God in manifestation is, like the Army, a Host of fashioning Powers or Gods. Prayer to a God yields immediate results, while prayer to God yields nothing.
The Igbo venerate or worship the God of the Earth and Its Hosts of spirits (Anï). Ödïnanï or Omenana describes this method of venerating or worshiping God. Note that worship of God describes the ways we choose to commune with the manifest God (Chineke) and, through It, with the Godhead (Chukwu) – the Source. Men worship God in diverse, but equivalent, ways. The God is the same – Spirit, Mmöö, Ndü – but the rituals or methods for approaching It differ.
Ödïnanï or Omenana is the religion or cult dedicated to the God of the Earth, in the same manner that Christianity is the religion or cult dedicated to the God of the Sun. Sun Day or Sunday is the day set aside by Christianity for the worship of the Sun God. In line with Igbo theogony, this book is dedicated to:
Chi Ukwu, Chukwu or Amaamaamachaamacha (the Great God, the Unknown Godhead), Chi na-eke, Chineke, Mmöö or Ndü (God the Creator, the Son and Word of the Godhead, Spirit, Life), Alüshï (the Gods and their Spirit Hosts), Ndï Otu (Spirit Guilds of the Elements: Earth, Water, Air and Fire), Chi m or Oke-Chukwu m (my personal God or my share of God and Life).
Ichie Ukwu na Ichie Nta, Ökpü Ukwu na Ökpü Nta (My male and female Parents, dead or alive); particularly my great grandfather Udoh Anaagö, high priest of the Earth-God Ana or Anï (whose shrine is Aja-Ana or Aja-Anï) of Agülü Öka (Agulu Awka), Nigeria; whose re-incarnation I am.
The entire Anïzöö Udoh family, holders of the Öfö na Alö (the symbols of power and authority) of the Anaagö Mmadüagwu lineage.
My village Ümübeele and my town Öka na-asö enwe (Awka, for which the monkey is sacred).
All lovers of Ödïnanï or Omenana, the Igbo religion.
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Basic Philosophy
In an attempt to explain the origin of the manifest universe, the first verse of the Christian Bible says:
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Gen 1:1)
But we may rightly ask:
(1) In what place did the action of creating take place?
(2) Had the manifest universe any beginning?
(3) Where did this creative God come from?
(4) Where did this God get the materials or stuff with which to create the heaven and the earth?
These four questions constitute a philosophical nightmare for the untutored Christian. No logical explanation of the origin of the manifest universe is possible without logical answers to these questions. We shall provide answers to the questions in accordance with Ancient Wisdom.
(1) In what place did the action of creating taking place? In Space! To choose any other locus leads to a blind alley and insuperable problems of logic.
(2) Had the manifest universe any beginning? No! The universe emerges from Space, stays in Space for some time, and dissolves back into Space ... ad infinitum. Just in the same manner that ice emerges from a body of water, floats in the water for some time, and dissolves back into the water. It is the serpent swallowing its tail, a circle with neither beginning nor end. Recall the Christian chant: As it was in the beginning, it is now, and ever shall be, world without end, Amen!
(3) Where did this creative God come from? It is there in Space! Does the bolt of lightning or the tornado come from somewhere other than Space? No! Their home is Space. Space may be empty of objects, but It is not empty. The term "empty space" has no meaning.
(4) Where did this God get the materials or stuff with which to create the heaven and the earth? From Space of course! Space contains all that is required for the construction of the manifest universe. To create, the God needs some world-stuff because ex nihilo, nihil fit, nothing comes from nothing. Creation by sheer fiat is nonsense.
So, Space is the absolute Container of all that is, whether manifested or unmanifested. And Space is that which was, is and will be, whether there is a Universe or not; whether there be Gods or none.
Since Space is the all, we may ask: What is Space?
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