BATIFE PERE

ODU

Ancient Science of the Divine Feminine

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I owe the following people deep gratitude, for their
inputs in making this anthology a reality;

- ADETUTU O. J. ALABI (A.K.A DONATELLA

KOFOSHI) without your beautiful artistic
pictures, the anthology would not be what it is.
- JULIET GODWIN (AFROJUICY) thank you for
your digital artistic illustrations.
- MICHAEL ANIGBOYA thank you for such
awesome graphical art.
- MARK ONYILIMBA the work and time you put in
to make it all come together is much appreciated.
- IFEANYI (NZE) AMADI sage and wise one,
thank you for making a dream come true.

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 DEDICATION
To my mother Gbologha

To my Wife Oluwatoyin Fash

To my daughter Tamara

To all women everywhere to whom we owe our very

existence.

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CONTENTS

ODU BOOK II
01 Page 8 12 Page 30

AMADOSU IN PRAISE OF
02 Page 10 13 DARKNESS Page 31

TAMARA IKOKO DUDU

03 Page 12 14 Page 32 – 33

BORN OF WATER OFOR

04 AND SPIRIT Page 14 15 Page 35

YONNIVERSE OJA
05 Page 16 16 Page 37

ANDROGYNY TORU PENI

06 Page 18 17 Page 38

EROTICA GBARAUN EGBESU

07 Page 20 18 Page 39

OGBANJE DIRIMO
08 Page 22 19 Page 40

IWORIWO OGIGAN
09 Page 24 20 Page 41

IN PRAISE OF THE
BOOK III
10 MOTHERS OF THE
NIGHT Page 26 – 27
21 Page 43

IYAMI AGBALUMO
11 Page 29 22 Page 44

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 AJEBU - JOSA SPIRIT WIFE
23 Page 46 35 Page 61

HANG OVER WHO GET THE WEED?

24 Page 47 36 Page 62

HALLO RUN
25 Page 48 37 Page 64

STRIPPER GOLGOTHA
26 Page 50 38 Page 66

STRAY DOGS IT IS TIME

27 Page 52 39 Page 67

STAR DUST SEEKER

28 Page 53 40 Page 68

IMMORTAL ROBOSAPIENS
29 Page 54 41 Page 69

PISSED IJEBU WOMAN

30 Page 55 42 Page 70

THIRD MAINLAND LGBTQRSTWXYZ

31 BRIDGE Page 56 43 Page 72

DIRGY LULLABIES VALAR MORGHULIS

32 Page 57 44 Page 74

BACK SLIDE PSALM 23

33 Page 58 45 Page 75

CHO CHO CHO CHO ONE SIDED STORY

34 Page 60 46 Page 76

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 AWORA
47 Page 77

END NOTES
48 Page 78

KEY WORDS
49 Page 79 - 85

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 Odu
Otu
Odum
Atum
Adum
Atom
Adam
Adanma (the first lady)
Odumu
The ancient serpent
The python
Intertwined in a dance
The black womb of life
The sacred black pot
The birth place of all
To thee mother we return!

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 Amadosu
Mother of the gods
Thou Goddess of fertility
Oruyingi
Queen of heaven
Mother of Horus
Woyingi
Self-created creator
Atum Ra
Teme Arau
All su-cient mother
You black cobra of the Nile Delta
Udjo of Piri wadjet
I believe in God
God the mother
Oru Amina
Oloma mutu
Aziba Arau
Oginarau
Ibolor mo bo ere
Giver of life
Taker of life
Wealthy giver of wealth
Iseee![Isis)

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 (Atum Ra)

I bear witness with elements

That there is no God
But woyin Tamara is
I bear witness with water
That I have not sinned
Neither have I come short of glory
I bear witness with the sun O Ra
That I am not conceived in sin
I bear witness with fire
And with the kubi marks on my body
That the Lord is not my shepherd
For I am not a sheep!

