The knife held by the Ikenga motif is not a privilege of the masculine, it mirrors a weapon the feminine already wields within. Every woman carries an innate edge: the instinct to preserve her essence and defend the life she bears or may bear. This sacred sharpness is an innate manifestation of cosmic intelligence, the primal will of the womb to protect, renew, and sustain creation itself. When she guards her peace and vitality, she honors that hidden blade, the divine power that keeps the rhythm of life intact.

In Igbo spirituality, the Ikenga is a powerful symbol of personal drive and masculine energy, but women traditionally do not possess it, not out of exclusion, but reverence. This teaching explores the deep ancestral understanding that women, through the sacred geometry and spiritual capacity of the uterus, are already born with the internal technology that the Ikenga was designed to replicate.