Ehi (ruhi)
Ehi sunan ruhi ne a wasu aƙidun addinin yammacin Afirka, musamman a Edo Nigeria da Benin. Ehi yana nufin "hazaƙa",[1] amma kuma yana nufin "mala'ika" a wasu harsunan Najeriya kuma yana nufin ruhin da ke jikin mutum, kama daga mala'ika mai tsaro-(guardian angel). Bugu da ƙari, Ehi na nufin "kyauta" a yaren Idoma na Najeriya.
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Ehi wani ɓangare ne na mutum wanda ya kasance tare da babban abin bautawa Osa. Ehi na mutum yana jagorantar su ta hanyar rayuwarsu a cikin agbon, ko duniyar abin duniya, yayin da suke hulɗa da wasu ruhohi a cikin erinmwin, ko duniyar ruhi. [2] Ehi yakan kasance tare da mutum da rana, kuma ya dawo ya ba da rahoto ga Osa-[lower-alpha 1] da dare.[3] Ana kallon Ehi a matsayin wata ƙungiyar asiri a sassan yammacin Afirka tare da "tsarin tsari" inda mutane da yawa ke ganin cewa rashin nasara za a iya dorawa kan Ehi da ya mallaki namiji.[4] An ce Ehi ya kasance yana "sadaukarwa kullum" don godiya ga nasara ko jagora a lokuta masu wahala.[5] Bradbury ya ce game da shi, "Kusa da matsayin mutum da ruhinsa har yanzu ana tunanin su a matsayin wakilai masu zaman kansu don haka akwai yiwuwar rikici a tsakaninsu. Don haka Ehi dole ne ya zama mallakinta kamar sauran abubuwan da ba a iya gani ba kuma rashin yin hakan yana haifar da matsala.[5]
Bayanan kula gyara sashe
- ↑ Kalmar “ Osa ” anan bamu san mi wannan kalmar take nufi ba. Don haka akiyaye bata wani suna ko ɗauar kalmar a matsayin wani abin bautar su!
Manazarta gyara sashe
- ↑ Jacobs, Joseph; Nutt, Alfred Trübner; Wright, Arthur Robinson; Crooke, William (1969). Folklore. Folklore Society. p. 218. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ↑ Ehi is a component of a person that remains with the supreme deity Osa. A person's ehi guides them through their life in the agbon, or material world, while interacting with other spirits in the erinmwin, or spirit world.
- ↑ A Concise Dictionary Of The Bini Language Of Southern Nigeria. Taylor & Francis. p. 51. Retrieved 2013-02-05.
- ↑ May, Brian (1981). The Third World Calamity. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-7100-0764-3. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Okpewho, Isidore (1998). Once Upon a Kingdom: Myth, Hegemony, and Identity. Indiana University Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-253-21189-7. Retrieved 5 February 2013.