In the Ifa Creation story Obatala creates land on a planet (aye) that is covered with water. After the land (Ile Ife) is formed Obatala climbs down a chain to live on earth. In Ifa sacred scripture the Orisa (Force in Nature) always have a range of incarnations (atunwa) giving them different functions as the cycles of evolution unfold. The most distant incarnations manifest as natural phenomena the most immediate incarnations manifest as human behavior reflecting a specific mode of behavior represented by deified ancestors. During the earliest incarnation of Obatala described in the Ifa Creation Myth the Orisa (Force of Nature) symbolizes the transformation of light into matter. This transformation is represented on the Ifa divination tray by the contrast between a single line and a double line. The chain used to climb from Orun to Aye symbolizes the holographic blueprint for Creation contained within light, meaning the seeds of evolution are present at the beginning of time at the moment of cosmic inception. Information hidden within a Force of Nature, as latent potential, can be described as the Spirit of a particular aspect of Creation. For example the inner essence of the Spirit of Light is to illuminate that which it encounters. The Spirit of Light is manifestation of Nature that generates illumination. In the Ifa Creation Myth, Obatala illuminates the process of evolution that occurs as the planet cools and becomes compatible with the development of life. This illumination can be described as ori ala meaning the consciousness of light as the root word of Obatala's praise name Orisanla meaning consciousness brings light.

Traditionally Obatala is described as androgynous meaning the Spirit or essence of Light has both male and female attributes. In the symbolic language of Ifa metaphysics male attributes are expansive (symbolized by a single vertical line) and female attributes are contractive (symbolized by a double vertical line). In the language of physics electromagnetism is male; gravity is female representing the fundamental polarity between dynamics and form. Gravity allows matter to hold a consistent shape, while electromagnetism is the force of decay and regeneration. In Western scientific language light (ala) can be characterized as both wave (male) and particle (female) giving it an androgynous quality using the symbolic language of Ifa. The awo (secret wisdom) associated with Obatala clearly expresses an understanding of the dual nature of light. This is a remarkable observation pre-dating similar observations in Western science by thousands of years. The traditions of our distant ancestors used myth to integrate science, history and to provide a template for spiritual growth. Myth was able to integrate these elements because they emerged at a time when spirituality was understood as an effort to live in harmony with nature and the only way to do that is to understand the multiple environments we live in. When Western culture started to engage in the process of controlling Nature the function of myth was relegated to obscurity and the ability to understand myth was lost. In ancient times every aspect of culture was a coded reference to Natural Law. Obatala's staff symbolizes the polarity between light as wave and light as particle. The stick is cut in the form of a serpent symbolizing the ase (spiritual power of the earth) or the ability of light to form a particle and the serpent is crowned by a bird symbolizing the ase (spiritual power of the sky) or the ability of light to form a wave as generated by the sun. The integration of these two forces, or the creation of harmony and balance between them, is at the heart of awo Obatala (The mystery of the Spirit of Light).

In Ifa cosmology Odu is described as the womb or source of all the various manifestations of light in the material world. Odu exists in Orun (the invisible realm) where the male aspect of Obatala is called Eji Ogbe and the female aspect is called Ofun Meji. In simple terms Obatala is born of Odu because form precedes manifestation. The understanding of the meaning of the word Odu is an important key to understanding the Ifa worldview. Every Odu (womb) is considered an inter-dimensional portal linking Orun and Aye including the female reproductive organs which function as an inter-dimensional portal for the manifestation of egun (ancestors) who become omo (children) in the process of atunwa (reincarnation). Women as guardians of this portal in both the physical and spiritual realm are the traditional sources of prophetic wisdom (Gelede) and the source of ase for the installation of Oba (Yoruba Kings). It is the voice of the Mothers (Iyaami Osoronga) that makes the final judgment concerning the level of cultural harmony existing between community and spirit.

To say light travels to earth on a chain is to say the holographic blueprint of Creation exists in every particle of light potentially manifesting as the protein double helix Ifa calls ase oka (serpent power) and science calls DNA. Ifa expresses the idea of a holographic blueprint by saying everything in Creation has Ori (consciousness) and the light of Obatala exists in all Ori. The development of quantum physics is based on the observation that sub-atomic particles do no behave in a mechanistic way. Sub-atomic particles respond to stimuli with a range of options that are mapped in a cyclotron and referred to as the probability curve of a particular element. This is an indirect way of saying that sub-atomic particles makes choices and the ability to make choices is the fundamental definition of consciousness.

