The Metaphysics of IFA – IFA as an infinite geometric series generator.

IFA, or I Ching as it's known in the East, is formulated on the principle of harmonious duality/contrast (i.e., binary principle). The “absolute one” due to vibration and light frequency patterns manifests itself in a material world where harmonious duality/contrast is a universal reality. When a thing, anything material, is paired with its perfect antithesis, an infinite series is generated – note that any material thing that occupies space carries the marker of the “absolute one.” For example, when masculine and feminine principles are paired, an infinite series of lives is generated. Similarly, when electricity and magnetism are paired, an infinite series of sine waves is generated at a speed equals to the speed of light.

In the case of Ifa, when odd and even counts are paired, an infinite series of numbers is generated. And this infinite series of numbers is called “ODU IFA.” You can easily demonstrate this thesis by standing between two opposing mirrors. Your image in the first mirror is a perfect antithesis of your image in the second mirror, generating an infinite series of images of yourself – cool huh? We know that number 8 is the original marking of IFA divination system, which when permutated using odd and even counts generates an infinite geometric series of ODU i.e., 1/2+1/4+1/8+1/16+1/32+1/64+.....1/2^n.

The Geometric series of a bouncing ball.

Lastly, not only can the infinite geometric series of IFA system (i.e., ODU) encapsulate all actions and outcomes in the universe, it can also be tested for convergence and many other operations. My question is  If IFA is an infinite geometric series generator, can it compute or does it compute with the speed of light?

The circle represents the infinite cosmos - the never ending flow of time, where all possibilities of past, present and future are contained. The interlocking 8 symbol or double helix represents infinity or the never ending flow of electromagnetic wave. (i.e., Kundalini energy or serpent). The number 8 is a cosmic key, which is the original 8 markings of IFA divination system. This octagonal key can open a portal to any location and any time.The upper half of the circle is heaven and the lower half is earth – as above so below. The inverted pyramids further represent the truth of "as above, so below" - reflection. The sine waves on top and under the pyramids represent roaring energy flow. 

Ojo 2/15/13.

Arabic as an Afro-Asiatic Language - Myth or Reality?

Arabic-Alphabet Chart

According to the traditional language classification, Arabic is classified amongst the Afro-Asiatic language cluster. However, looking at the linguistic structure of Arabic and comparing it with the rest of the African language clusters, I'm inclined to say that no link exists between Arabic and the rest of the African language clusters. If Arabic is not an Afro-Asiatic language, so what is it? Arabic is actually a Turkic language form that was brought by the Seljukian Turks, who originally came from Turkestan, via Iran, into North and North East Africa (i.e., Middle East) around the later part of 11^th century A.D.

The dominant language of the region before the arrival of the Turks was Greek. However, Greek language was gradually replaced with Arabic as the Seljukian Turks continued to invade the Byzantine Empire - the Empire which extended over North and North East Africa at this time. While the Arabic language is Turkic in its spoken form, it is actually African in its written form. What does this mean? It means that the Arabic script is 100 percent African. When the Seljukian Turks invaded Byzantine North East Africa, they brought with them a spoken language but not a written script or any form of writing system. Thus, they had to use Arabic script to transliterate their language. It is not uncommon for a people, with no writing script of their own, to use a borrowed script to write down their language. For example, the Yoruba and Ibo people of present day Nigeria adopted Latin as a writitng script for their respective indigenous languages. 

There were three forms of writing system available in North and North East Africa at the time when the Seljukian Turks invaded, and they were all Pharaonic Egypt based – namely, Hieroglyphs, Phonetic I alphabet (i.e., Heratic), and Phonetic II alphabet (i.e., demotic). Thus, it was the Phonetic I and Phonetic II alphabets that were adapted by the Arab scholars to write down the Turkic language that they spoke, and is today called the Arabic script. The Arabic alphabet today comprises of 18 letter shapes, and thus by adding one, two, or three dots to letters with similar phonetic characters a total of 28 letters is obtained (Walter Willians, 2001).

Let’s now juxtapose Arabic and some African language clusters to fully understand the argument presented above.

For example let’s look at the word “spirit.”

In Coptic language, the word “spirit” or “soul” is bai.

In Mbochi (Congo)           it is        :     ba (to be in spirit)

Bambara (Mali)               it is        :   be (to have spirit or to exist)

Pharaonic Egypt              it is        :   ba (spirit or soul)

Arabic                              it is        :  nafs (soul, essence, or being)

Note the divergence of Arabic in the cluster.

