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The question of Igbo identity:
PRAY TO GOD IN IGBO LANGUAGE AND GOD WILL SURPRISE YOU.
It is said that our people die in ignorance. Igbo language is blessed by God. Once again we have a tie with Igbo , for Igbo language is the only language in the world in which the words for father, mother and child all begin with n – as in nna, nne, nwa. Even the words that describe each gender begin also with n – as in nwoke, nwanyi, nwata – three powers abiding in three n n n and three quadrangles. It was the language spoken by God and Man. It is a language that traverses the whole world. It is the base of any other languages. It is the first language that existed in the world. A language handed over by God. Christianity fed from a long lost undercurrent of Igbo theology.
Igbo language is powerful in the spiritual world.According to historical facks the disciples of Christ spoke Igbo when the spirit fail upon them for the power of God to manifest, but Christianity called it speaking in tongue. "nna, nne, nwa" are the trinity in the Christianity. The three are gods in one.
Igbo are special creation by God The only being that occupy the spritual space with God. It is the only language in the world that have more similarities and the same meaning with ancient and modern languages ever spoken in the world. The angels understand Igbo language more than any other language. It is a language that floats among the angels. I challenge you to clean up yourself spiritualy for a day and pray in Igbo language and see how quick your prayers will be answered by God.
Praise the God with joyful Igbo songs. That is the reason it is not good to curse non Igbo in Igbo language. Have you gone back to check if your curses on non Igbo came to pass or not, many a times your curse on non Igbo comes to pass because you are a son of God and not chosen people of the God like the Israelite.
Igbo language is powerful in the spiritual world.According to historical facks the disciples of Christ spoke Igbo when the spirit fail upon them for the power of God to manifest, but Christianity called it speaking in tongue. "nna, nne, nwa" are the trinity in the Christianity. The three are gods in one.
Igbo are special creation by God The only being that occupy the spritual space with God. It is the only language in the world that have more similarities and the same meaning with ancient and modern languages ever spoken in the world. The angels understand Igbo language more than any other language. It is a language that floats among the angels. I challenge you to clean up yourself spiritualy for a day and pray in Igbo language and see how quick your prayers will be answered by God.
Praise the God with joyful Igbo songs. That is the reason it is not good to curse non Igbo in Igbo language. Have you gone back to check if your curses on non Igbo came to pass or not, many a times your curse on non Igbo comes to pass because you are a son of God and not chosen people of the God like the Israelite.
You are a god and your language Igbo, is spiritual and the sound in Igbo language is very powerful. Sounds that possessed the nature and power of God in them, sounds that moved mountains and changed the courses of rivers. That is why the Igbo don't have king or bow down to any man because he is a god a direct descendant of God and with all the powers of God. Non Igbo call it arrogance, but a god will not bow to a normal being. Even though Igbo have sinned and done what they are not suppose to do yet, the god in them remains, but may not be effective as it is suppose to be. However, if they clean up Spiritually, they will be active and function as the god they are. My candid advise to Igbo people, do not curse non Igbos, for your curse on them usually come to pass and purge yourselves of your inequities for you to function as god whom you are.
THE WORLD KNOWS WHO THE IGBO ARE, BUT IGBO DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE.
THE WORLD KNOWS WHO THE IGBO ARE, BUT IGBO DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE.
THE YORUBA BELIEVE AND WORSHIP THE GOD AND ANCESTOR OF IGBO
Yoruba Ifa Mythology says that ‘Igbo’ is the name of God. Accordingly, the Yoruba name for ‘Almighty God is’ Igbo Olodumare. By Ifa definition and mythology, Igbo defines the concept of the ‘All Might’ and ‘All Power of God’ – the Creator.
The greatest of the sixteen sons and daughters of God who came to re-deem earth from the Evil One, according to Ifa mythology, is a god called Obatala who the Yoruba worship as the ancestor of the Igbos and the greatest of all the Sons of God who have incarnated on earth. They call him ‘The Ancient of days’ Vice Gerent of the Omnipotent, Mediator between the Almighty and Man. Ifa says he died and resurrected after sixteen days in the grave.
And his praise-song says, “Death has no power over Obatala”. His title is Obatala Osere Igbo – a title, which according to Ifa, strikes immense fear and awe whenever and wherever it is mentioned, reason being that Igbo is the name of the Almighty in his capacity as the God who dealt an unforgettable defeat upon the forces of evil in the most devastating war ever fought on earth between good and evil.
