Yoruba naming ceremonies happen on the seventh day for a girl or the ninth day for a boy. Family and friends gather at dawn to pray give the baby many symbolic foods like honey and salt, and reveal the child's true name. This tradition goes with family expectations. Parents often choose a name that reflects their own hopes, but the wider family brings deep cultural demands history, and heavy duties through the extra name Elders meet before the sun is fully up to pray for the baby. Then t he baby tastes bitter kola, salt, water, and honey to learn that life has both hard and sweet times. The father or an elder says the child's name out loud for all to hear. After guests give cash gifts to support the new child and parents Yoruba names are not just names; they serve as a map for how a child should live and behave. Family Pressure: Relatives add their own special names. These extra names pile up traditional duties and high goals on the child. And then old ways vs new way...
They would miss my tradition by alot how we respecthow we eat and how things work around here in a african house hold the way we celebrate birthdays holdidays are stories and jokes definently are slang and accents alot of people miss that how we communicate are feelings to eachother 3 prts of cultural identity that makes me who i am is my tradition,accent,height,
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