Oghwoghwa

www.oghwoghwa.orgOghwoghwa is the fore fathers of four clans in Urhobo Land in Nigeria, namely Ogor (Ogọ) Ughelli (Ughẹne) Agbarha-Otor (Agbarha-Otọ) These are the key and hub of the Urhobos speaking people. Each and every of this clans are headed by a traditional ruler known as King (in Urhobo as Ovie) Each king has her own kingdom with its own historic laws. They derived the weekly and mothly calculations from local market day known ad Ḙdeki which is market day. The traditional sundays as resting day of which there will be no market and to those that has such believe will not do any kind of work on that day known as Edewor (Edewọ). Achwẹdẹwọ nu which is a day to be known as a day after the resting day as calculated in English and Christianity calender can be interpreted as Monday. Although, it happened to be that these days does not count up to seven straight days. Instead, it has five days, thereby resulting to having overlapping in the calender days.