{"id":13120,"date":"2023-02-06T10:19:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T09:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=13120"},"modified":"2023-02-06T10:19:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T09:19:56","slug":"false-tinubus-embroidery-signature-has-no-link-to-ouroboros-occult-vector-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/false-tinubus-embroidery-signature-has-no-link-to-ouroboros-occult-vector-symbol\/","title":{"rendered":"False! Tinubu’s embroidery signature has no link to Ouroboros occult vector symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Claim: <\/strong>Ouroboros\u2019 occult vector is an occult sign, and Tinubu’s cap suggests he is a member.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Verdict: <\/strong>FALSE. The Ouroboros symbol suggests eternal life in a cyclical pattern. It has nothing to do with the embroidered signature on Tinubu’s cap nor suggests that he is a member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Text<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Amidst the series of campaigns staged in the country by different political office hopefuls for the February elections, a Twitter user and popular pro-Peter Obi social media influencer, has made a tweet insinuating that the All Progressives Congress (APC\u2019s) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, belongs to a cult group. He backed this with the claim that the infinity-like embroidery knitted on his cap bears semblance to the Ouroboros occult vector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Twitter user NEFERTITI (@firstladyship<\/a>), who made the tweet on Monday, January 30, 2023, urged both supporters of the Obi-Datti presidential bid and other Twitter users to “spread” the photo grid of the Ouroboros occult vector symbol and Mr Tinubu on WhatsApp.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot of the tweet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The photo grid shared in this post has the infinity-coiled serpent symbol of the Ouroboros occult vector on one half and the picture of the APC presidential candidate adorned in a Yoruba cap, having an infinity-like embroidery on its sides on the other half. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The assertion, “This is an occultic sign, is written above the serpent-coiled ensign. Members are brutal. They love money, and they can kill for power.” However, much of that assertion remains debatable and subject to scrutiny for merits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, the Peter Obi endeared social media influencer seemed to stray off her initial stance but never relieving the former two-time Lagos governor of her critique. She included in the thread a cartooned image of a sad-faced boy whose hands are shackled in Tinubu’s cap emblem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tweet, which has now generated over 661,000 views, 4,448 retweets, 312 quoted tweets, and 7,674 likes, unsurprisingly drew divergent opinions from other users of the micro-blogging platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEFERTITI is not the only Twitter user who believes Mr Tinubu is associated with a cult group because of the semblance his cap embroidery shares with the symbol. Another Twitter user, Street Certified Vegan(@okpoOgban<\/a>), in the comment section also shared a post declaring that the APC’s presidential candidate was definitely into an occult group because the embroidered signature on his cap is used by one.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The post, which has the picture of a snake positioned upright, and swallowing its tail, bears a message below it, asserting that an “occult group” uses the “Jagaban” (Tinubu) symbol. While it states that people “are wearing what they don’t understand,” it urges “Nigerians” to “fight for your life and destiny.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot of a Twitter post by Street Certified Vegan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A Twitter user, Sosodef (@aisosaigiebor<\/a>), queried the post, countering, “do you have to result (resort) to insults(ing) people?” Another Twitter user, beedeepro (@Dailymercytye<\/a>), mocked it, commenting, “They there dey post rubbish, don’t go and find something meaningful to do as a woman lol.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amid these comments, a few Twitter users were quick to swallow the contents of the post, hook, line, and sinker, and within a twinkle of an eye, dispatched the tweet even across other social media platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lovechijioke (General Show) (@Realsnowlove1<\/a>) commented in his native language, “Ya kpotuba,” meaning “It is happening,” shared a screenshot of his WhatsApp interface with his mother, detailing that he had done as the post has asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot of the comment showing the WhatsApp message.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Instantly seeing the post as a bargaining chip to dissuade the voting populace from favouring the APC with their votes, a Twitter user Better_days (@Emmytaj<\/a>), scratched the idea to make use of the post to convince the late-bloomer generation to vote for the APC at the polling booths.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He commented, \u201cThis is the only way to convince Nigerian parents not to vote for APC; show them this, and they’ll even start praying against APC.