₦airaland Forum

newbornmacho:
All this demon worship just to attract tourism Its uncalled for.

macof:
is that a bad thing?

Wulfruna:
Super cool!

Hey, you know your way around Lagos, right? And you sound like an academic or someone with a history background, so you're probably the right person to ask this. Do know you any good bookstore in Lagos where one can get good Nigerian history books - Stephen Akitoye's "History of the Yoruba People", for example?

compoundC:
[size=28pt]When I saw it, I laugh
Ife is just the centre of juju or voodoo

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newbornmacho:
All this demon worship just to attract tourism Its uncalled for.

delightf:
gods that re blind nd deaf that can nt recuse ur land nd mk d price of fuel to decrease to 65naria,gods of the gods of gods to the people that want. To serve him,there is only one God, God of yaweh,

newbornmacho:
All this demon worship just to attract tourism Its uncalled for.

tuzeriouz:
it's not demon worship. it's our culture , heritage and history.

delightf:
gods that re blind nd deaf that can nt recuse ur land nd mk d price of fuel to decrease to 65naria,gods of the gods of gods to the people that want. To serve him,there is only one God, God of yaweh,

9jacrip:
Osaara, goddess/deity of swamp, children & the wife of Oduduwa had her festival done today by at Moore, her home/shrine and it was graced by the Ooni & Ife people.

Here are some pictures:

scully95:
Op change that goddess/deity of swamp To Goddess and stop being derogatory. It's the same as saying god to your jesus.

Have ever wonder why the Brites or Europe will never reffer to your kings as kings ? why they always call them chiefs ? Now it is the same reason they use small letter g to depict our Gods..

Please be educated when you write yor chum burn.

tuzeriouz:
it's not demon worship. it's our culture , heritage and history.

9jacrip:
Uncle, calm down.

You may have a point but you should also know Olodumare is the GOD while the deities like Osaara are gods.

Take your own advice 'Please be educated when you write your chum burn'

scully95:
When you said Eledumare, you used GOD.. Then you should be ok to use God for the Irunmoles.

Just as Jesus is being reffered to as God.
Now that's my point.

Eledumare is GOD.

Irunmoles, Orisa should always be regarded as capital letter G any time. Even though we don't have this type of discrimination in our oral language, Yoruba. This English is not ours and we need to correct these English poeple each time they make a derogatory remarks against our Gods.

9jacrip:
Olodumare & Irunmoles are not equals.

Using G for both makes it hard to differentiate and puts them at par - no.

Jesus being referred to as God is a Christianity thing, we do not operate with that. Irunmole is not Olodumare and Olodumare is not Irunmole.

I can't be OK to use or see people use G for Olodumare & his creations Irunmole.

scully95:
Is God and Jesus Equal ?

Whatever the case, I would never reffer to Orunmila using a small letter g. Never, because Orunmila story is the same as the Jesus story, infact the god of hebrew copied african religious ideologies, remodified it and resold it here.

As a matter of fact, Olodumare or Eledumare isok with Using all the letters as big letters, like this GOD.. While it's ok and right to use God for all the 401 Irunmoles.

My point still remains valid. It's christian thing right ? English is also Christian thing so we are making the same point as to why the same christian thing would never reffer to your Kings as Kings but rush to address them as Chiefs.

Now this is the same reason they will continue to use g for Yoruba Gods.
To show to you that your God is in no way compared to their Brainwash god Jesus , re-modifided and re-sold copy and paste religious ideology from the African traditional religious civilization.

For your information, Ile Ife Existed 10,000 years before the birth of jesus christ. It is older than a Palmyra that the Russians recently Liberated from Western backed Terrorists.

My point is still very valid and it remains

Olodumare/Eledumare= GOD
All the 401 Irunmoles/Orisa= Gods

Case clossed !

scully95:
When you said Eledumare, you used GOD.. Then you should be ok to use God for the Irunmoles.

Just as Jesus is being reffered to as God.
Now that's my point.

Eledumare is GOD.

Irunmoles, Orisa should always be regarded as capital letter G any time. Even though we don't have this type of discrimination in our oral language, Yoruba. This English is not ours and we need to correct these English poeple each time they make a derogatory remarks against our Gods.

9jacrip:
It makes no sense arguing over a letter case.

However, it is all semantics but in your attempt at being pro-African, you're creating an antithetical structure in Iseese to that of foreign belief.


Olodumare [God]

Irunmole [deities/gods]

Olodumare is not Irunmole



God

Jesus [deity]

But in Christianity (apart from JW)

[Jesus is God & God is Jesus]


Difference: either GOD for Olodumare or God for Irunmole, they are not the same. Olodumare created the Irunmole. When writing in English, all uppercase in a sentence is invalid. Hence, Olodumare takes the uppercase G while irunmole takes the lowercase - using G for both not only creates confusion but 'de-reps' Olodumare.