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Eewo: Taboos, What are they and why do

we have them?By Fagbemijo Amosun Fakayode

Eewo are taboos. They are close with all the negative forces in the world, suchas death, disease, loss, etc. when we break our eewo's, we are inviting those

negative forces into our lives.

Everyone has different eewo -- what is taboo for one person may actually be

good for a different person, only Ifa knows.

If we knowingly choose not to observe our own personal taboos, we cannot be

guaranteed the Ire (blessings we are destined to receive in our life.

!e cannot say for sure what the implications will be, as we do not know for

sure, but at the same time we cannot safely say we are guaranteed to have all

blessings in life eventually, if we are patient, as is the case for one who followstheir taboos and the teachings of "runmila. "ne who heeds the advice of Ifa

and follows the eewo carefully will eventually, with patience, have all blessings

in life.

#owever, if we are consciously breaking our taboos we can more or less be

guaranteed that we will not have all the good things in life. "r even if we do live

a good life while conscientiously breaking our eewo's, we can be sure that we

will have to answer to "lodumare when the life is through and e$plain why we

purposefully violated our taboos.

Even when we are not consciously breaking the taboo, bad things may come ofit. %or e$ample in the &acred "du Ifa "gbedi ("gbe "di we learn of "sun and

her troubles with guinea corn, one of her eewo -- taboos. &he was

unconsciously eating the guinea corn via the animals the hunter of her home

had caught near the guinea corn farm. This was preventing her from becoming

pregnant and bearing children, and she did not even know she was consuming

it.

"gbe "di says

"ni wiriwiri "gbedi"la wiriwiri "gbedi

Eye nla ni fapa sogan

oku ope ni homu leyin

a difa fun en)oke ("sun's hunter

Ti i se wolewode "sun

"sun o mama )e baba

eyin o ri bi baba se n wonu "sun

8/13/2019 Eewo Taboos What Are They and Why Do We Have Them by Fagbemijo Amosun Fakayode

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n ko mama )eu eewo mo

o tun daye atunwa mi

Translation

Today "gbedi appears

Tomorrow "gbedi appearsbig bird carries her arms at once

*ead palm tree is one on whose back omu grows

+ast Ifa for en)oke

The closest servant to "sun

"sun did not eat guinea corn

*on't you see how it got in her

I shall never eat forbidden things

ever in my lifetime

!hen she realied and stopped eating the animals caught near the guinea corn

farm, "sun was able to become pregnant and have children. This is )ust one

e$ample of what violating ones taboos can bring about.

(Ifa verse from "& T#E /012 !"/0 by %ayemi %atunde %akayode

&incerely,

 0wo %agbemi)o 0mosun %akayode

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