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shifting the perspective away from the politically-inciting post’s argument, a commenter in the comment section tried to explain away the perceived logic in the tweet. The commenter, Johnson Marvis (@marvis_hottyme<\/a>), upheld neutrally that symbols are of exquisite representation to people, and they hold onto them dearly because of the personal meanings they attach to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Symbols are very powerful, and for him (Tinubu) to carry that symbol everywhere he goes, it means the symbol is important either to him or a group of people if there are other people who wear it every time too,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowing the superstitious nature of Nigerians and how this can be played on during strategic events like the election, DUBAWA decided to investigate the claim carefully.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verifying this claim is also vital, seeing the reputation of the APC presidential candidate and his party is at stake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verification<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In a 2017 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) publication<\/a>, it was disclosed that the Ouroboros symbol had been a “subject of awe and wonder” throughout “millennia.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Greek term means “tail-devourer” in its literal sense and is perceived differently in different forms and contexts. But the general and oldest traditional interpretation of the symbol denotes a snake eating its tail in a circle-enclosed manner.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It may bear a Greek interpretation, but it isn’t entirely Greek or of Greek origin, and neither does it suggest self-cannibalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Picture of an engraved Ouroboros image. Photo Source: Google Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So what, then, is the history of the Ouroboros symbol and its meaning?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to the BBC publication, the earliest manifestation of the Ouroboros is in a \u201cgolden shrine in the tomb of Tutankhamun \u2013 \u2018King Tut\u2019 \u2013 in Egypt in the 13th Century BC.\u201d This occurred when traditional religion was almost unheard of and out of practice. This was during Akhenaten\u2019s (Tutankhamun\u2019s predecessor) reign.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Egyptologist Jan Assmann said the symbol depicts \u201cthe mystery of cyclical time, which flows back into itself.\u201d The Egyptians explained time as a \u201cseries of repetitive cycles\u201d rather than \u201clinear\u201d. The ideology suggests the \u201cflooding of the Nile\u201d and the \u201cjourney of the sun\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Assmann suggests that the Egyptians believed that the flooding of the Nile in summer symbolised the beginning of the year and served as a \u201cmetaphor of cyclical time,\u201d which enabled \u201crenewal, repetition, and regeneration.\u201d In a similar vein as well, the sun was also conceived to follow a cyclical systemic pattern, \u201cundertaking a nightly journey to the waters of Nun (a sort of primordial void), fraught with all sorts of obstacles, whence it would find its way back to the sky.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, in the Egyptian context, the symbol means a revolving repetition of the time pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Egyptians were not the only authority of the ouroboros ideology, as the Greek alchemists of Hellenistic Alexandria also held the belief. In Cleopatra’s chrysopoeia \u2013 the transmutation of gold \u2013 the ouroboros appears to be a pictorial alchemical papyrus from the 3rd<\/sup> Century AD. It represented the creation of gold, which appears among the mysterious symbols and images encircling the Greek words \u2018One is All.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greek alchemists regard the Ouroboros as the \u201coldest allegorical symbol in alchemy.\u201d It symbolises the \u201cconcept of eternity\u201d and \u201cendless return.\u201d It also depicts the \u201cunity of time\u2019s beginning and end.\u201d Notably, on the papyrus is a double ring, which connotes the mantra \u201cOne is All is only a part: One is All, and by it All, and for it All. And if it does not contain All, then All is Nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ouroboros also dominated the Gnostics’ belief. According to the Gnostics, the symbol represented the \u201cdivine and earthly in man,\u201d which, despite their contradiction, interacted together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Norse mythology, the ouroboros is explained as the \u201cserpent Jormungandr\u201d which \u201cencircles the world with its tail in its mouth.\u201d In Hinduism, the ouroboros \u201cforms part of the foundation upon which the Earth rests.\u201d It (ouroboros) took a different transition among the Roman variant of Iranian Mithraism, Zurvan, as it symbolises \u201cboundless time\u201d that showcases \u201couroboros entwined around his body.\u201d While the Mesoamerican deity Quetzalcoatl is \u201coften seen in the form of an ouroboros.