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From the Beginning That is how Aguleri does it. They are buried together in a given period of the year, and their burial is solemn and ceremonial in recognition of their status. They are men of valour, wheels of progress, bastions of justice, models of dignity, and figures of prosperity. They are not buried like the ordinary man, those Unoka-calibre. No, you cannot simply bury them like that! These group of men in Aguleri are the princes of the kingdom, full-fledged sons of the kingly ancestor, Eri. They have the complete bona-fides of a typical Eri son - heroic, truthful, spiritual, assiduous, prosperous, grateful, unstinting, assertive, reliable, incorruptible, compassionate, and team player. They are soldierly in content and character. Just like the burial of a valiant soldier involves twenty-one gun salute, guards of honour, draping of the flag on the casket, the burial of these initiated group of men in Aguleri have similar pomp, similar pageantry. They are not given ordinary buri...

A friend of mine once asked me whether I have seen where it was written in the bible that God started work again after He rested on the seventh day, and I said no. He said that the simple interpretation was that God is still resting; that what we see today as the acts of God are just the acts of nature. I sought the education from him. He told me that God created the world and put it in auto-pilot called nature while He continued resting. He told me that nature from then became the regulator, the sustainer, and the arbiter of the whole universe. I reminded that friend about the book of John 5:17 where Jesus Christ declared: “my father goes on working, and so do I.” However, I appreciated his reasonable argument. Many people worship nature as a god. It is called the Mother Nature or Mother Earth. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, Mother Earth is a cosmogonic figure, the eternally fruitful source of everything. By this description, Mother Earth could be said to be the source of human...