In both academia and the mass media African spirituality is typically characterized as "primitive superstition". A close examination of the meaning of Ifa symbolism clearly reveals the existence of a paleo-physics (ancient science of the structure of reality). Hermeneutics is the name given to the academic study of religious symbols. As a discipline the study of African religious hermeneutics is generally ignored by Western academia raising the question of whether this exclusion is unconscious racism or the deliberate suppression of what might be considered threatening information about the basic structure of reality. Even a rudimentary study of the literature on African spirituality reveals the influence of both agendas on any discussion of the topic. If some effort is not made to identify these negative influences those who are interested in learning about African spirituality through the use of the written word are often given distorted information without realizing it. These distortions are re-written and passed on as fact in a painful movement away from source. For example, every version of Ifa scripture written in English has censored and removed most references to female ase. There seems to be no discernable reason for this other than the influence of Christian theology that identifies woman of power with evil. This identification is incompatible with both Ifa scripture and with Ifa practice outside the Diaspora. The African symbolic language that describes the polarity between male and female is sometimes expressed as the polarity between darkness and light. Any association between darkness and evil is a Western convention that does not reflect the original meaning of the symbol. In symbolic language, darkness means hidden. All awo (mystery) is hidden until it becomes revealed, all mystery is unrevealed truth and truth by definition is life affirming.

When Obatala arrives on earth he is described as ruling the land with a silver sword. In symbolic language a sword represents conscious thought. In Ifa silver is used for abori, which is a ritual cleansing used to elevate consciousness. Ifa describes the era of Obatala as a time when the distance between Orun and Aye was short and humans walked among the Orisa. Western occult traditions describe this as the "Golden Age", a time when humans inhabited the earth in a state of peace and harmony with each other and the environment. Living in harmony with our environment includes an understanding that we live in a multi-dimensional universe. This means we share life on the planet with life forms that are not visible to the normal range of human perception. The more a person is able to access a state of harmony the broader their perception becomes opening an expanded awareness of the unseen influences that help shape life on earth. Christian theology refers to this process as exploring the "occult" and judges it to be a "sin". To refer to self-understanding as a "sin" is to deify ignorance.

References to a Golden Age exist in virtually every earth-centered tradition on the planet and appear to be a universally held ancestral memory. To understand this aspect of the Ifa Creation Myth requires some understanding of Yoruba history. According to Ifa oral tradition the first Oba (king) of the Yoruba Nation was Oduduwa from the elision Odu (womb) dudu (black) iwa (character) meaning the Invisible Source of Character. The word black in relationship to the word womb is a reference to the invisible or hidden mystery of Creation. The name Oduduwa suggests someone who manifests the essential nature of Creation. The Ifa Creation Myth says Oduduwa came from the east and settled in the country now called Nigeria. At this point the narrative has two distinct components. First Obatala arrives at Ile Ife and becomes the progenitor of the indigenous people of the earth. The reference to Oduduwa appears to suggest settlers from another part of Africa joined the original people who lived in and around Ile Ife. Migration, immigration and assimilation are natural cycles of any culture that is thousands of years old. A simple study of Yoruba linguistics shows a wide range of cultural influences from across the continent and in the Middle East.

I have visited the shrine of Oduduwa in Aleketu. It is in the home of the Oba of Aleketu who is a direct descendant of Oduduwa. The oral tradition of the shrine in Aleketu says that Oduduwa migrated to the west from Egypt after becoming initiated as Pharaoh. The association between Egyptian culture and Yoruba culture is controversial for a number of reasons including the inference that any such association diminishes the contribution made to African culture by Africans. Some of this controversy is, I believe, the result of the deliberate denigration of African history in general and Egyptian history in particular by those historians who use political agendas to distort the historical record. An examination of this record shades light on some of the reasons for the controversy and gives some background on the confusion and contradictions that make any understanding of African history a challenge.

One of the first European archeological studies of ancient Africa occurred when Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798. He brought with him a team of scholars who made a detailed study of the stone structures near Cairo and started the European tradition of looting artifacts without regard to the sentiments of the colonized culture. At the time of the French incursion European scholars believed European culture originated in Greece. The French scholars who traveled with Napoleon came to the conclusion that Greek culture originated in Egypt. This expedition discovered the now famous Rosetta Stone that became the basis for later translations of Egyptian hieroglyphics. It would take at least another hundred years before the information from the Rosetta Stone could be put to practical use. Without the burden of having to rely on Egyptian written sources, the French were free to describe Egyptian history in a way that was consistent with their own worldview. They decided the pyramids at Giza were built by Joseph to store grain during the biblical era of Jewish captivity. They believed the significant contributions to Egyptian culture came as a result of the migration of non-Africans to the Nile basin for no objective reason other than the fact that they didn't want to believe Africans were the ultimate source of European culture. Unfortunately the theory was not consistent with the African features on the face of the Sphinx so Napoleon ordered his troops to destroy the face with cannon fire. At the time of this desecration the Sphinx was buried up to its neck in sand and the face was an easy target. To this day the grain storage theory is the prominent belief about the purpose of the pyramids among fundamentalist Christians. Prejudice becomes intractable once it is promoted as the "Word of God".

