chival:
I am from idemili LG which comprises towns where the python is the recognized totem. I do not condone the practise or support it but I'd like to correct some misconceptions.

1. Not all snakes are revered in Idemili. Only the python (eke) is.
2. The python is the people's totem and not a god. It is not worshipped but revered and believed to be a protector/guardian.
3. The snakes come and go freely like the OP observed, even in my own village/family home, and I believe this largely because pythons are non venomous snakes and secondly, they have come to exist peacefully over so many years with people of the area so neither the python nor the people regard each other as a threat.

Another brilliant student..nothing spiritual about it as some peeps claim....ecological system.

I swear they have never eaten pepper soup in that Serpent village

rosy4u:

Don't waste time dude....it is sweater than chicken.

VenusBetty:
definitely, i cant stay in tha place

look your back, there is one snake behind you.

Lol I'm from anambra state, enugwu nanka to be precise. The snake is called EKE, and it doesn't harm people and if u kill it mistakenly or intentionally you have to bury it like a we do for humans, people also worship it and u dat worship it, he will always come to ur house in fact day will be troop in nd out, if you give birth day will also be there. Wen I was young I saw one in my grannies kitchen since den till now I never enter that kitchen...

remember007:
HELLO GUYS, THIS IS MY FIRST TIME OF CREATING A THREAD ON NAIRALAND..PARDON ME IF THERE ARE MISTAKES... I TRAVELED TO ANAMBRA STATE TWO WEEKS AGO TO SPEND MY SHORT HOLIDAY WITH MY GRANDMOTHER,@ AGU- UKWU,.. ITS TRULY A BEAUTIFUL STATE, IT'S A STATE WERE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, REP, SENATE AND EVEN LOCAL GOVT MEMBERS ARE ALL UP AND DOING... I CAN BODLY SAY THAT ALL ROADS IN OUR SENATORIAL DISTRICT WHICH IS REPRESENTED BY HONOURABLE UCHE EKUNIFE ARE TARED...REASON WHY SHE'S BEEN SENT TO THE SENATE COS ALL SIGN BOARD OF ROADS DONE HERE WERE ATTRACTED BY HER..........ON MYOU SECOND DAY OF VISIT, WE CAME BACK FROM CHURCH AROUND 9.. I WENT TO THE KITCHEN TO PREPARE FOOD.. THEN I SAW A SNAKE THAT WAS TRAPPED BTW IRON NETS OF THE KITCHEN WINDOW WHILE IT WAS TRYING TO CRAWL IN THRU THE WINDOW...I RAN. OUT SCREAMING FOR HELP , I WAS LATER TOLD THAT THE SNAKE DOESN'T BITE, THAT IT COMES INTO ANY HOME, THE PEOPLE DOESN'T KILL IT, RATHER I WAS WORSHIPPED IN THE OLDEN DAYS SO THEY ARE USED TO HAVING IT AS A GUEST.. FROM THAT DAY ON,I PACKED MY BAG AND LEFT FOR AWKA TO STAY WITH MY UNCLE .. IT TOOK 5 DAYS BEFORE I RETURNED HOME COS I FEAR SNAKES AND ALMOST EVERY THING THAT CRAWLS INCLUDING COCKROACHES...HERE ARE PICTURES OF IT AS WAS SHARED TO ME FROM MY COUSINS

GreatEngineer:
Yeah, its true, I serve in Anambra state, Umunya. You don't kill pyton there, but I kill about four before I finished serves, two of them came very close to my window in the night so I have to do the needful.

Though people cautioned me then but I told them it's not my religion so nothing will happened to me.

So many thing happen in so many places.

You sure nothing hapun to you sa?

Na so their pikin go de miss one after the other

suree its normal in the east but.....that one is really big o...ahhh.....

boss1310:
yea you are right dear,that town is near my hometown and we were told frm childhood never to kill or harm snakes even in the city but guess what i have killed one in the city.
I won't take chances with my life hoping on the gods to save me when i dnt know them and they dont know me.i didn't let my people know about it but anyday i see a snake blocking my road i squash and maim i dnt take chances
i still remember how snakes used to enter someone's car in the indian movie SUNITA.
it still gives me the creeps

you didn't need to kill a python - which is the particular snake you were asked not to kill. it's even harmless to people as its only big enough to constrict small animals.

