Herzog wrote the 1999 article entitled: "Deconstructing the Walls of Jericho: Biblical Myth and Archaeological Reality" ====>http://www.umich.edu/~proflame/neh/arch.htm Deconstructing the walls of Jericho Friday, October 29, 1999 "Following 70 years of intensive excavations in the Land of Israel, archaeologists have found out: The patriarchs' acts are legendary, the Israelites did not sojourn in Egypt or make an exodus, they did not conquer the land. Neither is there any mention of the empire of David and Solomon, nor of the source of belief in the God of Israel. These facts have been known for years, but Israel is a stubborn people and nobody wants to hear about it." ==>http://www.umich.edu/~proflame/neh/arch.htm Prof. Ze'ev Herzog wrote the article originally in Ha’aretz, a leading centrist Israeli daily, that precipitated a firestorm of debate among Israeli intellectuals and the general public. FURTHER READING: ==>http://mosesneverexisted.zohosites.com/ ==>http://www.truthbeknown.com/biblemyth.htm ARCHIVAL MATERIAL #2. The Bible Unearthed: Archeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman. 383 pages long, The Bible Unearthed is an excellent primer on current scholarship (as of 2001) as it relates to the historical events recorded in the Old Testament. It demonstrated using lots of archaeological evidence that many stories in the Bible DO NOT TELL EVENTS and how history suggested they occurred, while other stories proved to fit perfectly in archaeology. It explained that some stories, such as the wandering of the patriarchs, the Exodus from Egypt, the Conquest of Canaan, and the United Monarchy under David and Solomon may not have happened and rather may be based on stories indigenous to the people of Israel. ==> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_Unearthed ==>https://www.scribd.com/document/152549967/The-Bible-Unearthed-Finkelstein-Israel-Silbermann-Neil-a [You can download the pdf book here if you sign up to SCRIBD, or you use a FREE SCRIBD DOWNLOADER] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Egypt_1450_BC.svg/520px-Egypt_1450_BC.svg.png Cyrus Cylinder, a BURNT CLAY legal proclamation by Cyrus the Great, the Persian Emperor who is a Zoroastrian by religion and refered to in the bible as King of Kings. He is also refered to by the God of the bible as My Anointed in the book of Ezra. Ezra says that Cyrus attributed his success to Yahweh, but Cyrus himself says it was Marduk the Babylonian God in the Cyrus Cylinder! Read Isaiah 45:1-3 ==> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cyrus_Cylinder.jpg ==> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great_in_the_Bible ==> http://cyruscylinder2013.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/FEZANA_Journal_2013_Summer.pdf ==> https://www.biblewheel.com/forum/showthread.php?2863-Which-is-correct-The-Cyrus-Cylinder-or-the-Bible This presents a problem with the Biblical account which is very similar, but also very different: Isaiah 44:28 [Thus saith the LORD] That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid. Isaiah 45:1-3 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; 2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: 3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. The account on the Cyrus Cylinder - presumable dictated by Cyrus himself - says that it was MARDUK who called Cyrus "by name" and "held his hand" and made him a "shepherd" of many peoples. The Bible says the same thing, except it REPLACES the name of Marduk with Yahweh. So which is right? It seems to me that the authors of the Bible rewrote history to include Yahweh when Cyrus was actually attributing his success to Marduk. ==> http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/article_index/c/cyrus_cylinder_-_translation.aspx ==> http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/article_index/c/cyrus_cylinder_-_translation.aspx ==> https://www.amazon.com/Bible-Unearthed-Archaeologys-Vision-Ancient-ebook/dp/B000FBJG86 The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts is a 2001 book about the archaeology of Israel and its relationship to the origins of the Hebrew Bible. The authors are Israel Finkelstein, Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, and Neil Asher Silberman. They wrote in the Introduction, "Not since ancient times has the world of the Bible been so accessible and so thoroughly explored. Through archaeological excavations we now what crops the Israelites and their neighbors grew, what they ate, how their built their cities, and with whom they traded... Dozens of cities and towns mentioned in the Bible have been identified and uncovered... But that is not to say that archaeology has proved the biblical narrative to be true in all of its details. Far from it: it is now evident that many events of biblical history did not take place in either the particular era or the manner described. Some of the most famous events in the Bible clearly never happened at all." (Pg. 5) IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII "The Bible Unearthed" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYrTOyY3KPk 23:19] Jan 7, 2016 - Uploaded by Audiopedia The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and and the Origin of It's Sacred Text. "The Bible Unearthed, by Finkelstein & Silberman - Book Review" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jp8ofKZTMU 17:27] Jan 17, 2019 - Uploaded by Joseph Francis Burton The Bible Unearthed, by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII "The Cyrus Cylinder (Full Text)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S4ZC-5GwMY [7:12] Jun 8, 2015 - Uploaded by Ancient Recitations The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient document written in Akkadian cuneiform, attributed to Achaemenid Persian. "The Cyrus Cylinder from Ancient Babylon and the Beginning of the Persian Empire" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qIoEevJ6qE [59:01] Jul 11, 2013 - Uploaded by The Met Lecture by Dr. John E. Curtis, OBE, FBA, Keeper of Special Middle East Projects, The British Museum. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ARCHIVAL MATERIAL #3. "The Nupe and the Origins and Evolution of the Yoruba c. 1275-1897" Published in ©2005. By Idris Shaaba Jimada. Price N1,500. Book excerpts and review of the book got from August 13, 2005 Punch. A HISTORY OF THE NUPE, C.1068 – 1810 A.D..pdf ==>http://kubanni.abu.edu.ng/jspui/bitstream/123456789/9972/1/A%20HISTORY%20OF%20THE%20NUPE%2C%20C.1068%20%E2%80%93%201810%20A.D..pdf If you can lay your hands on the book, it would be interesting to KNOW YOUR thoughts on it. The Nupe ones paid tribute to Oyo Empire just like Dahomey and they were incorporated into the Oyo Empire. Sango's mother was also a Nupe or Tapa. ARCHIVAL MATERIAL #4. Pre-Islamic worshipers in Mecca and Medina, parts of the Arabian Peninsula and parts of the Middle East worshiped the moon God called Al-Iah or the God. Modern archaelogical findings show stone artefacts and paintings devoted to the worship of the moon God, based on polytheism. The Kaaba was a moon worship location with pilgrimage visitations to the Kaaba, before Islam evolved as a syncretic religion. It was into this era that Mohammed the prophet of Islam was born and grew up in to adulthood. Dr. Arthur Jeffery, one of the foremost Western Islamic scholars in modern times and professor of Islamic and Middle East Studies at Columbia University, U.S.A., did a lot of work on pre-Islamic history and arrived at these conclusions in one of his books, (Islam: Muhammad and His Religion, Arthur Jeffery, 1958, p 85). ==>http://www.bible.ca/islam/library/islam-quotes-jeffery.htm Islam is syncretically built on pre-Islamic moon worship. This is why you find the moon crescent on mosque minarets around the world. It was caliph Uthman that codified the teachings of the evolving new religion through abrogations, after the death of the prophet of Islam, because there was NO one standard teaching in Islam... and this led to a deadly 5 year Civil War called fitna by muslims. This is why there is a difference... right up till today in the interpretations of the Koran and the Hadith by Muslim groups or scholars. Sunis and Shiites brutally fight and kill one another through violent bomb explosions in mosques and bombs planted by road sides during processions by rival groups! ==>http://www.truthbeknown.com/islam.htm ==>https://www.biblebelievers.org.au/islam.htm ==>http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-allah-pre-islamic-origin.htm (Islam: Muhammad and His Religion, Arthur Jeffery, 1958, p 85) Dr. Arthur Jeffery, one of the foremost Western Islamic scholars in modern times and professor of Islamic and Middle East Studies at Columbia University, U.S.A. ==>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah_as_a_lunar_deity The name Allah, as the Qur'an itself is witness, was well known in pre-Islamic Arabia. Indeed, both it and its feminine form, Allat, are found not infrequently among the theophorous names in inscriptions from North Arabia. The common theory is that it is formed from ilah, the common word for a god, and the article al-; thus al-ilah, the god," becomes Allah, "God." This theory, however, is untenable. In fact, the name is one of the words borrowed into the language in pre-Islamic times from Aramaic. (Islam: Muhammad and His Religion, Arthur Jeffery, 1958, p 85) ==>http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-allah-pre-islamic-origin.htm ==>http://www.bible.ca/islam/library/islam-quotes-jeffery.htm I hope this helps to give YOU some more fresh perspectives and unique insights as a researcher. Have a great weekend! Cheers! |
olas24u:^^^^^ ^^^^^ Hi olas24u, Are you of Itsekiri descent? |
