In After God is Dibia: Igbo Cosmology, Divination and Sacred Science in Nigeria, the book's writer John Umeh makes the following point, quoted at the African Ancestral Voices page on Facebook :
"In Afa language, Ose naabo is the two eyes with which one sees the mortal world, while Ose ora is the eye with which one sees the Spirit and the world in addition. Ose naabo has the dualities or polarities of the material world namely: anya aka nni na anya aka ekpe, i.e., right eye and left eye.
Ose ora is Uche. Uche is the Super Mind/Universal Mind/Universal consciousness…Ose ora which literally means the Eye of the Sun God or the Eye of the God of Light which the Igbo's describe as Agwu or Anyanwu."
My problem with this intriguing idea is that I can't find any source for it apart from Umeh. I am also interested in discussions of these ideas. The only discussions I know of are Sarah Adams' "People Have Three Eyes : Ephemeral Art and the Archive in Southeastern Nigeria", whose only source is also Umeh, and my discussions of the idea on various platforms, such as "Philosophy and Artistic Creativity in Africa" (The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy, edited Adeshina Afolayan and Toyin Falola, 2017)
I would appreciate any help on this subject and on Igbo theories of knowledge in general.
thanks
toyin
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