OneEyedSnake:
This is the real Map of Biafra .

The colonial anthropologist map depicting areas of cannibalism in Nigeria are coincident with the five current Igbo states of the SE.

Even the igboid speaking people of the Niger Delta never practiced cannibalism.

Asaba which is just a canoe ride across the Niger river from Onitsha did not practice cannibalism. So also the Igboid people of Rivers.

So why is this an exclusive Igbo culinary habit to feast on human flesh?

In the following posts I will be highlighting how an acute famine brought about by incessant communal warring between Igbo peoples , slave raiding by Igbo slave raiding groups like Arochukwu cult on fellow Igbos saw to a total breakdown on civility , law and order that made even farming an upheaval task .

For your map to include all of South Eastern Nigeria as Cannibals, it'll have to include Ijaw country and Grafi country as well. Okay, are you willing to ask your government to give the Cannibal land of Biafra independence?. Won't you prefer it not to be in the same country with Cannibals?.

And why are you calling Delta Igbo Igboid instead of Igbo?. Don't you trust colonial maps and their designations? Colonial maps also called them Igbo so since you're willing to believe them blindly, why make an exception and refuse to believe the white people for what consistutes an Igbo?.

Asking this for a writing/mapping project but from what I have been able to Gather, the Nigerian Yoruba language has developed its own variants for some Christian theological terms, specifically Serafu for Seraphim and Kerubu for Cherubim. So I decided to start the ask here.

A Coptic Christian is "ግብጸዌ", or "Gibitsewi" in Medieval Amharic from the Bohairic dialect of Coptic's "ⲁⲓⲅⲩⲡⲧⲓⲟⲛ" or "aiguption" which a Coptic pronunciation of Ancient Greek term for Egypt, "Aegyptus".

An Ethnic Copt on the other hand is called "ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ" romanized "niremənkhēmi"(from the Ancient Egyptian Ethnonym) however Muslims(So Arabs around them) and non-Coptic Christians (at least until before the modern era) used the term Copt to refer specifically to Egyptian Christians. This is why the English term is an ethno-nym.

And it goes like this, "Copt" in English from "Qibt"/"Qubt" in Arabic from the Sahidic dialect of Coptic's "ⲕⲩⲡⲧⲁⲓⲟⲛ" or "kuptaion" again, froma Coptic pronunciation of Ancient Greek term for Egypt, "Aegyptus".

So if a Nigerian language of your choosing were to develop its own term for Coptic Christian like Amharic did, what would you construct it to be?

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Now that's my asking about Coptic Christians, the Egypt one is that, you hear from time to time from Black people(I have read a post specifically written by a Fulani) that their people trace their origin to Egypt, some even claim from Canaan or Mesopotamia but ignoring the later two, one would assume that as such, they would have a native term for Egypt independent of the European languages words for Egypt. Whether you personally believe in those claims or not, doesn't matter to me but what term to you think a Nigerian group that traces its origin to Ancient Egypt, would call Ancient Egypt, whether it is a term you heard or one that like with what I request from the above section, constructed yourself.

The colonial, apartied state of Isn'treal must be destroyed.

MaxInDHouse:
Witches are humans that have allowed themselves to be possessed by demons due to their quest for supernatural powers.
So most of them have a sound reason to have joined the coven since they may be helpless or oppressed and they don't know how to protect or avenge for themselves they concluded to go for witchcraft.

Jesus' sermon on the mount will help sincere and honest hearted individuals to know that God did not just sit back watching all the evil man is doing to his neighbour that's why he told his listeners that they should hope in God's kingdom when God will repay all evildoers instead of seeking for means to revenge. Matthew 5:3-12

So as true Christians Jehovah's Witnesses teach anyone who comes into our midst all that Jesus has commanded {Matthew 28:19-20} as we have interchange of encouragement during our meetings {Hebrews 10:24-25} and many not only witches or wizards but thieves, hired Killers, homosexuals, prostitutes, drunkards and many more are fighting really hard to put away the old personality {Ephesians 4:22} and put on the new {Ephesians 4:24} as their mentality is trained {Ephesians 4:23} with God's word {Hebrews 4:12} and through fervent prayers {James 5:14-15} many have overcome all these traits {1Corinthians 6:11} while others are still working towards breaking free from certain traits of the old personality {Romans 7:15-20} but we have an helper who is ever ready to support us if we are genuinely willing to strip off the old personality! Romans 7:25

So Witchcraft is just one out of the many works of the flesh {Galatians 5:19-21} that true Christians must beg God for His Holy Spirit to help us strip off as we continue in washing our robes in the blood of the lamb! Revelations 7:14

God bless you and may you have PEACE!

