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Ouhn AI. Let me share some details about "Ìsẹ́gun" in the context of Yoruba language and culture:
"Ìsẹ́gun" is a Yoruba word that means "Victory" or "Triumph". In Yoruba culture, this word carries significant cultural and emotional weight. It's often used in:

Personal names: Many Yoruba people use "Ìsẹ́gun" or variations of it as a name, symbolizing hope, success, and overcoming challenges.
Spiritual and motivational contexts: The word represents triumph over obstacles, whether personal, communal, or spiritual.
Linguistic composition:

"Ìsẹ́" can be understood as "to win" or "to succeed"
The tone marks are crucial in Yoruba, changing the meaning and pronunciation
The word embodies a sense of achievement and positive outcome. Happy Thursday.

Omo Akija.

"Ajé" is an order with rich cultural and encoded significance, depending on its understanding and use.

Ajé often refers to a powerful energy related to wealth and prosperity. Ajé is personified as an entity of great ability believed to bring all blessings when properly honored.

It also relates to the female power and authority, often tied to the abilities of women to nurture, transform, and sustain group and individuals. - Adebisi.

Ball. Matters.

Happy new Yoruba year.

The First Calendar’

What does it take for a 10000 year old people to agree they are only 2000 years old, just because somebody else said so?

You tell me when you figure it out,
but today June 3 is the first day of the new year 10,065 in the Yorùbá calendar.

Yes, there is a Yorùbá calendar - see you.

The Yorùbá call our calendar Kọ́jọ́dá, meaning, let the day be established.

We’ve had calendars long before the makers of the Gregorian calendar makers knew what days were. Compared to theirs, our new year begins on June 3 and ends in June 2.

Yorùbá match the month to the moon. So our month is 28 days. And, because moon is Oṣùpá, we call months Oṣù.

Our days are 4 in a week, and our weeks are 7 in a month. Kọ́jọ́dá has 91 weeks in a year, and not 12, but 13 months.

The 4 days are dedicated to Òrìṣà - not just Gods in the European sense, but more importantly, supernatural attributes we aspire to embody as we develop.

Day 1 is dedicated to Obatala.
Purity of intent & action, likewise to Sopanna (Immunity/Protection),
Iyaami (Divine Motherhood) and the Egungun (Ancestors).
Day 2 is dedicated to Orunmila (Wisdom), likewise Esu (Balance) and Osun (Abundance).
Day 3 is dedicated to Ogun (Technology), likewise Osoosi (Mathematical Precision)
Day 4 is dedicated to Sango (Justice/War), likewise Oya (Forceful Change)

Then we cycle again.

Our first month is Oṣù Òkúdu , which the Gregorians call June. Then Oṣù Agẹmọ, or July. Then Oṣù Ògún (August), Oṣù Owewe (September), Oṣù Ọ̀wàrà (October), Oṣù Bélú (November), Oṣù Ọ̀pẹ̀ (December) is our 7th month.

Oṣù Ṣẹ́ẹ́rẹ is January, our 8th month. Then Oṣù Èrèlè (February), Oṣù Ẹrẹ̀nà (March), Oṣù Ìgbé (April), and Kọ́jọ́dá ends in Oṣù Ẹ̀bibi, approximate to May, but actually till June 2nd.

All these months are representative of major Yorùbá festivals to honour deities, divinities, & observe natural phenomena, especially in relation to fertility & harvests.

The Yorùbá also adopt a seven day business calendar: Ọjọ́-Ajé (Monday), O̩jọ́-Ìṣẹ́gun (Tuesday), Ọjọ́rú (Wednesday), Ọjọ́bo̩ (Thursday), Ọjọ́-E̩tì (Friday) and O̩jọ́-Àbamé̩ta (Saturday) & Ọjọ́-Àìkú (Sunday).

Ọjọ́-Ajé is the day on which money joined Orisa on earth. Yoruba people start their week doing business, and discussing economic and financial programs.

O̩jọ́-Ìṣẹ́gun is the day of victory. Financial planning in place, the next day is a good day to start implementing ideas that lead to a better quality of life.

But, Risk is a thing. After planning & implementing, Ọjọ́rú is the day to beware problems, calamities, disruptions and confusion.
Way before Harvard Business School, the Yorùbá put risk in the curriculum.

To sort risk, advice & guidance are key. Especially from more experienced people. So, Ọjọ́bo̩ is the day on which Ancestors visit the family. A dream in the night? A sudden flash of brilliant inspiration that unblocks the debacle?

On the other hand, risk may mean a real red flag. Not to be ignored. Ọjọ́-E̩tì is synonymous with postponement. It is not advisable to begin business or journeys to new undertakings on this day.

It may take a while for risk to abate. Pragmatic people, the Yorùbá use Àbamé̩ta to wait & see if the permutations are more in line with the plans.

If all goes well, as they should with so much meticulous planning, we heave a sigh of relief, and we take a well deserved break.
Ọjọ́-Àìkú , otherwise known as Ọjọ́-Ìsinmi is the day of rest.

And business begins again, and we cycle, which is why traditional African people were the richest people in the world.
So much money the poor Europeans crossed the ocean to steal it.

We’ll get it back, but first, the calendar that lays the foundation for wise planning, data based implementation and group success - Kọ́jọ́dá.

Ayo adene