 | The Yoruba religion (Yoruba: Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), West African Orisa (Òrìṣà), or Isese (Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), comprises the traditional religious and spiritual concepts and practice... 53 KB (3,049 words) - 19:50, 28 April 2024 |
Yoruba (US: /ˈjɔːrəbə/, UK: /ˈjɒrʊbə/; Yor. Èdè Yorùbá, IPA: [jōrùbá]; Ajami: عِدعِ يوْرُبا) is a language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in... 55 KB (5,245 words) - 03:21, 4 May 2024 |
 | 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... 173 KB (18,322 words) - 21:04, 27 April 2024 |
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... 51 KB (6,610 words) - 19:55, 3 May 2024 |
Ori (known as Orí in Latin America) is a Yoruba metaphysical concept. Ori, literally meaning "head," refers to one's spiritual intuition and destiny. It... 3 KB (295 words) - 23:23, 30 November 2023 |
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... 14 KB (929 words) - 23:09, 1 May 2024 |
associated with the Yoruba people, including; Yoruba art Yoruba calendar Yoruba culture Yoruba language Yoruba religion Yoruba music Yoruba name Yorubaland... 626 bytes (108 words) - 11:09, 18 February 2024 |
 | Ifá (category Yoruba culture) originating among the Yoruba people of West Africa. It plays an important role in Yoruba religion and certain African diasporic religions deriving from it... 23 KB (2,586 words) - 20:25, 14 April 2024 |
A Yorùbá name is a name that is part of a naming tradition that is primarily used by the Yoruba people and Yoruba language–speaking individuals in Benin... 10 KB (1,226 words) - 07:17, 20 April 2024 |
 | 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... 8 KB (1,002 words) - 19:56, 19 April 2024 |
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... 9 KB (1,106 words) - 17:03, 4 January 2024 |
 | (Oromo people of Ethiopia and Kenya) Yoruba religion (Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria and southern Benin) San religion (San people of Southern Africa) Ka... 14 KB (1,105 words) - 06:57, 24 April 2024 |
 | Elegua (category CS1 Yoruba-language sources (yo)) the religions of Santería, Winti, Umbanda, Quimbanda, Holy Infant of Atocha, and Candomblé. Elegua is known as Èṣù-Ẹlẹ́gbára and Ẹlẹ́gbá in the Yoruba religion... 4 KB (364 words) - 00:27, 3 April 2024 |
 | 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... 20 KB (2,342 words) - 04:23, 1 May 2024 |
Yoruba Americans (Yoruba: Àwọn ọmọ Yorùbá Amẹrika) are Americans of Yoruba descent. The Yoruba people are a West African ethnic group that predominantly... 14 KB (1,361 words) - 22:31, 10 April 2024 |
| The Yoruba calendar (Kọ́jọ́dá) is a calendar used by the Yoruba people of southwestern and north central Nigeria and southern Benin. The calendar has... 9 KB (836 words) - 14:34, 18 April 2024 |
 | 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... 14 KB (1,485 words) - 04:07, 28 April 2024 |
| Orisha (category Yoruba religion) - 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... 16 KB (1,067 words) - 14:06, 10 April 2024 |
 | Santería (redirect from La Religión Lucumí) reference to the colonial Spanish term for the Yoruba people, or alternatively La Religión Lucumí ("the Lucumí religion") or Regla Lucumí ("the rule of Lucumí")... 117 KB (15,566 words) - 09:57, 23 April 2024 |
 | formerly dominant Ile-Ife kingdom are largely oral. The history of the Yoruba people begins in Ile-Ife(Ife Empire). This kingdom was founded by the deity... 11 KB (1,456 words) - 12:27, 15 January 2024 |
 | Ọlọrun (category God in the Yoruba religion) Olorun (Yoruba alphabet: Ọlọrun) is the ruler of (or in) the Heavens in the Yoruba religion. The Supreme God or Supreme Being in the Yoruba pantheon,... 8 KB (861 words) - 05:39, 30 April 2024 |
 | 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... 17 KB (1,921 words) - 21:58, 28 April 2024 |
Eshu (redirect from Exu (Yoruba)) Èṣù is a pivotal Òrìṣà/Irúnmọlẹ̀ in the Yoruba spirituality known as ìṣẹ̀ṣe. Èṣù is a prominent primordial Divinity (a delegated Irúnmọlẹ̀ sent by the... 14 KB (1,707 words) - 19:03, 1 February 2024 |
 | Ifẹ (category Yoruba religion) Ifẹ̀ (Yoruba: Ifẹ̀, Ilé-Ifẹ̀) is an ancient Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria, founded in the 6th century. The city is located in present-day Osun State... 42 KB (4,352 words) - 02:23, 3 May 2024 |
 | 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... 47 KB (5,513 words) - 00:27, 18 April 2024 |
 | the southern region of the country. Indigenous religions, such as those native to the Igbo and Yoruba ethnicities, have been declining for decades and... 76 KB (7,978 words) - 02:07, 4 May 2024 |
| Egungun (category Yoruba culture) (egúngún with Yorùbá language tone marks) in the broadest sense is any Yoruba masquerade or masked, costumed figure. More specifically, it is a Yoruba masquerade... 13 KB (1,683 words) - 15:14, 1 May 2024 |
| 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... 10 KB (1,193 words) - 03:56, 23 November 2023 |
 | 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... 5 KB (508 words) - 18:41, 26 April 2024 |
 | Oshun (category Yoruba deities) reflects one of the manifestations of the Yorùbá Supreme Being in the Ifá oral tradition and Yoruba-based religions of West Africa. She is one of the most... 12 KB (1,268 words) - 23:51, 15 March 2024 |