It might not be the writer's fault, because many of the contemporaries
have been brainwashed to seeing anything African as demonic. This is
because of their Christian indoctrination or inclination, which is
dotingly maneuvering in the South-east region of Nigeria.
This
was the reason the writer on Tuesday, 07/24/2012 edition of the Daily
Sun used the word 'local' to refer to an aborigine deity in Enugu, in
the article titled, 'Fear of a local deity: Construction firm abandons
Enugu road'. It was this disdainful use of 'local' to anything that was
not of the colonialists that has made many young people not to know how
to speak their native languages or even bear their native names, because
they were thought how to praise their Jehovah or Yahweh in the church
with the English Language sufficed with the belief that Igbo ancestral
names are perilous to one's fate, even when the two names - Jehovah or
Yahweh - are not originally English words, as if the God they talk about
will be angry should they speak Igbo. In the schools too, these
children are given corporal punishment, when they speak the 'local' Igbo
Language, because they have been also brainwashed to seeing anything
Igbo as 'Local' for the exaltation of the enslaving white people.
While
the writer or any of the youths may be forgiven for abysmally regarding
the Igbo tradition and culture as 'local', because of the Colonial
School of Thought they were brought up with, which they have refused to
correct, how would a traditional ruler, who swore to defend the
tradition and culture of his people, but ended up to denigrating them,
be forgiven? This is the outcome of one 'Igwe' Mike Chima, who made
absurd comments against the Awoma deity in Udenu Local Government Area,
Enugu State.
He reportedly regarded the deity as 'manmade'. Hear
him: 'We have three autonomous communities in Obollo Afor. The
contractors met me about the deity, what I did was to refer them to the
oldest man in Obollo Afor. Later I referred them to
Oha-Obollo-in-Council. The Oha directed the particular clan where the
deity is situated to do something about the deity and get it evacuated
and allow the contractors to continue their work. If the clan says they
don't know what to do, then let the contractor evacuate the shrine and
continue their work. I don't see why a big impression or attention
should be given to the deity. After all, we are all Christians .' Bunkum
statement of a man who is regarded as a traditional ruler!
The
question is whether the church is not 'manmade', and if it is on the
Obollo-Afor- Amechara- Ugbaike- Igogoro- Ogrute road linking Udenu and
Igbo-Eze North local government or elsewhere, where the Awoma deity is;
would the Chima who protects Christianity that he lacks knowledge of its
origin say that it should be removed disdainfully? It is better Chima
and some of his political-Igwes or Ezes be called to eschew politics
from the core Igbo beliefs, because going by the traditional ways of
installing Igwe, hardly would any of them be Igwe. What is Igwe-elect?
Or, Eze-elect? Rubbish! Rubbish!! Rubish!!! They used money to buy
morality!
Chima even went as far as repealing the wise
admonishment of one Chief Aloysius Eze, an octogenarian. Reportedly, Eze
said: 'I don't advise anybody to touch the deity. It was installed by
our ancestors. It has no definite origin, but dated from 'aeon'. Any
attempt to touch it will be disastrous. Previous experience showed it
has power to annihilate the whole village….' The reporter said that, 'He
gave an option that instead of removing the deity it should be left
intact while a roundabout should be constructed around it.'
This
is the level the traditional institution is bastardized by those who go
by the title traditional rulers like the traditional neophyte called
Chima. The problem is that many of the people do not make their research
to know what Christianity is all about. A friend once said: EVEN WORSE
NO ONE HARDLY EVEN KNOWS NOW THAT ANIMISM, AS IT IS CALLED AND
UNDERSTOOD NATIVELY, IS THE FIRST AND OLDEST OF THE HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY
SCIENCES. Animist Evolutionary Sciences vs. Darwinian Evolutionary
Sciences would SHOW AND PROVE that the Social Darwinists are badly
mistaken and so is anyone who follows them.
However a LOT of
Asians, Negroes and Caucasians just could not stand to see this as it
would just be awful for them. Anyway, we press on.
The VODOO
RELIGION (SPIRITUALITY) and THE ANIMIST EVOLUTIONARY SCIENCES ARE the
AFRICAN (ASIA too) original Spirituality/Sciences and that is where the
Euro-Caucasian got the pattern from for their version of Church
(Religion) and State (Science). When the people can see that our
Original Versions are the same thing and that Europe's Versions are
simply a badly mangled copies and distortions of each, then the darkness
will recede and the light of life will reach in, restore and rescue us.
The above was in reply to my note that we were very spiritual
before the rapacious white men came with their humiliating tactics and
melted all that we had working for us into colonialism. They made us
hate our ancestors to the glory of their Abraham, Isaac and Jacob...
Because we respected God (not the Roman-made Jehovah and Yahweh) in all
aspect of life, and they didn't understand this spirituality, they
characterized us as Animists. They watered down a lot of fables down our
throat with the aid of their satanic munitions. Now, they have
succeeded in piercing their un-spiritual methods in our lives, our
beloved Africans have become a people who would act only when they refer
to the distorted book called the Bible, which was originally owned by
Africans.
As if he knew, my spiritual mentor affirmed my
position after many months. The agreement reads: It was not a question
of our ancestors practicing Christianity without realising it, but the
other way round, indeed!
The Christians actually stole the
concept of their religion and faith (based on the Risen Christ) from
ancient Egypt (I mean Black Egypt) before the Arab (Ummayad) invasion of
640 AD. That concept of Crucifixion, death and Resurrection, is based
on the ancient Egyptian worship of the goddess of fertility, Eostre,
hence the name, Easter, the Christian festival, which marks the death
and resurrection of Jesus Christ, (rebirth and immortality) which is the
basis of the Christian faith, whose tenets were actually borrowed from
Judaism, by the early Christians. The Jews and the Romans, in their
turn, got this whole concept from Pharaohnic Egypt.
Symbolised
by the ankh, this depiction of immortality and regeneration, inspired
the concept of the Christian cross. This symbol, in Igbo traditional
religion, is depicted by an uli kola nut head motif that resembles a
four-cusped hypocycloid, or a four-pointed star of sorts, that
represents the four market days of Eke, Orie, Afor, Nkwo, the basis of
the Igbo-based lunar calendar. The Nri (Igbo) brought this tradition
with them from ancient Egypt, through Eri, their ancestor and progenitor
and his descendants. It is therefore the white Christian world that is
practicing African traditional religion without realising it, and not
the other way round.
Are people like the marooned Chima reading?
So, it is very important that people like him stopped following the
crowed against anything Igbo. People like him have become the real
agents of evil against Igbo nature-instituted norms, and they should
desist.
Odimegwu Onwumere is the Coordinator, Concerned Non-Indigenes In Rivers State (CONIRIV). Mobile: +2348032552855
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