Let’s look at the word “bad.”

In Coptic                            it is         :   bane or bani (bad)

In Wolof (Senegal)            it is         :   bon (bad)

Bambara (Mali)                 it is         :   bone (bad luck)

Pharaonic Egypt                it is         :   bin (bad)

Arabic                                it is         :   sar, sayyi (bad)

Note the divergence of Arabic in the cluster.

Let’s look at “Mother”

In Coptic                             it is        :   mau, maau, meu

In Yoruba (Nigeria)            it is         :   ma ma

In Bambara (Mali)             it is         :   ma

Pharaonic Egypt                it is         :   me.t (mother)

Arabic                                it is         :   Umm

Note the divergence of Arabic in the cluster.

Let’s examine “To love”

In Coptic                             it is         :   mere, melli, meri

In Wolof (Senegal)             it is         :   mar (to love madly)

In Luo                                 it is         :   mer (to be in accord with)

Pharaonic Egypt                it is         :   mr

Arabic                                it is         :   habba
Hebrew                              it is         :   Ahab (Love)

Note how Hebrew and Arabic converge with each other, but diverge from the rest of the African language cluster.

Lastly, let’s look at one of the rare examples where Arabic actually converges with the African language cluster.

Let’s look at “Water”

In Coptic                             it is        :   mo, mi

In Yoruba (Nigeria)            it is         :   omi

In Benin(Edo, Nigeria)       it is         :   omi

Pharaonic Egypt                it is         :   mw

Tiv (Nigeria)                      it is         :   ma

Arabic                                it is         :   ma 

 Note the convergence of Arabic with the other African languages in the cluster.

From the examples given above, and from many more examples that are not recited here, it is obvious that Arabic language diverges from the rest of the African language clusters. And thus, Arabic is not an Afro-Asiatic language. As I have shown in my last example above, in a few cases, Arabic language does converge with the African language clusters, this is due probably to borrowing and racial mixing that has occurred over the centuries. Classifying Arabic as an Afro-Asiatic or Hamito-Semitic language is a misnomer. Arabic and Hebrew are related languages and perhaps came from the same source. In my opinion, it would be more appropriate to classify them as Semitic languages, but not Afro-Asiatic. On a final note, I'm calling on young scholars, more specifically young African scholars, to desist from using the scriptures (i.e., Torah, Bible and Koran) to formulate African history. The intention of these books is to confuse you about ancient world history, especially African history. Religious texts lack historicity, and should not be used under any circumstances as history books.

Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, and Latin placed side by side - notice the similarities. They all came from one source, Pharaonic Egyptian script i.e., Phonetic.

The Alphabet Chart
Showing the first writing system by the Egyptians: the hieroglyphic, hieratic-demotic and the phonetic. It's from the phonetic Pharaonic Egyptian alphabet that the Greek/Latin alphabets developed.

References:

Molefi, Asante: “African Intellectual Heritage – a book of sources.” (1996)

Anta, Diop: “Civilization or Barbarism.” (1991)

Martin Bernal: “Black Athena – vol I.” (1987)

Walter, Williams: “The Historical Origin of Islam.” (2001)

Walter, Williams: “The Historical Origin of Christianity.” (1992)

Ojo 2/12/13.

Common Origin Model and the Dilemma of African Scholars in the New World Order

African intellectuals generally agree on the presence of ancient African civilizations, but they often fail to reach a general consensus on their common origin. It appears to me that many African intellectuals and even some of their Western counterparts cannot seem to distinguish between the Niger and the Nile valley civilizations on one hand and the Tigris and the Euphrates civilizations on the other. So, it is not surprising that the men on the street in Africa today are totally confused about the origin of the ancient African civilizations because African intellectuals have failed in their duty to establish one for them.

Many Africans, especially the religious ones, often attempt to plug in their ancient history into the Abrahamic religious mythologies. The more Afrocentric ones, however, utterly reject “Abrahamic origin model” in favor of “ethnic-oriented model.” The problem with the “ethnic-oriented model” is that it is too narrow and it is directed more towards culture and ethnicity than civilization – it is like using the narrowest possible definition of one’s cultural identity to proclaim one’s civilization. For example, if you proudly proclaim your Fanti identity of the Akan people of ancient Ghana and reject any affiliations with Egypto-Cush and Babylonian civilizations; then, you need to ask yourself about the origin of Akan people and the ancient Ghanaian civilization because being a Fanti is an ethnicity not a civilization.

