Thursday, December 4, 2014

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: Aiku Pari Iwa : Consummation of Being in Classical Yoruba Philosophy



 






                                                                                                                                                           
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                                                                                                                                                                                       Aiku Pari Iwa

 

                                                                                                                                                 Consummation of Being in Classical Yoruba Philosophy

 

                                                                                                                                                                                  

 

                                                                                                                                                                              Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

                                                                                                                                                                                           Compcros

                                                                                                                                                                 Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems

                                                                                                                                                    "Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"





                                                                                                                                                          

                                                                                                                                             


                                                                                                                                                Igba Iwa, the Calabash of Existence, its sphericality of form 
                                                                                                                                  in consonance with the harmonious complexity of its design 
                                                                           evoking the integration of all possibilities of existence into a holistic form, a form understood as an existential reality  and a cognitive aspiration



              

Aiku pari iwa

Existence stops at deathlessness 


Aiku pari iwa

Deathlessness is the end of existence 


Aiku pari iwa

Deathlessness completes existence


Aiku pari iwa

In deathlessness, existence terminates


Aiku pari iwa

Deathlessness brings existence to a conclusion


Aiku pari iwa

Deathlessness terminates existence


Aiku pari iwa

Deathlessness is the completion of existence


Aiku pari iwa

Deathlessness concludes existence


Aiku pari iwa

Existence terminates in deathlessness


Aiku pari iwa

Deathlessness consummates existence


Aiku pari iwa

Deathlessness is the consummation of existence


Aiku pari iwa

In deathlessness, existence reaches consummation


Aiku pari iwa

In deathlessness, existence is swallowed up


Aiku pari iwa

Deathlessness perfects existence


Aiku pari iwa

Deathlessness is the fulfilment of existence 




InspirationalTexts


Rowland Abiodun,  "The Future of African Art Studies, : An African Perspective", African Art Studies: The State of the Discipline. Washington: The Smithsonian, 1987.63-89.


Olabiyi Babalola Yai, Review of Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought by Henry John Drewal; John Pemberton; Rowland Abiodun; Allen Wardwell. African Arts, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jan.,1992), 20+22+24+26+29.



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