PREDESTINATION IN THE ANCIENT YORUBA PURVIEW

     To go wrong in one's own way is better  than to go right in someone else's -Fyodor Dostoevsky

   Like many other phenomena which had been watered down or outrightly misrepresented in the ancient Yoruba worldview these days; predestination is also a victim.Ancient yoruba believe everyone is meant to be successful in life,but the path to these successes are different,depending on one's ORI(Divine Godself/Guardian angel/Luck broker).
   The primary reason for the AKOSEJAIYE is to ascertain a child's path to success.Good ORI's choose the relatively easier paths to success,while the opposite chooses roads full of obstacles. ORI is AKUNLEYAN/AYANMO(self chosen from the immaterial world/spirit companion),AKUNLEYAN in turn,is ADAIYEBA(How life runs on getting here),and ADAIYEBA is ADAIYESE(deeds and accomplishments in the ephemeral world).This shows how everything one would become in life is tied to the ORI.

  However a bad ORI  doesn't mean eternal condemnation to a suboptimal life,as some foreign ideologies rubbed off on us,else,our legendary ORUNMILA will not go by pseudonym, " Atún ORÍ eni tí ò sunwọ̀n ṣe" (The one who corrects a deficient Ori)The fact that FATALISM was foreign to the ancient Yorubas was evident in the fact that the word mostly used to represent predefined success or failure is a word borrowed from the Arabic language, "Ar Qadar", which was domesticated as KADARA.
   We are ÈNÌYÀN, (The chosen ones), we beat hundreds of millions of other sperm cells to earn that coveted title, we weren't wired for failure, the path might be difficult, but know that success is waiting somewhere and could be closer than ever.
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