Bobaduro

Classicist | Screenwriter | Mythologist | Creative Executive
I study how myth, power, faith & culture shape human behaviour.
I build STORIES, SYSTEMS, & MINDS.

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A classical example of robbing Peter to cheat Paul.

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The Morphology of the Trickster Archetype (Loki, Eshu, Coyote, Hermes)

The Trickster: A Universal Pattern

The trickster is one of the most universal and enduring figures in world mythology. He appears in every culture, every time, every place. He is the god who breaks the rules, who defies the conventions, who disrupts the order. He is the god of the paradox - the god who is both the creator and the destroyer, both the fool and the wise man, both the hero and the villain.

The Functions of the Trickster

The trickster serves several functions in mythology:

1. The Boundary Breaker – The trickster crosses the boundaries - the boundaries between the human and the divine, the boundaries between life and death, the boundaries between the order and the chaos.
2. The Rule Breaker – The trickster breaks the rules - the rules of society, the rules of morality, the rules of the cosmos. He exposes the hypocrisy, the arbitrariness, and the contingency of the order.
3. The Transformer – The trickster transforms the world - he changes the forms, he changes the meanings, he changes the conditions. He is the source of creativity, change, and hope.
4. The Messenger – The trickster carries the messages between the gods and the humans. He is the intermediary, the mediator, the go-between.

The Tricksters of World Mythology

1. Loki (Norse)

· Culture: Norse/Germanic
· Role: Trickster god, shape-shifter, troublemaker
· Attributes: Cunning, deceitful, ambivalent
· Function: He disrupts the order of Asgard, he causes the death of Baldr, he fights the gods at Ragnarök
· Myths: The theft of the hammer, the binding of Fenrir, the death of Baldr
· Meaning: Loki is the shadow of the gods, the principle of chaos, the source of the transformation

2. Eṣu (Yoruba)

· Culture: Yoruba (West Africa)
· Role: Trickster god, messenger, god of the crossroads
· Attributes: Cunning, deceptive, unpredictable
· Function: He carries the messages between the gods and the humans, he opens and closes the doors
· Myths: The trick of the hat, the theft of the sacrifices
· Meaning: Eṣu is the principle of change, the source of the unpredictability, the god who must be appeased

3. Coyote (Native American)

· Culture: Various Native American tribes (Plains, Southwest)
· Role: Trickster, culture hero, creator
· Attributes: Cunning, foolish, transformative
· Function: He creates the world, he teaches the people, he suffers the consequences of his folly
· Myths: The theft of the fire, the creation of the animals, the battle with the monsters
· Meaning: Coyote is the principle of the folly, the source of the creativity, the teacher through the experience

4. Hermes (Greek)

· Culture: Greek
· Role: Trickster god, messenger, god of travelers
· Attributes: Cunning, thieving, eloquent
· Function: He carries the messages between the gods and the humans, he guides the souls to the underworld
· Myths: The theft of Apollo's cattle, the invention of the lyre, the guidance of the heroes
· Meaning: Hermes is the principle of the communication, the source of the eloquence, the mediator between the worlds

The Morphology of the Trickster

The trickster has a distinctive morphology:

· The Trick – The trickster uses the cunning, the deception, the disguise. He plays tricks, he tells lies, he breaks promises.
· The Transformation – The trickster changes the forms - he becomes the animal, the human, the god. He changes the meanings - he turns the order into chaos, chaos into order.
· The Humiliation – The trickster is often humiliated. He is caught, he is punished, he is mocked. He is the fool who learns through suffering.
· The Boon – The trickster brings the boon. He gives the fire, the knowledge, the culture. He is the creator, the teacher, the savior.

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The Meaning of the Trickster

The trickster is the myth of ambivalence - the ambivalence of the human condition, the ambivalence of the divine nature, the ambivalence of the cosmos. The trickster is the god who is both the good and the evil, both the order and the chaos, both the creation and the destruction.

The trickster is the myth of the transformation - the transformation that is possible, the transformation that is necessary, the transformation that is the source of hope.

[Bobaduro @mobobaduro]

The Morphology of the Trickster Archetype (Loki, Eshu, Coyote, Hermes)

The Trickster: A Universal Pattern

The trickster is one of the most universal and enduring figures in world mythology. He appears in every culture, every time, every place. He is the god who breaks the rules, who defies the conventions, who disrupts the order. He is the god of the paradox - the god who is both the creator and the destroyer, both the fool and the wise man, both the hero and the villain.

