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......OSU.....

The meaning of OSU in IGBO is a servant on special assignment. OSU is different from OHU (oru) which is slave.

OSU Eke is the servant of the Creator/Supreme Deity.
Osuala is the person who buys and sells or have plenty land.
Osunkwo is Nkwo market day master Or chairman of a market Union.
Osuoji is timber merchant. Or any person who deals with or on iroko trees.
Osuagwu is someone who uses spirit of Agwu to aid human existence....like someone who specializes in using herbs to cure humans sickness.

Osu-Ji is someone who's a specialist in farming.... Anytime he farms and harvest...farms products go just surplus.... people always scream at the big size of yams he harvested after farming season.

I have always maintained and I still maintain that the OSU caste system was changed and another meaning given to it......That's misconception.....

OSU are special people in our society not an OUTCAST.

In Igboland back then...when you commit a taboo you will be banished from your village....You don't run to Arusi to cover you after being banished.... Imagine defiling a toddler and you're banished then you run to Arusi to shelter you? Arusi that will strike you at a spot for bringing uchu to his/her shrine....Arusi in Igboland doesn't protect people that commute Nso-Ani.... Whoever that told us those half baked stories deserves cane.....The people you referred to as Osu in your community, have anyone died mysteriously for marrying them? The answer is NO.

The people that committed alu and got banished from our communities are not OSU....

Daalu.

OSU-ARUSI.......

Osu Arusi is never an outcast...how can people you chased away for commiting atrocity be the ones working in the vineyard of our sacred okwu Arusi? OSU is never and can never be outcast...OSU Arusi are special people who choosed themselves or chosed by Arusi to be working in the shrine..To serve and also be there to run an errand for our Arusi.. Reverend fathers and sisters are OSU Mary/Jesu Christi.....People that committed NSO-ALA.
Ndi Aru are banished and excommunicated from the village....Ndi ochu....Ndi melu ochu like igbu mmadu are excommunicated from the village kpatakpata..
How can you now bring someone who committed NSO-ALA to be working in the sacred shrine? Sometimes forget about asking elders question and think with your brain....
Misconception really dealt with us.....Those people you called OSU have anyone died from marrying them? Have anyone run into misfortunes for marrying them? Majority of the people we call OSU are even the richest and well doing among us...
OSU aburo outcast...OSU Arusi aburo outcast.

If OSU Arusi is outcast why is OSU-JI a genius in yam farming...why is Osu-Agwu a genius in solving people's problem through the help of Agwu-Nsi