that some Yoruba member-nations took political names of the Canaanite
groups -- Edomites, Jebusites and so on?
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One of the things that is very consistent in the History of Yoruba
people and family nations has been that King Lamurudu was a powerful
hunter who had several children and one of them, Odua or Oduduwa the
last child, became the founding ancestor of the Yoruba people and
family nations.
Our prehistory is based on oral traditions and, like all oral stories,
subject to change by omission and commission -- after some thousands
years of told and retold. When groups and family nations have found
their niche and security within the land, independent of one another,
different stories about groups' origins become more fashionable.
And the advent of colonialists did not help our history. It was like
the 'sermon on the mount' -- "Give ye not that which is sacred to the
dog, neither cast your pearl before the swine, for the swine would
trample them under their feet and the dog would turn and rend you."
For some thousands of years we have given our history to alien powers;
as we use their expertise and their language to interpret and write
about who we were and are.
The situation was made more complicated as colonialists (another alien
powers) moved in and assigned different alphabets to the spoken words
of similar groups within group.
For example: Some groups were assigned the letter C, some got Z and
another got S -- for similar sounds. In one similar sound, some groups
were assigned Ch, or Sh, or, even S. Some group received the K and
others received the Q for similar sound, and so on and so on. Each
group accepted its alien alphabets without reexamination and change.
Furthermore, isolation of groups from each other led to different
pronunciations of words and their uses took new, but related,
meanings.
Please allow me to digress a moment. I went to see a Ghanian colleague
in Richardson by Dallas in Texas. He and I went out for a couple of
hours and, upon return, his wife welcomed us back home with the word
that sounded like Yoruba "eku aabo,"which means "welcome" in Yoruba.
But I was wrong. She was speaking her Ghana language when she said
"akwaaba," which means "welcome." Another group in Ghana spells the
same word "aquaaba."Our languages and symbols, highly codified by our
ancestors in order to promote survival, could be very useful in
determining our true history.
We must look at prehistory and other available references from ancient
times related to oral prehistory and our cultural symbols to correct
the mistakes in written history.
Last year I wrote: "The Yoruba language is excellent in what is called
"euphony." Euphony is a method by which one makes a phonetic change to
make a word or phrase more pleasant to hear or pronounce. For example,
in Yoruba, "li" or "ni" can interchange. Some Yoruba ethnic can say
"ni ana" or "li ana" which means "as of yesterday." "Ni oni" or "li
oni" which means "as of today." For the sake of euphony, both phrases
become "lana" and "loni" respectively. Now, let us apply the same to
Nimrod, Nam'Ur-ud and the father of O'dua -- Lamurudu.
First, take out all vowels in each name. Nimrod will become NMRD,
Nam'Ur-ud will become NMRD. For the sake of euphony, replace the "L"
in Lamurudu with N and you have NMRD. Lamurudu was the beginning of
ena; the inversion or change of letters, words, syllables or sentences
in order that the sense is disguised. Lamurudu is thus concealed.
It has now become an instinctual response for the Yoruba to trigger
the "u" sense upon contact with Arabic names, which have their root in
Aramaic, the language of the Canaanites. Ask yourself this question:
How did the Greek come to have the "Staff of Orion" and the Yoruba
also have the "Opa Oranyan?" Orion and Oranyan are the same but utter
confusion.
But our elders would exaggerate some words. Oranyan (Orion) became
Oranmiyan -- the same utter confusion. The Greek and the Hebrew
borrowed a lot from their Canaanite masters from prehistory. The art
of writing came from the Canaanites. The Hebrew, the Arabic and the
Greek borrowed from the Canaanite. Some older dictionaries would let
you know that.
But modern dictionaries have begun to omit the Canaanite as first in
writing. And that is purposeful. For example, the letter "O" is used
by the Canaanite to mean "end or completion." It is "omega" in Greek
which means "end." The word "dua" is Aramaic/Arabic for "prayer" or
"supplicate before God." In Arabic "Ya" is "O." Therefore if you named
your child "Ya'dua" and I named my child "O'dua," we are both thanking
God for answering our prayers for giving us the child we want.