The Functions of the Trickster

The trickster serves several functions in mythology:

1. The Boundary Breaker – The trickster crosses the boundaries - the boundaries between the human and the divine, the boundaries between life and death, the boundaries between the order and the chaos.
2. The Rule Breaker – The trickster breaks the rules - the rules of society, the rules of morality, the rules of the cosmos. He exposes the hypocrisy, the arbitrariness, and the contingency of the order.
3. The Transformer – The trickster transforms the world - he changes the forms, he changes the meanings, he changes the conditions. He is the source of creativity, change, and hope.
4. The Messenger – The trickster carries the messages between the gods and the humans. He is the intermediary, the mediator, the go-between.

The Tricksters of World Mythology

1. Loki (Norse)

· Culture: Norse/Germanic
· Role: Trickster god, shape-shifter, troublemaker
· Attributes: Cunning, deceitful, ambivalent
· Function: He disrupts the order of Asgard, he causes the death of Baldr, he fights the gods at Ragnarök
· Myths: The theft of the hammer, the binding of Fenrir, the death of Baldr
· Meaning: Loki is the shadow of the gods, the principle of chaos, the source of the transformation

2. Eṣu (Yoruba)

· Culture: Yoruba (West Africa)
· Role: Trickster god, messenger, god of the crossroads
· Attributes: Cunning, deceptive, unpredictable
· Function: He carries the messages between the gods and the humans, he opens and closes the doors
· Myths: The trick of the hat, the theft of the sacrifices
· Meaning: Eṣu is the principle of change, the source of the unpredictability, the god who must be appeased

3. Coyote (Native American)

· Culture: Various Native American tribes (Plains, Southwest)
· Role: Trickster, culture hero, creator
· Attributes: Cunning, foolish, transformative
· Function: He creates the world, he teaches the people, he suffers the consequences of his folly
· Myths: The theft of the fire, the creation of the animals, the battle with the monsters
· Meaning: Coyote is the principle of the folly, the source of the creativity, the teacher through the experience

4. Hermes (Greek)

· Culture: Greek
· Role: Trickster god, messenger, god of travelers
· Attributes: Cunning, thieving, eloquent
· Function: He carries the messages between the gods and the humans, he guides the souls to the underworld
· Myths: The theft of Apollo's cattle, the invention of the lyre, the guidance of the heroes
· Meaning: Hermes is the principle of the communication, the source of the eloquence, the mediator between the worlds

The Morphology of the Trickster

The trickster has a distinctive morphology:

· The Trick – The trickster uses the cunning, the deception, the disguise. He plays tricks, he tells lies, he breaks promises.
· The Transformation – The trickster changes the forms - he becomes the animal, the human, the god. He changes the meanings - he turns the order into chaos, chaos into order.
· The Humiliation – The trickster is often humiliated. He is caught, he is punished, he is mocked. He is the fool who learns through suffering.
· The Boon – The trickster brings the boon. He gives the fire, the knowledge, the culture. He is the creator, the teacher, the savior.

[Bobaduro @mobobaduro]

@ishodedayomi Happy Birthday KB!

Long life and prosperity.

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Scripture alone is the rule of faith for historic Christianity (sola Scriptura in Protestant terms; the closed canon in Catholic and Orthodox terms). Adding extra-biblical legends that rewrite the foundational account of human origins, the entry of sin, and the created order of marriage undermines the authority of Genesis and, by extension, the entire redemptive narrative that rests on Adam and Eve. The New Testament repeatedly treats Adam and Eve as the historical first pair (Romans 5; 1 Corinthians 15; 1 Timothy 2; etc.). Inserting Lilith invents a rival origin story in which the first woman is cast out not for disobedience to God but for refusing male headship—an inversion that flatly contradicts the biblical pattern of complementary roles, mutual dignity, and the effects of the Fall.

In contemporary culture the legend has been heavily re-tooled as a feminist empowerment myth: Lilith becomes the archetype of the woman who will not submit, while Eve is portrayed as the compliant, secondary creation. This reading is a 20th-century reinterpretation (especially post-1970s), not the original intent of the medieval text, and it functions as a direct challenge to biblical teaching on creation order, marriage, and authority. When such folklore is presented as “what the Church buried” or “what biblical scholars have revealed,” it becomes a vehicle for introducing doubt about the reliability of Scripture itself. That is the classic pattern of heresy: elevating later tradition, legend, or ideology above the written Word, and using it to revise core doctrines.

