Culture is not just a way of life chosen by a group of ancestors on a round table, it is rather a way of life influenced by beliefs – these beliefs are formed over time through years of experience, observation and an attempt to attach cause to effect about the earth we live in and how life works generally.
Because before science gave an explanation for why the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, that 24 hours make a day, how that the earth rotates and revolves around the sun, how it is the heart that pumps blood and the veins and arteries are blood vessels, how photosynthesis works in plants, taking in oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide.
Our ancestors and the ancestors before them tried to carve an understanding of their environment so they could explain to others. It’s probably also why they explained that the lizard nods its head and can not speak because of its greed.
Welcome once again to Historical Facts where we explain the different beliefs that influenced the cultures that have framed us this far – and today we’re talking about death in the Niger Delta
