If not for colonial bastardization, Ifá is not something to be ashamed of and Ìtẹfá is something to be celebrated. When you come out of Igbodu, your friends and family ought to celebrate with you, and to congratulate you because of what life begins to mean to you afterwards. This is the essence that is rebranded in the Christian baptism.
The Central essence (Cardinal philosophy) of Ifá Religion is Ìwà Pẹ̀lẹ́, which in real concept is perfect alignment with the universe; this is the purpose of Ìtẹfá and a life time of consistent divination. Divination becomes necessary in our lives to help us retain/maintain alignment with the force of Destiny ruling our life so that we don't go astray as we are being influenced by carnal impulses. And when we do inevitably go astray, to find out early enough and be realigned through Ẹbọ and Ètùtù before the disalignment manifests in something too big for us to handle.
This central philosophy is never something to be ashamed of, but for the effect of colonization. In fact, it is the religion that the world needs at the moment as it (the world) continues to spiral down; falling in morals and increasing in uncertainty. Can you imagine that there are people who think that the world population is too much and that they need to do something to control the population of the world so that the economy of the world can be sustained? This is a plan being hatched by some of the less than 3% of the world population that control the wealth of the entire world. Such arrogance, selfishness and depravity living in one soul.
The reason our own (African) ancestors lived in abundance, relative peace and longevity is because they ordered their lives around their own Ifá and not Hollywood inspired standard of life, not after the speeches of social media motivational speakers or after the dazzling sermons of a pulpit merchant. They ordered it as much as they can after their own Ifá. Note, their OWN Ifá.
We can bring back that life by reorienting ourselves on the truth and value of our spirituality.
Egungun veneration for instance is to show the connection between us and our direct parents, grand parents and great grandparents that have been translated into the realm of the immortals by the virtue of death after living to a ripe old age. It is a means of bringing into our consciousness that these entities didn't die and fade into oblivion but that they still watch over us and help us in our journey here. In actual essence, we are not complete without them. We owe them our existence. If they didn't walk this earth and give birth to us, we will not be here.
So, what can be evil in this sort of thoughtful spiritual consciousness when even the laws of nature clearly point out that we must honor our father and mother?
Abandoning our Egungun is tantamount to abandoning an important part of ourselves, it is therefore to be expected that we will not live to the fullness of our potentials. And that's what we see today as we grope for meaning in a world where Olódùmarè has blessed us with the information / wisdom that we need to maximize our journey.
Olódùmarè didn't abandon us here to grope like we are currently doing, we are the ones who neglected the way of our Orí and until we be restored to our own divine path, we will continue to follow after filthy dreams and illusions. This we have been doing for close to 200 years now since the colonizers and the missionaries came to stylishly take us away from our own way to their own advantage.
On this day Ọjọ́bọ̀, may Ọba adẹ́dàá cause our confusions to cease and bring us back to restoration.
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