SamOyovwi:
Deltans kill it. I'm an Urhobo and they kill it too. But there's a part of Urhobo that don't kill alligator. The Orogun people of Urhobo

When I said delta I meant Ika/Anioma etc.
I know the crocodile is sacred to Ijaw and Urhobo people.

AstroG:





Exactly,Uli don't kill pythons. I can vividly remember when I was still a student at Anambra State University,Uli Campus,have encountered them so many times. Even my lodge then was their den due to the fact that we didn't knw there was a python shrine 7km away from the Lodge,but it has never bitten anybody in the Lodge.

That's the truth it's too gentle , for Okija back then kids do play with me with it .

OruExpress:
In Igbo cosmology, Ala, the earth, delivers messages using pythons. We believe that if you understand one thing you understand all things. Those that observe the python are observing the rivers and those who are observing the rivers are learning about Ala.

In the beginning of the world all was water. This water is called Oshimirri. Yorubas call it Osun Oyi. The primordial water where all things come from. When Oshimmiri formed into Ala, the streams and rivers remained and from then the python emerged.

the Python is the messenger of Ala. And because it was on the land before man, man had to negotiate with the python to inherit its land. The Python is the true land lord in many communities and the laws of the land similar to lease agreement. An oath ancestors make with Ala in order to remain worthy of the lands gifts. Every now and then a python emerges, and performs a function similar to a land lord touring their property.

Where the pythons meet, shrines are build because the presence of Ala is concentrated there.

Some people believe we worship pythons or even the shrine. That is not true. We respect the python because it was there before us and seek to live in peace with it as tenets on this earth. Shrines indicate where spirits gather and the python being the messenger, knows where.

Do people actually believe fairytales like this?

I wonder what will happen if I decide to taste it's meat. I'll probably choke on it.

Themaths:
I'm from Azia. I confirm your post to be true, we don't kill pythons. Our neighbour, Mbosi, don't kill ewi (rabbit)...

I wonder why anyone will want to kill a Python though.

Very quite and gentle creature.

AngryNijerian:
I know one woman that python mistakenly bit in her farm. She said to the python; why will you bite me, don't you know that i'm daughter of the soil and besides i didn't intentionally march you. Immediately the python's venom started dripping off her leg. You will think its a story but it actually happened.

You don't kill python here, some see python entering their room at night but won't bat an eyelid and will probably sleep in that same room with the python. If you don't like its presence take a stick and take it out of your house while you throw the stick away because if you don't it will trace that stick back to your house.

Nice fairytale

MPESA:



That's the truth it's too gentle , for Okija back then kids do play with me with it .

Hmmmm Don't tell me u Martin. Small world

amaniro:



Point of correction. We don't do that in Abia. We don't respect python

Ok, i had read it was sacred in Umuahia. Maybe it's mainly a North-Imo/South-Anambra (Oru Idemili and Isu) thing.

This is traditional environmental protection. I'm loving this

One is around my poultry pen now, I no even get time to comot am. If e stay finish e go. They even help me chase rats away they don't touch my chickens. I'm from idemili north

AngryNijerian:
I know one woman that python mistakenly bit in her farm. She said to the python; why will you bite me, don't you know that i'm daughter of the soil and besides i didn't intentionally march you. Immediately the python's venom started dripping off her leg. You will think its a story but it actually happened.

You don't kill python here, some see python entering their room at night but won't bat an eyelid and will probably sleep in that same room with the python. If you don't like its presence take a stick and take it out of your house while you throw the stick away because if you don't it will trace that stick back to your house.

Wait... Python get venom?

AngryNijerian:
I know one woman that python mistakenly bit in her farm. She said to the python; why will you bite me, don't you know that i'm daughter of the soil and besides i didn't intentionally march you. Immediately the python's venom started dripping off her leg. You will think its a story but it actually happened.

You don't kill python here, some see python entering their room at night but won't bat an eyelid and will probably sleep in that same room with the python. If you don't like its presence take a stick and take it out of your house while you throw the stick away because if you don't it will trace that stick back to your house.

Python no dey bite na, haba!

I remember some years back when we traveled to the village for Christmas celebration, on our way back home from the stream. I, my siblings and my cousins decided to take a shortcut which used to be an evil forest in the past due to myths surrounding it. Midway into the forest path, one of us stepped and also place his hand on something that looks like a big log of wood why trying to cross it, next the snake moved its body and he shouted snake o! Come see race, those that have crossed ran home, those that are yet to cross ran back to take the long route.
When we get home and told my dad the thing that happened, he said we should have ran, we should have continued our journey. I was like who does that, the snake according to him was a very big one, for him to support his crossing it by placing his hand on the snake.

P.S- It happened in Imo State. We did not know it was a snake at first cos its head and tail where in the bush by the sides of the forest path

AwkaetitiBabe:
I wonder what will happen if I decide to taste it's meat. I'll probably choke on it.

If you roast it properly and add Mayonaise you will be fine,

Ife Ndi N Eri Ka Ndi Na aso, Ife Ndi N Eri Ka Ndi Na aso, I buru motor fu Eke gbakwa brake o, eke idemili........ Eme kata asi na mmadu alaru (Ako na Uche)

KIDfurniture:
I love pythons. I will have one soon...it brings wealth in abundance..it works like magic. Why do you think cele people worship snake codedly?

I have a theory that cele people are secretly Osun worshipers.

OruExpress:


Ok, i had read it was sacred in Umuahia. Maybe it's mainly a North-Imo/South-Anambra (Oru Idemili and Isu) thing.

