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Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by PAGAN9JA(m): 7:01pm On Mar 28, 2018
In a bid to make the Religion Section of Nairaland more fruitful, I request interested parties to kindly collect data and information of your respective tribal Traditional Religions from your inmediate elders and villages so we can piece together more concrete information. This information is crucial to restore Traditional Religion across Nigeria and eliminate certain destructive parasitical foreign ideologies.

We are not here to bash any religion. But the participation of individual Nairalanders can help further the cause of rebuilding and developing indigenous Nigerian spiritualities which can be used for benifit of mankind as a whole.

People of Non-Pagan backgrounds -christians/muslims/atheists, feel free to contribute. Let us keep this civil and respectful to each others religiouns and customs.

Data we are looking for including deities worshipped in family and village shrines, shrine articles, rituals , oracular activities, mythologies , customs , prayers, modes of past activities, festivals , sacrifices etc., practiced/gone into disuse aand thereabouts.

This thread is purely research based. I welcome you all into the discussion.

State your tribe and village upon entering.

The Gods bless a stronger and more united Nigeria.

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Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by Emmanystone: 10:22am On Mar 29, 2018
Wow, PaganNaija, is that you? Hmmm. But are you people so wretched and backward?

You guys claim to do great things for people, but you and your immediate families are always so poor and mostly the kids turnout invalids, like im.becilse. Why?
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by FOLYKAZE(m): 3:43pm On Mar 29, 2018
^^^^ Traditionalists are not materialistic. Been wealthy is not having some billions of dollar in the bank account or flying private jet gotten from scandalous deal on the alter or defrauding of innocent souls. True wealth is ENLIGHTENMENT, BALANCE AND HARMONY and PEACE OF MIND. The abundance of all these bring happiness within.

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Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by PAGAN9JA(m): 6:18pm On Mar 29, 2018
Emmanystone:
Wow, PaganNaija, is that you? Hmmm. But are you people so wretched and backward?

You guys claim to do great things for people, but you and your immediate families are always so poor and mostly the kids turnout invalids, like im.becilse. Why?

Look whos talking. Why do you have to turn this thread into nonsensical talk?


Just read what you wrote again.

Were our ancestors poor and wretched before the colonists came?

As long as our land is free, the crops are full and our forests abundant ,we are rich.

Some of us are poor because your slave masters r.aped our land and colonized it. Know ye well.

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Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by Emmanystone: 9:08pm On Mar 29, 2018
PAGAN9JA:


Look whos talking. Why do you have to turn this thread into nonsensical talk?


Just read what you wrote again.

Were our ancestors poor and wretched before the colonists came?

As long as our land is free, the crops are full and our forests abundant ,we are rich.

Some of us are poor because your slave masters r.aped our land and colonized it. Know ye well.
Were our ancestors witch doctors?
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by PAGAN9JA(m): 6:47am On Mar 30, 2018
Emmanystone:

Were our ancestors witch doctors?

what is a witch doctor?

Are all the Japanese, Chinese and Indians witch doctors? They are not christians/muslims. So What are they?

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Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by Emmanystone: 10:19am On Mar 30, 2018
PAGAN9JA:


what is a witch doctor?

Are all the Japanese, Chinese and Indians witch doctors? They are not christians/muslims. So What are they?
Are all the Japanese and Chinese worshipping ancestors?
Who are the ancestors, aren't they demons?
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by PAGAN9JA(m): 12:40pm On Mar 30, 2018
Emmanystone:

Are all the Japanese and Chinese worshipping ancestors?
Who are the ancestors, aren't they demons?

Hi wasnt jesus a gigolo aand muhammad a pedophile?

Did your dad have se.x with a she-goat to produce you? I'm so confused please help me here.
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by Aaronsrod: 2:54pm On Mar 30, 2018
Emmanystone:

Were our ancestors witch doctors?

This is why we are cursed. Our ancestors warship the devil and God is punishing us in this times.
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by Emmanystone: 3:21pm On Mar 30, 2018
Aaronsrod:


This is why we are cursed. Our ancestors warship the devil and God is punishing us in this times.
Yet the pagans wants us to keep worshipping demons further plunging the furure generarions into curses.
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by Emmanystone: 3:24pm On Mar 30, 2018
PAGAN9JA:


Hi wasnt jesus a gigolo aand muhammad a pedophile?

