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BIBLICAL TRADITIONS OF IGBOS BEFORE THE MISSIONARIES CAME TO AFRICA

1. NSO NWANYI
In Igboland a women live apart from their husbands and neither cooks for them nor enters their husband’s quarters when she is in her period, she is seen as unclean.
Even up till today such practice is still applicable in some parts of Igboland especially by the traditionalists.

Before a woman can enter the palace of Obi of Onitsha , she will be asked if she is in her period, if yes, she will be asked to stay out.

Leviticus 15: 19-20
When a woman has her monthly period, she remains unclean, anyone who touches her or anything she has sat on becomes unclean.

2. ANA OBI
An Igbo man’s ancestral heritage, called “Ana Obi” is not sellable, elders will not permit this. If this is somehow done due to the influence of the West the person is considered a fool and is ostracized by the community.

1 king 21:3
I inherited this vineyard from my ancestors, and the lord forbid that I should sell it, said Naboth.

3. IKUCHI NWANYI
Igbos have practiced the taking of a late brothers wife into marriage after she had been widowed until the white men came. Now it is rarely done but except in very rural villages.

Deuteronomy 25:5
A widow of a dead man is not to be married outside the family; it is the duty of the dead man's brother to marry her.

4. IGBA ODIBO
In Igboland, there is a unique form of apprenticeship in which either a male family member or a community member will spend six(6) years (usually in their teens to their adulthood) working for another family. And on the seventh year, the head of the host household, who is usually the older man who brought the apprentice into his household, will establish (Igbo: idu) the apprentice
by either setting up a business for him or giving money or tools by which to make a living.

Exodus 21:2
If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve you for six years. In the seventh year he is to be set free without having to pay you anything.

5. IRI JI
In Igboland , the yam is very important as it is their staple crop. There are celebrations such as the New yam festival (Igbo: Iri Ji) which are held for the harvesting of the yam.

New Yam festival (Igbo: Iri ji) is celebrated annually to secure a good harvest of the staple crop.

Those old days it is an abomination for one to eat a new harvest before the festival. It's a tradition that you give the gods of the land first as a Thanksgiving.

Deuteronomy 16:9
Count 7 weeks from the time that you begin to harvest the crops, and celebrate the harvest festival to honor the lord your God, by bringing him a freewill offering in proportion to the blessing he has given you.

Celebrate in the lord's presence together with your children, servants, foreigners . Be sure that you obey my command, said the lord.

6. IBE UGWU
In Igboland it's a tradition that the male children are circumcised on the 8th day. This tradition is still practiced till date.

Leviticus 12:3
On the eighth day, the child shall be circumcised.

7. OMUGWO
In Igboland, there is a practice known as "ile omugwo ". After a woman has given birth to a child, a very close and experienced relative of her, in most cases her mother is required by tradition to come spend time with her and her husband. In which she is to do all the work of the wife, while the new mom’s only assignment will be to breastfeed the new baby.

This goes on for a month or more. In the Igbo old tradition, at this time, the new mom lives apart from her husband, would not cook or enter his quarters.

Leviticus 12:1-4
For seven days after a woman gives birth, she is ritually unclean as she is during her monthly period. It will be 33 days until she is ritually clean from the loss of blood; she is not to touch anything that is holy.

Our ancestors have long practiced these tradition ever before the white man set foot on our soil with their Christianity.

Na eziokwu Chukwu goziri ndi Igbo!

Was it a mere coincidence that most Igbo tradition are biblical?

I feel blessed being an Igbo ...

- breastfeeding a baby is not as easy as people imagine it to be. Sometimes it's quite strenuous for both mother and baby especially in the first month and if there are any associated problems like mastitis, tiredness, low milk supply, improper feeding position.

- helping out the new mother can also be a stressful time, it takes patience but the arrival of the new child is the main focus as everyone eases into their new roles

- at least the writer acknowledges the hard work of the woman

- there's a lot of emphasis on menstruation, I understand it's a taboo in the east?

jacoik:
Copied!!! But Worth reading...

