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Tribute To Yoruba - In Pictures by MetaPhysical: 6:21pm On Feb 26, 2017
The Yoruba people are an ethnic group of West Africa. The Yoruba constitute close to 40 million people in total, found predominantly in Nigeria, where they make up around 21% of its population or roughly 35 million in 2012, making them one of the largest ethnic groups of Sub-Saharan Africa.

The majority of the Yoruba speak the Yoruba language.While the majority of the Yoruba live in western Nigeria, there are also substantial indigenous Yoruba communities in the Republic of Benin and Togo. Comparatively numerous Yoruba diaspora communities are found in the United States and the United Kingdom.

One hundred years ago a German researcher followed the trail of Atlantean Africa. Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and explorer, a specialist in Yoruba culture, has written a major and rare book, "Atlantis, mythology and culture", from which are taken the following quotations:

In every life there is that moment when one finds his sacred thread. For Frobenius, this was the meeting with a "Black from West Coast of Africa" who told him: "In my country, every man is, by seniority, a large stone." Suddenly converted, Frobenius grabbed his sacred thread that guided him through the ancient Yoruba culture. He collected facts, festivals and fairies. "It did not take me less than nine to ten years to fully understand this sentence", he confessed.

Every man carries within him, unconsciously, the memory of ancient civilizations. Similarly, the rock is a fragment of the memory of the world." Carl Gustav Jung


Leo Frobenius made an astonishing parallel between the Etruscans and the Yorubas. For him, Etruria and Yoruba country were two provinces of a very old "Atlantic civilization" he identifies with Plato's Atlantis. The Etruscans, a little known people, direct descendant of Megalithics and Atlanteans, were installed in northern Italy before Romans. The Yoruba country, the ancient gold coast, corresponds to the current Nigeria, plus Benin, and Togo.

Frobenius stresses that the two countries, though far apart, share "this fundamental idea of the lightning spurting from the sixteen regions of the sky." He mentions this "lightning conception that the Etruscans transmitted to the Romans." The sixteen great gods whose homes are in the sixteen divisions of the sky,are common to Etruscans and Yorubas. That is why the cities were divided in sixteen districts reflecting the celestial homes and the personality of their sixteen divine occupants. "All this is the projection of sixteen archetypal figures: the sixteen figures of the Oracle of Fa, itself derived from the ancient geomancy." The Oracle of Fa does not refer to the music note but to the goddess Fa or Ifa, one of the sixteen Yoruba deities. Fa governs clairvoyance and divination through a ritual that is still practiced.

The other deities of Yorubas remind of the Greek, Etruscan and Aztec gods : Uranus is Obatalla, the god of heaven; Hephaestus is Ogun, god of the forge; Zeus is Shango, the god of thunder and lightning, with his unique destiny: Shango hanged himself. Come on! Aren't the Yoruba gods immortal?

The god Shango hanged himself, then he left this reality level to live his death, as the good spirit he was. Where is the problem? The gods are men like us. Remember that the Yoruba country knows the loas sorcerers and zombies: voodoo and macumba come from there.

Here everyone is descended from one of the sixteen deities, according to his date of birth. All his life, he will worship his tutelary deity. But there is neither caste nor clan system, as the different children in a family may be descended from different deities. In this specific case, tradition is not a social obstacle, but an asset. Anyone can enrich his family with his own inner wealth, from his own tradition.

It is the central orixá of the Brazilian Candomblé, which is found in voodoo under the name of Papa Legba or Exou, Esou, Exu, Bara, Legba, Elegbara, Eleggoua, Alouvaiá, Bombo, Njila, Pambou, Njila. It is found in Benin and in the ancient kingdom of Dahomey in Ondo, Ilesa, Ijebu, Abeokuta, Ekiti, Lagos.The Etruscans, for the little we know, followed a similar religion. Should we see here a true astrological religion based on sixteen signs instead of twelve? In any case, it is certainly a memory of Atlantis, homeland of the Etruscans and the Yorubas.

Re: Tribute To Yoruba - In Pictures by MetaPhysical: 6:43pm On Feb 26, 2017
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Re: Tribute To Yoruba - In Pictures by wtfCode: 7:21pm On Feb 26, 2017
Remember that the Yoruba country knows the loas sorcerers and zombies: voodoo and macumba come from there.
No wonder the most of their populace behave like zombies shocked
Re: Tribute To Yoruba - In Pictures by absoluteSuccess: 8:23pm On Feb 26, 2017
Wow!!!

Metaphisycal, you have the key to the city.

May the ancestors continue to bless you.

Keep the flame of wisdom alive.

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Re: Tribute To Yoruba - In Pictures by MrMaestro: 11:13pm On Feb 26, 2017
The early explorers to Nigeria had interesting perspectives on the cultural manifestations they observed. Below is a depiction of a Yoruba masquerade, "The Masked Mummers of Yoruba" from Blackie (1912) based on the early 19th Century descriptions of Clapperton and Lander.


Re: Tribute To Yoruba - In Pictures by MetaPhysical: 2:54am On Feb 27, 2017
absoluteSuccess:
Wow!!!

Metaphisycal, you have the key to the city.

May the ancestors continue to bless you.

Keep the flame of wisdom alive.

Thank you my brother, much blessings back at you.
Edumare a gbe wa!
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Re: Tribute To Yoruba - In Pictures by 419forlife: 4:26am On Feb 27, 2017
Gob damn nice king shoots shocked
Re: Tribute To Yoruba - In Pictures by absoluteSuccess: 7:44am On Feb 27, 2017
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Thank you my brother, much blessings back at you.
Edumare a gbe wa!

It takes us to showcase the beauty of our history and culture to the rest of the world, in excellency of glory.

We are a peculiar people, and heaven bear us witness.

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