Ashirioluwa:
I used to respect these traditionalists until kidnappers started kidnapping traditional rulers (Oba) and Babalawo

Tony3245:
Culture is the bedrock of a people's philosophy


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Olachase:
Where dem day see all this pretty fine young girls from?

Cnach:

There is a difference between culture and idle worshipping.

Tony3245:




What is a non ideal way worshipping?

Cnach:

I didn't get it

BlackLandlord:
Tales have it that the river goddess herself did emerge from the river, yearly, whenever the celebration took place, until some explorers, one day, forcefully tried to capture her using a helicopter and a net.

Ever since, she has stopped appearing. What's your take and how true? @Omoluab.i1stborn

kpukpuyenke:


Wow so u mean they don't kidnap Clergy men and Imams

YungMillionaire:
Beautiful! Very Beautiful!! Thank you Yoruba people for preserving your beautiful/rich tradition. Igbos sold their rich tradition to the roman catholic church for the proverbial pot of porridge. If you ask the average Igbo what is Nri - they will look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. Hausa tradition is now completely non-existent. There way of life is now entirely arab and fulani. So sad. The awesome Hausa tradition decimated by islam and co-mingling with fulanis.

God bless Osun, Ogun, Sango, Elegba etc. Back to the basics. No more bowing before colonial gods.

LamidiCownu:

Hypocrite. Leave people to do their thing.
Those people are better than your criminal pastors and terror loving Sheik like Pantami
Getat !

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BlackLandlord:
Tales have it that the river goddess herself did emerge from the river, yearly, whenever the celebration took place, until some explorers, one day, forcefully tried to capture her using a helicopter and a net.

Ever since, she has stopped appearing. What's your take and how true? @Omoluabi1stborn

fredoooooo:

The cross you're worshipping and the Holy marry you're worshippng are not idols? Abi the place you're all bowing your head to 5 days a day are not idol worshipping? Oga leave people to do what they believe on .. Humanity is the religion not kne jew or Arab religions.

madjune:
It's a beauty to behold a people collectively devoted to preserving their cultural institutions, especially that which safeguards their identity in this wake of raging western imperialism.

It is most commendable.

But, I've my reservations whereof I see pictures of these professed custodians of the deities conducting themselves as doctors or disease/poverty killers by laying their hands on unwary participants.

I ask, if their medicine is so omnipotent, Africa would have been long weaned off malaria and other ailments and most of all, poverty.
If they promise you a wealthier future or money by performing some rites, how come they aren't well off yet?

Drella:


No wonder rain has been falling in Osun state everyday.
It got to a stage,I got angry because the rain was an hindrance to my productivity.
I never knew this festival was ongoing.

Krosslife:


I heard and read it too. I don't really know how true this is. Someone needs to clarify this with a good reference. I thinks it's possible for her to appear during the festival.

Omoluabi1stborn:



Iya Osun Or yeye of Osogbo (Head of Osun priestesses of Osogbo)�‍♂️

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Iya Osun in spiritual white dress and with red band taking the spiritual food for the Osun River Deity from the head of Arugba Osun (virgin and holy young girl that carries Osun Bowl) as other iya osun and a man assisting during the annual Osun Osogbo Festival in honor of Osun River Goddess/Deity at Osogbo in Osun State, Nigeria. The spiritual food would be thrown into the Osun River and after that devotees can take the water for various spiritual purposes.

River Osun takes its source from Igede-Ekiti through Ilesha and the grove in Osogbo. The Osun goddess established her kingdom there. Olaguna(1952:16) writes that many centuries ago when Oba larooye of iple omu, olutimeyin, a great hunter and their subjects migrated from ipole omu because of water scarcity they then settle at the Osun groove where the goddess has established her kingdom. One day, as they were preparing the ground for the planting season, a tree fell across the river crushing many of Osun tools of trade.

Worshippers fetch water from the sacred Osun river during the Osun Osogbo festival, or the river goddess festival, in Osogbo, capital of southwest Nigeria's Osun State.

Every August in Osogbo, the festival presents an opportunity for the indigenes of Osogbo, their friends and well-wishers as well as fun-loving tourists to converge in town for the yearly celebration. The festival has gained a global recognition to such an extent that the Osun Grove was enlisted as a world heritage site in 2005. (Xinhua/Zhang Weiyi)
It is recorded that the goddess was at her:

Larooye olutimeyin, you have destroyed all
gbogbo ikoko aro mi my dying pots
le ti fo tan she cried
The spirits within the grove pacified the goddess saying
“oso-igbo pele o, spirit of the forest we plead,
Oso-igbo rora o, spirit of the forest be patient
Larooye and olutimehin were shocked because they don’t know how the goddess got to know their names. She sensed this, and later advised them to move to the upper part of the river called OHUNTOTO to domicile. There oba larooye established another palace as well as a thriving market. One day, olutimehin saw some spirit dancing round a lamp with sixteen receptacles, which he seized through incantation. When the goddess learnt of this, she made olutimehin and larooye promise to celebrates the lightening of the lamp annually, particularly when the grand finale of the osun festival is nine days away.

She gave them a calabash containing antiquities with a warning that the contents must never be exposed to the naked eyes. She also decree that the calabash must be taken to the grove during the festival by a virgin with filials to the reiginig kink, and who must be chosen by the ifa. On the festival day, the Ataoja (king ) sits
on the dedicated stone of authority housed on the osun temple/shrine where he commune with the ancestors. Osun promised that if her instruction is carried out, she could pour a curative substance into the river as soon as she accepts the sacrifices from the Ataoja. Traditions which is becoming increasingly known in scholarly circles reveals that osogho had been founded as early as Oduduwa period. Osogbo, the goddess of Osun river was the queen original founder of Osogbo.
According to Bier (1966:69) there are some heroic roles of historical importance, rendered by Osun goddess especially during the Fulani war of 1842. She was credited with many important achievements, which helped to established the state. She possessed magical powers which inspired her and frightened her enemies. Tradition acclaims her the goddess of fertility, protection and blessing. She possess the ability to give children (through birth) to the barren women and power to heal the sick and the afflicted by means of her medicinal water from the river. Osun according to the Yoruba cosmology, they believe that she is omnipresent and omnipotent. Her power is represented in another Yoruba proverb which reminds us that no one is an enemy to water and therefore, every one has need of and should respect and revere Osun as well as her follower. The relationship between the osun Osoggo festival which has been celebrated for about six hundred centuries.

The Osun Osogbo festival has the early history of the Osogbo people which is founded on mythical powers. The relationship between the people of Osogbo land, the Osun goddess and the festival is that annually the people of Osogbo comes together in the second week of august in worshiping and praising the osun goddess who have been protecting their land. The Osun Osogbo festival which is celebrated in august has manage to survive the rigors of the 21st century and people hail it as one of the most solid festival that celebrates and showcases the traditional African culture.

rexefe:


lol, your idea of civilization is borrowed and diluted

Omoluabi1stborn:


Yes, that particular girl has been an Arugba for 8 or 9 years

Omoluabi1stborn:


Yes, that particular girl has been an Arugba for 8 or 9 years

thundafire:
Still na them go enter church pray and shout yet the still do sacrifice and worship gods. God said if u are doing good keep on doing good,same goes to Bad too