In Africa, traditional Igbo religion includes belief in almighty creator known as Chiukwu Okike, Chukwu Okike or Chineke (God with capital ''G" in English), an earth goddess (Ala), and numerous other deities and spirits as well as a belief in ancestors who protect their living descendants.
In Igbo palance, we have so many ancestral deities like the following:
In our world today especially in Africa, religion most especially Christianity has turned us against our ancestors. Thereby always waging ignorant war against them. Most people are under the mindset that whatever their predicament in life is, their ancestors are responsible for it. This is totally wrong. Sometimes we are the cause of our woes.
Many a time the problems we face in life are as a result of our ignorance or attitude towards our ancestors. When we are blessed, it is worthy to know that those blessings came from Eze Chiukwu Okike Abiama through them. They stand as intermediaries between us and Eze Chiukwu Okike Abiama.
I always feel bad for people when I see them casting and binding spirits they do not know. Religion has really dealt with our psyche so badly to the point that we became so ignorant of our actions and inactions towards some spiritual forces that we do not know. By this am not saying that every spirit is good. There are bad ones too. But where the problem lies is with the deceit that most foreign religion came with. We were made to believe that most of our spiritual cultures and traditions are bad. For that we fell for the deceit and tagged our own evil.