AutoReportNG:^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ Brilliant post. That international airport road has to compare with some of the best airport entry and exit routes I have seen on some of my international air trips. No settling for less. Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode has been quite innovative and the Gov-elect. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his deputy Gov-elect. Hamzat have to up their inner games too to leave a legacy behind. Ipinle Eko O Ni Baje! ![]() |
Hi Raine, Hope you're doing okay? I have a bit of jet lag right now from a rather long international flight by air... and I have to quickly send this post... to you for your response. I sent you TWO e-mails or PMs via the NL platform within the week, but I haven't got a response from you. I know YOU must have seen the message like this: "Kon.quest has e-mailed you. Please check your e-mail now." on your NL profile page... indicating that I sent an email to you. I just need a quick first and second opinions from you on some specifics within your medical/obgyn line of duty, and more. 1. Check your e-mail inbox or spam folders, because sometimes messages get SENT to the spam folders... and do reply me via your email ASAP so that I can send you a FULLER INFO. 2. Alternatively, simply go to my NL profile page and click on the "Send E-Mail Message To Kon.quest" link... just right above my profile picture with the men in raised black power salutes. Click SEND and the pre-written e-mail message will get to me. I will then get back to you by e-mail with my FULLER INFO. I indicated in the P.S. section of one of my posts on this thread page that I would send you an email, because I DO NOT want to post very confidential information on this Discussion Forum. You take care... and "keep SHAKING the tables." |
@UyaiIncomparabl How has your day been? I read the first 2 pages of this thread topic for the first time last week and you painted a very vivid picture in my mind's eye... and it's one of the TWO major reasons why I followed you on NL. So I gradually typed my reply entirely off hand on my mobile device. I have a bit of jet lag right now... after a long international flight, and I haven't been so active on NL within the week, so let me post this right away. Well your post was on December 25, 2018, but I can still write a few laser-targeted words. I've read many books on human psychology, and attended certified courses and seminars on emotional intelligence. My mother was a senior medical practitioner, and I have had the opportunity to read a lot of thick medical books... So, I've got some brilliant medical and non-medical ideas as to what may have happened to you... so lets dive right in! First off, I must commend you for opening this very profound thread to share your feelings. This is one of the best threads I have ever read since I started using NL in 2005. A lot of men for instance don't like to talk about their feelings because they think they will be looked down upon as being less of a man. So, you as a young woman are NOT mentally deranged or a sadist and I will NOT say you are bipolar, but do also see a psychiatrist or psycho-analyst in your city of residence who can FURTHER evaluate you... and catch any other thing that may be FLYING below the radar! I am sure you know that a psychiatric hospital doesn't mean you are mad or mentally deranged. Psycho-analysts work in psychiatric facilities too. #1. RAGING HORMONES: From reading your post... you may have had raging HORMONAL issues, or you probably were subconsciously worried about unmet expectations in the year... when things are not PANNING OUT in the exact way want it. However we look at it, female hormones such as estrogen and progesterone secretions, can clash together during your monthly menstrual and ovulation cycles, and they are directly linked to the Central Nervous System. Pre-Menstrual Syndrome or PMS occurences are one of the TOP 5 reasons that are responsible for marital divorces worldwide. This is based on credible medical research! Women having PMS especially from the ages of 20 to 50 can display all kinds of emotions from crying without cause, anger, anxiety, irritability, depression, fatigue, self-isolation, and a whole lot of negative emotions which are not there fault! A lot of men do not know this fact... and so they lash out at their female spouses and the women then also overreact with more disrespect... and then BOOM DIVORCE sets in. A second variant or type of this situation is the Post-Partum depression which occurs in pregnant women even before giving birth. It is very insidious and fully manifests when a woman delivers her babies and due to hormonal imbalances, she is not able to cope with the pressures of being a new mother or second time mother. Women have been known to harm their babies in the process. So, having a family member to help out with the care of