The French effort to date Egyptian culture was influenced by a meeting of London booksellers that occurred in 1779, twenty-one years prior to Napoleon's expedition. Collectively the British cabal raised funds to publish a forty-two-volume compendium titled Universal History. After consultation with the prominent theologians of the day the publishers determined that "God's Creation" began on August 21st 4004 BC. The meeting was contentious because some of the theologians argued in favor of a March 21st date as the first day of Genesis. All subsequent European interpretations of history were obliged to conform to this time line. The sciences of biology and geology have pushed back the actual date of Creation by thirteen billion years, but historians and Egyptologist continue to frame the time line of written history in a way that makes it consistent with the early British time line generated by the Christian Bible and by the authors of Universal History. This is an early manifestation of one of the most prevailing attitudes guiding academic historical research; not annoying Jerry Farwell is more important than being objective because Jerry is an advisor to the President and the Federal Government is the source of 80% of all research funding for universities in the United States.

The British were skeptical of the grain storage theory promoted by the French. It seemed a bit excessive to move three and half million stones to support two small rooms that would only hold a minimal amount of food. Contemporary Egyptologists link the Pyramid at Giza to the Pharaoh Khufu sometimes called Cheops. They base their conclusions on the archeological evidence provided by a British solider named Colonel Richard Howard-Vyse. In 1836 the Colonel hired 700 laborers to dig through the floor of the Queens Chamber inside the Giza Pyramid. Finding nothing, he decided to blast through the roof of the King's Chamber using gunpowder. After blowing holes through three layers of crossbeams, the Colonel claims to have discovered a hand painted cartouche (royal insignia) in a small space between the granite cross beams. They are the only inscriptions of any kind found either inside or outside the Giza Pyramid. An analysis of the writing indicated it used hieroglyphics from three different historical periods all dating from a time after the reign of Khufu. The original reaction to the Howard-Vyse discovery concluded the hieroglyphics were fakes and suggested the Colonel was the person most likely to have committed the fraud. Despite his total lack of credibility, the Colonel's discovery was embraced by academia because it met the important requirement of fitting within the Biblical time line.

Ignoring the obvious problems with the inscription, Egyptologists continue to associate the Giza Pyramid with Pharaoh Khufu. The orthodox theory is that Khufu built the structure as a tomb. There are approximately eighty pyramids in Egypt, less than a dozen mummies have been discovered in and around any of these pyramids, and those were clearly placed under ground long after the original construction. Pharaohs are buried in subterranean tombs most notably in the Valley of the Kings. There is absolutely no Egyptian text that identifies the pyramid at Giza as a tomb, none, anywhere. Egyptologists as a group tend to believe their own analysis of artifacts is superior to the history recorded by the Egyptians themselves.

Italian Egyptologists with access to material hidden in the Vatican basement claimed the Egyptians had knowledge of the exact dimensions of the planet and used this knowledge as the basis for their system of measurement. In the nineteenth century the British were obsessed in their effort to find the dimensions of the earth as an aid to navigation in shipping. In 1882, forty years after the dubious discoveries of Howard-Vyse, Sir William Flinders Petrie traveled to Cairo to measure the ancient stone monuments in hopes of unlocking the mysteries related to the size of the earth. To his astonishment the thirteen-acre base of the pyramid was flat to a tolerance of ¼ inch across the entire surface, a level of precision not possible at the time and not possible today. He also discovered the dimensions of the pyramid incorporated an understanding the properties of pi a mathematical formula believed to have been discovered by the Greeks. His analysis of the data he collected suggested the scale of the pyramid was in direct proportion to the size of the earth indicating a precise knowledge of the distance of the equator. He also discovered the Egyptian unit of measurement was remarkably similar to the British system suggesting an ancient influence based on previously unknown interaction between the two cultures.

While taking his measurements Petrie noticed that many of the stones inside the pyramid appeared to have saw marks and drill marks. The depth of spin on a drilled hole can be measured and the depth of each rotation determines the amount pressure coming from the bit. Petrie's measurements indicated the drills where using in excess of two tons of pressure which is absolutely and physically impossible with hand powered tools. The saw marks cut through granite leaving a surface as flat as glass. There are no hand held saws in existence that can duplicate the same level of precision. Petrie's obvious conclusion was the stones were dressed with powered tools. The response from Egyptologists to his discoveries about stone cutting was a thunderous silence. Their logic is simple, they have no artifacts that appear to be power tools; therefore Petrie's observations are wrong. The orthodox response to his measurements is that any correlation between the size and shape of the pyramid and the planet is a "coincidence". Scholars who refused to let go of antiquated ideas are great believers in coincidence.

Outside of academia Petrie's detailed report inspired the theory that the pyramids were built by an "advanced race" from "Atlantis". This popular premise was based largely on the writings of Plato who described the continent of Atlantis in two of his dialogues the Critias and the Timaeus. Plato states he received the information on Atlantis from an Egyptian priest and presents the story as a true historical account. Since no one knows what an Atlantian looks like the British writers in Petrie's day assumed they were fair skinned with blue eyes and blond hair eliminating the trauma of having to attribute anything Egyptian to Africans. Psychologists call this projection. At about the same time British anthropologists were trying to prove human evolution originated in England. The one piece of hard physical evidence used to support their theory turned out to be the skull of a human fitted with the jawbone of an ape. The obvious forgery remained undetected for fifty years.

