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Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by absoluteSuccess: 9:27pm On Jun 13, 2020 |
Ofin (Part 2: the concluding part) Enigmas are rife in Yoruba vocabularies. A student of Yoruba history should equally be a student of Yoruba enigma. But he must have the innate ability to unravel enigma and make clear and presentable meaning for that. Let’s say enigma translates to aditu [/i]in Yoruba. Who created the Yoruba enigma? Scholars of old too many to remember, but really great to forget, we study them by their contributions to the motifs of our ancient colloquial. Our guide tonight is –fin and how this transitive verb shaped ideas in Yoruba tradition. Let’s get to work. Igufin: Well I don’t know what this word stands for, but it’s an ancient quarter at Ado, it could mean “the piercing law”. If that interpretation could stand is not what’s important, the word is making an entry into Yoruba lexicon tonight, courtesy, -fin. Kolofin: this is not the first time you are hearing that word, but yiu may have to explore its meaning for the first time. To unravel its interior meaning, assume you read “colorfin”. And from what we already have for Ofin, [i]kolofin [/i]is to stain the purity of what is thought to be pure. Arufin: here is a derivative of ofin as a rule. The word “a-ru-fin” derived from “one who breaks the law”. Now what codex are the ancient Yoruba talking about? What’s their name for their law? It’s called Ewo. What’s that? It’s an enigmatic form of “Iwo” which means “forbidden”. Lest we forget, Yoruba words don’t have exact match in English grammar; therefore, Iwo is pertinent to iwo, Yoruba for “you”. And what informs this option? An exact alternative exist-“agbedo”. These two are replica of the same word in their original source. Yorubas Memoirs Of The Laws Of Moses Ewo is synonymous with agbedo: the two words are pronouns for “thee” and “we must [not]”. Combining the two for clearness brings back memories, “iwo ko gbodo”. “thou shall [not]”. There is a colloquial I used to know, “ewo, idi ‘fanla” (the “thee” scroll of the greater Ifa). Olokun was the greater Ifa. He was the hero that gave us a law on Mount Sinai. A memorial of Olokun is the saying, Ifa Olokun asorodayo, omo inajoko majerun meaning Ifa originated with Olokun, whose words brought joy, son of the Fire that burns the bush without its consumption. Olofin Oduduwa Olofin: this is the historical piece from which the tradition of the descent of Oduduwa is anchored. However, it’s a faulty premise. Olofin is akin to ateworo. Arufin is akin to Oruwo or Oluwo, one who breaks the code of ethics. And why is ateworo not atewonro? Its about "law" and "conviction". Oduduwa was an icon in Yoruba history whose life's event revolves around the rule of law, not someone swinging up and down the sky. Pitching the idea of Oduduwa around misconception shows how lazy folks are to verify facts and uphold the truth. Yoruba records are sacred facts. Justice is not mythology Ewon is Yoruba for chain, tether, yoke, and prison. An elewon is a prisoner. Atewonro? That’s someone who beat the law that could have imprisoned him. That’s the tailspin interpretation of the word in question. But here is the test of true historian: antique tradition is not recently hatched. Did Yoruba of old have iron chain “made in heaven”? Perhaps not, “ogbon kii tan l’aye ka wa r’orun”. Chain as tether came with the advent of the European slave traders, so how then place chain in yoruba antiquity where the only service it renders is “follow come” with Oduduwa? Observe Yoruba for yoke, okun, ibode, ide. Eleda mi ma gbabode means “my creator, do not allow me to be put in tether” in other words, “Oh my God, don’t get me yoked as captive”. Being put in fetter is common form of captivity in the ancient world. Ide preceded "ewon" by millenials. An historian must not be swayed by improvised tradition which appears historical because a popular icon is caught in the ebb of misconception. This is the blink that tells the practitioners apart from the fake. Ifa records "rope" as yoke at the time of old thus: Eekun abara yiyi Alufo lorun keregbe Adia fun Olukosi Ope Tii s’omo Olorun ansaadi Ifa, iwo l’omo onikosi Ope, Ifa, iwo l’omo Olorun ansaadi. Ifa gbamio, iwo lo t’onii gba, Ifa gbami lowo olokun gbooro. for more on Olokun read https://www.nairaland.com/1886676/olokun |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by absoluteSuccess: 8:57pm On Jun 14, 2020 |
macof: Ok sir. I thought as much. |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by Obalufon: 10:28am On Jun 17, 2020 |
macof:Afa ifa fa iha divinsion in west africa all have root from Ile-ife |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by Obalufon: 11:08am On Jun 17, 2020 |
ewon is chain ate is step ro is ascend ate- ewon - ro to ascend through chain |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by Omartins365(m): 2:03pm On Jun 17, 2020 |
