LORD CHUKWU (Odinani religion of the Igbo)


Chukwu is the infinitely powerful, undefinable, indefinable, absolute supreme deity encompassing everything in space and space itself, in traditional Igbo spiritual belief system and Igbo mythology. Linguistic studies suggest that the name "Chukwu" is a portmanteau of the Igbo words "Chi" ("spiritual being" and "Ukwu" ("great in size".[citation needed] In the Igbo pantheon, Chukwu is where the source other Igbo deities originate from and are assigned different tasks. The Igbo people believe that all things come from Chukwu including the deities who brings the rains necessary for plants to grow and controls everything on earth and the spiritual world.


Conception of Chukwu

Chukwu combines the concept of creator of deities for all we know and are aware of including the concept of a solar deity. According to the Igbo people from the eastern region of Nigeria, Chineke is the creator of the world and everything good in it. This God is also responsible for rain, trees, and other plants. Chukwu is a supreme God represented by the sun. The ancient God is not humanized in Igbo tradition belief. Because the igbo deities Amadioha and Ikenga are masculine,Chukwu is assumed to be male. Colonialism brought Christianity to Igbo people which challenged and sought to change this belief, but still remains a dominant traditional belief in Igbo people. Many Igbo Christians now refer to the Christian God as Chukwu. The Igbo believe it is impossible for humans to conceive of the unlimited power of Chukwu. The Igbo creative God "Chineke" has its source in Chukwu. Linguistically, "Chineke" is formed from the Igbo words "Chi" and "eke" ("spirit which creates". All Igbo dialects refer to God as "Olisa," "Orisa," and "Obasi," depending on geography.

The Igbo people believe that Chukwu sent a dog to mankind to tell them that dead bodies should be covered with ashes and buried. This would bring the person back to life. On his long journey to earth the dog became wary and elongated to journey. So, Chukwu then sent a sheep to deliver the message faster, but the silly sheep forgot part of the message. The sheep only told the people of Earth that bodies should be buried. Because of this, the human bodies remained dead. When the dog finally arrived, nobody believed his story and thus death became permanent.

There are four aspects of Chukwu:
1.Anyanwu-Symbolic meaning of the sun. The sun is everywhere, therefore Chukwu is everywhere. The sun is all powerful. The sun reveals everything so Chukwu is the source of knowledge.
2.Chukwu means Agbala which is the fertility of Earth and its people.
3.Chi manifested in the power and ability to procreate from generations to greneration.
4.Okike created laws that govern the visible and invisible. Laws are neither good nor bad, they are simple laws that enable things to work.[

obsession at work

^im trying to force it into your heads.

ok sir. i may change my mind one one condition

go on. but i also have one condition. please do not change your mind if you are not convinced. first convince yourself and then change your mind.

Alright at this stage, im still trying to convince my self. So give time

no problem. you will have all the time you want, slong as my hands are in typing condition.

Hey Pagan, I see Chukwu and raise you Queztacoatl.


Quetzalcoatl feathered serpent form as depicted in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis.Quetzalcoatl (Classical Nahuatl: Quetzalcohuātl [ketsaɬˈko.aːtɬ]) is a Mesoamerican deity whose name comes from the Nahuatl language and has the meaning of "feathered-serpent".[1] The worship of a feathered serpent deity is first documented in Teotihuacan in the first century BCE or first century CE.[2] That period lies within the Late Preclassic to Early Classic period (400 BCE–600CE) of Mesoamerican chronology, and veneration of the figure appears to have spread throughout Mesoamerica by the Late Classic (600–900 CE).[3]

In the Postclassic period (900 – 1519 CE) the worship of the feathered serpent deity was based in the primary Mexican religious center of Cholula. It is in this period that the deity is known to have been named "Quetzalcoatl" by his Nahua followers. In the Maya area he was approximately equivalent to Kukulcan and Gukumatz, names that also roughly translate as "feathered serpent" in different Mayan languages. In the era following the 16th-century Spanish Conquest a number of sources were written that describe the god "Quetzalcoatl" and relates him to a ruler of the mythico-historic city of Tollan called by the names "Ce Acatl", "Topiltzin", "Nacxitl" or "Quetzalcoatl".

It is a matter of much debate among historians to which degree, or whether at all, these narratives about this legendary Toltec ruler Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl describe actual historical events.[4] Furthermore early Spanish sources written by clerics tend to identify the god-ruler "Quetzalcoatl" of these narratives with either Hernán Cortés or St. Thomas—an identification which is also a source of diversity of opinions about the nature of "Quetzalcoatl".[5]

Among the Aztecs, whose beliefs are the best-documented in the historical sources, Quetzalcoatl was related to gods of the wind, of Venus, of the dawn, of merchants and of arts, crafts and knowledge. He was also the patron god of the Aztec priesthood, of learning and knowledge.[6] Quetzalcoatl was one of several important gods in the Aztec pantheon along with the gods Tlaloc, Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli.

thank you for that beautiful picture and post Martian. but lets do this gradually. 

Im dedicating an entire thread to a different God, per day. 

let us spread the magnificence of God around the world for all to admire. The might and magnificence of the Pagans.

PAGAN 9JA:

thank you for that beautiful picture and post Martian. but lets do this gradually. 

Im dedicating an entire thread to a different God, per day. 

let us spread the magnificence of God around the world for all to admire. The might and magnificence of the Pagans.

Ok, you lost me at "let us spread the magnificence of God around the world for all to admire. The might and magnificence of the Pagans"

I thought we were just showing different cultures' delusional ideas about sky daddy.

lol no we are not.

or mebe in some ways we are.

we are just doing something for good.