The Yorùbá Creation Story/Legend | Araba Ifayemi Elebuibon

[@presentpalace5722]

For people like me who their parents dont talk about these things. Thank you so much

[@josesantana27]

I absolutely love this Creation story. It is interesting to me that other cultures always try and take, a great African legacy and make it there own.

[@jesusojeda3510]

Thanks so much, I am cuban omo Oshun, awon orunmila ( Okaransode ) , I love educational videos and this one is one of the best I've seen. I'm learning yoruba, not only because my ancestors are yoruba, but because as a IFA priest i love learning more and more about my orisas and the yoruba culture. Keep the videos coming please. Ase, odabo.

[@clarissabrooks2502]

You speak truth! I am glad I came across this video. Nice to find like minded people! I am looking forward to my journey down the road with you and the deities.

[@olaideridwan1051]

Please do. Ifa is worth knowing. You can reach out if you need help.

[@shaktievans7478]

More learning for me as I touch base with my yoruba roots . Thank you.

[@TRUTHTEACHER2007]

OH MY GOD! THANK YOU! Thank you so much for pisting this. I've been searching for it for YEARS!

[@jimthom1956]

Thank you Aderonke.

[@ngusumakofu1]

This is wayyyy more interesting than Genesis.

[@beautyisjay]

FACTSSSSSSS!

[@thedarkgoddess5274]

I know right

[@olukoniseun]

Thank you very much for sharing this Adérónkẹ́. May you continue to accomplish great things in your work.

[@niyahlia3135]

Thank you for sharing this knowledge

[@phillipsayodeji9129]

Thanks you babalawo elebuibon. Aboru aboye

[@kimfrank7608]

I love your outfit. It is beautiful. Thank you for sharing your story. :)

[@Kiannamonroeee]

Thanks you sooooo much for making these videos ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@mojisoladeji]

I actually remember learning this in my secondary school Yoruba lessons. Hmmmm thanks for the video lesson, Adérónkẹ́.

[@wablosmith7119]

That must be one of those expensive private schools

[@emmanueloluyori]

This is amazing content right here. Well done.

[@ateemaadams2650]

Pele O thanks for this lesson. Please 🙏 give many many more

[@dom7926]

Thank you for making these ! I am only now rediscovering Yoruba culture that even my mother and grandparents know nothing about anymore

[@ayojcross]

Thanks Araba for the Odu ifa of creation. Now if they came from to earth using a chain from the sky to me that's technology....just like military forces would decend from their choppers. Can we agree that our ancestors are from another planet with advanced technology using animals (chameleon and chiken) to test how life will survive on the new found planet earth? Just looking from another angle. Thank you

[@MorningStar.Ghost.Yal.Priest]

This is the creation story by folklore, the universe is made of Space not Water: the original creation story is in Osa Ogunda, how universe expanded, planet created by multiplication of a single sand to create planet.

[@SMCWITHAREWA]

@@MorningStar.Ghost.Yal.Priest I love your narrative

[@yusufseun4987]

It was a space ship precisely...the came from another planet

[@christianabosede8104]

Yoruba ancestors were not aliens from another planet. Since I was a child and we were being taught the history in Primary school, I never believed in the story of Yoruba ancestors falling from the sky.

[@christianabosede8104]

Yoruba ancestors were born of earthly fathers and mothers. They migrated from somewhere and settled in Ile-Ife.

[@IMPACTHAVEN]

Where did they get a chicken and chameleon when there have not been any creation?

[@AfricanStoriesbyDamani]

😂

[@Searchforuhuru]

Great info

[@lionra4523]

Thank you!

[@yinkasly7376]

Many stories of creation in Yoruba. How do we reconcile all this? All these stories are told by Yoruba. It's the version you like you adopt..

[@stevegarrett4991]

Ashe to all who follows and know the truth 🐔📿

[@Tdot_the_Ruler]

Our creation story actually puts everything into better perspective since dinosaurs are said to be the ancestors of chickens and I should believe some were reptiles as well so chicken ancestors would spread the sand and the reptiles being very heavy would solidify the land…my mind is blown nobody’s creation story explains that fact none of them even include dinosaurs in our creation yet we find their bones hidden beneath the sands💡

[@samola282]

Yoruba's are really special people but they themselves do not know it yet.

[@tehilaayonwachi]

I love yoruba culture but i am igbo

[@alfredfernandez5282]

If you really see an afrocuban dancer with this song you will de Ochun trying to brake her chains from her feet and her hands. My godmother was imitated in 1921 by and African oni sango from oyó for her this song is about Ochun angry with slavery.

[@has892]

He looks like sun ra

[@sixteen7640]

I thought Orumila was born in Oke igeti in Ile Ife

[@allroundentertainment_5000]

They name same hero's after them

[@Ayooladapo6502]

Orunmila came from heaven through a chain.

[@olaideridwan1051]

Orunmila migrated there from Ile ife.

[@rellajamu7546]

What is shant?

[@Niniola_The_Bey]

Which Odu did he say this comes from?

[@cassiej6297]

Oturupon

[@AlbertoGarcia-ry3hx]

Sounds like Oturupon Owonrin but I could be wrong

[@bukkysonubi4129]

Is he saying that Orunmila, Sango, Obatala don't have parents

[@allroundentertainment_5000]

Yes,they are they first Irunmole,but some others hero's maybe later called names after them

[@Ayooladapo6502]

Orunmila did not have parents don't know of others.

[@beckyperez8700]

Yes, he was speaking about the Irunmoles: Heavenly beings with knowledge of earth. Irunmole weren't born on earth. Now, Orisa were humans who when they were alive on earth embodied a deity's traits or characteristics and when they died were deified and given that particular Irunmole's name. For instance, Sango is both an Irunmole and an Orisa.

