
Through out time and most ancient religions of the east a male dominate deity took hold of the Title of the owner of the great oceans of earth. About 83 percent of our blood is water, which helps digest our food, transport waste, and control body temperature. In fact up to 60 percent of the human body is water, the brain is composed of 70 percent water, and the lungs are nearly 90 percent water. As well is his representation of water and birth and in fact a principal part of the human spirit of consciousness as well as it makes up part of our bodies. His role within the relationship to the Orisha “Awo” ( orisha mysteries of nature )during the Maafa, or what is sometimes referred to as the “time of sorrows” the Trans - Atlantic Slave Trade or Middle Passage. Olookun was the deity that took hold in the cities of Benin and that of Ile Ife in Nigeria.


Some say he was the first spirit to inhabit the earth before all other orisha. The Olohun “owner” of the Okun “oceans” was given the title and name of the combined words “Olookun” owner of the oceans of Ode Aye “earth”. Science agrees that the combination of earth and water is what created the womb of all living creatures on the earth in consequence of the union of these elements.

This is also combined together that formed the great stars and planetary bodies. H2o is the combination of hydrogen with oxygen that forms into a liquid. hydrogen is the lightest and most abundant chemical element, constituting roughly 75 % of the Universe's elemental mass, that is the basis of atomic structure. Hydrogen forms the large gaseous clouds found throughout the much of space and the stars. Omi Orun ( the ancestral waters ), the idea of heavenly waters may seem symbolic to us but yet holds the ring of truth since the most commonly found substance is hydrogen particles throughout the universe. And are part of our orisha that are labeled as the forces of Nature.Īccording to Ifa, it tells us that all Forces of nature are born within the manifestation and energy brought fourth by the patterns of 256 Odu that awoke the consciousness and expressions of life into being upon the earth. When we speak of the Ancestral waters of life, we speak of waters that has a form of Natural consciousness that flows and nourishes, that incubates and feeds and the essence of Maternal caring that relates to the protection of children.