I'm specifically from Umuahia and we don't do shit. We kill it and don't give two fuckkks about it. Only Anambra and some part of imo respect it. As of the rest igbo land. We don't.

GidiWoodsMan:


Do people actually believe fairytales like this?

It is really bizzare,

gypsey:
If you roast it properly and add Mayonaise you will be fine,

As an undiluted Daughter of Idemilli, it's forbidden for me. This has nothing to do with born again and Jesus.

AngryNijerian:
I know one woman that python mistakenly bit in her farm. She said to the python; why will you bite me, don't you know that i'm daughter of the soil and besides i didn't intentionally march you. Immediately the python's venom started dripping off her leg. You will think its a story but it actually happened.

You don't kill python here, some see python entering their room at night but won't bat an eyelid and will probably sleep in that same room with the python. If you don't like its presence take a stick and take it out of your house while you throw the stick away because if you don't it will trace that stick back to your house.

bros i doubt if dat woman is an ordinary woman

igbodefender:
Is Nnwei nwadeana to Idemili? I know they are neighborhors.

Nope they r not..nnewi is a kingdom on its Owen,formally known as Anaedo which consist of Ichi Orifite and today's Nnewi

AwkaetitiBabe:
I wonder what will happen if I decide to taste it's meat. I'll probably choke on it.

One Ihiala guy go mistakenly eat snake for PH na so his lips turn White, no be joke o but na longer throat make him eat the food because the other don dey suspect the meat when It was brought to them.

Jofez:
One is in my poultry pen now, I no even get time to comot am. If e stay finish e go. They even help me chase rats away they don't touch my chickens. I'm from idemili north

Eventurray you dunno what's going on. When it gets so hungry even the feather of your chicken you won't see

OruExpress:
In Igbo cosmology, Ala, the earth, delivers messages using pythons. We believe that if you understand one thing you understand all things. Those that observe the python are observing the rivers and those who are observing the rivers are learning about Ala.

In the beginning of the world all was water. This water is called Oshimirri. Yorubas call it Osun Oyi. The primordial water where all things come from. When Oshimmiri formed into Ala, the streams and rivers remained and from then the python emerged.

the Python is the messenger of Ala. And because it was on the land before man, man had to negotiate with the python to inherit its land. The Python is the true land lord in many communities and the laws of the land similar to lease agreement. An oath ancestors make with Ala in order to remain worthy of the lands gifts. Every now and then a python emerges, and performs a function similar to a land lord touring their property.

Where the pythons meet, shrines are build because the presence of Ala is concentrated there.

Some people believe we worship pythons or even the shrine. That is not true. We respect the python because it was there before us and seek to live in peace with it as tenets on this earth. Shrines indicate where spirits gather and the python being the messenger, knows where.

Worship God, believe the Bible, the earth and all the animals including Python were put under Adam(Man), and all is under God, Creator of the heavens and earth.

African ball pythons are very docile and would rather curl up into a ball when cornered than attack.

In my village in Akwa Ibom they are known as ASABO and are not killed.

Growing up, when we visit our grandparents at home we find them sometimes curled on the rafters of the local kitchen where they get warmed by the fire set up below. They can remain there for days.

If they get the our way we simply cut a leafy branch and tap it gently. It will curl into a ball and then we roll or carry it away to another location.

MPESA:



One Ihiala guy go mistakenly eat snake for PH na so his lips turn White, no be joke o but na longer throat make him eat the food because the other don dey suspect the meat when It was brought to them.

For real? That's crazy.

Blinkers:


Not just emekuku alone which is along the express leading to Abia state.

That Njaba - Awo Omamma axis down to mgbidi are also avoid eating the ball python.

Yes yes! I can attest to the awọmmamma own, we went for my cousin's dad burial, and after the burial the next day at their backyard I saw that ball python and took it in my hand to go put it inside a plastic container since I love animals, na so one woman wey See me raise alarm the whole village gather me say make I drop am for floor, I was trying to explain to them that am not going to kill it that I collect animals that I keep and train and that l love this specie of python. It was my cousins and my parents that came and explained to them that am a foreigner and to me that I can't go with the snake.
Pythons are constrictors and ambushers so don't have venom and no snake is poisonous but some are venomous. No snake will see a human and attack the human, most snake bite happen as a result of self defense on the snake part. No Snake is bad except you go find its trouble.

I'm not surprised ... many have seen huge snakes exit & enter especially at night.. you dare not mention it.

OruExpress:


I have a theory that cele people are secretly Osun worshipers.

AwkaetitiBabe:
As an undiluted Daughter of Idemilli, it's forbidden for me. This has nothing to do with born again and Jesus.

Idemili? Mmmm.... I should invite you for python dinner in My house at Nkpor.




What does born Again and Jesus even mean?

AwkaetitiBabe:
Hmmmm Don't tell me u Martin. Small world

Nah i no be Martin sha

First and foremost, pythons are not venomous snakes, so i wonder where the venom you're talking about originated from.

AngryNijerian:
I know one woman that python mistakenly bit in her farm. She said to the python; why will you bite me, don't you know that i'm daughter of the soil and besides i didn't intentionally march you. Immediately the python's venom started dripping off her leg. You will think its a story but it actually happened.

You don't kill python here, some see python entering their room at night but won't bat an eyelid and will probably sleep in that same room with the python. If you don't like its presence take a stick and take it out of your house while you throw the stick away because if you don't it will trace that stick back to your house.

Am from aguata aslo

AwkaetitiBabe:
For real? That's crazy.

No be joke Sis .....