I am not saying they don't exist.(not yet anyway).

I am saying it was never a major priority for Christians. There's literally only one and an OT verse referring directly to dealing with witches. It isn't important.

Stupid people making a mountain out of a mole hill.

Jesus loves everyone has been doctrine since forever.

God loves people as we are. So he's telling them God loves us naturally as he make us, not as Plastic surgeons make us.

Simple as but some people can't recognize being suptle.

Kobojunkiee:
OP, all this is unnecessary. Jesus Christ is the standard by which Christians claim to live by yet He never condemned any witches during His mission on earth. That is all you really to say on the issue.

I think it is still important to bring up against the sub-group Pentecostals that think being more obsessed with witchcraft and spending every free time praying against witchcraft makes them more Christian.

When such an extent of obsession with defense from witchcraft resembles more documentation of pre-colonial idol worshippers than it does the saints of the churches.

It is a well known fact that when Charlemagne conquered the Pagan Saxons, one of the laws he implimented was one making most witchcraft accusations punishable by death.

While Christian Irish Law anatamized Christians for a similar offense and associated belief in Witchcraft with Paganism.

The Lombard code of 643 states: Let nobody presume to kill a foreign serving maid or female servant as a witch, for it is not possible, nor ought to be believed by Christian minds.

https://www.philippagregory.com/news/origins-of-witch-hunting

And Augustine of Hippo (in the province of Africa) is famously paraphrased as saying "the church has no reason to seek out witches for their power doesn't exist".

Now, it isn't like he nor the Church in general didn't believe in any malevolent supernatural, certainly they believed in the devil as an example of such, but that's different from thinking every issue is witchcraft/spiritual like most of the "very religious" Nigerian Christians seem to think.

http://canepancakegravy..com/2012/08/saint-augustine-of-hippo-on-witchcraft.html?m=1

This is a trend kept through the early modern era with most of the famous witch trials of the early modern era associated with the largely Protestant German area where official church men lost influence. While to this day, all apostolic churches maintain a general skepticism of witchcraft.

https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15674a.htm

On the other hand, belief in witchcraft is frequently associated with Pagan religions, including African traditional religions.

Mary H. Kingsley in her travels in West Africa says that the Africans of the Atlantic coast blames all misfortune on witchcraft and from the same book as I got the Irish quote, we see a frequent association of African folk religions with belief in witchcraft, with the Jukun specifically associating untimely death with witchcraft, much like Kingsley said of Atlantic African peoples in general. The Tiv are also said to give the chieftaincy with the ability to be proficient in what a Westerner or Christian must consider witchcraft.

Now, the book is written by a Jukun person so someone can't start claiming Western lens and a lot of African literature also espouses superstition and fear of witches, a notable example is of Yoruba men joining secret societies called Gelede to protect themselves from *aje*, witch means witch in the Yoruba language and in Ubulu-Ụkwụ, the locals believe that witchcraft is the source cause of misfortune and premature death, as well as the belief in witches eating human beings.

Paul Glen Grant also documents in "Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity" the earliest Ghanian converts to Christianity did so as they concluded that the religion could combat witchcraft sent against them, better than their witchcraft could. Thus, we see how this obsession with witchcraft transitioned seamlessly to Christian African society from Traditional one.

To some extent they are almost the same question.

To be equal to God means to have the highest position, which would philosophically man having the same sort of attributes attributed to God and thus making one God, equalizing it to the question of if one is God.

Anyways, Jesus as the Son, is below the Father but Jesus is God.

Simple as.

I don't know why people think evolution don't jive with Christianity when none of the 4 Apostolic congregations think that evolution can't jive with Christianity.

Black Americans aren't not African but a subset of African. The reason we shouldn't be pandering to them isn't because they aren't African but because a Hausa man isn't pandering to a Swahili or Shona man, so why should an Igbo or Yoruba man pander to Aframs?

