Acholonu: The Symbols and the Lost City of Igboukwu (Pt 4)

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. 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’s forehead, marked with concentric circles.

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’t a coincidence. I brought the two images together and realized this was a key, a cultural fingerprint. Like tribal marks that identify one’s heritage, these concentric circles were a mark of identity.

When I dug deeper, I found references to it in Greek mythology. The symbol is associated with the Master Stone Smiths, mythical craftsmen known for their advanced skills. That same symbol, the concentric circle on the forehead, represented their guild.

FeelNubia: Fascinating. So you’re saying the mark links back to elite artisans?

Professor Achonolu: Exactly. Think about it: Nigeria is home to some of the world’s most remarkable bronze traditions—from 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—those concentric symbols were their signature, etched in stone for the world to see.

But it goes even deeper. While studying symbolic traditions in the Kabbalah, both the Hebrew and Chinese mystical systems refer to this symbol as a mark of divinity. They say it identifies the “Son of God.” When the bronze workers adopted this mark, they weren’t just identifying their profession—they were saying, “We are the children of the First Son of God.”

So, this symbol didn’t 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 West Africa as their true origin.

FeelNubia: This connection between the Ikom Monoliths and Egypt, can you elaborate?

Professor Achonolu: 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 civilization in Nigeria predates and gave rise to both Sumer and Egypt. The place where the gods of Egypt are said to have lived was called Ikot, a mythical name in Egyptian tradition. But no one could identify where “Ikot” was.

We found it.

Ikot wasn’t in Egypt. It was in Nigeria.

The gods were said to have ruled Egypt for 20,000 years before the dynastic period began in 3100 BC. Some ruled for millennia, but where? That place, we found, is what we now call Igboukwu. It took three volumes, each over 500 pages, to reach this conclusion. We documented it in “Lost Testaments of the Ancestors.”

FeelNubia: Why the name Adam?

Professor Achonolu: Because while researching the Monoliths, we found one bearing the name Eve, Eve from the Bible. The Monolith had the name “Shishe” inscribed on it, which we later decoded as the Hebrew vernacular for Eve.

Locals in Ikom told us that their ancestors believed the first woman to conceive a child lived in their land, Igboukwu. She was commemorated with a Monolith. When we found it, the name “Shishe” was right there, carved in Sumerian script.

Even though the locals couldn’t read the ancient letters, they had always known the name. “Shishe” is the Ikom and Hebrew name for Eve. That tells you something profound: the Genesis story may have unfolded in Nigeria, specifically the Niger Delta.

FeelNubia: That’s a bold claim. Did you find more evidence?

Professor Achonolu: Yes, far more. The Egyptians believed their oldest civilization originated in Heliopolis, the city of the sun. But the Heliopolis we know was a renamed city. The original one was lost to time.

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 900 AD, far too recently.

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 bronze, copper, and pottery with inscriptions at just five meters deep. This isn’t 900 AD history—this is a lost civilization.

FeelNubia: Are you saying Igboukwu is the lost city of Heliopolis?

Professor Achonolu: Precisely. We believe Ibuku is the true Heliopolis—the sacred city of the sun, the site of the Ben-Ben mound. Egyptian mythology says God stepped down on the Ben-Ben at the beginning of creation. In Igboukwu, the same story exists—the mound is still there and still used for spiritual rites today.

Every year, people from across Igbo land go to renew their covenant with God at that mound. It’s the origin of the word covenant, just as it appears in the Old Testament.

FeelNubia: And the people of that region?

Professor Achonolu: They were the Kwa, the ancestors of the Benin, Yoruba, Igbo, Igala, and Ashanti peoples. Even parts of northern Nigeria, Kaduna and Kano, carry the root “Kwa.”

The word Kwa is sacred. It connects to Ka, the ancient Egyptian term for “the soul” or “the divine self.” This is the true origin of our people, the spiritual source from which the idea of the Son of God emerged.

The dwarfs, those first people we spoke about, spoke the Kwa language. It was their sacred tongue. From them came the builders of the Ikom Monoliths, a united people of science, spirit, and symmetry.

They weren’t just keeping tradition.

They were the tradition.

Read part three here and the concluding part of this interview here