Ask me this question some few years ago, I mean before the advent of Proudly Yorùbá I would probably say a filthy, ugly, cannibalistic old man who dined with Esu (Esu here would have meant Satan).
I did my findings and this is what I found…
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Did you know that the original word for wife in the Oodua (Yoruba) language is AYA and not IYAWO? The latter is quite commonly used nowadays than the former. I would take you through how Iyawo came about; Wura who was in the phase of choosing a spouse was faced with the task of selecting the most suitable one for herself, she was the first child and the daughter of the King of Iwo (An Oodua [Yoruba] town). Oduduwa (Yoruba) ...
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Wow !!Beautiful piece. Orunmila is better than all the jesus, Mohammed, Buddha etc Combined in this world
Ifa is word of the Creator mystical in nature. The Europeans and the Americans understood it scientifically better than the Yoruba and other Africans. In Hebrew it called Epha while Arabic called Hati, in Europe its called Geomancy. All these are scientifically symbolise binary numbers. It has 256 chapters of mythology patterns with 800 verses per chapter. Hope our Yoruba people would allowed spiritual knowledge to grow beyond bastardize of an ancient culture and spirituality.
hebrews had divination before their land was ravished by Babylon but don’t get it twisted, Ifa got nothing to do with hebrews .. It’s Urhobo that call it epha not hebrews
This is beauttiful, makes super sense
Refreshing to read …. It’s sad that we demonize our gods for a God used to dehumanize us…. Our gods are our heritage and part of who we are…. We are discarding and destroying our historical treasures …… Because of the fear propagated by the slave masters,…. Our Gods were called barbaric and evil but none of them ever killed of humanity like God did in the bible” …. Our Gods were about spirituality and being one with nature not about worship me or burn in hell like the God they enslaved us with…..