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13th Year Anniversary of Ayinon Agelogbagan on Being the First Person Outside of Benin to Receive the Aja Kingship

13 years ago on this date, in north Dallas, Texas, major history was made. After a 3-day ceremony which required strict seclusion, a brother born and raised in Mobile, Alabama was seated on a throne seven times and a crown was put on his head, sacred royal cloth was wrapped around him, the royal sandals were put on his feet and the symbol of authority called the makpo, was placed over his LEFT shoulder. This was done by 7 king makers from Benin Republic along with other chiefs that were there. Thus was he made the first and only Ajã culture (a southern Benin, Togo, SW Nigeria and southern Ghana) axosu (axosu = king) ever crowned outside of Benin Republic West Afrika. That person was me, Ayìnon Agelogbagan Agbovi I – aka “Oliboo” in my hometown.
Many of our ancestors were sold through what is now Benin, formerly known as Dahomey. There are parts of our history not celebrated by our own that are not parts of a celebrity’s or entertainer’s story. The enemy does not care about us celebrating entertainers that enrich the entertainment business. But when we go internal, within ourselves, and celebrate the Hershey Wilsons (Peters Park…Mobile, Al), the Miss Fortunes (Gorgas, Carver, and all the black parks in Mobile…etc), then we are on to something.
I’m not telling people to celebrate Me. I’m asking MY people to help me celebrate HISTORY being made. Who can say they’ve had  an Afrikan king from Benin (Hakpon III of Porto Novo in the picture with me) to find out about him (me) and that king makes major arrangements to meet him (me…from Mobile!) in the united snakes because of this historic precedent set by me being made king, in his/our culture, in amerikkka?
22 books on the culture later, We (me) are still producing groundbreaking, never replicated information about this culture. There are those that will not recognize it or acknowledge it. However, it still needs to be said. My crown, I oersonally had to accept, is deserved outside of the fact if my royal blood line from the monarchy of Xevie. I’ve done major work in and for this culture. I’ve helped over 1000 people, since 2006, find their true ancestral roots through the Ifá roots readings process. That’s enough right there. I’ve done countless other readings that reconnected people with their money, their families, their husbands/wives, ancestors, etc. I’ve done spiritual work for hundreds that benefitted them and not me, and yet kept it going. In fact, much of it drained my spirit, but enriched theirs.
So yes. I’m gonna celebrate my 13th year on the throne in THIS fashion. Not trying to be diplomatic at this moment. Take it, or leave it. I made history in a way that may never be made again. The first and probably still only Afrikan priest from Mobile, Alabama? Let alone a coronated king? It’s time for me to celebrate MYSELF with those who want to celebrate this anniversary!
O dabo
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Today We Celebrate the Sacred 45 Day Cycle Called Gbelugan

Today in our sacred calendar we celebrate Gbĕlŭgan. Gbĕlŭ means to overcome an obstacle. “Gan” is something big/great. It is a 45-day ritual cycle done to the deities to target specific familial and community issues. It is designed to bring energies back into alignment on a larger and more collective scale. There are no blood sacrifices for these cycles. Today’s Gbĕlŭgan is especially auspicious because it falls on a Hwezangbe (3rd day of the mundane week on our Afrikan calendar).

Chapter 73 of the sacred Gànhúmehàn is chanted during Gbĕlŭgan. House cleanings are done. Drumming, singing, affirmations and reaffirmation is done, going over one’s personal mission statements, are all part of this important festival.

This is also a specially designed calendar observance with rituals designed to repel and eradicate those acts and persons who are the enemies of Máwùfɛ (Afrika) and Máwùfɛnugbɛtɔ (Afrikan people). This includes all acts that oppress Máwùfɛnugbɛtɔ and all of those who engage in it.

The rituals are primarily geared towards warrior divinities like Azunsun, Gù and certain Tohùn (certain national divinities specific to us).

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Happy Autumn Equinox

Ku do Hwìhwɛnu Zankpozekpan!

Greetings and happiness for the Fall/Autumn Equinox!

Today marks the swinging in of the Fall/Autumnal Equinox, which simultaneously marks the coming in of the season of Fall/Autumn in the northern hemisphere. The Ajã word for Fall/Autumn is Hwìhwɛnu – calming and is directionally associated with the North. It’s exact occurrence was during the 2 am hour of September 23, 2023 (their 9th month) eastern of the western time reckoning calendar, but at the 19th hour of Dokun 7, 6264 (our 7th month) on our calendar.

For us as Afrikans in this hemisphere, Hwìhwɛnu is a time for gathering that which you laid the foundation for at the start of Spring. One reason it is called “calming” is because of the satisfaction we should feel from our successful labors. Everything doesn’t happen in just a day, so this day only represents the start of the period of reward and reflection on that which we have successfully implemented.

As the leaves begin to fall, they teach us about the necessity of change and the shedding of things no longer useful. This is why the òrìṣà (Yọrùbá deity) Ọya – goddess of the winds and change among other things – is associated with this time frame of the year. Fortunately, captivity (“slavery”) could not stop the worship and veneration of this deity as we can see in Cuba, Brazil, other South American countries, Ayiti (Haiti) and other islands, and it’s resurrection here in north amerikkka since the 1950s.