Shirley Andrews in her book Atlantis Insights from a lost Civilization makes a through review of the literature on Atlantis including a summary of the Egyptian texts on the subject. According to Andrews the Egyptians do describe an ancient civilization that once existed on a now submerged Atlantic island. Recent discoveries of stone buildings off the coast of Bermuda and more recently off the coast of Cuba tend to confirm the possibility such an island once existed. Andrews says the Egyptians considered the Atlantians to be a hostile culture in no way associated with the development of their own culture. There are even Egyptian texts describing a settlement of Atlantian refuges that survived the destruction of their island kingdom and settled in Egypt for a short time before migrating west. The proponents of the theory that Atlantis is the source of Egyptian technology want us to believe Egyptians did not honor the memory of the ancestors who were responsible for the development of their technology. Egyptian culture, like virtually all traditional cultures in Africa, is deeply rooted in the veneration of ancestors. The idea that any significant ancestors would be ignored for any reason is not credible from a cultural perspective. The Atlanta genesis story simply does not work.

At the turn of the twentieth century Germany archeologists were uncomfortable with the idea that European culture was in any way related to Africa. The politically correct German theory of cultural genesis was that a super human race of superior beings lived in the center of the earth under the illumination of a black sun. This race emerged on to the surface of the earth in Tibet, migrated to Mesopotamia, created a migratory culture known as the Acadians who settled in Greece before reaching their final destination in southern Europe. One of the most prominent German archeologists of this era was R.A Schwaller de Lubicz who, to his credit, managed to rise above his political bias. In the course of Lubicz's explorations he noticed that most Egyptian temples faced south. His examination of temple texts indicated the orientation was based on the desire to honor the ancestors of the Nile culture. To the dismay of his colleagues Lubicz was saying the Sudan and Ethiopia was the ancestral home of those who built the pyramids. This meant Africans created indigenous Egyptian culture. If we look at a map we see Ethiopia is bisected by the rift valley. This region is the richest source of ancient fossil human remains on the planet. Not only was this region the ancestral home of the Egyptians it is likely the ancestral home of everyone alive on the planet. Despite the obvious global implications of Lubicz's observation, Egyptologists treat the idea as if it was the source of some deadly viral infection.

To add insult to injury Lubicz was the first to notice that the weathering pattern on the Sphinx was caused by rain not wind. This was a serious problem because the Sphinx was supposed to be five thousand years old and the most recent period of flooding around the Giza plain occurred ten thousand years ago. His observation was all but ignored until a tourist guide named Jonathan West invited geologist Robert Schoch to examine the evidence first hand. When Schock presented his findings to a gathering of Egyptologists he was told the water erosion was caused by water seeping up out of the ground and into the stones at the foundation of the Sphinx in what must be the only recorded instance of water defying the laws of gravity.

For the past twenty years there has been a vigorous effort by Egyptologist to prove the pyramids could have been built using simple tools and simple methods. They have gone so far as to film a documentary building a "mini" pyramid in Egypt based on the premise they could use simple technology to accomplish the task. The initial efforts failed so the pyramid was built using modern equipment, as "proof" the ancient Egyptians needed no extraordinary technology to accomplish the task. The largest stone involved in the experiment weighed two tones and was moved with trucks and cranes. None of the footage involving the use of modern equipment was included in the final cut of the film. The issue of moving stones weighing in excess of one hundred tons was conveniently ignored. (That is the weight of two 747 jetliners, the obvious problem being what kind of rope can pull that weight without braking?)

Most of the history of Egyptology appears to be a reflection of the resistance by self-proclaimed experts to accept obvious evidence due to a difficulty in accepting the accomplishments of ancient African culture. It does not seem to be unfair to attribute much of this difficulty to an ethno-centric bias that has no foundation in reality. The deliberate distortion of the historical record seems to have reached an all time high during a recent Fox documentary showing exploration of the one of the four shafts inside the Giza pyramid. The special featured a robotic camera traveling up the shaft to a stone door that was drilled open before a camera was inserted through the hole to reveal another door. Dr. Hawass the director of Egyptian antiquities explained the shaft was added to the tomb of Khufu long after it was originally built. He claims the shafts were chiseled through the stone to provide an escape for the Pharaoh's soul. That's possible, the problem is the shaft is approximately eight inches square and travels for one hundred and fifty feet before making a sharp right angle. The entire shaft inclines at a consistent angle with tolerances similar to those measured by Petrie. In order to accomplish the task as described by Dr. Hawass a stonemason would either have to use a chisel one hundred and fifty feet in length or the mason had an extraordinarily long arms. I cannot imagine how Dr. Hawass could make such a statement to reporters without everyone in the room dropping to the floor howling in laughter.