In an end-time context of doctrinal confusion, deception, and “another gospel,” Christians are repeatedly warned to hold fast to the apostolic teaching and to test everything against Scripture (Galatians 1:8–9; 2 Timothy 3–4; Jude; Revelation’s warnings against false teaching). The Lilith story is precisely the sort of speculative, extra-canonical narrative that can distract, divide, and erode confidence in the Genesis foundation. It is interesting as comparative mythology and as a window into medieval Jewish folklore; it is worthless- and potentially corrosive - as Christian doctrine or history. Ignore it.

Thank you
Bobaduro
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[Bobaduro @mobobaduro]

As a Classicist and Mythologist, the Lilith-as-first-wife story is not a biblical account. It is a later medieval Jewish folk legend, not Scripture, and Christians have no reason to treat it as authoritative history or doctrine.

The biblical facts
Genesis is unambiguous. God creates the first man, Adam, from the dust of the ground (Genesis 2:7). He then forms the first woman, Eve, from Adam’s side/rib as a suitable helper and companion (Genesis 2:18–25). The text states that Eve is “the mother of all living” (Genesis 3:20). There is no other woman, no prior wife, and no alternative creation narrative that inserts a rebellious equal named Lilith. The two creation accounts in Genesis 1 and 2 are complementary (Genesis 1 gives the broad overview; Genesis 2 zooms in on the sixth day), not sequential stories of two different women.

The only possible biblical occurrence of the word *lilit* (or *lilith*) is Isaiah 34:14, in a poetic oracle of judgment on desolate Edom. It appears in a list of wild creatures and is commonly rendered “night creature,” “night monster,” “screech owl,” or similar. It has no connection to Adam, Eve, the Garden, creation, or any human wife. Most mainstream translations do not treat it as a proper name of a personal demon, and even if it does allude to a night spirit from broader ancient Near Eastern imagery, it supplies zero narrative about a first wife.

No New Testament writer, no apostle, and no early Christian creed or council ever references Lilith as Adam’s prior wife. The biblical genealogy of humanity runs solely through Adam and Eve.

The actual origin of the myth.
As a matter of classical and comparative Near Eastern history, the figure begins centuries earlier as a class of Mesopotamian night demons (lilitu, ardat lili, related to storm-wind spirits and the child-harming goddess Lamashtu). These appear in Sumerian and Akkadian texts (including associations in the Gilgamesh tradition) as dangerous female entities linked to the night, sexuality, and infant mortality. Jewish communities in Babylonia absorbed and adapted this folklore; protective amulets and Aramaic incantation bowls from late antiquity ward off “liliths.” The Talmud mentions Lilith a few times as a long-haired demoness who endangers men sleeping alone or threatens children - not as Adam’s wife.

The full story of Lilith as Adam’s equal, created from the same dust, who refuses the subordinate sexual position, utters the divine Name, flees Eden, and becomes a demon who kills infants and produces demonic offspring, first appears in the Alphabet of Ben Sira (also called Alphabet of Sirach). This is an anonymous medieval Hebrew work, composed roughly between the 8th and 10th centuries CE in the Islamic world. Scholars widely regard it as satirical, irreverent, and often crude or misogynistic folklore rather than serious midrash or authoritative tradition. It was never part of the Jewish biblical canon, never accepted as Scripture by rabbinic Judaism, and is not “ancient Hebrew texts” in the sense of the Tanakh or even the major midrashim. Later Kabbalistic writings (especially the Zohar) elaborated demonic aspects further, but these are mystical elaborations, not historical reportage.

In short: the “first wife who refused to submit” narrative is a medieval legend that retroactively tried to harmonize the two Genesis creation statements and to explain existing folk fears of a night demon. It has never been “disproven” in the sense that myths are not subject to empirical disproof; it simply lacks any grounding in the biblical text or in early Jewish or Christian tradition. “Biblical scholars” who present it as suppressed history are either popularizing folklore or advancing modern ideological readings.

Why Christians should ignore it as a dangerous end-time heresy.
1/2

[Bobaduro @mobobaduro]

Scripture alone is the rule of faith for historic Christianity (sola Scriptura in Protestant terms; the closed canon in Catholic and Orthodox terms). Adding extra-biblical legends that rewrite the foundational account of human origins, the entry of sin, and the created order of marriage undermines the authority of Genesis and, by extension, the entire redemptive narrative that rests on Adam and Eve. The New Testament repeatedly treats Adam and Eve as the historical first pair (Romans 5; 1 Corinthians 15; 1 Timothy 2; etc.). Inserting Lilith invents a rival origin story in which the first woman is cast out not for disobedience to God but for refusing male headship—an inversion that flatly contradicts the biblical pattern of complementary roles, mutual dignity, and the effects of the Fall.