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 Mother!
Behold thy sun
Sun
Behold thy mother,
The birthing of spirit and water
The waters above and the
waters below Breaking...
The marine spirits
roaming the firmaments
And the marine spirits
that made all things
The fool says it in his heart
Mami wata power powerless power
Yet ours is a world
Submerged and lost in watery space
Each of us a marine spirit
Roaming our waves
Like the spirit of mami wata
roaming the deep waters
And from water Ora the sun was born!

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Blessed are those who were before they were born
Blessed those who will never die
No fear can cripple them
I am not what you think, I am not
I am the eyes that sees in the dark
The dark shinning with a million lights
The eyes that sees yesterday today and forever
The all-seeing eyes of Eru!
I am the ear that hears
Where there is no sound
I am the mouth that speaks without making speech
The universe communing with the Yonniverse
I am that I am
The portals of life open
From the clits enters a spark of light
Now there now here now everywhere
An incarnation
What has been shall ever be
What be dead may never die!

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 Night and day is one
Cold and heat is one
Silence and noise is one
Dark and light is one
Good and bad is one
Love and hate is one
Bitter and sweet is one
The early S(he) beings
Strong and weak is one
Black and white is one
Lucifer oh morning star
Jesus bright morning star
Life and death is one
Angels and daemons one
God is a woman the woman is God
And the truth blends all into a lie

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 And the daughters of the
gods Themselves goddesses
Looked upon the
sons of men
And found them sweet to the eyes
And they came down at night
when men sleep
And lay with them in wet dreams
A river of cum strawed up from a
head in-between the calf
And lions afire, a river of
juice to quench it
A body spread on an altar
plate And a creamy
feast to the goddess
Of love that shortens the
distance in time and space
And a holy communion
taken with closed eyes
Hymen!

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 Trouble me not child
Stay with me
I have found the buried totem
Stay!
Or do I have to kubi your body
All over Abiku
And set it afire?
Your companions of wind are calling
Your companions of water too
Your companions of air and fire
But Earthlings love you more
Arrogant haughty mystery child
Heart break me no more
The dibias also are tired
So is your mother earth

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 Imariwooo
When palm fronds wither
A new shoot sprouts
When fire dies out
It covers itself with ash
When a banana tree falls
It replaces itself with an upspring
Ara Ere Arau
The sun is a woman
A woman in the sun
I told him God was a woman
But he was a doubter
Yet no man sees the Iworiwo
Iworiwo Olodumare
Olodumare has come to bathe
None can see the IWORIWO
Except the Iyami Eleiye
Except Iyami Osoronga
Except Iyami Ajin!

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 Some pray to their mother
Their mother fargin

We pray to our mothers

Our mothers OSORONGA

We are fortunate
We have mothers a legion

IYAMI Eleiye
IYAMI AJIN

Who walk forward and backwards?

Into and back into time in flight

Who rest legs on the Wall?

And take a sacrifice at the gate
Under the sacred tree
Lorita Meta floating at night

Who hold the potent power?

Of the sacred black pot

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 Custodian of the dark matters and energy
Who rule the night?

Iyami apanimaagun
Olokiki oru

Who save their children with outstretched hands

From the deepest bottomless pit traps

Iyami wadjet
Iyami aje iyami ajin
Iyami udjo
Iyami ajike

Some chant to their mother

Their mother fargin
We sacrifice to our mothers a legion
To Iyami Eleiye

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 The caster of lots cast lots
The diviner divined
But a spirit of lie went
forth to deceive
The caster of lies!
Who divined that
iyami is a witch
Hahahahaha
Iyami Ajin
Iyami Eleiye
Iyami Osoronga
Let me be initiate of
such witchcraft
That ate not its child at infancy
Nor drank its blood!
Iyami aje
Iyami Eleiye
May the mother protect thee!

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 BATIFE PERE

ODU
BOOK II

THE SCIENCE OF DARK MATTER AND DARK ENERGY

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 In the beginning
there was darkness
And the darkness was
before the beginning
For the darkness itself
Is the beginning
There is no end
But the darkness

Amun the hidden one

Benikru kru e kikimo

And when the darkness sought

To make itself visible
It gave birth to light
The light shone bright
But the darkness daily overcomes it
For where ever the light went
The Darkness was there ahead of it!!
Okuku biri biri bomi

Who can resist her power?

