ARUOKUN-Revelation Of Mystery Of Mount Anubode

My Analysis Of Diviner Personality

I interviewed adults and the elderly to find out their perceptions and definitions of the term “igbakhuan”. This I had to do because we do not have dictionaries or encyclopedia where one could look up words. Everyone of them started by saying that a sickly child is usually believed to be one. These would include sickle cell carriers who go through crises often. They do not make allowance for these. There are other medical conditions, the causes of which are attributed to evil spirits or a curse.

More importantly, these people with peculiar diviner personality or oboiro-trait are indeed the agents to those dwellers of transcendental Oke n’Anubode (Holy Mounts in the world that include Mount Anubode in Edo State of Nigeria). These sustain the progress of the universe. Put differently, these are a set of special people caught between two opposing powers that rule the universe – power of the fallen deity on one hand, and the powers promoting eternal progress going on in Anubode. Anubode exists as the engine room of refining of creation. These higher dwellers are busy creating and changing occurrences and events, or transforming and transmuting beings and forms as souls for good and justice.

Some define theses persons as persons whose spiritual origin or lineage is unknown. Our peoples see most persons as reincarnations. When they say that the spiritual origin of a person is unknown, they mean that they cannot divine through oracles (as explained above), whose reincarnation the person is. They are unable to identify with his/her soul.

This stems from the general belief that souls of people must belong to a specific world known to the oracle before they take on the human body. This is the world that is accessible to oracle. The oracle knows only souls who are necessarily in bondage of fallen gods, goddesses, ancestors, Deity, fetish juju, etc. Those who have not fallen since the beginning of the multiverse or macrocosm are more than the fallen, because the fallen are extensions of dwellers of our world of flesh and blood only. What is our world of flesh and blood but a microcosm, an insignificant quantity?

It is my observation that the priests and custodians of our culture always conclude that what they cannot unravel has roots in past incarnations. Some speculate therefore, that the person with oboiro-trait is suffering for the sins of past incarnations. This is not true; what appears as suffering at the surface is indeed a learning process that prepares one for higher responsibilities and missions.

Alternatively, it is believed that persons come from different worlds or region in Anubode. Some believe that souls or spirits of people come from the realm of one or the other species of animals, forests, rivers, etc. One for example might be reptilian, or of the elements such as water-spirits. This belief has become so prevalent, that people seldom remember that one could be from the human species. This derives from there being no normal people in their theology. In other words, practically everybody has spiritual problems so much so that what would have been normal in one being virtually without spiritual problems are considered abnormal.

Do the traditions not teach that the soul as ehi to be born goes before Osa (God) to edit the destiny of the life to lead after birth into the world on earth? Is the abode of Osa among reptiles, and other creatures of the wild? Osa lives in the abode of purity, glory, excellence, and transcendence. This is called ogua oghẹnẹ Osa meaning the transcendental realm (palace) of glory. Therefore it is not true that the soul of everyone (or most people) come from reptilian, animal, or world of demons or fallen Deity.

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