Shifting the Paradigm of Ududu-Eze: The Mystical Pot of Clay from Aguleri which Severs as the Symbol of Power That Creates the Eze Nri in Igbo Traditional Religion

Abstract

Like almost all tradition, kingdom has been able to show spiritual force which affects royal families. This tradition has been seen everywhere like Europe, America, Asia and Africa etc. Especially for Eri kingdom it is a kingly festival especially Nri without ‘Ududu-Eze' the covenant pot of clay, the coronation will not take place. In Igbo tradition, this symbol of kingship is symbol of authority, Kingship and leadership and it act as a spiritual conduit that binds or compensates the communities that make up the Eri kingdom through the mediation for the loss of their contact with their ancestral home and with the built/support in religious rituals and cultural security of their extended brotherhood. This festival is usually an occasion for jocundity and thanksgiving; people appear in their best and give of their best. The offerings are mostly thank-offerings, and the meals constitute an opportunity of communion between the divinity and his ‘children'. This paper focuses on how this renewal of covenant relationships between communities is done to reunite their intimate brotherhood and to show how the Aguleri community uses this ritual pot of clay to reassert her position as the true head of the Igbo through the mediation ofstages of ritual journey coronation festival to show their gratitude to their gods and ancestors for various reasons known to them and consequently commemorates Eri as their great ancestor for instituting the Ududu-Eze as a symbol of the power that creates Eze Nri.