ImperialYoruba:


I welcome you all to this thread. I opened this thread to talk about ties between Yoruba and Arab.

The Yoruba race is a mystery to many. It is open, yet veiled; it stands in public, yet detached; it shares many knowledge openly of itself, but many remains crypted; you can touch it, but it is metaphysical; from any angle you look, Yoruba remains an intrigue......"the more you look, the further into the beginning of mankind it reveals". Yoruba is an archive of stories of mankind and his beginnings. When you study Yoruba ancient customs, the legends of its epochs, their deeds, practices, traditions, philosophies, it all stands credibly in affirmation of the Old Testament, parts of New Testament and the Quran.

Yoruba should be viewed as a classic of creation, humanity and its living world.

In Yoruba, the purpose and meaning of life and the relationship of phenomenons are indeed explained far beyond the narrations recorded in Holy scriptures, in which by far many factuals are twisted, their concepts misunderstood by the scribes that made the recordings, the gaps in language interpretation left void, and as well becoming victim to succeeding political orders that introduced and ascribed new translations and arrangements into it. There is no Holy Scripture more authentic than the authenticity presented in Yoruba. Yoruba is Holy!

Wholy derived Holy.

In the true scope of mankind and relationship to divine nature and plant life, animal life, terrestrial and celestial....Yoruba is indeed Wholy!

In the quest to unravel, unveil, unearth, decrypt, demystify, decode and delimit Yoruba, the discussions we have had in here in Nairaland about Yoruba is nowhere near the volume of studies, research, inquiries, that are invested into the review of Yoruba as the model and prototype of primordial beginning. As we speak scholars in different fields of specialties are studying Yoruba knowledge of botanicals, of alchemy, of mathematical orders, of sound and harmony, of how physical energies relate, of arts and theatricals, of politics and state rule....and so on.


So on this forum we have discussed at length the perceived relationship between Yoruba and Egypt, Yoruba and Hebrew, Yoruba and Canaan, even went into what was called Yoruba borrowed words from Arabic.

Yoruba never borrowed words from anybody. Yoruba is the authentic language of ancient Hebrew and Aramea, which covered from Mesopotamia to Egypt inclusive, an area popularly called The Fertile Crescent. This is not saying Yoruba is the only language, no, that would be wrong...but Yoruba is the dominant and root of other languages in that place.

In Europe, German is the dominant and root of all their languages and even monarchies. Yet its babies, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese are global lingua franca, not German, the root. This is possible due to change in world order transmitted through political force and religious indoctrination.

Similarly, Yoruba, the parent and root of Semitic and Akkadian languages was displaced by its babies when new orders were introduced in political dominance and religious followings.

In fact not only was Yoruba language displaced, their civilization was also displaced. In the end Yoruba migrated out to find a new civilization in the place where it is currently known in Nigeria.

In this thread I will show that Arabs were successors of Yoruba in Arabia, and that though modern Arabic is a lingua franca across many nations, its root is semitic which derived from Yoruba.

2prexios:
Bros me, you are right o, but my tot is, it is an oriki of the same sort as 'Olokiki Oru'. It is the same idea that some brilliant ancient wordsmith made to 'midnite britening monarch'. Ancient Yoruba had scholars, maybe they were responsible for all Yoruba keywords. As to RU, riru ebo, I think it is the process of 'carrying' the ebo that is 'ru'. But when you say 'A bo RU bo Ye o! RU is identical with Ye. RU-BO is BO-RU, BO-YE. To bo Ye is to make sacrifice to Ye. Then study the response of the priest: A bo Ye bo Sise o.

MetaPhysical:


Exactly!
So then, what is ebo? Why do we give an offering at all?
You are creeping up on something..

MetaPhysical:
On the distinction between the Sun and the moon. Remember in the Yoruba cosmos, there is a principle of duality. Visualize Sun and Moon in terms of the duality present in the Land of the Living and Land of the Dead!

