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Why some cultures are everlasting |
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ITSEKIRI CULTURAL IMMORTALITY What Is Civilisation? For the single fact that the total and particular understanding of all centres of civilization can be separated from one another as a matter of their differences, we can expect that their historical foundations can also be determined on the bases of this differentiation. This is differentiation in the face of actualities and a hunt for similarities through a hunt for differences. "Civilisation is the act of living together peacefully in a large group" (Adetoro: 1974). Persistence of Isekiri Culture since c30B.C. That Isekiri personality persists and predominates among those of other peoples owes much to a number of factors. One, Isekiri is a mixture of peoples; and diving deeper still into the realm of the chemical sciences, it is a compound. The expertise with which nature, using the hand of Isekiri itself, wove together the aborigines, the Lukumis, the Ijebu and all others, together with the Isekiri to found the Isekiri, has produced, as an effect, a distinct cultural civilization. Also, there is the blend of heterogeneous religious practices that found their way into the cosmology of Warri by 1480 A. D. The invisible hand of nature, using the visible hands of men, mixed the Egyptian religion of heterogeneous deities with the Edo religio-cultural phenomenon to produce a religious potential, wholeheartedly connived at by the Ijaw of Kalabari and Nembe origin as employees of the Warri monarchy (C1500A.D). In addition, one Isekiri god stands in place of one Egyptian god. And if the Egyptian gods and what they did, combined with the social studies of the Egyptians, constituted a social system, called "the cradle of civilization", one thing is then clear: the Isekiri religio-cultural syncretism produces a unique cultural indestructibility for the Isekiri. Three, as a cause of the undying nature of the social essence of the Isekiri, is the proliferation of the Isekiri mode of dressing and nutritional character to other parts of Nigeria (south-south and southeast geo-political zones Ijaws, Edo, Igbo, Urhobo etc must be mentioned). Yes, that all these do not only dress the Isekiri way, but also in some cases, eat Isekiri-like dishes and sing Isekiri songs, adds extra weight to the cultural immortality of the people. All the above have produced further effects: Position, Place, Thoughts, Hypothesis and Theories, maybe, Law! Isekiri Cultural Immortality There are over 300 ethnic groups in Nigeria, each having its own common race, culture, tradition, language and history to brag of. Isekiri is one of these. But while others, like the Hausas and Ibo, the Effik, the Edo etc. are large enough to determine the wide nature of their culture and tradition, Isekiri, small as it is, is too small to have done so. Yet it does! Why is this so? Why does the Isekiri shine and reign among the other peoples, like a solitary star through the dark? The Isekiri is culturally an undying people. But for a culture to survive, somebody must decide that a particular part of it should remain for a particular to tarry. And since that somebody is simply every body, in lsekiri, the culture must be imbued with life, time after time. This is explained via the Law of Cultural Immortality of Honsbira. (Honsbira 2005). The First Law of Cultural Immortality:" The older a culture, the more the number of cultures paying tributes to the culture". The Second Law of Cultural Immortality: "The more the number of tribute-paying cultures to a main culture, the greater the tendency of the main culture to ink other cultures/' The Third Law of Cultural Immortality: "The greater the tendency of a culture to ink other cultures, the greater is its tendency to survive". General Law of Cultural Immortality If there are two or more cultures (struggling for survival), the culture with the greatest number of constituent cultures, which in most cases, is the oldest of these cultures, will ink each of the other cultures in the short run; absorb them or part of them in the long run, and armed with these, dive into the realm of cultural immortality, in the very long run" (Honsbira in Honsbira, Oghanrandukun and Amatesiro: 2005:54 |
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