Did your dad have se.x with a she-goat to produce you? I'm so confused please help me here.
Hahahahahahahaha. Na your excuse for worshipping demons be this? Lolzzzzz.

Pls worship your demons, but stop making it seem like you are doing aomerhing honerable.
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by PAGAN9JA(m): 3:32pm On Mar 30, 2018
Emmanystone:

Hahahahahahahaha. Na your excuse for worshipping demons be this? Lolzzzzz.

Pls worship your demons, but stop making it seem like you are doing aomerhing honerable.

go worship your dead meat on stick
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by Aaronsrod: 3:34pm On Mar 30, 2018
Emmanystone:

Yet the pagans wants us to keep worshipping demons further plunging the furure generarions into curses.

Let us pray God will send a plague to destroy those who do not seek deliverance. We pray their children be consumed by disease and their childrens children will be confined in the apartments of the depraved. Let us also destroy their shrines and remove all stain and memory of our wicked ancestors from this land forever.

We pray that one day Nigeria will be found worthy to stand and serve at the side of Gods people, Israel!

Amen.
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by PAGAN9JA(m): 3:35pm On Mar 30, 2018
Aaronsrod:


This is why we are cursed. Our ancestors warship the devil and God is punishing us in this times.

are these same ancestors killing people in the name of their blood thirsty arabic deity? or extorting money from people in the name of their zomhie jesus.

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Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by PAGAN9JA(m): 5:53pm On Mar 30, 2018
Aaronsrod:


Let us pray God will send a plague to destroy those who do not seek deliverance. We pray their children be consumed by disease and their childrens children will be confined in the apartments of the depraved. Let us also destroy their shrines and remove all stain and memory of our wicked ancestors from this land forever.

We pray that one day Nigeria will be found worthy to stand and serve at the side of Gods people, Israel!

Amen.

Wicked people can only pray for wicked to befall fellow human beings. The real Witches.

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Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by Aaronsrod: 6:59pm On Mar 30, 2018
PAGAN9JA:


are these same ancestors killing people in the name of their blood thirsty arabic deity? or extorting money from people in the name of their zomhie jesus.

Our ancestors have destroyed us with their satanic rituals. We are still under this curses. As they are killing us so must we remove them and their shrines from our nation and be reborn in Christ alone/
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by PAGAN9JA(m): 7:18pm On Mar 30, 2018
Aaronsrod:


Our ancestors have destroyed us with their satanic rituals. We are still under this curses. As they are killing us so must we remove them and their shrines from our nation and be reborn in Christ alone/

Shut your mouth. its easy to blame your simple aloof ancestors for your own shortcomings.

have you done any good yourself in your miserable pathetiic life?
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by Emmanystone: 8:36pm On Mar 30, 2018
Aaronsrod:


Let us pray God will send a plague to destroy those who do not seek deliverance. We pray their children be consumed by disease and their childrens children will be confined in the apartments of the depraved. Let us also destroy their shrines and remove all stain and memory of our wicked ancestors from this land forever.

We pray that one day Nigeria will be found worthy to stand and serve at the side of Gods people, Israel!

Amen.
God will not answer this prayer. Rather He'd answer the prayer of salvation of the souls of these men. If their Children embrace Christ, the demons their fathers had worahipped will be dispelled.

We see communities calling in pastors to destroy shrines and cut down evil grooves. When there's no one to offer blood to those demons, the demons will react, then God will intervene dispelling them permanently.

But, to pray for God to kill people? It won't happen. Jesus died so that people don't die anymore. If you see a plague, it's the devil, not God.
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by Emmanystone: 8:40pm On Mar 30, 2018
PAGAN9JA:


go worship your dead meat on stick
Hahahahahaha. Dead meat on stick who came into your territory and turned your children against you.

How many youths in your community worships demons like you? Aren't they all worshipping the 'Dead meat on stick?'

Demons are parading themselves to you as your ancestors just to get worship from you. Open your eyes, they are condemned and already hell bound, but you have hope, you are still alive.

