Luwabi 1:15-60

Luwabi was a homo who existed in the homo erectus era. He was very moral and wise. Here are some of his wise deeds?

15. Now also, in the lands of Odua, which was the land of Olorun, one named Luabi arose and taught the people great morals.
16. And he said, keep your virginity, for it is your dignity. And if you lose it before you are ripe, then shall your dignity be made imperfect.
17. Love the strangers and make friends with them. So shall your lands be a place of peace forever. And even nature shall respect your land and shall not destroy it.
18. Take the whip and beat your children when they err. But if you do not train them with whip, they shall beat you with whip themselves when they are old.
19. Respect the kings, for they are equal in power to the gods.
20. Do not despise the Ige, Dada, Ajayi and Ejire because they are the manifestations of the power of Olorun Olodumare.
21. Wisdom cannot be exhausted on earth that we have to go to Olorun to find it. For all
wisdom needed in the earth are already given to us.
22. Do not talk when you are eating, or else the spicy pepper shall get into your head and by so doing, you may die.
23. Wash your hands before you eat, for it matters so much. Or else you will pollute your ifun with dirtiness.
24. Take atare when you need to take it to cure your sicknesses, because Olodumare our god shall not send anjonu to you to heal your sicknesses.
25. Herbs are good for curing of sicknesses if you know the names they are called.
26. Those who exchange their gods for the gods of other lands are not wise. And those who impose their gods on others are not wise also.
27. Therefore, do not impose your gods on the homos of other lands and do not take their gods as your own gods. For their gods cannot understand your problems more than your own gods.
28. Listen to songs and dance always, for some diseases can be cured by both music and dances.
29. Do much exercise, for they have much profit in them.
30. Love yourself and love others. Do not love others and hate yourself; do not hate others and love yourself.
31. Honey, salt, water and atare are very good. Take them for your health.
32. Iboji of Iku is for the dead. Both young and old will die one day and continue to live in the Iboji. But when you die, do not go with strange gods who can lure you away.
33. But go with Iku, the god of death of your land. Do not eat Okun and do not eat Ekolo. Eat only what they eat in the Iboji.
34. Laugh always, for laughing is better than frowning all the time. For laughter and hope is the sustenance of the homos born into a bad kingdom.
35. When you cut a tree, it is only the wise ones who knows where it will fall.
36. He who shakes the kukute tree shakes himself. Therefore, make yourself unmovable like the kukute tree.
37. All fingers are not equal. So be content with what you have.
38. Go to Oya river and to Oba river. Enjoy the coolness of their breezes and be happy. For sadness does not heal you internally, but happiness can do so.
39. With wise words, the hearts of the homos shall submit. And in the abundance of wise words shall a homo rule over another.
40. Imo and Imole is the same. Imole is the Imo of God.
41. Do not die for your gods; let your gods die for you.
42. The gangan drum and the bara drum produce sounds which can heal the soul of a homo. When you hear there sound to sleep, you shall dream good dreams and get natural cure.
43. It is only a child who knows how to wash his hands properly that will eat with the elders.
44. Morality is natural, immorality is a habit developed.
45. But if you develop morality because you were first immoral, then it means you are coming back to your natural self.
46. If you say that Sango did not hang himself, you are a liar. But if you say that Sango dies for the sin of the world, you have spoken half-truth, because Sango, the son of the gods died by hanging indeed. And his worshippers said he is not dead, but he rose after three days like Gbonka, the son of a god also, who rose up from the dead three days after.
47. Do not argue with the worshippers of Sango. If they say that Sango did not hang himself, then let them believe it, because they claim to experience his powers and miracles daily.
48. Every land has its own gods of iron and thunders. Only a fool will leave his own gods to worship other gods. But the wise will rather be a god upon the fools rather than worshipping the gods who are dead.
49. If you are an Olukotan, you shall never die forever upon the earth, but if you are an olukatan, you can never live forever upon the earth.
50. Itan kantankantan will become itan ti a kin ka tan to the homos of the future.
51. Keep wisdom in your left hand, so that you won’t eat with it and lose it.
52. You don’t send your own children on errands to return in the midnight.
53. You don’t chase your own child away for the tigers to eat.
54. Think before you act, so that you don’t end up putting a finger of regret in your mouth.
55. Even when we fight one another, it should not be a fight to death. So wish no one death to prove that you are powerful.
56. Sweetness is the end product of a bitterleaf. Enjoyment is the end product of death.
57. It is better to die on one’s bed than to die in the farm and be eaten up by the birds of prey.
58. One who seeks for eyin in the rock shall not look at the mouth of the axe.
59. The righteous people shall gain the whole world. It is a matter of time, the righteous shall be distinguished from the hypocrites.
60. If you adhere to the things I teach. You are the children of Luwabi, the god of proverbs.