the baby might help to relieve the mother till she is able to overcome the raging hormonal issues. #2. STRESS: Stress is a major trigger of the kind of REACTION you posted about. I have found out that technology and ICT tools can cause distractions and we are put under stress to respond to emails, return SMS messages, phone calls, chat on FB, post on Twitter, log on to Instagram and get put under SOCIAL PRESSURES to keep up with the Joneses, watch YouTube channels we have subcribed to, and more! Better to turn these devices off and take some rest, because stress that comes from using ICT devices breeds anger and anxiety if used too much. And that brings us to the issue of Time Management in the next key point below. #3. STRONG TIP: TIME MANAGEMENT Let me share with YOU one of the TIME MANAGEMENT strategies I've used for years to achieve more everyday. "Do something POSITIVE everyday. " The MORE POSITIVE things you do daily, the more your self-esteem GROWS. The LESS POSITIVE things you do daily, the more your self-esteem DROPS. Focus on the Top 20% of the most important things in your daily to-do-list... and DELEGATE the remaining 80% of your daily to-do-list. You can achieve MORE POSITIVE things by using the Pareto Principle which states that 20% of the things you do will give you 80% of your RESULTS. This Pareto Principle works in all spheres of human endeavor. From academics, to investments, the 80/20 Principle or Pareto Principle truly works! There is a popular book on the 80/20 Principle by Robert Koch in my personal library collections, so you can get to buy one from a book store at an airport, hotels, and malls in your area of residence, which I assume is Lagos. #4. USE ESSENTIAL OILS OR PATCHOULI: Lavender, lemon oils or any other essential oil fragrance you like for AROMATHERAPY body massages. I use this too...and it works fine. Fragrances have ways of soothing or calming the nerves by working on the neuro-transmitters in the brain. This helps to destress anyone. Get this from a health store or a mall near you. Perhaps you could do price comparison shopping online and get these things cheaper by using some of the good NL shippers. SUMMARY: Read up more on these 4 key points at your leisure. You are not mentally deranged, but you show a great deal of self-awareness in your post by speaking out... and I like that in a woman. Your writing is neat, and you seem to be a very smart young woman too. I hope this helps! Cheers! P.S. #Great thread! |
AutoReportNG:Brilliant history above the time track! |
gaby:^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ... I cant stop laughing right nowat the reference to "Zlatan Ibile resembling one blind Kenyan beggar." |
Olu317:^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ @Olu317 Read the article below in the Weblink. Regional News of Wednesday, 20 November 2013 Source: Graphic.com.gh Yorubas to celebrate 200 years in Ghana https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Yorubas-to-celebrate-200-years-in-Ghana-292587# https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Yorubas-to-celebrate-200-years-in-Ghana-292587# @Olu317 Greetings to you too. NO problem about the response! I appreciate your positive feedback which is LOADED! ![]() Are you a research academic in an institution? I ask this question because a lot of your posts that I have read are very detailed, and are not the usual stuff that you find as DUMBED DOWN historical information. The ancient Yoruba were the people that drifted away from the Kemet language. Below is a classic work on Ram carved out of ceramic which stand at par with Egyptians and middle East work. This work is not found outside Yoruba land in West Africa,which conform with migratory lifestyle of ancient Yorubas.In actual sense, I have read about the history of ancient Egypt because I grew up in a house where my father ensured that our family library was stocked with books... encyclopedias from different publishers and more... so I read a lot of stimulating books on upper Egypt and lower Egypt, Kemet, Nubia, Phoenicia now known as Lebanon, and more. With the advent of the Internet and my first use of that electonic and communications tool in the late 1990s I just read more international history on demand! I even read that before the Sahara desert began to expand vigorously, there was a movement of people between North Africa and West Africa with horse drawn carriages, and goods and people interacting in the ancient times in the BCE era. So, I also believe what you indicated in your post about Yoruba having some links with ancient Kemet or Egypt. DNA tests will prove this FACT soon because it is out in the domain that the Pharoahs of ancient Egypt had black ancestries in them based on DNA tests that have been done on their preserved bodies in the Pyramid, which are now on display in the museums. Please do more follow up on this