REPENT AND JESUS WILL DELIVER YOU FROM SATAN.
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by budaatum: 8:52pm On Mar 30, 2018
PAGAN9JA:
We are not here to bash any religion.
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by Nuhvey(m): 9:04pm On Mar 30, 2018
Aaronsrod:


Let us pray God will send a plague to destroy those who do not seek deliverance. We pray their children be consumed by disease and their childrens children will be confined in the apartments of the depraved. Let us also destroy their shrines and remove all stain and memory of our wicked ancestors from this land forever.

We pray that one day Nigeria will be found worthy to stand and serve at the side of Gods people, Israel!

Amen.
Typical Christian. As$ licking Israel to the detriment of our own culture and religion.. #sighs

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Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by vaxx: 9:20pm On Mar 30, 2018
Emmanystone:

Hahahahahaha. Dead meat on stick who came into your territory and turned your children against you.

How many youths in your community worships demons like you? Aren't they all worshipping the 'Dead meat on stick?'

Demons are parading themselves to you as your ancestors just to get worship from you. Open your eyes, they are condemned and already hell bound, but you have hope, you are still alive.

REPENT AND JESUS WILL DELIVER YOU FROM SATAN.
Do you understand what ancestor literally mean?

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Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by Emmanystone: 11:33pm On Mar 30, 2018
vaxx:
Do you understand what ancestor literally mean?
Bros, i am African, and Africans have ancestors. There's no tribe without their Ancestors, except some are different from some.

So, Yes, i know and understand what ancestors literally mean. They are demons.
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by CuteMadridista: 11:44pm On Mar 30, 2018
another promising thread gets derailed

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Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by vaxx: 12:09am On Mar 31, 2018
Emmanystone:

Bros, i am African, and Africans have ancestors. There's no tribe without their Ancestors, except some are different from some.

So, Yes, i know and understand what ancestors literally mean. They are demons.
Then you do not know what ancestors means literally,ancestor simply means the descendant that ones can trace his or her origin to or the line of relation in which ones belong, it is synonymous to word like forefather , predecessor , progenitor or antecedent while demons simply means an evil spirit or malevolent being that punish or torment human at least in a christian perspective, it is synonymous to devil or fallen angel. how do you draw similarities between these two words that are far apart? it seems you have gotten the opposite knowledge of true traditional religion.

TO the Jews Moses, Abraham, Jacob are their ancestor and they easily trace their lineage through them.so venerating the ancestor to us the traditionalist is an expensive usefulness of time just like how it is to the Jews, when venerating the memory of their own ancestors like Abraham, Moses and so on. Our ancestors are part of us. They are there to remind us where we came from and where we should go in the future. We can freely express ourselves today because of what they have accomplished in the past, so why not show them some respect by venerating them just like the Jews did to their own ancestor instead of calling them names that do not belong to them.

YOU ARE DISRESPECTING YOUR FOREFATHERS .

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Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by budaatum: 1:05am On Mar 31, 2018
vaxx:
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YOU ARE DISRESPECTING YOUR FOREFATHERS .
Wọn fi ọwọ osi ju we ile baba wọn.
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by Emmanystone: 8:58am On Mar 31, 2018
vaxx:

Then you do not know what ancestors means literally,ancestor simply means the descendant that ones can trace his or her origin to or the line of relation in which ones belong, it is synonymous to word like forefather , predecessor , progenitor or antecedent
Like i said, we all have ancestors. They are the 'Spirits' of the departed forefathers. The problem begins when you begin to ascribe to them powers which they didn't have while alive. When you begin to offer sacrifices to them, when you begin to adulate and Revere them. When you begin to appease them hoping or asking them to bless your land with this and that. Evoking them to do this or that for you.

Have you asked yourself this question? What powers did these forefathers possessed as humans while alive, and where did they all of a sudden get the powers you ascribe to them now that they are dead?

Putting it clearly; 'what powers do you have now while alive, to be placed in a position of a god when you die? When you die, you'll become a forefather, and the living will begin to pour libation, calling on you for this and or that. How will you come about the power they will ascribe to you? Do the dead possess power at death?

vaxx:

while demons simply means an evil spirit or malevolent being that punish or torment human at least in a christian perspective,
Only Christianity exposes satan that is why he hates Christianity with venom. But for Christianity, satan will keep men in perpetual bondage of darkness. Demons/fallen angels have been masquerading as gods to men in all the cultures of men and in different ages. Only the light of the gospel reveals who and what they truly are.

