Thread by @Ayibatonye0

#NigerDelta Religion/Urhobo.
Igbe religion, popularly known as Igbe (an Urhobo word meaning dance) was founded by Ubiecha Etarakpo in 1858 and has its headquarters at 11, Egbo Street, Kokori Inland, Ethiope East Local Government Area, Delta State, Nigeria.

The holy (sacred)

day is known as Edigbe, meaning the day of joy.

It is a religion based on dance, as its medium of worship to God. It began as a Urhobo-Kokori traditional sect, and in the 20th century was influenced by an influx of Christian evangelism.

Originating in Kokori, it gradually

spread in Urhobo nation and austral Nigeria at large.
The adherents of the Igbe religion are monotheists who believe in an omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God called Oghene and that he rewards the good and evil alike, according to their deeds.

Dance is

a core element of the Igbe. The adherents believe that by dancing, they draw on themselves the very hand of the one and only monotheistic God.

following the demise of Etarakpo in 1926 and the birth of the three circuits(sons of Etarakpo) of Igbe, various offshoots like Igbe-Ubiecha, Igbe-Oghene-Uku, Igbe-Agege, and Osanuge-Igbe emerged and proliferation of Igbe.
most of them involved in the culture of mermaids and other

divinities, while others even indulge in the worship of animals, which they describe as the custodian of the spirit of “God.”
The Igbe worshippers believe in Jesus Christ as the son of God and his father as the almighty God. They call him Owheya, they believe in reincarnation.

They do confession to Uku(priest) and believe in the efficacy of the native chalk.

They don't believe in the second coming of Jesus Christ because he has come and gone when he presented himself to Etarakpo, which give birth to Igbe. #NigerDelta