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/ETSAKOR PROVERBS ETSAKOR DIALECT: Alimhi, aimhi obor ( ogor obor ); lor le rer se orai. TRANSLATION: The alimhi deity climbs a tree with the left hand. MEANING: This Proverb is a warning against false worship. It warns against the vanity in such an exercise, since they will be disappointed at judgement; which is often a miscarriage of judgement. LIFE APPLICATION:   This Proverb is rich in allusions. It shows that even in the dark ages, there was always light, through the knowledge about the worship of the True God. Here, in  Africa  and other parts of the world, paganism manifested in many societies; in the form of atheism, animism, spiritualism and many other types of idolatry practices.   The word alimhi  as it is used in this context; refers to the idolatry worship of a deified ancestral spirits. This type of spiritualism is false worship. 'The Tree' referred to, in the Proverb, means Judgement. And 'climbing the tree means adjudication or the dispensation o...

/Etsakor Proverbs ETSAKOR DIALECT: 1. Orda orde kpo lor ghu ye alimhi apfer na tser la. 2. Elimhi lor khi apfer ni mha ye. 3. Eme gbe alimhi oder vhi agbor, khor vha gbe nabi uku ewor. TRANSLATION: 1. Everyone dies unto their own ancestry. 2. Elimhi  - (The Spiritual Abode of the dead) is the family where we return. 3. The veil which separates earthly life and the spiritual abode of the dead is.       not as thick as a film of smoke. MEANING:   Through death, man returns to his origins. The ancestry of man called alimhi  in the Proverb, is an abode of spiritual beings, where it is believed that man was created; and there, he came from.   There, it is possible to recognize related, previously connected or familiar beings. There is the eventual return of the spirits of the dead. This Proverb describes the location of the spiritual abode to be within the earth; and among the living! The only veil of separation between the kingdom of the spirits of th...