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LuveU2:
Most of our fears are not real? Can you hear yourself

LOL

Most of our fear is not real, whatever.

Just assume that I enjoy "poetic license".

Anabel:
Better to wait than to rush in and rush out

Most of our fears are not real.

Plants and herbs can be quintessential in our diet but a lot of people don't know this. The less spices we eat, the more we are exposed to killer diseases.

It's good to consider herbs and spices with medicinal benefits and find ways to incorporate such to our culinary as home makers, ladies especially.

Some people's prepared their funeral on their dining table going by the junk foods they eat time to time, such that vital organs died looking good.

Things that get into our organs ought to be life foods, such that can grow if planted, with medicinal benefits and fine mineral deposits in measures that the body needs.

Some folks delight in eating garlic and ginger raw. That's so nice not minding the discomforts. These spices are so common that you have no excuse not eating them in your food.

Doing that is calculative, you are sending sicknesses away from your dwelling place and catering for good bacteria that your system needs for good health.

Most sicknesses comes with bad bacteria attack on some of our vital organs and disrupt their day to day functions and we fall sick. But loads of antioxidants will keep them at bay.

Most of all eat right, eat fruits and vegetables, spice your dishes and eat less of process foods. I do eat outside as a single but its always amala and ewedu.

Ewedu is rich in supernutrients such as salviat, which is good for total wellness. Let's be conscious of what we eat to lead a healthy life, because food matters.

Beautiful post, the title though.

I have learnt a good stuff here and equally confirmed some of my old hypothesis to be true.

Ofun is Yoruba word for 'white man' in antiquity, Odu Ofun is reminiscent of that antiquity.

Yevo is Oyinbo to the Fon, and the word means 'different shade'. Yoruba often convert vo to bo, such that Yevo becomes Oyinbo.

Shade is a function of climatic conditions and biotic adaptation.

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Oworo, as the name implies has feedbacks in Yoruba land. We have Oworonsoki at the end of Lagos mainland by the tip of the lagoon.

We also have Iworo Ajido somewhere at Badagry. A short form of it is Iwo, of which is said 'Iwo Olodo Oba'.

Oluwo is the Royal father of Iwo, but a traditional custom to the Oworo. The term Oworo itself could mean overseer.

Literally, oworo means 'one who cater for multitudes', as in, 'a-wo-ero', aworo, oworo, crowds caregiver.

Oba is identical with Aba, it might have derived from Shaaba. Saaba is one that people run to for safety. Compare oworo to Saba.

I know that the Nupe connection is hinged upon Saba, ultimately from Sabako. Saba is Igunnu, and Igunnu is Egun.

Igunnuko is Sabako, Egun is Saba. Saba in Yoruba is 'frequently'. But saba is put more aptly as sadi, protector.

The oworo probably lost an idea that connect Aba to Shaaba at the passage of time.


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Bia is intelligible in Yoruba for 'come', just as it is in Igbo. The Igbo might say 'bia eba 'n'.

If I tell you 'bia ha in' (bi wa iha ihin, speed down here), you may not quickly understood it's typical Yoruba.

This is because you are set to a default, sare wa mbi. But a diligent Yoruba person will know biwa (ha)in means come this side.

Op, some of our dialects will not shed off the alternatives. Thus, bia is bi wa.

A variant of this for 'go away' is 'bila' or, 'e bila'. On a good day, I still felt a tint of Yoruba in Igbo for come.

bia eba in, 'biwa eba yi' come to this side so to say. Just as eba looks like Iha, both meaning side in Yoruba, languages looked alike.

But the similarity doesn't end there, the more you probe, the more you know.

I've come to appreciate my weakness as part of the learning curve in the whole picture of things.

sometimes, I can be accurate and most of the time, I'm completely without pint of an idea on a Yoruba topics.

One day, I was discussing Yoruba place name with a friend whom I told I can handle any Yoruba place names and their meaning.

The guy told me, you are dealing with familiar terms, believe it, some terms are beyond your knowledge.

let me demonstrate what I'm talking about: can you tell me the meaning of my place name, Oro oruwo?

