In the beginning, Chineke, the Father, created the world and all the things in it.

He made the gods, the Arushi. And He made the spirit world to be their home and the home of all the spirits, great and small. Its custody, He placed in the hands of the greatest of them all.

The Anumanu. The Firstborn.

And He made man, to live and populate his world.

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And when He looked upon His works and found it finished, He retreated to His home, leaving it under the charge of the Arushi and the Firstborn.

But in His absence, evil took root in the world and began to fester and grow. Born of void and rage, pale in tooth and claw, humanity was besieged on all sides by these creatures.

In their fear, humanity cried out to the Arushis to save them.

In response, they sent the Ancestral Trees.

And the dibias were born.

- Taken from the Initiation Chant of the Chinyelugo Clan.