to get more insights! Archaelogists have also found paintings of chariots and people on ROCKS in the Sahara desert to prove that people were criss crossing the routes in the BCE era between West Africa and the North long before the Trans Saharan trade in goods and slaves. There is also a Sudanese or Nubian connection of some people in Kaduna in Northern Nigeria who are known as Nimbia who claim their ancestors came from Nubia or black Sudan before their Arab invasion of their land and fierse battles took place. I listened to the documentary on BBC Radio in the early 2000s! In fact, AKWAABA in Ghana is Àkú Àbó(wellcome,return well, arrive well etc), which is a loan wordYou are very vast in knowledge Olu317! ![]() I read within the last 10 years too from online sources that our people, the Yoruba have been in Ghana as traders for over 200 years, just like you have Hausa traders who migrated to Northern Ghana, and Hausa is still spoken in Ghana. The CIA World Fact Book indicates that there are over 1 million Yoruba who are citizens of Ghana. In Accra, the Ga indigenous owners of Accra claim to have come from Nigeria or Ife! I have a former Ghanaian school mate, Brian, who is now a Senior Investment Analyst in New York. I have to ask him more about this because he is also a Ga. His father was a lecturer in Nigeria in the oil boom era when we went to school together, and he and I were close school friends in the cosmopolitan and multicultural school I then attended. Thanks for this insightful information and do keep me posted on any other info. Have a great week ahead! ![]() P.S. Last but not least, did you interact by collecting the email contact of @Osugbo? He has not been regular on this thread and forum and I would have l oved us to ask him more questions. Maybe if we visit Sierra Leone, he can be our guide. It was some of the demobilised slave ships that the liberated Yoruba purchased and were using to trade in the 1800s across West Africa and they became very rich and could afford to even send their children to universities in England. This was before 1900, and they were known as the African Merchant Princes. |
ValCon888:^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ @ValCon888 You have displayed ignorance as well. 1. Magun involves a man who has been in an illicit affair with a woman, somersaulting 3 times and then dying from the effects of the charm. 2. This is different from Pénis Captivus or another variant called Vaginismus, which are purely medical conditions. Read more below. https://www.pulse.ng/lifestyle/food-travel/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-magun-charm-phenomenon/95t37ep https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/02/husband-laid-magun-struck-twice-lured-bed/ |
MissRaine69:^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ @MissRaine69 Yeah, you are right about this... on those rare occassions, the vajayjay can INDEED be a muscular... powerful biological MOUSE trap! ![]() 1. Okay...So, the 64-year-old woman you last treated for this Vaginismus condition was a white woman abroad or was it in Nigeria? 2. Is there a demographic distribution to the occurence of Vaginismus? 3. Are there verifiable statistics to show how prevalent this is among all the races... since you say there could be a genetic disposition to this in an earlier post on this thread? 4. On the other hand, I am aware that the magun thing involves a woman who is laced with a magun charm by her husband, and any man on the face of this planet who she gets involved with in an illicit sexual activity will somersault 3 times and die! https://www.pulse.ng/gist/magun-the-yoruba-charm-that-prevents-extra-marital-affairs/9prmrrs https://www.pulse.ng/lifestyle/food-travel/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-magun-charm-phenomenon/95t37ep https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/02/husband-laid-magun-struck-twice-lured-bed/ I always love to look at the BIG PICTURE, and detest INSULAR thinking, but there seems to be credible evidence for the magun phenomenon based on what I have read. This of course is different from Vaginismus which is a natural violent contraction of the female reproductive tract. YOU do not somersault 3 times in this case! I think I would prefer to be HIT by Pe.nis Captivus OR Vaginismus than magun, IMHO ![]() Au revoir!
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Realist1:I hear that with magun, a man will sommersault 3 times and die. ![]() This Russian event as described in this thread is due to the involuntary contraction of the vajayjay and cannot be compared to magun. https://www.pulse.ng/gist/magun-the-yoruba-charm-that-prevents-extra-marital-affairs/9prmrrs https://www.pulse.ng/lifestyle/food-travel/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-magun-charm-phenomenon/95t37ep |
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