Hm, I was dumbfounded. I tried to crack my brain, and the guy saw my weakness and said 'hm, Yoruba scholar'.

then he said let me help. you see, the meaning of the term oro oruwo is, 'the midnight agreement is sealed.'

he told me there was to be a pact, and the elders were to give their response by afternoon of the midnight discourse.

so in the morrow, the elders gave their word, that theyve accepted the midnight term and conditions.

So the place became so called. I was dazed at that, then I said this goes a long way to show that akii siwaju eleede peede.

one other place name with baffling outlook to me is edun-abon, you start to wonder, is abon a Yoruba word?

What we know yet is tip of the tip of an iceberg.

Oh that's so beautiful,

I love progress, we are old and wise enough not to let stupid clutters block the study.

Albeit, I can't do much as required. I'm of southern Yoruba. Im just learning about the ogori magogo.

I don't have the resources.

this woman is something else.

Alright,
what happens when I agree with your theory or conclusion sir?

MetaPhysical:
Let us not worry about Yoruba yet, let us put focus on our progenitors. I list them as follows:

Luwa/Lua
Lamurudu
Oduduwa

In Yoruba consciousness the chain of descent is attributed up to LUWA/LUA. There is no account anywhere that he ever set foot in Yorubaland, but we know his Ark settled around river Euphrates.

Lamurudu, who was also called Marduk and sometimes addressed as Sargon, had several children, two of them Oduduwa and Inanna (Yam) will be the connecting dots between Nineve and Ile Ife.

Oduduwa and Yam led allied tribes out of Afroasia into Yorubaland.

Yam also was addressed as Sargon and was deified. The totem authority of the Sargons is the embodiment of the cult Asherat, which Yoruba call Ashe.

I am not sure but I suspect that the Sargon authority and power is behind the 7 State dynasties established by Oduduwa, in addition to the Empires of Ife and Oyo.

Yam Sargon, called Iyami Osoronga, owned the Imperial authority or "the Sovereign Ashe".

I need to look deeper into whether the water deities Yemoja, Oya, Osun....all have roots in her.

So to loop back to your point, unless we can account for Luwa and Lamurudu in Yorubaland, Im going to say no....Yoruba beginnings started in Afroasia.

If you say no, my brother then we miss an avenue for unraveling the mystery.

There is no problem with being right or wrong, but you must try present a native alternative to the name Lamurudu.

What traditional idea is associated to the name just like LUWA is to Noah, I.e. 'great conduct.'

Mastermind!!!!
Do you mean Yoruba land is what we have as analogy to Afro-Asia,
as in, the bible stories happened in Yorubaland and was exported abroad?

Mastermind!!!!
Do you mean Yoruba land is what we have as analogy to Afro-Asia,
as in, the bible story happened in Yorubaland and was exported abroad?

thanks so much for this conclusion.

I think Lamurudu is the climax of history. We seems to always have to invoke him.

Although I still wonder how a foreigner tell a man history, and he takes it as free and easy as it comes.

Iroyin okere, bi ko l'ekan, a dikan.

It simply means 'intellectual conquest', Did Yoruba always have lamurudu? Lazy folks won't care.

And Yoruba knew long ago that England/Hausa Fulani cooperation always means suspicion to them.

Imaging when people you suspects became your historians.

The one whose history is helped to be told is dumb. They don't care. So the tree is a foreign tree, planted by Sultan Bello,

And watered by Revd Samuel Johnson in making Nimrod, 'Lamurudu'.

He alluded to Yoruba tradition. That's the source, no more no less.

Did Johnson narrated a typical Yoruba story to establish his claims? No, but he did a retelling of Islamic version of the story of Abraham.

Like Samuel Johnson in the book of Mormons, he fused two cultures together.

Johnson superimposed Islamic tradition about the family of Abraham as missing link, to tie Yoruba to Nimrod.

Meccans banished Oduduwa for Nimrod and Abraham crises in post Islamic phase.

Who review Johnson's work in Yoruba land, was he just right and to be trusted? Why did Johnson failed to share Yoruba Abraham tale instead?

I thought that's what the man who rewrote Genesis has found, the missing link between Oduduwa and Nimrod.

But he only made infusions of Yoruba cosmology to reading Genesis.

