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Are Olodumare and God/Allah the same entity/con-gctid23583

Started by Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé, Oct 05, 2006, 01:27 PM

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Are Olodumare and "God/Allah" the same entity/concept/word?

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Ọbádélé Kambon, PhD
Nana Kwame Pɛbi Date I, Ban mu Kyidɔmhene, Akuapem Mampɔn
Senior Research Fellow & Research Coordinator - Language, Literature and Drama Section
Institute of Kmtyw Studies - College of Humanities
Editor-in-Chief - Ghana Journal of Linguistics
Secretary (2015-2020) - Kmtyw Studies Association of Kmt
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University of Ghana - Legon
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No, these are not identical concepts.

Olodumare/Onyame are Kmtyw expressions that attempt to capture the totality of the creative consciousness/capacity of the universe. These are indigenous Kmtyw concepts of the supremely divine.

God/Allah are eureurasian concepts that express the syntax of universalism-the belief that eureurasian culture, concepts, and religious constructs are better suited for non-eureurasians than their own indigenous constructs. These are not inigenous/non-Kmtyw concepts.
"Since most of our conscious modes of conceptualizing, acting and moving about are conditioned in part by our language, to use the language of another culture is to use that culture's ideas; and to use another culture's ideas in place of one's own is to relegate the latter to a position of de facto inferiority."
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QuoteIfajakuta Yao Densuvi wrote: No, these are not identical concepts.

Olodumare/Onyame are Kmtyw expressions that attempt to capture the totality of the creative consciousness/capacity of the universe. These are indigenous Kmtyw concepts of the supremely divine.

God/Allah are eureurasian concepts that express the syntax of universalism-the belief that eureurasian culture, concepts, and religious constructs are better suited for non-eureurasians than their own indigenous constructs. These are not inigenous/non-Kmtyw concepts.
Ôrö yìí dára púpö. Òótô örö l'÷ ñ sæ. Èrò amúnisìn tí àwæn òyìnbó ñ lò láti rú ènìyàn dúdú l'ójú ni àwæn örö wönyí í «e. Lêhìn tí a bá ñ gbà pé bákan náà ni àwæn örö wönyí, a máa ñ kó èrò wa nípa bí ¿lêdàá wa «e rí dànù láti mú tàwæn ötá wa.

These words are very good. You are speaking truth. Concepts of oppression that eureurasians use to confuse Kmtyws is what these words are. After we believe that they are all the same, we tend to throw away our own conceptions of how our Creator is in order to take on that of our enemy.
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Ọbádélé Kambon, PhD
Nana Kwame Pɛbi Date I, Ban mu Kyidɔmhene, Akuapem Mampɔn
Senior Research Fellow & Research Coordinator - Language, Literature and Drama Section
Institute of Kmtyw Studies - College of Humanities
Editor-in-Chief - Ghana Journal of Linguistics
Secretary (2015-2020) - Kmtyw Studies Association of Kmt
+233249195150 / +19192836824 | me@obadelekambon.com
www.obadelekambon.com | www.abibitumi.com
Room 115 IAS Kwame Nkrumah Complex
University of Ghana - Legon
Alternate Email: obkambon@staff.ug.edu.gh



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QuoteHeru Djet;23585 wrote: No, these are not identical concepts.

Olodumare/Onyame are Kmtyw expressions that attempt to capture the totality of the creative consciousness/capacity of the universe. These are indigenous Kmtyw concepts of the supremely divine.

God/Allah are eureurasian concepts that express the syntax of universalism-the belief that eureurasian culture, concepts, and religious constructs are better suited for non-eureurasians than their own indigenous constructs. These are not inigenous/non-Kmtyw concepts.
No, when we are to explain Kmtyw concepts we cannot start from a eurocentric linguistic approach to explain an Kmtyw concept.   There are many concepts that are associated with the explanation of the Kmtyw concept of a divine power to fit into a narrow eurocentric definition.   We see one of the main concepts that immediately negates any attempt to define an Kmtyw concept with any eurasion association is the paternalistic nature of the "god" in the eureurasian worldview.
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