This is actually real, a good friend of mine visited a man in Anambra and he saw a python, God saved him that he had not kill it cause that one dey kill snake well well, he's from Cross river, the man told him that if he kill it he will have to bury it as if he is burying a human being. The man now had to lure the python away. They see the pythons as gods and that if you visit them and the python comes you are a good visitor.

chaxking:
Lol I'm from anambra state, enugwu nanka to be precise. The snake is called EKE, and it doesn't harm people and if u kill it mistakenly or intentionally you have to bury it like a we do for humans, people also worship it and u dat worship it, he will always come to ur house in fact day will be troop in nd out, if you give birth day will also be there. Wen I was young I saw one in my grannies kitchen since den till now I never enter that kitchen...

bro like for real ...so snake kingdom is real.

COvo:
I hate Snakes so much.I can't stay in a place like this

Me too

chival:
I am from idemili LG which comprises towns where the python is the recognized totem. I do not condone the practise or support it but I'd like to correct some misconceptions.

1. Not all snakes are revered in Idemili. Only the python (eke) is.
2. The python is the people's totem and not a god. It is not worshipped but revered and believed to be a protector/guardian.
3. The snakes come and go freely like the OP observed, even in my own village/family home, and I believe this largely because pythons are non venomous snakes and secondly, they have come to exist peacefully over so many years with people of the area so neither the python nor the people regard each other as a threat.

In a way, culture has helped to preserve nature. By not killing these animals we dont offset the balance of nature. If only its the same of other wildlife which are considered endangered today(Elephant,Rhino, Tiger etc) As for religion, thats for God to judge. Last time i checked, He doesnt blog.

You can translate this picture into any scenario !!! >:

Nairaland was Visited by this creature this morning

ABRAKATABRA PHOTO STUDIO got a Shocking Visitor this morning !

A 99 year old mugu ESCAPED through the DOOR KEY HOLE when this Python was making his way into his room

Breaking and Entry ! This python was ARRESTED by BUNKURU community Vigilante group, while trying to steal meat in An 98 year old sportive grandmother's house!

Bank Robbery at KULUNGUMOTO community Bank !!! A mysterious Python was Arrested for attempted Robbery at KULUNGUMOTO local government area of KUNBURUTU STATE of NAIRALAND Republic !

A Catholic priest was chased out in my home town in njaba, imo in the 90's for killing such python for eating his eggs in the poultry . he even had the guts to come to church boasting about it. My uncle saved the clergy ''s butt by inviting police to rescue him as masquerades and angry youths were waiting outside the church to flog him mercilessly.

Lol yeye it's not like snake Kingdom, Op should ask her family if day worship the snake! Till date people still worship that snake, even in a place called apkugo in Enugu state

hensben:
bro like for real ...so snake kingdom is real.

That's a juvenile ball python naa... its not venomous, and it makes a nice pet.

Look @ her smiling on top of snake pepper soup.

VickyRotex:
Hmmmm.

And the snake is romantic?

I nor dey com ur house again,make u nor feed me with the gods food .Tufia

YOU PEOPLE MAKE THIS LOOK AS IF PYTHON IS A BIG DEAL...I AM FROM ANAMBRA WE DO NOT KILL PYTHON AND PYTHON DONT KILL US...IN SHORT PYTHON VISITS US AND THERE IS AN UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN US....


WE HAVE BEEN CONSERVATIONIST SINCE 1744 AD ....THERE IS NO CAUSE FOR ALARM


I THANK GOD FOR CREATING ME ANAMBRA AND IGBO


UDO DI...ENWERO IFE NA IME

Fantastic! Technically Anambra is off my list of places to ever visit. me and snake na like night & day, we no dey see each other. Tufia

WHY SHOULD U FEAR PYTHON...RELAX IT WONT KILL U...WE RESPECT IT, ANACONDA, BOA CONSTRICTOR ARE OUR FRIENDS SO RELAX

refreshrate:
Fantastic! Technically Anambra is off my list of places to ever visit.
me and snake na like night & day, we no dey see each other.
Tufia

