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I've also fixed earlier comments on this thread because I was right all along.

carnegiefan:
The last point I want to add is that we are actually dealing with a spiritual (rather than cultural) issue here.

I'm curious to understand how you figure that the discussion is spiritual rather than cultural. You mind explaining that?

ChinenyeN:
I'm curious to understand how you figure that the discussion is spiritual rather than cultural. You mind explaining that?

The opening thread has a document attached to it upon which the whole argument was based. It is titled "The Religion of the Eboe People". In that document, the first and second paragraphs lay out the argument.
Judaism (like Islam) and Igbo traditional beliefs do not separate spirituality from other human activities. Nevertheless, spirituality forms the base.
Everything in Igbo culture is guided by "Nso, Aru/Alu", "Ala/Ana, Chi, Arusi/Alusi", "Ofo and Ogu", and "Okike, Obasi, Chukwu, Chineke". You cannot successfully deal with any of the institutions in Igbo culture of the old without dealing with any of these.

Curlieweed:
The whole Igbos are Hebrew story is very irritating.

I am not a linguist like ChinenyeN here but the linguistic evidence suggests that the basic origins of Igbo traditional religion wasn't very different from that of other Groups in the Kwa language cluster. For example, even though linguists suggest that Igbo and Yoruba split about 3,500 years ago, the similarity in some of the words for certain religious concepts is uncanny.

Deity: Arushi (Igbo). Orisha (Yoruba)
Divination: Afa (Igbo). Ifa. (Yoruba)
Medicine: Ogwu. (Igbo). Ogun. (Yoruba)

Others may find other examples.

stop it.

water and oil dont mix.

Carnegiefan, I see. Thanks for sharing that with me.

The Igbo's cannot be the same people as the Jews because those parading as Jews today are first of all not even from that area of the world, the ancient Hebrews spoke an Afroasiatic language (they still do today). That language is an African language which no white man spoke. Arabs also speak an Afroasiatic language and are the mularo children of Africans. Anyone trying to prove Igbo's came from Arabs or from Henrews is misguided. You'd be better if proving you are related to the Lemba who have the highest quantity of the DNA that makes a so called Jew. The mistake is the skave mentality that makes you think you need to share a race with Arabs.

Double posting

ezeagu:
The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe Nwando Achebe

More here: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1393

Does this story prove anything? Is it not obvious that she was imposed by foriegners and that this is an anomaly in Igboland ?

DeeMain:
Does this story prove anything? Is it not obvious that she was imposed by foriegners and that this is an anomaly in Igboland ?

She was made a sex slave by an Igbo deity, please go and read her story.

Igbo ndi anyi ji a ga mba . .!!

Source "Niger Ibos" (published 1920) by G.T. Basden ==>