The name is usually given to the expected last born son. In modern
Yoruba, a'dua has acquired the letter "r" to become "adura. "Following
the deluge, after a few thousand years with the kingdom under water
and under deserts, other people, including the Hebrew, invaded with
confidence to take over the land gradually because the great king was
gone. The Canaanites scattered under different names to hide because
of persecution, genocide, splinter groups and within group fighting.
One group became Yoruba, which was 'Yerubbaal' -- the 'People of
Baal'. Baal was a monotheistic God.
With new names for the one and only God, the word 'Baal' was absorbed
from the Canaanite into Hebrew to mean 'lord or master of the house'
and it is the same as 'baale' in Yoruba. The people further changed
the identity of Baal to Shango.
Please make the effort to go to a good museum where you can find the
drawing of the Canaanite God Baal and compare it with any statue of
Shango. And for that matter, we should compare the sculptures and arts
of the Canaanites (Phoenicians) with that of the Yoruba, Benin, Asante
and others for similarities. And we should not allow any stolen
history found in the Old Testament cause us to shy away from our
prehistory. The Canaanite word "ilu" gave us Olu, Eli and Ala. The
same people gave us "ob" from which Obd, Abd and Oba came. For example
in the Bible, we have OBADIAH which is "servant of God." It is
oxymoron when our Yoruba ministers call God "Olorun-oba." the Owner of
the Heaven cannot also be called the servant. Olorun by itself is a
great attribute for God. Oba in prehistory was the servant of the
people appointed by the King to administer his territories --
conquered or acquired. At that time, Obas were like Governor Generals
under the British rule in our present day. They were not meant to
equal the status of the king.
In the same line of conversation, the deity "Obatala" in Yoruba was
the 'servant of God' and God is 'Ala Ta Ala' in Islam. The time is now
for our linguists, lexicologists, educators and simply ordinary
persons to help update the Yoruba Dictionary to include the roots and
origins of words. Our alphabets, developed by a European
anthropologist, only put us further away from our origin, especially
those letters that carry a dot along with them.
Take for an example, the letter 'O' as in 'imo' and 'ino'. Both words
mean 'light'. But in Aramaic and Arabic, the words 'light' will be
'ur' and 'nur'. Let us declare our own Age of Enlightenment with the
new millennium.
Author: M. Kayode Oladale Molake
To Email the author: OmoOdua9@aol.com
PS:
The myth was that the Opa Oranyan was the walking cane of Oranyan. No.
From the vantage view of our ancestors, it was the structure of the
Staff of Oranyan (Orion) in the Orion Nebulae. Opa Oranyan (Orion)
contains messages that must be deciphered by you, you, you and me.
Do you know that King Nam'Ur-ud (the Light that Shines, hence Orion)
was degraded by the writers of the Old Testament with the name Nimrod
which has no meaning? It was like deliberately saying your name
wrongly to put you down. You are told in the Bible that Nimrod (King
Nam'Ur-ud -- codified LAMURUDU by our ancestors) was the greatest king-
hunter, built the Tower of Babel, and the meanest human.
Do you know he vanished about 9,000 years ago and our ancestors
erected a colossus statue with his face on the body of lion the king
and the hunter to represent him on earth until his return?
Do you know the Sphinx was a tribute to the great King and not
Pharaohs? This is the statue's ninth millennia. Don't let the
"experts" mislead you.
Do you know that he word "Yoruba" is a spiritual name? Do you know
that some Yoruba member-nations took political names of the Canaanite
groups -- Edomites, Jebusites and so on?
Do you know you MUST develop your Third Eye in order to come into the
Past, which is more tedious than entering Present and the Future? This
is beyond your general science validity.
May the Spirits of our Ancestors continue to bestow upon you great
favors. Ashe o.
Wish you peace and alafia
M. Kayode Oladale Molake
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