NighttWalker:
What does buhari got to do with this?

Ask him ooo
Dumb heads

I had no idea such existed in Nigeria. Where are these pyramids today?

Knowing Nigerians and our lack of maintenance culture, I'd say the pyramids have been ruined.

Proudly igbo.

Patiently waiting for haterz from "that other side" of the country to come and start telling us how their caves and rivers and hills from where you can see their red zinc buildings are better off.

Johnnoo:


Ask him ooo
Dumb heads

The post got hidden smh

Decryptor:
Proudly igbo.

Patiently wsiting for haterz from "that other side" of the country to come and start telling us how their caves and rivers and hills from where you can see their red zinc buildings are better off.

Lmao!! This is cold

You are so mean

WONDERFUL pictures. Thank you so much for posting them. The circular nature marks them as quite unique (even from the step pyramid in Egypt) but the 'layered' structure has been adopted independently by many ancient civilizations across the globe. I must find out more!

Some posters have commented (quite correctly) that much more needs to be made of West African history. This was illustrated to me recently. I was looking around the 'Currency Museum in CBN, Abuja and there was a small 'Benin Bronze'. I was fascinated and drew it to the attention of my colleague (who is another oyinbo) and the two Nigerian with us. Imagine my shock to learn that they had never heard of 'Benin Bronzes', THEY ARE WORLD FAMOUS! There was perhaps an excuse for my colleague, but for a West African (Nigerian or otherwise) not to know this was quite shocking for me!

Please, please, please realise and appreciate that the history of Nigeria did NOT begin with the arrival of the British and colonialism but predated that by thousands of years!

[size=28pt]ONE DAY WILL COME WHEN ALUSI ALA WILL REGAIN WORSHIP ACROSS IGBOLAND!

THE GODS SAVE NIGERIA AND GUIDE HER ONTO THE RIGHT PATH.[/size]

OP stop dis rofo-rofo joke & hand fallin joor


Igbos came 4rm Jews & are known as 'African Jews' & not 4rm Egypt, d Babylons!

Dem wey dey diz fora gor e-fyte u oo!

KoloOyinbo:
WONDERFUL pictures. Thank you so much for posting them. The circular nature marks them as quite unique (even from the step pyramid in Egypt) but the 'layered' structure has been adopted independently by many ancient civilizations across the globe. I must find out more!

Some posters have commented (quite correctly) that much more needs to be made of West African history. This was illustrated to me recently. I was looking around the 'Currency Museum in CBN, Abuja and there was a small 'Benin Bronze'. I was fascinated and drew it to the attention of my colleague (who is another oyinbo) and the two Nigerian with us. Imagine my shock to learn that they had never heard of 'Benin Bronzes', THEY ARE WORLD FAMOUS! There was perhaps an excuse for my colleague, but for a West African (Nigerian or otherwise) not to know this was quite shocking for me!

Please, please, please realise and appreciate that the history of Nigeria did NOT begin with the arrival of the British and colonialism but predated that by thousands of years!

Unfortunately, Nigerian history is no longer taught in Nigerian schools. A people without a history are a lost people.

Nigeria, indeed the whole of Africa is sitting on MONUMENTAL history, yet no one wants to take the stress of documenting it, probably because we do NOT pay attention to history or because it might not pay the bills...

Here in Scotland, i have been to Castles that are HUNDREDS of years old, some still standing, others in ruins. They are beautifully preserved and documented. I did some photos of it on old posts on my blog www.afrispheric.com

Documenting Nigerian and African history PROPERLY is something i'd really like to do FULL time, if one can break free of the regular 9-5 job runs. But for now, man got to pay the bills o.

datguru:
Ibo kwenu !

Egyptians

Ishilove:

Unfortunately, Nigerian history is no longer taught in Nigerian schools. A people without a history are a lost people.

Really? History is no longer being taught? Why? Even though i ended up in engineering, i loved History and Geography.

But What happens in the made in ibo pyramic are there mummies in them

i knew it, we igbo's re some how connected with the Egyptians.

