Transition of a Friend :Ecological and Ecospiritual Fraternities

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

                                                              Transition of a Friend

 

                                              Ecological and Ecospiritual Fraternities 

 

                                
                                                                                 

                                                                        My Friend and I

                                                                   Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

Yesterday, at about 4.30 pm, my friend transitioned from a life of a hundred years or more.

It’s a high possibility that his sister will soon follow, cut down to prevent her going the way of her brother and harming people and things even more than her brother has done.

One of the trunks of the double stemmed  iroko tree on Amore St. off Toyin St. Ikeja, Lagos, came crashing down without warning into the compound of St. Leo's Church, opposite the tree's former location, smashing cars, slightly injuring someone,  but happily, causing no fatalities.

                                                                                                

I share in these videos my response to this event at the site where the tree fell, involving a fellow creature of nature whom I have long taken as a friend and the area around whom I have been paying to be kept clean. 

                                                                                         

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3

[Michael Afolayan]

Oluwatoyin: I love your videos and the accompanying narratives. I'm amazed that the fence was able to receive the massive fall of the Iroko tree without crumbling. I think you should look at the spiritual aspect of the Iroko tree's benignity. In our work ot translating Odumosu's Iwe Iwosan to the English language, we constantly ran into the sacred value of the Iroko tree. We wrote in our "Introduction," . . . .Only a longtime resident of the lands would know which trees to protect and why. One species, known as ìrókò [Chlorophora excelsa], was especially important not just for spiritual reasons, but therapeutic ones as well. (Its leaves, bark, shoots, soil, pulp, fungi, and interior “stone” appear in nearly a hundred remedies in Ìwé Ìwòsàn.) It looks like a giant spirit fallen in Lagos. Did you talk to the Oba of Lagos about it? I hope it's no bad omen o. Happy Father's Day weekend!

MOA

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