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

The Ibos Sacred kinship in Things Fall Apart   The Ibo people had a very unutterable relationship with their landscape. Their entire existence depended on their environ ment and constitution was numinous to them. This is unlike the English who came to the lower Niger with imperialistic goals of civilizing these primitive people. The Europeans were more technologically advanced, but in this progression they lost touch with nature and the spectral connection with this significant aspect of the world. The Ibo on the other hand personified nature and turned to deities as well as ancestral spirits for commission in their survival against unexplainable and often uncontrollable forces. When hardships arise they hear to appease their gods and their spirits through sacrifice and ritual. Nature is a major(ip) theme of the religion of the Ibo and spirituality is very closely associated with the earth.   Nature was in any case consulted in eras of conflict between tribesmen. When Uzowulu was accused of beating his married woman excessively her family took the case to the egwugwu, or the spirits of the nine sons, of the original novice of the clan, which gave rise to the nine villages in the clan. These spirits were in reality men in the tribe wearing masks, but all of the villagers put their doctrine in the idea that these bodies are in fact occupied by spirits of ancestors who lead offer advise in a time of hardship. With the commencement of the hearing of Uzowulu before these masked spirits he touches the rationality as a sign of submission to the higher powers. While Uzowulu will only listen to the decision of the egwugwu because they are beyond any mortal, he overlooks the fact that these decision-makers are really his fellow villagers. This fai... ...landscape in which these people live. To scratch off a royal python is such an unfathomable crime, that there is non horizontal a punishment prescribed for the act, and when the convert kills t he python the people do not even think that it could have 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 marvelous explanations to aid in an otherwise unattainable resolution. This people were greatly misinterpret by colonialists who sought to civilize them and attempted to thrust Christianity upon an uninterested sense of hearing to aid in the control and pacification of a people that patently already had a worthy explanation and understanding of the world in which they lived.