BIBLICAL TRADITIONS OF IGBOS BEFORE THE MISSIONARIES CAME TO AFRICA

1. NSO NWANYI
In Igboland a women live apart from their husbands and neither cooks for them nor enters their husband’s quarters when she is in her period, she is seen as unclean.
Even up till today such practice is still applicable in some parts of Igboland especially by the traditionalists.

Before a woman can enter the palace of Obi of Onitsha , she will be asked if she is in her period, if yes, she will be asked to stay out.

Leviticus 15: 19-20
When a woman has her monthly period, she remains unclean, anyone who touches her or anything she has sat on becomes unclean.

2. ANA OBI
An Igbo man’s ancestral heritage, called “Ana Obi” is not sellable, elders will not permit this. If this is somehow done due to the influence of the West the person is considered a fool and is ostracized by the community.

1 king 21:3
I inherited this vineyard from my ancestors, and the lord forbid that I should sell it, said Naboth.

3. IKUCHI NWANYI
Igbos have practiced the taking of a late brothers wife into marriage after she had been widowed until the white men came. Now it is rarely done but except in very rural villages.

Deuteronomy 25:5
A widow of a dead man is not to be married outside the family; it is the duty of the dead man's brother to marry her.

4. IGBA ODIBO
In Igboland, there is a unique form of apprenticeship in which either a male family member or a community member will spend six(6) years (usually in their teens to their adulthood) working for another family. And on the seventh year, the head of the host household, who is usually the older man who brought the apprentice into his household, will establish (Igbo: idu) the apprentice
by either setting up a business for him or giving money or tools by which to make a living.

Exodus 21:2
If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve you for six years. In the seventh year he is to be set free without having to pay you anything.

5. IRI JI
In Igboland , the yam is very important as it is their staple crop. There are celebrations such as the New yam festival (Igbo: Iri Ji) which are held for the harvesting of the yam.

New Yam festival (Igbo: Iri ji) is celebrated annually to secure a good harvest of the staple crop.

Those old days it is an abomination for one to eat a new harvest before the festival. It's a tradition that you give the gods of the land first as a Thanksgiving.

Deuteronomy 16:9
Count 7 weeks from the time that you begin to harvest the crops, and celebrate the harvest festival to honor the lord your God, by bringing him a freewill offering in proportion to the blessing he has given you.

Celebrate in the lord's presence together with your children, servants, foreigners . Be sure that you obey my command, said the lord.

6. IBE UGWU
In Igboland it's a tradition that the male children are circumcised on the 8th day. This tradition is still practiced till date.

Leviticus 12:3
On the eighth day, the child shall be circumcised.

7. OMUGWO
In Igboland, there is a practice known as "ile omugwo ". After a woman has given birth to a child, a very close and experienced relative of her, in most cases her mother is required by tradition to come spend time with her and her husband. In which she is to do all the work of the wife, while the new mom’s only assignment will be to breastfeed the new baby.

This goes on for a month or more. In the Igbo old tradition, at this time, the new mom lives apart from her husband, would not cook or enter his quarters.

Leviticus 12:1-4
For seven days after a woman gives birth, she is ritually unclean as she is during her monthly period. It will be 33 days until she is ritually clean from the loss of blood; she is not to touch anything that is holy.

Our ancestors have long practiced these tradition ever before the white man set foot on our soil with their Christianity.

Na eziokwu Chukwu goziri ndi Igbo!

Was it a mere coincidence that most Igbo tradition are biblical?

We are the true Biblical ISRAELITES

Sunny Slim Idiah
The Igbos are the people of the BIBLE.