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ouroboros myth also prospered among Renaissance alchemists. Again, the symbol was perceived as \u201crepresenting the infinite nature of time and eternal.\u201d It was seen by the alchemists \u201cas the ultimate obstacle to be overcome in the Magnum Opus,\u201d which was the struggle to become immortal. They desired to break the \u201cincessant cycle of the ouroboros once and for all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, by all definitions and beliefs, the ouroboros is itself used to suggest the passage of life in a cyclical pattern. It only resonates with the words in Nietzsche\u2019s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, declaring, \u201cBehold, we know what you teach,\u201d said the author of his protagonist \u2013 an antithesis of the historical prophet, \u201cthat all things occur eternally and we, along with them, and that we have already been here times eternal and all things with us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the ouroboros occult vector a cult?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Ouroboros may be traced to the ancient Moon<\/a> cults. The moon was regarded as a timekeeper. It was viewed as being in control of time’s eternal, cyclical nature. Furthermore, it was seen as a source of life on earth. It became a representation of birth, death, and regeneration because of its nature to live, outlive and be reborn.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lunar bodies were known to associate with devouring snakes or dragons, which became the mother of the moon\u2019s rebirth after swallowing the moon.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In ancient times, the Egyptians regarded the goddess Buto as a cobra. Buto was known to safeguard I<\/a>SIS and Horus, her son. Similarly, every person is protected by a personal snake spirit that showcases their lifetime and survival into the afterlife.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The earliest form of the Ouroboros in Egypt comes from the tomb of Seti, where a carving depicts the sun god lying on his back in a house surrounded by an ouroboros. The art was crafted to represent the immortality of the dead. Tutankhamun\u2019s third shrine reveals the dead in a stylised profile with one ouroboros encircled around his head and feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does Tinubu\u2019s cap suggest he is a member?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In a 2019 interview<\/a> with the Guardian newspaper, the former two-time Lagos State governor and APC presidential candidate explained the intention behind the prominent embroidery on his cap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He explained that the embroidery symbolises an unshackled dispensation from bondage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPhilosophically, it is my belief and faith in education, freedom fighting. On my cap is a broken shackle. It is freedom. The shackle is broken, and you can no longer put us in bondage. You have broken the shackle of poverty, ignorance and disease. The APC stalwart had said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tinubu adorned in his embroidered cap. Photo Source: Google Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Ouroboros symbolically suggests eternal life and has no relationship with members who are brutal, love money, or kill for power. The claim is false as Tinubu\u2019s cap does not have anything to do with the symbol or anything that even suggests that he is a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claim: Ouroboros\u2019 occult vector is an occult sign, and Tinubu’s cap suggests he is a member. Verdict: FALSE. The Ouroboros symbol suggests eternal life in a cyclical pattern. It has nothing to do with the embroidered signature on Tinubu’s cap nor suggests that he is a member. Full Text Amidst the series of campaigns staged in the country by different political office hopefuls for the February elections, a Twitter user and popular pro-Peter Obi social media influencer, has made a tweet insinuating that the All Progressives Congress (APC\u2019s) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, belongs to a cult group. He backed this with the claim that the infinity-like embroidery knitted on his cap bears semblance to the Ouroboros occult vector.  The Twitter user NEFERTITI (@firstladyship), who made the tweet on Monday, January 30, 2023, urged both supporters of the Obi-Datti presidential bid and other Twitter users to “spread” the photo grid of the Ouroboros occult vector symbol and Mr Tinubu on WhatsApp.\u00a0 The photo grid shared in this post has the infinity-coiled serpent symbol of the Ouroboros occult vector on one half and the picture of the APC presidential candidate adorned in a Yoruba cap, having an infinity-like embroidery on its sides on the other half.  The assertion, “This is an occultic sign, is written above the serpent-coiled ensign. Members are brutal. They love money, and they can kill for power.” However, much of that assertion remains debatable and subject to scrutiny for merits. Furthermore, the Peter Obi endeared social media influencer seemed to stray off her initial stance but never relieving the former two-time Lagos governor of her critique. She included in the thread a cartooned image of a sad-faced boy whose hands are shackled in Tinubu’s cap emblem. The tweet, which has now generated over 661,000 views, 4,448 retweets, 312 quoted tweets, and 7,674 likes, unsurprisingly drew divergent opinions from other users of the micro-blogging platform.  