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According to the Yoruba calendar, the week ends today(saturday) and a new week start tomorrow which is on Sunday. Therefore, tomorrow is going to be a great day that we will post here one Irunmole/Orisa that will watch over us throughout the week. We will teach you how you are going to feed the Orisa/Irunmole and they will be our guardian till the week runs out.
Which Irunmole/Orisa do you think will be our guardian for this new week?
The Yoruba calendar (Kojoda) according to “Ralaran Uléìmȯkiri Insitute” (ralaran.com) has a year beginning on 3 June of the Gregorian calendar, and an era of 8042 BC. This was also confirmed by the current and the previous Ooni of Ife.
The traditional Yoruba week has four days. The four days that are dedicated to the Orisa go as follow:
Day 1 is dedicated to Obatala (Sopanna, Iyaami, and the Egungun)
Day 2 is dedicated to Orunmila (Esu and Osun) *
Day 3 is dedicated to Ogun (Osoosi)
Day 4 is dedicated to Sango (Oya)
To reconcile with the Gregorian calendar, Yoruba people also measure time in seven days a week and four weeks a month. The four-day calendar was dedicated to the Orisas and the seven day calendar is for doing business.
The seven days are: Ojo-Aiku (Sunday), Ojo-Aje (Monday), Ojo-Ishegun (Tuesday), Ojo-Riru (Wednesday), Ojo-Bo/Alamisi (Thursday), Ojo-Eti (Friday) and Ojo-Abameta (Saturday).
Time is measured in isheju (minutes), wakati (hours), ojo (days), ose (weeks), oshu (months) and odun (years). There are 60 (ogota) isheju in 1 (okan) wakati; 24 (merinlelogun) wakati in 1 ojo; 7 (meje) ojo in 1 ose; 4 (merin) ose in 1 oshu and 52 (ejileladota)ose in 1 (okan) odun. There are 12 (mejila) oshu in 1 (okan) odun.
