OFFERING OF COW TO YOUR ANCESTORS IN IGBO TRADITION.

This is one of the traditions of Igbo land that Igbo ancestors do not joke with and it has a due process for it, which is you did not follow it, it leads to sickness or even death....

First let me start by telling you the importance of offering cow (ehi/efi Igbo) to your Ancestors...

🩸 It brings honor to them even in the land of the spirit

🩸 It helps elevate their Spiritual hierarchy

🩸 Even to you the living, it helps in bringing honor to you even when it has to do with Spiritual forces... (Linage of ndi ogbi ehi/efi, it carry respect).. you can attend a certain judgement by that title alone...let me stop here...

Like I said earlier, it has due process which if you go contrary to it, it kills because our ancestors do not joke with matters that concerns igbu ehi/efi....

If you have not offer Igbo cow to your great grand father, grand father and late father, you can not eat cow meat another person offered to his own ancestors, you can not even help to kill the cow, you will stay far from there till they are done with it. ..

Then when it's killed various types of the cow's body parts has people that owns it, like the head, the neck, the waist, one hand and one leg, people like the material family of that your ancestors you offered the cow to, the umunna, umuada, etc.. 

You don't just kill the cow and pieces the meat, no, you will only pieces the remaining parts and use it to cook yams and other Traditional foods after the important relatives have taking their rightful share, if not done this way, it's not done properly...

If family of this relatives have not offer cow to their ancestors, they dare not carry that meat to their home if not, people will start dieing there, they should leave it, they can't swallow that meat, it will be too big for them, they should try to offer to their own ancestors first if they want to be receiving such honor from relatives that did it...

If you have not offer cow to your Ancestors, do not use cow for burial anywhere, if you feel like slaughtering cow in your in-laws burial ceremony to acquire enough meat, buy it there in abatua/qarter, let them slaughter it for you, then you carry it home, you bought meat not cow...

Another people who have not offered to their own ndi Ichie should not come to your compound who also have not offer to your own ndi ichie to kill the cow if not, you are in for trouble, let them kill it in abatua...

If you have not offered to your grand father, you can not offer to your own late father, they see it as insult, you must honour the elders before the younger Ancestors.

A woman dosen't offer cow to ndi Ichie or her father, it must be on behalf of the brothers if she is the person that brings the money... She has no say there except for the ukwu efi (waist part of the cow) that will be giving to umuada..

This are the procedures... Always follow due process..

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