Snitch24:
Wait
What's with all those
People they're carrying
Like dead bodies
What's wrong with them

They get this kind of high and spiritual, a particular spirit comes into them because they are meant not to have eating catfish but they did.... so the spirit torment them for just a little bit

sinkhole:
and if these whole thing is turned round now and made to happen in London with the queen present then you will agree that it is good and grandeur?

I honestly wanted to know what you think would be the benefit to the society of worshipping a river.
I'm very disappointed you hurriedly bring "London" and "the queen" into what could have been an interesting discussion (without finding out what my opinions are). Bye

Omoluabi1stborn:


Yes, that particular girl has been an Arugba for 8 or 9 years

She needs to get married

Nothing like undiluted tradition

Just imagine say 2 Fulani herdsmen just appear from nowhere.

Den go all pick race

calcal:
Just imagine say 2 Fulani herdsmen just appear from nowhere.

Den go all pick race

kid

Jesus is an idol

calcal:
Just imagine say 2 Fulani herdsmen just appear from nowhere.

Den go all pick race

Nearly funny

Omoluabi1stborn:

Here

Hope she's a virgin

Can osun produce a cell phone?

Can Jesus produce Moinmoin

Ashirioluwa:
I used to respect these traditionalists until kidnappers started kidnapping traditional rulers (Oba) and Babalawo

Those are Obas who gave up their ancestral traditional rites and ways of their ancestors for Islam or Christianity. They stopped doing the traditional rites that are essential to the throne and thus lost the protection from their ancestors. See what happened to the Oba of Legos during EndSars. He also made the same mistake.

Even those hijab girls too come fetch water.. nothing like traditional worship of our forefathers. To hell with terrorist brain washed religion

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Can you give me a detailed story pertaining this Osun Osogbo festival? I am currently in Ede South, Osun State for the first time, and someone yesterday was talking about the festival and exactly what was done to the British people who tried to stop it. How true is that? Abeg give me gist.

Omoluabi1stborn:


I actually don't know.
Maybe because of crowed she fainted

No be crowd according to them
Na people wey enter spirit oo
Snitch24

mindful01:


She needs to get married

Yeah, this should be her last arugba

ZIAZI:




Can you give me a detailed story pertaining this Osun Osogbo festival? I am currently in Ede South, Osun State for the first time, and someone yesterday was talking about the festival and exactly what was done to the British people who tried to stop it. How true is that? Abeg give me gist.

Iya Osun Or yeye of Osogbo (Head of Osun priestesses of Osogbo)�‍♂️

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Iya Osun in spiritual white dress and with red band taking the spiritual food for the Osun River Deity from the head of Arugba Osun (virgin and holy young girl that carries Osun Bowl) as other iya osun and a man assisting during the annual Osun Osogbo Festival in honor of Osun River Goddess/Deity at Osogbo in Osun State, Nigeria. The spiritual food would be thrown into the Osun River and after that devotees can take the water for various spiritual purposes.

River Osun takes its source from Igede-Ekiti through Ilesha and the grove in Osogbo. The Osun goddess established her kingdom there. Olaguna(1952:16) writes that many centuries ago when Oba larooye of iple omu, olutimeyin, a great hunter and their subjects migrated from ipole omu because of water scarcity they then settle at the Osun groove where the goddess has established her kingdom. One day, as they were preparing the ground for the planting season, a tree fell across the river crushing many of Osun tools of trade.

Worshippers fetch water from the sacred Osun river during the Osun Osogbo festival, or the river goddess festival, in Osogbo, capital of southwest Nigeria's Osun State.

Every August in Osogbo, the festival presents an opportunity for the indigenes of Osogbo, their friends and well-wishers as well as fun-loving tourists to converge in town for the yearly celebration. The festival has gained a global recognition to such an extent that the Osun Grove was enlisted as a world heritage site in 2005. (Xinhua/Zhang Weiyi)
It is recorded that the goddess was at her:

Larooye olutimeyin, you have destroyed all
gbogbo ikoko aro mi my dying pots
le ti fo tan she cried
The spirits within the grove pacified the goddess saying
“oso-igbo pele o, spirit of the forest we plead,
Oso-igbo rora o, spirit of the forest be patient
Larooye and olutimehin were shocked because they don’t know how the goddess got to know their names. She sensed this, and later advised them to move to the upper part of the river called OHUNTOTO to domicile. There oba larooye established another palace as well as a thriving market. One day, olutimehin saw some spirit dancing round a lamp with sixteen receptacles, which he seized through incantation. When the goddess learnt of this, she made olutimehin and larooye promise to celebrates the lightening of the lamp annually, particularly when the grand finale of the osun festival is nine days away.

She gave them a calabash containing antiquities with a warning that the contents must never be exposed to the naked eyes. She also decree that the calabash must be taken to the grove during the festival by a virgin with filials to the reiginig kink, and who must be chosen by the ifa. On the festival day, the Ataoja (king ) sits
on the dedicated stone of authority housed on the osun temple/shrine where he commune with the ancestors. Osun promised that if her instruction is carried out, she could pour a curative substance into the river as soon as she accepts the sacrifices from the Ataoja. Traditions which is becoming increasingly known in scholarly circles reveals that osogho had been founded as early as Oduduwa period. Osogbo, the goddess of Osun river was the queen original founder of Osogbo.
According to Bier (1966:69) there are some heroic roles of historical importance, rendered by Osun goddess especially during the Fulani war of 1842. She was credited with many important achievements, which helped to established the state. She possessed magical powers which inspired her and frightened her enemies. Tradition acclaims her the goddess of fertility, protection and blessing. She possess the ability to give children (through birth) to the barren women and power to heal the sick and the afflicted by means of her medicinal water from the river. Osun according to the Yoruba cosmology, they believe that she is omnipresent and omnipotent. Her power is represented in another Yoruba proverb which reminds us that no one is an enemy to water and therefore, every one has need of and should respect and revere Osun as well as her follower. The relationship between the osun Osoggo festival which has been celebrated for about six hundred centuries.

The Osun Osogbo festival has the early history of the Osogbo people which is founded on mythical powers. The relationship between the people of Osogbo land, the Osun goddess and the festival is that annually the people of Osogbo comes together in the second week of august in worshiping and praising the osun goddess who have been protecting their land. The Osun Osogbo festival which is celebrated in august has manage to survive the rigors of the 21st century and people hail it as one of the most solid festival that celebrates and showcases the traditional African culture.

phemmyfour:
Hope she's a virgin

Yeah, she has been carrying the calabash since 8 or 9 yrs ago.
She was a secondary school student as at last 2yrs
Don't know now

nairabacks:
I'm from an osun osogbo dynasty and I had my water baptism yesterday 14 the August.. Glory be to God almighty !

Smh

Ashirioluwa:
I used to respect these traditionalists until kidnappers started kidnapping traditional rulers (Oba) and Babalawo

Dem fit kidnap Ooni or Alaafin? Or Alake?

Nah mush room obas dey can kidnap

thundafire:
Still na them go enter church pray and shout yet the still do sacrifice and worship gods. God said if u are doing good keep on doing good,same goes to Bad too

Only if you understood religion and philosophy

Where is @aminaloaded that lady blogger that always give us news of happenings in Osun State. She just disappeared into thin air or has she abandoned the quest and changed her moniker

She even deactivated her account.

Is she not married!!!

Omoluabi1stborn:


Yes, that particular girl has been an Arugba for 8 or 9 years

Using dirty flood waters to wash face claiming it's a goddess.
Smh, fools.

Heritage is a pride

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Tudorsk:
Is she not married!!!

No,