I guess the Catholics, Orthodox, Orientals and. Madenka were right not allowing any rando become a pastor.

jaephoenix:

A defeatist attitude. If you have facts, do let us have it. You never know. You could change my minds if you have legit response

I have read some of ur replies to the other people trying to respond. I ain't gonna do 12 hours of work for the same thing.

Taking dating advice from white people was your first and last mistake

Probz:


And where do you come from?

Ground

Maynman:

There is zero evidence in this video but jst talking about the physical qualities of yahweh using "nostrils" as main reference lol.

For proper scholarship work, check this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdKst8zeh-U?si=URWrJuVN-HTFgxOg

There is quite a difference between zero evidence and insufficient evidence. Like quoting verses certainly is evidence, that video you posted also quoted verses.

Theories on YHWH's origin have as little evidence as the video you dismissed. Some faux etymological tie to "to blow" is no more evidence than the guy that made the dragon video quoting a dozen verses.

Maynman:

Who are the israelites and what makes them ancient?

They worshipped local gods then not "religion"

For proper knowledge on religion and how it evolve ,check this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio

Again, can you show me where you read "israelite religion" from

Stop being autistic about terminology, you well know what we mean when we refer to a people's/folk's religion. If we didn't nobody would be talking about Igbo, Yoruba or etc religion.

Whatever you want to call it, this "worshipped local gods" still has the same issues I outlined above.

Maynman:

Can you bring out where you read "israelite religion" from

Did the Ancient Israelites not have Religions?

preciousee17:


Haha, even if you did, you'd be spun around a circle until you realize your answers could never be accepted

True dat

Maynman:

There is nothing like "israelite religion"

Elaborate

Jesus, this is long. Actually wanted to respond but won't waste my time doing this given it won't change the writer's mind.

Maynman:

What are the speculations?

Big one is assuming the Israelite religion was uniformly polyethistic or monotheistic(not exactly the right term but I'll keep using it) when the scriptures actually show Monotheistic prophets having to constantly compete against polytheistic priests.

Which Prophet isn't recorded competing against polytheists?.

There are also assumptions on who YHWH "originally" was that are just based on very fragmentary evidence. That's why there's like a billion speculations on "what god YHWH" originally was from storm to war to a dragon


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XogaHpV5oUs?si=QW3K499ntf1AjY15

MindHacker9009:


Then the god you are referring to that mated with Mary another man's wife would also have mated with Eve and told Adam not to touch Eve until after she has given birth.

So what we're all half God? I always felt that spark of divinity.

Anyways, no reason to take you serious given ur not even really responding to my take.

Empiree:
if you read this thread more your will see that Yorùbá Muslims and Christians are tolerant only if Muslims don't claim their rights or if muslims remain silent on politics and religion. So what they mean by tolerance is in as much as Muslim are cheated and smiling, attend church with their friends, family, listen to church prayers etc. Then Yorùbá people are "tolerate". But the moment muslims say they want to use hijab at schools and public places, they want to contest in election, they want to build Islamic banking, they want to created employment etc, then muslims are intolerant and they want to Islamize Nigeria. You get it?. This ongoing Muslim-Muslim ticket saga should already have you a clue. And besides, if you want to know who's tolerant and who is not please read 1994 Christian manifesto and pay attention to what they said thein. Sheet you read it, kindly return here and tell me Christians are there most "tolerant" people..

You can find their manifesto in one of my threads.




whatever happened, question remains the same
. Why only Christians that are complaining?. The same thing affected Muslim mission schools and we don't hear Muslims complain.

Example of tolerance is, Tinubu goes to church with his wife to pray. This is what Yorùbá called tolerance. But did you ever seen his wife, Remi Tinubu followed him to mosque to pray?. If his wife followed him to mosque Tinubu wood be called extremist and intolerant for not allowing his wife to practice her religion.

So there idea that Yorùbá people are tolerate is a scam.

Whoa, it has been a while and I asked around. The very fact that the reason that the wife can't be there with the husband in the mosque is because of Mosque gender segregation laws shows that you and the other Muslim that made that post are being dishonest.

Empiree:
CHRISTIANITY and CAN Intolerance In Nigeria

Picture of the common entrance or it didn't happen and this better not be some private school specific shit.

