Essay on the Ibos Sacred Relationship in Chinua Achebes Things Fall A

The Ibos Sacred Relationship in Things Fall aside   The Ibo people had a very sacred relationship with their beautify. Their entire human beings depended on their environment and nature was sacred to them. This is unlike the English who came to the humble Niger with imperialistic goals of civilizing these primitive people. The Europeans were more technologically advanced, but in this improvement they lost touch with nature and the spiritual connection with this sanctifyificant vista of the world. The Ibo on the other hand personified nature and turned to deities as considerably as ancestral spirits for guidance in their choice against inexplicable and often un locklable forces. When hardships arise they attempt to appease their gods and their spirits by dint of sacrifice and ritual. Nature is a major theme of the religion of the Ibo and spiritism is very closely associated with the earth.   Nature was also consulted in times of dispute between tribesmen. When Uzow ulu was accused of beating his wife excessively her family took the case to the egwugwu, or the spirits of the nine sons, of the original father of the clan, which gave rise to the nine villages in the clan. These spirits were in reality men in the tribe eating away masks, but all of the villagers put their faith in the idea that these bodies argon in fact occupied by spirits of ancestors who will turn advise in a time of hardship. With the commencement of the hearing of Uzowulu in front these masked spirits he touches the ground as a sign of submission to the higher powers. While Uzowulu will only listen to the close of the egwugwu because they are beyond any mortal, he overlooks the fact that these decision-makers are truly his fellow villagers. This fai... ...landscape in which these people live. To kill a royal python is such(prenominal) an unfathomable crime, that there is not even a punishment positivistic for the act, and when the convert kills the python the people do not even think that it could subscribe possible been done intentionally. This reveals the significance of nature as sacred.   All aspects of the landscape were made sacred because these people greatly depended on nature for survival and many aspects were inexplicable, so they were given supernatural explanations to aid in an otherwise unattainable resolution. This people were greatly misunderstood by colonialists who sought to polish them and attempted to thrust Christianity upon an uninterested audience to aid in the control and pacification of a people that apparently already had a fitting explanation and understanding of the world in which they lived.