IGBO-AFRICAN GODS AND GODDESSES

Abstract

Pantheon is a concept that is associated with religious worldviews that are considered polytheistic, usually to capture their gods and goddesses. Focusing on the Igbo world, this work makes a collection of selected deities in Igbo worldview. While arraying these deities, it maintains that the idea of Supreme Being is very strong in Igbo traditional religion. Thus, while there is a multiplicity of lesser gods, there has always been only one Supreme Being who is the source of all that there is, including the deities themselves. If we look at this issue from the perspective that these deities are only deans or messengers of the Supreme Being then there would be no conflict of supremacy. And in fact the supremacy of the Supreme Being points to the fact that Igbo traditional religion is a religion of structure, inextricably bound up with the total structure of Igbo traditional life. It is within this structure that the Igbo person’s existence, welfare and destiny are totally caught up. The hermeneutic approach is employed for the purpose of this study.

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