Sun is the principal deity of the living consciousness.
There are other stars in the day time but are not visible to the naked eye.

Moon is the principal deity of the living "unconsciousness".


The Sun guide our outward actions - will, and the Moon guide our inner feelings - mood.

2prexios:
Absolutely. The Yoruba are aware of the sun and if they choose to allude to it they can. They have a concept that says Irawo osan ti bagba l'eru, that is, there are symbolic afternoon stars. But as to Yoruba, they were saying 'beacon in the dark' or ObaYoRu, that is, ruler of midnight brightness. The light that rule other starlets, so to speak. We have a great name. I'm proud to be Yoruba.

2prexios:
Thanks baba. You know you subscribe to Noa, I subscribe to Abraham. The name Ebora is Yoruba version of Abram. It is only in Hebrew culture that you have ebo (sacrifice) central to a peoples existence, as you have it in Yoruba. Ebo is offer, Irubo or Ibo is offering, something (food) you give in anticipation of favour. When Abraham offered ebo, birds came to feed on it, likewise Yoruba will say 'bi a ko ba rigun, a ko gbodo sebo'. Ebo is what you give to the ancestors to receive their favour. If the ebo vanish-Ebora, then it is said 'Ebo fin, Ebo gba, ire wa de Orun'. Ebo is the ancient Yorubas way of saying their prayer. Riru Ebo Ni Gbeni.

MetaPhysical:


Lmao! Thats very true, my obsession with Noa is endless!

You have hit the nail on its head and truly this is the root of the name Yoruba. You provided the skeletal version, I will add meat to it.

Yoruba has no religion. Ifa and Orisa are our culture and sprout with our origin.

We believe in one Supreme Being from which emanated the divinity of deities.

There is creativity, that which the Supreme Being spoke or caused to BE. There is divinity, that which was before creations.

So in creation itself there were witnesses or aids or chaperons or ushers or handlers....whatever suits our imagination to call them.

The divine class is the target of EBO. So that when we offer EBO we do so in supplication for their aid and their guide and their love.

But why even make the offering at all? Their aid and guide and love for what...why?

Because Ori was created, and Ori exists in a malevolent realm and Ori is blind. In order for Ori to see he must have a guide, an aid and the love of benevolence.

So Ori needs a diviner and the diviner is who Yoruba call ARABA.

We have lost many ancient words with origin in the Yoruba language...fortunately ARABA is still with us.

Araba is the master diviner
Irubo is the act of offering
Atan or Aton is the altar dedicated for giving the offering
Ebo is the offering itself.

How did all these end in a people coming to be known and called YORUBA?

The livelihood of Yoruba in its birth, life and death stages is enshrined in IRUBO.

The name AKU stuck on us because every motion and stillness of a Yoruba society is expressed as an AKU moment. We never miss an opportunity to AKU-something. AKU is our time clock for recognising state of motion and inertia. We therefore can call it our statement of ENERGY in the universal rule that energy is never created but changes state and form. ...whether it is kinetic or stationary.

Eku Irin, Eku Ijoko, Eku Ise, Eku Isimi....


Araba is not a borrowed word, it is authentic Yoruba word. Yoruba is derivative of Araba, meaning those who divine. So what is the etymology of ARABA and why is this important?

Repeatedly through the ages and from credible sources in oral and written history it is established that the foundation for the Kaaba was laid by Abraham. It was an altar for sacrificing to the divine. This was before Judaism, which came when Children of Israel were given faith through Moses, who was of the lineage of diviners. Moses' brother, Aaron, was the Chief Priest of the people and from him the articles of faith and the creed of altar worship and blood offering evolved to become a faith.

So Aaron was a Master Diviner, Abraham was a Master Diviner, Noah was a Master Diviner. In fact Noah was perharps the first instructed on animal and blood sacrifice on the altar.

These were all Semitic people, or so we believe. Master Diviner in their tongue is called Rabbi.

Master Diviner in Yoruba is called Araba.

