The Yorùbá Creation Story/Legend | Araba Ifayemi Elebuibon 

For people like me who their parents dont talk about these things. Thank you so much

I absolutely love this Creation story. It is interesting to me that other cultures always try and take, a great African legacy and make it there own.

You speak truth! I am glad I came across this video. Nice to find like minded people! I am looking forward to my journey down the road with you and the deities.

Thanks so much, I am cuban omo Oshun, awon orunmila ( Okaransode ) , I love educational videos and this one is one of the best I've seen. I'm learning yoruba, not only because my ancestors are yoruba, but because as a IFA priest i love learning more and more about my orisas and the yoruba culture. Keep the videos coming please. Ase, odabo.

More learning for me as I touch base with my yoruba roots . Thank you.

Thank you Aderonke.

This is wayyyy more interesting than Genesis.

Thank you very much for sharing this Adérónkẹ́. May you continue to accomplish great things in your work.

Thank you for sharing this knowledge

Thanks you sooooo much for making these videos ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Thanks Araba for the Odu ifa of creation. Now if they came from to earth using a chain from the sky to me that's technology....just like military forces would decend from their choppers. Can we agree that our ancestors are from another planet with advanced technology using animals (chameleon and chiken) to test how life will survive on the new found planet earth? Just looking from another angle. Thank you

OH MY GOD! THANK YOU! Thank you so much for pisting this. I've been searching for it for YEARS!

I actually remember learning this in my secondary school Yoruba lessons. Hmmmm thanks for the video lesson, Adérónkẹ́.

I love your outfit. It is beautiful. Thank you for sharing your story. :)

Thank you for making these ! I am only now rediscovering Yoruba culture that even my mother and grandparents know nothing about anymore

Thanks you babalawo elebuibon. Aboru aboye

This is amazing content right here. Well done.

Pele O thanks for this lesson. Please 🙏 give many many more

I love yoruba culture but i am igbo

Great info

If you really see an afrocuban dancer with this song you will de Ochun trying to brake her chains from her feet and her hands. My godmother was imitated in 1921 by and African oni sango from oyó for her this song is about Ochun angry with slavery.

Thank you!

Where did they get a chicken and chameleon when there have not been any creation?

Our creation story actually puts everything into better perspective since dinosaurs are said to be the ancestors of chickens and I should believe some were reptiles as well so chicken ancestors would spread the sand and the reptiles being very heavy would solidify the land…my mind is blown nobody’s creation story explains that fact none of them even include dinosaurs in our creation yet we find their bones hidden beneath the sands💡

He looks like sun ra

Many stories of creation in Yoruba. How do we reconcile all this? All these stories are told by Yoruba. It's the version you like you adopt..

Ashe to all who follows and know the truth 🐔📿

I thought Orumila was born in Oke igeti in Ile Ife

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What is shant?

Which Odu did he say this comes from?

Is he saying that Orunmila, Sango, Obatala don't have parents

Yorùbá history would have been authentic and reliable if it was written since ages not mouth to mouth history with so many versions that lead to lot of questions and fallacies.

😂😂😂 see the story wey una dey believe

Yoruba are not Arab then why would my father not tell me I’m wrong? I know myself I’m Yoruba coming from a warrior family in Nigeria I’m 5 or 6 generation

can a person be initiated into IFA twice?

In this computer age and the age of artificial intelligence, it is very clear that the history of how Yoruba ancestors fell from the sky is not true. Yorubas migrated from somewhere, their ancestors had father and mother, they didn't fall from the sky.

Thank you sir, tell me about obalufun

Oduduwa was not with them from beginning. Obatala & orunmila did the creation not oduduwa. It was later oduduwa sent as it were as obatala & . Orunmila came. Obatala came with chain in ife oodaye while oduduwa came also with chain ife olagbo. They all descend from God not Mecca or else where.The Islam fanatics then rate Mecca as heaven to promote Islam. That wasn’t too far.it’s fiction. The truth is that they came the same way with chain but at different dispensation. If we can see great warriors turning to chain at their disparture how much more the earliest.

I don’t agree that Yoruba where Arabs but it’s the way they left ifa in mass to worship Saudi religion

We're from Israel

This is Aroso......the story is not genuine. ..

This is myth because Ile Ife has been existing before the birth of oduduwa all these are not true because Ogun was born in ire somewhere aroun osun state

Baba I disagree with you, I have no single believe in all what you're saying

I am greatful for the knowledge. But I must admit I'm a little disappointed. I understand that there are many traditional Yoruba creation stories. But it seems the most relevant one is a man-club, boys only. It is clear in the real world, that women obviously do the lion's-share (more work than the male gender), when it comes to human creation. So how is it that Obatala, a male orisha, was able to create humanities' bodies by himself, with no divine female help? How is it, that only the male Orishas seem closest to Oloudmare & have the highest positions? Do men think themselves as greater than women, who do most of the work in human creation (to the point that the woman can loose her life in pregnancy)? What is the sperm without the African woman's egg, womb, fluids, & milk. The first person anybody knows, future fathers included, is their mother. Who is Oduduwa's mother? Who is Oduduwa's wife or wives? If Oduduwa is the forefather & first king of the Yoruba people, who is the foremother & the first queen of the Yoruba people? Olodumare has a male form Olorun, but never has a female form? Is Olodumare ashamed of the female sex? Male energy is the source of creation, while female energy is not the source of creation, but simply the assistant.