{"id":2538,"date":"2025-05-21T17:34:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feelnubia.org.uk\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:23:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T15:23:24","slug":"beneath-igboukwu-acholonu-pt-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/index.php\/2025\/louder-culture-and-interviews\/beneath-igboukwu-acholonu-pt-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Acholonu: The Symbols and the Lost City of Igboukwu (Pt 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2541\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2541\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2541\" src=\"https:\/\/feelnubia.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ikom_Monolith_1-400x585.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ikom_Monolith_1-400x585.jpg 400w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ikom_Monolith_1-650x951.jpg 650w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ikom_Monolith_1-250x366.jpg 250w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ikom_Monolith_1-150x219.jpg 150w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ikom_Monolith_1-50x73.jpg 50w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ikom_Monolith_1-100x146.jpg 100w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ikom_Monolith_1-200x293.jpg 200w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ikom_Monolith_1-300x439.jpg 300w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ikom_Monolith_1-350x512.jpg 350w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ikom_Monolith_1-450x658.jpg 450w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ikom_Monolith_1-500x731.jpg 500w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ikom_Monolith_1-550x805.jpg 550w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ikom_Monolith_1-600x878.jpg 600w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ikom_Monolith_1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Symbols that travel back in time. Image by Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<h4 class=\"\"><strong>The Symbol of the Forehead and the Lost City Beneath <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Igbo-Ukwu\">Igboukwu<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong class=\"\">FeelNubia<\/strong>: Professor Acholonu, I have heard you mention an artifact that intrigued you, a man and woman surrounded by snakes, with the man bearing concentric circles on his forehead. Can you explain its significance?<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">Professor Achonolu<\/strong>: Yes, I remember that moment clearly. I kept asking myself, why would anyone deliberately shape a snake around human figures unless they were trying to say something symbolic? The artifact portrayed a man in front and a woman behind, wrapped in serpents. What struck me most was the man\u2019s forehead, marked with concentric circles.<\/p>\n<p>That triggered a memory. I had seen something similar before, on one of the Ikom Monoliths. The same unique symbol on the forehead. It wasn&#8217;t a coincidence. I brought the two images together and realized this was a key, a cultural fingerprint. Like tribal marks that identify one&#8217;s heritage, these concentric circles were a mark of identity.<\/p>\n<p>When I dug deeper, I found references to it in Greek mythology. The symbol is associated with the <strong class=\"\">Master Stone Smiths<\/strong>, mythical craftsmen known for their advanced skills. That same symbol, the concentric circle on the forehead, represented their guild.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">FeelNubia<\/strong>: Fascinating. So you\u2019re saying the mark links back to elite artisans?<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">Professor Achonolu<\/strong>: Exactly. Think about it: Nigeria is home to some of the world\u2019s most remarkable bronze traditions\u2014from the Benin Kingdom to the Yoruba and Igbo cultures. When you start connecting the dots, it becomes clear. The Greeks acknowledged the mastery of these ancient Nigerian bronze smiths\u2014those concentric symbols were their signature, etched in stone for the world to see.<\/p>\n<p>But it goes even deeper. While studying symbolic traditions in the <strong class=\"\">Kabbalah<\/strong>, both the <strong class=\"\">Hebrew<\/strong> and <strong class=\"\">Chinese<\/strong> mystical systems refer to this symbol as a mark of divinity. They say it identifies the <strong class=\"\">\u201cSon of God.\u201d<\/strong> When the bronze workers adopted this mark, they weren\u2019t just identifying their profession\u2014they were saying, <em class=\"\">\u201cWe are the children of the First Son of God.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, this symbol didn\u2019t originate with artisans. It originated with the sacred, what we would today call Christ. This connects the cultural and spiritual dots across continents. The Arcadians, who introduced Kabbalah to the Chinese, are said to be the mothers of the Sumerians, and all signs point to <strong class=\"\">West Africa<\/strong> as their true origin.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">FeelNubia<\/strong>: This connection between the Ikom Monoliths and Egypt, can you elaborate?<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">Professor Achonolu<\/strong>: Yes. This is something we explored in depth across three of our books. In the first, we analyzed the symbols of the Monoliths. By the second, we discovered that the <strong class=\"\">civilization in Nigeria predates<\/strong> and gave rise to both <strong class=\"\">Sumer and Egypt<\/strong>. The place where the gods of Egypt are said to have lived was called <strong class=\"\">Ikot, <\/strong>a mythical name in Egyptian tradition. But no one could identify where \u201cIkot\u201d was.