“I was asked to relocate from Lagos to Osogbo so that my life can have a meaning. I beg you, goddess of Osun, I must not come back here in vain,” these were the words of a desperate woman inside the sacred Osun grove where the annual Osun/Osogbo festival berths yearly.

Apart from the fertility which the Osun goddess is sure to guarantee barren women, it is believed that anything one asks from the river will be granted as long as the requests are backed up with promises (which MUST be fulfilled).

During the 2016 edition of the festival, the crowd pouring into the grove, according to locals, was unprecedented as the people kept thronging the shrine to make their demands from the goddess. And although there was a heavy downpour on Thursday preceding the grand finale, the people remain unperturbed.

Foreign newsmen, tourists and expatriates were also at the scene, but unlike the locals, they were only at the site to enjoy the beauty of African tradition firsthand.
A regular attendee, Otunba Gani Adams, leader of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) was also at the river bank to offer some prayers as people kept shouting Oodua while security remained water tight.

Dignitaries also filled the arcade set up for prominent sons and daughters of the kingdom to enjoy the ambience which the scenery provided inside the sacred grove.

Everywhere we went, the people kept chanting ‘Ore yeeye o’ meaning the goodness of our goddess, as a way of asking the Osun goddess to pour her blessings on them, a regular recitation made more potent with the arrival of the Arugba

But generally, the celebration did not stop in every community around the state capital as people kept playing different music to thank their deities for the successful completion of another Osun Osogbo Festival.

Source: https://www.naij.com/934871-osun-festival-a-celebration-of-water-and-fertility-goddess-exclusive-photos.html?source=index_main

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“I was asked to relocate from Lagos to Osogbo so that my life can have a meaning. I beg you, goddess of Osun, I must not come back here in vain,” these were the words of a desperate woman inside the sacred Osun grove where the annual Osun/Osogbo festival berths yearly.

Wondering why the Federal government didn't think of subsidizing the transport fare for these prigrims but the government did to to Christians and Muslims who went to Jerusalem and Mecca resp.

And these are the people that add to the state revenue unlike the good for nothing to the Nigerian states pilgrimage to Mecca and Jerusalem.

Kudos to Osun State Governor that deemed it fit to declare tomorrow a public holiday for Iseese(traditional) day.

they still do it in nigeria?....