Orunmila (known as Orúnmila, Orunmilá, Orúnla, or Orúla in Yoruba Land, Nigeria) is an Orisha. It was a
mighty god that was served by the Yoruba people of Nigeria. According to Yoruba
elders in Ile-Ife he was the god of wisdom, knowledge, and divination.
The elders said he was the great benefactor
of the humanity and his main advisor. He reveals the future through the secrets
of Ifa, the supreme oracle. He is also a great healer, and those who ignore his
advices can undergo the ups and downs produced by Eshu. The elders said he was pure and had some form human in him.
Orunmila was said to be an Irumole that had been in existence before
creation and he was with his people as a priest that taught them things
concerning ethics and spiritual knowledge. When he visited earth he came in
human form or he would come through his disciples. Orunmila was the first prophet of the Yorùbá
religion appointed by Olodumare to control the births, the deceases and the
development of the human beings and other species. He was a fortune
teller and the owner of the Oracle that interpreted the Ifa. He was in the
Earth like prophet with the 16 celestial ancestors (the Meyi of Ifá), between
2000 and the 4000 year a.c. Its cult comes from Ilé Ifé and its name comes from
the Yorùbá Òrúnmìlà (“Only the sky knows those who will be saved”).
He was known to be the "Ibikeji
Olodumare" (which means
second in command to Olodumare) and "eleri ipin"
(which also means witness of fate). He was also called “Iyanifa”. He was
powerful and very spiritual. He had so much spiritual knowledge. Orunmila is
the spirit of wisdom among the Irunmole and the divinity of destiny and
prophecy. Throughout his time he
was the one who carried the “Ifa of Oludumare” (which meant the “Wisdom of
Olodumare”).
He was so
good at advising that those
who doesn't accept the advice of Orula, being men or Orishas, can be victims of
the Osogbos sent by Eshu, close to Shango, who provided with the permission of
Olofi the gift of adivination to him, and Eshu, it's faiftfull ally. Orunmila
forms an important trinity with Olofin and Oddúa (Oduduwa).
Orunmila is present at the moment at which the spirit who is going to
incarnate to an individual is choosing his destiny. It represents the security,
the support and the consolation before the uncertainty of the life. With his
aid everything is possible.
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