ORIGINAL FUNDAMENTALS OF IGBO RELIGION THAT HAS NO FANATICAL DOCTRINES AND DOGMAS THAT GIVE RISE TO CRUSADES AND/OR JIHADS THAT LED TO THE PREVIOUS WORLD WARS

RENASCENT IGBO RELIGION

Updated on Monday, April 6, 2017

ORIGINAL FUNDAMENTALS OF IGBO RELIGION THAT HAS NO FANATICAL DOCTRINES AND DOGMAS THAT GIVE RISE TO CRUSADES AND/OR JIHADS THAT LED TO THE TWO PREVIOUS WORLD WARS AND WITH ISIS AND NORTH KOREAN ADVENTURISM IS SURELY LEADING US TO THIRD NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON

FUNDAMENTALS OF IGBO RELIGION THAT HAS NO FANATICAL DOCTRINES AND DOGMAS THAT GIVE RISE TO CRUSADES

This is merely An Introduction To RENASCENT IGBO RELIGION

·                     AGUNABU UMUELECHI BIAFRA categorically states that our forefathers lived holier lives than our generation is living. They were the contemporaries of Patriarch Enoch of Genesis Chapter 5. Both practised NSO–ANI, which is Total Obedience to the Almighty Creator’s Natural Laws!

·                     And in our scientific age, we do not need armchair philosophers any more. They have done us enough damage. See the current ISIS mass religious psychopathology that is using online media to deceive youths worldwide to join them. 

·                     Send all your replies to email;  agunabu1948@gmail.com

SYMBOL OF THE EARTH GODDESS OUR ANCESTORS USED TO DEPICT THE GREATEST GIFT OF CHINEKE, OBASI BI N'ELU, AMADIOHA OR CHI-UKWU

The Igbo has no name for the Ultimate Giver of Life! All we have are appellations that describe the superlative traits of this Consummate Spirit that created, creates and will still continue to create and sustain all the beings, visible and invisible, for ages in the future;

1.    Chi-na-eke: the ultimate spirit that creates

2.    Chi-ukwu:   the greatest spirit

3.    Obasi bi n-elu: the omnipotent that lives on high

4.    Ama-di-oha: the supreme husband of all

5.    Ogara-nya ngada-nga: the wealthiest of the rich

6.    Ugwu ana-ari-atu egwu: the highest mountain that is climbed with trepidation

7.    Ogbajiri igwe kpoo ya nku: He that breaks steel and calls it dry wood

8.    Utu na agba igwe: bacteria that eats up iron, i.e. potent ant that tears iron to shreds

9.    Ogbu onye mbosi ndu n’ato ya oto: he that snuffs life off the arrogant

In our culture, one can only give names to what one owns, has authority over and can dispose of at will! It is not right to give any name to the creator; we describe what he is and does; “Chi-na-eke”, meaning; “the divine spirit that creates” or “Chi-Ukwu”; the Ultimate Spirit!  Therefore, I conclude this prelude thus: May Our Chineke prosper the work of your hands and provide divine guidance and protection for your spouses and children. I share in this last prayer and hope that all is well for those who love Chukwu, the Lord that gives us love and children may always be diligent in obeying His marriage laws! Amen!

Whereas other nations and cultures built places of worship for their religions, the Igbo know that the sky is the dome of the Creator and his illuminating lights are the sun, moon and stars. The grooves or open squares well planned and decorated are our places of worship come rain come shine! Most devotional rituals are done in moonlighting periods as it is cool and lasts the whole night. Above are edifices other major world religions built. For the Igbo, no human engineered structure is good enough to be the abode of the supreme spirit that owns the sky, the land and the sea. He is worshipped in the open!

PANTHEON IN RENASIGBOREL NEEDS MODERNISATION

The most widely worshiped deity of the Igbo was clearly the Earth goddess, ALA or ANI due to linguistic nuances. Next in rank to the Father Chineke, she is the Mother that manages the physical beings on earth for the benefit of her children. She provides fertility and the food that sustains all living things. She blesses farm work with bountiful harvest. The beautiful landscapes are the result of her proper feminine grooming!  The ponds, lakes streams and all other sources of drinking water come under her care. The dead are buried in her bosom!

