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Re: Ancient Igbo Pyramids: The Nsude Pyramids by KoloOyinbo(m): 8:16pm On Feb 25, 2015
gatiano:
xaxaxaxaxax. kolomental oyibo wants us to believe his father's lies over my brothers and sisters truth. does that make sense. Yet the only thing you can point to is his father's books which include not the original bible.

You have gone over to the other tread to deceive again, Jesus was black, you said true, he was not european(white) but brown. I knew immidiately that you have inferiority issues.

Black people filled the whole earth before yt(white) came along. Don't buy into the lie that Black people were only in Africa, and yt etc discovered the rest of the world.
Not true.
We had 12 separate countries spread over the whole earth, from Asia to Africa to the Americas and Europe.

Yes, even Europe. There was a time when the climate there was not icy cold as it is today. Black people lived there and left the same type of monuments everywhere they lived. Take a look at the monuments of Egypt which- it is finally admitted, were built by Black people, after many centuries of reluctance. (This reluctance persisted for centuries despite the fact that Herodotus, the father of Caucasian history, stated very clearly 2,500 years ago that the ancient Egyptians were nappy hair midnight-skin Black people. And how did he know? He went there while Black people were still living there and ruling their own country. In those days, Egypt was to the whole world what America is today. Everybody who was anybody went there for learning, culture, fortune and fame, just as people today come to America from all over the world.

It was taken for granted then, just as it is today among whites, that Black people were the most advanced people on earth. Herodotus says so without shame. Whites in those days were still in the infancy of developing their sense of superiority, which is now fully mature, albeit completely false.) Take a look at the monuments of ancient Egypt as an example of what our people built. Then search all over the world for similar monuments, and you'll find them on every continent. If you want to find where Americans have been in the world, don't you look for McDonalds, Kentucky Fried and Ford automobiles? Those are yt's modern monuments that he leaves behind everywhere he goes.

Black people left behind much more enduring monuments everywhere they lived. When you see megalithic stone structures so large that white people today look at them and say, "How did they do that?", know without doubt when you see these monuments anywhere on earth that Black people once lived there. This is true of Stonehenge in Britain, others in Europe and Asia, and the great walls in Central and South America, even in North America; i.e. all over the world.


Now you have really gone CRAZY!

Get an education you semi literate fool, perhaps then you could get a job.

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Re: Ancient Igbo Pyramids: The Nsude Pyramids by gatiano(m): 8:34pm On Feb 25, 2015
This is an improvement in your saying the truth, i have gone from uneducated loser to semi illitrate. well be righteous.

KoloOyinbo:


Now you have really gone CRAZY!

Get an education you semi literate fool, perhaps then you could get a job.

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Re: Ancient Igbo Pyramids: The Nsude Pyramids by KoloOyinbo(m): 9:03pm On Feb 25, 2015
gatiano:
This is an improvement in your saying the truth, i have gone from uneducated loser to semi illitrate. well be righteous.

Much the same although I try to be generous however undeserving the unfortunate is!
Re: Ancient Igbo Pyramids: The Nsude Pyramids by jantavanta(m): 10:52pm On Sep 24, 2015
Catherine Acholonu Research Center

Old Sumer was in Enugu

http://www.carcafriculture.org/articles1.htm

http://www.carcafriculture.org/docs/THE%20GRAVE%20OF%20SARGON%20THE%20GREAT.pdf

Re: Ancient Igbo Pyramids: The Nsude Pyramids by jantavanta(m): 11:34pm On Sep 24, 2015
Lost City of Akkad found in Anambra State, South Eastern Nigeria.

Akkad was not in any Middle-East. Nigeria had many ancient writing systems which we have lost.