<\/p>\n<p>We found it.<\/p>\n<p>Ikot wasn\u2019t in Egypt. It was <strong class=\"\">in Nigeria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The gods were said to have ruled Egypt for 20,000 years <em class=\"\">before<\/em> the dynastic period began in 3100 BC. Some ruled for millennia, but where? That place, we found, is what we now call <strong class=\"\">Igboukwu<\/strong>. It took three volumes, each over 500 pages, to reach this conclusion. We documented it in <em class=\"\">\u201cLost Testaments of the Ancestors.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">FeelNubia<\/strong>: Why the name Adam?<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">Professor Achonolu<\/strong>: Because while researching the Monoliths, we found one bearing the name <strong class=\"\">Eve<\/strong>, Eve from the Bible. The Monolith had the name <strong class=\"\">\u201cShishe\u201d<\/strong> inscribed on it, which we later decoded as the Hebrew vernacular for Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Locals in Ikom told us that their ancestors believed the <strong class=\"\">first woman to conceive a child<\/strong> lived in their land, Igboukwu. She was commemorated with a Monolith. When we found it, the name \u201cShishe\u201d was right there, carved in Sumerian script.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the locals couldn&#8217;t read the ancient letters, they had always known the name. \u201cShishe\u201d is the Ikom and Hebrew name for Eve. That tells you something profound: <strong class=\"\">the Genesis story may have unfolded in Nigeria, specifically the Niger Delta.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">FeelNubia<\/strong>: That\u2019s a bold claim. Did you find more evidence?<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">Professor Achonolu<\/strong>: Yes, far more. The Egyptians believed their oldest civilization originated in <strong class=\"\">Heliopolis<\/strong>, the city of the sun. But the Heliopolis we know was a <strong class=\"\">renamed<\/strong> city. The original one was lost to time.<\/p>\n<p>The British archaeologist who excavated in Nigeria in the 1950s, specifically in Igboukwu, found artifacts and symbols linking directly to Egypt. But because no one at the time took these discoveries seriously, he dated them to <strong class=\"\">900 AD<\/strong>, far too recently.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the artifacts he found: pottery, bronze, sacred symbols, have no living memory among locals. Even today, when people dig for wells in Igboukwu, they uncover <strong class=\"\">bronze, copper, and pottery with inscriptions<\/strong> at just five meters deep. This isn\u2019t 900 AD history\u2014this is <strong class=\"\">a lost civilization.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">FeelNubia<\/strong>: Are you saying Igboukwu is the lost city of Heliopolis?<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">Professor Achonolu<\/strong>: Precisely. We believe Ibuku is the true <strong class=\"\">Heliopolis<\/strong>\u2014the sacred city of the sun, the site of the <strong class=\"\">Ben-Ben<\/strong> mound. Egyptian mythology says God stepped down on the Ben-Ben at the beginning of creation. In Igboukwu, the same story exists\u2014the mound is still there and still used for spiritual rites today.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, people from across Igbo land go to <strong class=\"\">renew their covenant with God<\/strong> at that mound. It\u2019s the origin of the word <em class=\"\">covenant<\/em>, just as it appears in the Old Testament.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">FeelNubia<\/strong>: And the people of that region?<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">Professor Achonolu<\/strong>: They were the <strong class=\"\">Kwa, <\/strong>the ancestors of the Benin, Yoruba, Igbo, Igala, and Ashanti peoples. Even parts of northern Nigeria, Kaduna and Kano, carry the root <em class=\"\">\u201cKwa.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The word <em class=\"\">Kwa<\/em> is sacred. It connects to <em class=\"\">Ka<\/em>, the ancient Egyptian term for <strong class=\"\">\u201cthe soul\u201d<\/strong> or <strong class=\"\">\u201cthe divine self.\u201d<\/strong> This is the true origin of our people, the spiritual source from which the idea of the <em class=\"\">Son of God<\/em> emerged.<\/p>\n<p>The dwarfs, those first people we spoke about, spoke the <strong class=\"\">Kwa language<\/strong>. It was their sacred tongue. From them came the builders of the Ikom Monoliths<strong class=\"\">, a united people of science, spirit, and symmetry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They weren\u2019t just keeping tradition.<\/p>\n<p>They <em class=\"\">were<\/em> the tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Read part three <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/feelnubia.org.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/lost-civilizations-professor-catherine-acholonu-pt-3\/\">here<\/a> and the concluding part of this interview <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/feelnubia.org.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/acholonu-conclusion-pt-5\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Symbol of the Forehead and the Lost City Beneath Igboukwu FeelNubia: Professor Acholonu, I have heard you mention an artifact that intrigued you, a man and woman surrounded by snakes, with the man bearing concentric circles on his forehead. Can you explain its significance? Professor Achonolu: Yes, I remember that moment clearly. 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