Tag Archives: Egungun

“They were celebrating Egungun festivals joy and happiness. The fanatics among the Muslims attacked them that they are agent of “devil” so they won’t allow them celebrate their festival in peace. They destroyed everything. Egungun returned to Igbale. They started ...

This teaching was given on March 28, 2009, in Mexico. Baba Odùdúwà is giving the Égún Initiation from his Lineage, which is something very special, to people who gets initiated receives the two Égún Magical Mirrors, the Égún cloth (AŞO ...

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Omoniyi and Ojeseyi masquerades of Ode Remo, Nigeria, will be there. This is a community event. Come out and bring your family to connect with the ancestors.

Egungun is a presentational spiritual art which imagines the collective spirits of the ancestors and builds them out of overlapping or stitched segments of cloth. At times of commemoration of the dead–yearly festivals and successive funeral rites-these remarkable assemblages “come ...

Awo Gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ́ lobìrín lè mọ̀ (Women may know Gelede rituals) Bóbìrín bá fojú korò (If a woman views Oro ceremonies) Orò á gbé e. (Oro will kidnap her). Three questions: is this fair gender balance? Is this patriarchal terrorism or ...

Yesterday Egungun in Oyo town visited the Palace to pay homage to the Alaafin of Oyo. See more photos bellow.

Colourful photos from the 2nd  Egungun Festival in Argentina 2015. See more photos bellow.

Why are these people wearing àlà? What is being covered here? Where are they going? Where are they coming from? What is the name of the city? What is the name of the performance? Why do they observe this performance? ...