That's medley.

But its not balanced, it becomes Nimrod biased when Nimrod was exonerated,

and Hebrew put in their place as described. Why can't Nimrod write his own dependable account?

That simply means the authority has an ax to grind. You can't use Bible to justify Nimrod, use other Nimrod favorable landmark.

Except Nimrod has no landmark save bible mentioning. So if Genesis is unstable, the story of Nimrod is unstable.

Is Nimrod Ashurbanipal or Gilgamesh? Who is he outside the scriptures?

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Hmn,
its better to be alive.

itstpia8:
stop mentioning my name and more importantly, stop telling lies about me.

Read the post.

bigfrancis21:


This is too bad.

Lol, how else do you instruct someone that will haul vitriolics at whoever engage in spamming of this nature except herself?

Shes untouchable yes, but this is a new year and its just too early for a continuation of a worthless boring games of past years.

I dont know an enlightened soul so distracted, making 'thoughtfully~thoughtless' threads, like topic but no thought, a hallmark.

OP is anticlimax, she makes a solid point at the begining of a paragraph and ruin it at the end with a bulldozer~clause.

This is not good, its a 'haunted~hunter' syndrome. Please Op, spread warmth this year, strive to be happy, use smile emoticon freely.

Joy is an aura, if its in you, it will spill on your mood. You can't restrain joy, except you hunts for other's joy, then you can.

This is nairaland. com and not prisonyard. com, hope it will be different this year with cocky folks and warder-nairalanders.

My submission.

MorrowCaligari:
alobam, shuuut the fvck up. read between the lines, didnt say you were the same person, clearly hes smarter than you. thats not a compliment.

It's ogbeni,

I be Omo Ogun.

MorrowCaligari:
lol! so youve noticed gat.iano and opc are the same person? same thing i concluded when one of them was busy trying to insult me and the other trying to play gandhi. besides, opc/gat is sort of my nemesis, check my previous posts. seems i didnt almost confuse you, i did confuse you. though i admit having multiple accounts, i deactivate before moving to another, e.g parrishnorwood voslergrimsbane valhalladrabek (notice the trend?) etc and tpia is a different person entirely, all his accounts have similar names though lie tpiar. and btw, i did respect radoillo until i discovered hes a colossal arsehole.

eh,

who is safe?

I don't think opcnairaland is the same as gati.ano.

Gati.ano is another impossible nairalander.

each of us have one issue or the other, only few teach and represent what the platform is made for,

hence I respects radoillo and co, one of the most clean guys around.

MorrowCaligari:
2prexios Radoillo

LOL,
You duplicated me with my boss.
Megida, you are an impossible guy.

Radoillo:
Happy new year, Ladi, word de-encryptor extraordinaire.

Like seriously?

We have a decoder of the year be that oooooo.

I'm really excited that you appreciate something like that, LOL. I swear we are belittling our languages.

In time, the Igbo decryptor will come here too. We just have to move up to the codes in our languages, they will never come down to us.

I wish we can all learn the tricks, it's a great subject, waiting to be explored.

Hope to learn wonderful world that's going to unfold from you, my boss and all, this year. Igbo never disappoints.

I'm sending my heartfelt greetings to the most erudite bigfrancis, by the grace of God.

MorrowCaligari:
Radoillo in disguise.

You don't know radoillo, he is above such petty affairs.

I think you create duplicate people with ease, opcnairaland, gataino etc.

You almost confused me once. Until you created duplicate opc / tpa.

happy new year radoillo, the great.

tpiah2:

This is a very new year and you've already started the mood swing debacles.

Please if you are not a spamware robot, try grow up a bit, the calendar year has changed, please.

Add a cubit to your range this year. Try and change, you are a bit older now.

Happy new year if it means anything to you.

FisifunKododada:
A kin fi oju o loju shewo ka jare - one does not succeed by handing over his affairs to someone else.

This particularly is for every entrepreneur.

when you are doing fine somewhere, you want to diversify and employ people in a new line of business.

if you will not be there at the initial stage of the business, why venture into it relying on employees?

akii foju oloju sowo kajere.

Good to know that, India and spices. •I'm talking about the word 'clove'.

