Elédùmarè/Olódùmarè (Olodum): Meaning, History and Significance | Sufficiency and Abundance

In this video, I have broken one of the Yoruba words for describing the highest being down into bits and explained each part in detail. Translating a word as ancient, natural and descriptive as 'Olódùmarè' to 'God,' simply, is a great disservice to all. I have gone into more prehistoric aspects and assessed feminine and masculine attributes/energies in relation to what a supreme being must be like, using a more-popular belief system as a case study.
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Eledumare/Olodumare (Olodum): Meaning, History and Significance
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What is the meaning of Olodumare/Eledumare/Odumare/Edumare?
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[@yorubalessons]

🤦🏾‍♀ How embarrassing! The so-called "standard" dialect is not the standard; I beg your pardon. Hearing myself call it the standard is irritating since there was no general consensus among the towns. It is the most common dialect because Samuel Ajayi Crowther, who contributed largely to our current writing system, recorded it in writing and promoted it in academic spheres. It is the Oyo dialect, and you will see and hear it the most.

[@oladipooredipemdphd.6465]

..).

[@yugelo1]

In our home we align ourselves with the practice/teaching of Ifa

[@Jide0001]

Yoruba is so complex. When people ask me to teach them, I'm just like, okay, let's learn together! It's so intricate and delicious. Awa omo Odudowa. Alafia fun gbogbo wa o.

[@OloRishaCreole504]

Maferefunfun Olodumare'💫🎭🌛👑🌜💫🎭this channel is just popping up in my feed..MUCH LUV FROM NEW ORLEANS,LOUISIANA

[@odebowale1838]

The Michael Jackson video was here in my city, Salvador! The most african place outside of Africa, and I'm very proud. I also practice candomblé, the orisa, nkisi and vodun worship here and they are everywhere here. Olodumare here is passed as the Almight Creator. This is the first video of yours I watch and I loved it. I'm learning yorùbá because of candomblé (yorùbá is one of the languages we sing our songs in) but also for ancestry. Ase ooo, ore mi!

[@yorubalessons]

❤️❤️❤️

[@africaRBG]

I would love to visit there one day. Is it ok for tourism?

[@emmanuelabruzzo3936]

A sua bênção Adriano Sousa ! Você também acompanha o canal e aprende Yorubá, meu irmão ? Este canal é um dos melhores !!! Sou Emmanuel, Elegún de Omolú (São Paulo / SP). Estudo Yorubá com Mavó Adelson de Brito, professor universitário e de língua Yorubá ( Ogan do Kwe Vodun Zo, comandado por Doté Amilton de Sogbo, no Curuzú). Estou fazendo um curso pelo Gabinete Português de Leitura com Mavó Adelson. Foi como cheguei neste canal. Aeronkẹ está fazendo um trabalho incrível ! Ẹ ṣe gan an ni, Aderonkẹ, fún gbogbo iṣẹ ti ẹyin n ṣe pẹlu awọn amohunmaworan yin. O kare ! Apreciate it a lot !

[@realtalkempresseyamalik9822]

Eshé beautiful sister! Thank you so much for your videos and sharing your knowledge . Greatly appreciated. Keep up the excellent work. Olodumare will continue to nourish you and give you sustenance. Asè

[@michaelaugustus1341]

Kudos to the greatest Yoruba teacher! Love bible references on God's femininity! Ę kuu şę o, Iya!

[@aygabrielle]

You are a true teacher. Thank you for your truth and energy. - Gabrielle

[@wendellbradley5032]

OLUWO mi, may EDUMARE continue too bless and keep you prosperous .

[@lariyo9122]

Another great video.... Edumare has to be beyond human comprehension, but humans try to assign gender to God. I always imagined God to be neutral but the narrative of a male Adam as God's image was what i was taught as a child. I also think the pot is a container that symbolises much more than food/survival, ...because the pot continues to provide blessings for me till this day. Thanks for putting the time in as always.

[@omggiiirl2077]

Thank you my sister for seeing us! 👀 From a Youruba descendant in Amerikkka! I yearn to be home! Because the USA is hell!!

[@MoniqueConnor-jr6np]

I yern to go to the motherland one day to live the rest of my days. I am from Amerikkka and it’s very strange here. I definitely feel out of place like my spirit keeps telling me this is not my home. Something is calling me and I feel it in my spirit. Many blessings to all of you and direction and strength to your journey 🙏🏽♥️

[@antonrodney9388]

Iba Olodumare o👑 Mojuba mo gba o✊🏿wonderful break down teacher🕊💕🙏🏿mo gba patapata🌊the ALL SUFFICIENT ONE🌞🌕🌠⛈️🌨🌪🌈🌴👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

[@Sweetdification]

Oh Wow Exactly 💯👑 Making much more sense than what has been taught Divine 🌌 Masculine and Feminine Attributes to A Supreme Being Called Oludumare

[@psychedelicchild9019]

I really love your videos! Thank you for making them!