In contemporary culture the legend has been heavily re-tooled as a feminist empowerment myth: Lilith becomes the archetype of the woman who will not submit, while Eve is portrayed as the compliant, secondary creation. This reading is a 20th-century reinterpretation (especially post-1970s), not the original intent of the medieval text, and it functions as a direct challenge to biblical teaching on creation order, marriage, and authority. When such folklore is presented as “what the Church buried” or “what biblical scholars have revealed,” it becomes a vehicle for introducing doubt about the reliability of Scripture itself. That is the classic pattern of heresy: elevating later tradition, legend, or ideology above the written Word, and using it to revise core doctrines.

In an end-time context of doctrinal confusion, deception, and “another gospel,” Christians are repeatedly warned to hold fast to the apostolic teaching and to test everything against Scripture (Galatians 1:8–9; 2 Timothy 3–4; Jude; Revelation’s warnings against false teaching). The Lilith story is precisely the sort of speculative, extra-canonical narrative that can distract, divide, and erode confidence in the Genesis foundation. It is interesting as comparative mythology and as a window into medieval Jewish folklore; it is worthless- and potentially corrosive - as Christian doctrine or history. Ignore it.

Thank you
Bobaduro
2/2

[Bobaduro @mobobaduro]

As a Classicist and Mythologist, the Lilith-as-first-wife story is not a biblical account. It is a later medieval Jewish folk legend, not Scripture, and Christians have no reason to treat it as authoritative history or doctrine.

The biblical facts
Genesis is unambiguous. God creates the first man, Adam, from the dust of the ground (Genesis 2:7). He then forms the first woman, Eve, from Adam’s side/rib as a suitable helper and companion (Genesis 2:18–25). The text states that Eve is “the mother of all living” (Genesis 3:20). There is no other woman, no prior wife, and no alternative creation narrative that inserts a rebellious equal named Lilith. The two creation accounts in Genesis 1 and 2 are complementary (Genesis 1 gives the broad overview; Genesis 2 zooms in on the sixth day), not sequential stories of two different women.

The only possible biblical occurrence of the word *lilit* (or *lilith*) is Isaiah 34:14, in a poetic oracle of judgment on desolate Edom. It appears in a list of wild creatures and is commonly rendered “night creature,” “night monster,” “screech owl,” or similar. It has no connection to Adam, Eve, the Garden, creation, or any human wife. Most mainstream translations do not treat it as a proper name of a personal demon, and even if it does allude to a night spirit from broader ancient Near Eastern imagery, it supplies zero narrative about a first wife.

No New Testament writer, no apostle, and no early Christian creed or council ever references Lilith as Adam’s prior wife. The biblical genealogy of humanity runs solely through Adam and Eve.

The actual origin of the myth.
As a matter of classical and comparative Near Eastern history, the figure begins centuries earlier as a class of Mesopotamian night demons (lilitu, ardat lili, related to storm-wind spirits and the child-harming goddess Lamashtu). These appear in Sumerian and Akkadian texts (including associations in the Gilgamesh tradition) as dangerous female entities linked to the night, sexuality, and infant mortality. Jewish communities in Babylonia absorbed and adapted this folklore; protective amulets and Aramaic incantation bowls from late antiquity ward off “liliths.” The Talmud mentions Lilith a few times as a long-haired demoness who endangers men sleeping alone or threatens children - not as Adam’s wife.

The full story of Lilith as Adam’s equal, created from the same dust, who refuses the subordinate sexual position, utters the divine Name, flees Eden, and becomes a demon who kills infants and produces demonic offspring, first appears in the Alphabet of Ben Sira (also called Alphabet of Sirach). This is an anonymous medieval Hebrew work, composed roughly between the 8th and 10th centuries CE in the Islamic world. Scholars widely regard it as satirical, irreverent, and often crude or misogynistic folklore rather than serious midrash or authoritative tradition. It was never part of the Jewish biblical canon, never accepted as Scripture by rabbinic Judaism, and is not “ancient Hebrew texts” in the sense of the Tanakh or even the major midrashim. Later Kabbalistic writings (especially the Zohar) elaborated demonic aspects further, but these are mystical elaborations, not historical reportage.

In short: the “first wife who refused to submit” narrative is a medieval legend that retroactively tried to harmonize the two Genesis creation statements and to explain existing folk fears of a night demon. It has never been “disproven” in the sense that myths are not subject to empirical disproof; it simply lacks any grounding in the biblical text or in early Jewish or Christian tradition. “Biblical scholars” who present it as suppressed history are either popularizing folklore or advancing modern ideological readings.