Who can but not succumb to her charms
Kings and lowly men alike
All must at night daily bow down to the darkness
In sleep and surrender
Death Daily humbles and embrace
Oh KUK KUK protect me

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 In the place where energies cross fire
Purple and greenish vortices
The forces pulled to cross over
To the other side
Spirit wife is already waiting
Spirit companions encircling
And the aged pass along in their canoes
Their space ships go nightly to refuel
In sleep and dream mode
In death mode

In the place where the Gods cut soap for men

Now I cut soap for other men
Potent black pot
Potent black soap
Potent black potion
Take little... just a little portion
And be gone

In the dwelling place of the deities

400 Orisa
401 irunmole
Cylindrical ships touch heaven and earth
In the presence of raw power and energy

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 Humble up and take just a little

To IYAMI mother who heralds the night

Wadjet protector of Horus
IYAMI Aje Olokiki Oru
IYAMI who lives in the Akoko tree

To the beggar God

Roaming
To the youth God in the market place
Begging
To the elder God at my gate
Praying

To the forces of the wind

And the hosts of fire
To the forces of the under world
And the water spirits

To you I lift my black jewel

My black pot I raise to you
To you I lift my three scepters
Smoke it up!
Smoke it up!
O ruuu! O ruu!!
E ruu! E ruu!!
Accept the rising black smoke
Iseee

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 Woyingi presides on the creation stone
Barugu is there
So are the Opu adue
The Opu Oru and Gbaraun Egbesu

Woyingi Presides on the creation table

Before her all souls stand
To choose in one life
What is to befall them in the next?

For in this life

With our words and actions we choose what will befall us in our next life
With our words deeds and misdeeds

Woyingi breathes on the water

The water takes the form of her thoughts
And from darkness
light appeared

Woyingi speaks on the water

The water takes the shape of her words
And from Water
Land appeared

Each soul speaks over the waters

The waters take the form of their words and thoughts
Some asked for wealth
Some for children
Some asked for fame
Some asked for health
Each person gets for themselves
According to their words and thoughts

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 At Epe waterside
In Ebute Oluwo
There is a market place
Oluwo market

At the four way junction

In Ipaja
There is a market place
Oja Ipaja

A woman carrying a basket of fish

Bare and braless boobs
Fish wet and bouncing under her shirt
Full pawpaw’s with swollen pores
Visible standing nipples

Come and buy what I’m selling

Says another
The breeze blows her wrapper
She struggles to catch it
Oh... ikebe
It dances every step she takes
Sweet sweaty scent

Men with tired eyes

Dizzy from turning to look
Here and there
At one beauty here another there

It is the mothers that own the market place

The market place belongs to the mothers
The concentration of feminine energy

Who is blessed there is blessed

Who is cursed there is cursed
Anyone who brings madness to the market square
Odigbere!!

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 Let the walls crack up
Let the portals be open
Let the doors be open
Let the mist clear up

The opening of the eye of sleep

The opening of the eye of night
The opening of the eye of death
The opening of the wormholes

Pour the libations

Let the sleepy eyes see in the dark
Pour the libations
Let the eyes see that is wide shut

Isee
I am not alone
I am not afraid of the dark
I am not alone
All the Gods are with me

I am legion
The forces of Ra
Ra’s Legion
I am Legion

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 Oh Gbaraun Egbesu
Bear me up
Woyingi Tamara give me flight
Forces of wind elevate
Take me up when the waters rage

When the second capital is created by the trumpet

And the space force activated
When the third force strikes
And the third party makes the move

Bear me up with those

Who take command of the wind and fire and the
metallic flames ...coming in cylinderical ships
Gbaraun Egbesu bear me up
Windy darknes elevate!

lseee

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 Small small children are scared
Scared of the dark

But for the brave

And for the spirits
Its time to roam

Darkness is the light of the gods

Here
There was Darkness before there was light

Darkness is the father of light

Here
The sun will one day be quenched

Only children need the light

Run!
Hide!
Chicken hearted

Its is in Darkness all life is formed

In the very womb of the gods
Who clothe themselves round with thick darkness?

