Traditions are great, but we must distinguish between ripe traditions that are good to eat and rotten traditions that should be discarded.

In IFA Spirituality, there is a pataki (sacred oral story) that tells of parents who both grew up in the same farming village in the dawn of human existence. They both learned how to grow plentiful food. They grew so much food that they had more than they could eat for months before the food spoiled. Being that they lived at the dawn of human history before we learned from trial and error, the parents did not understand the concept of spoiled food. In their mind, all grown food was good. They then fed their children the spoiled food. Their children ended up very sick and nearly died if it wasn't for Obba and Oko coming to save them. Obba asked them why did they do it; the parents said that food is good. Oko explained that farming food is good, but all things tarnish. When food is tarnished, it can cause sickness if eaten.

In your quest to reclaim your ancestral spiritual powers, be careful to only pick the ripe harvest and avoid that which has become spoiled and rotten.

During the slave raids, many aspects of Yoruba culture became rotted food. Realizing this, the vast majority of Yoruba threw out all of their culture/food. They are now powerless and depend on the food of Eurasian culture. They (and most of the Black race) reduced themselves to being starving beggars at the table of Islam and Christianity.

What the Yoruba should have done is discard what was spoiled in their culture and preserved what was ripe and fresh and use that to grow new fields of indigenous Yoruba spirituality.



From "isese""

may the wisdom( ORUNMILA) bestowed upon us by olodumare in us be our watch guide...

Beautiful and sensitive.

Lagbaja

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