This document discusses different types of Yoruba incantations and spells, including Ofo, Ogede, and Oriki. While Oriki is constructive, Ofo and Ogede are used to disrupt or break apart their target, which can be a person, animal, object, or natural phenomenon. The document provides two examples of Ogede spells - one where OloOgboni priests helped locate an abducted child, and another morally ambiguous case involving twin daughters who had eloped. It notes that Ofo relies on external items but Ogede relies on the inner power of words. The document also briefly describes Ose as a small ceremony that occurs every four days, similar to Christian Sunday.
This document discusses different types of Yoruba incantations and spells, including Ofo, Ogede, and Oriki. While Oriki is constructive, Ofo and Ogede are used to disrupt or break apart their target, which can be a person, animal, object, or natural phenomenon. The document provides two examples of Ogede spells - one where OloOgboni priests helped locate an abducted child, and another morally ambiguous case involving twin daughters who had eloped. It notes that Ofo relies on external items but Ogede relies on the inner power of words. The document also briefly describes Ose as a small ceremony that occurs every four days, similar to Christian Sunday.
This document discusses different types of Yoruba incantations and spells, including Ofo, Ogede, and Oriki. While Oriki is constructive, Ofo and Ogede are used to disrupt or break apart their target, which can be a person, animal, object, or natural phenomenon. The document provides two examples of Ogede spells - one where OloOgboni priests helped locate an abducted child, and another morally ambiguous case involving twin daughters who had eloped. It notes that Ofo relies on external items but Ogede relies on the inner power of words. The document also briefly describes Ose as a small ceremony that occurs every four days, similar to Christian Sunday.
On a person or animal , even na object or natural phenomenon such as rain, lightning. Fire or erosin,. While Oriki is fundamentally constructive, these forms are used to break up the individual totality of their object or victim. Yet they can be used by the traditional psychiatrist to plough the acre, breaking open a deranged complexo f thought and emotion so as allow it to bring forth the intended better and more wholesome crop. Such spells emote extreme intensity and effect intrusions on the molecular nucleus of the obeject by cutting into its vital rhythm of oscillation. While the untamed word . Od t d w, the word s self existing principle , closest to Olodumare of all that comes before creations., is in essence benevolent, the tamed word when used intentionally is alas more often than not a dangerous destructive or oppressive instrument . Of course there are exceptions . A child was abducted from Ile-Ife. A group of OloOgboni sat for sixteen hours without sleep, food or drink, addressing gd to the ( um know ) abductors who subsequently released the child to be found walking dazedly towards the city . Another case is morally ambivalente : the twin daughters of Ajibade, the above mentoned priest of Sonponno and other Orisa, had eloped jointly to the house of somenone other than the bridegroom intended by their ,. I met him by chance in the house of another very powerful Sonponno priest. The two had locked themselves in a room . In the late afternoom na unexpected short thunn, derstornm emitted a single bolt of lightning . Which struck the seducers house . Ofo rere is neutral in itself ; it can be deposited in a material object , sacret medicine or other item that will serve . Ogede, however , relies on the inner potency of the word which it motivates.
Ose Os eis small , regular ceremony taking place every four days . It can be said to correspond to the Christinas Sunday
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