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Traditional Religious Beliefs of the Igbo

Traditional Religious Beliefs of the Igbo. By: Som Ngeth and Emily Kobayashi. Animism. The Igbo people's religion was called animism. This religion believed that spirits exist in humans, plants, animals, rivers and even rocks. Chukwu: God.

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Traditional Religious Beliefs of the Igbo

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  1. Traditional Religious Beliefs of the Igbo By: Som Ngeth and Emily Kobayashi

  2. Animism • The Igbo people's religion was called animism. • This religion believed that spirits exist in humans, plants, animals, rivers and even rocks.

  3. Chukwu: God Chukwu is the Igbo version of God. He is the one that created the universe. He is much like the god from Christianity.

  4. Alusi: Minor Deities • Minor Deities were called Alusi and were the forces for blessing or destruction. • The Igbo people believed the Alusi could help the tribe and serve their interests. • If the Alusi performed these interests the people would continue to believe in them.

  5. The Alusi • Ala or Ana, the Earth Goddess and controls the fertility of land and of men. • Igwe is the Sky God, however he can not control the rain. • Imo miri is the spirit of the river and it was forbidden to fish in big rivers.

  6. More Alusi • Mbatuku is the spirit of wealth. • Agwo is the spirit that is always envious of others wealth. • Aha njuku or Ifejioku is the yam spirit. • Ikoro is the drum spirit. • Ekwu is the hearth spirit and women's domestic spirit. Cowries and yams

  7. Chi Chi was a person's energy or spirit that an individual possessed. It can be read by people and may tell a lot about that person.

  8. Spirits and Ancestors The Igbo praised many of their ancestors. The looked high and learned from them. They believed that the elders were the closest in contact to them. Spirits were beings that were also like ancestors but some were good and some were bad. Spirits varied like Ekwefi's daughter or the evil spirits that come out at night.

  9. Ogbanje • A way to explain why children keep dieing because the child's spirit was bad. • Igbo people believed that the child would keep dieing and reentering womb to be reborn, until a iyi-uwa, a special stone, was found, the child would keep dieing. What an Iyi-uwa might look like

  10. Egwugwu • This was how the Igbo people administered justice. • Village leaders would wear masks of an ancestral spirit, and then ask the people to bring forth their problems. • The leaders would then tell how to fix the problem, or settle a dispute.

  11. Sacrifices In the Igbo tribes make sacrifices for their ancestors and their gods. They believe it pleases the gods and gives good chi to them. They usually sacrifice before harvest and going to talk to a spirit or ancestor. They usually sacrifice chickens and goats.

  12. Funeral Traditions • They are very complex. • Chief's burial most complex. • Some deaths are considered shameful and people are thrown into a bush. • Suicides • Babies that die with no teeth • Women that die in labor Bush

  13. More death • Sometimes the Igbo people would put people to death because of their religion. • Twins • Children born with teeth • Children whose upper teeth grew first • Babies born feet first • And other people their religion found unfit.

  14. Festivals The New Yam Festival • All previous year's yams are eaten or thrown away • First yam is eaten by leader or elder and he will present the yams to the spirits, ancestors, deities, and god. • Festival is especially for Ana/Ala Picture of Ana/Ala

  15. Festivals Continued Week of Peace • To avoid being punished by spirits, ancestors, deities, and god. • If broken, spirits, ancestors, deities, and god will wreak havoc on the city

  16. Citations • Slattery, Katharine. "Religion and the Igbo People." Religion and the Igbo People. N.p., 15 Aug. 2001. Web. 15 Oct. 2012. <http://www.qub.ac.uk/imperial/nigeria/religion.htm>. • "Igbo - Religion and Expressive Culture." Countries and Their Cultures. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Oct. 2012. <http://www.everyculture.com/Africa-Middle-East/Igbo-Religion-and-Expressive-Culture.html>. • Onah, Godfrey Igwebuike. "THE MEANING OF PEACE IN AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND CULTURE." THE MEANING OF PEACE IN AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND CULTURE. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Oct. 2012. <http://www.afrikaworld.net/afrel/goddionah.htm>. • "New Yam Festival of the Igbo." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 4 Oct. 2012. Web. 15 Oct. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yam_Festival_of_the_Igbo>. • "Animism." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 12 Oct. 2012. Web. 15 Oct. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism>. • "Ogbanje." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 12 Sept. 2012. Web. 15 Oct. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogbanje>. • Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Anchor, 1994. Print.

  17. Citations for Pictures • N.d. Photograph. The New York Times. Web. 22 Oct. 2012. <http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/science/topics/earth_planet/index.html>. • N.d. Photograph. The Activist. 10 Sept. 2011. Web. 22 Oct. 2012. <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yAOYE3-J1mo/TmsnBJ6ucYI/AAAAAAAABcA/5ZKqEv3p-6I/s1600/36676-sky_blue.jpg>. • N.d. Photograph. Pitt Rivers Museum. Web. 22 Oct. 2012. <http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/LGweb/coins/1894_27_214.htm>. • N.d. Photograph. Wikipedia. 18 Nov. 2004. Web. 22 Oct. 2012. <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/YamsatBrixtonMarket.jpg>. • N.d. Photograph. Odinani: The Sacred Arts & Sciences of the Igbo People An Igbo Cyber Shrine. Web. 22 Oct. 2012. <http://igbocybershrine.com/tag/egwugwu/>. • N.d. Photograph. Clker.com. Web. 22 Oct. 2012. <http://www.clker.com/clipart-soft-bush.html>. • N.d. Photograph. Peace Symbol History. Web. 22 Oct. 2012. <http://www.docspopuli.org/articles/PeaceSymbolArticle.html>.

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