In the sacred 9-day cyclical week called Gba Azan, the deity of the day that brings in the equinox is Ayìɖóhwɛɖó – a powerful African Vodùn goddess of wealth represented by the rainbow and/or the rainbow serpent.

For more info on how to approach these sacred cycles from an Afrikan perspective, please contact us at ekaabokilombo@gmail.com.  A huanu kaka.

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Afrikan Spiritual Science Vs We Were Already Here Theory

This is to address the “they are making up stories. Where are the slave ships? We were already here” narratives that have become popular.

I have been doing the spiritual science called a “Roots Reading” since 2006. That’s 17 years. I know someone else from the lineage that has been doing them way longer. This spiritual science used in these readings comes from the sacred Ifá oracle of the Yorùbá people. One has to be properly trained to do this in depth Ifá reading that speaks in detail on an Afrikan person’s true ancestry. Letting the spiritual technology speak says that, as a diviner, I can’t be bias or make up stuff. Let the spirits speak and take your opinions out of it.

Now, in those 17 years, if I had to guess, I’ve done well over 1000 of those readings! Not ONE of those readings results said that any of those people’s ancestors were already here and were captured and put into captivity. Not one! The other babalawo (Ifá priest) I alluded to who has been doing it way longer also attests that not ONE of his readings said that either.

W.E.B. Dubois talked about the identity crisis of “black” people 120 years ago in his classic book “The Souls of Black Folk“. However, even then, New Afrikan people knew their ancestors had been snatched from another land and forcefully brought here . So it seems 120 years later that the New Afrikan identity crisis has gotten worse.

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Today We Celebrate Kulitohongbo

Mi ku do Kúlítɔ Hɔngbó!
Today, on Gbetɔzangbe (“Monday”), date of Dokun 3, 6264 AX (Gregorian  September 18, 2023) we celebrate Kúlitɔ Hɔngbó. This word literally means “ancestor portal” in the Fɔ̀n dialect of the Ajã  language found in southern Benin Republic West Afrika. This is based on our ancient authentic azanlilen (calendar) going back over 6000 years and used by those who live Afrikan Vodun culture. It was observed long ago that the elevated ancestors used a repeated 27-day cycle to make their presence and power available to us on a larger collective scale than on the personal ancestral veneration scale. On this day, every 27 days, special rites and rituals are done for the ancestral collective of your own blood lineage to empower those that acknowledge the love, benevolence and role these ancestors play in our lives. It is also used to do the continuous work of healing our bloodlines from the various mishaps and tragedies (self inflicted and from the outside) that still plague our families. If it plagues the family then it plagues the community. Thus, making the work of nation building and sovereignty that much harder.
The sacred Odù Ifá Owonrin Méjì states:
The hollow part of a well-trekked road is it that breaks the back of a snake
This was the Awo who cast Ifa for Esin (horse) He also cast Ifa for Agbo (Ram)
When both of them were going to Ooni (the Kings of Ife) house on a spiritual expedition
Both Esin and Agbo, the Awo of the Ooni, King of Ile Ife
They were the Awo who cast Ifa for the Ooni
When he refused to pay his homage to his paternal ancestors anymore
And he was undertaking several ventures…Without succeeding in any
He was advised to offer sacrifice
He complied
I pay my homage to my father
I pay homage to my mother Except if I undertake any venture without reverence May my undertaking be accepted
And finally we learn this from the sacred Odù Ifá Òtúrúpọ̀n Méjì that speaks directly to the state of New Afrikans:
It is now a pitiful play
The Iyere Ifa has now become a dirge
When eyes are two, they watch events unfold
When legs are two, they walk fast
The rumps are two, they sit on a mat
One hand does not jingle Also, one leg will not walk very fast How can one refuse to answer the call from responsible people?
I am asked to kneel and greet those before me I knelt and greeted those before me I am asked to kneel and CALL on those behind me I knelt and called on those behnd me They asked, “Who are those before one?” I said “It is one’s paternal Ancestors before one” They asked, “Who are those behind one?” I said, “the Orisa in one’s paternal household is behind one” When alapandede builds its nest The nest does not touch the sea nor heaven (suspended in heaven) Looking at Oldumare in heaven Looking at human beings on earth Atangegere divined for Odusola, child of Arannase
Whose father died when he was a little child
Without the knowledge of how to cast Ifa (no real knowledge of his own culture and spirituality)
Without the knowledge of how to print the Odù
And not having been to Ile Ife to witness Ifa festival
When all the ritual elements were assembled for Odùṣola to start propitiating, he broke into tears
Saying he did not know if water was to be offered first
Heavenly spirits, descend and make this ritual a success for me, heavenly spirits
Whether it is gin to be offered first, I do not know
Heavenly spirits, descend and make this ritual a success for me, heavenly spirits
Whether it is obi that have to be offered first, I don’t know Heavenly spirits, descend and make this ritual a success for me, heavenly spirits