It would appear Fox Television is spending a large amount of time and resources in an effort to obscure the truth. Rupert Murdock owns Fox network. He immigrated to the United States from Australia when it was discovered his bank funneled money from the CIA to an opposition candidate who toppled the Australia incumbent. If you remember the movie Falcon and the Snowman based on a real incident, you will remember the Timothy Hutton character plays a CIA radio operator who discovers the manipulation of an Australian election and sells the information to the Soviet Union. That's when Murdock decided to move to America. It is against the law for a foreign born national to own a television network in the United States. Congress passed a special exemption for Murdock allowing him to make the purchase. All of this begs the question why the deception, what is it that everyone is afraid of, and what does any of this have to do with the Ifa Creation Myth?

Egyptian historical records carved on the walls of the Temple at Luxor include a list of dynasties that push the date of early Egyptian culture back by 45,000 years. Academic Egyptology deals with the contradiction by describing all dynasties listed as existing prior to 6,000 years ago as "mythic," meaning having no basis in the objective historical record. One of many problems with this analysis is that clay tablets discovered in Mesopotamia (Iraq) at the turn of the last century include king lists that are nearly identical to the Egyptian records found in Luxor. Why would two different countries make up the same fantasy about the origins of their cultures? The obvious answer is they wouldn't. The reason for the academic dismissal of these older dates is very simple; modern Homo Sapiens reportedly first walked the earth some 30,000 years ago. The predecessor of Homo Sapiens is called Cro Magnum and is described by anthropologists as a small brained, hairy, proto-human who wore animal skins and survived by scrapping the bones of dead animals and picking wild fruit. If the Egyptian time line on the Temple inscriptions is correct, Cro Magnum communities built the pyramids, developed a sophisticated system of geometry, invented a complex system of writing and made accurate measurements of the size of the earth and charted the relationship between the planets and the sun.

Carl Sagan a great defender of academic orthodoxy admitted there were books in the Library at Alexandria (Egypt) that traced human history back 100,000 years. Those books were supposedly destroyed in a fire. This seemingly innocent statement by the late Dr. Sagan appears to be confirmation of the possibility that orthodox history is a deliberate deception. If the books were all destroyed where was Carl getting his information?

The apparent problem with letting go of the hairy proto-human Cro Magnum theory is that it completely undercuts the Darwinian theory of evolution. Without Darwin and the notion of survival of the fittest there is no justification for elitism, imperialism, colonialization, prostelization and the exploitation of resources in non-western countries. It is not hard to imagine that the foundations that fund historical and scientific research might find the subversion of these ideas to be unworthy of funding.

If it is true that Yoruba culture interacted with Egyptian culture an examination of Egyptian history should help illuminate the Ifa Creation Myth. If it is also true that Western academic accounts of Egyptian history are politically and racially biased the best alternative source is clearly the oral accounts of the Egyptians themselves. The pre-Islamic, pre-Christian, and pre-Judaic religious traditions of Egypt still exist. Indigenous Egyptian religion has survived in Egypt in much the same way that Yoruba religion survived in the Diaspora, by going underground. In the past ten years a small number of indigenous Egyptian religious elders have started to speak publicly about the oral legacy left by their ancestors. Among them is Abd'El Hakim Awyan who has assisted in the preparation of a several books that provide a glimpse into traditional Egyptian oral history.

In The Land of Osiris by Stephen S. Mehler, Hakim Awyan makes it clear that Dynastic Egypt was based on the culture of Khemit and he says the culture of Khemit is of unmistakable African origin. The civilization of Khemit was made up of indigenous African families who were not "superior outsiders", they did not come from Atlantis and they did not arrive in Egypt from another planet. The word Khemit means "The Black Land". The use of the word Egypt was a Greek invention coming from the Greek word Aegptos that is a corruption of the Coptic (Egyptian) phrase Hit-Ka-Ptah meaning "the place of projection of the God Ptah". In the Egyptian Creation Myth Ptah created the world. The Egyptian landscape was designed to create a symbolic map showing the geometric patterns (Odu) responsible for the creation of the visible universe. The Egyptian proverb that has become a cornerstone of Western esoteric thought says, as above so below. Creating structures in stone that mirror the structures of Creation amplifies the power of Creation insuring fertility, harmony, abundance and peace; based on the belief that life works.

Hakim Awyan says the Sphinx is over 50,000 years old and that the pyramids located near the Sphinx are considerably older. Islamic scholar Abu Zeyd el Balkhy has located hieroglyphics in Egypt that say the pyramids at Giza were built at a time when Lyre was in the constellation of Cancer suggesting the structures are 73,000 years old. This perspective on Egyptian history means the Pyramid at Giza was built during the era of Cro Magnon culture described by the Egyptians as the time of the "Gods" (Neters). The shift between Cro Magnon and Homo Sapiens represents the most radical mutation in the historical record. The shift is so extreme it is scarcely mentioned by contemporary anthropologists because it threatens the fundamental notion of mutation as a response to environmental change. To make matters worse for the defenders of orthodox history the Egyptians and the Sumerians both claimed to have developed the ability to engineer genetic changes in biological life forms. If our Cro Magnon ancestors deliberately created a new species we call Homo Sapiens it would not be unreasonable to discover that the new species deified those who were responsible for their creation. Many Christian theologians have difficulty accepting the idea of evolution. The acceptance of the Egyptian explanation for the development of the modern human life-form would involve accepting the notion that genetic engineering was developed by "heathens". The difficulty in accepting an idea does not necessarily make the idea false, but there does not seem to have been any effort made to confirm or negate the validity of ancient Egyptian texts discussing the process of genetic alteration. It is one of those ideas that is so threatening to the commonly held belief in the nature of things that it fails to register as an idea worthy of serious study.