Thus she became the deity that must be placated first for protection before one is clean enough to approach Chineke or else face the wrath of Amadioha, the god of thunder and lightning, the disciplinarian. She is represented by a nursing mother in sculptures and painting. Mud statues of a Breastfeeding Mother was used earlier, today, Renascent Igbo Religion RIR uses this tripartite symbol of a family to depict her;

The Greatest Gift of the Chi-na-eke

It is impossible to enumerate all the lesser deities our forebears had, many of whom are now mere names to us. Among them were the spirits of many mountains, rivers, springs, respected ancestors, and reputable warriors, past kings and queens who had “become gods” at death. Demons also existed in pre-colonial era as malevolent spirits under the command of Amadioha, the disciplinarian. Sickness and misfortune were ascribed either to these demons, to sorcery or to divine retribution.

Gods and men

The gods were imagined to have their own lives, though also needing the service of their worshipers, who in turn were dependent on the gods for their well-being. They lived in their temples, where they had to be fed, clothed, washed, and entertained. Part of their time, however, might be spent in heaven or in roaming the sea or the mountains. They might withdraw in anger and so cause life on Earth to wither and cease. One of the most characteristic rituals of the Hittites was the invocation by which a god who had absented himself was induced to return and attend to his duties by a combination of prayer and magic.

The relation between man and god resembled that between a servant and his master. “If a servant has committed an offence his master may do with him whatever he pleases; but if he repentantly confesses his guilt before everyone and his master, because he has confessed his guilt publicly. . . . . . . . . . . .  . . Both the community’s spirit is appeased and master's anger is cooled and he will not call that servant to account.” Confession and expiation form the main theme of the extant royal prayers.

THE IGBO THEORY & PRACTICE OF “NSO ANI”

A literal ‘one-for-word’ translation of the concept is ‘reverence earth’, whose real import implies “Total Reverence for the Prescriptions of the Sacred Earth Goddess and Avoidance of her Proscriptions” is the sum total of all the religiosity in Igbo land.

Although the pre-scientific metaphysics of the people of Biafra will definitely need updating, their Pristine Social Ethics will never need any existential change despite the whirlwind of foreign religions raging all around them! This is not only the opinion of this author but that of many intellectuals who affirm that the corrupting influence of both Westernisation and Catholicism will never erase the respect, adoration and loyalty NSO ANI enjoys in the hearts of liberated and self-actualised indigenes of the Igbo land! Authentic natives still live by NSO ANI in their private lives and transmit its mores and norms to their children by words and deeds!

To date, when all other religious abracadabra fail to heal an erring son or daughter of Biafra, resort is made to the pristine modes of cleansing the individual of the guilt he or she had earned by desecrating the natural laws of the Earth Goddess. No amount of religious imperialism or psychosocial politicisation of Igbo traditional religion can ever successfully replace the respect that NSO ANI enjoys in Biafra. 

WHAT IS ‘NSO ANI’ IN PRACTICAL TERMS

In one phrase, it is TOTAL OBEDIENCE TO NATURAL LAWS. This was, has been and will ever remain the authentic religion of past, present and future genuine religion of true children of CHI-NEKE, CHI-UKWU, OBASI-BI-N’ELU!

DR JIDEOFO KENECHUKWU DANMBAEZUE AFFIRMS THUS;

TO DATE, AMADIOHA, THE DISCIPLINARIAN GOD OF THUNDER & LIGHTNING STILL CARRIES OUT THE PUNISHMENT OF GRAVE VIOLATIONS OF NSO ANI IN THE ENTIRE LENGTH AND WIDTH OF THE THICK TROPICALIGBO LAND OF BIAFRA, WHETHER CHRISTIANISED OR ISLAMISED! THE CORRUPTING INFLUENCE OF BOTH WESTERNISATION AND CATHOLICISM WILL NEVER ERASE THE RESPECT, ADORATION AND LOYALTY NSO ANI ENJOYS IN THE HEARTS OF LIBERATED AND SELF-ACTUALISED INDIGENES OF THE IGBO LAND! ; 03/03/2011@ 21:09:16HRS GMT

 

SOCIAL MOBILITY IN IGBO LAND WAS BY PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT

    

