Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju 's Osun Forest and Osogbo Pilgrimage: An Entry into Wonders of Nature and Spirit

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju 's Osun Forest and Osogbo Pilgrimage

An Entry into Wonders of Nature and Spirit

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju  inside Iledi Ontoto,  the shrine house of the Ogboni esoteric order at Osogbo. 

The architecture and art are by Susanne Wenger and her Osogbo collaborators,  the New Sacred Art Movement. 

       Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju 

I invite you to follow my explorations of  Osogbo and its Osun forest , Nigeria, through the pictures, videos and essays at the Facebook page linked below:

https://www.facebook.com/share/1CtNQhqPwf/

 

The Osun forest is one of the world's great spiritual locations, an amazing dramatization of beauty that galvanizes the soul, whatever your belief system or none.

The forest is a visual and worship centre of   Yoruba origin Orisa spirituality, strategic to which is the Yoruba response to nature as a concentration  of divine identity and power. 

This nature/divine unity  is evoked through the sculptures and architecture of the forest, created by Susan Wenger and her Osogbo collaborators, the New Sacred Art Movement,  mapping Orisa cosmology through the spatial network of the vegetative space. 

Yoruba sacred culture in its loftiness  is on display at that Facebook page, aided by various guides and particularly through the agency of cultural adept Anigbajumo Ogun who leads me through the forest,  introducing me to its sacred values, using magnificent Yoruba verbal art which I intend to have translated for viewers.

The landscape is magnificent,  the art and architecture glorious and the people encountered exquisite.

I shall be uploading the pictures, videos and essays to other online platforms complementing this one on Facebook.