Ihe Ọmụmụ Nke Abụọ - Akwa Ọkụkọ Igbo 🥚 (igbo egg) Lesson 2 continuation...
Ọdịnanị - The Sacred Arts and Science of the Igbo People
Ọdịnanị - The Sacred Arts and Science of the Igbo People
Ụtụtụ ọma nụ Ụmụnne m!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Taata bụ Ahịa Nkwo ga akwotara anyị ngọzi, ihe akụakụ, na ihe nriju afọ oooo.. Iseeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
Ihe Ọmụmụ Nke Abụọ - Akwa Ọkụkọ Igbo 🥚 (igbo egg) Lesson 2 continuation...
(iii) It could be used in cleansing abomination from somebody who
jumped into a grave, whether fully dug or being dug. The person is
said to have chosen death. It looks funny but some people do jump
into the grave being dug in their course of demonstrating the
bitterness such death had evoked in them.
In such cases, the
traditional priest sets them free from death by encircling their legs
with egg and other items. The egg and other items are thrown into the
grave with the trunk of a plantain and buried before a new grave is
dug.
Another way of cleansing abomination is to roll the egg over
the eyes of somebody that saw an abominable episode. An example
is the eyes of somebody that saw a person that hanged himself. The
sight is an abomination.
It is believed that the sight should be
cleansed off otherwise it will live with that person and can instigate
him or her to commit suicide by hanging.
An example is the body of
Okonkwo who hanged himself in Things Fall Apart. Achebe (1958)
It is against our custom, said none of the men. It is an
abomination for a man to take his own life. It is an offence
against the Earth, and a man who commits it will not be buried
by his clansmen.
His body is evil, and only strangers may touch
it.
iv. It is used in issuing notices to deities. The Agbaja Abatete
Community Association that has its national headquarters at Nkwo
Agbaja Square, Abatete, demanded that the chief priest of Nkwo should cut down some tree branches inside which hoodlums hide to
waylay people.
The chief priest that included two eggs and two
chickens in the items required for some ritual sacrifices before the
cutting down of the branches, explained to the researcher that he
would use both the eggs and the chickens in cleansing the shrine
before notifying the deity of the ritual sacrifices that would be carried
out in future. According to him, it was during the ritual sacrifice of
the deity that he would request the permission of the deity for cutting
down of the branches. The eggs and chickens are used in cleansing
although chickens are greater in quality.
(b) Chicken (ọkụkọ) : The next stage of Igbo utilization of Fowl in carrying out
sacrifices is the use made of the chicken Fowl’s life is the chicken. It is used
in performing different ceremonies because of its purity. By its stage of life
it has not copulated with another.
(i) It is used in cleansing off sacrilege. It is believed that it has more
potency than the egg in cleansing an abomination. So it is used in
cleansing off heavy bondage.
(ii) It is used in convening a meeting of deities. When deities are
requested to assemble at a place, the chicken is used in offering a
sacrifice so that gods and goddesses would come together.
(iii) ọkụkọ Igbo is used in ending up the marriage of a man and a woman.
When a marriage would no longer continue, one party sues for
divorce. There are different things that different communities use to
complete the process of divorce. The Amansea Community in Awka
North Local Government Area, Anambra State, uses ọkụkọ to
carry out a ritual that brings the process of divorce to an end otherwise whatever child the supposed divorcee gives birth to belong to that
husband of hers. This ritual ceremony is called ‘Iwa nwanyi uyom’.
Wait for the 3rd Lesson
#OdinaniAmaka
#IgboAmaka
#ECC
Ọdịnanị - The Sacred Arts and Science of the Igbo People
Ụtụtụ ọma nụ Ụmụnne m!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Taata bụ Ahịa Nkwo ga akwotara anyị ngọzi, ihe akụakụ, na ihe nriju afọ oooo.. Iseeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
Ihe Ọmụmụ Nke Abụọ - Akwa Ọkụkọ Igbo 🥚 (igbo egg) Lesson 2 continuation...
(iii) It could be used in cleansing abomination from somebody who
jumped into a grave, whether fully dug or being dug. The person is
said to have chosen death. It looks funny but some people do jump
into the grave being dug in their course of demonstrating the
bitterness such death had evoked in them.
In such cases, the
traditional priest sets them free from death by encircling their legs
with egg and other items. The egg and other items are thrown into the
grave with the trunk of a plantain and buried before a new grave is
dug.
Another way of cleansing abomination is to roll the egg over
the eyes of somebody that saw an abominable episode. An example
is the eyes of somebody that saw a person that hanged himself. The
sight is an abomination.
It is believed that the sight should be
cleansed off otherwise it will live with that person and can instigate
him or her to commit suicide by hanging.
An example is the body of
Okonkwo who hanged himself in Things Fall Apart. Achebe (1958)
It is against our custom, said none of the men. It is an
abomination for a man to take his own life. It is an offence
against the Earth, and a man who commits it will not be buried
by his clansmen.
His body is evil, and only strangers may touch
it.
iv. It is used in issuing notices to deities. The Agbaja Abatete
Community Association that has its national headquarters at Nkwo
Agbaja Square, Abatete, demanded that the chief priest of Nkwo should cut down some tree branches inside which hoodlums hide to
waylay people.
The chief priest that included two eggs and two
chickens in the items required for some ritual sacrifices before the
cutting down of the branches, explained to the researcher that he
would use both the eggs and the chickens in cleansing the shrine
before notifying the deity of the ritual sacrifices that would be carried
out in future. According to him, it was during the ritual sacrifice of
the deity that he would request the permission of the deity for cutting
down of the branches. The eggs and chickens are used in cleansing
although chickens are greater in quality.
(b) Chicken (ọkụkọ) : The next stage of Igbo utilization of Fowl in carrying out
sacrifices is the use made of the chicken Fowl’s life is the chicken. It is used
in performing different ceremonies because of its purity. By its stage of life
it has not copulated with another.
(i) It is used in cleansing off sacrilege. It is believed that it has more
potency than the egg in cleansing an abomination. So it is used in
cleansing off heavy bondage.
(ii) It is used in convening a meeting of deities. When deities are
requested to assemble at a place, the chicken is used in offering a
sacrifice so that gods and goddesses would come together.
(iii) ọkụkọ Igbo is used in ending up the marriage of a man and a woman.
When a marriage would no longer continue, one party sues for
divorce. There are different things that different communities use to
complete the process of divorce. The Amansea Community in Awka
North Local Government Area, Anambra State, uses ọkụkọ to
carry out a ritual that brings the process of divorce to an end otherwise whatever child the supposed divorcee gives birth to belong to that
husband of hers. This ritual ceremony is called ‘Iwa nwanyi uyom’.
Wait for the 3rd Lesson
#OdinaniAmaka
#IgboAmaka
#ECC
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