Probz:
I’ve researched this topic for time and my understanding is that there's three distinct groups in Anioma (Delta Ibo) - two Edoid-Igboid (Ika, Ukwuani/Ndokwa) and one Igbo proper (Enuani), that the latter (the only genuine, authentic Igbos who inhabit Delta Igboland) can be found around Asaba/Oshimili/Aniocha area, that "Bendel Igbos," as my mum calls them, (Ika and Ukwuani people) are culturally Edoid groups who happen to speak Igboid languages and that close proximity and the vague similarity in language is why a people who are essentially Bini are lumped in with the real Delta Igbos (Enuani). In exactly the same sense as that if true Yorubas occupied an area in (let's just say) Delta State with Igalas and Itsekiris, all three groups would all be known as "Delta Yoruba" since they're all linguistically Yoruboid and because they'd share neighbouring proximity with each other, forgetting that there's only one true group of Yorubas who inhabit that area - i.e., the Yorubas, not the other two non-culturally Yoruba groups who happen to speak Yoruboid languages (and not even Yoruba proper).

I tend to agree with the assertion that one and only true Igbos of Anioma are Enuani since I've encountered Enuani Igbos who hail from Asaba who are in literally every respect just as Igbo as a typical south easterner from Enugu or Anambra and the Ika-Ukwuani (Bendel) stock people who speak languages that share similarities with Igbo but who you couldn't in a million years imagine sipping palmy and chopping nkwobi in Ishiagu and red cap.

Ditto for Rivers folk. I know authentic Igbos can be found in the Bonny-Opobo axis (said to be, at least in part, descendants of settlers from the Awka-Orlu axis) but as for Ikwerres, does the fact that they happen to speak an Igboid language mean that they're also culturally Igbo (or at least before the civil war) and could someone fill me in on the other Igboid/Igbo groups of Rivers (Etche, Ndoni, etc.). I've looked for info. online and there's next to nothing on Wikipedia at least for Etches.

My question is, could someone fill me in on the Ikas and Ukwuanis of Delta and the Ikwerre, etc., of Rivers? Ika and Ukwuani definitely don't fall under the banner of Igbo proper but Igboid in a linguistic sense (even if you might well argue that their dialect is more intelligible than Nsukka/Ebonyi dialects) but are these people culturally Igbo or Edoid, etc.? I've only researched this for some time so my understanding's limited but that's the conclusion through reading and my own experiences with some of these folk.

There are Yoruba people in the region as well and they speak a Yoruba language. Why would Edo people of the Edo Empire which was dominant adopt Igbo language when other non Igbos in the area kept their language?.

The fact that you take the fringe Ikwerre are Edo story as a fact doesn't help the argument. Pre war, only like 3 Ikwerre communities claimed some Edo origin and even there it was a story of an edo prince ruling them not they all coming from Edo.

Sipping Palm wine isn't an Igbo thing, it extends as far south as Congo at least and there's the issue there, taking Anambra practices as what "Igbo" is, as if we all migrated from Anambra a few years ago.

Talk to a Jew, like an actual one.

They believe God in some sense is responsible for everything as well, he's God he has the power to do anything and everything occurs as such under permissive will.

There's also a trend in autobiographies to put in some variation, like how our our histories do. Complimentary Variation tho, that trend is only well documented in Greek works to the best of my knowing so it is probably the first two paragraphs that are the answer.

Maynman:

Watch this video on the history of "God of old testament"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdKst8zeh-U?si=RV3B7s7sL_KMzE24

Largely based on speculation and leaning on the most fanciful materialist take.

So you don't believe God, the almighty has the ability to create a new human being without sex?.

Like what did he do in Genesis 1 when he created Adam out of dust/earth?. bleeped the ground?.

Lol.

E no really matter 4 watin I wan talk if the Herdsmen bin criminal or not but Igbos should remember, Fulanis don't forgive nor do they forget, their own leaders in government like El rufai say so themselves.

So make una prepare and make una no de lulled by for now peace agreements.

Anybody here knows what the Igbo word, "Umpuru" translates to in a Language of Southern Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Bioko or Gabon?.

I know alot of people have nostalgia for traditional rulers but unless they can be held accountable and unseated by the people, they'll be worse than our current local leaders, after all they come from the same place.

It isn't exactly igbo, it is more Eastern-Eastern Nigeria.(so Eastern Biafra and a bit of Western Ambazonia).

Not all Igbos used it, it wasn't only used by Igbos.