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Date: 20 Aug 2000 00:00:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Human Sacrifice
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Subject: Re: Human Sacrifice
>From: ccgroove@aol.com (CC Groove)
>Date: 8/19/00 8:19 PM EST
>Message-id: <20000819211936.05083.00000037@ng-bd1.aol.com>
>
>Grisso,
>
>What if you grt a different odu??? OH man..obviously you realize that it does
>not matter if you get a different Odu!!! The Odun of Irete Meji forbids human
>sacrifice and the word of Odu dictates how the followers of IFA/Santeria
>should
>act...If you know anything about IFA and the 256 different odus, you would
>know
>this...The word of IFA is truth...nothing more, nothing less..
>
You would like to make things simpler than they are. Simplification is a good
thing in general, but over-simplification is not, especially when as in this
case your oversimplification consists in addressing the question at issue from
the wrong level of indentation, as it were.
The question of where traditional African religion... no, I'll narrow it for
the sake of this discussion... where the traditional religion of the
Yoruba...stands with respect to the practice of human sacrifice is not one that
may be inferred from one ese of one odu. In any case, whatever over-arching
precept you would like to think flows from one ese of one odu, the *fact* is,
based on written and oral sources already adduced in this thread, that human
sacrifice is/was a practice of the Yoruba.
I don't see it as something automatically to abhor. Jesus was a human
sacrifice. Every soldier who dies in battle is a human sacrifice. Every organ
donor who dies as a consequence of his/her donation is a human sacrifice. What
distinguishes a noble sacrifice from an ignoble, abhorrent one is simply this:
was it voluntary on the part of the victim. As practiced and sanctioned by the
Yoruba, indeed by many other African peoples, human sacrifice was of this noble
sort.
You might want to re-read that ese. In fact, why don't you post it. Maybe we
can resolve the apparent contradiction.
>Chris
Peace,
Grisso
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