ORISA IBEJI and what you don't know
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ORISA IBEJI and what you don't know
Showing posts with label ibeji. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ibeji. Show all posts
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
ORISA IBEJI (Orisa of Twins)
ORISA IBEJI (Orisa of Twins)
This type of Orisa has no affiliation to any other known Orisa, be it the higher forms of Orisa or the human turned Orisa. Orisa Ibeji is unique.
In its own case, Orisa ibeji is worshipped only by the twins’ parents or women wishing or hoping for twins.
Orisa ibeji is very powerful when properly invoked and its object of invocation consist of Ere (twins’ image), Ewa ibeji (Special beans-small ones) Epo (red palm oil) etc.
Conclusively, to arise the wrath of these Orisa individually or collectively is to invoke their “essence” or spirits with negative object of invocation and that is ADIN which is hated by all orisas.
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
WHY ARE TWINS CALLED ARÁ ÌṢOKÙN IN YORÙBÁ LAND?
WHY ARE TWINS CALLED ARÁ ÌṢOKÙN IN YORÙBÁ LAND?
You probably have heard twins been serenaded as 'èjìrẹ́ ará Ìṣokùn' and you wonder why they are referred to that way.
Are they really from Ìṣokùn? Where is Ìṣokùn?
Why are they referred to like that?
There is Ìṣokùn in lléṣà, there is Ìṣokùn in Ọ̀yọ́ state too, so how do we know which one is the oríkì referring to.
The issue is that nobody knows for certain why ibeji are referred to as ará Ìṣokùn. All we hear is conjectures and opinions.
One of such popular opinion is that perhaps, there was a certain ibeji that came from Ìṣokùn village in the past.
These twins were so popular then that to differentiate them from other twins, they referred to them as ejìrẹ́ ará Ìṣokùn or ejìrẹ́ Ìṣokùn.
Gradually, this became fused into the oríkì of all ejìrẹ́ as parents wish their own twins to be as popular? Wealthy? Royal? Endowed? Renowned? etc as ejìrẹ́ of Ìṣokùn.
This explanation scores higher on rational ground than any others that have been provided. In the ancient time we hear of "Ẹ̀ṣà Ògbín, ará òde Ògbólúkẹ́."
Could this be that the man came from the modern day Òde-Ògbólú in Ìjẹ̀bú? Concerning absorption of identity and oríkì, the same trend can be seen in modern period.
For example, Abíọ́dún is a name in Yorùbá given to a baby born on a festival day.
But, one particular Abíọ́dún well known in Yorùbá land is the legendary Aláàfin Abíọ́dún Adégoólú of Ọ̀yọ́.
His praise name became the praise name of every Abiodun: Abíọ́dún Adégoólú Ọ̀gẹranko níwo Ó g'ẹfọ̀n ní pàtàkó ìdí The song used to serenade him also became popular to cheer up any Abíọ́dún.
Láyé Olúgbọ́n, mo dá 'borùn méje....
However it is still contestable that this is not the case.
This write up was put together by Mayegun research team.
Sunday, August 20, 2023
Symbols of ORISA IBEJI
Symbols of Ibeji
Symbols of ORISA IBEJI
The only known symbol of the twins Deities is the carved image of the twins.
A male and a female made of wood and dressed in fitting clothing materials.
The images are also painted in cam-wood
Feeding / worshipping materials for ORISA IBEJI
Feeding / worshipping materials for ORISA IBEJI
This are the materials used in feeding ÔRISÂ Ibeji.
Feeding Materials
Kola-nuts with four valves
Bitter-kola
Liquor
Palm oil
Honey
Black beans
Fried bean cake (akara)
Moin-Moin
Coconut
ORISA IBEJI SHRINE
ORISA IBEJI SHRINE
Ojubo (Grove)
The center of the room inside which the mother of twins lives together with the twins in the grove.
There is no special grove or shrine for the Deities.
Nowadays however, some Ifa priest and priestesses, herbalist and Orisa devotees do have a symbols of the Twin Deities in their shrines where the Deities can be fed by those who wish to.
ORISA IBEJI
These are twins. The twins are not affiliated to any deity whatsoever.
They are deities in their own right.
According to Ifa, Oduduwa, the father of mankind gave birth to a set of twins eight times.
Consequently, giving birth to twins and how to handle them are known to Ifa right from the dawn of life. Ifa is replete with stories of multiple births.
it is however the uniqueness of these children that made them Deities.
It is true that other people do give birth to triplets, quadruplets and more, but the birth of twins is still considered the most unique and most spiritually potent and rewarding.
The uniqueness of twins as Deities is such that they are only known Deities that have no special priests and priestess who feed them.
The mother of the twins is the "priestess" of the Deities.
ORISA IBEJI TABOO
Taboos
The following are ORISA Ibeji taboo.
Palm kernel
You don't feed them with palm kernel
One must not feed one and leave the other- even if the other half of the twins is dead.
The image of the dead one must be fed.
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