When Iku claims a life, the body returns to Onile's earth through burial. Death completes the cycle that began when a person first stood upon Onile's ground, returning all borrowed substance to the primordial owner of the land.
When Oduduwa descended from heaven to create dry land, he spread earth upon the primordial waters — material that was Onile's body taking form. Onile existed before Oduduwa's act of creation, and the land he shaped remains hers.
Each person's Ori unfolds its destiny upon Onile's earth. The ground one walks, the land one farms, and the soil in which one is buried are all governed by the intersection of personal destiny through Ori and Onile's primordial ownership.
Oko governs agriculture, but the soil he cultivates belongs to Onile. Farmers must acknowledge the earth's owner before planting, recognizing that Oko's power to make crops grow depends on Onile's permission to use her body.
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