Yoruba would have been in its original something close to Araba, such as Ya'Raba, the followers of Araba or the People of Divination.


Araba, Rabbi, Arab, Yoruba, are all the same lineage in form and meaning.

To truly drive this home and drop a bombshell that for a long time I have restrained myself from bringing up in here, I would like to take all the readers and observers in here back to the Yoruba oral roots.

First, I would like my Muslim and Christian readers to please have an open mind here. This is not a religious discussion, it is strictly an exploration into the culture and meaning of Yoruba and I am not able to fully unveil and demistify the knowledge without touching on subjects very dear and close to your faith and heart. This is not a disrespect or lack of belief, I believe in Oneness of God as taught and practiced in Yoruba philosophy and I also believe in the divinity of his Highness. So bear with me brothers and sisters.


The tradition that Yoruba came out of Midian is true, and it is a fact that the Kaaba in Mecca is a shrine that housed an altar which at one time before Judaism, Christianity and Islam, belonged to Yoruba diviners who housed their objects of deity worship in it and offered their sacrifices in it.

I asked if any Yoruba know where the Yoruba name Salome came from. No one has yet answered this question. How about Gebu, anyone know where it came from? Dawuda, Apata, Gebu, Salome...all authentic Yoruba names used culturally long before we knew Islam or Christianity...and yet are all present in the Bible. How is it possible?


Many people still believe that Arabic or Semitic sounding terms in Yoruba language are non-origin and were results of assimilation from our closeness and sharing border territory with Hausa. I started to expose authentic Yoruba names and terms that are cognate with Semitic tongue and for which no equivalence exist in Hausa language. I would like here now to stretch the expose further and let Yoruba take pride in their own origin and authenticity.

At a time when world order revolved around Babylonia and Egypt and Mesopotamia, Yoruba was a Supreme power and colonist in Afro Asia. Yoruba left and relocated after loosing power and influence and refusing to conform to a new world order that emerged behind it.

Ifa was a progeny of the Abrahamic faiths and the Yoruba cultural rituals is the legacy which founded Islamic prayers.


In Mecca, shortly before the beginning of the ordained Hajj they have a period they call Umrah. Loosely it is called lesser Hajj but technically it was meant as a cushion window between the material and the spiritual

MetaPhysical:
Here are some of the questions I raised in the lost post.

1. Hajj is a visitation or a journey tha takes one away from home for a period of time and is Arabic.

Ajo is a journey away from home for a period of time and is Yoruba.

2. Umrah is preparation or readiness for the spiritual Hajj ordained as a tenet in Islam.

Imura is the Yoruba word for preparation or readiness to enter or begin an act.

3. During Hajj pilgrims entering the sanctuary called Bayt Allah shave all body hair, men shave the head in addition, and wrap a white loin cloth around the body to perform circumambulation of the Kaaba.

Ifa initiates, in particular Obatala devotees, shave head and are wrapped in white loin clothe as they entrr into the shrine.

These rituals are corresponding. Is there a connection between Bayt Allah and Obatala?

4. Kaaba is derived from Kaab, meaning in Arabic, a position of grandeur, honor, prestige and glory.

Yoruba say Kaabiyesi to a King in grandeur, honor and prestige.


5. Muslims are enjoined to face qiblah when worshipping in prayer. In other words, face towards the Kaaba to worship Allah.

Ojubo in Yoruba is literally the center or facing of the altar where offering is sacrificed to the divinities.



6.

MetaPhysical:

6. At the entrance to the Kaaba is a black stone. It is a laterite rock.

Why is this stone at the entrance to Kaaba? Well, it is explained very well in Yoruba culture.

In Yoruba divinity Esu Elegbara is the gatekeeper and interlocutor between divinity and humanity. He is the one thst opens doors so Ori can access the portal, matrix, womb, and partake in divine blessings. Esu is the access to salvation.

Christians, take note...nobody goes through the divine father except through Esu!

