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Hello Dynast, Obakire & Falajiki, you're doing a awesome job at doing interviews, Dynast! Another great video! Dynast, I hear a rooster crowing in the background.

Hey brother... thanks for posting this video. I am Nigerian and from the Benin royal bloodline. if you want clarity of this topic about ile ife being the cradle of humanity please let know me.

As a Nigerian, growing up i know people from ile Ife actually really do believe this. I am from Edo state in Nigeria, i actually do not believe this but is OK if they do.

Uhuru, u r a damn lucky guy. You just tapped into the nerve of yoruba tribe. That king mentioned afere,egbere . Now Uhuru, start collecting charms. Go n ask them for afere- a teleportation device. Go quick n ask them for it. Then you shall see wonder. After, you will never leave Nigeria. you will see life in a different ways

There's was nothing as Mesopotamia during ancient time. Ife is the cradle of humankind.

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They gave you a big title. Chief Akirie

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Missionaries changed the entire Naming heritage of Yorubas and others. All the indigenous Yoruba names you find today, are missing an entire spiritual genre that once dominated name making in cultures all over earth. Animism’s animal totem genre is almost non existent in Yoruba. You still have Ifa in modern Yoruba names, but much of it has been christianized to remove direct references to Ifa. My family name had Ifa replaced with Oluwa as a general term for God that mostly implies the christian God today. My grandfather made that change when he devoted himself fully to Christianity. But Missionaries did worse by the time my grandfather was newly born in the late 1800’s. My grandfather’s father, was the last to have an “Animist” name in my lineage. Animism was severely attacked by Christians. Ifa remained but more ancient roots of it were in Animism and Animism was severely eroded away. My great grandfather was the last in the family line, who had an Animal totem name. Such names were wiped out -other than in royal titles where kings are still given animal name titles like “leopard” or “lion”. The royal palaces were the only places where missionaries could not use force to change the people’s heritage and that is why only in royal houses do you still find animal totem names worn by people. Animal totem names used to be prominent with every family and household before late 1800’s. Late 1800’s was when the momentum for colonial rule started in Nigeria and the missionaries were part of the reeducation brigade. From there, no new borns were allowed to have Animal totem names. You may find a few with animal totem artifacts obscured in the modern names or with names that are related to a royal lineage. Animal totem names go back to pre history and globally, where native Americans all had animal totem names like “sitting bull”, “walking eagle”, “grey wolf” and so on. Asia had a rich animal totem culture where you even see it in their Kungfu films where the martial arts styles were all based on animals. Monkey style, dragon style, snake style, Tiger style and so on. Even Old time Europe before Roman empire, many of the royals show in history accounts with animal totem titles. Probably goes back to before cave paintings where they mostly painted animals rather than themselves. They were probably painting themselves but they identified themselves with animals and named themselves after animals. So when they wrote their names on a cave wall, it would be an animal’s name they had to paint, and it would not be written in any writing system which does not seem to have existed back then, so they paint a glyph of the animal’s image to represent it and that animal represent their identity and is their name. Even without knowing how to read old egyptian hieroglyphs, you can look at them and see how much animal images are used and those animal images were probably the oldest symbols in the hieroglyphic writing system. The modern letter “A” was originally based on the head of a cow. Animal totem insignia was so prevalent you find it hidden in the very alphabet the missionaries used to re-educate Africans while forbidding Africans to use their own animal totem names. Missionaries were ignorantly replacing African animal totem culture with European Animals totem culture. They consider themselves literate but were too ignorant to understand the greater linguistic heritage underpinnings for any kind of literacy. Ironic how the missionaries forbid Africans to use Animal totem names and then direct them to new names written in an Alphabet where the first letter in the alphabet is the letter “A” and that letter literally is the glyph for the head of a cow and stems from the time when the cow was so worshiped in animism religions, that the biblically forbidden Bull god Baal was the Alpha of a society then and there, and that is why Alpha(A) is still represented by the head of a cow today. Christians literally are worshiping via the word of God written using glyphs of the forbidden god Baal. The letter A is an inverted cow head with horns down to the ground. Baal is the forbidden bull god from the story of Moses and the ten commandments delivery. But somehow, hypocritically, animal totem names were unchristian for Africans. But ok to spell Africa with the European letter “A”. Spelled with the animal totem for the biblically forbidden god Baal. It is the main reason why i respect linguistic studies more than literacy itself. If you want to be a convoluted and hypocritical mind, be a very literate person who has little clue about global linguistic heritage.

If AFRICA is SOOOO GREAT then stop it with the back n forth to AMERICA and just move there for good, see damn near anything can be cool or tolerated when you know you can catch a plane back HOME. 😏💯

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I think they did a poor job at explaining this probably because they are not very vast in world history and civilizations. I didnt even know the custodian of Orisa Ikire is a designated Oba. I find that they kept referencing the bible and jewish myth(tower of babel, garden of eden) which have nothing to do with Yoruba traditions. the yoruba belief that Ife is the cradle of humanity can stand on its own without having to seek out the bible as confirmation, this can only lead to a toxic syncretism(which is happening in someway already). Mentioning tower of babel, ark of noah etc to some traditionalists appears like a good idea to make the tradition more appealing and familiar as these semitic myths are so popular through islam and christianity but at the end it takes away from Isese(yoruba traditions). From History, we know the Cubans and Brazilians who identify as Yoruba or Yoruba descendants got there through the transatlantic trade (sidenote: They do not speak yoruba on a conversational level, yoruba is used only as a liturgical language in Santeria and to some extent Umbanda and Candomble). The Indians of the area that is now Cuba and Brazil did not know Yorubaland or Ife The idea of Ife being the cradle of humanity is very important in yoruba traditions, Ife itself is proven to have been an inhabited as early as 500BC, and maybe more findings will produce a much earlier date. But to use the bible as a reference I am sorry is ridiculous because the bible didnt even mention any place in sub saharan africa, and there is no historical evidence that Western asian civilizations ever knew of the civilizations of sub saharan africa to draw a useful comparison. We should also consider the possibility that this idea of Ife being the cradle of humanity was in the perspective of the ancient yoruba who knew of no city older than Ile-ife

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