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List Of Yoruba Deities
The Yoruba have a large population in West Africa and broad dispersion through enslavement in the Americas. The Republic of Benin and Nigeria contain the highest concentrations of Yoruba people and Yoruba faiths in all of Africa. Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago are the countries in the Americas where Yoruba cultural influences are the most noticeable, particularly in popular religions like Vodon, Santéria, Camdomblé, and Macumba. (In 1989, it was believed that more than 70 million individuals in Africa and the New World participated in Yoruba religion in one way or another.) The most prevalent West African religions, both in Africa and the Americas, are often those of the Yoruba people or those that were influenced by them. These West African religions also have intricate theologies. For instance, the Yoruba are thought to have a pantheon of up to 6,000 deities. The following is a list of Yoruba orisha (òrìṣà), or deities. List of orisha Supreme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Africa
West Africa, also known as Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations geoscheme for Africa#Western Africa, United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territories, United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R. Masson, Catherine Anne Pattillo, "Monetary union in West Africa (ECOWAS): is it desirable and how could it be achieved?" (Introduction). International Monetary Fund, 2001. The population of West Africa is estimated at around million people as of , and at 381,981,000 as of 2017, of which 189,672,000 were female and 192,309,000 male.United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2017). World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision, custom data acquired via webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajaka
Ajaka was an Oyo emperor (located within modern-day Nigeria) who was twice on the throne. His father was Oranyan or Oranmiyan and his brother, according to the historian Samuel Johnson, was Shango. Life Ajaka originally ruled Oyo as a regent - and heir-apparent - of his father. After the death of his father, he eventually was replaced on the throne by his more war-like brother, Shango. He lived in a fierce and tumultuous age, but he was originally a man of a peaceful disposition which was perceived as weakness. The reason for this is not far-fetched: it seems the emperor was resolved to busy himself with palace affairs while simultaneously allowing his warriors more freedom than was traditional. This led to him being deposed and his brother being proclaimed emperor after a series of insubordinations from his local chiefs. He was later called on to ascend the throne after the death of Shango, who, as a semi-legendary figure, became a deity of thunder. In his later years, he c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oduduwa
Odùduwà (Ooduwa, Odudua or Oòdua) was a Yoruba divine king, a creator deity (orisha) in the Yoruba religion, and the legendary figure who ushered in the classical period that later led to the foundation of the Ife Empire. His earthly origins are from the village of Oke Ora. According to tradition, he was the holder of the title of the ''Olofin'' of Ile-Ife, the Yoruba holy city. He ruled there briefly and also served as the progenitor of a number of independent royal dynasties in Yorubaland, with the praise names Olofin Adimula and Olofin Aye. While archaeologists and historians estimate Oduduwa's kingly existence to the ''Late Formative Period'' of Ife (800-1000CE), indigenous Yoruba oral chronology more properly places Oduduwa's as well as Obatala's era somewhere in between the 9th and 7th centuries BCE much closer to the founding of Ile-Ife, as well as explains the name Oduduwa an Obatala are powerfully symbolic names, so many would be princes within the Yoruba medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ọba (orisha)
Ọbà (known as Obá in Latin America) is the orisha of the River Oba, the source of which lies near Igbon, where her worship originates. During the wars of the 19th century, her centers of worship moved to the more secure town Ogbomosho. She is traditionally identified as the Senior Wife, senior wife of Shango (the third king of the Oyo Empire and an orisha). Oba was tricked by Oya or Oshun into cutting off her ear and trying to feed it to Shango. She is syncretized with Saint Catherine of Siena. Worship in Ogbomosho At her center of worship in Ogbomoso, Oba is described as the partner of Ajagun and is praised as "Oba, who owns parrot tail feathers and fights on the left". Oba is held a festival in odo-oba town in ogbomoso Myths of Oba's ear Oba's humiliation by a rival co-wife is one of the most well-known tales associated with this Orisha. While William Bascom's study identified several unusual variations of it, the most popular myth found in West Africa, Brazil, and Cuba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moremi Ajasoro
