 | The Yoruba religion (Yoruba: Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), West African Orisa (Òrìṣà), or Isese (Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), comprises the traditional religious and spiritual concepts and practice... 50 KB (2,958 words) - 11:30, 17 April 2024 |
 | The Yoruba people (US: /ˈjɒrəbə/ YORR-ə-bə, UK: /ˈjɒrʊbə/ YORR-uub-ə; Yoruba: Ìran Yorùbá, Ọmọ Odùduwà, Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire) are a West African ethnic... 173 KB (18,328 words) - 10:11, 19 April 2024 |
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) - 00:45, 20 March 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 (6,614 words) - 04:23, 1 March 2024 |
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... 3 KB (295 words) - 23:23, 30 November 2023 |
Leone and The Gambia. Yoruba vocabulary is also used in the Afro-Brazilian religion known as Candomblé, in the Caribbean religion of Santería in the form... 55 KB (5,245 words) - 23:35, 15 April 2024 |
 | Ogun (category CS1 Yoruba-language sources (yo)) and is present in Yoruba religion, Haitian Vodou, West African Vodun, and the folk religion of the Gbe people. In Yoruba religion, Ogun is a primordial... 17 KB (1,920 words) - 09:22, 24 March 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 |
 | Oduduwa (redirect from Oduduwa Omoluabi, Emperor of the Yoruba) Oduduwa was a Yoruba man from igbo ora, Yoruba divine king, legendary founder of the Ife Empire and a creator deity (orisha) in the Yoruba religion. According... 19 KB (2,307 words) - 13:13, 12 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 |
 | religion varies greatly by region and subgroup. Similar to other traditional religions of West and Central Africa such as West African Vodun, Yoruba religion... 12 KB (1,526 words) - 18:32, 25 March 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 |
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... 5 KB (596 words) - 22:21, 22 April 2024 |
 | 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... 4 KB (322 words) - 20:27, 26 October 2023 |
 | 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 |
 | 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,... 7 KB (802 words) - 08:58, 21 April 2024 |
 | 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... 5 KB (520 words) - 10:55, 28 October 2022 |
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 |
| 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 |
 | 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) - 14:34, 24 April 2024 |
 | 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... 117 KB (15,566 words) - 09:57, 23 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 |
 | (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 |
 | 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 |
 | Ọya (category CS1 Yoruba-language sources (yo)) She is the patron 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... 7 KB (693 words) - 02:52, 11 February 2024 |
 | 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... 14 KB (1,853 words) - 19:23, 29 December 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 (492 words) - 13:35, 22 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) - 15:32, 14 April 2024 |
 | 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... 18 KB (2,035 words) - 14:02, 27 February 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 |