The Atlantis and Yorubaland Connection
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Was the Mystical and Technologically Advanced Pre-Ancient Civilization of Atlantis in West Africa?
Image I (Left): Black Atlantis: A Prominent Pre-Flood Advanced Civilization
Image II (Right): Yorubaland (present-day Southwest Nigeria, a small part of Benin Republic and still a smaller part of Togo Republic, West Africa)
Top Image: The granite outcrops at Idanre, the tallest geographical feature in the western half of Nigeria (i.e., Western Yorubaland)
Middle Image: Olumirin Waterfall at Erin-Ijesha
Bottom Image: Coastline near Badagry
The pre-ancient civilization of Atlantis was located upon the warm waters of the Gulf Stream that stretched from the Caribbean to Bimini Islands. The lost continent was situated in the North Atlantic Ocean with North and Central America to the west and Europe and Northwest Africa to the east. Atlantis was larger than present-day Libya and Asia Minor combined. The ancient Kemites (Egyptians) described Atlantis as an oversized island comprising mostly mountains in the northern portions and along the shore and encompassing a great plain of an oblong shape in the south.
Capitol of Atlantis as Plato Saw it
Atlantis is related to the history of ancient Ethiopia. During ancient times, the “Land of the Blacks” meant all Ethiopia (i.e., Africa), because all Ethiopia meant all of Africa, and all Black people were known as Africans, Ethiopians, Thebans, etc.
“There were two Ethiopias, one to the east (i.e., Asia) of the Red Sea, and the other to the west (i.e., Africa) of it; and a very great nation of Blacks from India, did rule over almost all of Asia in a very remote era, in fact beyond the reach of history or any of our records.” - Historian Godfrey Higgins
Although there is scientific evidence that an island of continental dimensions once existed in what is now the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. In reviewing James Bramwell’s Lost Atlantis, Mr. Lewis Gannett states that:
“The German anthropologist Frobenius definitely locates it (i.e., Atlantis) in Nigeria, whose ancient civilization he relates to that of the Etruscans and the Assyrians.”
Dr. Leo Frobenius found ruins of palaces, terracotta fragments and beautiful statuary in Jorubaland (i.e., Yorubaland), a district in Nigeria between the Niger River and the Atlantic Ocean; and he heard among the Jorubians (i.e., Yoruba) legends of an ancient royal city and its palace with walls of gold which in the long ago had sunk beneath the waves.
Yorubaland is an ancient and medieval civilization of the Yoruba people, which comprises of present-day Southwest Nigeria, a small part of Benin Republic and still a smaller part of Togo Republic in West Africa. The population of the Yoruba people is estimated to be between 30 to 40 million people, and they are perhaps the largest single ethnic group, or nationality in Africa. The Yoruba are the most urbanized people in the history of the tropical African forestlands, having largely lived in walled cities and towns since as early as the 11th or 12th century.
Afrobeats from Yorubaland (West Africa) to the World
Image I (Left): Simi’s TBH (To Be Honest)
The Yoruba are extremely religious people, and they are one of the most spiritual African ethnic groups or tribes in Africa. They also pride themselves on being good-looking people because the Yoruba believe beauty is important in life.
Image II (Right): Ajebutter22’s Soundtrack To The Good Life
The Ife (Yoruba) Kingdom was established during the 9th century, but in the centuries of Ife's great wealth and influence, this Yoruba kingdom didn't seem to have a significant military establishment, because the kingdom was safe, and this was why no significant military establishment was ever needed. As other Yoruba kingdoms started to emerge, each of them acknowledged Ife as the head and looked up to Ife as the source of life and light rather than its rival.
For nearly 500 years, the Ife Kingdom firmly held the crown as the richest and most economically powerful state in Yorubaland.
The Yoruba traditions provide no accounts of external wars or military action in the Ife Kingdom, and the impression one gets is after the suppression of the devastating Igbo-Igbo raids, Ife didn't have to protect its interest with any major force. Until the end of the 14th century, the Ife Kingdom became the powerful Ife Empire, not by force of arms but by the power of commerce, the belief in a common ancestry, and the manifest oneness of cultural heritage.
The Ife Empire, the first Yoruba empire extended across around 186 miles (300 kilometers), and encompassed the kingdoms of Owu, Jebba, Tada, and Oyo in the north to the Niger River, the Ovia River in Great Benin and Ijebu in the south to the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, and to the Mono River in present-day Togo Republic, which is where Ife’s cultural influence had spread far westward.
The Ife Empire was a “Soft Power” nation, which means Ife influenced surrounding kingdoms through attraction and persuasion that was based on public diplomacy that was promoted through Ife's attractive culture and political values. Although the Ife Empire didn't have a significant military establishment, military intervention was used in strategic areas of the empire throughout the Classical period (1000-1420 AD). The Ife Empire didn’t rely on its military might during its empire building process to become a rich and thriving civilization, but this cannot be said for “Hard Power” nations, like the nations of Western (European) civilization, such as England, France, Germany, the United States of America, etc. who have a history of relying heavily on their military might, coercion, and threats to achieve their goals for economic and political power (i.e., the conquest of the continents of Africa, the Americas, Oceana, etc.).