NEFERTITI is not the only Twitter user who believes Mr Tinubu is associated with a cult group because of the semblance his cap embroidery shares with the symbol. Another Twitter user, Street Certified Vegan(@okpoOgban), in the comment section also shared a post declaring that the APC’s presidential candidate was definitely into an occult group because the embroidered signature on his cap is used by one.\u00a0 The post, which has the picture of a snake positioned upright, and swallowing its tail, bears a message below it, asserting that an “occult group” uses the “Jagaban” (Tinubu) symbol. While it states that people “are wearing what they don’t understand,” it urges “Nigerians” to “fight for your life and destiny.” A Twitter user, Sosodef (@aisosaigiebor), queried the post, countering, “do you have to result (resort) to insults(ing) people?” Another Twitter user, beedeepro (@Dailymercytye), mocked it, commenting, “They there dey post rubbish, don’t go and find something meaningful to do as a woman lol.” Amid these comments, a few Twitter users were quick to swallow the contents of the post, hook, line, and sinker, and within a twinkle of an eye, dispatched the tweet even across other social media platforms.  Lovechijioke (General Show) (@Realsnowlove1) commented in his native language, “Ya kpotuba,” meaning “It is happening,” shared a screenshot of his WhatsApp interface with his mother, detailing that he had done as the post has asked.\u00a0 Instantly seeing the post as a bargaining chip to dissuade the voting populace from favouring the APC with their votes, a Twitter user Better_days (@Emmytaj), scratched the idea to make use of the post to convince the late-bloomer generation to vote for the APC at the polling booths.\u00a0 He commented, \u201cThis is the only way to convince Nigerian parents not to vote for APC; show them this, and they’ll even start praying against APC.” Shifting the perspective away from the politically-inciting post’s argument, a commenter in the comment section tried to explain away the perceived logic in the tweet. The commenter, Johnson Marvis (@marvis_hottyme), upheld neutrally that symbols are of exquisite representation to people, and they hold onto them dearly because of the personal meanings they attach to them. “Symbols are very powerful, and for him (Tinubu) to carry that symbol everywhere he goes, it means the symbol is important either to him or a group of people if there are other people who wear it every time too,\u201d he wrote. Knowing the superstitious nature of Nigerians and how this can be played on during strategic events like the election, DUBAWA decided to investigate the claim carefully.\u00a0 Verifying this claim is also vital, seeing the reputation of the APC presidential candidate and his party is at stake. Verification In a 2017 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) publication, it was disclosed that the Ouroboros symbol had been a “subject of awe and wonder” throughout “millennia.”\u00a0\u00a0 The Greek term means “tail-devourer” in its literal sense and is perceived differently in different forms and contexts. But the general and oldest traditional interpretation of the symbol denotes a snake eating its tail in a circle-enclosed manner.\u00a0 It may bear a Greek interpretation, but it isn’t entirely Greek or of Greek origin, and neither does it suggest self-cannibalism. So what, then, is the history of the Ouroboros symbol and its meaning? According to the BBC publication, the earliest manifestation of the Ouroboros is in a \u201cgolden shrine in the tomb of Tutankhamun \u2013 \u2018King Tut\u2019 \u2013 in Egypt in the 13th Century BC.\u201d This occurred when traditional religion was almost unheard of and out of practice. This was during Akhenaten\u2019s (Tutankhamun\u2019s predecessor) reign.\u00a0 Egyptologist Jan Assmann said the symbol depicts \u201cthe mystery of cyclical time, which flows back into itself.\u201d The Egyptians explained time as a \u201cseries of repetitive cycles\u201d rather than \u201clinear\u201d. The ideology suggests the \u201cflooding of the Nile\u201d and the \u201cjourney of the sun\u201d.\u00a0 Mr Assmann suggests that the Egyptians believed that the flooding of the Nile in summer symbolised the beginning of the year and served as a \u201cmetaphor of cyclical time,\u201d which enabled \u201crenewal, repetition, and regeneration.\u201d In a similar vein as well, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[1571,123,1574,16],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3699],"class_list":["post-13120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-check","category-mainstream","category-media-literacy","category-politics"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-3pC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":3699,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"cole-praise","display_name":"Cole Praise","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7934b84f51e2c1f4c1e77cce93c223ac97cc2da29198aa9141fd944b0407bb2d?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ouroboro.jpg?fit=698%2C400&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13125,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120\/revisions\/13125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13120"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=13120"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}