All the Honors of the Waters Are Less Than the Honor of the Sea

Philosophical Summary

From the Iherehere verse ("no string of cowries is as long as that of Yemideregbe"), the sea as supreme reference point is a consistent Eji Ogbe teaching. This proverb generalizes the principle: in any domain, there is a source that exceeds all derived forms. The Odu Eji Ogbe is itself the sea from which all other Odu draw — the first principle that makes the other 255 possible.