And please, lets keep tribalism/politics out of this thread, every part of Nigeria has a rich history, we just do not know or care.

The Seven Functions of the Pyramid by blackroots sciences



I went to the Pyramid last July. I'm planning to go again this summer with my husband. I thought it was an amazing structure and that was before I had read Blackroots!! What are the other functions of the great Pyramid?

1. Power generator and distributor

2. Preservation

3. Transportation

4. Energy balance

5. Prophesy

6. Resurrection

7. Divine unity

1. The ancient Egyptian/Ethiopian empire used a certain form of electricity that was generated and distributed by pyramids. It is different than modern electricity in that the modern type is a low form of electricity that requires transmission wires.

2. All the substances of the universe have a range or spectrum of frequencies. You are familiar with the most common spectrum - that of light. Scientists have named the extremes that they know of this, calling them infrared and ultraviolet. That means if you look at the seven colors of the rainbow, starting with red then orange then yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, then the light spectrum starts from below red (infrared) and goes all the way to beyond violet (ultraviolet).

3. Similarly the other forms of matter also have a range. Solid matter comes in a range of solidity, from soft solids like lead to very hard ones like diamond. Liquids also have a range, starting with thin liquids like pure alcohol or substances such as benzene, to thick liquids like gels. This is true for all the seven forms of matter through the gases to the ether, light, electricity, and magnetism.

4. Modern generated electricity is a lower-spectrum type, barely above static electricity (the type that makes your clothes cling). The ancients used a higher form of electricity that did not require wires for transmission. It was transmitted directly in the ether (i.e. in space) the same way radio waves are transmitted. It was transmitted to the temples, which served, among other things, as receiving stations. So the temples had antennas used to receive the transmission. These antennas can still be seen today erected in front of some of the temples. Modern people call them obelisks. There is one near you in Central park, New York that was stolen by Americans from one of the temples, and many more that were stolen by Europeans, perhaps the most famous one being the one called Cleopatra's needle.

5. Now, the ancients had great reverence for technology. To them it was a gift of nature coming directly from the Gods - the 144 Chiefs of the Black nation. So they did not treat it as casually as modern people do. Today everyone in western countries has access to electricity, including batteries, and they use it casually. There is no reverence whatsoever for this gift of the Gods. The ancients used it only when necessary, including it in the appropriate rituals, and only for projects that were for the benefit of the general society rather than individuals. Other than that they went about their business the usual way, using ordinary hand tools.

6. For this reason modern archeologists claim that the ancients did not have the knowledge of high technology such as electricity because they see the ancient Egyptians going about their business using hand tools and physical labor most of the time. Yet, there are many instances where they have seen the manufacture of certain implements such as stone coffins that were obviously made using some kind of high-speed machinery. They dismiss these instances as exceptions, and so never mention them in their studies and reports. There are many sculptures and other pieces of art found that are made of very hard stones such as diorite, including vases with very thin walls, narrow necks and wide bottoms. When they look at them, it's quite obvious that they could not possibly have been made by hand. They were certainly made using some kind of rotary machine that required electricity. These are the kinds of items that they bury in the basements of their museums because they do not fit their theories and explanation concerning the level of ancient technology.

7. The ancients understood the concept of balance in all its aspects. They understood that balance is necessary in all things, including the use of technology. Even though electricity is to be used to make life much easier, it is not supposed to be exploited to the point where it replaces all other uses, especially the uses of hand tools and physical labor. Such behavior leads to a deterioration of the human body. It discourages the exercising of our muscles using natural activities. Our muscles need natural activities in order for our bodies to remain in a state of good health. It does not help the body to replace natural activities with artificial activities such as weightlifting and gymnasium exercises. The everyday activities of the ancients, such as farming, washing clothes by hand, milling grains, making wine, rowing boats etc ensured that their bodies never went lacking for natural exercise and the muscular fitness and balance required for good health and long life. That's the reason they kept their ancient ways even in the midst of technology that was vastly superior to that of the modern day.