I'll meet u there

In the dark!

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 Like life
Death too is a gift
A beautiful gift

A door opens
A door closes

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 Look and live

No!

It's not a serpent on a tree!

It's the original tree of life

The original water of life

Drink and thirst no more!

Take a few strokes,

drink and thirst no more!

Agbalumo!

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 Children of rovers
Rovers of rivers and seas
Children of Oluweri!
The witness that sees all
But you know not what Eri is so you now not what you are!

Each of you are Oru!

Sun sky and heaven
King Royalty and God!
Oru
Night
You are the Night King!

Orun
Day light!
You are the Sun
You are the morning
You are the star

Is this not why your head is called Oru!

Oruwo!
Oru owo
Oru Awo
Child of Horus!
Oruwo
Owuro
Irawo Owuro
You are the morning star!
But you know not what Oru is so you know not what you are!

Oriwo mi( my head)

Oruwo mi( my head)
Eriwo mi( my head)
Let me know what I truly am!
For from the head lies the portal for accessing all of the Elements.

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 A shot of Hennessy
Stop singing heresies
The music brings you face to face
With your joys and your pains

Shisha!
Take me high!
Here and now
Broken dreams
Meet a hopeful vision
All caught in-between highs and lows

Sing me a song sad and sweet

The frenzy washing over me
See those crazy old men dancing
And the beauties like butterflies

It's never too late

Never too late to shine
Let's put pen to paper let’s conspire
And make something off the hussle!

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 Halloween!
In between listening to Yanni
And watching jeepers creepers
Death and life Like a blessing or a curse
Or like some ecstatic doom
Hung all over us
and we all made our choices!

To leave or stay
Be victim or victor!
To fuck or be fucked!
We all made our choices

But You!
You chose to slit her!
We thought you loved her!
Or when and how does sweet love
Turn into murderous hate
Or how do you convince us all now
That she slit herself!!!
With a kitchen knife...
The blood behind the door
Red on the floor
Still fresh on the mind!
Damn!
For: Endurance Agbobonye

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 Unclad
She stands proud and tall
She bows and crawls
She grabs my pole!

She curls in and spreads out

Pink flesh...
Twirls, turns octupus out!
Ileke!ileke!ileke!

Lucent nails
Over the triangle
Open and close it
Many colored fire lights

She’s lost
I lust
She knows she a temptress
Our eyes jam!

All the other girls

Feast eyes on her
They know they will never be like her!
Sweet jealous admiratawe!
No one can be like her!
No one else should dance after she has danced

And the hallowed floors on which she worshipped

Let no one else crawl or dance on it to taint it
Harvest the space and crystalize it
Far long long after she’s gone

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It is what the eyes of the aged have seen
That makes them hollow
But what the eyes have seen
The mouth is scared to tell

The river is your mother

Son
Beneath are kindred folks

The heaven is your father

Son
Above are the ancestors

But the dog that must stray

Will never heed the hunters howl
We have forgotten the gods
And the gods have deserted us....

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Your head is made of dew and sky stuff!
Your eyes are made of the sun
And moon stuff!
Your body is a vehicle Space ship!
You are the constellation
All star dust!
#Magic!

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 For God so loved the world
But who believes not in the son
Has not
Eternal life...

But eternal life is who I am

Eternal life is my property
Life immortal is my DNA
You can’t dash me my property

The man was born immortal

Never created
Can't be destroyed
Matter and force
Energy of nothing

The fruit is good for the eyes

But the day you eat it you die
Who lied, tell me who lied
What is dead may never die

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 Oh I see you trying to gag me
Trying to shut me up

Oh there are some things we should never ask

Never speak about
Never criticize

The sleight of hands from the shadows

Behind the scenes
Behind the curtains

The religion of piss

Pissing blood
Across the world

The all seeing eyes

No one can escape
They've everybody by the balls

The top one percent

The pyramid scheme
The MMM

Whatever it is
U cannot critique
There is your master!

The masses sleep

eyes wide shut
Until the second coming!

