Numerology 1–10

| n | Name | Mystical content |

|---|---|---|

| 1 | Ofu/Otu/Nge | Sacred to Chukwu as Aka Ofu; the Godhead, cosmic unity; never pronounced in the Dibia's potentiating count (except Ekili); otu is a tonal variation of Etu (§10.1) |

| 2 | Abuo/Iboo | The basic duality — Okala split standstill into polarity, generating obi (movement) and its entourage; "the two words of God": Yes (Eeye) and No (Ee-eh) — humans added the third, Yes-No, introducing deception; endless pair-list: male/female, death/life, fire/water, day/night, stars-above/sand-below, heaven/earth, laughter/tears, spirit-home/human-world, salt/pepper... Ife kwulu, ife akwudobe ya — wherever something stands, something stands beside it |

| 3 | Ato | The Ikenga number: creative (+), combatant (−), and ogbo-ogu the peacemaker (neutral) — equilibrium; cooking pots stand on three akwukwa; ife bia n'ito o to — whatever comes to three gets stuck; the point where Dibia's mouth and Spirit's mouth unite; sacred to Ato (= Hathor); greetings stop at three |

| 4 | Ano/Ino | The Izu number — Eke, Oye, Afo, Nkwo; the divine riddle afia naano ubosi naano only Agwu solved; ezi naano (crossroads) — the great sacrifice site (pre-Christian "cross"); Ofo-aka-naano, the four-handed Ofo; Nri kingship requires four pots (udu naano) from the Omambala river |

| 5 | Ise | Ubala Ikenga — plurality of Ikenga; mastery over adversity; the point where Ofo settles into the hands (the little finger — isu Ofo, stamping Ofo on the ground); "ise!!" = so be it — Ofo in action |

| 6 | Isii | Double Ikenga; headship, sacred to Agwu; isi ego — six cowries = one currency unit; the six parts of the Eye of Aro/Horus; six sides of the Ube Olisa seed; Agwu's festival at the sixth moon |

| 7 | Asaa/Isaa | Finality: Ife lie isaa o naa — whatever eats seven, goes/ends; seven izu = one moon (28 days); seven reincarnations; the asa-fish/ekwu-fish Horus myths |

| 8 | Asato | Sacred to Saturn (Asato); 5+3; double the four-basket riddle; the unity of the two worlds; the Ozo nobleman's steadfast officiation through okwu (holy phase) and ukpolo (dangerous phase); the last gate before Chukwu's realm (ime onwa asato) |

| 9 | Itenani/Iteghete | "One I-am-ness" (ijite ofu): union with one's Chi and Chukwu — perfect peace, the cooled-off state; 3×3; the nine planets (ekwe teghete, "nine wooden gongs" in Dibia sign-language); the akwaa akwulu number — multiply by anything, digit-sum returns to 9; the Oje-na-Mmuo attainment |

| 10 | Ili | Resolution/aggregation; complete attunement with Olisa the Tide; the fount of Igbo decimal counting: ogu (20), ogu naabo (40)... ogu ise (100), nnu (400 — where ogu "achieves its ogu self"); sacred to Ogugu, deity of counting |

- Beyond ten: 12 (mystic Ndili Ato in Afa), 14 (double seven), 16 (the sixteen Afa seeds; "four into four places"), 21, 28 noted.

- Digit-sum meditations (8×n series) map multiplication back onto the cosmology — reincarnation at 64 (8×8 → 10), union with Spirit at 8×9=72 → 9. Ose Ogwute — the "force of gravity" in Afa language: what goes up must come down (aku feshasia o dakwalu awolo — after all its flying, the aku fly falls for the toad).

- Counting integrity: Umeh protests school-imposed neologisms (nari, nde) severing Igbo from its original numeration (attested to five trillion — Xrydz-Eyutchae & Onejeme MS).