8. Every person had to reach a certain level of initiation before he could use it. The technology was not given for free or for money as it is today. It was earned by knowledge and understanding obtained in the rituals associated with it. They understood that all technology has a higher purpose above that of merely making life easy - it lends to the overall balance of the forces of nature. Without this balance, the life of a society will degenerate to one of two extremes; the extreme of greed, where the gifts of nature are used solely for the satisfaction of physical desires with no spiritual value whatsoever. This is what we see with the way the light-skinned people use technology today. The other extreme is that of over-technologization, which leads to over-intellectualization - i.e. giving up the heart for the sake of the head. This is the case with the extraterrestrial races today, who have given up all emotional life for the sake of the intellect, to the point where they have lost all capacity to love or to empathize.

9. These two extremes illustrate the end result of the unbalanced use of the gifts of nature.

Knowing this, the ancients were able to keep using high technology for thousands of years without the harmful effects we see today such as the ecological disaster that is being foisted upon mother earth by the light-skinned races, or the genetic deterioration that comes as a result of losing one's capacity to feel emotions, such as is being experienced by the extraterrestrial races.

10. 2. The pyramids were also used for the preservation of life forms, or the function that has been attributed to Noah's ark. Periodically, it becomes necessary to preserve life forms on earth, both of animals and plants, so that they may continue after certain events that devastate the earth during its periodic cleansing. I will talk more about this function and events at some other time.

3. Pyramids are also used for space travel. This requires the manufacture of a monolithic pyramid. This is a large pyramid (much larger than the Great Pyramid) that is made of a single stone. The stone is obtained in space from among the debris of large rocks that orbits alongside the planets, that are called asteroids.

When our first ancestors came to earth from Sirius, they used twelve such pyramids, each one occupied by 12,000 men and women.

11. They landed the pyramids at twelve different locations on our earth, that were the energy nodal points of that time. The pyramids remained there for a long time in the far, far distant past, trillions of years ago. Such pyramids are always used when large groups of people leave to settle a new planet. We will see their use again here on our earth in the near future.

12. 4. Pyramids are also used to balance the earth's energies. They are placed at the 12 primary nodes of the earth where space energies enter our planet. Every inhabitable planet receives energies from other stars in space that are essential for human and other life. These energies must be balanced as they enter the nodal points, otherwise they could upset the earth's magnetic shield. The earth's magnetic shield is crucial for keeping out things in space that could cause harm to the planet, such as large meteors and harmful rays. Our earth and other planets in our solar system are still bombarded by such things because our solar system is still evolving. They will cease when the entire solar system reaches a state of perfect stability, where all its energies are in perfect harmony with the energies received from outer space.

13. 5. The Great Pyramid also acts as a prophetic 'book of stone'. It's constructed in such a way that it tells the future story of the age we are in. Every King or Queen who rules the earth builds a stone pyramid as part of their ordination. In its construction, they 'write' the future of their 25,000-year reign. They do not write it in Hieroglyphs, but in the sizes and types of stones used, and the way they are placed, as well as the way the chambers are constructed. A person who is initiated into its mysteries can read the future events of the earth from it.

14. 6. It is also used as a resurrection 'machine'. I've already described the two facets of resurrection for which the Great Pyramid of Giza is used.
15. 7. Lastly, and most important, the Pyramid is used to facilitate divine unity during rituals. This is a function that belongs to the 24 Elders.

I get am before no be property now. Where are the pyramids today? I am sure they have been used as fill somewhere.

Decryptor:
Proudly igbo.

Patiently waiting for haterz from "that other side" of the country to come and start telling us how their caves and rivers and hills from where you can see their red zinc buildings are better off.

Na you first throw stone..the OP has said he doesn't want this to be politicised ,now u foing the exact opposite

Cc Pazienza! Dude is an Igbo ambassador on NL! D reason I am following him

Whitehorse:


Really? History is no longer being taught? Why? Even though i ended up in engineering, i loved History and Geography.