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Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by absoluteSuccess: 2:10pm On Jun 17, 2020 |
Now to make further progress, let's look at the manifestation of the idea that crystalize as ewon in it's various derivatives in Yoruba language. Àwòn: Net, so named for being a "trap" to drag fish from the river in certain "measure". Àwôn: folks, group of people of certain interest. Awonrinwon for instance is a name for the alligator with the Yoruba, but it's also a metaphor for "àwôn Orin won", a variation of "àwôn olo'wonrin". Olowo-rin could mean wandering emigrants or group emigration. Òwó, near Ado means "the emigrants". Wo is akin to "wandering" in English grammar. From this comes iwode, mass movement or protest. Ìwòn: scale, also known as osuwon, it's the symbol of justice in modern legal institutions, ìwòn is to balance two sides of different value for the same mass. Ìwòn: measure, volume: as found in iwonba or ìwòn igbati (measure of time), iwonngba (measure of age with height in children). When children argue their age and compare their height, the comparison is iwonngba. Ewon: This word came with the legal institutions to the Yoruba. However, imprisonment had a long history in Yoruba culture. It's the king that imprisons the subject, kings were the judge. Ewon in traditional Yoruba is tubu, and to be tied here is igbekun, "living in bondage". Being tied up therefore is ide. Even the west who had mastery of the chain before the Yoruba used "yoke" in antiquity, because "stock" was the fad and not chain. Here's a piece from an introspective folksong Enitojaale a dele ejo Enitojale a dele ejo, Adeleejo adajo a fewon silese Fewonsileese bi oku igbe Enitojale a dele ejo. From the above, the concept of ewon comes through Ile ejo, (court). The song informed that the Judge will put a criminal in chain. Thus the chain is a metaphor drawn from imagery from slavery into imprisonment. [i]L'ayetimo wa kaka kinjale, Kaka kin jale ma kuku deru, Kini o f'olese laye timo wa?[i] But there's still something spectacular in the song about the ancient Yoruba's justice system. "Adajo a fewon silese... bi oku igbe". The song compared the new system to the old. The song is in-between the two worlds. Late past and early present in Yoruba history. So we can trust to pick valuable insight from the song. A good instance of this is the idea of oku igbe. Let's exermine it. Oku igbe: we always says jocularly that someone is an "oku igbe", but the old folks song said a man is chained like an oku igbe, and with that token, the meaning of the phrase become clearer. So, what is okuugbe? Oku igbe is someone who is tied up and thrown in the bush to die for his offense. The justice system of the ancient Yoruba referred such as Oku igbe, not elewon. Thus it is a slang for notorious criminal in ancient Yoruba. Oduduwa and the Yoruba justice system Oduduwa was in connection with a problem with the justice system, at first she fled as fugitive (Osa) and later returned to fight the legal system as a trained lawyer or thinker with her counsels. We have the clue in her name, Oduduwa "the runaway that ran back". Odu in Awori means to "sa", as it's found in the line "kutere asa loogun". She fled for her life first and return with strategy that frustrated her adversaries. First, her escape saved her life, odu du wa. How she fought her way to prominence is the ateworo phase of her legend. Odu was her profile name, not her birth name, so the wordsmith who coined the name Ooduwa leaned on her profile for the alias. 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by Omartins365(m): 2:18pm On Jun 17, 2020 |
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Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by kayfra: 3:34pm On Jun 19, 2020 |
Olu317: You have the best made up words in the business 3 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by TAO11(f): 11:41pm On Jun 19, 2020 |
macof: What!? Church sponsorship? E reach like this? |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by 2prexios: 1:24am On Jun 20, 2020 |
macof: When I told you that you are a plaigerising lot claiming to be historians, you were all like you are the best thing that ever happened to Yoruba history. But here you all came for the bait because you wanted empty glory you never laboured for. Again macof, you are a pure serpent parading himself as an expert.i thought you claim "critic" is what you do best? You can post the other info about oke ora, via Wikipedia but this tradition is not fit for public consumption, but the moment you saw my book, you became the advocate of the core truth you are hiding. Don't you have brain enough to see I gave the very same interpretation you are submitting afresh before you did? So what's your excitement? That's called afterthought. In fact you are a very clever clown. When you make your claim to Oke ora, I asked you for a core tradition on Oduduwa, you came up with festivals, rituals and rites of Ife. I told you to let heaven be heaven and that you are turning the tradition of Oduduwa coming from heaven to Oke ora urban legend. You came back claiming all sorts. Now that you saw my book, kia lo gbe oke ora ju sile, Erin fee pami So you know this but hide it from the public? Can you see you are still confused? Can you please validate the tradition of descention of Oduduwa with fixed oral tradition from Ifa? At least you are the historian. A tradition that has been in a culture for long should gather debris and become an enigma. A self acclaimed historian who picked up such and relay it the same way is not fit for the job. Things are not the way they seems. |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by macof(m): 1:47am On Jun 20, 2020 |