Why Christians should ignore it as a dangerous end-time heresy.
1/2

[Mazi Nathan @rukky_nate]

Recently, I found out that Eve in the Bible wasn’t the first woman God created.

Before Eve, there was Lilith as revealed by biblical scholars and ancient texts.

She was created from the same dust as Adam, and not from his ribs like Eve.

Lilith refused to be beneath Adam, she declared herself his equal, and for that she was casted out.

So God created Eve instead. A more agreeable version. The church has largely buried this narrative.

But it sits somewhere in ancient Hebrew texts and has never been fully disproven. So the first woman in creation was not removed because she sinned, she was replaced because she refused to submit.

Interesting. I wonder what later became of Lilith the outcast.

[Bobaduro @mobobaduro]

@OgbeniAdugbo @SAsekome @bolajiayo @sureBigbro @mamatii001 @Mr_JAGs @egi_nupe @abdullahayofel @Alpha_Yom Reaction when they play the song in the hood...

KS1 Malaika don gbe eleyii de'bẹ!

[Bobaduro @mobobaduro]

@OgbeniAdugbo @SAsekome @bolajiayo @sureBigbro @mamatii001 @Mr_JAGs @egi_nupe @abdullahayofel @Alpha_Yom The second song in this category is KS Malaika's "Angere Ẹlẹsẹ Kan tiwa, kaka ko ṣubu, ara l'onda'.

If you dey hood and DJ put am lasan... Boys go start dropping.

[Bobaduro @mobobaduro]

Exactly the point I made when the news of his death broke out.
But people that don't understand the dynamics and the implications of attacking and killing Toba in Fadeyi were on my timeline saying nonsense.

They'll soon know the meaning of the literal phrase "bury the hatchet".

May the Lord keep us safe in Mushin.
Old wounds.
Old rivalries..
Scores to settle...

This is not an NURTW fight. It's beyond that.

People don't know how bad it was.
Baba Alado had to go and pay for adverts for more than a year after Koko Inu Iwe Iroyin denouncing any involvement in any clashes and begging boys to return guns and etc...

[Bobaduro @mobobaduro]

The police should be at red alert!
Although they have been picking up boys from the street for the past two weeks.

[Muyiwa Sam Banjoko @bansamolu]

Fadeyi Boys of Shomolu side (not Mushin side) staged walk of #NoMoreJplum

@fattylincorn_01

[Bobaduro @mobobaduro]

No one brings playfulness into sport like the Harlem Globetrotters.

They don’t just play basketball.
They turn the court into a stage, defenders into supporting actors, and every game into pure joy.

While everyone else is chasing wins…
They’re busy making the world smile.

That’s the real championship.

Who else does it like them? 👇

#HarlemGlobetrotters #Basketball #JoyInSport

[Bobaduro @mobobaduro]

No one brings playfulness into sport like the Harlem Globetrotters.

They don’t just play basketball.
They turn the court into a stage, defenders into supporting actors, and every game into pure joy.

While everyone else is chasing wins…
They’re busy making the world smile.

That’s the real championship.

Who else does it like them? 👇

#HarlemGlobetrotters #Basketball #JoyInSport

[Bobaduro @mobobaduro]

A media house should just organize a dancing competition for all the gubernatorial aspirants in the coming Osun State election.

It will douse tension and Governor Adeleke will win. That will be a very good compensation for the impending disgrace at the polls.

[Bobaduro @mobobaduro]

Dear @followlasg
Kindly fix whatever problem with with the waste management. There's already an epidemic of dysentery and cholera in the general hospital (pediatric sessions).
What did you get wrong?

You were managing the waste beautifully. All major roads and markets are filled with...

Children are dying at the general hospitals. It's a failure of the government! And this will dent whatever success you have recorded in in the past 7 years.
@sanwoolulagos
@drobafemihamzat
@tokunbo_wahab

[Bobaduro @mobobaduro]

Seun has helped us to bring back @jeffphilips1

Ẹkun ọkọ Peter Obi ati awọn ẹmẹwa e.

[Souljah @jeffphilips1]

This man is a very fraudulent, uber-deceptive, desperate, bumbling nuisance...END

Thank God he CAN'T be Nigeria's president...Goodbye 👋

[Bobaduro @mobobaduro]

Reason 101 to give testimony in church!
The couple weren't expecting all they got!

But wait... October next year? What if ...

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Baba...
Na God of Joshua we need ooo. Elijah o dey hear anything... Fire straight!

[Man of Letters. @Letter_to_Jack]

We need sun today, not rain.

Where is the God of Elijah?