The Yorùbá Idea of the Afterlife or 'Heaven'
The Yorùbá Idea of the Afterlife or 'Heaven'
The idea of a general place called ‘heaven,’ and a downside to it called ‘hell,’ that is existent in most ‘major’ religions, for the lack of a better word, is non-existent to the Yorùbá people.
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Thank you for sharing this deep knowledge of Yoruba belief system of after life. I dont know why my spirit rejects the Greek imposed Christian but watching your videos starts to make sense now. Thank you!
My question is simple, most African relgions have a concept of a after-life, other-world aka a spirit-world (a cosmic kingdom or village), were the supreme god, lessor "gods" & the deceased loved-ones live. Do the Yoruba have such a concept?
Many more African communities, believe that when a person reincarnates in their family tree for a variety of reasons, once their work or destiny is done they return home to the afterlife or spirit-world permentatly. While other African relgions believe the human-soul is in multiple places as once simultaneously, when a person passes away. Like the Lion-King film, when a women dies she "reincarantes" through the eyes of her descdants while at the same time she is alive the spirit-world receiving prayers of ancestor-veneration from her family. I know there are different Yoruba sub-groups, but some Yoruba have alluded to thier traditional belief being like that of the later, the omnipresent-human soul or "partial human reincarnation".
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Eleda is also used for the head in the diaspora. What does that represent? Also. I have to say, i really appreciate and enjoy your videos. So insightful. Thank you.
It's because the people who developed the ideas of hell and heaven are people who are greedy, and sinister themselves. Thier whole belief systems are based upon the fragments of spirituality they could comprehend from Africa. These people believe in a system that places them above the environment instead of functioning within it. It's why we have the problems we have today. The outsiders have no regard for the gifts that the source has given us. I am so thankful that you explain these things so plainly because I've understood these things for a long time but could not actually identify exactly why. Life experiences and witnessing many things with my own eyes has shown me the confirmation that my ancestors were right!!
To be honest, I think someone who is Hebrew needs to explain to you what these things mean. A Christian church has their own interpretation, but the true interpretation of heaven and hell isn't that we physically die and go somewhere. It is a spiritual death. Even Jonah went to hell, and David said you are with me whether I descend into hell, or ascend into heaven. These are spiritual places that you can go to dependent on you adherence to God, the appointed time after judgment. Those who do well ascend into heaven and, those who do poorly descend in the hell and it's only fair, because the wicked don't deserve heaven, and if we say that those who do good deserve hell, well that's not right either. So there are plenty of people on this Earth that are in heaven and hell right now, and if you've ever been on the street with the homeless who are twitching from demonic infestation, they are definitely asking for a drop of Spiritual water from someone who is dwelling spiritually in heaven. As far as the streets being lined with gold in heaven, people go to parties and talk about the decorations, and only makes sense to talk about the appearance of heaven. I don't think it's vain to say that there is a golden heaven everywhere. I think it's in vain to say you want to go to heaven just because there's Gold everywhere. Gold in the Bible also represents perfect spiritual refinement. That's why he said I will refine some as silver, and some as gold. My question is why would somebody's soul be on Venus or on Mars? Yes some people can come from the galaxy, those are called fake humans that are demonically possessed, because I have heard demons call themselves Stars etc. What makes a person from Venus or Mars different? What do these things represent concerning your soul coming from under the Earth, or your soul coming from in the heavens? They have to have meaning. God calls the earthly man Earth or son of man, and The heavenly Man son of God. I think of your soul comes from underneath the Earth, that probably is a liking to be an earthly man or a wicked man. I have felt like I was in heaven before, and it was enjoyable I did sing a lot, but the thing is I didn't worry about a thing, where the earthly men always worry. They worry about their ends being met, they worry about their friend and family issues, they worry about what they're going to wear, they worry about what people think etc. Heaven isn't like that there's no anxiety, or depression. The reason why it would seem boring to someone to sing all day, is because they are looking at things through an earthly lens and not a heavenly lens. The Bible says the reign of the heavens draws near, and it also says we are Spiritual houses, so our bodies when they are refined, and made into the image of God that is our spiritual house of Gold. Our souls are pure in that state.
I'm from Saint Lucia (an island in the Caribbean) and I have been told by many people that we descend from Nigerians in west africa..who came during trans atlantic slave trade,…so i am very interested in Yoruba metaphysics.
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I thought this was about the afterlife it's about language!!
Nice to watch your video as always. I always saw orun and aiye as heaven and Earth. Now I see that the separation between the two is not so different.
Do y’all believe in reincarnation??
Suggested literatures/writings please?
Alafia, I am not in opposition to what you saying and like how you explain orirun, but the Yoruba do ceremony to connect and appease their ẹgbẹ in heaven and paint their bodies at this time to mimic the stars. So if at some point if the Yoruba don't envision heaven in the sky please explain this along with chain of being descended down from heaven with chicken to spread earth and the irúnmolè being said to descend to make earth habitable.
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Thanks. How can we differentiate the vowel sounds. It is very hard t adapt o,ọ, ó. I will love to get that
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E kuu ise Auntie Ronke. I’ve always hated the attempts to Christianize our Yoruba concepts.
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