<![CDATA[Assata Shakur Speaks - Hands Off Assata - Let's Get Free - Revolutionary - Pan-Africanism - Black On Purpose - Liberation - Forum - They All Look A like! All Of Them!!!]]> http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/ The Study Of Classical Afrikan Traditional Societies And Their Contributions. en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:00:10 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/images/misc_2/rss.jpg <![CDATA[Assata Shakur Speaks - Hands Off Assata - Let's Get Free - Revolutionary - Pan-Africanism - Black On Purpose - Liberation - Forum - They All Look A like! All Of Them!!!]]> http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/ <![CDATA[Sungbo Eredo: Nigeria's Hidden Wonder]]> http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/they-all-look-like-all-them/40200-sungbo-eredo-nigerias-hidden-wonder.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:50:21 GMT ]]> Sungbo Eredo

Nigeria's hidden wonder

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The largest historical monument in the world

Related: Benin Iya





The eredo's earth walls protect a powerful and ancient kingdom

Sungbo's Eredo is a rampart or system of walls and ditches that surrounds the Yoruba town of Ijebu-Ode in Ogun state southwest Nigeria (6°49′N, 3°56′E). It is reputed to be the largest single pre-colonial monument in Africa.

As a construction project, it required more earth to be moved than the Great Pyramid of Giza. More than 100 miles (160 kilometers) in circumference with some sections having walls which reach 70 feet (20 meters) in height, it encloses an area 25 miles (40 km) north to south and 22 miles (35 km) east to west. The Eredo served a defensive purpose when it was built in 1000 C.E., a period of political confrontation and consolidation in the southern Nigerian rain forest. It was likely to have been inspired by the same process that led to the construction of similar walls and ditches throughout western Nigeria, including earthworks around Ile-Ife, Ilesa, and the Benin Iya, a 6,500 kilometer series of connected but separate earthworks in the neighboring Edo-speaking region.

Sungbo's Eredo has also been connected with the legend of the Queen of Sheba which is recounted in both the Bible and Koran. In the Old Testament, she is described as having sent a caravan of gold, ivory and other goods from her kingdom to King Solomon. In the Koran she is an Ethiopian sun worshiper named Bilqis involved in the incense trade who converts to Islam. Local legends link the Eredo to a wealthy childless widow named Bilikisu Sungbo. According to them, the monument was built as her personal memorial. Her actual grave is located in Oke-Eiri, a town in a Muslim area north of the Eredo. Pilgrims of Christian, Muslim and traditional African religions annually trek to the holy site in tribute to her. It is believed that the Eredo was the means to unifying an area of diverse communities into a single kingdom.

The impressive size and complex construction of the Eredo drew worldwide media attention in September of 1999 when Professor Patrick Darling, an archaeologist then with the University of Bournemouth, surveyed the site and began publicizing his bid to preserve the Eredo and bring the site some prominence. Previously, the Eredo had been little-known outside of community residents and specialists in Yoruba history. Forty years passed between Professor Peter Lloyd's publication of his analysis of the site and that of Darling, requiring a complete rethinking of West Africa's past. ...1

Hidden in the Nigerian rainforest, the earthworks at Eredo are just a few hour's drive from Lagos.
While not approaching the complexity of a project like the pyramids in Egypt, the builders would have shifted an estimated 3.5 million cubic meters of earth during construction of the ramparts.


The eredo rivals the size
of the Great Pyramid of Cheops


This is one million cubic meters more than the amount of rock and earth used in the Great Pyramid at Giza.

The wall marks out what the believed boundary of the original Ijebu kingdom, ruled by the 'Awujale' spiritual leader.

Civil wars and the arrival of the British eventually broke the kingdom's centuries-old Lagos lagoon trade monopoly. But the Awujale of the modern day town of Ijebu-Ode still holds a traditional position of responsibility.

Dr Darling, described the Eredo site as a breathtaking find with many of its remains relatively intact, though overgrown by the rainforest.
"We are not linking what we found to a city, but to a vast kingdom boundary rampart," he told the BBC.

"The vertical sided ditches go around the area for 100 miles and it is more than 1,000 years old.


Awujale may be linked
to the Queen of Sheba



"That makes it the earliest proof of an kingdom founded in the African rain forest."


Love story

But more intriguing still is the suggested link to the Queen of Sheba, one of the world's oldest love stories.
According to the Old Testament, the Queen, ruler of Saba, sent a camel train of gold and ivory to King Solomon.

Solomon wooed and married the queen after she became overwhelmed by the splendor of his palace and their son began a dynasty of rulers in Ethiopia.
The Bible dates the queen's reign to the tenth century BC and modern scholars have speculated that a link between Judea and an ancient African queen led to the emergence of Judaism in Ethiopia.

In a tale closely linked to that in the Bible, the Koran describes the Queen as a sun worshiper based in the Arabian peninsula who was converted to Islam.
Arabian legend names the queen "Bilqis" and links her to the incense trade which was then a source of great regional power.

Bilikisu Sungbo

But 500-year-old Portuguese documents hint at the power of an Ijebu kingdom and build the case for Sheba being on the other side of the continent.
Local people near to the Eredo monuments link the area to Bilikisu Sungbo, another name for Sheba, said Dr Darling.

