12/12/2024
HISTORY LESSONS
QUESTION : A reasonable question to ask ourselves is, where are the worshipers or followers of Sango Orun at any Ife or other places on earth then before Oranmiyan birthed Sango the Alaafin.
SOME POSTULATIONS :
Clarify please. Our people in Ile Ife always allude to an ancient Sango that lived in Ile Ife of antiquity, but a more famous and familiar one was an Old Oyo fire-eating, fiery warrior, sired by one of our ancestors, Oranmiyan through a Nupe woman, Torosi Iyagbodo, so recorded by history.
In addition, some of the magical powers of Sango was actually witnessed and recorded by one or two European visitors to his (Sango’s) court.
THE ANSWER AND CLARIFICATION:
If there was ever a Sango related to Ife, it would be one of the most prominent deities in Ife on par and as popular as all the ones with even strong base in Ife.
The only truth is there was none.
And there is only one Sango.
Just 1. There was only 1, there is only 1, and there will remain only 1 Sango deity.
Unique thing about Sango as one is you cannot find multiple venerations or deified effigies and figures related to Sango like Esu or some others.
Sango was 1 and Remained only 1.
Other deities related to Sango are:
1. Egungun
2. Obatala (for Alaafin)
3. Oba
4. Oya
5. Osun
Sango in fact has no relation to Oranfe.
ADDITION:
You see, people complicates things by coming to it with their own imaginations, fantasies and sentiments.
The other day I read someone saying certain words are not indigenous to Yoruba. Or that certain words are the actual Yoruba words.
It got me confused.
Archaic Yoruba words are multiple and every depends on the Yoruba subgroup.
For example: Oluku is an ancient Yoruba word. It is not to the general Yorubas.
To the ancient Oyo people Oluku is not in their vocabulary.
On the other hand you would hear “Lamoin”.
Different words, languages distinct to different groups made up the present Yoruba Language.
(Baba Anlugba)
