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This is an occasion for giving thanks to Ali the earth goddess. Days before the festival people throw out last years yams, they wash all their cooking pots, and the walls and the huts are scrubbed with red earth until they reflect light.
The way they settled disputes was by giving an ultimatum. They either got what they wanted or they went to war. Since Umuofia was feared by its surrounding neighbors they got what they wanted.
When Ogbuefi Ndulue died not to much later his wife Ozoemena also died. When this happens they don't beat the drum to tell people of his death. When a huband and wife die around the same time his funeral is put off until his wife had been buried.
This ceremony is where the men and women gather in the village oli, the women have to stay at a specific distance and they are not allowed to see what happens in the cult of the clan and there the spirits of the 9 of the greatest masked spirits come together
When a great man died people wore smoked raffia skirts and their bodies were painted with chalk and charcoal and people went to the funeral in age groups. When there was a funeral guns were fired and drums were played.
First the mans family has to go to the brides family and pay the bride-price then they take palm wine to the brides kinsmen and after that its time for the final ceremony of confession. After the ceremony of confession a hens throat is slit and they are officially married.
someone breaks the kola nut when there is a guest and he prays to his ancestors for life, health, and protection against his enemies