Eewo Taboos What Are They and Why Do We Have Them by Fagbemijo Amosun Fakayode
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Eewo: Taboos, What are they and why do
we have them?By Fagbemijo Amosun Fakayode
Eewo are taboos. They are close with all the negative forces in the world, suchas death, disease, loss, etc. when we break our eewo's, we are inviting those
negative forces into our lives.
Everyone has different eewo -- what is taboo for one person may actually be
good for a different person, only Ifa knows.
If we knowingly choose not to observe our own personal taboos, we cannot be
guaranteed the Ire (blessings we are destined to receive in our life.
!e cannot say for sure what the implications will be, as we do not know for
sure, but at the same time we cannot safely say we are guaranteed to have all
blessings in life eventually, if we are patient, as is the case for one who followstheir taboos and the teachings of "runmila. "ne who heeds the advice of Ifa
and follows the eewo carefully will eventually, with patience, have all blessings
in life.
#owever, if we are consciously breaking our taboos we can more or less be
guaranteed that we will not have all the good things in life. "r even if we do live
a good life while conscientiously breaking our eewo's, we can be sure that we
will have to answer to "lodumare when the life is through and e$plain why we
purposefully violated our taboos.
Even when we are not consciously breaking the taboo, bad things may come ofit. %or e$ample in the &acred "du Ifa "gbedi ("gbe "di we learn of "sun and
her troubles with guinea corn, one of her eewo -- taboos. &he was
unconsciously eating the guinea corn via the animals the hunter of her home
had caught near the guinea corn farm. This was preventing her from becoming
pregnant and bearing children, and she did not even know she was consuming
it.
"gbe "di says
"ni wiriwiri "gbedi"la wiriwiri "gbedi
Eye nla ni fapa sogan
oku ope ni homu leyin
a difa fun en)oke ("sun's hunter
Ti i se wolewode "sun
"sun o mama )e baba
eyin o ri bi baba se n wonu "sun
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n ko mama )eu eewo mo
o tun daye atunwa mi
Translation
Today "gbedi appears
Tomorrow "gbedi appearsbig bird carries her arms at once
*ead palm tree is one on whose back omu grows
+ast Ifa for en)oke
The closest servant to "sun
"sun did not eat guinea corn
*on't you see how it got in her
I shall never eat forbidden things
ever in my lifetime
!hen she realied and stopped eating the animals caught near the guinea corn
farm, "sun was able to become pregnant and have children. This is )ust one
e$ample of what violating ones taboos can bring about.
(Ifa verse from "& T#E /012 !"/0 by %ayemi %atunde %akayode
&incerely,
0wo %agbemi)o 0mosun %akayode
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