It was removed from the curriculum sometime last year with the excuse that there aren't enough trained history teachers. Can you imagine that rubbish? Is that enough reason to remove such an important subject?!?

In my secondary school we didn't have a history teacher, but I would make my way to the library and read all the history books I could lay my hands on.

Eluwilussit:
I get am before no be property now. Where are the pyramids today? I am sure they have been used as fill somewhere.

I tell ya

Ishilove:

It was removed from the curriculum sometime last year with the excuse that there aren't enough trained history teachers. Can you imagine that rubbish? Is that enough reason to remove such an important subject?!?

In my secondary school we didn't have a history teacher, but I would make my way to the library and read all the history books I could lay my hands on.

Chei, Nigeria is breeding a generation that will not know jack about their identity. I remember the Benin Empire, Oyo Empire, Kanuri etc that we were thought. This was in the mid 1980's...

No wonder there are so many vacuous young folks these days...

Whitehorse:


Chei, Nigeria is breeding a generation that will not know jack about their identity. I remember the Benin Empire, Oyo Empire, Kanuri etc that we were thought. This was in the mid 1980's...

No wonder there are so many vacuous young folks these days...

The bolded, sir, is the biggest understatement of the new year.

To actually help me gauge what (African) people spent their time online doing, i created a survey, but I've not gotten much response

The survey takes just TWO MINUTES to do

Please if you can kindly partake in this survey and also share with your contacts. The link to the survey is below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pFvqD14WyViSFLJzaHyrhC_muDO7biEDoftTz5RI73U/viewform?c=0&w=1

this one na achievement? even ants can do better

Wow!

Ishilove:

Unfortunately, Nigerian history is no longer taught in Nigerian schools. A people without a history are a lost people.

I am so sorry to hear you say that. The information is however still there if one cares to look for it. And furthermore it is FASCINATING STUFF. As an oyinbo I do not know a great deal of it but have heard about the early Nok people, the Kingdoms of Mali, Benin, Songhai (OK some not quite fully Nigerian but touching on what is termed modern day Nigeria in places. My own fiancée (an Edo girl) was amazed that I knew the Yoruba gave her people their first King - Eweka 1st. All of this came just from my casual reading so imagine what some time spent in proper study would reveal!

Perhaps some people feel it MAY foster tribal differences but I suspect the exact opposite!

Interesting

KoloOyinbo:


I am so sorry to hear you say that. The information is however still there if one cares to look for it. And furthermore it is FASCINATING STUFF. As an oyinbo I do not know a great deal of it but have heard about the early Nok people, the Kingdoms of Mali, Benin, Songhai (OK some not quite fully Nigerian but touching on what is termed modern day Nigeria in places. My own fiancée (an Edo girl) was amazed that I knew the Yoruba gave her people their first King - Eweka 1st. All of this came just from my casual reading so imagine what some time spent in proper study would reveal!

Perhaps some people feel it MAY foster tribal differences but I suspect the exact opposite!

Well, you know what they say; "if you want to hide something from the blackman, hide it in a book.". Lol

The present generation lack reading culture. I know what I know because when I learnt them, the internet was just beginning to take root in Nigeria.

KoloOyinbo:


I am so sorry to hear you say that. The information is however still there if one cares to look for it. And furthermore it is FASCINATING STUFF. As an oyinbo I do not know a great deal of it but have heard about the early Nok people, the Kingdoms of Mali, Benin, Songhai (OK some not quite fully Nigerian but touching on what is termed modern day Nigeria in places. My own fiancée (an Edo girl) was amazed that I knew the Yoruba gave her people their first King - Eweka 1st. All of this came just from my casual reading so imagine what some time spent in proper study would reveal!

Perhaps some people feel it MAY foster tribal differences but I suspect the exact opposite!

Apparently its not "hip" knowing history in Nigeria anymore. Lol. Just know all about DBANJ,, JLO, Kim whatshername? and all the rest, You r good. lol

Please take part in my survey if you can. TWO MINUTES ONLY

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