Why is a common origin of civilization very important? A common origin of civilization is very important because it gives people a common historical reference point - every invention and creation has a common origin. The lack of consensus on the common origin of ancient African civilizations, however, has generated “identity misnomers” among Africans today. Many Africans today walk around calling themselves: black Hebrew/Israelites, Jews, Canaanites, Sumerians, Moors, Arabs, Kemites, and other ridiculous misnomers. When a common origin is finally established, there would be no need for all these different misnomers, only one out of the many would be sufficient. 

To establish a common origin for the ancient African cultures and civilizations, one must first define what constitutes ancient Africa and Culture. Firstly, in the ancient times, Africa was generally referred to as Abyssinia, Ethiopia, or Cush and its reach extended from the Southern Coast of ancient India to the North Eastern coast of Africa. John Garnier, in his book “The worship of the Dead: or the origin and nature of Pagan Idolatry” stated that the old Sanskrit geographers spoke of two lands of Cush, or Ethiopia, which they called “Cusha Dwipa” within and “Cusha Dwipa” without. “Cusha Dwipa” within covered the borders of ancient India and “Cusha Dwipa” without included Arabia, Western Asia, Syria from the mouth of the Nile, the countries on the Euphrates and Tigris, a large part of the North of the Persian Gulf and an extended region in Africa. It is worth mentioning that the old Sanskrit geographers applied the term “Cusha-Dwipa” without to very nearly the same regions which the ancient Greeks (i.e., Herodotus, Strabo etc.) described as Ethiopia. Drusilla Dunjee, in her book "The wonderful Ethiopians of the ancient Cushite empire," remarked that Egypt and Chaldean were sister colonies of a parent state. She further remarked: "the earliest civilized inhabitant of Chaldean were Sumerians. The Sanskrit books called Chaldean one of the divisions of Cusha-Dwipa...These Sumerians were the inventors of the Cuneiform system of writing, which was later adopted by their Semitic conquerors.  Their langauge was still cultivated until the time of Alexander." John Denison Baldwin, in his book "Pre-historic nations," remarked that it was generally admitted by the ancient Greek scholars and historians that a people of the Cushite or Ethiopian race were the first civilizers and builders throughout Western Asia, the shores of the Mediterranean, Eastern Africa, and the Nile Valley.

So, based on the unbiased ancient history and information available to us, we now know that the “Middle East” of today was part of North East Africa in antiquity. We also know that Ethiopia was divided into two Dwipas: the Eastern Ethiopia (i.e., ancient India) and the Western Ethiopia (Western Asia/North East Africa). And, lastly we know that the Tigris and the Euphrates civilizations were a derivative of the Egypto-Cushite civilization. In fact, the earliest settlers of “Babylon” and the builders of “Mesopotamia” were Cushites. The ancient historians described the Cushites as wonderful builders with no interest in homeless nomadism, whose traces reveal so plainly the habit of fixed life and the spirit of developed nationality (John Baldwin, “Pre-historic nations”). While I acknowledge some racial admixture in Western Asia (i.e., Middle East), which later gave rise to the Semitic stock (i.e., Arabs/Hebrews), I maintain that the racial admixture occurred much later and that the original inhabitants of Western Asia and the builders of the ancient Western Asian civilizations were Cushites. Although, the Semites are largely credited today for the creation and the development of the Tigris and the Euphrates civilizations; however, this was an attempt by the racist scholars of 19^th century school of thought to bastardize and falsify ancient African history. Not only did these scholars erroneously attribute the creation and the development of the Tigris and the Euphrates civilizations to the Semites, they sparingly conceded even the African origin of the Niger Valley civilization, and their scholarly analyses often eschewed the African origin of the Nile Valley civilization.

There is no question that the ancient African History, more specifically in the Arabian Peninsula or in the Asia Minor, has been falsified. However, you can begin to unravel some of these falsifications when you study the history of Cushite Arabs like: Bilal Ibn al-Habashi, Al-Jahiz, Antar the Lion etc. While the falsifiers of the ancient African history often attempt to reduce the background of these sons of Cush to servitude and slavery, it is very difficult for the falsifiers to undermine the intellectual contributions of these gentlemen to the Arabian history and civilization – their literary masterpieces are popular in the “Middle East” and Europe even today.

In conclusion, Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop argued that it was politically important to demonstrate the cultural and linguistic unity of Africa, and to base this unity on the Egyptian past. He further argued that Africans must link the origin of their ancient cultures and civilizations to Egyto-Cushite civilization just the same way Europeans linked the origin of their Western civilization to Greece; even though, Greek culture was heavily influenced by the Egypto-Cushite culture. Will the African intellectuals and scholars listen to Diop?

