LATEST UPDATE: When Was Ile Ife Founded?
Well I did not want to start season 2 of old nairaland, but it behooves on me to answer my friend, @kingston, so I put this forth.
Here are his question as I can recall from the old nairaland....
you know your history, so ...
1. When was Ile Ife founded?
2. What are stand-in for Yoruba oral records?
3. What is sugbo Eredo?
4. Could the people who developed these be said to be less evolved?
1. When was Ile Ife founded?
Ife was founded at year zero, day one, Yoruba ancestors era. To convert to Greco-Roman time, one needs to rely on Ife archeological specimen, which means we have to take the oldest sample of such specimen and determine its half life or carbon date. Whatever that is can be put in either BCE or AD, which is our (modern history) chronological time frame.
2. What are stand-in for Yoruba oral records?
There are several stand-in for Yoruba oral records that have survive to our time, if what you mean are oral record system of the Yorubas. the list at my disposal includes and not limited to the following
1. Oriki,
2. Ayajo,
3. Ogede,
4. Ofo,
5. Ijala,
6. Aroko,
7. Oro- Ile,
8. Ifa oracular dicta.
The above are oral historical instruments that the Yoruba ancestors devised to preserve their history and enable the same permeate their progeny's lifestyle beliefs and and culture till it get to our age in modern times.
3. What is sugbo Eredo?
The first record of Sugbo Eredo came from the colonial periods, as early as 1910 thereabout. It was said to have been the work of Sugbo, an ancient woman claimed to be barren and was said to have erected the site for her remembrance. You can read more about Sugbo Eredo at Wikipedia as much as recent archeological findings around the monument.
4. Could the people who developed these be said to be less evolved?
These are unique achievements that has been accomplished by the Yoruba ancestors, but wonders of monumental proportion litters every culture, hence the old world compiled her seven wonders of the world. Have we found or credited the builders of Stonehenge? how about the sphinx and the hanging garden of babylon and the wall of china?
If the above make us more evolve than others, then we are people before our time, and if we are hooked to the past glory and praise the ancestors, what will the ancestors praise about us, that we don't care to put up a new world wonder may mean we are retrogressing, on backward-spiral. from http://ift.tt/19pR9bQ
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