MetaPhysical:
Sleeping with siblings is an abomination in any land, in any culture and in any religion. It is a matrimonial taboo. I doubt the story but if indeed this happened then it erodes all the super-natural myth erected around this king.

What I noticed and found profound is seeing the supposedly very private king exhibiting the privacy of his most private affairs to the outside world. He might as well break the "Oba no dey travel" taboo and do what other kings have been doing.....travel more outside his enclave and fraternize, the days of some emperor locked in hibernation behind the city wall is far gone!

MetaPhysical:


The Bini tradition is frozen in time. Such myths about Oba wives and many other ones they wave around might be relevant in 1500....in this 21st century it's nothing but a high-falluting!

KingOfAllIgbos:


Don't mind the fools who keep saying "Oba no dey travel"

He no dey travel, but he prefers incest

Binikingdowm:
and ooni prefers collecting brown envelope from every tom dick and harry while the alafin has PhD in bleaching

KingOfAllIgbos:


Cry more. It's amusing

Binikingdowm:
[s] it's funny how you Yoruba people are more concerned about what other ethnic group are doing while your own king is their disgracing Yoruba and calling Yoruba slaves and oduduwa Igbo.

We all know the ooni is a boy to tinubu and will do whatever tinubu tells him. Your tribe propaganda against Benin culture will never work[/s]

The longer and more emotional the response, the more the pain suffered - King of ALL Igbo's 1st Law of Savagery

I need one more bucket of fresh hot tears, you can do it

Firstorderwizard:
African tradition only revolves around sex,marriage, fetish ritual and violence.
I have a black skin but I'm not a black man and I can never be.

jerryunit48:
Am not a Bini guy but I heard that it is not easy to see the teeth of the wife of Oba that is why they cover mouth with a piece of white cloth , have they changed the tradition?

MetaPhysical:
Sleeping with siblings is an abomination in any land, in any culture and in any religion. It is a matrimonial taboo. I doubt the story but if indeed this happened then it erodes all the super-natural myth erected around this king.

What I noticed and found profound is seeing the supposedly very private king exhibiting the privacy of his most private affairs to the outside world. He might as well break the "Oba no dey travel" taboo and do what other kings have been doing.....travel more outside his enclave and fraternize, the days of some emperor locked in hibernation behind the city wall is far gone!

MetaPhysical:
Sleeping with siblings is an abomination in any land, in any culture and in any religion. It is a matrimonial taboo. I doubt the story but if indeed this happened then it erodes all the super-natural myth erected around this king.

What I noticed and found profound is seeing the supposedly very private king exhibiting the privacy of his most private affairs to the outside world. He might as well break the "Oba no dey travel" taboo and do what other kings have been doing.....travel more outside his enclave and fraternize, the days of some emperor locked in hibernation behind the city wall is far gone!

macof:


There was never any "ọba no dey travel" taboo

Ọbas of Bini have been traveling since Oranmiyan founded the dynasty

Obas just age on the throne till they can't travel.
And kings can marry anybody outside their own family in most cultures... Yoruba and Edo included

MetaPhysical:


Yoruba culture does not support marrying siblings. In fact the reason that Yoruba do "ida ana" (familiarity with inlaws) is partly to explore past connections, exchanges and make sure the new bethrothal is permissible and does not cross lines of what is disallowed.


On a non travelling Oba, some people in an online discussion had attempted to ascribe same f00lish attribute to Ooni as the Edos do to Omo n'Oba by suggesting that on the occassion he had to travel to to Lagos and mediate on the issue of dynasties and beaded crowns he was actually in contravention of tradition and culture and an Ooni must not travel. That was bullchyte and I shut it down with a good measure bullchyte in their face.

In that event it was reported that all Obas in Yorubaland vacated palace and would not return to throne until Ooni was safely back on his throne. There are hundreds of Obas that must have done that simple task. How did they know what to do when they heard of their Ooni taking a trip? Its because the culture had a process for such traditional rites. So it must be the practice otherwise Obas would not have known what is required of the occassion.

Glorification of the Benin stool has taken many dimensions echoed up and down the soclai strata from most educated Edo to the most ignorant urchin and they all seem to agree that their Oba does not travel, traditionally. So we have on records Oba of Benin travelling to meet and participate in a congregation of Yoruba Obas.

An Oba will break tradition for a higher hierarchy. An Oba whose tradition forbids travel except to attend meeting with Ooni suggests he is submitting to a hierarchy greater than his tradition. This should be accepted, if nothing else to prove, as acknowledgement of the Supremacy of Ooni over Omo n'Oba.

macof:

I have long stopped arguing on this forum.
It is a culture that allows you marry your brother's or father's widow that cannot allow a king marry two sisters? A king who can "gbẹsẹ lè" (claim) any woman? Lmao OK

Ọọ̀ni traditionally/historically does not travel. First time it happened was at duress from the British administration. And that prompted other Obas to leave their palaces
Oba of Bini on the other hand have always been traveling