•Shrugs•

•You don't wanna know what bipolar threads that may spawn from that.

op, pan the story, what you think was the ulterior mission of the visit?

•edited.

it's good to show love to weaker vessels,

mummy squirrel will be weeping somewhere now.

my child o, oh my child o


heh, uh, hehe.


I feel for the mama, nine months pregnancy and the baby just lost.

I wish you reconcile the squirrel with his mother.

God dey.

geosegun:
Ise n ba la'ye is equivalent to Ise ti mo ba laye - Which literally translate to Tradition/Practices/deeds/customs that I met on ground[size=8pt][/size] or inherited. please let us try to understand he yoruba words and diction properly so as not to complicate our histories.

quote me anywhere

Your version is false etymology,

it's not isenbaye,

it is isembaye.

http://www.google.com.ng/search?q=isembaye&client=ms-opera-mini-android&channel=new&gws_rd=cr&ei=Vh2IVs2UFobjUfGmmfAF

If you think it's not complicated, then interpret this with utmost simplicity:

kunmi,

it is the name of Yoruba generalissimo, so you will be doing posterity a favour.

There is always a difference between 'àkotó' and 'sàá -koó-b'óotifé'.

I saw you viewing, geosegun.

GorkoSusaay:
Yes, it is not without fondation that the Sahel was considered as the gateway between North Africa and the Guinean regions.

Thanks buddy.
No ideas about the cloves though. Not proficient at all in Hausa. Is "Kanafuru", the name for cloves in Hausa?

Yes partner,

Hausa is one beautiful language.

MetaPhysical:
Ase Edumare.

I am at all times impressed and grateful for your presence here. I am also very appreciative for your generosity and kindness of heart to share and stimulate curiosity. I have learnt a lot following you, there can be no doubt, even your opponents gain knowlddge from their interaction with you.

You are a force, a rare one...

Ajanaku ti 'n mi 'gbo kijikiji
Okin l'olori eye igbe, Iwo lo ma je Olori fun egbe
Oju o ni ti o
Edumare ko mu ire ko e
Orunmila ko si ilekun idunnu fun e
Ela a mu ayo ati alafia to e.

l'agbara Baba Loke.

Mo ki o, Mo ki ra mi
Mo yo fun o, M o yo fun ra mi.
Eku Odun...Odun a yabo o!

Hm metaphysical,

Ese tee je ng r'eni foju jo.

Bi ako leni ni'gbimo,

baa ba r'ojo are,

ebi lafii nje.

Sebi awon ti won biwa ti kiwa nilo pelu owe igbaani, won ni,

Ore Otito sowon,

Looto ni, sasa eniyan niiba Otito sore nitoripe, won kiise olotito.

Ani, ota Otito niwon.

Nje aha le yi irufe awon eniyan wonyi lokan pada bi? Hm, afaimo.

Amo o, oun ti o gbodo je awa ore-otito l'ogun ni lati maa fi otito ye awon arabi. Akii p'ohun mo agogo l'enu, osewo.

Inu mi maa ndun si oye yin nigbagbogbo, nitori eyin je omoluabi eniyan.

Opo eniyan ni erongba won si nyipo bi obiripo l'ojukan.

Sugbon eyin je oloye eniyan, ti oye ero re si fidi mule sinsin.

Ki eledua tunbo maa bukun yin pelu ogbon, imo ati oye. Amin.

Mo yo fun o, moyo funra mi. Joy to you, joy to me.

Ogbon nii segun.

I did, you are blessed.

Great piece Gorkasossay.
One thing I've learned,
clove came from elsewhere to Hausa land, probably from England.
Thus, 'kanafuru' is hausanized word for clove, its amazing.

MetaPhysical:
Amen!

Hm,

For all those time you stand by me,

for all the truth that you made me see,

for all the joy you brought to my life,

I am blessed because I am

liked by you.

Wise man.

Thanks for the values you've brought to my life metaphysical.

You are special, great soul.

wa s'arole baba re o,

wa sa'role yeye re ye, k'ori je o pe l'aye

Omoluwabi, igba odun Odun kan.

bless you,
God has really been faithful.