Demons/familiar spirits possessed our forefathers just like they possess the pagans now, after their dead, these demons departs from the hosts, taking another body of even a baby in the womb as host, when that child is born, the memories of the old man who had been long dead gets downloaded into the new child, and the child will begin to say things grandpa did. because you don't know what happened, you call it 'reincarnation'. Lies. Satanic antics to keep you bound.

The Spirits parading as forefathers are demons/familiar spirits. Our forefathers never possessed special powers while alive, no one gave them powers at death

vaxx:

it is synonymous to devil or fallen angel. how do you draw similarities between these two words that are far apart? it seems you have gotten the opposite knowledge of true traditional religion.
They are demons/fallen angels/familiar spirits sir. It has nothing to do with morphology (words). It has everything to do with their mode of operations. How they act.
vaxx:

TO the Jews Moses, Abraham, Jacob are their ancestor and they easily trace their lineage through them
Bad reference. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Daniel, David etc are our ancestors, yes. The question remains, what special powers did they possesses on their own to put them in the place of gods at death?

1. Do the Jews and Christians ascribe powers to these ancestors? No.
2. Do the Jews/Christians call these men for help? No
3. Do the Jews/Christians see these men as conduit to YHWH? Hell No.
4. Do they pour libation, offer sacrifices, and worship these men? No.

The Jew's ancestors are not gods to them pls.

vaxx:

so venerating the ancestor to us the traditionalist is an expensive usefulness of time just like how it is to the Jews, when venerating the memory of their own ancestors like Abraham, Moses and so on. Our ancestors are part of us.
Again, it's not the same. What your ancestors are to you, is worlds apart from what the ancestor are to the Jews.
vaxx:

They are there to remind us where we came from and where we should go in the future.
That is where you are wrong. The demons parading as the ancestors misleads you, especially when it concerns your future. You are told there's no devil. They make you believe devil is only a myth propagated by the Christians. You believe them.

In ATR, your gods only do you good except you default. Even after that, after appeasements, it ends there. In ATR, no justice for the oppressed. No recompense for the wicked(maybe there's no wickedness in ATR?).
But the question you have not asked yourself is, 'why all these evil in the world? What happens to those who are so heartless as to behead another human for whatever reason. What will happen to a man or woman who in a quest to make money, kills a pregnant woman, cuts her open, takes the baby in her, pounds it into pulp to make money rituals?

In ATR, when you die, you become an ancestor automatically, since there's no hellfire or an authority that'll demands from you an accounts of what you did, what happens to the evil committed by you while alive?

When you think critically, you'll see that you have been deceived about your future. There is a day for accountability. No man will escape it.

Life is a Seed in itself, and everything we do, we sow seeds, when Seeds are sown, they bear fruits. Whatsoever a man sows, he shall reap it. Believe it or not.

vaxx:

We can freely express ourselves today because of what they have accomplished in the past, so why not show them some respect by venerating them just like the Jews did to their own ancestor instead of calling them names that do not belong to them.
@bolded. What they accomplished in the past for you?

Show respect to the dead? They are dead and awaiting to receive their rewards of how they lived on earth. Why do you think they need our respect?
vaxx:

YOU ARE DISRESPECTING YOUR FOREFATHERS .
No, i am not disrespecting my forefathers. My forefathers are dead, hence; has no need for my respect. They don't need my veneration because you venerate a living person. When it gets to the dead, it because idol worship.

Satan is exposed.
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by vaxx: 9:30am On Mar 31, 2018
budaatum:

Wọn fi ọwọ osi ju we ile baba wọn.




o ni oruko ti won pe iru won
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by realmindz: 10:09am On Mar 31, 2018
Aaronsrod:


Let us pray God will send a plague to destroy those who do not seek deliverance. We pray their children be consumed by disease and their childrens children will be confined in the apartments of the depraved. Let us also destroy their shrines and remove all stain and memory of our wicked ancestors from this land forever.

We pray that one day Nigeria will be found worthy to stand and serve at the side of Gods people, Israel!