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"May you all drown in the lagoon"
The king has spoken

But the words of a king are powerful

For right under his nose
His once prided relic
Turns a sigil of death

There goes the frustrated

And the depressed
The dissilusioned
And the hopeless!

At Lamgbasa
There is a bridge to hell!

And the king ran

He ran
Leaving his staff
To drown in the lagoon

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 Somebody just got shot
But you want me to write flowery words
How the sun rises in the Beautiful eastern skies
And how the moon shines so bright
Cos sons of light only see the bright sides of life

Oh sorry!
I'll write poetry of blood ink
And sorrowful celebrations
And if that breaks your heart
Grow up
And see life for what it is...

Black and white

Good and evil
Day and night
Angels and demons

I cannot sing a love song

To a sister in pains ....

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 You must believe...
You must give or donate your life to...
You must trust...
You must obey...
You must do the will of...
You must submit to the will of…..
You must surrender to...
You must keep the law and commands
You must adhere
You fear and reverence

The destruction of your individuality

The forceful coercion
The eventual stealing of your life
The stealing of your will in this world
And the world to come?

I don’t believe
In God
I don’t believe

I bow to none
I bow
To none
I bow

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 How do you know a woman is hearty?
Cho cho cho cho cho
How do you know a woman is sick?
Silence!

How do you know a woman is happy?

cho cho cho cho cho
How do you know a woman is sad?
Silence!

How do you know a woman loves you?

Cho cho cho cho cho
How do you know she is about to poison you?
Silence!

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 But I remember now
How every time you sang a song
Your voice was a soothing stream
A calm roaring ocean

All at once persuasive.. and

Imploring
All at once seducing
And enticing All at once sweet
And sad

For we were meant to be

But never meant to be together

This is not a song for broken love

This is for love that died before it was born
Just that I still hear you sing in my head
And I'm trying to banish you from my dreams

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 The land was ours and the waters
The skies was ours
Even the stars
We owned the oil
Even the gold
We owned the seas
And it's coasts
Enters oyibo pepper
Shootoo shootoo pepper
Oyibo ooole
Ooole ajiboolee
They form parallel government
Illegal government
They form colonial government
Thief thief government
Them say the land belongs to the government
The weed belongs to the man
The oil belongs to the government
But the oil spillage belongs to the riveriners
Them say the oil money belongs to the government
But the soot belongs to the people of Port Harcourt
The water and its fish belongs to the government
But the plastic waste belongs to the village
Them say the guns belongs to the government
That our people should die without a chance
At least to defend themselves
But we say the bunkery belongs to us
The g*n running belongs to us
The illegal refineries belongs to us
The illegal fishing belongs to us
The po faya belongs to us
The pipeline vandalisms
Where injustice lives
There crime lives with it.

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The mosquito wants a drop of your blood
The trees want a wisp of carbon
The earth wants to give a vicious cuddle
Man eats man a jungle

The prison wants a loaf of your freedom

The banker robbin in the hood
The bully wants your box of toys
Get the pot of gold or get the port of gold

You will fight or you will perish … run…

You will eat or be eaten …run...
You will swim or you will … drown....
You will soar or you will fall …Fly...

The worms want a taste of flesh

The reaper with a sickle
Vegetables in turn eat the man
Death is hungry
Will you her breast feed? ....

...Your choice

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 Empty of words
Empty of thoughts
I have fought my wars
Blood stained sword

Art is a nightmare
Talents are woes
Wisdom is a curse
In the land of the ignorant

Truth is a burden
And the call for right and justice
A lonely pilgrimage
On a fruitless journey

Preacher preach
Preach first to thine soul
For he who saves a man drowning
He stands dangers of the tides....

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 In between awake and asleep
There is the meeting place of the gods.

They came down in space ships

Cylindrical heads.
Metallic spheres above and below
It is time .It is time they say...

I found myself in deep waters

But the waters cover me not
I slice me swiftly through the storms
The forces of water are with me.