1. "...we circumcised like the Jews..."- Olaudah Equiano (a freed Igbo slave from Isseke community, ihiala LGA in Anambra state) from his book THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO OR GUSTAVUS VASSA THE AFRICAN WRITTEN BY HIMSELF IN 1837

2. "...The religion of the Egboes(Igbos) is Judaism, intermixed with numerous
pagan rites and ceremonies.�.."- Dr. Africanus Beale Horton James (Author of THE EMPIRE OF THE EBOES: IBOES, IGBOES, EGBOES)in 1868

3. "...The language also bears several interesting parallels with the Hebrew Idiom..."- George T Badsen(Author of AMONGST THE IBOS OF NIGERIA 1921)

4. "...There are certain customs which rather point to Levitic influence at a more or less remote period.This is suggested in the under lying ideas concerning sacrifice and in the practice of circumcision..." -George T Badsen (Author of AMONGST THE IBOS OF NIGERIA in 1921)

5. "...After this slight digression, we will now proceed to investigate more
particulars relative to the tribes under consideration. The language,
or the little of it that is known, is full of Hebraisms ; the constructions of sentences, the verbal significations, the mode of comparison,� are all typical of the Hebrew..." - Dr. Africanus Beale Horton James (Author of EMPIRE OF THE EBOES: IBOES IGBOES EGBOES IN 1868)

6.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv41mRydDdY (I'm an ISRAELITE because my tribe fits the curses of Deuteronomy 28 and were taken into slave ships as slaves ij the trans Atlantic slavery)

We also were victims of the Igbo Genocide. "...it's likened that we are the Jews, each time the Jews disobeyed GOD, they are being punished like we are now; we are being punished..." - Words of an Ebonyi man during the BIAFRA civil war 1968 in this link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsw73M553Ww&t=1635s

ChiSomtoChi:




We are the true Biblical ISRAELITES

one don't need to argue the fact bro

Now, our ancestors.
When we stay ancestors, they aren’t strangers neither are they forces unknown to us.
Not at all!
Ancestors: your ancestors as you may wish to know, they are your forefathers.
Those through whom your earthly mission are possible.
Those you share same lineage with.
Those who have earlier existed here on earth before your birth.
Those who has lived and died, through whom you come to exist.
They are your great grand fathers, your great grand grand fathers, your great grand grand grand……..fathers/mothers.
Whosoever that is alive is not an ancestor irrespective his old age or whatsoever but the dead.
Haven known these, one may ask, what is my relationship with the dead?
You know, just like the preacher would say NO RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DEAD AND THE Living.
How truthful is this word and saying that, no relationship between the dead and the living?
Well, to answer this is to know the truth. To know the truth is to visit the land of the spirits. In the realm of spirit, truth is the keyword. Knowing this is trusting their information or information from spiritual world.
Going by the truth as we should, we find out that there’s a deep relationship which exist inbetween the dead and the living
To understand this better know that you who is alive today is a spirit.
Do you doubt the possibility of the truth as said?
Don’t doubt the truth thus truth never lie.
You are a spirit.
You can only understand this better the moment you fall asleep.
What happens then!
Your body lies waste while the spirits leaves the body. At this point, the spirit wander about in the universe and earth beyond.
As this happens, some one may come knocking at your door without you knowing.
Sometimes, someone come calling your names without you hearing.
In most cases, owing to events you met in the journey, you might be pushed and heat with heavy blow without you taken knowledge or responding.
Often times, the spirits wanders and sometimes faces great challenges that he has to finish judgement to help return.
Until this is done, he can’t return to the body.
This is where you see the difference between body and spirits. Understanding while the gods and goddesses are spirits and human are humans as said
The difference between is because, human possess flesh(body) and blood while the spirits beings (the gods and goddesses) doesn’t possess body (flesh) and blood.
This is why they remain invisible whereas human being are visible
When human body dies, the spirit left the body and has to return to the spirit world (probably his realm of incarnate, realm of origin ) while the body has to lie waste to the earth and get discomposed.
When this spirits returns where it comes from, it automatically rejoins the spirits beings as one of them. This is where we see the ancestors.
Because we (humans) are spirits and one with the spirits beings (living in the realm of spirit), we do consult them. When this is done, owing to our relationship with them, they can’t refuse to answer us
This is how we come to call our chi _ spirit guide, and he answers.
We call our realms of origin e.g marine world, they have to answer.
Same way we call our ancestors they will answer us.
He who says there is no spirit should check his mental health. Even the lunatic can’t question the possibility and true existence of the spirits beings.
Our ancestors plays a major role in our lives hence the lineage, blood relation and true representives. This is why the wise often pray them saying as
we represent you here on ea

