Celebrating The Sages Of The Ages

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I want to open this post with a toast to superior wisdom, excellent intelligence and extraordinary judgement . And in my own peculiar style , I will be doing that with a very short verse to help fire your imagination .

From the birth of the earth.

wisdom speaks from the depth

From the death of the era

rises the ashes as colossus

Unlearned but wise

Unschooled but knowing

As primitive as nature

are the Sages of the Ages

This day , I want to particularly extol the virtues of the traditions of my fathers, so I am dedicating this post to the people I call 'The Sages Of The Ages '.

You know I never cease to be amazed by all the mixes of technology I see around me - a far cry from what it used to be back then . Sometimes I humourosly imagine how chaotic it would become if our fore-fathers were to resurrect this moment and behold the gigantic changes that has taken place as a result of immense technological advancements , hmm.... They would simply die again ! From shock perhaps .

The world has become a maze of technological mumbo-jumbo with us struggling to keep up with it, and perhaps find our way through .

Some are beneficial to us while others certainly drive us to our very death. On the premise of critical analysis, one would want to question the superiority and the authenticity that modern technology claims to possess .

An opportunity quickly presented itself some days ago when I was surfing the web . I stumbled on This amazing expose' titled ' The Amazing Health Benefits Of Drinking Water From An Earthen / Clay Pot'.

This discovery wow'd me and I realized that the ancient surely understood how to harness from nature, trove of numerous benefits . They were primitive , unlearned , unschooled but they had WISDOM . And this makes me proudly AFRICAN .

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Now let us look at those benefits of drinking water from an earthen clay pot.

Natural cooling : Clay pots cool the water down , they also provide healing with elements of the earth . Most significantly , clay pots transfer the chill to the water based on the climate . This quality of a clay pot is unique and no other container has the same quality .

Alkaline : Another benefit of clay water pot is the alkalinity of clay . Water in clay pot is alkaline in nature and helps neutralize the overly acidic qualities of water and food as well . It will interest you to know that diseases thrive in acidic environment .

Free of dangerous chemicals :

Drinking from a clay pot is without dangerous chemicals , unlike in plastic container which contains chemicals harmful to us like BPA ( Bisphenol A ). Water from clay pots also maintain levels of testosterone ( The virility hormone ) in your body while water in plastic depletes it.

It is also gentle on the throat and is ideal for people suffering from cough or cold

It prevents sunstroke during Summer .

Wow ! Can you beat this ?

Then in my usual musings , I wondered about the ancient tradition of my people and I am once again catapulted into the past . I remember the earthen clay water pots in grandma's room half submerged in the mud , where water takes on an ethereal taste with a coolness that brings solace to a patched soul .

Technology is the good , the bad , and the ugly and yours truly thinks that we were too hurried in discarding some of our wonderful traditions , too hasty in deleting almost totally our God-given heritage and ways of life of our fathers .

'Do we now go back to pre-civilization Era ? No ! But we can devise means of enjoying the numerous benefits accruing to some of our ancient practices and pattern . Let us find our way back to nature , to the rich tradition of our fathers , for therein lies the remedy to our malady .

So in a mood of celebration and with a loud ovation , let us give it all to our fathers , our ancestors who still speak from the patched silence of the earth .

Ladies and Gentlemen , welcome ' The Sages Of The Ages '