Hakim Awyan is adamant the pyramids were not constructed for use as tombs. They were built to accumulate, absorb, and transmit inter-dimensional forms of energy referred to in Yoruba as ase. The pyramid at Giza is not a tomb, its not a grain storage silo, its not a stone monument with an encoded secret message, it is not a beacon for extraterrestrial space craft, it is a machine. The purpose of the machine was to absorb ase from the earth and ase from the sky, transforming it into a usable form essential to the stability and fertility of the culture.

Christopher Dunn is a trained machinist with no formal training in the study of Egyptian culture. Early in his career he read Petrie's book on the measurements and tolerances observed by Petrie as part of the construction of the Giza Pyramid. Dunn examined Petrie's data and decided the only reason for such small ranges of variation in the physical dimensions of the structure was because it was built as a machine with a specific function and that function would in some way be inhibited by less strict attention to exact measurements. Dunn decided to back engineer the structure based on the premise that any viable theory concerning the function of the pyramid would have to explain all the architectural features and anomalies. Following twenty years of study Dunn published his conclusions in a book called The Giza Power Plant, Technologies of Ancient Egypt. In his summary he makes the following statement:

"If my power plant theory was based on evidence from a singular exhibit or a few artifacts, critics and skeptics could rightly attribute that evidence to pure coincidence. However, I have amassed a plethora of facts and deductions based on sober considerations of the design of the Great Pyramid and nearly every artifact found within it that, when taken together, all support my premise that the Great Pyramid was a power plant and the King's Chamber its power center. Facilitated by the element that fuels our sun (hydrogen) and uniting the energy of the universe with that of the Earth, the ancient Egyptians converted vibrational energy into microwave energy. For the power plant to function, the designers and operators had to induce vibrations in the Great Pyramid that was in tune with the harmonic resonant vibrations of the Earth. Once the pyramid was vibrating in tune with the Earth's pulse it became a coupled oscillator and could sustain the transfer of energy from the Earth with little or no feedback. The three smaller pyramids on the east side of the Great Pyramid may have been used to assist the Great Pyramid in achieving resonance, much like today was use smaller gasoline engines to start large diesel engines." - page 219

If Dunn's theory is correct it would appear the pyramids are the culmination of a much older technology and there is evidence to suggest this is the case. To understand the evidence requires some understanding of ideas developed by Nicolas Tesla. When Thomas Edison first invented the light bulb the filament burned out quickly and the bulbs only lasted for a couple of minutes. Tesla suggested the use of alternating current, which was the break through concept responsible for giving birth to the electronic age. During the course of his research Tesla observed phenomena associated with electricity that was not electro-magnetic and seemed to function as a plasma or gas. Because there was no theoretical basis for this observation in physics Tesla examined and extended ideas originally developed by Thomas Maxwell (discussed in part one of this series). Without going into a technical explanation Tesla called the unknown phenomena radiant energy and believed the energy represented a transfer of power from dimensions outside the visible universe. He was able to design machines that separated radiant energy from electrical current. (The same process described by Dunn as the basis for ancient Egyptian technology.) The machines were able to access an inter-dimensional power source without having to mimic structures the size of the Pyramid at Giza. He was able to build transformers that accessed radiant energy and used it as a power source with access to unlimited amounts of free energy. He used his inventions to design a detailed system of delivery of free utilities for the entire planet. Tesla's laboratory in New York was destroyed by arson at a time when he was thought to be inside the building. Fortunately he was elsewhere but the message was clear. Tesla continued his research in seclusion (Financed by Mark Twain).

In very simple terms Tesla theorized that electro-magnetic energy coming from the sun carries the plasma he called radiant energy. This plasma is stored under the surface of the earth moving along magnetic grids influenced by polar magnetism and gravitational pull from celestial bodies. In ancient religious texts a bird symbolizes radiant energy coming from the sun and either a snake or a dragon symbolizes radiant energy absorbed by the earth. Anyone who has spent time in the rain forest will know that lights looking like a camera flash bulb can be seen periodically lighting up the trees. These flashing lights are natural manifestations of an inter-dimensional transference of radiant energy and they are universally identified by inhabitants of the rain forest as "spirit birds". Serpent power from the earth occasionally becomes visible in the form of ball lightning that periodically appears along fault lines following an earthquake. When serpent power becomes visible inside a cave it looks like a long undulating red snake. The ancients appeared to have noticed a unique phenomenon when the radiant energy of the sun entered the mouth of cave and co-mingled with the serpent energy of the earth. The places were this junction of natural forces occurred were identified as sacred sites (Igbodu). The phenomenon that occurs can best be described as the manifestation of pure unformed consciousness. Our ancient ancestors observed this phenomenon and made an amazing discovery. They noticed that anyone standing in the presence of unformed consciousness influenced the manifestation of the radiant energy, which amplifies any thoughts directed towards it. They also discovered this amplification could be projected on to the natural landscape by channeling it towards underground water tables (The bend in the river at Oshun's shrine in Oshogbo). At some point more than a 100,000 years ago our ancestors started building mounds in an effort to replicate this natural phenomenon. The development of these mounds occurred all over the planet and led to the understanding of accessing natural power sources that eventually manifested itself in the construction of the Pyramid at Giza.