Dr. Leo Frobenius: Atlantis’ Connection to Yorubaland
Image I (Left): Plate 9. Ife. Olokun Head. Olokun grove site. Copper alloy casting. H. 343 mm. Nigeria National Museums, Lagos (Willet 2004:M4). Photo: Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Image II (Right): Page from Leo Frobenius’s Ife catalogue of photographs. Frobenius-institute, Frankfurt/Main.
It was early during the European colonial era of Africa that the first major study of the Ife (Yoruba) culture was undertaken. After several weeks of research in the Ife Kingdom (i.e., Ile-Ife), German Anthropologist Dr. Leo Frobenius had returned to Europe with several ancient Ife sculptures. He was prevented from taking the now famous copper alloy casting identified with the Goddess Olokun, the Yoruba deity of water, healing, reproduction, and commerce. It was around this goddess that he in part would frame his controversial theory of Ife as the Lost Atlantis. Dr. Frobenius’ 1913 publication The Voice of Africa was and still is one of the most important scholarly resources on the arts and culture of this ancient center, the Ife Kingdom. Despite the problematic and racist views of this era from the European colonialists, the Olokun sculpture provides important information on aspects of Ife court life and popular belief. By far, the Olokun sculpture is the most significant of Dr. Frobenius’ art “finds,” because he famously identified the Olokun sculpture with the Greek God Poseidon, claiming to have found in the Ife Kingdom the long-lost mythic site of Atlantis.
Despite the many problems of Dr. Frobenius’ Lost Atlantis claims, they brought both himself and Ile-Ife considerable fame, and by the time his The Voice of Africa was published, there was already considerable buzz around Ife and the creative genius of these artistic sculptures.
The New York Times’ “Topics of the Week” editor penned a short publicity piece on the two-volume publication of Dr. Frobenius’ publication The Voice of Africa:
“His theory of Atlantis may not hold, but his descriptions of his discovery of remains of forgotten civilizations on this supposed site will be welcome. Africa is gradually being opened to the gaze pf the world, and the story as it is slowly revealed gains in fascination” (New York Times 1913)
The Destruction of Atlantis and Yorubaland: Similarities and Possibilities
Image I (Left): Colorized map seen by (James) Churchward in Tibetan monastery. Atlantis was in the North Atlantic Ocean with North and Central America to the west and Europe and Northwest Africa to the east.
Image II (Right): Yorubaland in West Africa (present-day Southwest Nigeria, and parts of Benin and Togo Republics)
Atlantis: Materialistic, Warlike and Gas Chambers
During pre-ancient times, the early Lemurians (the lost continent in the Pacific Ocean, comprising of present-day Hawaiian Islands, Fifi, Easter Island, The Marinas and other South Pacific islands) experienced no crime, no disease, no pollution and no threats to their lifestyles. Prior to 3,000 BC, Upper ancient Kemet (i.e., Egypt) was a colony of Lemuria, and Lower ancient Kemet in the Delta region that led out to the Mediterranean Sea was a seaport colony of Atlantis.
Around 125,000 BC, the Lemurians were divided into two groups, the Essenes and Atlantes. The Essenes were devoted to spiritual growth and achieving ascension, and the Atlantes were materialistic and warlike. The Atlantes claimed the Atlantis colony (i.e., Atlantis was once a colony of Lemuria) as their refuge. The Essenes outnumbered the Atlantes in Lemuria and were sent to Atlantis to keep the peace. Atlantis achieved independence around 75,000 BC and viewed Lemuria as a threat to their self-determination and hegemony. By 16,000 BC, the Atlanteans landed destructive attacks and raids against Lemuria. With time, babies were born that were a blend of Lemurian and Atlantean heritage. This combined patrimony contributed to lowering the Lemurian vibration necessary to uphold the Lemurian way of life.
The three cataclysms of nature, in contrast to attacks by the Atlanteans and desertions to this rival, led to Lemuria’s final destruction. Prior to the fall of Lemuria, the seers and wise Lemurians passed their records to the Druids in England, Atlanteans, natives of the Pacific, Native Americans, Aborigines of Australia, Indian priest and the Egyptian high priest.
Once the Atlanteans achieved independence from the Lemurians, they mastered atomic power and built power plants to produce electricity. Light bulbs have even been dug up in ancient Kemet.
