Yoruba

The Yoruba (native name Yorùbá) are the largest single ethnic group in Nigeria. The Yoruba constitute approximately 24% percent of Nigeria's total population, and number upwards of 30 million individuals throughout the region of West Africa. They share borders with the Nupe and Borgu peoples in the northwest, the Esan and Edo to the southeast, the Igala and other related groups to the northeast, and the Egun, Fon, and other Gbe-speaking peoples in the southwest. While the majority of the Yoruba live in the south-west of Nigeria, there are also substantial Yoruba communities i ...

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Yoruba: Encyclopedia II - Yoruba - Yoruba mythology Yoruba mythology is sometimes claimed to be one of the world's oldest widely practised religions. It is a major religion in Africa, chiefly in Nigeria, and it has given origin to several New World religions such as Santería in Cuba and Candomblé in Brazil. Itan is the term for the sum total of all Yoruba myths, songs, histories, and other cultural components. Many ethnic Yoruba were enslaved and taken to Cuba, Brazil, Trinidad and the rest of the New World (chiefly in the 19th century, after the Oyo empire collapsed and the r ...

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Yoruba: Encyclopedia - Yoruba mythology

The mythology of the Yoruba is sometimes claimed by its supporters to be one of the world's oldest widely practised religions. It is a major religion in Africa, chiefly in Nigeria, and it has given origin to several New World religions such as Santería in Cuba and Candomblé in Brazil. Yoruba mythology is only one part of itan — the complex of myths, songs, histories and other cultural concepts which make up the Yorùbá religion and society. Yoruba mythology - Deities. Yoruba deities are called O ...

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Yoruba: Encyclopedia - Aja Yoruba mythology

In Yoruba mythology, Aja is an Orisha, patron of the forest, the animals within it and herbal healers, whom she taught their art. Other related archivesOrisha, Yoruba mythology, animals, forest, herbal

Yoruba: Encyclopedia - Ifá

Ifá is a system of divination that originated in West Africa among the Yoruba people. The system is also practiced among believers in Lucumi, (sometimes referred to as Santería), Candomblé, and similarly transplanted Orisa'Ifa lineages in the New World. Ifá - Overview of divination system. The Yoruba divination system enabled diviners to invoke Orunmila, the Yoruba deity of wisdom, prophecy and ethics, and Esu (Eshu), who as messenger of the gods lends his authority or Ase to ...

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Yoruba: Encyclopedia - Lukumí

Lukumí, Regla de Ocha or Afro-Cuba, most widely known as Santeria, (Santería in Spanish) is a set of related religious systems that superficially seem to fuse Catholic beliefs with traditional Yoruba beliefs. In the Yoruba language, Lukumí means "friends" and also applies to descendants of Yorùbá slaves in Cuba, their music and dance, and the cubanized dialect of the Yorùbá language. Lukumí - History. The name Lucumi originated from present-day Nigeria. The Yoruba people ...

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Yoruba: Encyclopedia - Mat

A mat is a generic term for a piece of fabric or flat material, generally placed on a floor or other flat surface, and serving a range of purposes including: providing a regular or flat surface, such as a mouse mat protecting that which is beneath the mat, such as a place mat or the matting used in framing and preservation of documents and paintings protecting that which is above the mat, such as a wrestling or gymnastics mat, or an anti-vibration mat changing the state of that which passes above it, such as a doo ...

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Yoruba: Encyclopedia - Afro-American religion

Afro-American religions are a number of related religions that developed in the Americas among African slaves and their descendants in various countries of the Caribbean Islands, South America and parts of the southern United States. These religions are generally based on the African concept of divine spirit — the Orishas of the Yoruba, the Inkices of Bantu traditons, and the Voduns of Dahomey — often combined with European concepts such as Catholic saints, Kardecist spirits, and sometimes Native American deities.

Yoruba: Encyclopedia - Aja

Aja may refer to: An Orisha in Yoruba mythology. See Aja (Yoruba mythology) A group of people living in Benin. See Aja people. The language of the Aja people, part of the Gbe dialect continuum. See Aja-Gbe language. A language spoken in Sudan. See Aja language. Aja (Hindu mythology). A Steely Dan album, see Aja (album). Aja, an erotic actress. Aja Leith, a character in Jem, a television animated series which aired in the mid-1980s. See Jem (animated).

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Yoruba: Encyclopedia - Babatunde Olatunji

Babatunde Olatunji (April 7, 1927 - April 6, 2003) was a Nigerian drummer. Born in the village of Ajido, Nigeria, a member of the Yoruba people, Olatunji was introduced to traditional African music at an early age. He read in Reader's Digest magazine about the Rotary International Foundation's scholarship programme, and applied for it. He came to the United States of America on the Rotary scholarship in 1950 a ...

Yoruba: Encyclopedia - Underworld

Underworld - Aboriginal mythology. Beralku Underworld - Akkadian mythology. Ereshkigal Nergal Underworld - Babylonian mythology. Kurnugia Underworld - Buddhist mythology. Naraka (also Neraka) Underworld - Celtic mythology. Annwn Mag Mell ...

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Yoruba: Encyclopedia - Yorùbá music

The music of the Yorùbá people of Nigeria is best known for an extremely advanced drumming tradition, especially using the dundun hourglass tension drums. Yoruba folk music became perhaps the most prominent kind of West African music in Afro-Latin and Caribbean musical styles. Yorùbá music left an especially important influence on the music used in Lukumi practice and the music of Cuba [1]. Yorùbá music - Folk music. Ensembles using the dundun play a type of music that is also called dundun. Th ...

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Yoruba: Encyclopedia - Candomblé Jejé

Candomblé Jejé is one of the major branches (nations) of Candomblé, an Afro-American religion. It developed mainly among slaves of the Ewe and Fon ethnic groups, from the region of Dahomey (present-day Benin) in Africa. The name is actually a Yoruba word meaning stranger, which is what those groups represented to them. Candomblé Jejé - Voduns. Jejé deities are called Voduns (sing. Vodum) in Portuguese spelling. According to tradition, they were introduced into the K ...

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Yoruba: Encyclopedia - Babalawo

Babalawo is a Yoruba title that denotes a Priest of The God or Orisha of Wisdom Orunmila (IFA). Orumila in the Yoruba tradition knows the Past, Present and Future.The Babalawo as a Priest of Ifa can determine the future through communication with Orunmila. This is done by consulting IFA through the divining chain (Opele) or sacred palm nuts called IKIN. In Orisa worship (and its various expressions, Santeria, Lucumi, Anago, Indigene etc.) a Babalawo or "father of the secrets" or Awo and ...

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Yoruba: Encyclopedia - Candomblé Ketu

Candomblé Ketu' (or Queto in Portuguese spelling) is the largest and most influential nation (sect) of Candomblé, an Afro-American religion widely practiced in Brazil. Its beliefs and rituals are similar to those of other Candomblé nations in general terms, but different in almost every detail. Although related to the batuque cults that started in the late 1500s, Ketu developed mostly in the early 19th century, chiefly in the region of Bahia, among slaves belonging to the Yoruba (Iorubá) ethnic g ...

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