Amen.

we shall be born again and become descendants of the holy Jews.

it will be a thing of joy to visits their holy lands so we shall be cleaned from the curses of our evil land.... grin

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Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by realmindz: 10:14am On Mar 31, 2018
Emmanystone:

Like i said, we all have ancestors. They are the 'Spirits' of the departed forefathers. The problem begins when you begin to ascribe to them powers which they didn't have while alive. When you begin to offer sacrifices to them, when you begin to adulate and Revere them. When you begin to appease them hoping or asking them to bless your land with this and that. Evoking them to do this or that for you.

Have you asked yourself this question? What powers did these forefathers possessed as humans while alive, and where did they all of a sudden get the powers you ascribe to them now that they are dead?

Putting it clearly; 'what powers do you have now while alive, to be placed in a position of a god when you die? When you die, you'll become a forefather, and the living will begin to pour libation, calling on you for this and or that. How will you come about the power they will ascribe to you? Do the dead possess power at death?


Only Christianity exposes satan that is why he hates Christianity with venom. But for Christianity, satan will keep men in perpetual bondage of darkness. Demons/fallen angels have been masquerading as gods to men in all the cultures of men and in different ages. Only the light of the gospel reveals who and what they truly are.

Demons/familiar spirits possessed our forefathers just like they possess the pagans now, after their dead, these demons departs from the hosts, taking another body of even a baby in the womb as host, when that child is born, the memories of the old man who had been long dead gets downloaded into the new child, and the child will begin to say things grandpa did. because you don't know what happened, you call it 'reincarnation'. Lies. Satanic antics to keep you bound.

The Spirits parading as forefathers are demons/familiar spirits. Our forefathers never possessed special powers while alive, no one gave them powers at death


They are demons/fallen angels/familiar spirits sir. It has nothing to do with morphology (words). It has everything to do with their mode of operations. How they act.


Bad reference. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Daniel, David etc are our ancestors, yes. The question remains, what special powers did they possesses on their own to put them in the place of gods at death?


1. Do the Jews and Christians ascribe powers to these ancestors? No.
2. Do the Jews/Christians call these men for help? No
3. Do the Jews/Christians see these men as conduit to YHWH? Hell No.
4. Do they pour libation, offer sacrifices, and worship these men? No.

The Jew's ancestors are not gods to them pls.


Again, it's not the same. What your ancestors are to you, is worlds apart from what the ancestor are to the Jews.

That is where you are wrong. The demons parading as the ancestors misleads you, especially when it concerns your future. You are told there's no devil. They make you believe devil is only a myth propagated by the Christians. You believe them.

In ATR, your gods only do you good except you default. Even after that, after appeasements, it ends there. In ATR, no justice for the oppressed. No recompense for the wicked(maybe there's no wickedness in ATR?).
But the question you have not asked yourself is, 'why all these evil in the world? What happens to those who are so heartless as to behead another human for whatever reason. What will happen to a man or woman who in a quest to make money, kills a pregnant woman, cuts her open, takes the baby in her, pounds it into pulp to make money rituals?

In ATR, when you die, you become an ancestor automatically, since there's no hellfire or an authority that'll demands from you an accounts of what you did, what happens to the evil committed by you while alive?

When you think critically, you'll see that you have been deceived about your future. There is a day for accountability. No man will escape it.

Life is a Seed in itself, and everything we do, we sow seeds, when Seeds are sown, they bear fruits. Whatsoever a man sows, he shall reap it. Believe it or not.


@bolded. What they accomplished in the past for you?

Show respect to the dead? They are dead and awaiting to receive their rewards of how they lived on earth. Why do you think they need our respect?

No, i am not disrespecting my forefathers. My forefathers Bad reference. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Daniel, David etc are our ancestors, yes. The question remains, what special powers did they possesses on their own to put them in the place of gods at death? When it gets to the dead, it because idol worship.

Satan is exposed.

Interesting, so you are a descendant of Abraham Noah Jacob etc very interesting!

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Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by Emmanystone: 10:56am On Mar 31, 2018
realmindz:


Interesting, so you are a descendant of Abraham Noah Jacob etc very interesting!

Yes. I am s Seed of Abraham.

And, i asked a question there, pls give me an answer
Re: Nigerian Traditional Religions - Data Collection Drive by realmindz: 10:57am On Mar 31, 2018
Emmanystone:

Yes. I am s Seed of Abraham.

And, i asked a question there, pls give me an answer

meaning you are a descendant of the Jews, and can you trace your ancestral tree to Abraham?

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