Oral tradition has it that the Calabar Kingdom and the indigenes of the old Calabar Kingdom, located at the coastal South South Nigeria existed thousands of years before the current era. Many believe that the old Calabar Kingdom is the original location of the Biblical Garden of Eden .

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  • Oral tradition has it that the Calabar Kingdom and the indigenes of the old Calabar Kingdom, located at the coastal South South Nigeria existed thousands of years before the current era. Many believe that the old Calabar Kingdom is the original location of the Biblical Garden of Eden . Others believe that the indigenes of the old Calabar Kingdom were Jews that resulted from mixed marriage of Israelites and Egyptians who migrated from Egypt through Ethiopia and Sudan and from where they moved to Cameroon, and from Cameroon to their location at the coastal Southeastern Nigeria where they formed their Kingdom thousands of years before Christ. However, the people of Calabar have had ancient religious practices that strongly resembled some of the Jewish Torah which European missionaries and traders that arrived in the early 1400s called "Traditional Religion. These include their traditional sacrifice of animals (rituals) by the presiding male of each village, or of a group of villages, for purification, especially during times of sickness. According to Nair (1975), in early history of Nigeria, the Efik people (people of old Calabar Kingdom were often referred to as Efik Eburutu, "Ebrutu" being a local term that came into being as a result of the corruption of the word "Hebrew", and Ututu. Ututu being one of the early settlements of the Efik people in the coastal southeastern Nigeria. Hence, the Jewish origin of the Efik people was well known in early history. Also, Hebrew words are in common use within the region of the old Calabar Kingdom. For example, Itai, the traditional head of Annang group is a Hebrew word and the name of one of King David's Army General. Another group in the Calabar Kingdom, has the name Oron which is a name of a prominent Hebrew Industrial city in Israel.
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  • Calabar Kingdom
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  • Oral tradition has it that the Calabar Kingdom and the indigenes of the old Calabar Kingdom, located at the coastal South South Nigeria existed thousands of years before the current era. Many believe that the old Calabar Kingdom is the original location of the Biblical Garden of Eden .
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  • Calabar Kingdom
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