By Odimegwu
Onwumere
When you say
"A dead God" and "A living God" what do you have in mind?
Obviously, from the Nigerian Christians' periscope, they refer "A Dead God"
to represent the numerous Gods that Africa has and use "A living God"
to quantify the God that is called Jehovah/Yahweh.
While we
will be exploring to understand the misinformation the West has for ages been
using against Africa and Africans against their Gods and majority of our people
have swallowed their lies line, lead and sinker and many are still swallowing,
in 2012, I had excerpted some lines contained in Robert Obioha's Column, Friday
Sun, Oct. 12, 2012, Pg 19, for us to understand if our traditional peoples
worship “A Dead God”.
In that
wonderful piece, Obioha writes: "All religions including the received
Christian and Islamic religions and African indigenous religions acknowledge
the need for prayers in the life of the individual, the community and the
nation... Nigerians did not hear of God and prayer from the white missionaries
or their Arab counterparts.
“Our
forebears had been praying and worshipping their God on the terms they knew
best before the unwarranted incursion of these intruders. Yet after praying for
good crop yield, they go to the farm and till the soil. They work and pray. But
today, Nigerians literally depend on prayers that only prayer controls their
lives. They pray to God to heal them of headache, malaria and cough..."
In 2010, I
had written in other fora that Professor Molefi Kete Asante in his article
titled “The Future Of African Gods: The Clash of Civilization” (July 10, 1998)
wrote that “Those who speak to us of Christian and Islamic morals have often
been the very ones who have defiled our ancestors memories and called our
sacred rites paganism.
“Malcolm X
once said that the world pushes the African around because we give the
impression that we are chumps, but chumps, weaklings, falling over ourselves to
follow other people rather than our own traditions”.
In the words
of Asante, “This is what the Chinese and Indians have fought to keep at bay.
While we have often embraced our enemies’ gods they have found those gods to be
anathema to their interests. Show me the gods we Africans worship and I will
show you the extent of our moral and ethical decay”.
In the same
year, I had written that: Professor MAC Odu in his article titled “Obama’s
Significance” (Sunday Independent (Nig), October 25, 2009), didn’t sing a
different song. He wrote that, “The entry of Barack Obama into White House as
President of United States of America has immense significance in the world
history.
“It has
happened to shut down nearly 400 years of world history that evidenced greed of
Europe. It has provided the White World an opportunity for remorse for its past
in broadcasting wrong principles in the world for earthly benefits.
“The world
was made by Europe to believe that the Black man was less endowed than his
White counterpart. That wrong principle is now dead and buried.... Zimbabwe,
South Africa, Angola, Congo, Australia, New Zealand etc. are nations imbued by
creation with unique features, and Europeans moved in to pollute with their
craving for earthly gain and subjugating human beings allocated such lands as
their heritage during their temporary sojourn here”.
In the above
highlight, I must say that many people are dead in Nigeria in the name of
religion, even though that they are living. They are ‘dead’ due to the religions
that the West and Arabs introduced in the continent of Africa and they grabbed
them with their two hands and legs and chests tied around the alien religions.
They do not
go beyond what they were told in order to see if there are stories behind their
colonized and spoon-fed minds. While they see “dead God” in the African
spirituality, yet, they call the dead ancestors of Europeans and Americans to
assist them in their prayers. I want to scream sometimes, when I hear our
people referring to any aboriginal things here as devil or associated to the
Christians’ invented demons that do not exist anywhere in the world except in
the savagery mindset of the sect about spirituality.
Against that
influence, it is obvious that many of our people are running away from who they
are and embracing what the West wants them to be. In 2012, I had excerpted some
lines that were contained in (Musician) Segun Akinlolu’s (known as Beautiful
Nubia) wisdom.
Akinlolu had
said in an interview in Friday Sun, Oct. 12, 2012, thus: "I am who I am.
Many people are trying to run away from who they are. They are running away
from who their parents are, from the heritage that is theirs. I embrace my
heritage, where I'm coming from, the language they speak, the values they
uphold like honesty, selflessness, uprightness, self-pride, truth and communal
spirit...
“That is my
package; I embrace traditional values... What some people are running away
from; what they are calling too archaic, I go towards it... What the West gave
us that we are trying to run toward, that all of us are trying to adopt, has
its own values, advantages and disadvantages...
“What we
inherited from our forefathers, ancestors are values and advantages. As
somebody who has been exposed to the two, I should be a perfect agent and know
the one that is superior.”
