Call your Ancestors.

“let us call him

 Let us call Ifa

Let us invoke the spirit

So they can hear us in heaven”

         Ancestral worship is almost universal in Africa. The goal of ancestor veneration is to ensure the ancestors' continued well-being and positive disposition towards the living, and sometimes to ask for special favours or assistance.

        

         I was at a point in my life where I was facing so many obstacles.I had a deep meditation and prayer before I went to bed and had a dream about seeing an elderly man. I sat down with him and pour my innermost to him. He told me not to worry and he called some other people within reach and told them to get some materials and get ready to do work for me. He started making prayers for me and he gave me all kind of  medicines. I was in tears all through the process because I have so much emotion lock within. 

      When I woke up in the morning, I went to my father house and explain the dream to him. He told me that was my grandfather in my dream helping you. I was surprised as he had long passed before I was born. I started asking my dad questions about his father and that was how I reconnect with my grandfather and  I eventually had to get my own ancestral object made and I make it a priority to communicate with him and every other person I have as ancestors. I love to share my testimonies to give people hope and help them build their faith and remain firm in it. 

          In life, there are times when you will going along without a care in the world and nothing to weigh you down, then without warning you hit a great impossible. Do not let yourself sink under the pressure of uncertainty. Sometimes the only actions require by us doing trouble times is to call upon our ancestors.

        Maybe you are facing adversity in physical, emotional, or financial area of your life. Do not panic, do not dwell in worries, it won't fix anything. Call upon your ancestors. Pray!

      Even when it seems there is no way out. Call them. Open your heart, ears and mind and listen to the truth spoken through them by Olodumare. Keeps these in mind whenever you face adversary.

                               

          Iba fun Egungun

          Iba fun Ara Orun

          Iba Baba mi

          Iba Yeye mi

          Eje n ri temi se.

       

         Homage to Egungun

         Homage to the Ancestor

         Homage to my father

         Homage to my Mother

         Do let me prosper.

                  Ase o!

                                     Ifangelist Ifayemisi Elebuibon

Blame it on the gods.

We often hear Orisa practitioner talking as if everything that happens in their lives and what they do character wise is the direct result of the Orisa they were initiated into. This has a pious ring to it, implying that we are always living as an embodiment of these Orisa with a sensitive awareness of their control over our lives. 

I find problems with this view of I am Omo Ogun hence I need gin, I am Omo Sango, which explains my temperament.   However I cannot help but wonder how much involvement do these Orisa have in our lives.  Do they control our characters and shapes our personality? Are they responsible for our good and bad behaviors?

My own experiences have challenged me to question how I relates to the events in my lives as regards to a particular Orisa that crowns my head. I’ve encountered a lot of failure and frustration in my life. I have done a lot of things a divinity won't do. The question now is would Orunmila lie? would Obatala steal? Would Sango forgives? E.t.c Because in as much as they are a divinity,  we have to also relate to the fact it is human that becomes Orisa.

All of the convince me to think that often times as a practitioner, we do try to exemplifies our character flaw or greatness to a particular Orisa that crown our head because we need an unquestionable source to hide our character traits under.

I personally believe we are who we before or after intiation, until you embrace the concept of initiation as a process of rebirth and not power proclamation, until we let ourselves loose and allow the Orisa to penetrate our coreness, that is when any Orisa can influence our life.

We are dealing with a spirit that looks inward rather than outwards. So if a particular Orisa is responsible for anyone behavior,  for someone like me who wears the crown of 4 different Orisa, I must indeed have a great personality disorder.
I refuse to believe Ogun is responsible for anyone alcoholism or Sango for anyone's temperament.  Ogun is no going to end up with liver or kidney problem nor Sango behind bars for uncontrolled angered. We are responsible for each attributes or personalty of any Orisa we choose to be identified with or portrayed.