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Gaboism

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Gaboism is the Religion of the Gade people which is characterized by a supreme being called Ṣịgàpá, many deities called Ịtụkpọkpọ, twin goddess called Ikorobi, and a belief in spirits and reincarnation. It also includes divination and traditional medicine practices that are sometimes linked to magic and revelation; etymologically called Rubochi which is sometimes linked to Witcraft called Katsi. Ikorobi refers to the deity of twins - twin goddess (Ancestral lineage system), who is associated with wisdom, fortune, misfortune, intellect, and divination. Every thought and action of each person or being in gwuku (the ancestral and lineage realm) interact with the Supreme force, all other living things, including the Earth itself, as well as with asam (the otherworld), in which gods, spirits and ancestors exist (It is a popular knowledge that every Gade came from otherworld and shall return to the otherworld after fulfilling the purposes of staying in the physical earth). The Gade religion can be described as a complex form of polytheism as against the Abrahamic religion, with a Supreme but distant creator force, encompassing the whole universe.[1]

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  1. ^ GT Obadiah, Gaboism, 2023, Brobadiah and Publishing House, Bwari, FCT-Abuja