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Ibibio religion was of two dimensions, which centered on the pouring of libation, worship, consultation, communication and invocation of the God of Heaven ( Abasi Enyong ) and God of the Earth ( Abasi Isong ) by the Constitutional and Religious King / Head of a particular Ibibio Community who was known from the ancient times as the Obong-Ikpaisong ( the word ' Obong Ikpaisong ' directly interpreted means King of the Principalities of the Earth ' or ' King of the Earth and the Principalities ' or Traditional Ruler ).
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Ibibio and was
Southeastern State of Nigeria was where the Ibibio were located, one of the original twelve states of Nigeria ) after Nigerian independence.
The Ibibio practiced the killing of twins before it was abolished during the colonial era, with help of missionary Mary Slessor.
The Annang people and their Ibibio and Efik brothers and sisters are located in the Coastal Southeastern Nigeria and Southwestern Camerron which was a part of the present Akwa Ibom State and Cross River State.
Moko was a common word for Ibibio slaves.
Ibibio and which
A particular Ibibio Division could consist of many inter-related autonomous communities or Kingdoms ruled by an autonomous Priest-King called Obong-Ikpaisong, assisted by Heads of the various Large Families ( Mbong Ekpuk ) which make up the Community.
Ibibio and centered
The second dimension of Ibibio Religion centered on the worship, consultation, invocation, sacrifice, appeasement, etc.
Ibibio and on
' and Ibibio " kaa iso " ' continue, go on ,' used in urging someone on or in backing a contestant.
The Ibibio have lived in the Cross River area of modern day Nigeria for several hundred years, and while written information about them only exists in colonial records from the late 19th century on, oral traditions have them in the region much earlier than this.
The word ' Obong ' in Ibibio language means ' Ruler, King, Lord, Chief, Head ' and is applied depending on the Office concern.
Ibibio and God
of the God of the Heaven ( Abasi Enyong ) and the God of the Earth ( Abasi Isong ) through various invisible or spiritual entities ( Ndem ) of the various Ibibio Division such as Etefia Ikono, Awa Itam, etc.
Ibibio and Enyong
* Enyong ( now classified as Ibibio proper ): Northern Ibibio
Ibibio and by
During colonial period in Nigeria, the Ibibio Union asked for recognition by the British as a sovereign nation ( Noah, 1988 ).
Road is called okpo-di-ghe and usung in other places. In Ibeno House is called " ulok " and while it is called " ufok " by some other Ibibio groups.
Traditionally Ibibio society consists of communities that are made up of Large Families with blood affinity each ruled by their Constitutional and Religious Head known as the Obong Ikpaisong.
Specifically, there are 1 million Anaang ( as of 1990 ); possibly 1½ to 2 million Ibibio ( 1998, claim since retracted by Ethnologue )— Ibibio is also used as a trade language ; and 400, 000 Efik ; Efik also has about 2 million second-language speakers.
This group is followed by the Ibibio / Annang / Efik people of the coastal southeastern Nigeria and the Ijaw of the Niger Delta.
Ibibio and Religious
Tradition ( Ikpaisong ) in Ibibio Custom embodies the Religious and Political System.
Ibibio and /
The raffia palm is important in societies such as that of the Province of Bohol in the Philippines, Kuba of Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nso of Cameroon, the Igbo and Ibibio / Annang of southestern Nigeria and the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria, among several other West African ethnic nations.
* Ndi is an Annang / Ibibio / Efik word that means " I am "
Other traditional cultural expressions are found in the various masquerades of Nigeria, such as the Eyo masquerades, the Ekpe and Ekpo Masquerades of the Efik / Ibibio / Annang / Igbo peoples of coastal south-eastern Nigeria, and the Northern Edo Masquerades.
Ibibio and who
The same oral tradition has it that their ancestors were Israelites ( Jews ) of the Northern Kingdom who left Israel to Egypt before the Babylonian captivity and that the ancestors of the Annangs and other people of Akwa Ibom and Cross River States ( the Efik, the Ibibio, etc.
Ibibio and known
The survivors, members of the Mokko people of today's Nigeria ( now known as Ibibio ), reached the small island of Bequia, where the Caribs brought them to Saint Vincent and ill-used them.
The Ibibio people are located in Southeastern Nigeria also known as Coastal Southeastern Nigeria.
Parts of the Annang language may be intelligible to speakers of Efik, Ibibio, Oron, Ekit ( also known as Ekid ) of the Old Calabar Kingdom.
Ibibio-Efik, also known as Ibibio and Efik, is the major dialect cluster of the Benue – Congo language family called Cross River.
Ibibio and from
These have been the ancient political and religious system of Ibibio people from time immemorial.
Abakuá members derive their belief systems and traditional practices from the Igbo, Efik, Efut, Ibibio, spirits that lived in the deity forest.
Arochukwu is believed to have been the homeland of the Ibibio as they arrived in 300 AD from the Benue valley and founded early states like Obong Okon Ita and Ibom.
Ibibio and ancient
The existence and spiritual importance of Mami Wata is deeply rooted in the ancient tradition and mythology of the coastal southeastern Nigerians ( Efik, Ibibio and Annang people ).
Ibibio and Ikpaisong
Tradition, interpreted in Ibibio Language, is ' Ikpaisong '.
Ibibio and ).
On the reverse, Slessor is depicted holding children in her arms alongside a map of the Ekoi and Ibibio in Calabar ( present-day Nigeria ).
religion and was
If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.
He worked as a `` clothier '' in London, but was greatly concerned with religion.
The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.
In the final analysis his contribution to American historiography was founded on almost intuitive insights into religion, economics, and Darwinism, the three factors which conditioned his search for a law of history.
Students of anthropology and comparative religion had long been aware that there was, indeed, a direct connection.
But Adams was one of the first to suggest that this human incompetence was the only motivating factor behind religion.
To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.
It spread to most of the audience and was often viewed by visiting whites who snickered behind handkerchief and afterward discussed Negro religion.
Not until the group was satisfied in this area were they willing to venture further to ( 2 ), Specific adjustment areas, such as sex, in-laws, religion, finance, and so on.
`` I want to show respect for my parents' religion '' was the way in which a boy justified his inhabiting a halfway house of Judaism.
The American Constitution was historic at this point in providing that `` Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ''.
The Mahayana that developed in the north was a religion of idolatry and coarse magic, that made the world into a huge magical garden.
In the supernatural atmosphere of cosmic government, only the ruling elite was ever concerned with a kingdom-wide ordering of nature: popular religion aimed at more personal benefits from magical powers.
It was a good thing that she clung to her religion, he thought.
His interest in the formal study of religion waned when he was sixteen and he substituted for it an interest in Asian affairs.
The skiff was headed for the very center of the nebula -- toward that place which, Jack knew now, could hold nothing less important than the very core of the Angel's life and religion.
In classical Greece he was the god of light and of music, but in popular religion he had a strong function to keep away evil.
In classical times, his strong function in popular religion was to keep away evil, and was therefore called " apotropaios " ( αποτρέπω: to divert ) and " alexikakos " ( αλέξω-κακό: defend, throw away the evil ).
Python was the good daemon ( αγαθός δαίμων ) of the temple as it appears in Minoan religion, but she was represented as a dragon, as often happens in Northern European folklore as well as in the East.
The story indicates that Epimenides was probably heir to the shamanic religions of Asia, and proves together with the Homeric hymn, that Crete had a resisting religion up to the historical times.
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