Atlantean Technological Advancements Included:
Printing Press
Telepathy Machines to read and alter thoughts
Guns using electricity to exterminate opponents
Electrical lamps used in construction of Egyptian pyramids
Monorail transportation network
Air Conditioners
Air to Water Condenser
The Atlanteans more effectively ravished planet Earth to gain hegemony over the Lemurians causing massive melting of the Antarctic, climate change, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that submerged Lemuria in the Pacific Ocean. The Atlanteans became masters in the art of manipulating, either through cunning or coercion. When Lemuria fell, human populations around the world were in deep distress and sorrow because only the Lemurians could keep the Atlantean aggression in check. When Lemuria vanished into the deep and dark depths of the Pacific Ocean, a new era began, because panic and fear entered the hearts of people around the world because Atlantis and the Atlanteans became the undisputed and unquestionable leader of the world. The Atlanteans were not as loved as the Lemurians, because the Atlanteans were blatantly arrogant with their warlike tendencies.
Atlantis would also have the same fate as the Lemuria, because around 11,000 BC, Atlantis submerged into the deep and dark depths of the Atlantic Ocean as the energy gas chambers blew up. Atlantean survivors fled to ancient Egypt and other colonies that were established by Lemuria.
Yorubaland: Disintegration, Conquest and Colonization by Alien Powers from Europe
In the history of the Yoruba people, the 19th century was a century of war. Starting from the Oyo region of Yorubaland and other Yoruba kingdoms that had been part of the Oyo Empire, wars had swept through the whole country of Yorubaland. These changes were accompanied with a whole array of demographic, economic, social and political developments and changes. The disintegration of the Oyo Empire destroyed the pre-existing system of order and security in Yorubaland and created a situation where all centers of power, old and new, had to scramble to establish new systems and patterns that would guarantee order and security.
The first visible effect of the Yoruba Wars of the 19th century was the widespread destruction of cities, towns, and villages, because for some 700 years, the Yoruba people had built cities and towns in their country; but for one century they smashed many of the biggest and best of them. Even the capital of the Oyo Empire, Oyo-Ile, for two centuries was the greatest and most prestigious city in Yorubaland, had perished completely, as did many other great cities in the Oyo region. Human suffering was devastating because the acts of war were grave.
The seemingly endless battles and raids resulted in the scattering of families, and people were torn from their roots and homes, and wandering without clear destinations, which constituted a large pool of vulnerable targets for adventurers and criminal kidnappers in most parts of Yorubaland. Intense distress manifested disloyalty in all regions of Yorubaland, especially in the form of kidnappings, the sale of friends by friends, and callous reward of hospitality and kindness with vileness and terror. In many parts of Yorubaland, refugee settlements sprang up, each expressed the scene of hard struggles by individuals and groups to survive. The traditional norm of respect for peaceful traders on highways in Yorubaland had survived in most parts of the country, but greatly increased hazards from acts of war and crime increased the frequency and sizes of traders’ caravans as a mode of travel.
Unfortunately, efforts by the Yoruba people for peace created conflicts and wars they could not put an end to, well, not until European powers and colonialists intervened and imposed their own system of order, security and peace in Yorubaland. The Yoruba nation was cut up into three different countries when leaders from European nations decided to “Scramble for Africa,” and the European colonialists created new countries. For example (i.e., Yorubaland), Southwest Nigeria became a British possession, Benin Republic became a French possession, and Togo Republic became a German, but later French possession.
From 1500-1750, the number of Yoruba people forced to be enslaved via the European Transatlantic slave trade was relatively small, because estimates have been about 240,000 Yoruba people, which was less than an average of 1,000 Yoruba as enslaved people per year. So, why did the Yoruba people have such little involvement participating in the European Transatlantic slave trade from the 16th to the middle of the 18th centuries? Historians believe the answer to this question is before the disintegration of Yorubaland by the Yoruba Wars of the 19th century, in general, Yorubaland was a peaceful country through most of this long period in West African history.
When the World was Black
“When the human drama opened, Africans were on the scene and acting. For a long time, in fact, the only people on the scene were Africans. For some 600,000 years, Africa and Africans led the world.” – Dr. Lerone Bennett
“A few scholars have broken the trend. Some have argued that placed (places) like Lemuria, Atlantis, and Eden were situated somewhere in Africa.”
– Dr. Supreme Understanding
“The first general settlement of the present continents was achieved, apparently, by an extension of the Atlantean races. The new age that began after the disappearance of Atlantis was marked at first by the world-wide dominance of Ethiopian representatives of the black race. They were supreme in Africa and Asia. In Upper Egypt and India they erected mighty religious centers and perfected a technique in the modeling of bronze – and they even infiltrated through Southern Europe… During the present era —that is the last 10,000 years— the white race … has come to possess the world. According to the occult tradition, Semitic peoples developed wherever the immigrating white colonists from the north were subjugated by the black ruling class, and inter-mixture occurred, as in oldest Egypt, Chaldea, Arabia and Phoenicia.”
– German Scholar Eugen Georg (1931)
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