Muslims, pay attention...El, Ala, are Yoruba denotes for Allah. El - God, Agbara - Greatness or Powerful. What do you say when you praise God as the Greatest or Most Powerful? You say Allahu Akbar!

Gebar, Gebur is Semitic for Greatness or Most Powerful.
This is where the name Gabrel came from. The Yoruba equivalent is Gebu.


Yoruba associate Esu with laterite rock...and in every shrine of Esu in Yorubaland there is a laterite black stone sitting in there....just as a black stone is mounted at the entrance to the Kaaba.


There is more to discuss on this topic of finding the meaning of Yoruba andthe root of its origin and it cannot all be covered in here. I do want to say to those who are ignorant of the knowledge that Yoruba is a progeny ofthe Abrahamic faiths. Muhammed (May Peace and Blessings of Allah be with him) did not approve of heretical practice but I doubt that he was against Ifa practice considering that all the rituals of Islamic worship took their roots in Ifa principles and the habits of worshipping divinities in and around Mecca.



Im stopping here for now.

MetaPhysical:
Before signing out I consider it very important that i again ask for forgiveness if i offend anyone's faith or belief system. Im only pointing to the root of my own culture and finding truth and pride in its greatness.

Noah, Abraham, Moses, Aaron, Jesus, Mohammed, were all Arabas and they divined.

Yoruba stuck on us because we are the true progeny of the line of Noah, a people of divination.

Arabs will supplicate to God and say Ya Rabb or Ya Rabbi. Well, Rabb or Rabbi is not one of the names or attributes of Allah. So who is Rabb?

Irubo - divine grace!


Edumare a fun wa se o, mo ki gbogbo wa ku odun!

ImperialYoruba:
We are going to do this thing in a way to make it engaging and fun. Im going to give you reasons to think and reflect and question what you knew before now about Yoruba and about Arab.


My first throw of the hand is about a name called GARUBA, or GARBA.

This is not a Yoruba name. It is not an Arabic name. This name is traditionally Hausa. The name predated Islam in Hausaland and belonged in the age when Hausas worshipped gods. Its an ancient Hausa name.

In this name you can see the R--B-- root.

Arabs call Wednesday ARBEA. Hausa call it LARBA. Here you can also see the R--B-- root.


Arabs call themselves ARAB and Hausas call them LARBAWA.

The R--B-- root occur here again.

Look at the similarity between Hausa words for LARBA and for the race of LARBAWA. The WA postfix is usually a possessive to indicate identity or connote a position.

Therefore it can be said that LARBAWA are people of LARBA, or Wednesday. Does this even make any sense? How can Arab be a people of Wednesday, a day of the week? What is the relationship? Thr name will explain itself, perharps.

So we ask Arab to tell us what the name ARAB mean. They say it is the name of their progenitor, Yarab ibn Qahtan. To distinguish themselves from others they adopted his name as their identity....became ARAB.

We ask Hausa what does LARBA mean in their language. They say it is adopted through Islam and Arabic language. In other words, they don't know what it is but whatever it is or means was donated through a foreign religion. Similarly, LARBAWA is denotion for a people known as ARABS.


So in essence we have Arabs that don't know what ARAB means beyond the fact it is name of an ancestor, and we have Hausas who use many of the R--B-- root consonants and just dismiss it as a foreign language brought through religion.


The connection between ARBAE and LARBA on one hand, and ARAB and LARBAWA is explained by YORUBA language and in a very strange but truthful history.

ImperialYoruba:
So I continue with the exercise of tying Yoruba and Arab together as one consistent link of culture separated by civilization, one the originator, the other a successor.

There are two prominent markers for Arabs.

1. The pre-Islamic deity worshipers in the North.

2- the post-Islamic dynasties in the South.


The pre-Islamic was identified as Koreish, also called Quraysh or Quraishi or Koreishi.

