martins21:
Here in Abia state such believe does not exist.
Kill any animal you wish, because man has be given dominion over all by God almight.

So because God gave you Dominion over his creatures, the first thing you are going to do is kill them? Whatever happened to peaceful coexistence and preservation?
Seriously humans are terribly wicked.

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.

obobs.......

AwkaetitiBabe:
Yes. He's a long lost frd.

Oh I see but am Michael from the same Okija, probably you can use me as your lost friend replacement....

AngryNijerian:
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.

i nor wan just think sey me and snake go sleep one house sha. make i nor even reason am.

gypsey:
I asked you a simple question, did you witness it? You Avoided that question carefully.



I lived with A chinese family for Nearly 3 years they ate snake always, i don't remember them ending up with swollen whit lip.

Again, if truely your guy ate a snake and ended up with a white lip, can you confirm that it was as a result of consuming a snake? Even in Nigeria, some people have eaten snakes and they are fine.

CHINA AND ANAMBRA BTW who told you that some part or tribe in this country doesn't eat Snake as well .... Oga and make the research I told you .

MPESA:

Oh I see but am Michael from the same Okija, probably you can use me as your lost friend replacement....

OK. Michael from Okija. Tanku

OruExpress:


Pythons don't have venom lol.

this one touch me...............

One thing I'm so sure of, uncle lalasticlala is not from idemmili.

lala do make you pack go dat village dey kidnap d pythons hide on code

MPESA:



CHINA AND ANAMBRA BTW who told you that some part or tribe in this country doesn't eat Snake as well .... Oga and make the research I told you .

Okay..



It is Obvious you Never witnessed it.

Or has any reasonable explainations as to Why your guy had a white lip.



I rest my case.

Bbbwings:

Maybe she meant Hindus.

Maybe.

Damsonkc:


It’s up to you to choose to be ignorant. I wonder what exactly is the reason why you believe you have the right to tell me what to write here. Your forefathers knew everything and they sold their brothers into slavery. Dumb folks like you need to remain in your caves. You don’t like the Igbo tradition as much as I do and it’s up to me to do away with any aspect of it I choose.

See finishing

sylve11:



this one touch me...............

But it's true na.

Pythons only kill by constricting and suffocating their vic,tims.

Soo true. In Oba Idemili Same thing

OILOFGLADNESS:


CULTURALLY MOST PLACES IN ANAMBRA STATE

ITS OUR FOREFATHERS CULTURE NOTE TO HARM THEM COS THEY ARE HARMLESS, THEY ONLY CRAWL INTO YOUR COMPOUND SEEKING FOR A COLD PLACE RELAX!!!!
YOU CAN SCARE IT AWAY BY NOICE OF SONG, CARRY IT AWAY WITH STICK OR USE KEROSENE, MEANWHILE THE SPECIE IN MY PLACE ARE VERY SMALL, INFACT 8 OF IT IS NOT UPTO 1 OF WHAT I SEE ON THIS NL............


BUT INTERESTINGLY , CIVIKISATION HAVE SET IN IN MY HOME TOWN , NAME WITHHELD, MOST OF THESE FETISH CULTURES HAVE BEEN OVERCAME BY CHRISTIANITY,

AFTER THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF MY GRANDPARENTS, MY DAD SAID , OLD THINGS HAVE PASSED AWAY!
HE WAS FASTING THE WHOLE WEEK OF THAT BURIAL
THEN THERE WAS A YORUBA BOY LIVING WITH MY GRANDMOTHER,

ONE OF THE DAYS WE WERE DOING HOUSE KEEPING AFTER THE BURIAL, W E SAY A SNAKE, INFACT IT WS THE YORUBA GUY, MY DAD ASKED HIM TO KILL IT!!!

MY DAD YOUNGER BROTHERS EVERYONE WAS SCARED, BUT HIS IMMEDIATE YOUNGER SISTER WHO HAPPENED TO BE A MISSIONARY IN A YORUBA LAND SUPPORTED.

NASO THE YORUBA GUY KILLED THE SNAKE, ROASTED IT AND USED IT FOR PEPPER SOUP FOR MY DADDY, ONLY HIM ALONE AND THE YORUBA BOY, ATE IT AS NO ONE AGREED TO EAT WITH THEM, HE ENJOYED IT,INFACT HE USED IT TO BREAK HIS FAST, AT THE END HE SAID OLD THINGS HAV PASSED AWAY.

THE BOMB!!!

SINCE THAT TIME, 2005 TO BE PRECISE, THAT SNAKE NEVER ENTERS OUR COMPOUND IN THE VILLAGE, THE TENANTS WONDERS WHY, AND WE NEVER RESPONDED TO THEM,,,

IT WAS A GREAT DELIVERANCE FOR US!!!!

This is someone whose eyes are opened. What happened there is that that community has been dedicated to deities (most likely marine deities) symbolized by pythons and observing the rule of not eating pythons is part of the covenant binding the community to the diety.
Your dad killing that python and eating it and saying "old things are passed away" was an intentional act of deliverance from the covenant binding your family to the marine deity.
Your dad fasting was in preparation for that single act.
You owe your Dad a lot. However, you also have to appropriate the deliverance to yourself and your progeny because you stated that you did not eat the snake out of fear. No one gets delivered while in fear. Go to God and do the needful

Shalom

Most ancient Igbo settlements revere python while some in addition to python also don't kill other animals like Nnewi don't kill bush rat while Amazu and Imerienwe don't kill monkey.

in agbala communiy in owerri north LGA imo state they also practice the same culture.

AngryNijerian:
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.

OLODO!!! Do pythons have venom?.

AngryNijerian:
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.

Even at Alor Town, Idimile South local govt, Anambra.

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

we kill it in my place in Abia ooo

[quote author=judgementyard post=82265038][/quote] u and ur nigga dey mad lol

Asquare84:
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

Tessae come and see ooh

cc Tessae

bentwood85:

OLODO!!! Do pythons have venom?.

that will show u that the story is a lie

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.

You should work as a script writer....youbremind of those ckassic greek, roman myths classics i read while young.

Thanks for this

alimaa:
The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. Every part if this world belongs to God Almighty and not to any Python.

Dont you understand Metaphors. Or are You just a bland philistine?

stanley000:
u and ur nigga dey mad lol

. you follow sef .na all of dey mad

It’s a Lie Because Python has No Poison

AngryNijerian:
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.

I remember when my dad mistaken killed a snake at orlu...though he was on a high speed...people started telling him to go and bury the snake..but he refused... they told him that the snake will come for him in revenge...lai lai...no be my papa still dey alive.....the man stubborn die

Even in njaba,imo state.. It is seen as a good sign when the python visits a pregnant woman or any woman that just delivered a baby

armstrongkevwe:


Oniovo me,
Orogun kills alligators,but the iguanas are sacred..

Alligators in Africa?
Alligators are native to only the United States and China.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator

MPESA:


Not funny but true am sure of such occurrence because I'm from Okija , it's body is cold ..
Remembering those days that whenever we kids saw will be singing to go Eke nekwa nde police, nekwa nde Uka and it will gently craw it's way.... BTW Achi people in Oji local government don't kill or eat TORTOISE, I also kill one seeing meat stupidly passing by without fear.. Na so my in-law blessed memory rush me o

Amazing!

AngryNijerian:
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.

Thia ia pure lies nah! pythons don't have venom and can't bite

AngryNijerian:
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.

This is pure lies nah! pythons don't have venom and can't bite