2prexios: You are very silly. You have responded to this post with your other moniker, but you just can't let go of being exposed. Get off yourself and deal with the fact that you have a below average understanding of the Yoruba language and not the linguistic genius you claim to be. Ebora is Deborah indeed You are a Fraud and I demonstrate it every time I have responded to you about Òkè-Ọ̀rà in ife traditions I am waiting for you to debunk any information I have presented Infact your argument here is not even about my post being wrong.. Its that I am not the originator What dah hell is that? How many times would I tell you that history is not creative. You don't originate stories from your imagination.. That's not history you dimwit 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by macof(m): 1:48am On Jun 20, 2020 |
TAO11: It has gotten to that since the missionary era. Its just a new resurgence with yoruba pentacostals |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by 2prexios: 2:01am On Jun 20, 2020 |
macof: How is it part of tradition? Care to explain?
Guy you have no clue what you want. How can you make claim for a man in two opposite directions? Oke ora? Heaven, sky? I already know your escape route. One was his manifestation as god and as man later That should be tenable to a hypnotic historian like you. It's your way of escape. What level of interpretation did you employ to get beyond all other possible meaning and arrive at the fact? What if it's "Oduduwa a tewon ro"? That is, "one who descended from the prison"? . What stops you from viewing it from all possible angle? |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by 2prexios: 2:08am On Jun 20, 2020 |
macof: You always have problem with the truth. Ebora=Abraham Ebora rhymes with Debora The last time I quoted you was the post you claim to have embarrassed me severally. I know one thing about you, lie lie lie is the in thing in your life. My simple request is that you have claimed to be an historian, but you are clueless about how the very tradition you jumped on emanated in Yoruba history, if you have any clue post it. Insult and abracadabra man himself. |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by macof(m): 2:09am On Jun 20, 2020 |
2prexios: I have demonstrated the traditions that can be demonstrated online or in print. For further demonstration you would need to seek the traditional guardian on Oduduwa in Ife. Traditions are after all practical Your unawareness of the duality of yoruba òrìṣà is evident of your ignorance. All you know is church stuff not yoruba traditions. 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by macof(m): 2:13am On Jun 20, 2020 |
2prexios: You have seen and responded to that post weeks ago. But it still pains you and you have suddenly gathered energy to execute a fire back in the middle of the night. You couldn't deal with the correction in my post then, you still can't now Again you are unable to debunk any information I have presented while I have dismantled many of your nonsense |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by 2prexios: 2:14am On Jun 20, 2020 |
macof: You don't have any clue what Yoruba history entails, get a life bro. You can never have access to the pristine tradition of the Yoruba. You are a stranger. I got you and here you are pushing your confusion as science. Go back and read Robin Law on Oyo empire and do your research. You are clueless. All the answers are not in one place as you are meant to believe and make us believe. |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by macof(m): 2:17am On Jun 20, 2020 |
2prexios: Still waiting for you to debunk a single piece of information I have dropped what concerns Robin law on Oyo empire with oduduwa in ife? Also let's be real, you have not read Robin Law You don't read 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by 2prexios: 2:17am On Jun 20, 2020 |
macof: Boy, you are a bloody liar, if your insult is anything to me I should have stopped long ago. It's all you do. As a destroyer, should there be anything more to you than polemics? |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by 2prexios: 2:19am On Jun 20, 2020 |
macof: Who needs to debunk folly when it's of no consequence in real life? Go back and read Robin Law. And here is a book that kept me awake in my library. Bloody Serpent.