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Sumer-African-Origins-Civilisation/dp/1480065285

http://www.carcafriculture.org/articles1.htm http://www.carcafriculture.org/docs/THE%20GRAVE%20OF%20SARGON%20THE%20GREAT.pdf

Re: Ancient Igbo Pyramids: The Nsude Pyramids by delishpot: 9:23pm On Oct 31, 2016
KoloOyinbo:


Don't know about the other evidence for a Hebrew connection but Pyramid building is not one of them. The Igbo pyramids were an independent design (VERY different in scale, structure - circular- and material), built probably willingly, for the housing of a spiritual God.

Egyptian pyramids were built (by Hebrew slave labour) for their Egyptian masters to house the DEAD remains of a pharaoh and protect the worldly wealth (unsuccessfully) from thieves. The Hebrews had no intrinsic interest in pyramids or ever attempted to build any and without Egyptian coercion would not even have bothered with those!

The MANY cultures who built pyramidal structures across the continents (and similar structures such as Ziggurats) exhibit no linkages between themselves.

As for the 'step' design (very different in scale and design from Igbo to Egyptian pyramids) this is also exhibited in most pyramid building cultures as a natural development as peoples learned the techniques of pyramid building.


IF the Igbo pyramids were like the Egyptian (which they are not) it would strongly argue AGAINST a Hebrew-Igbo link and instead FOR an Egyptian-Igbo link.


Hebrews once lived in Egypt as slaves. So yes, they may have learnt to build pyramids while in Egypt hence you can not rule out the Hebrew Igbo link.

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Re: Ancient Igbo Pyramids: The Nsude Pyramids by Ishilove: 11:36am On Jan 05, 2018
anonimi:


Yes indeed.

It is a shame that our wealthy folks do not bother about such things. Rather we wait for oyinbos to come and explore then exploit our CULTURAL heritage.
Quite sad!
Hmmm, this was those long gone days when you made comments without those godawful, noisy memes angry

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Re: Ancient Igbo Pyramids: The Nsude Pyramids by Theydontcare: 7:09pm On Jan 05, 2018
bigfrancis21:
In 1935, G. I. Jones, an anthropoligist and colonial administrator took pictures of the Nsude pyramids, ancient Igbo pyramids, in Udi, Enugu state Nigeria with a Roloflex camera which he acquired and developed a system for immediate developing which produced negatives of such high quality that they continue to produce excellent prints six decades later. It was at this time that he built up the extraordinary photographic record of Southeastern Nigerian culture.

The pyramids, numbering 10 in number are circular and stepped and were made of clay.

Here are pictures of the pyramids:

[img]http://jonesarchive.siu.edu/wp-content/uploads/arunsi10.jpg[/img]
[img]http://jonesarchive.siu.edu/wp-content/uploads/arunsi111.jpg[/img]


The first base section was 60 ft. in circumference and 3 ft. in height. The next stack was 45 ft. in circumference. Circular stacks continued, till it reached the top. The structures were temples for the god Ala/Uto, who was believed to reside at the top. A stick was placed at the top to represent the god’s residence. The structures were laid in groups of five parallel to each other. Because it was built of clay/mud like the Deffufa of Nubia, time has taken its toll requiring periodic reconstruction.

Strikingly, these pyramids bear striking resemblance to the Step Pyramid of Saqqara, in Egypt constructed in 2648 BC and without a doubt, derive from the same cultural/religious/philosophical tradition that inspired this ancient Egyptian monument. Moreso, more striking is the similar replication of Nubian-like pyramids thousands of miles away from the Nubian area in the heart of Igboland, or vice versa, whichever comes first.




The Step Pyramids of Saqqara, Egypt.

Evidence like this indicates a strong level of correlation between the ancient egyptians and the ancient Igbo. The building of the pyramids may have been done at the same time the first or second wave of Egyptian pyramids were built by the Nubians.

The Nubian dynasty of Egypt (the 25th Dynasty of Egypt) saw the first widespread construction of pyramids (many in modern Sudan) since the Middle Kingdom.


