Symbolism is the language of memory, a sacred code through which people remember who they are, where they come from, and what spiritual forces shape their destiny.

It is the use of symbols, objects, gestures, patterns, or stories that represent the presence, wisdom, power, and continuity of ancestors within a culture or spiritual system.

It is both spiritual and cultural, expressing the connection between the living and those who came before. These symbols serve as bridges between worlds, linking the past, present, and future.

Fiction (Piction, Pictory/Viction, Victory) is another form of symbolism, used when telling stories of victorious wars or conveying illusions. Fiction was a significant tool used in the colonization of the world. As a result of colonization, only about 6–17% of the world’s population can translate or grasp ancestral symbolism upon first encounter, and most of those individuals belong to the culture of origin or are formally trained in it.

African history is as ancient as time itself. It is the shared history of humanity, holding the symbolic and spiritual blueprints of civilization and evolution. Yet much of this heritage remains untouched, unstudied, and untranslated on its own terms due to centuries of colonization, cultural suppression, and erasure. Today, many Africans and members of the Black diaspora attempt to interpret their ancestral legacy through colonial, religious, and Western academic lenses. This has led to profound mistranslations and distortions that have fractured the true understanding of Africa’s ancient knowledge systems, its cosmologies, and the shared ancestry of humankind. To heal this divide, there must be a return to indigenous ways of seeing, feeling, and decoding, to think not just historically but symbolically and binaurally, so that Africa’s voice can once again speak in its original frequency of truth.

At present, Africa suffers not from a lack of education, but from an education disconnected from the self. What is taught across much of the continent still carries the weight of colonial design, narratives constructed, controlled, and weaponized to maintain psychological dependence and cultural amnesia. It is as though Africans have forgotten the magnitude of the invasions, displacements, and manipulations that reshaped their consciousness. This collective forgetfulness of colonial invasion is not natural; it is engineered.

To overcome it, a radical re-education must begin, one that restores ancestral and historical truth, revives indigenous wisdom, and reawakens a sense of self that is both rooted and sovereign. True liberation will not come from imitating foreign systems, but from realigning knowledge with our original truths and reestablishing identity as the foundation of learning.

True education begins with the understanding of one’s language, one’s reality, and one’s own story.

HORUBA(YORUBA) LANGUAGE

LANGUAGE CODE: A-E-I-O-U-N

Fashion is also a form of symbolism, and are often used in an expression of origin, status, migration, culture, architecture, responsibilities, etc.

This Fashion is a representation of the kingdom of the Sun/Son, a Yoruba kingdom known as Owo Kingdom.

Ibi'Ara-Oke(Ibara Oke)

Ade Imole, Ade Ina(Adena)

The Crown of Light and Fire.

An ancient Crown once worn in Ule Ufe before the Sun and the Moon was created according to ancient Oral History of the Kingdom.

The Kingdom started as a settlement known as Aba'Otu Ufe(Abantu Ufe), the Kingdom of the Priest Father God King of kings.

The people of the land are known as Omo'Otu(Umuntu) Ufe, with a popular saying of "Aba oniitu", meaning may the unity of our land never gets destroyed.

Ule Ufe is known as the land of creation, and the first land to emerged out of the primordial water since time of memorial. It is also known as the Oli(Holy) Kingdom of light(Sun, Stars, Rainbows, Moon, and Eclipse), Gods, and the priest father King of kings.

It is said that all foundational ancestors migrated from this very land and given their cultures and responsibilities in ancient times.

It is believe to be the kingdom of souls and memories of the old and the new world.

The King of the land is known as the OONI(Birth Water) and Ogenne(Sound), and the Queen is known as OLORI or Ani/Ina(Fire).

Together giving birth(Obi+A= Oba) to the head(Ori) of Imole(Light) of the world.

OBATALA

Obatala = Oba Ti Ala/Obi Ati Ala (Central Kingdom) Odi Ni Ala/Odinala

The Creator of the Head (Ori) = Iri (Liquid Moisture/Water)

ODUDUWA

Odu Ti Oda Iwa = Esu Odi Ara (Moon Kingdom) Osu (Osi) Obinwa

The Creator of the Heart (Okan-Okanbi/Akanbi) = Akan/Akanni (First Son)

"Ata ori" is a phrase from the Hebrew(Iba'Ori, Iba'Oru) song "Adon Ata Ori," which translates to "Lord, You are my light" in English. The song is popular in Messianic Jewish communities.The phrase itself, "Ata'Ori," means "You are my light". 

Here's a breakdown: 

• Ata: Hebrew for "You".

• Ori: Hebrew for "My light".

• Adon: Hebrew for "Lord".

• Adon Ata Ori: In the song, this is interpreted as "Lord, You are my light".

Yoruba: Adon Ata Ori (Ado Ni Ita Ori).

Ori: Head

Ata: Pepper, Title of a King.

Atari: Top of the head.

Ado: The act of reproduction or settling. 

"Atari Ajanaku Ki ishe/Ke she Eru Omode" I+I=E/U

"A position of valor is not for childish minds."

Ajanaku: Elephant.

Ajanaku/Akan'ni'Aja. 

Oja/Aja: Warrior/Fighter/Black Dog.

Oja: Market. The act of snapping or breaking. Baby backing Protector.

Oja is also called Iro. (Iro/Ori)

Aro/Ero/Iro/Oro/Uro/Nro: Cleansed, Tool, Protector, Sanitizer, Lie/Illusion/Support, Dream/Night-time/Filling.

Ari/Eri/Iri/Ori/Uri/Nri: To see, We see, Moisture, Head/I See/Oil, Memory/Seeing/Locust Beans, Seeing/Metal/Food.

Oku/Aku/Akwu/Uku: National Greeting/Nation (Life and Death/Light and Darkness)

Okan/Akan/Akanni: First Son. The Heart

IFA/AFI