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"[It& #39;d] appear [...] Igbo refer primarily to chi na (and) eke, which connotes two inseparable and complementary deities rather than the single overriding God of Christian belief. The [...] meaning [...] chi that creates, [...] is apparently foreign [...]" Photo: British Museum.
!["[It& #39;d] appear [...] Igbo refer primarily to chi na (and) eke, which connotes two inseparable and complementary deities rather than the single overriding God of Christian belief. The [...] meaning [...] chi that creates, [...] is apparently foreign [...]" Photo: British Museum.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOiNrJ0XkAA0Sth.jpg "\"[It& #39;d] appear [...] Igbo refer primarily to chi na (and) eke, which connotes two inseparable and complementary deities rather than the single overriding God of Christian belief. The [...] meaning [...] chi that creates, [...] is apparently foreign [...]\" Photo: British Museum.")
"Thus, one of my "old" and "reliable" informants seems not to recognize the contradiction in these two assertions of his: (a) "ndichie (the elders) used to refer to chineke kere uwa (chineke that made the world) but had no definite idea of him" [...]"
"[informant:] chi is what we know as & #39;god& #39;, chineke was introduced by the whiteman." – I. Chukwukere (1983). Chi in Igbo Religion and Thought: The God in Every Man.
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