rth, do well to represent us earth beyond. We mote it be!
Talking about the elders who has the great ability, sound judgement over humanity, they are the ancestors. This is why, after death, they are the ones to sit and judge us. They shall execute judgement
Most often, our enemies wished to send us to early grave, it’s our ancestors that do stand for us saying No.
When we got lost from our world to world unknown, by their infinite powers, they seek after us, led us back to the world with care and caution
This is where most of us got directed by an elder with strange or unfamiliar face when we got lost in the dream

Our ancestors had never ceased to intercede for us helping our world even when we are ignorant of them. They do take care of us understanding that no matter the age, we are still children and their children.
If they allow us to be humiliated by a strange spirits, it’s shame unto them. Reason they could do anything to save us upon our ignorance
The wise remains a favorite before them and at their presence. Recognising them is wisdom.
This is why you must acknowledge them. Pray your ancestors as you pray your chi.
Knowing them and their great responsibility is wisdom.
How many of you do read the bible?
Do you have a Bible?
If you are a Bible student, you find out that in the bible, many times the sons of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob did wrong and ought to be punished. Adonai could look and remember his covenant with Jacob and shed his sword (against them).
Ancestors!
Never despise your ancestor’s for they made it possible for your earthly existence.
Otherwise, who could have gave birth to you?
Could you have been born?
The love the gods has for you could be as a result of what your ancestors did. This is why, when they did good, the children reap from their good deeds. So it’s when they did evil, the children shall not go unpunished.
We say, you inherited curses from the evil of the ancient. And so it’s!
When they carefully, upon spirit guide institute a thing on the portion, been their inheritance. Be careful not to approach those things with ignorance
If you do, you find out that no matter how wise you think you are, you can’t be wiser than the gods and the ancestors. No strange power found in the universe will deliver you from their mighty hands.
Good number of the ancient (the ancestors) lived a holy life.
Holiness!
Only ofeke play with this world and activities as seen here on earth
It was as a result of their state of purity that earth gave support to all their deeds that we today feel the heat or reap the dividends. This is why, what they did millions and thousands of years ago are still and remains active till tomorrow
Give honor to whom honor is due. Don’t look at the ancient and said they were in dark age then. There was never a time in life when earth was dark for days if not at night after creation. How could you say, they lived in dark age?
Did you have different water if not same water they had?
Did you march or touch different earth if not same earth they took dwelling (before now) ?
That’s to say, before Abraham, Christ was born.
No matter how wise you are, you can’t be wiser than the ancestors
An apple does not fall far from its tree.
Knowing that water gives life asked you to drink water for life.
Knowing that the sun give luminary, asked you to see by the light of sunshine.
Knowing that your ancestors has a many role to play in your life and destiny, get to know them and draw too close to them.
May the Divine angel help to translate, transmit into us with best of our ability helping knowledge of the truth. These are my prayers for you. More light on your path as angels guide us all.
Iseee
08103253857

nlPoster:
- breastfeeding a baby is not as easy as people imagine it to be. Sometimes it's quite strenuous for both mother and baby especially in the first month and if there are any associated problems like mastitis, tiredness, low milk supply, improper feeding position.

- helping out the new mother can also be a stressful time, it takes patience but the arrival of the new child is the main focus as everyone eases into their new roles

- at least the writer acknowledges the hard work of the woman

- there's a lot of emphasis on menstruation, I understand it's a taboo in the east?

honestly, I don't get your argument on the subject matter

ChiSomtoChi:
Sunny Slim Idiah
The Igbos are the people of the BIBLE.