I found myself in the wind

The wind has nothing on me
Instead it bore me up with wings afloat
The forces of wind craft are with me

I found myself in a flame

But the heat scorched me not
Instead the fire seeped off my hands to heal
The forces of fire are with me

I have been taken to the place

The Centre where it all began
Deep darkness of all shades of hue
There are no words to describe the bliss

So When I'm gone

Pass me through the fire
Incense for the wind
Pour the ash on water
Let the darkness cover me

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 The truth you seek seeks you
Wanderer…..
Find a home in your soul

I have scaled the heights

Oh what peace

I have found the light

The light has found me

When we hear not the gods

We look up and pretend hearing
But there is no God up there …
There is nothing ………. There...
All the gods are here...
And the devils too

I have scaled the heights

I have found the lights
I have eaten the forbidden fruit
And the snake that gave it ……

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 Man-made white walkers with pistols

House to house they go on a shooting spree

The robonoid zombies lone ranging

Have you taken the shot?

The Goddess made man in her own image

In his own image man creates God

And man still be death of God
Frankenstein be the death of man

It’s the birth of ROBOSAPIENS

Or of Superhumans?

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 I met an Ijebu woman
She get big yansh
I met ijebu woman wey fine well well
For Faari inside moto
Near Ijebu ode

She fine Like Ethiopian

She fine like Sudanese
She fine like our wulemotu Aji laaran
Eh she fine like Bilikisu Eredo

She no fit speak English

She no sabi Yoruba
But As she dey speak this Ijebu
E dey sweet me Like honey

Now I understand why my grandpa

Come from Ijo come work for ijebu
Forget him work follow wulemotu go
All this kind play wey make my papa Born 52
Ah I want to be like my father and my grandpa!!

ljebu woman yansh na Magic

ljebu woman yansh na fire
Ijebu woman carry me dey go
But I will never see her again!!

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 Men want to fuck men
Women want to fuck women
Women want Dicks and dildos
Men want to be women

Boys in girl’s bathrooms

Girls shower in groups
oyibo civilization

Show me the thin line in between

Lesbos and feminists
Gay guys and perverts
Lgbtqrstwxyz

They said the man cannot have many women

But …..
Men want to fuck men
Women want to fuck women
Women want Dicks and dildos
Men want to be women

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 I said it takes courage to live
She said it takes courage to die

Muse says write about death

I said no one wants to talk about death

But If man does not die

God is not born

If man does not die

The Ba does not rise

I said it takes courage to live

She said it takes courage to die

Muse says it's okay let it be

In the end all men must die

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 She spreads her table before me
In the presence of no one
She anoints my head with oil
My cap runneth over
My Rod and my shaft
lust in the valley of the shadows ...
Hymen!

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 You have read the Bible cover to cover
And the Quran too.
But have you read the scriptures of Ifa
No.... not even a verse of it!

You know Mohammed SAW

You know Jesus too
But do you know
Ela!
Ela rowa....

Ela who was a righteous man

Who did good deeds?
And ascended to heaven on a gras

You demonize your own ancestors

You adopt the ancestors of your oppressors
You are like those who hear only one side of a matter
And base your judgement on it?

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 What is Awo!
Awo means children!
What is Owo Owo means children! (
Children of who?
Children of Ra!
Ra Owo!
Ira Owo!

What is Ira
Ira means time
Ira means season
Ra is Sun God!
Ira Awo
Ira Owo
Children of time
Of season and of the sun!

These are the root words for Irawo!

STARS!
The stars are children!
Children of the sun
The children are stars!
I will give you children as stars dot the skies!
We are the stars
We are the children!
Made of stardust
Made of the Sun!

Awo Ra
Awo Ira Owo
Aworawo

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 I hope you find the freedom that feels no guilt when you wake from your
bed without saying prayers to God. God is in you. God is with you, and
indeed your every act every moment of every day, your every thought can
be a prayer.

I hope you find the courage to question everything, every iota of family
and societal truth, culture and tradition. It is he who asks that finds his own
path and in your path is the path for advancing all mankind. Be not afraid
to lose your path, for in losing it you will find it.

I hope you find the honesty to see yourself naked and nude as you truly
are, beyond every layer of ascribed personality, not what you are told to
be, not what you are expected to be, but what you truly are. For in this
manner only can you be truthful to thyself, and a light unto your soul from
whose rays the whole world can be brightened!