For God sake... Why cant Igbo just start from this "contraption" called Nigeria and grow from there. Why this constant bullshitting. Begin to write your own history now so that, it can be read by your generations unborn - its better than wasting time on false sense of entitlement and history. Start by using your technical knowledge to use Solar energy to produce electricity and see how you produce a local technology to make the system sustainable. Just show everyone you are what you call yourselves. Unite your effort in proving everyone wrong. The ultimate secrete shine. You might want to stop embarrassing God with all your nonperformance, considering the immense gift of nature given to you people.

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Re: Ancient Igbo Pyramids: The Nsude Pyramids by Theydontcare: 7:19pm On Jan 05, 2018
Uchizzy:
i knew it, we igbo's re some how connected with the Egyptians.

There you go again...
Re: Ancient Igbo Pyramids: The Nsude Pyramids by hothead(m): 2:52am On Jan 30, 2019
interesting. Nigerian Pyramids...
Re: Ancient Igbo Pyramids: The Nsude Pyramids by Afonjas: 7:59pm On Feb 04, 2019
jantavanta:
Catherine Acholonu Research Center

Old Sumer was in Enugu

http://www.carcafriculture.org/articles1.htm

http://www.carcafriculture.org/docs/THE%20GRAVE%20OF%20SARGON%20THE%20GREAT.pdf
Re: Ancient Igbo Pyramids: The Nsude Pyramids by Recruitmentedu: 11:28am On Nov 22, 2019
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Re: Ancient Igbo Pyramids: The Nsude Pyramids by ZZ22: 10:56am On Aug 20, 2020
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Re: Ancient Igbo Pyramids: The Nsude Pyramids by ZZ22: 8:37am On Dec 11, 2020
cross22:
I have seen those pyramids. I did my high school at community secondary school Nsude. known as KOMBA. That place is really amazing. I saw the pyramids during Those days we would go out in search of UTHU( the sweet thing you have to get from a tree) in a thick forest.
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Re: Ancient Igbo Pyramids: The Nsude Pyramids by DougW: 7:57am On Sep 10, 2023
Hate to rain on anyone's parade, but the man who took the photos in the early 1930's also wrote that "Two years ago the local Dibia, 7.e., mystic or witchdoctor, informed the priest of Uto, a genial old man, that Uto had told the Dibia that it wanted the people of nsude to erect ten Nkpuru (pyramids) in its honour andas a sign to all and sundry that Uto is a great juju and lord and master of nsude.

He described the building of these shrines.

"Two years ago when the ten pyramids were erected it was found that when the lower platform or Nkpuruhad been built there was plenty of roomfor a second Nkpuru, which was therefore built on the top of the first. A third Nkpuru was built on top of the second, and so on until there was only room for a small cone in the centre of the fourth Nkpuruor platform."

These are made of mud and clay and it's not surprising they have eroded.

There's no evidence of this Luke Walter person, all mentions seem to be from this century.

Continuing to research to make sure I haven't missed anything I found a 1921 source about what may be similar pyramids.
"In the neighbourhood of Ngwo, Nsude and Agbaja Owa in the Udi Division, at intervals, the people construct quaint circular pyramids. Clay is used for the purpose. The bases are about sixty feet in circumference and two to three feet in height. Then another section is laid about forty-five feet in circumference and so on until the pinnacle is reached. They are erected to the honour of “ Ala ” and to indicate ownership of land.
Two rows of five are built parallel to one another which means that “ Ala ” gives children with the right hand and the left. The god (or goddess) dwells in the pinnacle and, thus, is in a position to detect any person committing evil. Such a person will be caught by the god and secured with shackles ; these are represented by small sticks inserted in the clay near the tops of the pyramids."[https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Among_the_Ibos_of_Nigeria/hKssBgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1] P.109 This is the book ''Among the Ibos of Nigeria An Account of the Curious & Interesting Habits, customs, & Beliefs of a Little Known African People by One who Has for Many Years Lived Amongst Them on Close & Intimate Terms''. 1921
This doesn't of course contradict my source above, just shows that these are earlier. We can't know how often these eroded and were replaced.

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