Better Alternative To Faith Based On Messages Of The Prophets Unable To Halt Humankind From Self-destructing.
Explorers, travelers, and later ethnographers, asked any African the wrong questions about their faith or cosmology in the past: they either got irrelevant answers or got misleading answers. For examples, they asked, “What do you call God in your language? Who do you believe is the ruler of the world or universe? Who created the world or universe? Who made you? Who is your divine or spiritual provider?” (Ref. Seligman and Haddon).
Others examined some African attitudes and concluded that Africans were animists. They have animism as doctrine. A dictionary defines animism as doctrine according to which the immaterial soul is the vital principle responsible for every organic development: attribution of conscious life and a discrete indwelling spirit to every material form of reality (as to such objects as plants and stones and to such natural phenomena as thunderstorms and earthquakes): often includes belief in the continued existence of individual disembodied spirits capable of exercising a benignant or malignant influence.
By this conclusion, they entombed the Africans in an alien doctrine. I mean by that they put the true basis of faith or cosmology of the African that was uniquely African out of reach. They also concluded that Africans believe in an absentee God.
The flaw in their investigations has they assumed the African cosmology was a version of their own: they assumed that every culture has a religion and that religion must be based on belief in God (in their idea of God). I also read in those days, that the African believes in a mechanist universe.
For the records, a description of African cosmology, basis of faith, or worldview in any human language that does not include Ogun, Ebo, OSAGBAYE, and AYI is at best incomplete. Otherwise, it is either misleading or wrong outright. The African shares the miraculous puissance and unique magical and spiritual capabilities of Ogun; they are ebo Makers. This distinguishes the African from rest of humankind. (See African The Ebo Maker and In Ebo We Trust ).
Missing Element
The missing element in their investigation was that they interviewed everyone except an Oracle. Most African communities did not have what is called Oboiro in Benin language and called Oracle in English and French, or Orakel in German. Either African communities today do not still have, or they do not understand how to relate to the ones they have. This owes mainly to indoctrination of Judeo-Christian, and Islamic doctrines.
Moreover, the Oboiro stopped to exist among the Edos of Benin after the reign of Ogiso Owodo. This was about 1100 hundred years ago or about six hundred years before the visits by the European interviewers. The Present Oboiro emerged during the reign of Oba Erediauwa. This does not owe to an accident. The Oboiro existed as part of recorded traditions or culture of the Edo race.
Edo Race lived in Igodomigodo now called Edo Kingdom or Kingdom of Great Benin. Ogiso Ere was the first Ogiso. He is the Lawgiver of Edo race. They relied on an Oboiro for spiritual guidance. It was preordained, therefore, that when EREDIAUWA becomes king, there must emerge the Oboiro as a main spiritual adviser. “Ere-dia-uwa” is an injunction, meaning that ERE should DIA (literarily means “straighten”) UWA meaning you all, or you people of Ere race.
Holy Mounts Origin Of Divine Messages
The present world Civilization is predicated on doctrines; the doctrines derive from inspired Messages. The ideas and spiritual message of their religion have roots in Holy Mounts, such as Mounts Sinai, Arafat, Olympus, and Tibet.
All Holy Mounts, including those in West Africa, on Earth are one. The differences in messages from the powers or puissance emanating from the various Holy Mounts are local languages and interpretations. The Prophets from Adam to the present, who had a background in communities that lived where the Mounts were located, gave the Religions of the Book. Others, for example, the Greeks who lived around Mount Olympus, “where the gods dwell,” gave the world the Olympic Games.
The Africans South of Sahara had not invented alphabets or scripts in which messages could have been developed, recorded, and interpreted.
Africans had no alphabet or its equivalent; hence, no written records. Consequently, no records of miraculous events as are observable on Holy Mounts; these otherwise would have stimulated others to write theology or speculate about them in written form. The Eboiro (Pl of Oboiro) the Oracles could not espouse in writing, inspirations from puissance emanating through the mounts and their beings. Profound messages that could guide the world were nonexistent before now. The world had inherited from them, only fables, myths, legends, traditions, and superstitions. This with the background that Africans were stupid and could not have contemplated transcendent or metaphysical entities or ideas: they could not be contemplative. They had some vague notions as belief in life after death and reincarnation; no notions of Heaven or Hell: heaven was above, beyond the sky. Unfortunately, one can indeed not engage in metaphysics, even in the present era, using a language that evolved in Africa south of the Sahara.
But, amid of all theses or despite them, Africans do have a unifying “whatever” in whom they have implicit or “automatic” faith.
Some Concepts From Edo Race
The Oboiro is ethnic Benin or Edo.
“Worship” of various parts of the body is one concept. You would find altars to the hand (called ikega) in every traditional home. One recurring remark is better illustrated with one of the reports about making sacrifices to own hand at the shrine to the hand. When the ethnographer (re Seligman, an ethnographer who visited Great Benin) insisted on how the hand of the person not on the shrine, could receive the offerings, the informant answered that the real object of the sacrifice was in “the great beyond.”
The head is another example. When someone has a fortune as escaping a fatal accident alive, he or she thanks his or her Head. They propitiate the Head. They have annual IGUE festival, for example, a period when people celebrate a new year by anointing their Heads. (See also “We Thank Our Head.”
We have blogged about Ogun as the determinant or directive cause in world history, heading for the end of present Civilization. Ogun is the power driving terrorism and violent responses. Coalitions of various Governments are devastating Syria and various Cities chronicled in the stories of the Bible and other holy Books. What was once theater of their God or Gods, and their Prophets is now Ogun’s theater or stage (ARUOGUN), or theater of battles or war (ARUOKUO). It is safe to say that Ogun is the WILL of the devastation being done in the birthplaces of Religions of the Book. In contrast, ours land is theater of OKUN (ARUOKUN). The more profound and particular applicable science or Message to saving the world from ravages of Ogun is planting OSAGBAYE.
Ogun is the Ebo, or Ogun the determinant in the process of transmutation, change, and death. However, the closest African impression or attitude to their inquiry as we now find ought to have been either Ebo or Ogun. However, there are also other equally central concepts in the cosmology of the African that we need to apply under the present world needs. (We mentioned some above.)
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