THE CHOICE OF A CEREMONIAL LEADER IS DEPENDENT ON THE SOCIAL LADDER ONE HAD SUCCESSFULLY CLIMBED OR ACHIEVED IN LIFE APPROVED FOR KEEPING NSO ANI FROM CHILDHOOD, BEING AN HONEST HARDWORKING MAN OR WOMAN WHO HAS BEEN PURE, CHASTE AND DILIGENT BEFORE AND AFTER MARRIAGE TILL THE COMMUNITY RECOGNISES AND RESPECTS ONE’S INDIVIDUAL MERIT TO LEAD. IT HAS NEVER BEEN BY INHERITANCE BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF WHITE MEN ON OUR SHORES! TODAY ALL THAT HAS CHANGED!

THE DESECRATION OF OUR PRE-COLONIAL HIGH MORAL VALUES STARTED WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST WHITE MISSIONARIES IN WEST AFRICA. WHAT THE NATIVES CALLED “NSO-ANI” WAS RE-BRANDED FORGIVEABLE SINS AND SO WATERED DOWN THE SANCTITY OF RELIGIOUS VALUES IN BIAFRA. ITS PARTNER, WESTERN EDUCATION NEATLY COMPLETED THE ‘COUP DE GRACE’ AS THE FOREIGN CONCEPTS AND SOCIAL VALUES OF THE COLONIALISTS DESTROYED THE SOCIAL ETHICS OF THE NATIVES AND RENDERED OUR PRISTINE MORES AND NORMS INEFFECTIVE. IN SOME COMMUNITIES; “APING THE WHITE MAN’S DRESS CODE AND MANNERISMS BECAME FASHIONABLE AND IGNORING THE CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS OF THE COMMUNITY WAS SEEN AS THE CRITERION OF BEING EDUCATED AND MORE CIVILISED THAN THE ILLITERATE FOLKS IN THE VILLAGES!

---DR JIDEOFO KENECHUKWU DANMBAEZUE, @ 30/06/2011 04:14:32 HRS GMT.

   

 The Mystery of Cre

A KENEZIAN EPILOGUE

DR KENEZ SUMMATION OF FAITH FROM PREVIOUS RELIGIONS THAT CAN ENTHRONE REAL PEACE FOR CITIZENS OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGE

There is one supreme eternal reality; the truth; imminent in all things; creator of all things; immanent in creation. Without fear and without hatred; not subject to time; beyond birth and death; self-revealing. This Eternal Reality is known only by the Divine Revelations from His Grace.

Faith is ultimately the acceptance of the divine authority of the Omnipotent and Omniscient Almighty Creator of the universe we share with all the other beings he has made; micro/macrocosms, living and non-living beings that regularly obey the natural and eternal laws he embedded in his creations for our mutual benefits.

----Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez (1999)

By faith is meant, first, conscious knowledge, and second, the practice of good deeds. "Know, therefore, that only the LORD your Creator is the Ultimate Reality, the Absolute Truth. Only he is the steadfast Godhead who keeps His gracious covenant to the all who believe and trust in his everlasting love and fatherly care for beings, seen and unseen to the tens, hundreds and thousandth generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments."Hence, recognizing and affirming that this One Almighty Creator of the entire Universe is our Father/Mother and therefore, only to this Creator is total worship due. Our corporate willingness, commitment and submission to this One Creator that exists guarantees all that are alive sustenance, and to His prescriptions for living in accordance with his ordained eternal and natural laws is surely the only assurance of living a good life assured to anyone who (1) believes in Him, and (2) believes in the Last Day, and (3) leads a righteous life, will receive their recompense from the Lord. They have nothing to fear, nor will they grieve."                          

                                          ------------- ISM Integrational Faith (2013)

 

FELLOWSHIP OF TRUE CHILDREN OF THE CREATOR

Faith in Buddhism centres on the understanding that the Buddha is an Awakened being, on his superior role as teacher, in the truth of his Dharma (spiritual teachings), and in his Sangha (community of spiritually developed followers).

In the teachings, saddhā is often described as:

·                    a conviction that something is

·                    a determination to accomplish one's goals

·                    a sense of joy deriving from the other two spiritual teachings and in community of spiritually developed followers.