Today,
‘they’ are not telling us about the "Osiris" and "Horus"
stories, whereas in archaeological and anthropological proofs, they were
replayed down through history and attached to a host or "redeemers"
like “Tutankhamun, Chrishna of Hindostan, Budha Sakia of India, Odin of the
Scaudinavians, Zoroaster and Mithra of Persia, Baal and Taut, "the only
Begotten of God," of Phenicia, Indra of Thibet, Bali of Afghanistan. Jao
of Nepaul, Wittoba of the Bilingones, Thammuz of Syria, Atys of Phrygia,
Xaniolxis of Thrace, Zoar of the Bonzes, Adad of Assyria, Thor, son of Odin, of
the Gauls, Cadmus of Greece, Quexalcote of Mexico, the Divine Teacher of Plato,
Adonis, son of the virgin Io of Greece, Quirinus of Rome, Prometheus of
Caucasus, Mohamud, or Mahomet, of Arabia, and finally Jesus of Nazareth...”
At present,
the West apparently is telling us that it is superior to Africa and in one of
their biblical injunctions, told us that the Egyptians we see today we shall
see them no more, whereas the same Egypt was the cradle of the world’s cultures
and traditions and from where even the Christian traditions were re-phrased by
early Greeks and Romans for political reasons.
Nowadays,
those political policies are hoodwinking our people into believing that ours is
always “A dead God” but “A living God” for the West. I had written in another
forum in 2010 that in the light of that, Meshiyach Yahzitere Yahmarabhi in his
article – “Hard Truth” – (published in The Moonlight newspapers, Nigeria, April
20-26, 2010), said “... we still see their churches and mosques as salvation
chambers while those things were consciousness we inherited as slaves”.
He further
opined that the African race can never see civilization if they continue
playing the scripts written for them by the western world, and he maintained
that “...truly liberation in Africa can’t be meaningful until a strong and
truthful religion emerges from Africa and dominate the world....
“Walter
Rodney, an African-American stock in his epic socio-scientific thesis named
“How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”, Yahmarabhi said he prophesied the perpetual
domination of Africa by Europe, unless Africa looked inward to thwart the evil
mechanization of the imperialists and neo-imperialists. (But he was tagged a
nincompoop).”
Just as
Rodney was tagged a radical (by Europe), a Marxist and a social scientist with
little relevance to human history, in another era, Frantz Fanon in his book
“Wretched of the Earth”, Yahmarabhi said, “Fanon exposed the annihilation
scheme of the imperialists to turn Africa to a mere economic zoo, where Africa
as a suppressed specie of human beings will turn to robots... likewise Fanon
was regarded with loathsomeness at home and abroad.”
In what the
West has told us is the Ten Commandments of God, has been exposed as not such
in many ancient proofs, which shall be dissected accordingly as we burgeon in
this discussion. According to Xenophilia, a website for (True Strange Stuff),
“The Ten Commandments, eight of them at least, were taken from the Egyptian
Principles of Ma’at written at least 2000 years earlier.”
The
investigation goes further: “Written at least 2,000 years before the Ten
Commandments of Moses, the 42 Principles of Ma’at are one of Africa’s, and the
world’s oldest sources of moral and spiritual instruction. Ma’at, the Ancient
Egyptian divine Principle of Truth, Justice, and Righteousness, is the foundation
of natural and social order and unity.
“Ancient
Africans developed a humane system of thought and conduct which has been
recorded in volumes of African wisdom literature, such as, these declarations
from the Book of Coming Forth By Day (the so-called Book of the Dead), The
Teachings of Ptah-Hotep, the writings of Ani, Amenemope, Merikare, and others…
“One aspect
of ancient Egyptian funerary literature which often is mistaken for a codified
ethic of Ma’at is Chapter 125 of the Book of the Dead, often called the 42
Declarations of Purity or the Negative Confession. These declarations varied
somewhat from tomb to tomb, and so cannot be considered a canonical definition
of Ma’at.
“Rather,
they appear to express each tomb owner’s individual conception of Ma’at, as
well as working as a magical absolution (misdeeds or mistakes made by the tomb
owner in life could be declared as not having been done, and through the power
of the written word, wipe that particular misdeed from the afterlife record of
the deceased).
“Many of the
lines are similar, however, and they can help to give the student a “flavor”
for the sorts of things which Ma’at governed—essentially everything from the
most formal to the most mundane aspect of life. Many versions are given
on-line, unfortunately seldom do they note the tomb from which they came or,
whether they are a collection from various different tombs.” – (Wiki).
Tiger Lily
responded on January 3, 2012 at 2:27 am concerning the distorted Egyptian 42
Commandments:
I don’t mean
to be rude, but this is not about black or white. This is a post about the
history of theological beliefs. Moses was indeed adopted by the Egyptian royals
and would clearly have known the laws of Goddess Ma’at. He would have used that
knowledge to convert his followers. You see, people don’t always follow a
completely new idea. Often there has to be some form of familiarity to convince
people to a new way of thinking. Moses did that. Christians later did that to
Pagans…etc. It’s actually very political. He wanted an uprising. He wanted
people to follow him. He needed to convince them. How better than to preach
something they already knew? So this has NOTHING to do with white or black and
I find it so infuriating that someone always makes a racist remark. It’s
politics. It’s theology. But this is not black against white or vice versa.
