|
We learn from the mysteries that one suffers for one’s sins while still on earth. We learn from the elders that one gets from primordial ancestors the wages of one’s sins at the final phase of one’s life on earth. (Ota ere ihen khe ole). These point to the message that sinning would make one’s ehi or soul to falter, stumble, and fall on Okenanubode. Suffering is consequence of one’s ehi or soul having fallen on Okenanubode.
The theologians who wrote the burial songs hoped to assist the souls of those who sinned not to fall on the Mount (both the physical Mount and the metaphysical). My opinion as the Oboiro is that one ought not to live a sinful life. If one has sinned, one ought to beg for forgiveness before death, rather than hoping to be saved through funeral songs, rites, and rituals. The ehi or controller of destiny of the sinner must have fallen already before the death of the physical body.
For the HEAD that is a true bastion, it provides strong defense or support; it is the place where there are powers and communication links to erinmwin n’ Anubode. Such head maintains bond and power from spirits and ancestors in Anubode. Sin severs such link causing the soul to falter, stumble, and fall. The souls of those who falter and sin on earth must surely stumble and fall on or off Mount Anubode.
Let those who have sinned confess to Ihen n’ Anubode, and ask for forgiveness from their victims. Some sinned for example, because they initiated or instigated spiritual problems for people, so that the victims would bring them sacrificial animals and food. Making blood sacrifices to “appease the ancestors” after such violations do not and will not work. It has stopped working and people have intensified sacrificing blood in the erroneous belief that they either had not sacrificed enough or have not offered the appropriate victims. Some people went to the extent of making human sacrifice in the past. The era of human sacrifice is gone forever.
Many have sinned by striving at living with impunity. The death of victims has brought the curse as they are being avenged; the blood of another victim will not appease them; rather more blood can only increase the burden of the curse from the spirits of victims.
|