1. "...we circumcised like the Jews..."- Olaudah Equiano (a freed Igbo slave from Isseke community, ihiala LGA in Anambra state) from his book THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO OR GUSTAVUS VASSA THE AFRICAN WRITTEN BY HIMSELF IN 1837

2. "...The religion of the Egboes(Igbos) is Judaism, intermixed with numerous
pagan rites and ceremonies.�.."- Dr. Africanus Beale Horton James (Author of THE EMPIRE OF THE EBOES: IBOES, IGBOES, EGBOES)in 1868

3. "...The language also bears several interesting parallels with the Hebrew Idiom..."- George T Badsen(Author of AMONGST THE IBOS OF NIGERIA 1921)

4. "...There are certain customs which rather point to Levitic influence at a more or less remote period.This is suggested in the under lying ideas concerning sacrifice and in the practice of circumcision..." -George T Badsen (Author of AMONGST THE IBOS OF NIGERIA in 1921)

5. "...After this slight digression, we will now proceed to investigate more
particulars relative to the tribes under consideration. The language,
or the little of it that is known, is full of Hebraisms ; the constructions of sentences, the verbal significations, the mode of comparison,� are all typical of the Hebrew..." - Dr. Africanus Beale Horton James (Author of EMPIRE OF THE EBOES: IBOES IGBOES EGBOES IN 1868)

6.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv41mRydDdY (I'm an ISRAELITE because my tribe fits the curses of Deuteronomy 28 and were taken into slave ships as slaves ij the trans Atlantic slavery)

We also were victims of the Igbo Genocide. "...it's likened that we are the Jews, each time the Jews disobeyed GOD, they are being punished like we are now; we are being punished..." - Words of an Ebonyi man during the BIAFRA civil war 1968 in this link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsw73M553Ww&t=1635s

you did a great justice to this your story bro. by backing it up with this, because some people might want to argue with you. God bless you more

Judeudochukwu:
Now, our ancestors.
When we stay ancestors, they aren’t strangers neither are they forces unknown to us.
Not at all!
Ancestors: your ancestors as you may wish to know, they are your forefathers.
Those through whom your earthly mission are possible.
Those you share same lineage with.
Those who have earlier existed here on earth before your birth.
Those who has lived and died, through whom you come to exist.
They are your great grand fathers, your great grand grand fathers, your great grand grand grand……..fathers/mothers.
Whosoever that is alive is not an ancestor irrespective his old age or whatsoever but the dead.
Haven known these, one may ask, what is my relationship with the dead?
You know, just like the preacher would say NO RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DEAD AND THE Living.
How truthful is this word and saying that, no relationship between the dead and the living?
Well, to answer this is to know the truth. To know the truth is to visit the land of the spirits. In the realm of spirit, truth is the keyword. Knowing this is trusting their information or information from spiritual world.
Going by the truth as we should, we find out that there’s a deep relationship which exist inbetween the dead and the living
To understand this better know that you who is alive today is a spirit.
Do you doubt the possibility of the truth as said?
Don’t doubt the truth thus truth never lie.
You are a spirit.
You can only understand this better the moment you fall asleep.
What happens then!
Your body lies waste while the spirits leaves the body. At this point, the spirit wander about in the universe and earth beyond.
As this happens, some one may come knocking at your door without you knowing.
Sometimes, someone come calling your names without you hearing.
In most cases, owing to events you met in the journey, you might be pushed and heat with heavy blow without you taken knowledge or responding.
Often times, the spirits wanders and sometimes faces great challenges that he has to finish judgement to help return.
Until this is done, he can’t return to the body.
This is where you see the difference between body and spirits. Understanding while the gods and goddesses are spirits and human are humans as said
The difference between is because, human possess flesh(body) and blood while the spirits beings (the gods and goddesses) doesn’t possess body (flesh) and blood.
This is why they remain invisible whereas human being are visible
When human body dies, the spirit left the body and has to return to the spirit world (probably his realm of incarnate, realm of origin ) while the body has to lie waste to the earth and get discomposed.
When this spirits returns where it comes from, it automatically rejoins the spirits beings as one of them. This is where we see the ancestors.
Because we (humans) are spirits and one with the spirits beings (living in the realm of spirit), we do consult them. When this is done, owing to our relationship with them, they can’t refuse to answer us
This is how we come to call our chi _ spirit guide, and he answers.
We call our realms of origin e.g marine world, they have to answer.
Same way we call our ancestors they will answer us.
He who says there is no spirit should check his mental health. Even the lunatic can’t question the possibility and true existence of the spirits beings.
Our ancestors plays a major role in our lives hence the lineage, blood relation and true representives. This is why the wise often pray them saying as
we represent you here on ea

