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Agemo Festival is a masked or masquerade festival traditionally held in many Yoruba cities but more popularly linked with the Ijebu people of Ogun State.The festival and accompanying rituals are celebrated to honor the spirit deity Agemo, who is believed to be a protector of children and who safeguards Ijebus future through its blessing. [1]
A symbol of the Yoruba religion (Isese) with labels Yoruba divination board Opon Ifá. According to Kola Abimbola, the Yorubas have evolved a robust cosmology. [1] Nigerian Professor for Traditional African religions, Jacob K. Olupona, summarizes that central for the Yoruba religion, and which all beings possess, is known as "Ase", which is "the empowered word that must come to pass," the ...
Egungun, masked costumed figures of the Yoruba people. Egungun, Yoruba language: Egúngún, also known as Ará Ọ̀run (The collective dead) in the broadest sense is any Yoruba masquerade or masked, costumed figure. [1] More specifically, it is a Yoruba masquerade for ancestor reverence, or the ancestors themselves as a collective force.
Yoruba Religion: Orisha Yorubaland: Ayangalu: Drummer, Gángan Yoruba People: Yoruba Religion: Orisha Yorubaland: Ara Ara Weather, Storm, Thunder Yoruba People: Yoruba Religion: Orisha Yorubaland: Ayelala: Punishes Crime Yoruba People (Part) Yoruba Religion (Part) Orisha Yorubaland (Part) Aroni Beauty Of Nature, Spirit Of The Forest, Herb ...
The Bag of Wisdom: Òsun and the Origins of the Ifá Divination. InMurphy and Sanford, 2001. Òsun Across the Waters: A Yoruba Goddess in Africa and the Americas. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001, 141–54; Chief FAMA Fundamentals of the Yoruba Religion (Orisa Worship) ISBN 0-9714949-0-8 (works self-published through her company)
The Gẹlẹdẹ spectacle of the Yoruba is a public display by colorful masks which combines art and ritual dance to amuse, educate and inspire worship. [1] Gelede celebrates “Mothers” ( awon iya wa ), a group that includes female ancestors and deities as well as the elderly women of the community, and the power and spiritual capacity ...
The term "Babalawo" typically refers to a Yoruba religious figure, often considered a priest or diviner, within the Ifa system of the Yoruba people in West Africa. The Ifa system is a complex and ancient divination and religious practice that has its roots in Yoruba mythology and culture and is deeply rooted in Yoruba history and mythology ...
He hunts with a bow and arrow (called an ofá), hunting for good influences and positive energies. Animals sacrificed to Oxóssi rituals are goat, cooked pig, and guinea fowl. The salutation of Ososi in the yoruba tradition is "Èku, aro". [3] Characteristics: Consecrated day: Thursday; Color: blue in the Ketu nation, otherwise green; Ritual ...