[@jamaicareddick1801]

You are so good! Thank you for informing my faith and practice! 🙏🏾 so helpful

[@arisecute]

Fortunately, we still use 'Odu' for large pots in my dialect and 're' for leaving, so it's easy to relate with it. To Yorubas, Olodumare is formless, has no gender, keeps the universe together....

[@cesareborgia7689]

I have waited for a sister like you for a long time ..too really learn first and understand

[@seuntaiwo3624]

Very enlightening discussion. Thank you much

[@woabaxra4402]

I believe in this universe the representation of the duality of olodumare can be seen in all forms. We are obsessed with who is in charge and who came first. That being said. I believe these aspects come from a unified field of energy represented as masculine and feminine. Which are just words. Two parts of a whole. The energy given in attention to this is the balance (worship). I believe by not worshiping and honoring the feminine side we are COLLECTIVELY KILLING OURSELVES. No doubt different parts of the multiverse maybe masculine driven....I believe this place was feminine driven and our ancestor masculine aspect saw the creation and took control by force hence switching the driving force to masculine hence our current state of being. We must honor our mother godess. Who is the creator of earth. I mean how blatantly wrong have I been in life with this concept. Think about this. You reference the bible where the creator says let us make man in our image and likeness. My mind knew at that moment what my heart and soul has been trying to whisper to me all my life. Sounds like someone wants to make something kinda like themselves but not an exact copy. We MANipulated this world. Raped our mother in a sense and LIED to and continue to lie to all who has come after that point. Your words just unlocked more evidence of a theory I'm studying abouta reversecurse on this planet. I can imagine the creator feminine aspect saying. Let's make a help mate and made a man to help the woman because the world was dense and required a physicallly strong being to help the woman. Not a woman from the rib but a man from the womb. First man asexually comes from the first woman and immaculate conception happens then through aeons of time we switch stories and times add characters and stories to fit the driving force behind this deception the rogue masculine energy. Could the original sin be the created over powering the creator....not the spirit but the physical beings (daughters of creator) they made...I DO NOT KNOW lol just some of the theories that came up in my spirit while listening to u. Thanks for sharing I appreciate the knowledge.

[@brettcole6197]

Your theory makes slot of sense

[@traceyhopkins3698]

@@brettcole6197 makes perfect sense to me. Incredible

[@ADE-of-LAGOS]

Well, Yoruba Ifa creation story clearly stated that the first human being (called Eni-bi-eni, meaning "a likeness of us) was a woman. Though, creation of Eni-bi-eni, was the second attempt to populate the earth. The first set of beings sent down to earth (called Eniyan) were largely removed from earth by a flood due to their evil ways. Though few of them survived, and are still around until this day.

[@Hblahblahblahykwii]

@@ADE-of-LAGOS where did you source the ifa creation story?

[@Hblahblahblahykwii]

Alaye, eleye, ala-aye oni-aye Aye akamara

[@gypseguera5132]

You mean so much. I can never thank you enough.

[@yorubalessons]

😘

[@geadeyeye3318]

Can you speak about the difference between eledumare, olofi and olorun please?

[@yorubalessons]

Will do

[@thedailytrails1481]

God Is light above light.

[@reignmorton9422]

I loved every second of this

[@yorubalessons]

Thank you, sir.

[@diamondchaingarments4342]

Nice job 👍

[@99cham1]

Thank you sister

[@candyp.8220]

Alaafia to you my beloved sister

[@yorubalessons]

Àlááfíà, sis. ❤️

[@fernandavidgal17vidgal49]

@@yorubalessons TRADUCION PORTUGUESE BRAXIL.. PLEASE

[@FromGuiriga]

Thank you !

[@yorubalessons]

Thank you for watching.

[@fernandavidgal17vidgal49]

@@yorubalessons TRADUCION PORTUGUESE BRAXIL.. PLEASE

[@yugelo1]

Our sister, we love you, we thank you

[@yorubalessons]

Thank you, Jason! ❤️

[@stephg6084]

Thank you so much for this thorough breakdown. It is such a beautiful word and meaning. Can you do a video on your reincarnations and how you knew.

