Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Oriiwi Nkeni

Chukwu the hermaphrodite? Na wawawa. My town believes that we are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Chukwu and we are called Awgu la evo Chukwu Ukpabi because we are the last born. Mbe is also a married tortoise in our folktales. If Nkeni was not married with children, that was the bigger disaster in Igbo cosmology, according to Uchendu. 

Gentleman Mike Ejeagha has a similar tale of a miser who lost everything and wanted to hang himself but a cripple in a pot cautioned the Odogwu who was climbing a tree to see him and not fall to kill him as he waited for his Chi, forcing him to abandon suicide and return home to marry and work hard to rebuild his wealth before dedicating his Ozo title to the Nwanguro. 

Fathers have a tendency to tell tales of macho men in a world without women but luckily for us, the women are the major story tellers. The legend of Osiris, Isis and Horus was most likely told by the Black Madonna, Virgin mother of the Sun God, thousands of years before the birth of the Son of God by the Holy Virgin. 

Your science fiction will benefit from the invention of women, apologies to Oyeronke Oyewunmi who proved that gender is less important than generation.

Biko

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On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Obododimma Oha

<obodooha@gmail.com> wrote:

Good question, Biko. Chukwu first started with singularity, making
femininity and masculinity converge in works of creation.-- as we
still see in relics of elan life in snails, paw paw, etc that are
still hermaphrodite. The snail is in-between worlds (which is why it
is treasured in mysticism and witchcraft because these cross into
highways of other worlds), same with tortoise, but the snail is more
ancient. It is neither here nor there.

Separating femininity and masculinity was a later experiment in
creation, just as you can have lifeworlds where Chukwu has put beings
that may have not mouths (and so do not need to talk), may have four
hands and would marvel that you have only two, may have eyes
everywhere on their bodies, or may not have eyes at all but can see or
know everything. They exist in their own world and do not need yours
for norm.

That said, Mrs.Chuukwu was inside Chukwu. The Trinity in Catholicism
might explain this plurality in singularity better. Thanks.
-- Obododimma.

On 5/28/18, 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series
<usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Where were Mrs. Chukwu, Mrs. Mbe, Mrs. Nkeni, and their children?
> Biko
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
>
>  On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 5:33 AM, Oluwatoyin Vincent
> Adepoju<toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote:  Magnificent.
> I wonder, though, if you can share other perspectives from classical  Igbo
> culture on relationship with Chukwu?
> thanks
> toyin
> On 28 May 2018 at 05:23, Obododimma Oha <obodooha@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Chukwu the Supreme Being had withdrawn from our world to another
> world. Before, it was possible to visit the Maker and hold banter with
> Him, even play games with Him! It was such a pleasant thing to have
> the Maker around, to visit Him and break kolanut with Him. Wasn't it
> how He was able to confirm that Mbe nwa Aniga the tortoise was a very
> great invention, a great crafty thinker that could match strategy with
> strategy? "
>  -- Read the full piece by clicking on this link:
> http://obododimma-oha. blogspot.com.ng/2018/05/ oriiwi-nkeni.html
>
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