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As Ooni of Ife claims Adam and Eve were created in Ife, here is a list of places science and fiction once said humans started from

The continuous struggle of supremacy between scientific and traditional beliefs regarding the creation and origin of man is not ending anytime soon as Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has waded into the unending debates with claims that Adam and Eve were black people created in Ile-Ife, Osun State.

Oba Ogunwusi, in an interview, stated that procreation started from Ogba-Idera in Ile-Ife, called Garden of Eden by the White men.

According to him, “Adam and Eve are of the black race. And they were created in Ife. Humans are the last creation of Eledumare, and were created in a place we call Ogba Idena (idi eniyan) — which translates to a garden where we became humans.”

He iterated that there are three Ifes; Ife Odaiye, Ife Ooyelagbo and Ile Ife, and Ogba Idena, was where Eledumare called all the angels and said let us create humans.

The Oba also claimed that Noah’s Ark is also in Ife and he would soon give an expose on human history to the whole world, which would prove the Yoruba’s superiority over all.

“Church is Ososi, one of Eledumare’s favourite. He left Ife about 500 years but now back to Yoruba land. Ososi is one who guides one, protects one.

“Ososi protects angels Michael and Gabriel in heaven. It was the white men who confused us, we are the owners of all these churches we see, not the white men.”

Apart from the two major religions, Islam and Christianity, which believe Adam and Eve were created by God in the Garden of Eden, there have also been different narrations as to the origin and history of man.

Africa

Humans were reported to have evolved from Africa, based on archaeological and anthropological evidences.

It is claimed that homonids diverged from other primates somewhere between 2.5 and 4 million years ago in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Scientists also believe the hominids were forced out of their homes by environmental changes, which caused them to adapt to living on the ground and walking upright, instead of climbing.

These Homonids were said to be of different kinds, but all went into extinction, except one; Homo Sapiens, which began migrating from the African continent and populating parts of Europe and Asia. For instance, it is said they reached the Australian continent in canoes sometime between 35,000 and 65,000 years ago.

Scientists studying land masses and climate are certain that the Pleistocene Ice Age created a land bridge that connected Asia and North America (Alaska) over 13,000 years ago. A widely accepted migration theory is that people crossed this land bridge and eventually migrated into North and South America.

Another widely held belief is the evolution of humans from ape-like ancestors, within a period of six million years.

Bipedealism; the ability to walk on two legs, the earliest defining factor of human was said to have evolve 4 million years ago, while other characteristics like large and complex brain, capacity of language and traits like art, symbolic expression, emerged during the past 100,000 years.

These groups assert that humans are primate, and the modern human species, Homo sapiens, had a very close relationship with another primate species; the apes in Africa, where both shared common ancestry, that lived between 8 and 6 million years ago.

They believed Humans first evolved from Africa, and much of human evolution occurred on the continent. The fossils of early humans who lived between 6 and 2 million years ago come entirely from Africa.

Europe

A twist in the proposed origin of man revealed that human evolution began in Europe.

The experts argued that two fossils of an ape-like creature which had human-like teeth have been found in Bulgaria and Greece, dating to 7.2 million years ago named ‘Graecopithecus freybergi’, and nicknamed ‘El Graeco’ by scientists, proving our ancestors were already evolving in Europe 200,000 years before the earliest African hominid.

The species were also found to be several hundred thousand years older than the oldest African homicid, Sahelanthropus tchadensis which was found in Chad.

India

The typical Indian variant is as follows. God made mud figures of a man and a woman and puts them to dry. A horse or two horses, often winged, come and break the figures.

The Creator makes a dog or two dogs who drove the horses away. The horse is punished by being deprived of its wings and obliged to serve the man, and to be harnessed and beaten. The horse wanted to destroy the man just because it was afraid that the man would harness it. In one of the Korku stories trees try to destroy the man, being afraid that the man would begin to cut them.

Another version records that before the creation of man, the world was populated by horses who tried to trample down the figure of Adam that was made of mud, but the dog did not let them do it and until now remains the guard of man. The navel on the human body is the trace of the horse’s hoof, it holds.

Celtic

Celtic mythology does not propose a single version or description of the creation as a whole, as others do, but a few Celtic myths mention that heaven and earth was created by giants, considered by Celts to be the ancient original gods.

The creation took place by the primordial, first god who, by means of a melody played by his breath, brought creation into existence.

A Celtic myth reads: Once upon a time, there was no time and that was when there also was no gods and no man walked the surface of the land. But there was the sea, and where the sea met the land, a mare was born, white and made of sea-foam. And her name was Eiocha.”

Creation continues from an oak tree that grew in the land.

This is where Eiocha gave birth to the first god Cernunnos. Cernunnos mated with Eioch and begot more gods; however, the gods felt lonely because they did not have anyone to command or to worship them, so from the wood of the oak tree they created the first man and woman, as well as other animals. Giants, too, are born from the bark of a tree that Eiocha hurled into the water.

Philippines

Its narrations relays that thousands of years ago, the world was only a great sea of water above what stretched to the sky. The water kingdom was ruled by god, Maguayan, and the sky was ruled by the great god, Captan.

Maguayan had a daughter called Lidagat; the sea, who got married to Capton son, Lihangin, the wind and both had three male and a female, with each possessing specific powers.

Lidagat and Lihangin later died and the children were left in the custody of their grandparents to be looked after.

One of the sons, Licalibutan became power drunk and coaxed his brothers to wage war against Captan in the sky, which they initial declined but later agreed.

When they got to the sky, its entrance was guarded with gates of steel and Licalibutan, who has the power of winds let out the strongest to destroy the gates, but upon entering, they met Captan with an angry and furious face, which made them turned to their hills.

Captan sent bolts of lightning after them, which struck them each; breaking Licalibutan rocky body into pieces, which fell into the sea.

His body was so huge that some parts were above the water, becoming what is known as land.

Meanwhile, their sister Lisuga, who knew nothing about the war and the destruction of her brothers decided to go to the sky in search of them.

Captan who was still infuriated with anger, struck her too with lightning, and her silvery body broke into thousands of pieces.

He then summoned the Maguayan and accusing him of instigating an attack in the sky to which he (Maguayan) denied, saying he has been asleep far down in the sea.

Both wept for the loss of their grandchildren as their powers could not bring them back to life.

According to the Philipphines, it was golden Liadlao who became the sun, and copper Libulan the moon, while the thousands of pieces of silver Lisuga shine as the stars of heaven. To wicked Licalibutan the gods gave no light, but resolved to make his body support a new race of people. So Captan gave Maguayan a seed, and he planted it on the land, which, as you will remember, was part of Licalibutan’s huge body.

Soon a bamboo tree grew up, and from the hollow of one of its branches a man and a woman came out. The man’s name was Sicalac, and the woman was called Sicabay. They were the parents of the human race.

With each race claiming progenitor of human existence, we may never know which is wrong, if at all, any of them are right.

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