[@proverbalizer]

Ṣàngó in his earthly manifestation as Alaafin of Oyo had parents

[@thedarkgoddess5274]

That's where the Christians people got the story of MELCHIZADEK (misspelled) but you got it

[@raycrypto8983]

❤️❤️

[@igorangelievish8111]

can a person be initiated into IFA twice?

[@yorubalessons]

If the first one was poorly done, and Ifá allows or instructs it, I think so. I will ask baba if I reach him.

[@igorangelievish8111]

@@yorubalessons Thank you for your help

[@dtaymclawhorn8773]

@@yorubalessons do u know a way to get in contact baba

[@olamideoladipupoemmanuel3387]

Thank you sir, tell me about obalufun

[@Bellodigitalworld]

Yorùbá history would have been authentic and reliable if it was written since ages not mouth to mouth history with so many versions that lead to lot of questions and fallacies.

[@christianabosede8104]

In this computer age and the age of artificial intelligence, it is very clear that the history of how Yoruba ancestors fell from the sky is not true. Yorubas migrated from somewhere, their ancestors had father and mother, they didn't fall from the sky.

[@deltacentralreintegration498]

I don’t agree that Yoruba where Arabs but it’s the way they left ifa in mass to worship Saudi religion

[@yorubalessons]

There were certain social benefits attached at the time. Same with Christianity.

[@highdeeadebagbe7758]

😂😂😂 see the story wey una dey believe

[@james_smith9]

Oh, so we should believe from Mecca, Muhammad literally transported to Jerusalem and to then ascending to heaven?

[@highdeeadebagbe7758]

@@james_smith9 at least we have evidence which is the Quran but can u provide evidence ??

[@shonoikioluyemisi2917]

Oduduwa was not with them from beginning. Obatala & orunmila did the creation not oduduwa. It was later oduduwa sent as it were as obatala & . Orunmila came. Obatala came with chain in ife oodaye while oduduwa came also with chain ife olagbo. They all descend from God not Mecca or else where.The Islam fanatics then rate Mecca as heaven to promote Islam. That wasn’t too far.it’s fiction. The truth is that they came the same way with chain but at different dispensation. If we can see great warriors turning to chain at their disparture how much more the earliest.

[@olaraji2779]

This is myth because Ile Ife has been existing before the birth of oduduwa all these are not true because Ogun was born in ire somewhere aroun osun state

[@mayowaidowu7081]

We have irunmole Oduduwa and Orisa Oduduwa. Ire is in Ekiti State called Ire-Ekiti the one in Osun is Iree they don't sound the same.

[@streetprophet007]

We're from Israel

[@yorubalessons]

Who is “we?”

[@irumole1519]

@@yorubalessons many of our brethren had been mislead consciously

[@afrinaut3094]

I am greatful for the knowledge. But I must admit I'm a little disappointed. I understand that there are many traditional Yoruba creation stories. But it seems the most relevant one is a man-club, boys only. It is clear in the real world, that women obviously do the lion's-share (more work than the male gender), when it comes to human creation. So how is it that Obatala, a male orisha, was able to create humanities' bodies by himself, with no divine female help? How is it, that only the male Orishas seem closest to Oloudmare & have the highest positions? Do men think themselves as greater than women, who do most of the work in human creation (to the point that the woman can loose her life in pregnancy)? What is the sperm without the African woman's egg, womb, fluids, & milk. The first person anybody knows, future fathers included, is their mother. Who is Oduduwa's mother? Who is Oduduwa's wife or wives? If Oduduwa is the forefather & first king of the Yoruba people, who is the foremother & the first queen of the Yoruba people? Olodumare has a male form Olorun, but never has a female form? Is Olodumare ashamed of the female sex? Male energy is the source of creation, while female energy is not the source of creation, but simply the assistant.

[@omoluabiorishaluabi]

The story Baba is talking about is an allegory or parable that has its own interpretation. The ancient true story exists... but people often interpret the story of ifa nowadays literally. "Owe ni'fa pa, Ologbon ni'ko, Omo'ran ni'mo", meaning, ifa speaks in parable, the wise learns it (ifa), the knowledgeable deciphers its true meaning. To be brief, Olodumare is feminine, hence the word "-Odu-"...a woman's womb is also called 'odu'. Factually, we men don't have odu. Women are the true representation of Olodumare on earth. Another thing is that Oduduwa of creation (noticed the word 'odu' again, is not male but female) is different from the Oduduwa (male) the majority of yoruba knew today, in fact, they have entirely forgotten the Oduduwa (Orisha = Divine Being from Olodumare). Yoruba both old and young nowadays misrepresents the story by often interpreting ifa corpus as literal.

[@THEONLYOBA]

@@omoluabiorishaluabi Olodumare is neither women or man

[@omoluabiorishaluabi]

@Oga Toni you didn't read between the lines at all...be wise. No one says Olodumare is a woman or a man, but the woman accurately depicts the essence of Olodumare on earth. Don't act on emotions but read with understanding.

[@tayehusein9395]

This is Aroso......the story is not genuine. ..

[@salimanrafiu5982]

Baba I disagree with you, I have no single believe in all what you're saying

[@james_smith9]

Oh, so we should believe from Mecca, Muhammad literally transported to Jerusalem and to then ascending to heaven? That is some mi’raj (mirage)

[@18yearoldboy38]

Yoruba are not Arab then why would my father not tell me I’m wrong? I know myself I’m Yoruba coming from a warrior family in Nigeria I’m 5 or 6 generation

[@BeatTheDrumEnt]

Yorubas are the descendants of the ancient Egyptians as do many other Africans... It's migration that leads them to their current places in Africa, ie Nigeria.

[@kingdomambassador7918]

You are wrong with that narrative of Ancient Egypt not us our tradition was very clear about our origin that we believe