[@jesusojeda3510]

Cubans had to also fight with the Castro regime and we had to be inniciated in secrecy until we finally won and can now practice the Orisa IFA lifestyle. Adupue. Aboru, aboye, abosise. Ase to.!!!

[@RodrigoNASCIMENTO-wc5ss]

I believe that it makes sene to think that Olódùmarè has no gender once everything originated from its supreme force BEING A UNITY AND INDIVISABLE THING! As Olódùmarè starts to create things, only then we can face polarities to exist such as light and dark, masculine and feminine and so on...

[@cesareborgia7689]

My God as a Black Man I'm hooked

[@kdpdesigners]

@Phrankleen here is another reference against the concept or teachings of @baba_Yoruba

[@LuckyCharmVision1]

God is both and shows up as whichever energy or attribute is needed at that moment.

[@Guillotier]

Hi thank you so much for the video! I am new to the Yoruba mythology and I found it very fascinated!! And I come across that in most texts they refer to the supreme god as Ọlọrun than to Olódùmarè. Are they the same god with different name? And what's the etemology of Ọlọrun? Hope you'll cover that and more mythology in the future. Thanks again!!!

[@MOBOLD4EVER333]

OLORUN AND OLODUMARE ARE THE SAME SUPREME BEING WHICH OTHERS OR ENGLISH MAN CALLS GOD, NO DIFFERENT.

[@mobolajiosula8092]

u know exactly what Your talking about

[@mobolajiosula8092]

ok so how about Olo run & Olo fi pls???

[@dominicd2063]

I was thinking of odu as force or even divination force. Some people translate odu as force.

[@migueobata]

For the Toltecas here in Mexico, is Ometeotl, and means ome 2 and teotl God , in Nahuatl, so God is dialectic Masculine and femenin, he- she can be who provide and who removes, and is outside and inside us 🤯 😅

[@afrinaut3094]

I'm an African-American man I have always believed, that if god or the supreme-creator god has a gender or in the least is gender presenting, its female. Women can do anything a man can do, except woman can also do what we can't: the lion's-share of human creation.

[@eyeleokan4122]

Who are you? I can stop learning from you. I think i understand what youre doing. And it is very sutil. Magnificent job. I dont think other religions understand what femenine is to us any way. It is a shame you dont speak spanish, It will double your ratings.

[@yasharahlayahawadah2257]

Sister I love your teaching especially that area of Odu the deep meaning which will give the perfect meaning of Oduduwa. However, you went off in the area you said God is both male and female that is destroying the being of the supreme Power. ELEDUMARE is a man and a man of war. The scriptures you quoted God / ELEDUMARE was just expressing is feeling using the situation of a mother. God said HE is a Father to Israel and the Yorubas are the head of the house of Israel. I would love to discuss more topic with you. Love 🙌🏿

[@yorubalessons]

Elédùmarè is Elédùmarè. Jehovah is Jehovah. They are nothing alike. Nowhere in our oral histories (including the odù Ifá) does Elédùmarè describe themself or have someone describe them as a "man," let alone a "man of war." If the idea of a God with maternal abilities bothers you and you want to rationalize related expressions as metaphors (but won't take masculine descriptions as simple expressions of God's feelings using the situation of a father), I respect it. But please, don't disrespect our spirituality; don't confuse our principles and philosophies with Abrahamic ones.

[@tkspiece2310]

No, constraing Olodumare into a gender is the preserve of Abrahamic faiths. Yoruba belief system does not seek to define physical or biological characteristics of what is considered the supreme being. After all, how can a being be supreme if they're already constrained by human attributes.

[@Juststars-56]

adupe oooooo

[@BalogunTafatafa]

@ Aderonke - E ṣeun pupọ olukọ wa.

[@Jujudollbaby]

15:27 ok but periodt cos she was sangin

[@blackstephan9482]

Could "odu" more technically refer to "crucible", particularly due to it's use in the creation of things?

[@tkspiece2310]

My thinking in this context is the word crucible would be a reductionist view. Odu usually references Odu Ifa. Odu can reference "knowledge" in this case a never ending one. So yes you could say the owner of a body or receptacle or crucible of knowledge. However the the reference would be missed out because you're then focused on the receptacle as opposed to the knowledge contained in the receptacle. If that makes sense.

