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Eshu, also known as Elegba or Legba, is a trickster god of the Yoruba people of Nigeria in West Africa. He is unpredictable, sly, and fond of pranks that can be cruel and disruptive. Eshu, who knows all the languages spoken on earth, serves as a messenger between the gods and people. He also carries up to heaven the sacrifices that people offer to the gods.

According to one story, Eshu became the messenger after playing a trick on the High God. He stole yams from the god's garden, used the god's slippers to make footprints there, and then suggested that the god had stolen the yams himself. Annoyed, the High God ordered Eshu to visit the sky every night and tell him what happened on earth during the day.

trickster mischievous figure appearing in various forms in the folktales and mythology of many different peoples

Eshu enjoys confusion. Many stories tell of tricks he plays that cause arguments between friends or between husbands and wives. In one myth he lured the sun and moon into changing places, which upset the cosmic order. As the god of change, chance, and uncertainty, Eshu is sometimes paired with Ifa, a god representing order. In one tale Eshu claimed that he would ruin Ifa, who laughingly replied, "If you transform yourself, I shall do the same, and if I die, you will die, for so it has been ordained in heaven." In this way,
This carved wood sculpture shows Eshu, the trickster god of the Yoruba people of Nigeria in West Africa.
This carved wood sculpture shows Eshu, the trickster god of the Yoruba people of Nigeria in West Africa.
order and disorder are forever paired, and neither can exist without the other.

LukasPodolski:
i don't understand if you're just being sarcastic or you're for real, I presumed you're not Yoruba because such stupid fallacious assertion shouldn't come from an Omoluabi.

albeit it's no news that our noisy brothers from the east used to make that false claims of owning 40% of Lagos and SW, we should let them die with the delusion, how you suddenly upheld that beats my imagination.

stop attracting insult to the great Yoruba group, that's an outright insult given this ownership claims are not true...

do you know what 40% of 100 means? that's more than 1/4, nearly half... tell me where they own in Ibadan, Akure, Sango ota, Ilorin e.t.c

let's get down to Lagos, using this same Logic, if Igbos really own 30-40% of Lagos, are you saying Dangote and his Hausa people also owns 25-30%, Foreigners and Minority tribes 20%
30+30+20=80% are you saying Yorubas who are the real owner only owns 20%

i find it very hard to take that as sarcasm, because the concluding part of your write up doesn't make it look like one.

please stop that, Ogun will not kee us ooo.

Amujale:
The Hebrew Language was officially created on October 13th 1881 and was credited to Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.

That is to say, prior to the above date, there wasn’t a written form of the language anywhere on the planet.

“Yiddish is a High German–derived language spoken by the Ashkenazi Jews.”

Now go and check the similarities between Germanic /Hebrew/Yiddish.

Let me assist you, follow the link below:

https://www.yivo.org/Yiddish

It’s important to note that the name ‘yidish’ in Yiddish means Jewish.

Now, moving on,

According to www.yivo.org

The basic grammar and vocabulary of Yiddish, which is written in the Hebrew alphabet, is Germanic.

Amujale:
No they aren’t, those are from the Kemetic/Kush dialect.

Are you for real?

For the umpteenth time, Hebrew is a recent language that was concocted from a combination of German and Yiddish in the 1800’s.

There’s no evidence anywhere on planet Earth of the presence of Jews, Hebrews or any of the Abrahamic religions in Kemit.

Assuming you have such evidence, produce it here.

What historians did find however, is that the Abrahamic religions copied and plagiarised Kemetic history in an attempt to claim it as their own.

macof:
Not lie. I wouldn't say that's a lie. But rather he was misled by his source or had no source

macof:
Languages evolve, fair enough but how did Obenga get words that the ancestors spoke but no Yoruba understands today. How can you verify that the words he gave mean what he said they mean in any Yoruba dialect or at any time in any Yoruba dialect.
Plus if he knew he was citing lost Yoruba words, don't you also think he would have stated that and provide a source to how he got those words?

About the video, much of that is very inaccurate.
1. Yorùbá do not call our Land, Ilẹ̀ Adúláwò. That is a recently formed word for "Africa". It does not belong to ancient Yoruba vocabulary.
2. Kemet does not mean "land of black people" but "black land" in reference to the black soil.
3. "Irawo" means Star in Yoruba, Irawo is not a deity, nor doe in mean "rising sun"
4. Osun is not a moon god but a River Goddess
5. There are no records of Egyptians migrating South 1500 years ago.

macof:
If you spoke Yoruba you would know that Obenga 's work is filled with flawed Yoruba translations
I wonder if he gave flawed translations for the Egyptian words too

EG. "ni" does not mean "exit" in Yorùbá
"bùsi" does not mean "to bless", "bose" does not mean "secretly", "busa" does not mean "to honor". "ama" is a loan word from hausa, so that doesn't count.
And more

Also i was hoping you would provide an independent egyptian dictionary that confirms this particular list you shared ealier

Amujale:
Thousands of years ago the Africans who lived there never called the land Egypt; they never called themselves Egyptiàns.

Self determination:

Define yourself

Dont wait for someone elese to define who you are.

Reject colonial mentality

Reject Eurocentrism

Reject Arabanisation

Reject the notion that a foreign ideal has the right to define us.

The name the Ancient Egyptians gave their land is KM.T

The Metu Neter: The Greeks called it sacred carvings - hieroglyphics

KM.T

ℹCharred piece of wood
ℹthe owl
ℹthe loaf of bread

Advocate500:
and the yurobas are going through the normal rout by telling northerners not to contest, how most of u reason at times, u find it very difficult to take half of what u dishes out to others , i don't want to be tribalistic so let leave it at that.

helinues:
Chai, blundly telling a particular region that has been devoted and dedicated to Pdp for good solid 21 years + that no presidency for them but as usual, uncontestable second fiddle position dey in standby

Life can indeed be unfair

BTW, it's Wike speaking... You guys can remain mute as usual except.......