Ọ̀ràézè Ǹrì, Kingdom of the Rising Sun

Ọ̀ràézè Ǹrì By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima

Ọ̀ràézè Ǹrì

Kingdom of the Rising Sun

How can you traverse the universe,

When you have chosen not to see beyond your nose? 

They called her the ageless woman of the Igbo Ukwu. The Mother of all the Dibias of Afa divination. 

I came to the peak of the hills of Udi where I found her sitting under an Ugiri tree.

She was sitting on green palm fronds encircled by gourds. I came before her naked and bowed.

"Gini bu afa ghi?" 

She asked  in the language of our kingdom meaning, "What is your name!"

"Onyemachi."

I replied. 

She gazed at me. She gazed into my eyes. Her eyeballs were like golden almonds. She gazed at the windows of my soul. Then she nodded her hairless oval head.

"Hmm. Indeed Onyemachi. Of course, who knows God?"

She shook her head.

"Nobody knows God. They call, cry and shout His name every day and night and yet they don't know Him "

"Great Mother, I want to know Him. I have come to know Him," I said.

She gazed at me again.

With the index finger of her thin right hand she scribbled on the ground what I could not read and did not understand.

"You want to know Him whom they don't know?"

"Yes, Great Mother."

She brought out the bowl of the shell of a tortoise with a short stick of Ofo wood. Then she brought out the four strings of AFA one by one. 

"Open your right palm," she said.

I opened my right palm.

She held it and gazed at it.  She opened her right palm and gazed at it and gazed at mine again.

"The truth is only for the children of the covenant," she said.

"Not all the children of Yebu are called. Not all the ones who are called are chosen."

She picked up the first string of the AFA with her right hand and cast it on the ground.

Our forefathers and diviners said Yebu came with the Afa when he descended from the midst of the clouds in the sky with flashes of lightning and claps of thunder.

Yebu was one of the Sons of God who came down to the Earth. 

Genesis 6:

"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose '"

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The Power of the Dot in a Circle for Dummies

The Power of the Dot in a Circle for Dummies 

From the street to the Office of the President

When President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR called the Eastern region "Dot in a Circle", most likely intellectually ignorantly did not know the meaning of Dot in a Circle and majority of his people in northern Nigeria who are intellectually challenged ( my euphemism of the intellectually retarded) who are ruled by their herd mentality have been using the statement to mock the Igbos.
But whatever they do or say, the Sun will always Rise in the East and set in the West.
Dot in a Circle is Center of Attraction and the Nucleus of the nation.
The central and most important part of an object, movement, or group, forming the basis for its activity and growth.

In physics it is:
The positively charged central core of an atom, consisting of protons and neutrons and containing nearly all its mass.

The circled dot, circumpunct, or circle with a point at its centreis an ancient symbol. It can represent:

Solar system

Solar symbol used to represent the Sun

The sun / Gold (Alchemical symbols)

The sun / Ra (Egyptian hieroglyphs)

The sun / a day (Chinese oracle script, the modern character being 日)

Without the Dot in a Circle, Nigeria will be like the solar system without the sun

- EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima.