A community accostumed to burying their dead within the homes, Adavi is a town where lost members of a family is easily determined by the number of graves around a home.
Besides other effects it is widely beleived in Ebiraland that homes with graves affect the sinking of water wells or bore-holes as water from such sources is considered impure and its drinking seen as caniballistic.
Today, the home-burial tradition is so common in adavi that a landlord might have to reserve some space for his grave and that of his family or loved ones. Where such arrangement was not pre-arranged, a corpse may be buried right inside the compound.
Just recently, in his effort to ease the burial stress in his Local government area, Alhaji AbdulRahman Badamasuiy, the incubent LG chairman acquired a vast land in Nagazi area of Adavi as Oganya (grave-yard) for his people. Though report has it that burial has not copmmenced on the acuired space, it is expected that families will endure some distance between their dead and themselves as they would be required to 'rest' them a bit farther from their homes..at the Oganya.
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Besides other effects it is widely beleived in Ebiraland that homes with graves affect the sinking of water wells or bore-holes as water from such sources is considered impure and its drinking seen as caniballistic.
Today, the home-burial tradition is so common in adavi that a landlord might have to reserve some space for his grave and that of his family or loved ones. Where such arrangement was not pre-arranged, a corpse may be buried right inside the compound.
Just recently, in his effort to ease the burial stress in his Local government area, Alhaji AbdulRahman Badamasuiy, the incubent LG chairman acquired a vast land in Nagazi area of Adavi as Oganya (grave-yard) for his people. Though report has it that burial has not copmmenced on the acuired space, it is expected that families will endure some distance between their dead and themselves as they would be required to 'rest' them a bit farther from their homes..at the Oganya.
Picture coming soon!
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