JideAmuGiaka:
Of all the gifts, it is this useless Oduduwa head you gave the man, is the U.S ambassador a babalawo.

JideAmuGiaka:
Of all the gifts, it is this useless Oduduwa head you gave the man, is the U.S ambassador a babalawo.

JideAmuGiaka:
Of all the gifts, it is this useless Oduduwa head you gave the man, is the U.S ambassador a babalawo.

sarrki:

A delapidated building in urgent need of rehabilitation

JideAmuGiaka:
Of all the gifts, it is this useless Oduduwa head you gave the man, is the U.S ambassador a babalawo.

JideAmuGiaka:
Of all the gifts, it is this useless Oduduwa head you gave the man, is the U.S ambassador a babalawo.

JideAmuGiaka:
Of all the gifts, it is this useless Oduduwa head you gave the man, is the U.S ambassador a babalawo.

JideAmuGiaka:
Of all the gifts, it is this useless Oduduwa head you gave the man, is the U.S ambassador a babalawo.

JideAmuGiaka:
Of all the gifts, it is this useless Oduduwa head you gave the man, is the U.S ambassador a babalawo.

JideAmuGiaka:
Of all the gifts, it is this useless Oduduwa head you gave the man, is the U.S ambassador a babalawo.

BornStunner1:



SEE FATALITY

JideAmuGiaka:
Of all the gifts, it is this useless Oduduwa head you gave the man, is the U.S ambassador a babalawo.

JideAmuGiaka:
Of all the gifts, it is this useless Oduduwa head you gave the man, is the U.S ambassador a babalawo.

IamAtribalist

Joao de Barros in his accounts wrote of a possible pre-Christian influence in ancient Benin Kingdom:- “Among the many things which the king D. Jodo learnt from the ambassador of the king of Benin and also from Joao Afonso d Aveiro of what they had been told by the inhabitants of these regions was that a Kingdom twenty moons journey away from Benin Kingdom which according to their account and the short journeys they made would be about two hundred and fifty of our leagues (5.556km or 3.456 is a league) there lived the most powerful monarch of these parts who was called “Ogane”. Among the pagan chiefs of the territories of Benin, Ogane was held in as great veneration as is the supreme Pontif with us.

“In accordance with a very ancient custom, the King of Benin, on ascending the throne, sends ambassadors to Ogane with rich gifts to announce that by the decease of his predecessor, he has succeeded to the Kingdom of Benin and request confirmation.

To signify his assent, the Prince Ogane sends the King a staff and a head piece of shining brass fashioned like a Spanish helment in place of a crown and scepter. He also sends a cross, likewise of brass to be worn round the neck, a holy and religious emblem similar to that worn by the KNIGHTS of the order of Saint JOHN.
Without these emblems the people do not recognize the King as lawful ruler, nor can he call himself truly king.”

“All the time this ambassador is at the court of Ogane, he never sees the Prince, but only the curtains of silk behind which he sits, for he is regarded as sacred. When the ambassador is leaving, he is shown a foot below the curtains as a sign that the Prince is within and agrees to the matters that he has raised; this foot they reverence as thought it were a sacred relic”

“As a kind of reward for the hardships of such a journey, the ambassador receives a small CROSS, similar to that sent to the King, which is thrown around his neck to signify that he is free and exempt from all servitudes and privileged in his native country as the KNIGHTS are with us.

“In the year 1510 A.D Certain ambassadors of the king of Benin came to this kingdom, among whom was a man about seventy years of age who was wearing one of these CROSSES. I asked him the reason and he gave me an explanation similar to the above.

JideAmuGiaka:
Of all the gifts, it is this useless Oduduwa head you gave the man, is the U.S ambassador a babalawo.

Goroz:
He whom the gods want to destroy they first make mad.