Stepping On Blood: 'The New Bride of Ooni Has Done Nothing Wrong Based On The Traditions of The Ife People - Professor of Religious Studies

Professor of Religious investigations and Head of the Lagos State University's Epe Campus, Danoye Oguntola-Laguda has imparted his insight on the viral photograph of the new spouse of Oni of Ife, Evangelist Seyi Naomi who ventured on what had all the earmarks of being blood amid her ongoing marriage ceremonies.

Despite the fact that the royal residence has responded to the slanting photograph saying, 'the new Yeyeluwa wasn't venturing on blood however OOSUN (Cam Wood). There's no where in Yoruba convention where the lady of the hour is required to advance over blood as a component of a wedding custom'.

The educator anyway trusts that venturing on blood has a representative esteem that 'we ought to appreciate',

Read his piece beneath...

I read numerous responses to the new marriage of Oni of Ife. I have likewise perused judgment of the activity of the new lady of the hour, an evangelist venturing into her new home on the blood of a creature. Some said it is in regards to custom. Some said it is fixation.

Others rush to name her as a ritualist. Allow me to state that blood is extremely fundamental to numerous religions in our present reality. All taking their root in the Ancient Near East. Along these lines the expression"blood of the sheep". The eid ahdah festivity is about blood offering to the Almighty maker of mankind.

The anthropologists among us will tell educate on the estimation of blood to our reality. Considering female month to month stream. Without it no life. In light of these premises I wish to present that the new lady of the hour of Oni has done nothing incorrectly dependent on the conventions of the Ife individuals, Yoruba and humankind overall.

We should see the blood as a representative forfeit to Olodumare. The mean a fresh start for the lady of the hour and prep.

I implore we don't censure the demonstration however value the representative estimation of the venturing on blood. It is about existence not passing as in death, blood stop to stream. I anticipate remarks.