Aiku

Pari Iwa

Consummation of Being in Classical Yoruba Philosophy


Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
Compcros
Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems
Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge

Igba Iwa, the Calabash of Existence, its sphericality of form, in consonance with the harmonious
complexity of its design, evoking the integration of all possibilities of existence into a holistic
form, a form understood as an existential reality and a cognitive aspiration

Aiku pari iwa

Existence stops at deathlessness

Aiku pari iwa
Deathlessness is the end of existence

Aiku pari iwa
Deathlessness completes existence

Aiku pari iwa
In deathlessness, existence terminates

Aiku pari iwa
Deathlessness brings existence to a conclusion

Aiku pari iwa
Deathlessness terminates existence

Aiku pari iwa
Deathlessness is the completion of existence

Aiku pari iwa
Deathlessness concludes existence

Aiku pari iwa
Existence terminates in deathlessness

Aiku pari iwa
Deathlessness consummates existence

Aiku pari iwa
Deathlessness is the consummation of existence

Aiku pari iwa
In deathlessness, existence reaches consummation

Aiku pari iwa
In deathlessness, existence is swallowed up

Aiku pari iwa
Deathlessness perfects existence

Aiku pari iwa
Deathlessness is the fulfillment of existence

Inspirational Texts

Rowland Abiodun, The Future of African Art Studies: An African Perspective,
African Art Studies: The State of the Discipline. Washington: The Smithsonian,
1987.63-89.

Olabiyi Babalola Yai, Review of Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought
by Henry John Drewal; John Pemberton; Rowland Abiodun; Allen Wardwell.
African Arts, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jan., 1992), 20+22+24+26+29.