The Yoruba religion (Yoruba: Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), West African Orisa (Òrìṣà), or Isese (Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), comprises the traditional religious and spiritual concepts and practice...
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The Yoruba people (/ˈjɒrʊbə/ YORR-uub-ə; Yoruba: Ìran Yorùbá, Ọmọ Odùduwà, Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire) are a West African ethnic group who mainly inhabit parts...
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Volta–Niger language family Yoruba alphabet, a Latin alphabet used to write in the Yoruba language Yoruba religion, West African religion Yorubaland, the region...
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Distinctive cultural norms prevail in Yorubaland and among the Yoruba people. The Yoruba are said to be religious people, but they are also pragmatic and...
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religions of North America. Most modern practitioners of these religions in the Americas do not speak or understand Yoruba; instead, they use Yoruba words...
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in Yoruba religion in one way or another.) The most prevalent West African religions, both in Africa and the Americas, are likely those of the Yoruba people...
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often personified as an Orisha in its own right. It is believed by the Yoruba religion that human beings are able to heal themselves both spiritually and...
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Ogun (category CS1 Yoruba-language sources (yo))
is present in Yoruba religion, Santería, Haitian Vodou, West African Vodun, and the folk religion of the Gbe people. In Yoruba religion, Ogun is a primordial...
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Eshu (redirect from Exu (Yoruba))
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...
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religion varies greatly by region and subgroup. Similar to other traditional religions of West and Central Africa such as West African Vodun, Yoruba religion...
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Orisha (category Yoruba religion)
orisha) are divine spirits that play a key role in the Yoruba religion of West Africa and several religions of the African diaspora that derive from it, such...
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the southern region of the country. Indigenous religions, such as those native to the Igbo and Yoruba ethnicities, have been declining for decades and...
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Oba (ruler) (redirect from Yoruba crowns)
Oba means "ruler" in the Yoruba and Bini languages. Kings in Yorubaland, a region which is in the modern republics of Benin, Nigeria and Togo, make use...
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Olokun (category CS1 Yoruba-language sources (yo))
Olokun (Yoruba: Olókun) is an orisha spirit in Yoruba religion. Olokun is believed to be the parent of Aje, the orisha of great wealth and of the bottom...
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Oduduwa (redirect from Oduduwa Omoluabi, Emperor of the Yoruba)
Oduduwa was a Yoruba divine king, legendary founder of the Ife Empire and a creator deity (orisha) in the Yoruba religion. His earthly origins are from...
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Aṣẹ (redirect from Ase (Yoruba))
Yoruba àṣẹ), or aṣe is a Yoruba philosophy that is defined to represent the power that makes things happen and produces change in the Yoruba religion...
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Yoruba Americans (Yoruba: Àwọn ọmọ Yorùbá Amẹrika) are Americans of Yoruba descent. The Yoruba people are a West African ethnic group that predominantly...
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Ọlọrun (category God in the Yoruba religion)
Olorun (Yoruba alphabet: Ọlọrun) (Ede language: ɔlɔrun) is the ruler of (or in) the Heavens creator of the Yoruba . The Supreme Deity or Supreme Being...
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Trinidad Orisha (redirect from Shango (religion))
as Orisha religion and Shango, is a syncretic religion in Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean, originally from West Africa (Yoruba religion). Trinidad...
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Santería (redirect from La Religión Lucumí)
Afro-Caribbean religion that developed in Cuba during the late 19th century. It arose amid a process of syncretism between the traditional Yoruba religion of West...
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such as the Yoruba religion and the Odinala religion (A traditional Igbo religion), are on the rise. The religion of the Igbo and Yoruba is popular in the...
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priesthood of the Yoruba religion, who would then go on to become the first African-American to be crowned Oba (King) of the Yoruba of North America in...
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Oshosi (category CS1 Yoruba-language sources (yo))
Oshosi (Yoruba: Ọ̀ṣọ́ọ̀sì, Portuguese: Oxóssi) is an Orisha of the Yoruba religion in West Africa and subsequently in Brazil and Cuba. Oshosi is the spirit...
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Babalú-Ayé (category Yoruba gods)
orishas or manifestations of the supreme creator god Olodumare in the Yoruba religion of West Africa. Babalú-Aye is the spirit of the Earth and strongly...
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Shango (category CS1 Yoruba-language sources (yo))
Orisha) is an Orisha (or spirit) in Yoruba religion. Genealogically speaking, Shango is a royal ancestor of the Yoruba as he was the third Alaafin of the...
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Ibeji (redirect from Yoruba 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...
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Ọya (category CS1 Yoruba-language sources (yo))
She is the patroness of the Niger River (known to the Yorùbá as the Odò-Ọya). In the Yoruba religion, Ọya was married three times, first to the warrior orisha...
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Maasai religion (Maasai people of Kenya) Sidama mythology (Sidama people of Ethiopia) Waaqeffanna (Oromo people of Ethiopia and Kenya) Yoruba religion (Yoruba...
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Yemọja (category CS1 Yoruba-language sources (yo))
transliterations in other languages) is the major water spirit from the Yoruba religion. She is the mother of all Orishas. She is also the mother of humanity...
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Agemo (deity) (category Yoruba gods)
In the Yoruba religion, Agemo is a chameleon that is the servant of the god Olorun, head of the Yoruba pantheon of deities (known as Orishas). Agemo carries...
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