During the Festival of Pumpkin Leaves ritual, we see the embattled Ezeulu at the height of his fearsome religious authority. Scholar Marcel Ikechukwu Sunday Onyibor points out that here Ezeulu, dressed in ceremonial garb with the left half of his...
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During the Festival of Pumpkin Leaves ritual, we see the embattled Ezeulu at the height of his fearsome religious authority. Scholar Marcel Ikechukwu Sunday Onyibor points out that here Ezeulu, dressed in ceremonial garb with the left half of his...
Oduche imprisons one of the compound’s sacred pythons in a wooden box.
Irony can be found in Ezeulu's dedication to Ulu, and his determination to face the challenges that surround him, even to the point of alienating his own people because in the end, it is Ulu who takes his life.