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The Orisha Today. No More Fear! Oluwo Philip John Neimark
Dedication
Introduction
Possible Explanations
The Orisha
Orunmila/Ela
Osun (Oshun)
Esu/Ellegua
Sango/Chango
Yemonja/yemoya
Obatala
Ogun
Oya
Ori
Sacred Orisha Gardens
To my wife, Iya Vassa, the greatest priest, designer, mother, sculptor and partner a man could ask for. To my children Tanya Husain, Dashiel Neimark and Darq-Amber Neimark. To the late Afolabi Epega, Justine Cordwell and Susanne Wenger without whose guidance the Truth would have remained undiscovered.
Led by Orunmila, who was the first to tread upon the Earth, he allowed other Irunmole (orisha) to descend. Because he was in charge, and had succeeded where others had failed, he selected only 256 to join him. These 256 represented facets of nature and, becasue they were not of Earth, they would not die here. They were the connective point that would exist between humans and Oludumare (God).
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The native is not unintelligent, he is simply uneducated. So, if after working as a porter for several weeks of a hunting exhibition; were we to leave one of our rifles he would be quite intelligent enough to use it. He would pick it up, point it at the animal or enemy, pull the trigger, and achieve the desired results. Yet, if you asked him “what killed the animal,” he would reply “the loud noise and the puff of smoke!”
Having no scientific background or education, the native would have no understanding of gun powder, propulsion, the ball (prior to bullets) that traveled so fast it could not be seen etc. He would, from his paradigm, hear the explosion, observe the smoke that rose from the rifle, and see the animal fall wounded or dead. Later, while butchering the animal, he might observe the small metal ball in the wound…but he would assume this was part of the magical process of the loud noise and the puff of smoke.
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