Local tradition speaks of a great queen building a vast monument of remembrance and there is an annual pilgrimage to what is believed to be her grave.
The region's long history of gold and ivory trade and the cultural importance of eunuchs linked to royal households further support the Sheba link.
Dr Darling, a member of the African Legacy educational organization which is working with the Nigerian Government, said that Eredo could become Nigeria's first world heritage site, joining monuments like Stonehenge in the UK and the pyramids of Egypt.

He said Eredo had remained hidden to the outside world because of the lack of scientific and archaeological research in west Africa.
"What is exciting about this for me is that we are beginning to bring out the tremendous political and cultural achievements of black Africa," he said. ...2


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The Sandorian Grove: Eredo: Queen Sheeba's Pyramid in Nigeria - larger than Gizeh?

Source: 1. Home - Nigerian Village Square 2. BBC News | Africa | Searching for the Queen of Sheba

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Dr. Runoko Rashidi is a Historian who was respectful enough to visit the Fiji islands and ask the Native Fijians themselves about their oral traditions of where they came from. This oral tradition is eagerly and disrespectfully attempted to be dismissed as POSSIBLY being a hoax by Western Scientists, supposedly started by the missionaries in the 1800's, even though the claim is without sufficient evidence. Meanwhile, the scientific industry still continues to ignore and hush Fijian accounts while replacing it with a fabrication of carefully selected and carefully omitted genetic, cultural, linguistic, and archeological data, in an attempt to carefully piece together a false "South East Asian Origin" that appears credible; while genetic, cultural, linguistic, and archeological data linking them to the rest of Cushite peoples in Africa, are neglected, hushed, and hidden safely away in the lower bunkers of European Museums.
There are MANY versions of the Fijian account that mention places of origin and In Africa many of us still know those places. Here is one version of the story told to me by Fijians who have been careful to keep it.

1ST ARRIVALS: Boat= Rogovoka/Lolopeau (From Egypt)

"This boat/canoe belonged to the Yavusa Malaya who also named the boat for themselves as Lolopeau. This is the largest vessel of the people. It is said that on this arrival, the ancestors who touched down here first were from the Middle East and traveled to Africa. The region of Thebes (Cepi) was where they lived and settled.

Names in this group:

Rawaka-Ni-Vugalei (Born in Egypt).
His wife Ra dini Sina (Egyptian woman)
Their two children: Koya Nasau and Tui-Wai.
Kubunavanua and his wife Sina
Their children: Ravula, Kolimatua and Delainauluvatu.
Tura or Tera (Father of Lutunasobasoba & Kubunavanua)Head of Qali-Kamami Tribe
Kubunavanua and the wives of his two sons, Tuinayavu and Daunisai.

Taqa-na-ika was only down the African coastline. They came towards the horizon where the sun rises(east). This first boat would sail right across from coastline right across to the tip of Southern India. Then made a loop where they may have encountered the islands of Indonesia today and from there island hopped to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and possibly gone right across to the Tahitian Islands, rested for some time before they tracked backwards and stopped when Kubunavanua and his wife Sina got off in Toga and called their island Vunilagi. Also getting off with them was a chief of the Yavusa Malaya TuiToga who got off with a wife he got in Tahiti called Siuepe/Sinhe, and the island he got off on he called Toga.

2nd ARRIVALS: Boat= Kaunitoni (From Taqa-na-ika)

In this boat came part of the Family of the Qali-Kamami tribe of whom Tura was head. They were from Taqa-ni-ika and the group from Vuda. This was led by Lutunasobasoba, Turas son, from Verata. Also with them were the Kawa Ni Tama-Lailai or descendants of the small people who were part of this voyage.

Names in this group:

Lutunasobasoba Na Ratu and his two wives, Ranadinisei and Nai.
Radiniseis children namely: Buisavulu, Rokomautu, and Rokoratu.
Nais children namely, Degei, Waicala, Nakumilevu, Ramasilevu, Kirinamoli, Coci, and Rokola.
Lutunasobasobas grand-children including Kailolo, Muneanaqo.
The Kawa Ni Tama-lailai (little people)

They left to follow Lutunasobasobas dad Tura and his brother Kubunavanua traveling around the tip of Southern Africa where they experienced hardship at sea. They then following the same route as Tura and hit the same southern tip of India, then left and hit Papua New Guinea. From here they set out again accidentally during this trip the boat rocks and they loose a lot of the cargo including the kato ni vola (stone casket) which carried all the history of the peoples, the details of their religion, knowledge of the world, and Rokolas yaya ni matai (building equipment). It is said that this encouraged the art of oral history. Eventually they hit Vuda Fiji.

3rd ARRIVALS BoatKaunitera(Toga)

Names in this group:

This was Kubunavanua
His Wife Sina
Their four sons Kolimatua, Ravula, Delainauluvatu, and Suretiviti.
They had first landed in Toga during the trip on the Rogovoka/Lolopeau. He was the younger son of Tura(Tera).

He heard about islands to the north that were big and heard that his relative Lutunasobasoba had set up over there, so he decided to move north with his wife and sons. They came over and landed at Burotukula. Their descendants are from what is today the Yatu Lau, the Eastern Group.

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