The second, that of dynasties is identified as Qahtan and tribes of Adramit (Hadramaut) and their settlement of Oman and the Hijaz. I will discuss these people when I get to talk about Ado and Adimu and all that.


For now lets inspect KOREISH.
This is a marker for those known as a people that greet or reverence or give obeisance to ORISHA.

Ki orisha
Ki oreish
K'oreish
Koreish

The Koreish occupied and controlled Mecca. The Koreish were descended from the lineage of Kinana, the same lineage which Sultan Bello and Ahmed Baba recorded when they described Yoruba as Banu Kanaana, the tribe of Nimrud.

Progenitor of Koreish was Adnan, son of Ad.


The Koreish controlled Mecca and vicinity, Kaaba included. Inside the Kaaba they had an altar and also carved images symbolizing their deities (Orishas). To these images they will prostrate and give greetings and offerings to the Orishas who they will beg to intercede on their behalf before Almighty God, the one and only. The images served only as physical object to focus the service and meaning for their faith in the unseen and invincible Orishas. These carved images were called SIGIDI. This is already explained by metaphysical in one of the quotes from him on this thread.

When Koreish prostrate he will touch his forehead to the ground and implore his Orisha to bring him divine goodies and give him salvation and success in his material posessions and in afterlife.

This act of prostration exist in Yoruba culture as well. The Yoruba always has a altar in his household or in a shrine. The first act of the day is Ibori. He prostrates infront of his sigidi and pray to Orisha for his survival overnight, for his daily bread, for his family and material posession and then for his return home in safety and wellness. This prostration Yoruba call ISOJUDE.


A new world order then arrived and disrupted the normal and mainstream culture in Mecca. That new order was Islam. It came through Prophet Muhammad (saws).

Muhammad himself was a son of Koreish. He grew up in the ways and traditions of those who prostrate to Orisha. His practice in divine glory, through greetings and offerings to deities served as a conduit through which his consciousness opened and able to receive holy inspirations when Angel Gabriel or Jubril appeared to him. He became an awakener for his own people and a leader throughout the whole world. May his soul rest in everlasting peace, Amin!

He set many pillars around the practice of the faith. One of them is daily prayer for his followers, Muslims.


A muslim will first perform ablution to enter a state of cleanliness.

He will then stand facing Kaaba, the sacred Temple.

Next he will begin with an intent to clear his mind.

He will then say Allahu Akbar.
Metaphysical explained this. He said this means God is the Greatest. He then gives its Yoruba cognate to be Olorun Al' Agbara.

He recites Fatiha (1st chapter of Quran) followed by another chapter and then bow over with hands placed on the knees. Muslims call this position Rukuuh.
Metaphysical explains its Yoruba cognate as Orukun, which in the language refers to knee.

The muslim will come out of the bow position and stand upright, then immediately go into prostration and touch his head to the ground. Muslims call this Sujuud.
Metaphysical explains this is Yoruba position for Isojude.

So it appears that certain aspects of muslim rites of prayer took origin from the practices in Kaaba where the Koreishi submit himself in prostration to greet and honor his Orisha. In fact the positions in those prayers coincide with similar positions observed by Yoruba when he goes before his altar to greet his Orisha. In addition, the muslim lexicon in the rite of prayer are cognates in Yoruba descriptive words for body parts employed or engaged in that respective action.

The Koreish were Aborisha like the Yorubas. They would enter Kaaba and give offerings on Wednesday. That's how IRUBO (ARBA) became a day of reckoning on their calendar just like it did for Yorubas Wednesday called IRUBO (Ojo Ru).


Yoruba and Koreish shared culture but were separated by civilizations.

When we talk of borrowed words, Arabic borrowed from Yoruba.
I will show this more clearly when we do name attributes. That would come after discussion on Ado.

ImperialYoruba:
Olu,
This screenshot and its explanation tells us what zabah is, i.e. sacrifice.

Sacrifice is generic. Irubo (offering) is unique.

I dont think they looked at it from spiritual angle, this is more like dictionary explanation.