Looks like a regular forest to me.

Nothing like Queen Sheeba. Bilikisu Sungbo was simply a Yoruba woman. Probably wealthy and influential. That wall holds many secrets. Civilizations rise and fall and it's inhabitants learn hard lessons of being prosperous and rich. You attract many dangerous and jealous enemies. So when civilizations fall tragically, people tend to return to more modest and less flashy way of life.

I see aliens everywhere

Imagine oyinbo telling us about Nigeria that we live in and to be honest it is news to me!!!! Kai

Eredo is best appreciated when seen physically. A section of it cuts across Augustine University Ilara Epe, Lagos State. I worked there with some French Archaeologists last may. For the first time, I felt the discipline of Archaeology. We have a lot of history buried under the earth. I am proud to be an Archaeologist.

And they talk about the great Wall of China; when we have structures far greater here in Nigeria? It's time for nationwide archeological projects to discover more, to reconstruct our history and shut the mouth of all those who thinks Africans were savages before the coming of Europeans.

Rossikk:
If this monument was in the UK, they would have restored it, publicised it, and prepared it for various tourist packages.

Ordinary Stonehenge that is just a circular structure made with some rocks, they've made billions of pounds from tourists visiting it.

We need to do better.

it even took a Whiteman to find this in Africa and to also recognize it significance ..that to show how helpless we african are without the white

absoluteSuccess:
She's the one who visited king Solomon to test his wisdom.

History is still laying fallow at Oke Eri, to be told in future time.

Was about saying this history is connected with oke Eri. The woman according to history was travelling from somewhere, she got to oke Eri n she was thirsty, she saw some women and asked them to give her water but they refused. She left and saw some men who gave her water.

She then continue her journey and she died. Where her corpse laid till today is very neat, leaf on the tree she was buried does not fall n it's only men that can go near the place. Oke Eri folks can tell us more about it

cc musicwriter


I'm being forced to conclude that you were right

SirWere:
cc musicwriter


I'm being forced to conclude that you were right

Right on what, please?

We need more than speculations...
All am seeing is speculations... and na this Nigeria we gada dey

So what are we looking at? Wasted MB in this recession. :

Wow

OK na! let me share on fb

Rossikk:
If this monument was in the UK, they would have restored it, publicised it, and prepared it for various tourist packages.

Ordinary Stonehenge that is just a circular structure made with some rocks, they've made billions of pounds from tourists visiting it.

We need to do better.

When we were young we used to hear about the history of bilikisu Sungbo. What made us interested was why women can't be allowed to go near the shrine since she's a woman. The story, that Bilikisu Sungbo was travelling, to where, we don't know.

Then she got to OKE ERI which is about 5-10 minutes drive from ijebu ode, she saw some women and asked them for just water as she was so tired as a result of her journey. The women refuse to give her water, she continue the journey, and she met some men thereafter, and asked them for water and they gave her. The men knew she was different, they tried to speak to her she didn't disclose her mission or where she was going to. The men decided to spy on her as she proceeded on her journey until there was no strength left in her and she died.
She was buried under a very large three. According to history, the tree did not wither, you can't find a single leaf under the tree, they said the surrounding is very neat and that the tree can be used for healing purposes.

White men come there every year. But women can get close but not into the shrine, may be, that's the only instruction given to the men.

When we were being told then, we were too young to understand. Oke Eri folks come in and tell us what we don't know.

how did we loose track of this and ourselves. God knows what is yet to be discovered about this great country called nigeria. i bet if the colonialists knew about it they probably would have blown it up.

Rossikk:


Yes. Thousands of people visit her grave each year in honour of the queen. Bilikisu Sungbo. It is said she was a giantess, and that her grave is very long.

Vanity upon vanity..... let her grave long from here to Jerusalem

But the question is,why do we leave these white monkeys to discover these treasures in our land. Tomorrows they will steal it and put in their museum and claim ''tis theirs . These white people should just efff off and leave us in peace.

olureignforever:


When we were young we used to hear about the history of bilikisu Sungbo. What made us interested was why women can't be allowed to go near the shrine since she's a woman. The story, that Bilikisu Sungbo was travelling, to where, we don't know.

Then she got to OKE ERI which is about 5-10 minutes drive from ijebu ode, she saw some women and asked them for just water as she was so tired as a result of her journey. The women refuse to give her water, she continue the journey, and she met some men thereafter, and asked them for water and they gave her. The men knew she was different, they tried to speak to her she didn't disclose her mission or where she was going to. The men decided to spy on her as she proceeded on her journey until there was no strength left in her and she died.
She was buried under a very large three. According to history, the tree did not wither, you can't find a single leaf under the tree, they said the surrounding is very neat and that the tree can be used for healing purposes.

White men come there every year. But women can get close but not into the shrine, may be, that's the only instruction given to the men.

When we were being told then, we were too young to understand. Oke Eri folks come in and tell us what we don't know.

if memory serves me right. I think kolawole olawuyi has done a showcase of this on Nkan nbe in the late 90s. I am just trying to remember and join the puzzles together

Kakamorufu:
if memory serves me right. I think kolawole olawuyi has done a showcase of this on Nkan nbe in the late 90s. I am just trying to remember and join the puzzles together

Probably, I can't answer in affirmative. Nkan nbe used to scare me then. He was a fan of mystery stuffs like this.

Can someone pls shed more light on this??
This is interesting

musicwriter:


Right on what, please?

Intellectual neo-colonialism and pre-African greatness...

absoluteSuccess:


With due respect, I think the Yoruba scholars are complacent lot. They are jinxed to 'the ultimate-answer' given them in in Ile-ife origins of the Yoruba, now what is left to do is deny every other paragraph that comes before and after the source of this claim as if the early scholars who mention ife were fools to be discredited, biting the fingers that put you in the limelight.

Our history in modern times is about argument for or against what we used to believe as history, no spirited effort to confirm as true the conclusions of old but to debunk such while retaining a part: why not discard off the old and start afresh? Isn't your assumption that early claims being tinted with religious sentiments not tinted with inability to sift fact from fiction to unravel facts?

Now how does your tradition of origin solve the eredo paradox? They will also come here as soon as this thread hit the frontpage to discredit everything connecting it with the outside world, but would never resolve the mystery of who, when or how. Because they are too complacent to research but eager to protect the 'ultimate answer' as the almighty formula for Yoruba history.

Our people are too feeble to think and too scared to ask questions. The ones who were beneficiary of the urban legend works to quench the investigative spirit of anyone who rise to challenge them, but fact also elude them other than the regular coverup that never sound scientific or far reaching but self-serving. Let's wait and see. This is the relics of an empire lost in time.

This points back to a legendary woman: Mr. Oduduwa, what did you accomplish for Yoruba? How did you succeeded in putting your children on the throne in all realms without any history of confrontations? Are you an Uthman Dan Fudio? How did all your children became kings and had no trace of personal name but title of kingdoms as their names?

Sungbo had a name and memorial landmark to her greatness!

hold on a minute
these beliefs in legends like oduduwa is to give people identity
just like the Jews believe they are descended from adam/Abraham
when we all know that the first man first came out of Africa

did oduduwa ever exist
possibly
it's is just unfortunate that we never reached the stage of writing down our history..
but does that mean you've to discount our oral history.

of course not, yes some things may be embellished but you sure as he'll that most of these things hold true.
oral history can only take you so far.. it is interesting we can go far back to the 1300 just listing the kings alone. ife bronze head is dated 1300.




and for God's sake this thing is dated to the 800s
not like it is 40000bc