₦airaland Forum

TheAlchemist:
There might be some kind of oil they rub on their bodies, that makes the snake submissive, just trying to think out loud.

You mean Diddy's kinda oil?

Eba50:
orogun,orhomuru is my place. Monitor lizard dey come collect food from your hand

And you sit-down look am?

Ha! You get mind ooooo

judewrites:
The people are very peaceful but any foreigner going to that country must be ready to contend with the spirits ruling that land. The spirits seem to contend with foreigners.

Had some strange bouts of sicknesses I never had in Nigeria.

Stayed in a house where the landlady was a traditional worshipper. Yes she was peaceful, but spiritually I had to fight some battles.

A beninese lady who moved in next to me was a traditional worshipper, had a tattoo of snake on her back. Apart from the spiritual attacks, she even tried seducing me, lol.

Apart from the spiritual climate, the country is peaceful, more conducive to live in than Nigeria. Their standards of living are higher.

Visited there severally, just for holiday sha

Yeah, it's a very peaceful country, as in very peaceful... Was surprised when I found out I didn't need to pay anything to visit their beach (they even laughed at me for thinking there's payment)

Aside transport business, I've not really seen noticed any major business there... Which businesses do you think thrive well there?

Yampotatocarrot:
Visited there severally, just for holiday sha

Yeah, it's a very peaceful country, as in very peaceful... Was surprised when I found out I didn't need to pay anything to visit their beach (they even laughed at me for thinking there's payment)

Aside transport business, I've not really seen noticed any major business there... Which businesses do you think thrive well there?

If you have like 5 million naira above you can invest in ankara textiles because the people were it daily, also transportation is lucrative.

You need plenty of money to enjoy that country....many Nigerians left when naira started free falling to the CFA.

M[quote author=judewrites post=140874247]If you have like 5 million naira above you can invest in ankara textiles because the people were it daily, also transportation is lucrative.

You need plenty of money to enjoy that country....many Nigerians left when naira started free falling to the CFA. [/quote

I also stopped going when the CFA started gaining heavily against the naira

onuman:
There is a simple thing there: since the natives don't kill or eat the python, the python will not go against the natives.

Doesn't work like that Bro. Can you same same thing for venomous snakes like Cobra or Rattlesnake.
Python simply has no venom.

TheStoriesOfMan:
And you sit-down look am?

Ha! You get mind ooooo

na so e be right frpm beginning of time, generatipn after generation. Even when strangers come, them dey walk freely in their midst

Runaway22:
In Benin republic I saw a child jumping on a cobra

If e no dey e no dey , these people Sabi jazz my guy

Where is the video? Until I see one, can never believe it. Why are they worshiping harmless pythons when cobras and other deadly snakes are everywhere

Revelation 12:9: The text calls him "the great dragon... that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world" who is hurled down to the earth

Not my settings

delerx:
Where is the video? Until I see one, can never believe it. Why are they worshiping harmless pythons when cobras and other deadly snakes are everywhere

Landlord travel and see

No be insult

nlfpmod:
BBC Africa's post showcases the Vodun tradition in Ouidah, Benin, where communities revere Dangbé (Dan), the sacred python deity, treating royal pythons as divine symbols of protection, prosperity, and life force in rituals at sites like the Temple of Pythons.

Somewhere in Africa, a whole community is living alongside snakes. They consider snakes as gods and they even have a festival to celebrate the snake god they call Vodu Dangbe. Children wrap the snakes around their necks without fear as part of their tradition. pic.twitter.com/4FZ6nso0WY

— BBC News Africa (@BBCAfrica) October 10, 2026

Out of ignorance they think it is something worth celebrating worshipping snakes. They will remain backward.

Rapmoney:
Idemili and Uli are two communities in Anambra where pythons are sacred. Monitor lizards are also worshipped in Orogun in Delta State.

rats are worshipped at India then I wonder which tribe worships mosquitoes

PulaPower:
Nice one..

Isese La Gba !

Xxxx

Isese lagba for ordinary ball pythons?




