Pythons may be considered dangerous the world over, but in Idemili area of Anambra State, Igbo Land, Nigeria, people honour pythons so much that it is a taboo to harm or kill one. Pythons are called Eke Idemili, which literarily means ‘python of Idemili’.

Idemili people are known to gently entreat a Python that has entered their house to come out, rather than try to kill it.

What happens if you decide to kill one to see what will happen? The community where the python was killed will force you to accord the snake a befitting burial like that of human being.

You will have to buy coffin, bags of rice, cow/goat, rent canopies and chairs, pay for local canon to be shot and other expenses.

So, while in Idemili, don’t kill pythons.
Source:https://www.igbodefender.com/2019/09/15/the-part-of-igbo-land-where-you-mustnt-kill-a-python/

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Lala, this should be on fp

Even some villages in Aguata too do the same.

udoka2013:
Even some villages in Aguata too do the same.

Interesting! So, what happens if someone kills a python in Aguata?

Dear Padra,


We need your vast experience here.

igbodefender:

Interesting! So, what happens if someone kills a python in Aguata?

You will do 7 days burial for the python and mourn her for 21 days or be banished forever

Nothinq Musa no go see for qate! #snake_of_Idemili
Lala food don cum!

Their is so much mystery surrounding python, like Idoma speaking part of benue, python act very shy during the day and will never bite anybody even if you carry it with your bare hand, but during the night python is the most dangerous snake in Idoma land. As a child growing up and till date nobody can explain the reason behind this mistery

Nnewi.

Many parts of Anambra state like ihiala, okija, ekwulobia, some parts of awka south and dunukofia don't kill python. some parts of imo state like Njaba don't kill it too. they call it Eke Njaba in Njaba imo state

Zikora1000:
Many parts of Anambra state like ihiala, okija, ekwulobia, some parts of awka south and dunukofia don't kill python. some parts of imo state like Njaba don't kill it too. they call it Eke Njaba in Njaba imo state

Wow! So, it seems the reverence for pythons in Alaigbo is more widespread than previously thought. Keep it coming, guys.

Yes it’s true. Some places in certain Igbo states revere the animal. It’s a very interesting stuff to experience as a visitor. They don’t hurt humans there at all.

I’m still wondering how come Buratai and the python dance caused so much damage when it happened

These Army people can be very ironic while naming all these campaigns they embark on sha

Lalasticlala will never accept this

Wonderful...

If you see python u show some respect but these boys from Abakaliki will just see it and butcher it with no respect.


You will see them pursuing such to kill and devour.

Even call it Ikputu...I wonder if they really have tradition over there.

JasonScoolari:
Dear Padra,


We need your vast experience here.

Lol.....we kill snake very well o
We sha don't kill tortoise and fish from the village river���

Nnewi too it's called eke nwadeana

judgementyard:
Nnewi too it's called eke nwadeana

Is Nnwei nwadeana to Idemili? I know they are neighborhors.

igbodefender:
Is Nnwei nwadeana to Idemili? I know they are neighborhors.

Honestly I don't know but will ask

In Igbo cosmology, Ala, the earth, delivers messages using pythons. We believe that if you understand one thing you understand all things. Those that observe the python are observing the rivers and those who are observing the rivers are learning about Ala.

In the beginning of the world all was water. This water is called Oshimirri. Yorubas call it Osun Oyi. The primordial water where all things come from. When Oshimmiri formed into Ala, the streams and rivers remained and from then the python emerged.

the Python is the messenger of Ala. And because it was on the land before man, man had to negotiate with the python to inherit its land. The Python is the true land lord in many communities and the laws of the land similar to lease agreement. An oath ancestors make with Ala in order to remain worthy of the lands gifts. Every now and then a python emerges, and performs a function similar to a land lord touring their property.

Where the pythons meet, shrines are build because the presence of Ala is concentrated there.

Some people believe we worship pythons or even the shrine. That is not true. We respect the python because it was there before us and seek to live in peace with it as tenets on this earth. Shrines indicate where spirits gather and the python being the messenger, knows where.

Where I come from in Mbaitoli in Imo State we don't kill it, I can remember stepping on one on a faithful night jeezz... I was standing on a spot and just a step back and I felt like I match a tube, I looked down loo and behold the python don fold em self...

People from Njaba LGA in Imo State don't kill it too



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Padra:

Lol.....we kill snake very well o
We sha don't kill tortoise and fish from the village river���

Lol, that's cool.

I hope you'll show me around when I come?

OruExpress:
In Igbo cosmology, Ala, the earth, delivers messages using pythons. We believe that if you understand one thing you understand all things. Those that observe the python are observing the rivers and those who are observing the rivers are learning about Ala.

In the beginning of the world all was water. This water is called Oshimirri. Yorubas call it Osun Oyi. The primordial water where all things come from. When Oshimmiri formed into Ala, the streams and rivers remained and from then the python emerged.

the Python is the messenger of Ala. And because it was on the land before man, man had to negotiate with the python to inherit its land. The Python is the true land lord in many communities and the laws of the land similar to lease agreement. An oath ancestors make with Ala in order to remain worthy of the lands gifts. Every now and then a python emerges, and performs a function similar to a land lord touring their property.

Where the pythons meet, shrines are build because the presence of Ala is concentrated there.

Some people believe we worship pythons or even the shrine. That is not true. We respect the python because it was there before us and seek to live in peace with it as tenets on this earth. Shrines indicate where spirits gather and the python being the messenger, knows where.

Wow. This could be the story behind the reverence around several parts of Igbo Land.

Zikora1000:
Many parts of Anambra state like ihiala, okija, ekwulobia, some parts of awka south and dunukofia don't kill python. some parts of imo state like Njaba don't kill it too. they call it Eke Njaba in Njaba imo state

Yeah correct... We call it EKE NJABA too where I come from,

I believe the python is respected like this in Imo, Anambra, Rivers and Abia. I think they can kill it in Enugu and Ebonyi and I don't know about Delta and Edo

igbodefender:

Interesting! So, what happens if someone kills a python in Aguata?

why killing it when it doesn't bit there.

goodnessme1:
why killing it when it doesn't bit there.

No, I was just trying to find out more about the regulations that protect the python from killings in Aguata.

igbodefender:

Wow! So, it seems the reverence for pythons in Alaigbo is more widespread than previously thought. Keep it coming, guys.

My friend's town Called Umuchu in aguata don't kill python.they say it doesn't bite.


When i visited there,i saw someone taking alway python that entered his house with his bare hand

Nice work @ op.

Oga lalasticlacla and Mynd44, this deserves Ile ileri now

OruExpress:
I believe the python is respected like this in Imo, Anambra, Rivers and Abia. I think they can kill it in Enugu and Ebonyi and I don't know about Delta and Edo

Stop believing say what you know.

Secondly, the thread says Igboland ..why dragging Edo state here.


You guys are really somethingelse.

igbodefender:

No, I was just trying to find out more about the regulations that protect the python from killings in Aguata.

ok

My village in Orlu, pythons are not killed. But in situations it swallows human nko?

I know one woman that python mistakenly bit in her farm. She said to the python; why will you bite me, don't you know that i'm daughter of the soil and besides i didn't intentionally march you. Immediately the python's venom started dripping off her leg. You will think its a story but it actually happened.

You don't kill python here, some see python entering their room at night but won't bat an eyelid and will probably sleep in that same room with the python. If you don't like its presence take a stick and take it out of your house while you throw the stick away because if you don't it will trace that stick back to your house.