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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, such as 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 follows their 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$plain why we purposefully violated our taboos. Even when we are not consciously breaking the taboo, bad things may come of it. %or e$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

n ko mama )eu eewo mo o tun daye atunwa mi Translation' Today "gbedi appears Tomorrow "gbedi appears big 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 reali-ed 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 /0,12 !"/0, by %ayemi %atunde %akayode &incerely, 0wo %agbemi)o 0mosun %akayode "yeku"fun3yahoo.com

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