“THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM CHI ONYE UWA” – LET’S TALK ABOUT CHI 

LET’S TALK ABOUT CHI 

THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM CHI ONYE UWA

Chi is the personal spirit of a person (ḿmúọ́). In Igbo culture it is this spirit which determines destiny, hence the saying, onye kwe, Chi ya ekwe (“If a person agrees to a thing, his spirit agrees also”).

Culturally, people are seen as the creators or makers of their own destiny.
The breath of life is in the heart, óbì.

Chi refers to the light and the day in contrast to the dark. The universal CHI indirectly in charge of everything is Chi-ukwu who is the supreme being that is beyond the limits of time and space.

Chi-ukwu’s name is a compound of the words Chí + úkwú (‘great in size, supreme’).

Chi is believed to be a spiritual connection between an individual and the high god, and it dictates the trajectory of a person’s spiritual journey on earth.

Each chi is personal and is in communion with and inseparable from the universal Chí of all things.

The high god, Chi-ukwu, is believed to assign Chí before and at the time of an individual’s birth.

Chi is a guardian spirit providing care, guardianship and providence; in this respect, the concept of Chi is analogous to the concept of a guardian angel in Christianity, the daemon in ancient Greek religion, and the genius in ancient Roman religion. Unlike Chi-ukwu who is genderless, Chí can be masculine.

A dibia can identify a person’s Chí through divination (áfà) and advise adherents of ways to placate it.

Chi-ukwu is also referred to as Chineke, which is a compound of the words Chí the divine masculine force and ékè the creative and divisive feminine force.

Eke came out of the hands of Chi but are considered one; Chi created the world while Eke divided it, incorporating a divisive trickster energy that introduced death and suffering.

Chineke is also interpreted as Chí ne ké, ‘Chi the creatrix’, and Chí nne éké, ‘Chi the creative mother’ Éké is one’s ancestral guardian spirit.

The word Chí-ukwu in Igbo language is same as Oke Chí
(Great God) or (Highest God)

Ndigbo has no one king same way we have no one God, there are many of them while Chí-ukwu is the greatest of all of the Gods

Ani is the most supreme deity in Igboland that’s why our tradition is called Omenani not Omenenu

Secondly Chi-ukwu lives in every human being as one’s conscience, not in heaven

Chi na eke, the male and female forces of creation is not a deity, because no shrine is dedicated to it.