remember007:
HELLO GUYS, THIS IS MY FIRST TIME OF CREATING A THREAD ON NAIRALAND..PARDON ME IF THERE ARE MISTAKES... I TRAVELED TO ANAMBRA STATE TWO WEEKS AGO TO SPEND MY SHORT HOLIDAY WITH MY GRANDMOTHER,@ AGU- UKWU,.. ITS TRULY A BEAUTIFUL STATE, IT'S A STATE WERE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, REP, SENATE AND EVEN LOCAL GOVT MEMBERS ARE ALL UP AND DOING... I CAN BODLY SAY THAT ALL ROADS IN OUR SENATORIAL DISTRICT WHICH IS REPRESENTED BY HONOURABLE UCHE EKUNIFE ARE TARED...REASON WHY SHE'S BEEN SENT TO THE SENATE COS ALL SIGN BOARD OF ROADS DONE HERE WERE ATTRACTED BY HER..........ON MYOU SECOND DAY OF VISIT, WE CAME BACK FROM CHURCH AROUND 9.. I WENT TO THE KITCHEN TO PREPARE FOOD.. THEN I SAW A SNAKE THAT WAS TRAPPED BTW IRON NETS OF THE KITCHEN WINDOW WHILE IT WAS TRYING TO CRAWL IN THRU THE WINDOW...I RAN. OUT SCREAMING FOR HELP , I WAS LATER TOLD THAT THE SNAKE DOESN'T BITE, THAT IT COMES INTO ANY HOME, THE PEOPLE DOESN'T KILL IT, RATHER I WAS WORSHIPPED IN THE OLDEN DAYS SO THEY ARE USED TO HAVING IT AS A GUEST.. FROM THAT DAY ON,I PACKED MY BAG AND LEFT FOR AWKA TO STAY WITH MY UNCLE .. IT TOOK 5 DAYS BEFORE I RETURNED HOME COS I FEAR SNAKES AND ALMOST EVERY THING THAT CRAWLS INCLUDING COCKROACHES...HERE ARE PICTURES OF IT AS WAS SHARED TO ME FROM MY COUSINS

op you like som1 i knw in zuba....minister's hill ...are you the one?

You can translate this picture into any scenario !!! >:

Nairaland was Visited by this creature this morning

ABRAKATABRA PHOTO STUDIO got a Shocking Visitor this morning !

A 99 year old mugu ESCAPED through the DOOR KEY HOLE when this Python was making his way into his room

Breaking and Entry ! This python was ARRESTED by BUNKURU community Vigilante group, while trying to steal meat in A 98 year old sportive grandmother's kitchen!

Bank Robbery at KULUNGUMOTO community Bank !!! A mysterious Python was Arrested for attempted Robbery at KULUNGUMOTO local government area of KUNBURUTU STATE of NAIRALAND Republic !

NAIRALAND CCTV captured a DearDevil python escape through liver class window !!!

boss1310:
yea you are right dear,that town is near my hometown and we were told frm childhood never to kill or harm snakes even in the city but guess what i have killed one in the city.
I won't take chances with my life hoping on the gods to save me when i dnt know them and they dont know me.i didn't let my people know about it but anyday i see a snake blocking my road i squash and maim i dnt take chances
i still remember how snakes used to enter someone's car in the indian movie SUNITA.

it still gives me the creeps

its not Sunita. The movie you're talking about is NAGIN

ladenz:
Was the person taking the pictures standing on his head?

chaxking:
Lol yeye it's not like snake Kingdom, Op should ask her family if day worship the snake! Till date people still worship that snake, even in a place called apkugo in Enugu state

place where snake dey visit person nor be snake kingdom bro wetin u go come call that one?

hensben:
This is archaic and barbaric having a snake as guest.

It is an ancient tradition. Provided it does not bite me, I have problem with that

I like the fact that these people are preserving this beautiful specie of snake for the next generations. Many animals are going extinct now due to aggressive urbanization. Thanks to this superstition, we get to have healthy specie of python around for a long time.

Pythons of that size are actually harmless and peaceful. Next time you might want to experiment or have fun by going to market to buy a live mouse or hare, and lock it up in confinement with the python. You would watch the beauty of nature in a python feeding live. The speed it curls itself round the hare, and the patience it swallows it slowly. Take a few snap shots. Keep them in your archive. Life is beautiful. But the hare will be swearing for you sha for what you just did to it.

Goodluck.

NeduLuiZ:
Religion the greatest scam
God knows I would smash the head of that ugly serpent

kill it and face mysterious problem.Is not just talking but go there and plz try it

in my hometown of Abagana, Anambra State. its forbidden to kill pythons. if you kill one, you give it a proper burial (with all the ceremony accorded to deceased humans) to appease the gods. I've never encountered one and haven't seen nobody giving the ancestral serpent a burial. though one of my kinsmen found one in his compound and had to use a stick to push it out and into a gully near our house.
its allowed to kill other snakes- the poisonous ones

Freedom for both parties ;Duote author=hensben post=34923172]place where snake dey visit person nor be snake kingdom bro wetin u go come call that one?[/quote]