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Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by 2prexios: 2:33am On Jun 20, 2020 |
I don't spare a good read for any amount. My headrest is full of books, my office and everywhere around me. That's why I think ahead of you and I'm unstoppable to your kind, in spite of your whims and Caprice.
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Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by 2prexios: 6:42am On Jun 20, 2020 |
Rejection region in historical hypothesis Professors of public opinion, tell me why my interpretation of atewonro cannot be any of the following, using extra material resources in your coffers as a trained and practicing historian: A. Atewonro: one who from prison became sober. B. One who twist the chain to it's elastic limit. C. One who from the prison hangs D. One who press chains to it's weak state. Whenever you make an intelligent choice, you are discriminating on other options for a reason. Ability to come clean of the options you never choose is what proof your expertise. Macof and software Generated Yoruba And macof, twice you have given us lupo for ilu, and tele for te. You are the best in makeover. The same you are the one destroying others inputs. But you are not wise enough to get it up your head that silebu ni ege oro ti eemi le gbe jade leekan soso. You lack the concept of syllable as a language user, be it English or Yoruba. You don't have a sense of syllable as the unit of sounds in a word, hence your option is always crested only on the word given and it's meaning from a distance cluster as instance. You always play safe. It shows you are Yoruba by software too, Yoruba with caution. No examples of variant meaning of a word or each syllable in a Yoruba word treated in dept on their own. You alluded to linguistics but a failure at it you are. You only excel in temerity, your stock in trade. Your lies are in the open. Read up rejection region in statistics and apply the same to what you do with public opinion generated conclusion as a "critic". 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by macof(m): 11:01am On Jun 20, 2020 |
2prexios: Lmao this one is just running mad right now I have demonstrated what atewonro and Olofin mean. You have not pointed out why my interpretation is wrong. I broke down the word and gave examples of where else those broken down words are found. My break down is also consistent with every single translation of the word out there After dropping one very ridiculous translation of Ateworo in your book.. You now have new 4 translations .. You have dumped the translation you gave in the book Reason why you should not rush to write a book. You equip yourself with necessary training and knowledge of what you are writing You are simply pained that you got exposed for your poor understanding of the language and seek to fire back. All this rant of "I'm cautious I'm not original" bla bla is rant of a desperate fool who couldn't find any information I have dropped to debunk like I debunk your nonsense on a regular basis |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by macof(m): 11:17am On Jun 20, 2020 |
2prexios: You cry and rant about how I dismantle your nonsense all the time.. Since you insist my information is folly... Do the needful and debunk them like I debunk all your nonsense congratulations.. You have finally bought a book and started reading history from an actual historian like I told you to. No wonder you felt suddenly empowered to come fire back at me Unfortunately for you, Robin Law does not propagate a single nonsense you claim on this forum. So don't just mention names of scholars for nothing And what has Robin Law's "The Oyo empire" or any of his works got to do with your old interpretation or 4 new interpretations of "Ateworo"? what was your purpose for mentioning him if not that you are excited to have finally started reading history 2 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by 2prexios: 9:11pm On Jun 20, 2020 |
macof: Boy this has become your mantra. I am not your performance monkey. It's the circus's life you live, it's your destiny. You are the destroyer here, who is more psychopathic than you?
Scammer, I have attached the screenshot of a book I bought back then in 2007, you should check out the source of the word ejilaosebora in it, meaning "the twelve that emanated from Ebora". Although it's syncretic, but the cluster ejilaosebora is historical. Your historians have found the facts of Yoruba history eventually? I am not a historian, I am a pundit of Yoruba tradition. My beat is beyond "curricula history". Stick that to your head like you did Ebora is Debora. Your historians are not the custodians of Yoruba history or tradition. So don't sell me the dummy.