You can be aborisa and get sense 😂...



Better become an atheist and see the difference

I have been to the place in Quidah. Such a spectacle.

I summoned enough courage to wrap one of the snakes on neck.

I also went to the "Sea of no return" where slaves are been transported to Europe back in those dark era.

hopexter:
Snakes does not harm you only because it’s python. Why not go try rattlesnake or black mamba let’s confirm something.

even pythons are very dangerous. They strangle. They are constrictors

I think I first held a python here in Benin Republic. It must've been in Cotonou. They have a Temple de python as well - python temple, I think in Ouidah. The Beninese are a traditional people, like many other ethnic groups, and they hold on to it.

Come January 10th, they'll celebrate their Vodoun festival. I remember hearing sounds on those nights. Of course I never stepped out.

Nostalgia....

zoedew:
Out of ignorance they think it is something worth celebrating worshipping snakes. They will remain backward.

are u better than them that worship middle east fables

Python are non venomous

Why dem no worship the venomous snakes and not always the Python

They are deceiving themselves

nlfpmod:
BBC Africa's post showcases the Vodun tradition in Ouidah, Benin, where communities revere Dangbé (Dan), the sacred python deity, treating royal pythons as divine symbols of protection, prosperity, and life force in rituals at sites like the Temple of Pythons.

Somewhere in Africa, a whole community is living alongside snakes. They consider snakes as gods and they even have a festival to celebrate the snake god they call Vodu Dangbe. Children wrap the snakes around their necks without fear as part of their tradition. pic.twitter.com/4FZ6nso0WY

— BBC News Africa (@BBCAfrica) October 10, 2026

48noble:
There are cultural values to the people's way of life. Today, it's called wildlife preservation. Cheers to the surviving ancients.

Any body key marry their girls...hmm...na snake spirit go scatter him life. Shiooorrrr to them.

They should try viper.

Runaway22:
These people and voodoo 5&6

How did you allow the whites colonized you guys

Ask them to use viper or anaconda

Fekumzi123:
They don't worship snake. They should try this with black mamba or Cobra, then I will believe they worship snake.

No mind them. This ball python is a very docile snake and doesn't even bite and is not venomous. Anyone can play with it. They are just deceiving themselves

Not for people that hate snakes

hopexter:
Snakes does not harm you only because it’s python. Why not go try rattlesnake or black mamba let’s confirm something.

You imagination is wild 😂

The black Mamba go send them go back to their ancestors

PulaPower:
Nice one..

Isese La Gba !

Xxxx

Most beautiful Scientific Discovery from Africa ....

If our Forefathers engaged in some activities back in time before era of Civilisations Meanwhile in Modern world, We are still Practicing Such Bizarre

Africa must Evolve !

Not a new thing. Common among some communities in Eastern Nigeria. Idemmili people of Anambra state and Awo. Idemmili in Imo state, amongst other places. Used to see them in my maternal grandma's kitchen. She will just gently remove it with a stick. You'll even see one recoiled around a new baby. When a titled man dies,it comes to his compound to bid him farewell.
No one dares kill them. If you did, by mistake, you'll bury it as one buries a human, if you refuse, anything you see you take. Things dey happen o

Blunt99:
Nothing to debate here.

That is their belief as Jesus is to Christians, and Muhammed is to Muslims.

It is a free world.

At least, theirs is not imported, which reduces their slave status.

Coming from someone that his life depend on imported stuff

Kingosytex:
No be me you go see for this kind setting. My things dey always dey different
Abeg o

Lalasticlala the snake lord will be laughing at you 🤣🤣🤣

No be when you go carry Forest Cobra o or spitting cobra

chinavs9ja:
Coming from someone that his life depend on imported stuff

How does that invalidates my point?

Should I condemn dem because I am a "slave" to western products?

It is a free world, and they should be allowed to practice their belief, just as you and I are allowed to practice our Islam and Christianity.

You are not better than them,

Infact, their belief help preserve the snake, while we don't hesitate to kill them over here.