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We have the Ijapa Oke and the Ijapa Odo . There is the aquatic turtle and the land tortoise. Both can swim. Yarinbo is the female specie while Idere is the younger one. Oodua (Yoruba) is just deep Ijapa Odo ...

The Iyami are supernatural women who have been blessed by Elodumare with a great power which can be seen in the Odu Ifa Osetua, where it is written: anyone who makes a plan by excluding from it the ideas of the women, must know that their plan is intended to fail.

Artist: Moyo OkedijiTitle: Orò IléMedium: terracottaDate: 2010

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Esu is not satan awareness has been on for several years yet Naira Marley and fellow marlians do not know the huge damage Ajayi Crowder did to the Oodua (Yoruba) Tradition when he initially translated Satan in the Bible to ...

The grandson of a British soldier who took part in the looting of Benin City in the late 19th century is returning items his ancestor took in a move experts say opens up a debate in what could happen to ...

It turns an indigenous Oòduà (Yoruba) concept upsidedown into an Abrahamic tradition of “heaven” and “hell.” The Christians and Moslems attempted to distort the Oòduà (Yoruba) language to serve their various needs, once they translated Orun to heaven. This is ...

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ISEFA/IKOFA, The Hand of Orunmila: While people certainly receive Ikofa without the intention of becoming Ifa priests many people begin their path towards initiation with this ceremony. A fully initiated Babalawo and Iyanifa work with two or more hands of ...

THE Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi, has condemned the proposed installation of Yoruba Oba in France, describing it is a desecration of culture, custom and tradition of the Yoruba race. He enjoined Yoruba monarchs “to frustrate the emergence of ...