Ifa calls that war “the Great Igbo Battle”. This war, needless to say, was the same great battle between good and evil referred to in other great mythologies around the world, not the least of which is the Hebrew Bible
The greatest of the sixteen sons and daughters of God who came to re-deem earth from the Evil One, according to Ifa mythology, is a god called Obatala who the Yoruba worship as the ancestor of the Igbos and the greatest of all the Sons of God who have incarnated on earth. They call him ‘The Ancient of days’ Vice Gerent of the Omnipotent, Mediator between the Almighty and Man. Ifa says he died and resurrected after sixteen days in the grave.
And his praise-song says, “Death has no power over Obatala”. His title is Obatala Osere Igbo – a title, which according to Ifa, strikes immense fear and awe whenever and wherever it is mentioned, reason being that Igbo is the name of the Almighty in his capacity as the God who dealt an unforgettable defeat upon the forces of evil in the most devastating war ever fought on earth between good and evil.
Ifa calls that war “the Great Igbo Battle”. This war, needless to say, was the same great battle between good and evil referred to in other great mythologies around the world, not the least of which is the Hebrew Bible
Igbo are direct descendants of the oldest sojourners on the planet
The question of Igbo identity has always been a subject of great interest among the African Diaspora. At the Eze Nri palace in Anambra State (plates 59a, c, d), I was shown evidence that all Oba kings of Benin originally received their mantle of office from the Eze Nri, and that the ‘Oba’ title was the highest chieftaincy title reserved for members of the Executive Council of the Eze Nri. I had also heard it eloquently argued that the Idu and Oduduwa titles originated from a pre-historic period dominated by the Igbo. Another shocker is the Edo/Benin oral tradition published under the title, Great Benin 1, by oral historian Osaren Omoregie, which insists that the Deluge was occasioned by the anger of God in connection with circumstances surrounding the birth of the first ancestor of the Igbo Nation. Imagine that! These were enough to tell me that the Igbo were there before the beginning of everything, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, THAT THEIR ROOTS ARE TO BE SOUGHT AMONG THE GODS THEMSELVES. The opinions expressed by the African American woman was just the final push that I needed - another witness, for as the Igbo say, agwo otu onye huru wu eke (one person’s witness is not trustworthy). I prayed her to allow me give her due acknowledgement for inspiring me, but she said no “for security reasons”. I do hope that when she reads this book she will change her mind and allow me to give her due credit in subsequent editions.
In 2008 an African American woman, an avid researcher who travels all over Africa seeking answers to the unknown, who against all my promptings refused to have her name mentioned in this book, but who insisted that I should write this book detailing the fact that the Igbo were the earliest humans to inhabit the planet. She had seen my work The Gram Code on the Internet and came to Nigeria to look for me – “to drink from the mouth of the master” as she called it. In the end it was I who drank form her mouth instead. We held several sessions of late night discussions about Africa’s Prehistoric past, comparing notes on each other’s findings and on work so far done in the field. She was convinced that the Igbo are direct descendants of the oldest sojourners on the planet, the ‘Sons of the Earth’, the autochthons, the so called Bushmen who have been here longer than every one else and who taught the rest of the world every thing they know. She referred me to a number of other African American researchers who have touched on this phenomenon, but who do not have the opportunity I have to bring up materials from the homeland to support their theses. In fact we actually argued about this because the idea sounded too far-fetched to me! Imagine that! She told me the Igbo were here before the north-south Hamite migrants, the Kwa, came into the land and that Yoruba mythology, Benin mythology and others confirm this. I remembered several issues I has encountered in my research that pointed in this direction, including the fact that when I visited the Yoruba Center in Havana, Cuba I saw among the Yoruba pantheon of gods at the center, the statue of a god named Obatala whose inscription/explanation said: “Father of the Igbo nation, Master of all divinities, Creator of man in various forms, Gentle Lord of the Pure White”! This was a great puzzle to me – that the Father of the Igbo nation was revered not just as a great god among the Yoruba, but that he was seen as the master and head of all known Yoruba divinities and as THE CREATOR OF MAN. This was the explanation I got from the head of the center who also informed me that the center was set up under the guidance and approval of Prof. Wande Abimbola, well known authority on Ifa.
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