hello great minds, today I want to share with you guys some great cultural aspects of my culture, it been a while I post in this community I hope am welcome? And didn't miss anything. Talking about some ill cultural practices going on in some parts of my state. Practice that I find disgusting and cruel especially to women, read through and don't forget to drop your comments.
the image of the masquerade above is called "EKPO NKA OWO" meaning the deity responsible for exposing infidelity among the women of my culture mostly married women. I heard about this just of recent from my Dad since I wasn't born in hometown or grew up there I knew little about my culture, he told us this because If what happened recently in our compound.
Our naigbours wife was cought cheatingđź’”.
Ekpo Nka Owo, is the Ibibio ancestral spirits all in Akwa-Ibom or ghosts of fornication. Ekpo Nka Owo help to check and expose and curtail infidelity among traditionally married women, so that the sanity of marriage will be intact among the Ibibio tribe
According to Ibibio and Annang folk tales, in Akwa Ibom state and some neighboring parts of Cross River, if a woman that is already married go ahead and commits adultery and become pregnant and she fails to confess she is certain to die while giving birth to the child or she lost all her matured children to the hands of death. and it has been said and believed that the soul of the woman after death will be claimed by that deity
and it doesn't just end there, if the husband to the woman that commits the adultery is fully aware of what his wife has done and failed to report her to the family the Ekpo Nka Owo will also take the soul of the man. and a lot of lives have been taken as a result of this belief.
an elderly man was interviewed and he was asked the reason that the deity only focus on the women leaving the men who even commits adultery more. the answer the man gave surprised not only the interviewer but me, the man said that for a man to be suffering from infidelity is a big crime against his wife meanwhile it is only the infidelity of a woman that is taboo in the land.
they are some part of ibgo land that practice the same culture, therefore if you want to marry into an Igbo family you should watch out for these to avoid stories like this in the future, funny enough the Ekpo Nka Owo is not the deity that understands the English language, I advise to end your marriage than to have extramarital affair that may destroy your life and that of your family
the strange part is that No pastor or priest can pray you out of the clutches of this deity, only confession, and cleansing. According to thier believes but I don't believe this at all my God can undo this shit.
after learning about this I only wonder if its practice is very effective today. This post was written by me 
Thanks for stopping by my blog post you deserve a hug if you read up to this point 🤗🥰. Please stay safe.
