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slawormiir:
Damnnn niggarrrr
I perused through the article while blazing my weed as I put on my intellectual cap

I must say the article is trying to validate the fact that Binis are the fathers of yorubas especially the people of ile ife

Spaxon:
Sometimes I do really find truths in this Myths

I got to love the Greek Mythology.
And I can draw some truths from them.

illicit:
Cock and bull story....


Absurdities

HerMajestyCares:
SINCE A SHRINE IS INVOLVE IT MEANS THERE MUST BE AN IDOL IN THAT SHRINE,




WHICH ALSO MEANS THAT THEY WORSHIP THE DEVIL,





I ONLY BELIEVE AND SERVE THE TRUE LIVING GOD ALMIGHTY,
AND NOT ON SOME WOOD gods.




I THANK JESUS FOR WEALTH AND LIFE

chrisxxx:
I have no intention to set here on fire.
Did he move from Ile Ife to Benin or Originally from Benin to establish Ile Ife?
Benin and Ile Ife which came first?

Balogunodua:
Fathered who You must be high on Tata weed........

Spaxon:
Sometimes I do really find truths in this Myths

I got to love the Greek Mythology.
And I can draw some truths from them.

Balogunodua:
Fathered who You must be high on Tata weed........

Shile981:
Sincerely speaking, is this a staff or pillar?
It could even be the shape of Oranmiyan's dick

Incognito403:
Idolatry people.

Why didn't they do their incantations when that small Modakeke town was hitting them hot-hot.

Elebo no fit get sense. That's how one werey dey disguise as bird for Anambra yesterday.

Abeg I can't laff jare. Awon hoeponu ayirada.

JoeEeL:
Ur papa. We no need u here. Muntula.

Shile981:
Sincerely speaking, is this a staff or pillar?
It could even be the shape of Oranmiyan's dick

BafanaBafana:
What about the story of Moses parting the Red sea with his rod, and the story of mana falling from heaven?

KushLyon:
Some people are shouting cock and bull story because the dude calm down in a fiery horse but they easily believe that Elijah went to heaven in a fiery chariot

BluntTheApostle:
These stories are mere exaggerations.

A man called Oranmiyan is believed to have existed.

He was a giant in comparison to his contemporaries, but nowhere near 7 feet.

Humans were shorter back then, and so a man who is 6-7 feet will be regarded as a giant.

The Oranmiyan staff is an obelisk, and not a real staff.

The staff is 18 feet tall.

No man can be that tall.

It is like the story of Goliath in the Bible who should be around 7 feet at most, but whose features have been exaggerated by many scholars.

Sango was an Alaafin in Oyo. He was believed to have been very powerful, using charm from his motherland, Nupe, to create thunder, lightning, and fire.

But did Sango ever ascend to heaven, and become a god?

No!

He died, but eyewitnesses returned to Oyo to go and exaggerate an otherwise ordinary event.

In today's world, it is almost impossible to spin these types of lies due to advancement in technology, and the proliferation of social media.

DonCandido:
Months ago, I wrote the view below in response to a topic being discussed with a highly respected and cerebral Nairalander, I think the aspect of that opinion reproduced is apposite to this discussion.

"I would like us to look at another related issue to the one being discussed here ... namely; the legend of Kisra and the truth about the stele at ife called "Opa oranmiyan".

I have read about Kisra but the materials I read were all about the myth. It appears nobody has anything factual or concrete about him.

I have developed this "crazy" theory that the man Kisra actually existed; that the stele at ife was a marker for his grave made by his followers who thereafter ended their plan to return to their homeland through the sea; that the knowledge about carving of style was foreign to ife and that the stele at ife predated both Oduduwa and oranmiyan.

I reached the above conclusions after tracing the history and existence of steles in West Africa and Nigeria in particular. I discovered that apart from the ife stele, none existed anywhere else in Nigeria.

In West Africa, researchers found an Islamic era steles in Mali -hope I am right-said to have been imported from Almeria, Spain. It is believed that successive muslim rulers in the area commissioned it from Spain to commemorate their rules.

The only place where stone monolith were used extensively as grave markers or to commemorate great events (obelisks) is Ethiopia. I believe practice spread to lower Nile areas ie Sudan and with the conquest of Egypt and establishment of black dynastic rule in that country, the practice spread there.

I agree with the opinions of some of the writers that around or about the beginning of the Islamic era, either a prince, an army commander, a king or a royal party sought a redoubt in Africa after losing a war at home. I will not speculate about where this "home " is.

I also believe that they wandered through the Savannah and later the Sahel looking for access to the sea. They followed the course of the Niger river initially but the difficulty of provisioning for their large entourage made them to move instead from one large town to another which they either pillaged or were welcomed. Some of them remained behind.

The Borgu oral history reference the presence of an entourage amongst them at point in their history and as a matter of fact, the ruling cast of Borgu are believed to have descended from a man called Kisra.

Similarly, the popular Hausa myth about a certain Bayajida who was a son of king of Baghdad and became a saviour resonates with the Borgu story.

Here is the high point of this speculation, I do not think black Africa below the Sahel developed the monarchical system independently. I believe a better organized conquerors brought the system and imposed it on them. They in turn became acultured to the host community.

The technical knowhow on how to carve a stele is absent at ife to date; the knowledge about how to write or make the inscription on the stele or what it means is lost to the Ifes; there is no similar stele anywhere in ife or West Africa generally that is either still standing or fallen.

Is it possible that there was another equally important leader at ife before the advent of Oduduwa and oranmiyan who history has forgotten?"

chrisxxx:
That is Obatala was a king in Ile Ife before Oduduwa came?

Kekereekun123:
no truths in them

Bellotelli:
You look beautiful lady

travelwaka:
Yeah I'm between those folklore lies the truth but somehow because there were no paper and pen then, some of the truth are being distorted