rth, do well to represent us earth beyond. We mote it be!
Talking about the elders who has the great ability, sound judgement over humanity, they are the ancestors. This is why, after death, they are the ones to sit and judge us. They shall execute judgement
Most often, our enemies wished to send us to early grave, it’s our ancestors that do stand for us saying No.
When we got lost from our world to world unknown, by their infinite powers, they seek after us, led us back to the world with care and caution
This is where most of us got directed by an elder with strange or unfamiliar face when we got lost in the dream

Our ancestors had never ceased to intercede for us helping our world even when we are ignorant of them. They do take care of us understanding that no matter the age, we are still children and their children.
If they allow us to be humiliated by a strange spirits, it’s shame unto them. Reason they could do anything to save us upon our ignorance
The wise remains a favorite before them and at their presence. Recognising them is wisdom.
This is why you must acknowledge them. Pray your ancestors as you pray your chi.
Knowing them and their great responsibility is wisdom.
How many of you do read the bible?
Do you have a Bible?
If you are a Bible student, you find out that in the bible, many times the sons of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob did wrong and ought to be punished. Adonai could look and remember his covenant with Jacob and shed his sword (against them).
Ancestors!
Never despise your ancestor’s for they made it possible for your earthly existence.
Otherwise, who could have gave birth to you?
Could you have been born?
The love the gods has for you could be as a result of what your ancestors did. This is why, when they did good, the children reap from their good deeds. So it’s when they did evil, the children shall not go unpunished.
We say, you inherited curses from the evil of the ancient. And so it’s!
When they carefully, upon spirit guide institute a thing on the portion, been their inheritance. Be careful not to approach those things with ignorance
If you do, you find out that no matter how wise you think you are, you can’t be wiser than the gods and the ancestors. No strange power found in the universe will deliver you from their mighty hands.
Good number of the ancient (the ancestors) lived a holy life.
Holiness!
Only ofeke play with this world and activities as seen here on earth
It was as a result of their state of purity that earth gave support to all their deeds that we today feel the heat or reap the dividends. This is why, what they did millions and thousands of years ago are still and remains active till tomorrow
Give honor to whom honor is due. Don’t look at the ancient and said they were in dark age then. There was never a time in life when earth was dark for days if not at night after creation. How could you say, they lived in dark age?
Did you have different water if not same water they had?
Did you march or touch different earth if not same earth they took dwelling (before now) ?
That’s to say, before Abraham, Christ was born.
No matter how wise you are, you can’t be wiser than the ancestors
An apple does not fall far from its tree.
Knowing that water gives life asked you to drink water for life.
Knowing that the sun give luminary, asked you to see by the light of sunshine.
Knowing that your ancestors has a many role to play in your life and destiny, get to know them and draw too close to them.
May the Divine angel help to translate, transmit into us with best of our ability helping knowledge of the truth. These are my prayers for you. More light on your path as angels guide us all.
Iseee
08103253857

wow!!!! you did well with your what you wrote but only once did you recognized Adonai being the Mighty GOD in your writing. can we be friends so that we can sort this out more on Whatsapp? 08033238399