Moremi Ajasoro (Yoruba language, Yoruba: ''Mọremí Àjàṣorò'') was a legendary Yoruba people, Yoruba queen and folk heroine in the Yorubaland region of present-day South West Nigeria, southwestern Nigeria who assisted in the liberation of the Yoruba people, Yoruba kingdom of Ife from the neighbouring Ugbo Kingdom. Moremi was married to Oranmiyan, the son of Oduduwa, the first king of Ile-Ife. Biography The Olori, Ayaba (Queen Consort) Moremi lived in the 12th century, hailed from the area of Offa, Nigeria, Offa, and was married to Ọranyan, Oramiyan, the heir to the king of Ifẹ, Ife and son of the founding father of the Yoruba people, Oduduwa. Ifẹ, Ile-Ife was a kingdom that was said to have been at war with an adjoining group who were known to them as the ''Forest people'', Oke Ora#Emergence of the Ugbo, Ugbò in the Yoruba language. Scores of Ifẹ, Ife citizens were being enslaved by these people, and because of this they were generally regarded with disdain by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iya Nla
Ìyá Nlá is the primordial spirit of all creation in Yoruba cosmology. She is believed to be the source of all existence. ''Iya Nla'' literally means “Great Mother” in the Yoruba language Yoruba (, ; Yor. ) is a Niger–Congo languages, Niger-Congo language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in South West (Nigeria), Southwestern and Middle Belt, Central Nigeria, Benin, and parts of Togo. It is spoken by the Yoruba people. ... (''Ìyá'': Mother; ''Nlá'': Big or Great). In ''The Gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ́ Spectacle: Art, Gender, and Social Harmony in an African Culture'', art historian Babatunde Lawal reveals that Ìyá Nlá in Yoruba cosmology is the orisha who is the “Mother of All Things, including the deities.” Lawal also asserts that the female principle in nature has been personified as Ìyá Nlá (The Great Mother), whereby human beings can relate to one another as children of the same mother.” Teresa N. Washington’s ''Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibeji
Ibeji (known as Ibejí, Ibeyí, or Jimaguas in Latin America) is the name of an Orisha representing a pair of divine twins in the Yoruba religion of the Yoruba people (originating from Yorubaland, an area in and around present-day Nigeria). In the diasporic Yoruba spirituality of Latin America, Ibeji are syncretized with Saints Cosmas and Damian. In Yoruba culture and spirituality, twins are believed to be magical, and are granted protection by the Orisha Shango. If one twin should die, it represents bad fortune for the parents and the society to which they belong. The parents therefore commission a babalawo to carve a wooden Ibeji to represent the deceased twin, and the parents take care of the figure as if it were a real person. Other than the sex, the appearance of the Ibeji is determined by the sculptor. The parents then dress and decorate the ibeji to represent their own status, using clothing made from cowrie shells, as well as beads, coins, and paint. Ibeji figures are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eshu
Èṣù is a pivotal Òrìṣà/Irúnmọlẹ̀ in the Yoruba spirituality or Yoruba religion known as ìṣẹ̀ṣe. Èṣù is a prominent primordial Divinity (a delegated Irúnmọlẹ̀ sent by the Olódùmarè) who descended from Ìkọ̀lé Ọ̀run, and the Chief Enforcer of natural and divine laws – he is the Deity in charge of law enforcement and orderliness. As the religion has spread around the world, the name of this Orisha has varied in different locations, but the beliefs remain similar. Overview The other names of the Irúnmọlẹ̀ called Èṣù includes; ''Ẹlẹ́jẹ̀lú'', ''Olúlànà'', ''Ọbasìn'', ''Láarúmọ̀'', ''Ajọ́ńgọ́lọ̀'', ''Ọba Ọ̀dàrà,'' ''Onílé Oríta'', ''Ẹlẹ́gbára Ọ̀gọ'', ''Olóògùn Àjíṣà'', ''Láàlú Ògiri Òkò'', ''Láàlù Bara Ẹlẹ́jọ́'', ''Láaróyè Ẹbọra tí jẹ́ Látọpa''. Èṣù is powerful, relevant, and ubiquitous to the extent of having every day of the four-day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egungun
Egungun, Yoruba language: Egúngún, also known as Ará Ọ̀run (The collective dead) in the broadest sense is any Yoruba masquerade or masked, costumed figure. More specifically, it is a Yoruba masquerade for ancestor reverence, or the ancestors themselves as a collective force. ''Eégún'' is the reduced form (abbreviation through syllable elision) of the word ''egúngún'' and has the same meaning. There is a misconception that Eegun/Egun (Yoruba language: Eégún) is the singular form, or that it represents the ancestors while Egúngún is the masquerade or the plural form. This misconception is common in the Americas by Orisa devotees that do not speak Yorùbá language as a vernacular. Egungun is a visible manifestation of the spirits of departed ancestors who periodically revisit the human community for remembrance, celebration, and blessings. Classification of Egungun types The classification of Egun or Egungun types, might appear to be a fairly straightforward ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babalu Aye
Babalu may refer to: * " Babalú", a 1939 song popularized by Desi Arnaz in the 1940s * '' BaBalu'', a 2001 Michael Bublé album * Babalu, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran * Babalu, a village in Gilan, Iran * The nickname for mixed martial artist Renato Sobral * Babalu (comedian) Pablo Martin Sarmiento (June 29, 1942 – August 27, 1998), better known as Babalu, was a Filipino comedian and actor. His screen name was a reference to his long, sharp chin ("''babà''" is the Filipino term for "chin"; ''babalu'' is a Filip ... (1942–1998), screen name of the Filipino actor Pablito Sarmiento Jr. * A character in the novel '' Daughter of Fortune'' by Isabel Allende See also * Babalú Ayé, the spirit of illness and disease in Yoruba mythology * Babaloo Mandel (born 1949), American writer * Babilu, another name for Babylon {{disambiguation, hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
