By Eze Nnanyereugo
Ekwensu is a powerful deity of war in Igbo land, it’s shrine is located in Anaku, Anaku is in Ayemelum local government area of Anambra state, just like we also have Haaba Agulu and Agwazi Uga these are deities of war and there re other deities of war and different purposes in Igbo land
The damage done to our heritage and way of life by the white Colonialist is huge, before they came we were a happy and progressive people, with almost a crime free society.
We had our type of government, ways of communication, believe systems, spirituality, ways of trade, type of education, justice system, health system, defense system, e.t.c.
They came with christianizing everything about us, changed our names, our cities names, our towns names, our calendar, our believe systems, demonizing our sacred things and all that we hold dear, our ancestors were labelled demons that we now bind and cast them, they put a knife on what held us together and severed it.
That was how “Ekwensu” became “Satan” …. in Igbo cosmology we don’t have Satan’like entity, who is opposite of God, was once an angel of God, rebelled against God with some angel with him, and now snaring humans into disobeying God, from whom all evil emanates, … No we have no such entity in Igbo cosmology.
The character they re portraying as the person of Satan is all the story of Europeans and when depicting it they draw a wicked black man with horns and tail inside what they called hell fire, the beginning and the end of the story of Satan is European, it has no place in Igbo cosmology.
Ekwensu is a powerful deity of war in Igbo land, it’s shrine is located in Anaku, Anaku is in Ayemelum local government area of Anambra state, just like we also have Haaba Agulu and Agwazi Uga these are deities of war and there re other deities of war and different purposes in Igbo land
We shall be coming your way with more expository articles …
By Eze Nnanyereugo.
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