SUBJECTIVITY OF THE SPIRIT IN THE DIALECTICAL COSMOLOGY OF THE TRADITIONAL IGBO SOCIETY

Emenike Philip Ayika

Abstract


The traditional African is said to be incurably religious. The spirit shares the world with mortals. Some of those spirits have shrines but some do not. Reality is double pronged: death and life, spirit and matter. No dichotomies are found, matter and spirit proceed from the same source but the spirit seems to be given a place of prominence as a reality overlaying the material. The spirit assumes the subject-end while matter remains the object.

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