AGBO OLODE: THE HISTORY AND PHENOMINOLOGY OF A RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL AND FERTILITY DEITY OF OGIDI – IJUMU IN KOGI STATE

OJO, Paul Olarewaju, PhD

AGBO OLODE: THE HISTORY AND PHENOMINOLOGY OF A RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL AND FERTILITY DEITY OF OGIDI – IJUMU IN KOGI STATE

AFRICAN INDIGENOUS ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS, 2021

AGBO OLODE: THE HISTORY AND PHENOMINOLOGY OF A RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL AND FERTILITY DEITY OF OGIDI – IJUMU IN KOGI STATE

OJO, Paul Olarewaju, PhD

Abstract

This chapter discusses the Agbo festival among the people of Ogidi-Ijumu within the context of egungun, and the phenomenology of this festival which is a fertility deity as the hub and identity of the traditional religion of the people. It is a discussion of the history of the religion of a people through the descriptive approach.

Keywords: agbo, deity, fertility, festival, history, ijumu, kogi, ogidi, olode, phenominology, religious, state Open Full Text (PDF)