Because of their age, very little is known about the people who have come to be called "mound builders". What is known is deduced from the paintings and carvings they left on rocks and inside caves. The shamans who developed this early sacred technology are always depicted with shaved heads and carrying a serpentine staff crowned by a bird exactly like the Osun staff carried by initiates of Obatala. In some drawings they appear to be wearing white robes. There is no way to tell where and when this priesthood originated, but it is clear from the archeological record it was a global society affecting every continent on the planet. (Mounds explored by the Smithsonian Institute along the Grand Canyon and near Cleveland yielded African artifacts just prior to World War II, to date none of those artifacts have every been put on display.)

It was the task of the early shamans of the bird and the serpent to insure only those with good character and good intentions had access to the radiant energy manifesting as unformed consciousness. To this day the society of Obatala initiates are considered to be guardians of moral and ethical behavior. They enforce this mandate through the traditional Yoruba judicial process called Ogboni. In Ogboni meetings the Obatala elders are the senior priests and priestess. The male Obatala initiates worship the radiant energy of the earth (serpents), which is considered feminine, and the female Obatala initiates worship the radiant energy of the sky (birds), which is considered masculine. Between them the world is born. The Ogboni temples have the same floor plan as Egyptian temples; an outer open courtyard, leading to a covered inner courtyard leading to the inner sanctum. The inner sanctum is the place of manifestation of radiant energy and only accessible to initiates. In Egypt the radiant energy of the inner sanctum is directed from the Pyramid at Giza to the various temples through underground waterways. If Yoruba culture has been influenced by Egyptian culture there should be pyramids in Nigeria as part of the fundamental structure of Ifa spiritual technology. There is a pyramid shaped mound in Eredo surrounded by a wall seventy feet high and one hundred miles long. Local tradition associates the earthworks with Bilikisu Sungbo, which is the Islamic name for the Queen of Sheba. The British archeologists investigating the site refuse to believe it is associated with the Queen of Sheba because they do not understand the word Bilikisu Sungbo is a title and not the name of a person. Hakim Awyan says the royal position of the Pharaoh in ancient Egypt was granted by matrilineal selection, which means the priestesses of the royal court selected the heir to the Egyptian throne. The priestesses who were a part of the selection process worshiped the cow and the cow is represented in Egyptian sculpture resting its chin on the head of the Pharaoh a symbol of "making the head" or initiation. The cow is sacred to Hathor and Hathor is the Egyptian equivalent of Iyaami Osorango, the women who have direct involvement in the selection of Kings in Yoruba culture. The temples run by female devotees of Hathor typically were surrounded by large circular fences most notably the temple compound in Yemen located due east from Ethiopia which is also a temple of Bilikisu Sungbo. This means we have a Yoruba temple in Erdo of Egyptian design honoring an Ethiopian Priestess. Archeologists have no clue. (This anomaly will be discussed in a future installment of this article)

Back to the point, Christopher Dunn has confirmed Hakim Awyan's statement about the function of the pyramid from a technological point of view. Both Tesla and Maxwell have provided a theoretical explanation that supports Dunn's description. Hakim Awyan obviously does not need any validation to carry forward the wisdom of his ancestors, but those who study culture and history might want to consider the validity of oral tradition as a way of understanding history as opposed to the more popular method of trying to get history to conform to popular prejudice.

According to Egyptian Creation Myth the universe came into existence through the ejaculation of Ptah. Science calls this the "Big Bang", the expulsion of all the potential energy and matter in the Universe generated from a single source of infinite density. In Yoruba this singularity is called Oyigioyigi meaning the "Eternal Rock of Creation", the stone from which everything is born (the reason stones are sacred in Yoruba culture rocks are the Eternal Mother). If you take an ordinary rock and blow it up all you have left is scattered debris. The reason we do not have scattered debris from the Big Bang is because the initial moment of existence resulted in the manifestation of a universe in which none of the present laws of physics were in evidence. That is because the temperature was so intense none of the atomic structures that give form to the evolutionary process were able to stabilize. In the beginning the Universe was pure unconditioned radiant energy called ase in Yoruba. The universe existed in this state for a fraction of a second then started to cool (ori tutu). The cooling process created a medium for the containment of sound waves generated by the initial explosion. These sound waves are called Oro in Yoruba meaning Word of Power and are referred to in the Torah as the Word of God. Sound creates invisible geometric patterns that permeate time and space (currently called string theory in physics). These patterns create invisible structures for increasingly complex manifestations of ase eventually leading to the manifestation of physical matter. These structures are the foundation of consciousness and the basis for the Yoruba belief that everything in the universe has ori. The primal geometric patterns were described by Plato based on his studies in Egypt. Later in history these patterns became the basis for Islamic Temple art. The sound from the primal moment of Creation is still detectable on radio telescopes and recently the Hubble telescope captured images of a band of light emanating from the moment of Creation. The wave band from the explosion created by the big bang is perfectly resonate with the shafts in the Pyramid at Giza and has the effect of amplifying these sounds as they are directed towards the Kings Chamber and the Queens Chamber. The Pyramid is a magnet for the absorption of the sound of Creation. Yes, our ancient African ancestors were that sophisticated and we are only beginning to re-discover their ageless wisdom.

