The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II, has
said that Catholics and Catholism has its source from the Yoruba deity, Osoosi.
Ooni said this at the celebration of the Osoosi deity believed to be the father
of philanthropy and religious congregation for purity and sanity, in Ile Ife
Osun state Tuesday January 17th. He said:
"This is a
landmark festival for us. Mankind started from the tropical Africa and it is
the most populous. This is one of the historical landmarks to prove that
everything started from the continent of Africa and Nigeria which is the most
populous nation that belongs to the black race. We are here at the Osoosi and
Obatala temples to celebrate. Osoosi's temple is where the gathering
(religious) started from. Religion should be used to preach peace and
unity.
We must do what we
preach and the foundation must be solid. The entire black race should see this
as their culture and tradition. We have to propel it well. We are not hiding
anything. We are preaching peace, unity and peaceful co-existence which is the
problem of many societies in Africa. Believing in the positivity of our
ancestral religion will help to solve all these problems.
"The guardian
that Osoosi used was called 'Ka to ka ki ki ki, ka fi enu re so le' in which
catholic and catholism came from. It is the congregation that led to
Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam; many other religions started from
here. It is the house of God. What they do here is to take care of the less
privileged people, the downtrodden, the oppressed, and people that are low in
spirit and that has been happening up till date. But when westernisation
came, all the cultures and traditions were bastardised.
People were made to
believe that they are not good things. What we do basically is nature driven
and we want to showcase to the world that indeed everything started from here.
Osoosi came to this world thousands of years before Jesus Christ and Prophet
Muhammad (SAW) came. It is one of the early creations of God. We need to
showcase our culture, nobody can do that for us. We need to let the whole world
know."
He also likened the Osoosi's feature of not bearing
children to the Catholic pope's restriction from marrying.
"Just as Osoosi
destined not to giving birth to children, so also is the popes at the Roman
catholic. There are many good things from the African religion and those in
Rome can not dispute it," he added.
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