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CHAPTER TWO
1. Respect your parents who give birth to you. And if you love them when they are young and beautiful, do not call them witches or wizards when they become old and ugly.
2. If you do not take care of your old ones, they shall wander away. And the ignorant ones who see them on the streets shall stone them to death, calling them witches.
3. If you take care of your parents when they are old, they shall sit together with your children and your neighbours' children to tell them tales of the past under the moonlight. And everyone will sleep happily at night.
4. If you leave your herbs alone and make no findings about them, others shall come to your land and make findings about your herbs and process them and sell them to you again.
5. If you neglect you wine and do not tap them, others shall come to your land to tap your wine and process them and sell them to you in another form.
6. If you leave your lands alone and do not dig them to find treasures under them, others shall come to your land and dig them up to obtain what is beneath them and process them and sell them to you in another form.
7. If you leave the words of the wise ones of your land alone and do not know them by heart, others shall come to learn those words and shall change their forms and return to you with the words in another form. And they shall enslave your minds with the words and take your land.
8. If you are not in unity with one another, others shall come in unity and take your land from you, settling in them and enslaving you.
9. If you hate your own land, other lands shall also hate you, but if you love your own land, other lands shall also love you.
10. If you love yourself, others shall love you also, but if you hate yourself, others shall hate you also.
11. Don’t spend the whole day thinking about the past errors which cannot be corrected, but spend the your day and night planning a better future for yourself.
12. When you are married, don’t neglect your parents.
13. When you are barren for many years, look for a child who has no parent and take care of him or her. Then shall you feel the joy of a father or a mother.
14. The shape of your life is determined by the shape of your head.
15. Sleep well when you are still a little child, because in your youth you need little sleep and more action. And in your old age you need more sleep and little action, because life is like the movement of an earthworm in shape.
16. It is like the ripples of the sea in nature.
17. Share good news with the old and keep bad news away. Let bad news be shared to them only by the wise ones who knows how to share it with wisdom.
18. He who holds life too serious than it should be is not a sincere person. But he who makes life simple is a sincere person.
19. Do not play with the fire, for the danger of it is great. Do not make fire near your children, for if you make fire and your child touches it, you who make the fire are to blame for it.
20. If you start a fire in the farm, put it off when you are leaving. For anyone who makes fire and leaves it burning when he won’t be present around that fire is not wise at all. For a little fire can set a whole nation ablaze.
21. Whatever a homo begins, hundreds and thousands and millions shall build on it until it is made very great. Therefore I say, if you want good for your land, begin it and your land shall be good in the future.
22. But if you want evil for your land, do evil, then the whole land shall become evil and corrupt in the future.
23. For a disease not treated shall spread all through the body. And the accumulation of good thinking shall bring about great change.
24. Do not agree easily until you see reasons why you should agree.
25. The son of Luwabi will not kill another homo, even when an anjonu has come to say, go and kill. The son of Luwabi is born with iwa. He only exhibits all his good iwa by his deeds.
26. Palmwine is good when you take it moderately. It becomes bad when you take it excessively.
27. If you live your life regretting because of the past things you have done, you will not enjoy your future. So, live your life with no regret of the past. For the past is gone and the future is what matters.
28. Do not hurt the birds and all domestic animals. But play with them and they shall also help you in ways which you may not know of.
29. Anything you fear is a witch or a wizard, and anything that fears you is a coward. If there is no fear, there is no witch or coward.
30. Do not make yourself a witch over others and do not make yourself a coward to others.
31. Not all night is meant for sleeping. Some nights are meant for deep thinking.
32. Morality makes a nation, but terrorism tears it apart.
33. The way you see life is not the way your blood brother sees it. Live your life the way you see it, but let morality be in all the things you do.
34. Do not join the gods to war against other gods. Let all children of Luwabi do what is good, adding no deceit to it.
35. In this shall the children of Luwabi be well known all over the world as the children of morality and peace.

CHAPTER THREE
1. Habits do not come from Orun; they are made.
2. Habits can ruin, habits can build.
3. Good habits are hard to form but easy to destroy, but bad habits are easy to form and hard to destroy.
4. Therefore when you want to form a habit, sit carefully to consider it before you start to give life to it.
5. For the habits of Eshu are not the habits of the children of Luwabi.
6. Good habits are few but bad habits are many.
7. And both good and bad habits can never be covered.
8. Uphold your culture and do not hate it.
9. Keep the names of your culture, for if you do not keep them, they shall disappear with time.
10. Develop the ability in you, or else they shall die with you.
11. Be wise as the Ifa and be knowledgeable as the gods.
12. For wise people are like the Iroko tree. They are unmoved by the display of the wisdom of others.
13. But the foolish ones will be swept off their feet by the display of the craftiness of others.
14. If you leave the gift of nature in you undeveloped, another homo shall develop his own gift of nature upon yourself.
15. Do not carry the burden that is too much for you to carry. Make your burden lighter when you perceive that they are becoming too much.
16. A homo does not run away from his destiny. If he does, nothing else would work for him.
17. Your dreams are not only the products of your thoughts. They are also the communication of your guardian angels.
18. Don’t disown your child, even when they have damaged your name. But show love until that child is ashamed.
19. Do not marry wives to compete with your friends; for only the number of wives you can care for is enough. And if your farmlands are many, get more labourers to cultivate them rather than getting more wives.
20. Do not bite the fingers that feed you.
21. The wife you have at home is a hundred times better than a concubine you have outside; therefore spend more times with your wife, and you will have no time to spend with a concubine.
22. A good person can be bad and a bad person can be good. But the character of a bad person can change a good person to a bad person easily.
23. Give your money to those who need them; and keep them away from thieves.
24. Be careful when you dig the ground to keep your money. But do not be like the squirrel who keeps his treasure in a place where he shall no more remember that he has kept it.
25. The tears of a wife going to be with her husband is the tears of joy. It is the sweetest tears a homo can shed.
26. Train your child at young age; he will train himself when you are old.
27. Do not sell your girls to a man for marriage when they are not of age. For how shall a little girl know how to keep a family?
28. Let your life be transparent like the oje of a botuje leaf. Do not hide in the dark to do bad and come in the light to do good.
29. Do good anywhere you are, for goodness is God

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