As the universe cooled sub-atomic particles developed as infinitesimally small reflections of the galactic geometric patterns created by the Big Bang. These patterns are all spherical in form with a variety of plus and minus electromagnetic polarities existing within the sphere. As the universe cools these patterns replicate with increasing degrees of density. Ifa refers to this process as the descent of ase from Orun (The Invisible Realm) to Aye (The Physical Realm). The structure of these forms can be examined by studying Platonic geometry. But this is only half the picture. Form is sustained by dynamics meaning a system of energetic propulsion moving the form through the cycle of life, death, transformation and rebirth. The infusion of form with dynamics is mapped in the markings of Odu, which are two-dimensional symbols of a three dimensions energy exchange (described in part one of this article). Odu patters are a template representing the various ways unformed radiant energy (ase) moves between the visible and the invisible realms of Being. Visualizing the geometric patterns created by sound infused with radiant energy created by constant motion implicit in the structure of Odu generates a visual map of the essential nature of everything that exists in the physical universe. In Ifa the component of sound is added to Odu through the use of ofo ase meaning the power of incantations. In Ifa the understanding of these principles comes from Orunmila who is known by the praise name Elerin ipin meaning witness to Creation. The discipline of Ifa is the ability to grasp and make use of the fundamental principles of manifestation. It is sacred science.

The Shape of the Pyramid at Giza is the construction in Stone of one of the basic geometric patterns manifested by sound. The shafts in the pyramid are the openings for the radiant energy described by Odu. If you understand these two principles you have the ability to transform reality. The pyramid is a machine used to help form and shape the earth itself insuring stability and fertility by accumulating the fundamental energy source of Creation and then consciously directing it (ritual) through underground water channels where ever you want it to go. The entire Giza plateau is honeycombed with underground tunnels used to move water. These tunnels extend for hundreds of miles into the desert. Egyptologists pretend they don't exist. The pyramid is a terra-forming machine built to enrich the planet we live on. The sacred technology used to operate this machine is still evident in Nigeria among the Yoruba initiates of Ifa. The Awoni are initiates living at the palace of the Oni (king) in Ile Ife who saying daily prayers for the elevation of all Ifa and Orisa worshipers. These prayers are spoken over underground water systems. The same technology has been preserved in European occult traditions in the myths associated with the Holy Grail and is the source of the folklore associated with wishing wells. (This will be discussed in detail in future installments to this article)

Ancient Africans, long before the Creation of Pyramids and long before written history, discovered the principle of capturing primal radiant energy in underground temples built with walls of alternating layers of organic (dirt) and inorganic (rock) material. These underground temples were placed on energy lines inherent in the structure of the earth itself and aligned with astral bodies to absorb radiant energy from both heaven and earth. The connection between these two forces of energy is symbolized throughout Africa as a staff in the form of a snake with the image of a bird at the apex of the snake. In Yoruba culture the elders of Egbe Obatala who are the guardians of this ancient African wisdom that predates both Yoruba and Egyptian culture. The staff of Obatala survives in Western culture as the symbol of the Caduceus used to represent the medical profession.

Ifa teaches that every force in Nature has an equal and opposite reaction. The closer modern science comes to rediscovering the mysteries of our ancient ancestors the more insidious becomes the opposition to that discovery.

On the day after Nicolas Tesla died all of his research was confiscated by the Department of Navel intelligence and has not been seen since. This could be why Egyptology is smothered in such nonsensical rhetoric; people who build modern empires and eventually buy television networks do not support the idea of free energy (remember the recent stock market scandals, they were all about creating obscene profits from public utilities).

Ifa myth like all sacred literature born of Spirit is both a reflection of real history and a key towards understanding the inner dimensions of the human struggle to grasp the meaning of self and world. If we take another look at the Ifa Creation Myth and interpret the waters of the earth as the unformed consciousness of the human spirit we are blessed with the revelation of a true awo (mystery). Just as the magical ritual of Obatala creates land on the planet, the ritual and discipline of Obatala worship creates land in the midst of the chaos in our unconscious self. It is a formula for what psychologists call self-actualization. Obatala created a land called Ile Ife meaning the House of Love. In the endeavor we call historical research that is known as a big clue.