I hope you discover in one lifetime how to live and how to die and be born
again over and over again until all humanity resurrect into perfection. I
hope that you backslide from all untruths.

This is the key to eternal life.

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KEY WORDS

BOOK I
1. ODU
ODU (Yoruba/Ijaw) - The sacred dark womb of life. A pot.
Something of superlative quality. Power/Authority.
Mystery. A collection of Ifa verses. The ultimate source of
existence.

OTU (Igbo/Ijaw/Yoruba) - One. One clan . The people of one clan.

Vagina. People born from one vagina. Odum. A derivative
of Odu and as used in Southern Nigeria.

ATUM (Ancient Egyptian) - Name of the self-created Egyptian deity of

creation also called Atem. The ijaws also call it Teme who
is the God of creation also among Ijaws.

ADUM - A derivative of Odum. Related to words like

Adimu,Adamu,Idimu.

ODUMU - ( Ijaw) An ancient word for python.

2. AMADOSU
AMADOSU (Ijaw) - An Ijaw female deity of Ijaw that protects the clan

ORUYINGI (Ijaw) - Mother of the gods.

WOYINGI (Ijaw) - The Goddess our Mother.

ATUM RA (Ancient Egyptian) - Composite Deity made up of Atum and Ra.

TEME ARAU (Ijaw) - Mother Goddess of creation.

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UDJO (Ancient Egyptian) - Goddess of the Nile Delta. Linked to the
original name of IJAWS (ujo). She is also called edjo.

PIRI (Ijaw /Egyptian) - Forest or place of abode.

WADJET (Egyptian) - Goddess of the Nile Delta.

ORU AMINA (Ijaw) - Praise name of the mother Goddess

OLOMA MUTU (Ijaw) - Praise name of the mother Goddess

AZIBA ARAU (Ijaw) - The goddess that is maker and taker of life

OGINARAU (Ijaw) - Praise name of the Mother Goddess.

ISEEE (Ijaw/Igbo) - said after prayers after incantations

3. TAMARA
WOYIN TAMARA (Ijaw) - The Supreme creator Mother Goddess

ORA/ RA (Ijaw /Yoruba/Igbo Hausa/Ancient Egyptian) - Sun or Sun God/Goddess

KUKU (Ijaw) - Incisions

4. BORN OF WATER AND SPIRIT

MAMI WATA (Pidgin English) - A feminine marine spirit.

ORA (Ijaw /Yoruba /Igbo/Hausa) - The sun or sun God/ Goddess.

5. YONNIVERSE
ERU (Ijaw) - Deity! Related to Egyptian Heru

YONNIVERSE - derived from Yoni a Sanskrit word for the womb or the
female reproductive organ)

6. OGBANJE
OGBANJE (Igbo) - A child that is born only to die is born again into
same family then died again!

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KUBI (Ijaw) - incisions

ABIKU (Yoruba) - A Yoruba word for Ogbanje

7. IWORIWO
IMARIWO (Yoruba) - Palm fronds

ARA (Ijaw) - feminine linked the Sun and the sun God Ra

ERE (Ijaw) - Feminine linked to the Sun God Ra (Re)

ARAU (Ijaw) - Feminine

IWORIWO (Yoruba) - Nakedness

OLODUMARE (Yoruba) - The supreme Deity and force of life among Yoruba

IYAMI ELEIYE (Yoruba) - Divine winged mothers

IYAMI OSORONGA (Yoruba) - Mother with cosmic and spiritual powers

IYAMI AJIN (Yoruba) - Mother with the ultimate power of Olodumare the
highest concentration of feminine energy!

