OBALOLA55:
HOW COME THIS AJA-OGBUGBU IS NOT PRACTICED IN YORUBA LAND

I THOUGHT YORUBAS AND ITSEKIRIANS ARE BRETHREN

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF AJA-OGBUGBU IN YORUBA LINGUA

fratermathy:



Oniovo, do you have the video? I find this cultural display deeply interesting.

I also wonder how they do it. There must be a scientific reason for this, or at least an explanation (logical or not). Even if its "supernatural", I'm curious about its mechanism.

OBALOLA55:
HOW COME THIS AJA-OGBUGBU IS NOT PRACTICED IN YORUBA LAND

I THOUGHT YORUBAS AND ITSEKIRIANS ARE BRETHREN

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF AJA-OGBUGBU IN YORUBA LINGUA

fratermathy:



Oniovo, do you have the video? I find this cultural display deeply interesting.

I also wonder how they do it. There must be a scientific reason for this, or at least an explanation (logical or not). Even if its "supernatural", I'm curious about its mechanism.

Efewestern:
Every ethnic group in the Delta have got some kind of unique and weird dance. Some months back, I made a thread about the power dance of the Urhobo people, today, we will be having a look at the fire dance of the Itsekiri people of Delta State.

The fire dance is a supernatural dance by the Ajagbugbu group that involves stepping and dancing on burning fire without getting burnt.

The dance is presented on special occasions, like the burial of an OLU or the crowning of a new king.

Watch the video below:
https://web.facebook.com/476829076028289/videos/1130790027399227

OBALOLA55:
HOW COME THIS AJA-OGBUGBU IS NOT PRACTICED IN YORUBA LAND

I THOUGHT YORUBAS AND ITSEKIRIANS ARE BRETHREN

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF AJA-OGBUGBU IN YORUBA LINGUA

fratermathy:



Oniovo, do you have the video? I find this cultural display deeply interesting.

I also wonder how they do it. There must be a scientific reason for this, or at least an explanation (logical or not). Even if its "supernatural", I'm curious about its mechanism.

Donpraiz:
At ds modern age people re stil serving idols.
Dt is y u n i keep fighting powers from ur father n mother house.May God have mercy on us.

Cerebell;DOfum:
Previously on Supernatural

klax:
Another tactics to brew up tribal attack. What brought Yoruba-Itsekiri into this now just tell me? The itsekiri are doing their traditional thing enjoying their festive but now you want to start Yoruba-itsekiri. Pls can't you people grow up? Same thinking 2010 same thinking 2015 and same thinking 2021 haba grow pls grow.
Who ask you history? Wetin be your own with Yoruba itsekiri? e concern you

byinks:
Passing thru or dancing thru fire is a Canaanite form of worship Ijebus are disobedient Israelites who mixed with Canaanites who built city of Jebus, later renamed Jerusalem by the tribe of Judah. Itsekiris arer cousins to the ijebus.

musicwriter:


Before I even answer your concern, let me say that nothing is supernatural. Everything can be explained either scientifically or metaphysically. This doesn't mean that everything is known but that everything could be explained with the said two field of knowledge.

Having said that, the reason they're able to dance on fire is because they're calling upon the spirit of their ancestors and have assumed that spirit which they believe has dominion over fire. And since they believe it in their heart then they become it. It's like going to the beach and riding a wave effortlessly using the energy generated by the wave.

What you see there is that they get possessed by (in a good way) that fire dance spirit/God that has been in their culture for thousands of years if not millions of years. They draw enormous amount of power from it because they trust it and when you have that level of trust on ANYTHING miracle happens. After the dance and when they come back to their normal selves, they'll be astonished how they were able to dance on that fire.

The opposite of that is that when we call upon Jesus or Muhammad as Africans, we're calling upon and being possessed by spirits and Gods that conquered and enslaved our ancestors. Unfortunately, the same thing is true with the foreign language and education which are also not ours. But this's the part nobody talks about due to naive defense of useless ego.

ThickSharon123:


They believe fire can't hurt them, and so it won't. It's imagination.

Ovis1302:

So if I fired up my imagination that the fire won't hurt me and I joined them to do the fire dance, I won't be rushed to Central Hospital Warri?

Ovis1302:

Can Metaphysical feats be analyzed with our Physical Laws?

YungMillionaire:


Don't mind him he is one of those deluded Igbos. I am Itsekiri and we don't even mind people talking about our strong link with Yorubas because we are a Yoruba group. This guy just has a mischievous intent and everyone can see his shamelessness.

OBALOLA55:
HOW COME THIS AJA-OGBUGBU IS NOT PRACTICED IN YORUBA LAND

I THOUGHT YORUBAS AND ITSEKIRIANS ARE BRETHREN

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF AJA-OGBUGBU IN YORUBA LINGUA

musicwriter:


That's not so easy question to answer. But I'll begin by saying look at how I wrote METAphysics.

Yes, it could be possible but not with the type of scientific knowledge available today because what you asked would require a different type of scientific approach that would create scientists who think in a different way than today's scientists. That type of scientific knowledge must incorporate spirituality in scientific studies like the ancient people did.

Science as practiced today is only dealing with the FRONT END of reality. The BACK END of reality which is METAphysics is not understood by them and they have no idea what it is. But our African ancestors already majored in that area of knowledge.

Knowledge of that front end and back end would have given humanity a holistic understanding of the nature of reality. Unfortunately, when Europeans came conquering, they destroyed everything. That's why Albert Einstein said that "science without religion is lame." Of course, what he wanted to say is that science without SPIRITUALLY is lame but as I said previously white people don't understand spirituality, they replaced spirituality with religion so you can forgive Einstein.

The civilization ever to come close to merging physical science with METAphysics were the ancient Egyptians but the knowledge was lost since, again, white people destroyed that as well when they burnt ancient African libraries in Egypt, Ethiopia and Mali.

Note: White people are beginning to peep at what I just said but it's being dismissed as "unscientific" but they have no idea that their approach itself is what's unscientific. Science should be able to look at every evidence no matter where it would lead to. But, of course, the natural reason they do that is because Western civilization has reached the point where they consider themselves perfect but would end up being toppled like every other past fallen civilization before them.

Ovis1302:

Thanks .
So insightful.

OBALOLA55:
HOW COME THIS AJA-OGBUGBU IS NOT PRACTICED IN YORUBA LAND

I THOUGHT YORUBAS AND ITSEKIRIANS ARE BRETHREN

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF AJA-OGBUGBU IN YORUBA LINGUA