Sango III

This text is a continuing of the post from July 27 | Sango II.

Sango is the god of Lightning, thunder and storms, He is known as Jakuta because of the attitude of throwing stone or fight with stone when he was  not invited to choose a holy  day for Himself and for his disciples.

Sango is  a special kind of divinity that loves to tell the truth. Liars cannot be around or within his presence. Sango metes out justice with precision  as IFA makes us to understand  that Sango can see anything kept anywhere and can fetch  it within seconds no matter the weight of the article.

Odi Ogbe

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narrates how  Sango’s power was sought to arrest  the person  who kidnapped the wife of orisa  (Deity ). In a brightening  light from the sky, he saw where the woman was located and person who took her there; Sango brought the two  of them  out for the punishment  that is adequate. Sango not only punish his captives with death, when the offense committed demands death, he makes sure that they do not receive sympathy. In many instances, he would dissect the corpse of the victim as if the keenest hacksaw blade  went through the body but he still keep him in the whole body, the corpse is always black as if it was burnt  according to ifa verse:

SANGO  OOO

HUM

SANGIRI LAGIRI

OLAGIRI KAKAKA

FI IGBA EDUN BO

EFIN INA LA DA LAYE

INA NBE LODO OKO MI LORUN ,

 

TRANSLATION

SANGO OOO

HUM

WALL BREAKER , THE GREAT WALL BREAKER

THAT DESTROY OR BREAK THE WALL INTO MANY PARTS

HIDE TWO HUNDRED  THUNDERBOLT INSIDE THE FALLING WALL

WE ONLY HAVE SMOKE OF FIRE HERE ON EARTH , THE REAL  FIRE  IS WITH MY HUSBAND IN HEAVEN

 

Sango hates impostor  and He always brings down those with high  look. Never look down on anyone, be meek, gentle and radiate your environment with divine love, wisdom and truth.

 

Many theory or assumption, have been made in respect to the name of  Sango, some even trace his origin to Egypt that is, Sango name was traced to ancient Egypt (God in Egypt) bearing the name of Sango, or a name from which  the word is  derived. The name ”SANGU ” occurs in the religion history of Chaldea  and denote, ONE WHO IS BOUND TO A GOD or  ”the representative or vice -gerent of a god” . The view maintained by some observers has been expressed  in an earlier  books of wisdom that the OMO ODUA or what the modern  people called Yoruba  seem to have had some contact with Chaldeans. The similarity between the Yoruba  words  ”Sango”  and the Chaldean word ”Sangu”  seems to support the view and to suggest the need for research base on the data now available.

The other name of the deity – Jakuta – unmistakable points  to an Egyptian origin. The word JA- KU- TA , means ” THE LIVING SOUL  (KHU) OF PTAH ” . THE EGYPTIAN GOD PTAH WAS REGARDED AS INCORPORATE  IN A STONE .

THE YORUBA WORD FOR A STONE  IS OKUTA ,  THE SOUL OF PTAH , HENCE , THE LITERAL  MEANING  OF JAKUTA IN YORUBA IS THE FIGHTER WITH STONE.

Another  noteworthy Yoruba  word is  ”A-pa-ta” that is , a rock .  It consists of two Egyptian  words namely ,Pa , -”a house”  and  Ta , a modified form of ”PTAH

another words is related to Sango, the word is  MOGBA, the word is restricted  to the domain  of Oyo  in the olden days, Mogba is one the highest office  within  the pantheon of Sango, as god of thunder , fire, sound  and storms . Mogba or Magba  is from the two word  i”OMA(N) or OMO(N)   AND ”A-GBA” , that is  ”people of the ba”  Agba  or elderly persons being regarded  as possessing in a. special  way the spirit or soul  of the ancestors.

Sango was once described  as –”THE RAM HEADED  GOD OF THUNDER”, as one of the chief  Yoruba deity, he is highly revered and respected among Yoruba at home and in diaspora.

 

To be continued next time.

God bless you all,

Olayinka Babatunde Ogunsina Adewuyi

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