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Give thx for the wisdom Iya. I appreciate the nuanced understanding which you convey.

Greetings Obara Meji,

Well done . Though you say you are holding back, in this time, you will no longer be able to write without going deep .

The wisdom embedded in this post is beautiful. I loved the use of energy and the expressions of gender to clarify common misunderstandings of deities and spiritual practices.

As I read, I was also able to apply the concepts you explained to Christianity and Islam…without questioning validity of a religion or spiritual practice, it is evident that the further west it travelled, the focus and interpretation took more form than energy.

In this time, with easy access to inFORMation, everybody knows everything and results become short-lived because of ignorance and dilution. There are also challenges faced by those who seek to learn authentically and the truth becomes exclusive and expensive to access.

There’s so much more to unravel.
However, I am grateful for your willingness to share your light, wisdom and experiences with us freely.

Blessings

Thank you Obara meji, may the forces of the universe strengthen and bless you.please I want to ask must I be initiated by a priest or priestess to the water Goddess. I’m from the eastern part of Nigeria. Secondly I had a dream where I was given money, afterwards I went to an occasion and was trying to collect a souvenir,then an old man asked me to forget about the souvenir and come help him sweep his compound. Please what does helping him sweep signify. Thank you

Ok, When a deity begins to take on images and depictions, that expression of the deity is more of exalted man than god. The more form it is, the more it takes on image, the less that it is a pure beam of light and the more it begins to act as how anything would living within our dense human environment.

I know that the orishas take on different personality, so it can be easier for the human mind to comprehend, but I wanted to know how do we humans keep the energy in their highest and purest vibration.

Just have to say, Wow… This post is higher level thinking and reading all together. Thank you Obara Meji for breaking things down for this human mind to learn to understand. This is a must read again because a lot of important information regarding the Yemoja or Yemaya to be learn here. I really enjoy and learn a lot when you tell your story and write it. I just have to say Thank you because you put so much into your writing for us to learn and have a better understanding of things.

The help is supposed to be perfect, I’m glad for that word unscrambler

Aboru boye teacha! Great Post and thank you for your wisdom, can I just say for me some of these literal meanings helped me to process and come to some kind of understanding until I knew better as you said humans minds are limited so we try to process by adding literal meanings whichi know is wrong. I have a question in the world of dreams when a deity appears as a gender does this also have a meaning ? because from what I understand energy is male and female so why appears as a gender ?

I thank you very much for this comment and your story. I would like to learn more about your Dinis traditional practice. All traditional practice are the same and are ine, culture, language and environmental may create the variant but all are but ONE.
There is a practice in Igbo land that is very similar to what we call Zion in our Jamaican culture. In their culture, imagery, colors and then some.
Spirit is everything and everything is Spirit. Spirit is plural like saying the word people. However not everything or everyone is plugged into spirit. In other words not everyone is attuned or conscious of Spirit of whatever is.

This is too intricate to detail in a commnet, when the minds here have grown, I will write a post or teach a class on this . Thanks once again my brother!

Thanks for breaking down this subject O! Also appreciate your breakdown of the practice of sacrifice in your response to Toy. Can’t discuss Orishas without referencing veneration. In your follow-up post on Orishas, can you please shed light on what it means when multiple Orishas choose an IFA initiate?