Themes distilled across both tiers

- Knowledge is stratified and guarded: Dibia/Ofeke; "what I am permitted to write" (Umeh); teaching ogwu to Ofeke would end humanity; even Umeh's father deferred deep transmissions until maturity.

- Word is creative force: Atu creates by mouth; Okwu Mbu binds God; the Dibia's word is the Spirit's word; prayer-words force mental images (T2's Ikenga argument) — speech is technology.

- Justice is cosmic and automatic: kalma kalma, the mirror-judgement, isi-kota-ebu (the head that hooks the wasp nest gets stung), ife melu onye bu anu melu onwe ya — what befalls one is self-inflicted.

- Continuity with Egypt (T1's running thesis): Om; Ato=Hathor; Atu=Atum/Thoth; Aro=Horus; Ose Ete=Seth; Idemmili=Isis; Ora=Ra; Bennu=obu nnunu; Beth=Be; hieroglyphs="Mmadu netalu"; obelisk-pyramid forms; six-part Eye currency. (Umeh's diffusionist frame — hold as the author's position.)

- Reclamation against colonial distortion: recurring in both tiers — mistranslations (Chineke, Abiama, Agwu Nsi), "animism," demonization of Nri, lost counting, imported wrestling, "witch children" as gifted children (T2), fear/shame vs heritage confidence (T2 — Ama Chi's taboo essay).

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