mineANDurs:
Cooking without fire?

Can someone explain it pls cos I do not understand how someone can cook without fire.

Hahahahahahahaha

Really? So they should cook with sun abi?

Jalapa01:
A press statement signed & released by Secretary to the Benin Traditional Council, Mr. Frank Irabor, has advised Benin kingdom residents not to cook with fire on Sunday - the day of Igberimwin in the royal funeral rites programme.

According to the statement, cooking without fire is in accordance with Benin customs & tradition and is part of activities for the continuation of the 15 days funeral rites of late Benin Monarch, Oba Erediauwa.

SOURCE: http://www.bookspen.com/2016/06/03/no-cooking-fire-benin-kingdom-sunday/

What a Tradition

How they want make my iye take cook?

Correction: the rules only applied to "FIRE WOOD" cooking, take note.

Oba gha-tor gbeaa!

BrainnewsNg:

What a Tradition

I guess you don't have one? Culture and tradition is a unique and peculiar identity from tribes to tribes.

Onegai:
This is the traditional way of calling for a fast. Is it from sunup to sundown? I'm sure the elderly and children are exempt.

Laredojohn, he will be buried with human heads, his staff carriers and some leopards will be allowed out at night to go hunting. That's what i was told as a child.
I know there is a hypnosis spell cast on people to coerce them into going to the palace and becoming servants for a while in order to cook for the multitude of visitors during that time (this was before the era of caterers). The hypnotized person was given a loincloth to wear and usually worked without needing to rest so had to be released after a day. My mum's neighbour was one of those caught the last time Oba "travelled". He went to the farm, didn't come home that night and came home a day later, exhausted and with welts on his hands from pounding yam constantly. He had absolutely no idea what he had been doing, but someone who was in the palace confirmed seeing him in his loincloth around the kitchen (working tirelessly).

Dis is serious...if this still applies today...thanks for the info though.

Zellie:
hall4 boys and beans

Lolz...hall4...boys.....that beans must don......#chai

Flexherbal:
Will there be free launch for everybody?

hilarious

Gala and lacasera would sell that day.

The Benin Kingdom transcends generations. I want to believe we're talking about FIREWOOD fire here. Come to think of it, about 100yrs. ago in the kingdom, there may not have been anything like kerosene stove, not to talk of the modern day gas/elect. stoves. Whereas these laws/values had been handed down from centuries past.

mtsheew
i go cuk wit fire
rubbish

biko, solar stove fire down naw

mhizmercinda:
lolzzz.......re u serious??re we dat strong headed

You school in Uniben?

macino1:
Correction: the rules only applied to "FIRE WOOD" cooking, take note.


Oba gha-tor gbeaa!

oga! Im sure when that rule was made there was no stove or gas or hotplate. So what else was cooking done with.

OkeEsibe:
mtsheew
i go cuk wit fire
rubbish

Let me advice you.. Benin is a strong ground. Dont try it. Just eat pineapples and pawpaw only for that day... Or cook before that day and eat it cold. If you try it... You will see 12 men with red bead in your kitchen dragging you... Ive told you ohh...

Ppl deceiving themselves. Shebi they will go from one house to another to check. Nonsense

djakinwande:
Not surprised wat I dnt knw is how do dey cook in d 90s wen tins like dis happen cus dey r many alternatives in dis century bt how do dey manage it den in does old century

In ancient times, it was a day of absolute fast for both man and beast, it was a way of mourning the demise of the Oba

you make my mouth dey water this evening o! lol. liked!

Kiish:
na wetin i go cook on sunday... with big fire sef. you all are invited

If i cook with fire inside my house
Tell me how u go take know
Lubbish

Lol. ah bros. i didnt mean to cause commotion

pablus:
you make my mouth dey water this evening o! lol. liked!

. pls accept my apologies

Abeg who go feed the citizens of Benin for that period.. .Which kind tradition be this again. Oya Benin people una go turn to vegetarian.

Simple IQ statement, many nairalanders could not decode the amazing
deep insight of the Binis. It is another way of telling you to show respect
by eating what had already been prepared previous day or eat things you
can eat raw if you can not fast. Pls you can eat eko, drink garri snd smoked
fish, groundnut, coconut, fruits etc. OBA GHA TOKPE RE...ISEH !

ZORO47:
biko where are those from Benin? Come and teach us how you cook without fire Abi una dey use electric cooker for village

Microwave oven! Honey. It's Microwave day.

NOR USE FAYA COOK FOR BEENEE KEEDOM.
UNA NOR DEY YEAR WORD?
HIAN!

OLUJOSHINS:
unlike a certain land where the so-called Oba is cutting an English cake on His birthday

this is what I call culture & tradition

What is "ENGLISH" cake? and how is it different from FRENCH and SPANISH cakes

This thing can only affect those mama puts and owners of restaurants that can easily be seen when cooking. As for those in their flats, na who wan to dey look their kitchen?

Zellie:
We should cook with sunlight?

Rara o, B29 or Ariel

This is bullshit

mineANDurs:
Cooking without fire?

Can someone explain it pls cos I do not understand how someone can cook without fire.

Winch cooking technology is readily available...OK , don't worry u won't understand Lol

Mumu talk. cook and no fire impossible. May be NA over night food them go eat. Infact the old culture has been over taken by development. Adieu Oba of bc