[@blackstephan9482]

@@tkspiece2310 I agree. “Crucible” does seem to be more of a reductionist viewpoint of the idea standing behind the word. I apologize if I implied a “focus” on this expression of the meaning. Was not my intent. But I think it’s important to have a multiplicity of perspectives, particularly when exploring the multiplicity of meanings that may be derived from the various usages of any word. Greatly appreciate your response. You’ve helped increase my understanding and awareness. 🫡

[@tkspiece2310]

@@blackstephan9482 oh no need to apologise at all. It was obvious you sought more understanding and that's the key thing. The Yoruba belief system is complex and noone knows it all. Dilutions due to translations, impact of Abrahamic religions, trans-atlantic slavery, history of oral rendition and sometimes wilful distortion have made it even more complex. So I'm with you, discourse on matters is to be encouraged. Ire o.

[@blackstephan9482]

@@tkspiece2310 Your words are confirmation of my experience and encouragement to keep studying/ applying. 🙏🏾

[@mobolajiosula8092]

sorry and Olokun Olo-Kun what does this mean pleasse

[@yorubalessons]

I will address it in a video. Thank you for your patience.

[@Sweetdification]

IBA OBA Oludumare Yah OSHA Qedamawi 👑 King Of King's Lord Of Lord's Ist Conquering 🦁 Lion And Tribe of Judah Jesu

[@omo_alade]

E ku ise o! I thought odù is wisdom while àrè is the unknown. The one who owns or has the wisdom of the unknown...🤔

[@fernandavidgal17vidgal49]

TRADUCION PORTUGUESE BRAXIL.. PLEASE

[@MadebySOMI]

Talk to me about your lifetimes..

[@AAAASMAR]

That's MJ's piece he was doing what he could to expose the imposter Israelites !

[@isholaolayiwola762]

Just sharing my opinion. Olodumare in yoruba culture was never described as masculine or feminine nor described with shapes or images nor was olodumare called a deitie they just believed olodumare was all sufficient and creator of the world who created eniyan (human) and ebora(djins) etc and sends down different deities to the world

[@thedailytrails1481]

God Is neither masculine nor feminine. You could never give human attributes to Allah the Almighty (God). Why? Because these attributes are needed for procreation (Producing offsprings) so mankind or other "creatures" could stay alive thus the race persists in existence. God Allah, the self-sufficient do not have attributes that represent neediness. Say Hello to Ifaponle Ifakunle from me.

[@LuckyCharmVision1]

Mother/Father Is obvious but they chose to suppress the Feminine Entity of The Almighty.

[@hans6617]

AYE LOL LOL. thank you lol sister. Blind blind I was in my tongue. Curiosity has bitten my mind. So I wondered. Where Am I? Lol no one cared to answer. You speak of my interest🙃. Thank you for spelling this magic. I can complete a path now. For this, if you are in need, this will find you child of intell. Children are loving silence and speaking is for the fallen we can get lost in it. Like a path that carried a song before. It’s hallows are formed still playing that song for wind. Once words form In Your mouth and manifest than it is still. it’s like this words came in from darkness imprinted self. We took it up. The wind lol the great Imitator can form too but not of the same. Olo made water and wind. Fire is a jealous 1 it wants everything even what it cannot posses so it’s young but SMART. Formless 1’s. Speaking is form with the HELP OF THE FORMLESS. power… you made a flute from a branch. Does the branch have music or does wind already? The parts we tell the wind to separate in the flute at gives a new shape/volume to the wind? How do we know where to tell wind to separate? Why sound equal as? Why does wind touching water causes SOUND lol the holy SPEAKING IDIOTS? Who captured the wind? Who captured water’s refusal? Land is young in between. Common vibration. Lol. O|o,, Olo 🧐🤨. Y’all wanna speak Anglyze (anglicized) so badly with no respect to all. It’s not hard even a child can. Y is unanswered. That’s a problem but you all know so it’s funny. Pain 😂it’s a dancer pointed finger 1 . A lot of people won’t be back to this plane lol they will WISH. But the disfigured 1 speaks to well for them no point in helping if they don’t wanna move. KICK THEM OFFFFFFF BOARD LIKE LITTLE ROCKS they’ll grab whatever is weighing down the boat. Anything chained together is a easy thing to destroy. JUST KEEP FORCING THE CHAIN AND ALL WHO HOLDS ON TO FALL WITH IT. Lol lol UNCHAIN Shelved selves. magic is thought in static. Words are dancers. Mothers are KI. Fathers are KI. The child is GOD. Simpleeeeeeeeeee. Intelligence worded down in the most simple form for “id•iot”……. Your ancestors lol lol can’t disrespect self. So who ever taught you the past can send anything disrespectful to the future is dumb. Anyways. The word idiot is FUNNYYY. The fact you don’t look to disrespect self is hiding in plain sight. Lol like who hides stuff in the monster’s room. THINK THINK THINK IDIOTS. We are in that class in this room.