Note
Cusha-Dwipa within was ancient India
Cusha-Dwipa without was Africa proper, which covered part of the Mediterranean, Middle East and East Africa.
Many ancient geographers and historians said that people from Cusha-Dwipa within emigrated to Cusha Dwipa without(the Middle East and North East africa) to build civilizations, others said it was the other way around, and some argued that the people from the two Dwipas were one and the same.
Asia Minor or Western Asia was part of North East Africa in antiquity, but is now called the Middle East.
The people generally called "Arabs" today are made up of: Semites, Africans, Turks, Greeks and Romans. The word"Arab" is not a race, but a linguistic categorization (i.e., Arabic speakers) - same can be said of the word "Jew."

From Invisibility to Visibility.

Man so dazed by the splendor of the creative force of nature that he fails to see the splendor and the creative force within his own mind. Everything that is currently visible to our eyes was once an invisible idea in the mind of a man. And everything that is currently invisible to our eyes is already visible to the imaginative mind of a man. In other words, if you can imagine it, you can create it. Electronic communication was once invisible, but is now visible due to the creative power of a man’s mind. Spaceship was once invisible, but is now visible due to the creative force of a man’s mind – to name but a few. Even "God" was once invisible, but is now visible due to the creative power of a man's mind - man created God in his own image and infuse into God his personal characteristics and traits.

The African collective have found it very difficult to create in the middle age of the past and the new age of today because they have filled their imaginative and creative mind with superstitions and religion. If not, why else would a people preoccupy their minds with afterlife when their current lives are in shambles? Why else would they pray to a deity that has failed to choose their kind? Why else would they seek salvation from a deity that doesn’t look like them? Why else would they occupy the richest land on the planet, and yet the poorest living on it? Why else would they produce nothing and yet consume everything? Why else would they attempt to plug their glorious history into the fiction and fallacies of religious texts (i.e., Nimrod is Lamurudu, Ifa is Jesus, and several other misnomers); even though, these texts are obvious adulteration of their own primitive mythologies? 

It’s tempting to say that the African type has lost his/her mind, but it’s erroneous to conclude that somehow he lacks intelligence because we see him excel in flying colors when he’s plucked from the environment of superstition and religion to one of reasoning. The best environment for the development of people’s mind is that which exposes the mind to minimum superstition and religion. While the rest of the world are busy learning about planar catoms, matter and anti-matter, molecular rearrangement, and certainty and uncertainty principles; here we are, busy trying to make the Africa type reason away from afterlife, but about life and survival – something that even a common beast understands on its own.

I shall conclude with this short quote: "Now we see why we are told that Angels ASPIRE to become men...for they know man possesses the Master Key, but does not know it... while the Angels are not privileged to have access to the Key in their Heavenly state, MAN who has the Master Key Itself heavily relies on mortal beings like himself for salvation...being totally ignorant of his own Divinity and unlimited inner potential” ( Kelechi Ekezie, 2008).

The Master Key

This essay is concerned with the force that resides within each and everyone of us; the force that many people think is without them, but is actually within them. I shall begin by quoting a friend of mine, "Now we see why we are told that Angels ASPIRE to become men...for they know man possesses the Master Key, but does not know it... while the Angels are not privileged to have access to the Key in their Heavenly state, MAN who has the Master Key Itself heavily relies on  mortal beings like himself for salvation...being totally ignorant of his own Divinity and unlimited inner potential” ( Kelechi Ekezie, 2008).

For thousands of years, humans in their infinite quest to search for the master key continue to look everywhere else, but within. They looked at the sun and they erroneously concluded that, since the sun is the center of the universe and since the sun is needed to sustain life, the sun must be God (i.e., Ra). Years later, humans found out that water covered 70 percent of the world and 60-75 percent of adult human body. Thus since water is vital to all known forms of life, humans erroneously concluded, water must be God.  Humans relentlessly travelled to every nook and cranny of the world in search of the master key. From the East to the West and from the North to the South, humans noticed the same blue sky. Since the sky is omnipresent, they concluded, the sky must be God.