8. IN PRAISE OF THE MOTHERS OF THE NIGHT

IYAMI AJIKE (Yoruba) - My mother Ajike

LORITA META (Yoruba) - A tree forked road

IYAMI APANIMAAGUN (Yoruba) - Supreme mother with the power to kill

OLOKIKI ORU (Yoruba) - mother who rules the night

IYAMI UDJO (Yoruba/ Ijaw /Egyptian) - my mother wadjet

9. IYAMI
IYAMI (Yoruba) - My mother!

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 BOOK II
1. IN PRAISE OF DARKNESS
AMUN (Egyptian) - The hidden one

BENIKRU KRU E KIKIMO (Ijaw) - Let the darkness protect me

OKUKU BIRI BIRI BOMI (Yoruba) - Let the thick darkness cover me

KUK (Egyptian) - Darkness

2. IKOKO DUDU (YORUBA) - BLACK POT

ORISA (Yoruba) - deity

IRUNMOLE (Yoruba) - Divine beings of light

HORUS (Egyptian) - Egyptian sky deity cognate of orus (Ijaw)

collection sky deities.

AKOKO (Yoruba) - Time and season

O RUUU! O RUU!! (Yoruba) - Let it smoke up

E RUU! E RUU!! (Yoruba) - Let it smoke up

3. OFOR/OFO (IGBO/YORUBA) – WORD AND STAFF OF AUTHORITY

BARUGU (Ijaw) - Ijaw deity

OPU ADUE (Ijaw) - Mighty ancestors

OPU ORU (Ijaw) - Mighty deities

GBARAUN EGBESU (Ijaw) - Ijaw deity sky, space and Warfare

4. OJA (YORUBA) – MARKET PLACE

EPE (Yoruba) - A town in Lagos

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EBUTE OLUWO (Yoruba) - A settlement in Epe

IPAJA (Yoruba) - A town in Lagos

OJA IPAJA (Yoruba) - Ipaja Market

IKEBE (Yoruba) - slang meaning big buttocks

ODIGBERE!! (Yoruba) - gone for good

5. TORU PENI (Ijaw) - Eye wide open

6. GBARAUN EGBESU

7. DIRIMO (Ijaw) - Darkness

8. OGIGAN (Ijaw) - Door

BOOK III
1. AGBALUMO (YORUBA) – AFRICAN STAR APPLE

2. AJEBU – JOSA (YORUBA) – ROVERS ON WATERS

AWOERI -

OLUWERI (Yoruba) - Powerful Yoruba water being/Yoruba

mother goddess

ERI (Yoruba) - Head

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ORUN (Yoruba) - Sky

ORUWO (Yoruba) - Head

ORU OWO (Ijaw) - Children of the sky deities

ORU AWO (Ijaw) - Ijaw children of the sky deities

OWURO (Yoruba) - Early morning

IRAWO OWURO (Yoruba) - Morning star

ORIWO MI (Yoruba) - My head

ORUWO MI

ERIWO MI

3. STRIPPER
ILEKE! ILEKE! ILEKE! (Yoruba) - Waist Beads

4. THIRD MAINLAND BRIDGE

LAMGBASA (Yoruba) - A river in Lagos

5. WHO GET THE WEED?

OYIBO (Yoruba) - White Man

OYIBO OOOLE (Yoruba) - White Man Thief

OOOLE AJIBOOLEE (Yoruba) - Thief

PO FAYA (Pidgin) - Explosive fire

6. IJEBU WOMAN
IJEBU (Yoruba) - A tribe in Yoruba

YANSH (Pidgin) - Buttocks

FAARI (Yoruba) - A settlement in Ijebu Ode

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IJEBU ODE (Yoruba) - A town in Ogun State

WULEMOTU AJI LAARAN (Yoruba) - The poet’s grand mother

BILIKISU EREDO - An Ijebu queen

SABI YORUBA (Pidgin) - Communicate in Yoruba

7. ONE SIDED STORY

IFA (Yoruba) - Yoruba divination system

ELA (Yoruba) - Yoruba deity

ELA ROWA (Yoruba) - Ela descend

8. AWORA
AWO/OWO (Ijaw) - Children

RA OWO (Ijaw) - Children of Ra the Egyptian sun deity

IRA OWO/IRA AWO (Ijaw) - Children of time

IRA (Ijaw) - Time

IRAWO (Yoruba) - Star

AWO RA (Ijaw/Egyptian) - Children of the sun

AWORAWO - astrology

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