Achebe bases the Agbala Oracle (the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves) on the Awka Oracle that was destroyed by the British. Ezinmao-o-o-o Chielo, the priestess, takes on the voice of the divine Agbala to ask for Ezinma to come to her.Īgbala, the Oracle the prophet of the Igbo. This saying probably means every man of the community - an example of hyperbole, an exaggeration not intended to be taken literally.Īgbala do-o-o-o!. Not coincidentally, his suspension of a convert is also based on a quotation from Matthew (9:17).Ībout ten thousand men The nine villages of Umuofia unlikely have as many as ten thousand men. Smith was obviously much concerned about dividing the community between the good (the Christian converts) and the bad (the traditional Igbo believers). In one, he refers to separating the sheep from the goats (Matthew 25:32) in the other, separating the wheat from the tares, or weeds (Matthew 13:30). Abomination anything hateful and disgusting.Ībout sheep and goats / about wheat and tares Two frequently quoted teachings of Jesus relate to the need for separating the good from the bad.
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