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About the Ibo surname

Ibo or Igbo chiefs may be descended from Igba'u Tsion ,or Yaga-Be'a Tseyun ,king of Abyssinia until
about 93 BC ,corresponding to 1294 of the currently used global aera of begin in 1387 BC ,
the son of Amala-Ka Wa-Kini ,who might have basically been a Chinese King .

He is namely identical with Mithridat ,father of Sinatruk,king of Parthyaia until about 94 BC,called
also Mari Dyatta ,Oranmiyan Odede ,Yama Dad ,Amal,Amaliwaca ,Samaale Osmaan,father of
Garare Karuure ,Osmo Kaleva,Kale-'Aba,Suoma Torum,Kalvis,Taycanamu Chimor Capac,father
of Guacricaur ,Ticatamen ,father of Sicuirancha,Manko,father of Sintche Roca ,Makankira ,
father of Shekarawa or Karawarawa ,and by several other names by different peoples in their own languages .
He was the father ,or chief of Kale people,who are the Maur Tsigan .

Igbo people of Biafra may be related to Ba-Jara ,called also Bea-Fada ,so Igba'u ,son of Amalaka may
be identical with,or might have had very close relations with Bara-Jara ,son of Samaale , and Fada-Zawa ,
successor,maybe son of Ima Dad ,as they were called in Somalia and Gao respectively .
Bara-Jara may be the ancestor of Bara people in the Holy Land of America too ,called also Pa-Kanga .
Tapuyo peoples,to whom they belong ,may well be named after the great Tapu of Io ,established in a
mountain on the land of Irihia,that might be the one now called Jatapu mountain ,according to Maori tradition
of Aotearoa ,that Mango might have reigned at,and in the city of Mana(g)o .
He was a Maori chief,and called hence Taycanamu ,that refers to Te-Ika(n)-a-Maui ,the main island
of New Zealand .
Chiefs of the Tupi-spekaing Kangapeba ( Kanga-Pa-Igbe'a ) thus may also be descended from Igbe'a Tsiyon ,
as may the relatives of the also related Bara-Sona in New Guinea,some of the Sona and Bau or Amele ,
and Yaga-Hala tribes .
River Baú in Brazil,may also be the named after him .
There are several peoples in Abyssinia and Senegambia with very similar names ,that are for example
Ganjule / Ganjoola ,Mandura / Manduri ,Sidaamu / Sitemu ,Belanda / Balanda ,Sila / Sile ,and possibly others .
So members of such tribes might have taken part in the migration from Abyssinia to Biafra and on
to Biafada led by the king itself or of his descendants .

Ig-Be'a Tsion may be the forefather also of Tsigan Beash chiefs in Eastern Europe ,who would then
be Tsiig(an) Be'a(ash) .
Even Baigo chiefs might have descended from him ,as well as those of the Berta of Fadashi ,
or Bemal people in New Guinea ,named after Be'a ,Amal's son ,or after Bero Mali ,how the latter
was called by the Zarma people .

The first Igbo king in Nigeria was Eri ,who is believed to be the son of "Gad" ,meaning the Byblical one,
who in fact was the ancient Ganda,king of the Kashshu in Kar-Dunia,many centuries before .
He might rather have been the son of one of the four sons of Igba'u called Asa-Gada.

Ibo or Hibo people itself might originate in China ,and may be descended from Hibo,founder of Zhou
dynasty in about 1122 BC ,who is identical ,apparently ,with the king of the Holy Land ,Ed-Da-ya-Wa-Da ,
ruling from about 1123 until 1083 BC ,but the Chinese chronicles say he continued after it .
Most of the kings of the globe were descended from after his time .
He is also the ancestor of Gua-Hibo people in America ,thus close relatives of the Ibo of Africa ,
who may include the rulers of Goa kingdom partly organized by the Bugi people,their close relatives
in the Holy Land and in Oceania .
They may be named after A'a-Bawag-Gawa-La ,the king's consort and mother of one of his children .

She might have been a member of Hitnü people,after whom Tahiti's former name was given ,Hiti-Nui ,
and ,as the people of Hawai'i alias Aloha state originate from there ,might have been descended
from A'al-La-Wa-Ha from Aba-Nawa-Ma-Wan-Na's tribe .

Wen Wang alias Hibo's firstborn son may be the ancestor of Wakar-Ibo tribe in the Holy Land ,
whose name was Bo Yikao , or perhaps Bo-Ig-Ka(r)-Wa ,and he may be the progenitor of some
of the earlier Igbo chieftains too .
The Wakaribo have retained their original Yanomama language ,unlike the Gua-Hibo .
May be there can be found similarities in these languages and in the Ibo .
His Byblical name is A'am-Ma-Wa-Na-Yan .

Wahiba region in Arabia ,may also be named after the Guahiba ,so it is possible that the Ibo
ancestors' path of migration was America -Oceania-China-Arabia-Abyssinia and finally Nigeria .
Their language ,as a tonal one,might at least have been influenced by South Asian languages ,
like what is Chinese itself ,and others,possibly also some extinct or forgotten ones .

See Mamluk,Amal,Kaleva,Suomalainen,Somalia,Klaber,Nanti,.Morcego,Bugi,Catarro,Cara,Vajda,Mango,
Sonnenschein,Ormian,Moldvan,Mascara,Riquelme,Kulifay,Aloha,Pao,Tao,Calabro,Calabresi,Calabrese,
Goa,Gao,Merida,Mandur,Fátima,Potok,Chaco,Balikó,Kasparek,Miszlai,Bau,Bauer,Warszawski,Warschauer,
Schorsch,Vajka,Vajkai,Vajkay,Kaffer,Kaffa,Ming,Wati,Wadi,Bara,Sona and others !

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