One glorious day, a child was born in a peculiar Roman colony - a child who would later become a great teacher. This child’s birth had all the hallmarks of a great being.The Roman Empire was the kingdom of God on earth during this time. No nation or man dared to stand up in the way of the Roman Empire. Having grown up, the young child passionately preached about the master key and more courageously against the Roman rule. He stood up for justice, fairness, and respect, and paid dearly with his life. At his death, he became more celebrated. His teachings and the story of his life spread like wildfire to every corner of the globe. People acknowledged his courage, for standing up to the almighty Roman Empire and for being defiant even in the face of death, and concluded that he must be divine (Please note that this is based on the scripture, but not on any historical facts).

Followership grew galore, first, in the North Eastern shore of Africa. Orthodox Christianity was established in Alexandria, Egypt and Christian empires were established in Lalibela and Axum, both in Ethiopia.  When the aftershock of evangelism tsunami finally reached Rome, the almighty Roman Empire was being held in a religious quagmire and the implosion between the believers and the non-believers was clearly visible at close range.  Roman elders, under Constantine, felt threatened under the invasion of a foreign philosophy. They came up with a clever line – “blessed are those who labor here and seek rewards on the other side...sin, you may, on the beloved son.” The peasants, in their impotence and glaring ignorance, fell for the unholy lies. At the council of Nicaea, Constantine and the Bishops cleverly bundled God into an unholy Trinity – the father, the son and the Holy Spirit. The dissenters were silenced for being heretic. Again, the son was magically transformed from cosmic Trinity (i.e., Orisha nla) to God. The son, like the sun, became a synonymous principle with God. The Catholic Church was forever born - "In Hoc Signo, Vinces" (i.e., in this sign you will conquer).

While some men look every where else, but within, to search for the master key, some men clearly understand that the master key is within.  Men that continuously search for the master key often distance themselves from personal responsibilities. When they succeed they praise “Mr. Good” (God), but when they fail they blame “Mr. Evil (Satan).” However, men who realize that the master key is within understand that humans are the embodiments of good and evil. When they succeed or fail, they blame nobody but themselves. They are totally responsible for their actions.

I have always asked myself if the elusiveness of the master key, in some people, is intrinsically linked to the fear of death. Let’s look at it this way “almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important…..No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's agent” (Steve Jobs, 2005). Rather than using the thought of death as a tool for making the big choices in life, men who are totally ignorant of their own divinity believe the choice is not theirs to make. The choice, they contend, is in the master key. If they don’t possess the master key, certainly they don’t possess the choice. The choice, they contend, is in heaven.

The ancient writing system of Nsibidi.

Contrary to the popular belief that the ancient Egyptian glyphs had been deciphered, I recently read that the glyphs actually have never been deciphered.  I also read that the third and the lowest script that appears on the Rosetta Stone, popularly believed to be classical Greek, is actually a form of Hieratic script that the ancient Egyptian scribes adapted to write down Greek language – Martin Bernal, a Professor Emeritus of near Eastern studies at Cornell University somewhat alluded to this claim in his controversial book, The Black Athena!

In my quest to research this claim, I ran into something else that is just as interesting but not as controversial. I found out about the ancient writing script of the Ekoi/Efik and Igbo people called Nsibidi. “Nsibidi is an indigenous adaptable and fluid writing system of two dimensional signs, three dimensional forms of pictographs and ideographs and pantomimed gestures. It originated as an esoteric form of knowledge understood by a select group of people mostly members of a secret society in Southeastern Nigeria which some sources link to the Ejagham and later spread to Efik, Igbo, Ibibio, Efut, Annang and Banyang speaking areas. Some of the signs of the Nsibidi spread to the Caribbean and Brazil during slavery.”

We are all very familiar with the ancient Egyptian scripts i.e, hieroglyphic (Medu Neter), demotic, and Hieratic. However, there are many other ancient African scripts: Ethiopic script (Geez), Sudan script (Meroitic), Bassa script of Liberia, Vai script, and Nsibidi script to name but a few.



Nsibidi used as fracal patterns on an ankara cloth.



Nsude Pyramids

Nsude Pyramids were ten sacred pyramid structures built by the Nri/Ndi Igbo people in Nsude and Agbaja Qwa. Each structure is a step pyramid of 5 circular stacks (why 5?) with decreasing circumference, very similar to the step pyramid of Saggarah in Egypt. The measurement reveals 6o feet circumference base with 6 feet height. The Nri people were great travelers and were also involved in the long distant tran Saharan trade. If the Sahara desert as we know it today was once a tropical rain forest, then we can conclude that it was once populated with people. Thus, the flow of ideas and people from the North East corridor of the planet to the other parts and vice versa is an obvious possibility.




The step pyramid of Saggarah



Nsude pyramid