As a counter to any form of "blind faith", the Buddha's teachings included those included in the Kalama Sutra,exhorting his disciples to investigate any teaching and to live by what is learnt and accepted, rather than believing in something simply because it is taught.

Meher Baba described three types of faith, emphasizing the importance of faith in a spiritual master:

"One of the most important qualifications for the aspirant is faith. There are three kinds of faith: (i) faith in oneself, (ii) faith in the Master and (iii) faith in life. Faith is so indispensable to life that unless it is present in some degree, life itself would be impossible. It is because of faith that cooperative and social life becomes possible. It is faith in each other that facilitates a free give and take of love, a free sharing of work and its results.

When life is burdened with unjustified fear of one another it becomes cramped and restricted....Faith in the Master becomes all-important because it nourishes and sustains faith in oneself and faith in life in the very teeth of set-backs and failures, handicaps and difficulties, limitations and failings. Life, as man knows it in himself, or in most of his fellow-men, may be narrow, twisted and perverse, but life as he sees it in the Master is unlimited, pure and untainted. In the Master, man sees his own ideal realised; the Master is what his own deeper self would rather be. He sees in the Master the reflection of the best in himself which is yet to be, but which he will surely one day attain. Faith in the Master therefore becomes the chief motive-power for realising the divinity which is latent in man."

Bertrand Russell noted, "Where there is evidence, no one speaks of 'faith'. We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence."

Kenez Danmbaezue observes; “ The only truthful thing anyone can say about the Almighty and Benevolent Creator known in many cultures and languages by a variety of names is; AN INTELLIGENT SUPERNATURAL BEING EXISTS WHO CREATED ALL WE CAN EVER SEE, THINK AND FEEL! Any other statement we make about this Ultimate Reality, Absolute Truth that is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent being is mere guesswork that only feeds doctrine and dogmas!

THE HIGHEST ‘NZE na OZO’ TITLE IN IGBO CULTURE

Before the arrival of Western culture and imported religions, The IGBOS had ‘OUTWARD SIGNS OF INWARD GRACE! The sanctity of honest elders were noticed by  the special hand-woven and colourful caps that adorned their wise heads, the bronze or silver walking stick that aided their weak frames and religio-cultural facial scarification that indicated to all and sundry the ‘life of purity of thoughts, words and actions’. Observe the relaxed mood, the nobility of composure, the achieved social status and dignified social rank of this elder!

IGBU-ICHI is the scarified architectural design that only the truthful, wealthy and wise elders of old had/have on their faces. It was the real test of manhood and the ultimate symbol of the highest title in the ‘Nze-na-Ozo’ title! Currently, many titled men cannot endure the carving of their faces into the decorative designs done with very sharp ANCIENTinstruments with no pain-killing drugs administered and devoid of local or general anaesthesia. One does not flinch his face, show any discomfort, shed a tear or sweat throughout the three-hour duration of the crude surgery.

The experts in IGBU-ICHI were the highest paid doctors and retaining their three-week service for the scars to heal was very exorbitant. The goats and chickens slaughtered were uncountable as well as the tubers of yams they and their assistants were fed on/with throughout the duration. Only the wealthy farmer could afford them! Take another look at his face in any of the obituary pictures and see whether you can count the number of the curved lines that arch up-down-horizontal-vertical? Each of them took at least 10 minutes to carve! Yet, the titled man MUST not show any sign of pain! If he did, the ceremony is aborted! He becomes a disgrace in the immediate community if that happens and might be stripped of all other titles he ever earned in life.

The present descendants of the pre-western Igbo people do not know what it is, how much it costs, who are qualified for it, what it symbolises nor its prestigious socio-religious significance when ‘men were men and beautiful women were married by the few who deserved them!’ By his death, we have today lost the last doyen of LION-HEARTED men of his genre in Ezeawara town in particular and in the entire Igbo land in general, who epitomised the pristine virtues of truthfulness, integrity, justice, fortitude, patience and endurance of the highest order in the saintly lifestyle of our revered forebears in pre-colonial periods when making a good name was worth more prestigious than amassing wealth that is now in vogue!

·                     AGUNABU UMUELECHI BIAFRA categorically states that our forefathers lived holier lives than our generation is living. They were the contemporaries of Patriarch Enoch of Genesis Chapter 5. Both practised NSO–ANI, which is Total Obedience to the Almighty Creator’s Natural Laws!

