Time, change, mortality

- Ife niine nwelu oge; ife oge ya lulu o mee; ukwa chaa o daa — everything has its time; the ripe breadfruit falls. [T1 p.47]

- Onwa puta otichaghi o da-anakpu — the new moon must complete its cycle. [T1 p.19]

- "No condition is permanent"; Okilikili bu ije agwo; Agwo wolu iwolo — circling is the snake's walk; let it shed the old skin. [T1 p.21]

- Onwu si, 'Cheta kwam mgbe nile' — Death says: remember me always. [T2]

- Uwa m asaa, uwa m asato — my seven worlds, my eight worlds. [T1 p.4]

- Ijiji enweho onye odu na-eso ozu ana ani Mmuo — the unadvised housefly follows the corpse into the grave. [T1 p.33]

- Aja eluo be Mmuo choba umu Oma... — arrive in Spirit-land and you will find Oma's children — where else have the dead gone? [T1 p.135]

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