Thread by @Euronaire

ORISHA ESU ODARA, ONIBODE ORUN

THE MIGHTY GATE KEEPER OF THE YORUBA TRIBE WORLDWIDE

Before we proceed, I implore you to have an open mind about this sensitive article, because I would like to explain to you why ESU is not the DEVIL or LUCIFA of the Bible , KNOWLEDGE IS KEY

Decades ago, a boy within the age of 8-12 years old (Samuel Ajayi Crowther ) was captured by Fulani during the Fulani/Oyo wars and he was sold with his mother and toddler brother to the Portuguese slave buyers.

However, the ship was intercepted by the British Royal Navy and the slaves were released at the shores of Sierra Leone.

This was where the Anglican Church Missionary Society took over the educating of young Ajayi.
One of his foremost achievements, apart from taking Christianity to the Niger Delta parts of modern Nigeria, Ajayi Crowther translated the English Bible into Yoruba.

This can thus be said to be the first medium through which the Christian Satan/Devil/Lucifer was thus interpreted as the Yoruba Èṣú.

Ajayi Crowther was also the one who compiled in 1843 the English-Yoruba Dictionary upon which so many others have been patterned till today.

Ajayi Crowther could have translated the Bible Satan as satani. He was a child when he was stolen from Osogun, his village in Iseyin, Oyo, and had little or no knowledge of the Yoruba ESU who has been part of our history before he or his father's were born

Now who is ESU

ESU is the Head of Operations to every other divinity on earth

Esu is also the Divine Messenger between God and Man (Ifa priests)

A Gate keeper or the Guardian of the doorway to heaven, he is the conveyer of informations from Olodumare to Earth and from earth to Olodumare

There is no IFA PRIEST or BABALAWO that does not have the ESU shrine (it's a must)

Esu is the Orisa that offers choices and possibilities , he safeguards the principle of freewill.

If you remember the face in this picture you would understand the duty and essence of Esu (Please I did not say Esu featured in the movie Thor) 😐

Esu represents the balance of nature. Day and night, white and black, construction and destruction.

Esu counterbalances every aspects of our reality.

Behold part of his names

Lagemo Orun (the sacred child of heaven)

Alaakalu (one whose greatness is manifested all over the place)

Esu Odara (one who can do and undo)

Ogiri oko (he who is as hard as a rock)

Elegbara (the mighty and powerful one)

Papawara (the quickest and fastest one)

Akeregbaye (small but in control of the whole world)

Onibode Orun (the gate man of Heaven)

Laalu Agbaye (police of the universe)

Now Repeat After me " Esu mase mi omo Elomi ni kose " ASE

Translation "ESU don't JINX me , JINX someone else's child "

Now you know the difference between ESU and SATANI / DEVIL

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