·                     And in our scientific age, we do not need armchair philosophers anymore. They have done us enough damage. See the current ISIS mass religious psychopathology that is using online media to deceive youths worldwide to join them. 

·                     Send all your replies to email;  agunabu1948@gmail.com

Posted by Danmbaezue Jideofo Kenechukwu at 7:55 PM  

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Danmbaezue Jideofo KenechukwuApril 6, 2015 at 7:59 PM

• AGUNABU UMUELECHI BIAFRA categorically states that our forefathers lived holier lives than our generation is living. They were the contemporaries of Patriarch Enoch of Genesis Chapter 5. Both practised NSO–ANI, which is Total Obedience to the Almighty Creator’s Natural Laws!
• And in our scientific age, we do not need armchair philosophers any more. They have done us enough damage. See the current ISIS mass religious psychopathology that is using on-line media to deceive youths worldwide to join them. 

Send all your replies to email; agunabu1948@gmail.com

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Danmbaezue Jideofo KenechukwuApril 6, 2015 at 8:04 PM

Before the arrival of Western culture and imported religions, The IGBOS had ‘OUTWARD SIGNS OF INWARD GRACE! The sanctity of honest elders were noticed by the special hand-woven and colourful caps that adorned their wise heads, the bronze or silver walking stick that aided their weak frames and religio-cultural facial scarification that indicated to all and sundry the ‘life of purity of thoughts, words and actions’. Observe the relaxed mood, the nobility of composure, the achieved social status and dignified social rank of this elder!
IGBU-ICHI is the scarified architectural design that only the truthful, wealthy and wise elders of old had/have on their faces. It was the real test of manhood and the ultimate symbol of the highest title in the ‘Nze-na-Ozo’ title! Currently, many titled men cannot endure the carving of their faces into the decorative designs done with very sharp ANCIENT instruments with no pain-killing drugs administered and devoid of local or general anaesthesia. One does not flinch his face, show any discomfort, shed a tear or sweat throughout the three-hour duration of the crude surgery. 

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Danmbaezue Jideofo KenechukwuApril 6, 2015 at 8:16 PM

Whereas other nations and cultures built places of worship for their religions, the Igbo know that the sky is the dome of the Creator and his illuminating lights are the sun, moon and stars. The grooves or open squares well planned and decorated are our places of worship come rain come shine! Most devotional rituals are done in moonlighting periods as it is cool and lasts the whole night. Above are edifices other major world religions built. For the Igbo, no human engineered structure is good enough to be the abode of the supreme spirit that owns the sky, the land and the sea. He is worshipped in the open!
WHAT IS ‘NSO ANI’ IN PRACTICAL TERMS

In one phrase, it is TOTAL OBEDIENCE TO NATURAL LAWS. This was, has been and will ever remain the authentic religion of past, present and future genuine religion of true children of CHI-NEKE, CHI-UKWU, OBASI-BI-N’ELU! 
DR JIDEOFO KENECHUKWU DANMBAEZUE AFFIRMS THUS;
TO DATE, AMADIOHA, THE DISCIPLINARIAN GOD OF THUNDER & LIGHTNING STILL CARRIES OUT THE PUNISHMENT OF GRAVE VIOLATIONS OF NSO ANI IN THE ENTIRE LENGTH AND WIDTH OF THE THICK TROPICAL IGBO LAND OF BIAFRA, WHETHER CHRISTIANISED OR ISLAMISED! THE CORRUPTING INFLUENCE OF BOTH WESTERNISATION AND CATHOLICISM WILL NEVER ERASE THE RESPECT, ADORATION AND LOYALTY NSO ANI ENJOYS IN THE HEARTS OF LIBERATED AND SELF-ACTUALISED INDIGENES OF THE IGBO LAND! 

These are the New Generation Mothers that need ISM LIBERATION THEOSOPHY BY THE HOLY SPIRIT OF THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR USING OUR AMIABLE

DR J. K. DANMBAEZUE 

a.k.a.

AGUNABU UMUELECHI BIAFRA

or

Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez; 

03/03/2011@ 21:09:16HRS GMT