In my
article titled, “The stolen African literature” (2010), I had made the
following informed comments:
The Ameer
Spiritual leader, and Pan-African Movement leader, Writer/Poet Naiwu Osahon, in
his masterpiece titled “Bible Calls God Satan”, amongst other things, had the
same view with the above writer. Osahon wrote that “the Bible is made up of the
Old and New Testaments, and is the canon of the three branches of Christianity:
Roman Catholic, Greek and other orthodox sects, and the Protestant groups.
Judaism and Islam put premium on the Old Testament, which came from a wide
range of ancient manuscripts written in archaic Hebrew, Aramaic, and Chaldean
languages, with their problems of modern interpretations.
“Some of the
books misquoted, distorted or misinterpreted to assemble the bible included:
The Book of the Dead (African), which the British Museum gave their own title
of (The book of the Coming Forth by Day and Night), in 1895. The book of
Divines (African); the Book of Judgment (African); the Heart of Judgment and
such other works.
“Also
included in the list of documents, of course, was the Jewish Old Testament. Two
of the most important documents the church fathers distorted and suppressed
while putting the Christian religion together namely: The Coptic Scrolls,
sometimes called the Nag Hammadi literature, were found at Nag Hammadi in 1945,
while the Dead Sea Scrolls (supposed to have been produced around the 9th or 10th
Century, were dug out of a cave near Qumran in the Judean desert in the 1950s”.
Researcher
Ben Noah also talked about such books, and he wrote: “Books such as: The
Egyptian Book of the Dead (originally titled The Book of Coming Forth by Day
and by Night) by E. A. Wallis Budge; The Coffin Text and The Pyramid Text; The
World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors by Kersey Graves; and Christianity Before
Christ by John G. Jackson, among others, have recorded these various stories
and all you have to do is read them to see this evidence for yourself.
“Some
Egyptologists feel that the triad of deities: Amon, Mut and Khonsu, at the
temple in Karnak, were copied by the early Christians to form the present Holy
Trinity. I kid you not when I say that "all roads lead to Egypt and not
Rome". Rome has just lied about it.... As a side note, according to most
Christian scriptures, Jesus was said to have been born in Bethlehem, or
Nazareth.
“In the
Coptic writings, where the oldest Christians called Copts still reside (Kemet
and Ethiopia), and according to Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan, a Kemetologist, born
in Ethiopia, Jesus was said to have been born in Kemet (Egypt). In Matthew
2:15, it still says, "Out of Egypt shall I call my son!"
“Contrary to
written sources, Kemet (Egypt) is where Christianity was born, while Ethiopia
built the first Christian Church and was the world’s first and oldest Christian
nation. Christianity was originally an African religion, as was the Hebrew
African religion called Judaism”.
Juxtaposing
to that, the erudite writer/poet Osahon stated that “The Scrolls incorporate
ideas from very ancient Pagan times in Egypt, and The Dead Sea Scrolls include
Isaiah’s materials dating back to the second century BCE. These were all
doctored while being translated into European languages.
“For
instance, the Jews while translating the Hebrew religion into Greek text
fraudulently spelt one of their deities or idols, with the capital letter ‘G’
for ‘God’ while spelling the idols of other nations with the small letter ‘g’
for ‘god’.
“Seventy
Jewish scholars gathered in Alexandra, Egypt, around 200 BCE to perpetrate the
fraud. They found that although Judaism was preaching monotheism, they were in
reality serving several deities or gods of the Canaanites”.
Osahon
reiterated that what the world today refers to as the ‘Most High God’ was the
Canaanite God: “El”.
“The
Canaanites deity was El (or El Elyon),” he said, “Whose subordinates or sons
were spelt with small letters as in: el, eloah and elohiym. None of these
deities, not even El, was considered the Supreme or Universal Being.
“They were
all deities with El as their superior or Father or the only God that could be
spelt with the capital letter ‘G’. These deities were actually super human
beings who had at one time or the other lived on earth and are now ancestors
who took charge of several individual nations. El Elyon (Black, Father or God
of all gods), allocated the nations of the world to the deities”.Yet, while
many of us refer to our aboriginal Gods as “Dead”, Xenophilia, the website for
(True Strange Stuff) has this to say: “Here is a different translation showing
how “THE 42 COMMANDMENTS OF ANCIENT EGYPT” correlate with the 10 commandments.
“Moses, if
he existed, (there is no undisputed historical/archaeological evidence that he
did), was an Egyptian. According to stories, he was adopted by an Egyptian
royal family. If that were true he would have been familiar with these
principles. If there was no historical Moses, then others most likely borrowed
a few of the Principles of Ma’at when composing the Ten Commandments.”
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