Scammer, you are on the path of scenting us off your trail again. What do you do for living? I believe you are a very great internet fraudster. You have uncanny ability to twist public opinion hither thither as you like with chutzpah.
Guy, life is possibly a fantasy in your clever world. You are here alluding to history, but you don't know what you don't know. You just unwittingly exposed yourself as a fool and myopic critic subjective in his source appraisal.
If you can ask this question, it's the law of unintended consequence acting on you. Your lies will continually compromise your cover. You are no historian but a mere atheist. Since this was the post you made earlier but now cleverly panel beating again to fault me after you got the idea of its possible implosive implication. Your maneuvering proofs that you are a lunatic. You are such a sick narcissist. You can never say yes to anyone as you desperately seek their disgrace, you still finds way to make your fault theirs. But hide as you can, your folly will keep trailing you. You don't know what you don't know. Whatever you read, if any, you can never understood any beyond your IQ. I won't help you out, go back and read Robin Law.
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Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by 2prexios: 9:15pm On Jun 20, 2020 |
macof: You don't know what you don't know. Whatever you read, if any, you can never understood any beyond your IQ. I repeat, go back and read Robin Law. By the way I heard you are traveling to many Muslim countries soon to find out the meaning of the name Yoruba? Congratulations I have given you a path in life via my thread, origin of the name Yoruba. Here is a copy of the book to that particular thread. I made the book before the thread tho.
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Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by macof(m): 11:11pm On Jun 20, 2020 |
2prexios: Rants and cries from a pained frustrated fraud who knows he is being embarrassed I'm still waiting for you to debunk any information I have posted here. And i'm still waiting for how Robin Law's works confirm any single semitic nonsense you post here. Why mention Robin Law? You are really ecstatic to have finally bought a history book we won't hear the end of it 2 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by 2prexios: 6:24am On Jun 21, 2020 |
macof: There you go again, scammer. Oduduwa atewonro was in my book Oduduwa ateworo is equally in my book. I paraphrased both options in Yoruba. I equally discussed "ayinike Ati Ayinipada". I made a case for the right option. Gbam. You repeated what I have already shared in my book but argued for the popular version, Oduduwa atewonro. You are an "intelligence deficit" monomaniac fighting for spotlight through others' labour. Is your argument new to me or something? You are a repeater. I have forced a confession from you through the book because you earlier pretend that tradition doesn't exist. So it's this "elewon" tradition that is right now not onisoro, obadio, ascention rites, rituals and all that again as you originally claim. Oh, it's duality of identity? How about the chain? Your camaraderies never validate you have a new argument. You only argued for the popular version, circulated by Samuel Johnson. What's your excitement in intellectual plagiarism? You are like a hen that layed an egg and coocoo around as though it has laid an asteroid Well that's not mine but Mark Twain's. I have given you a receipt for a book I bought many years ago, so as to silence your lunacy. It should mean nothing to you in the perpetual state of your mind. But it is an exhibit that you have no clue what you says. Go for a check Now, you arguing for Oduduwa atewonro suddenly made me go out to buy books and I suddenly know the right book to buy and within the timeline, it's Robin Law, your kind of book? Again you are an embarrassment to yourself, not to me. You and your hordes are failures at what you love most. You acknowledge the scholar but still question his work before reading it. I am not a performance monkey of yours, you should have read Robin Law. So you don't know what he said in light of the foregoing? WOW! so I should fetch it for you to damage as usual? And you are a trained historian, well read and experience in Yoruba history? Don't worry keep waiting for me as your pawn. Your lies are travelling behind you.
You don't know what you don't know. Whatever you read, if any, you can never understood any beyond your IQ. I won't help you out, go back and read Robin Law. 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by 2prexios: 7:08am On Jun 21, 2020 |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by 2prexios: 8:02am On Jun 21, 2020 |
macof: I'm going through change eh. |
Re: Yoruba Hebrew Heritage by macof(m): 11:07am On Jun 21, 2020 |
2prexios:so you stayed up all night going through all my old posts and saw a post from over 6 years ago and think it's laughable. This guy just desperate sha you even had to mention this post on two threads just to get my attention thinking you've found something to nail my personality Here was your response to the post 6 years ago ladionline: Rather than looking for ways to insult me and attack my personality just do the needful - provide evidence for your claims and stop running around |
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