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Download or read book Yoruba Myths written by Ulli Beier and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1980-10-02 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This mysterious, poetic and often amusing collection of myths illustrates the religion and thought of the West African Yoruba People.
Book Synopsis Divining the Self by : Velma E. Love
Download or read book Divining the Self written by Velma E. Love and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divining the Self weaves elements of personal narrative, myth, history, and interpretive analysis into a vibrant tapestry that reflects the textured, embodied, and performative nature of scripture and scripturalizing practices. Velma Love examines the Odu—the Yoruba sacred scriptures—along with the accompanying mythology, philosophy, and ritual technologies engaged by African Americans. Drawing from the personal narratives of African American Ifa practitioners along with additional ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oyotunji African Village, South Carolina, and New York City, Love’s work explores the ways in which an ancient worldview survives in modern times. Divining the Self also takes up the challenge of determining what it means for the scholar of religion to study scripture as both text and performance. This work provides an excellent case study of the sociocultural phenomenon of scripturalizing practices.
Book Synopsis Yoruba Mythology by : Sebastian Berg
Download or read book Yoruba Mythology written by Sebastian Berg and published by Creek Ridge Publishing. This book was released on with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the world of Yoruba mythology! Are you interested in learning about different religions? Do you want to learn about an ancient religion still practiced today? Have you heard of Orisha and IFA and want to know more about them? Like almost every culture in the world, Yoruba culture is steeped in poetry, allegories, mythology, and knowledge of the Ifa divination system. These practices are a constant reminder to the people of their practices and their long and colorful history, handed down through the generations via oral tradition, which has shaped who they are today. The Yoruba people have existed for centuries and can still be found today across parts of Africa, practicing their religion and worshipping their gods and goddesses, collectively known as the Orisha.
Download or read book YORUBA LEGENDS written by Various and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOTE: This book has been illustrated and published by the students of Edgbarrow School in Berkshire, England as a special project to raise funds for their Ghana Sponsorship campaign. DESCRIPTION: The Yoruba people are descendants from a variety of West African communities. They are united by Geography, History, Religion and most importantly their Language. In this volume you will find 31 stories and tales like: AKITI THE HUNTER, SONS OF STICKS, WHY WOMEN HAVE LONG HAIR THE LEOPARD-MAN, THE COOKING POT and many more. You also will find a further nine stories of the adventures of Tortoise and the many mischievous things he gets up to. Many years ago, before the advent of the West African slave trade, the Yoruba people inhabited an area which stretched, along the coast of West Africa, all the way inward and down to Angola in South West Africa. Today this is not the case. The legends and fairy stories in this book belong to the Yoruba. They relate the adventures of men and animals, and try to explain the mysteries of Nature-Why Women have Long Hair, How the Leopard got his Spots, the Three Magicians, the Boa-Constrictor, How the Elephant got his Trunk and more. These stories grew from the imagination of the people. We read these folk-tales for their quaintness and humour, for their sympathy with Nature, and because we find in them the ideas and ideals, not just of one man, but of a race of people. In modern times we have begun paying close attention to folklore - old tales, not invented by one man, but belonging to the whole people; not written down, but told by parents to their children, and so handed on for hundreds of years. The legends express primitive notions of right and wrong. As a rule, the wicked are punished and the good rewarded; and that, we feel, is as it should be. We may weep at the death of rascally Tortoise, but we may also feel that he somehow has deserved his fate!
Download or read book The Yoruba written by Akinwumi Ogundiran and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue Confluence in present-day Nigeria to becoming one of the most populous cultural groups on the African continent. Weaving together archaeology with linguistics, environmental science with oral traditions, and material culture with mythology, Ogundiran examines the local, regional, and even global dimensions of Yoruba history. The Yoruba: A New History offers an intriguing cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and social history from ca. 300 BC to 1840. It accounts for the events, peoples, and practices, as well as the theories of knowledge, ways of being, and social valuations that shaped the Yoruba experience at different junctures of time. The result is a new framework for understanding the Yoruba past and present.
Book Synopsis Esu Elegbara: Chance, Uncertainly In Yoruba Mythology by : Ogundipe, Ayodele
Download or read book Esu Elegbara: Chance, Uncertainly In Yoruba Mythology written by Ogundipe, Ayodele and published by Kwara State University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original work is a two-volume study of Èṣù Ẹlégbára, a Yoruba deity. Volume one consisted of six chapters, three appendices, and a bibliography. The texts of praise poems (orìkí), songs, and narratives selected from research in the field comprise volume two.
Book Synopsis Tales of Yoruba Gods and Heroes by : Harold Courlander
Download or read book Tales of Yoruba Gods and Heroes written by Harold Courlander and published by New York : Crown Publishers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Myths, legends and heroic tales of the Yoruba people of West Africa"--Cover subtitle.
Download or read book Ita written by Oba Ecun and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Yoruba People by : Captivating History
Download or read book The Yoruba People written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Yoruba Trickster Tales by : Oyekan Owomoyela
Download or read book Yoruba Trickster Tales written by Oyekan Owomoyela and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty-three tales involving Aj'ap'a, a tortoise with human traits who has relationships with an assortment of animal and human characters
Book Synopsis Yoruba Ritual by : Margaret Thompson Drewal
Download or read book Yoruba Ritual written by Margaret Thompson Drewal and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-22 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoruba peoples of southwestern Nigeria conceive of rituals as journeys -- sometimes actual, sometimes virtual. Performed as a parade or a procession, a pilgrimage, a masking display, or possession trance, the journey evokes the reflexive, progressive, transformative experience of ritual participation. Yoruba Ritual is an original and provocative study of these practices. Using a performance paradigm, Margaret Thompson Drewal forges a new theoretical and methodological approach to the study of ritual that is thoroughly grounded in close analysis of the thoughts and actions of the participants. Challenging traditional notions of ritual as rigid, stereotypic, and invariant, Drewal reveals ritual to be progressive, transformative, generative, and reflexive and replete with simultaneity, multifocality, contingency, indeterminacy, and intertextuality. Throughout the book prominence is given to the intentionality of actors as knowledgeable agents who transform ritual itself through play and improvisation. Integral to the narrative are interpolations about performances and their meanings by Kolawole Ositola, a scholar of Yoruba oral tradition, ritual practitioner, diviner, and master performer. Rich descriptions of rituals relating to birth, death, reincarnation, divination, and constructions of gender are rendered all the more vivid by a generous selection of field photos of actual performances.
Book Synopsis Oracle of Divination by : MCR El Pensador
Download or read book Oracle of Divination written by MCR El Pensador and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manuscript of the Mythology of the Yoruba Religion-Cariocha, as the importance of this cult, the past is the present, as the present to meet the future, thus regulate their functions in religious rituals. It’s linked between the created and the creator Oloddumare (God) and his emissaries and Orishas that governs our destinies based upon our faith to all Omorishas (Saints) Santeros and faithful believers. My legacy in this manuscript is a teaching manual for all the people and all their followers Santeros ille Orishas. It’s linked in chains of faith and as a legacy of half a century, the treasure of my wisdom and my steps walked in practice of the Santeria within the Yoruba Lukumi Religion. It is an honor to all the patriarchs illa loaches, baba loaches, Igguoros, Oluwo and those who have Ibaé ballentenu (deceased) has taken with them all the science and knowledge to Oloddumare (God). Osha Ille Ochun Alamace ---- El Pensador - The Thinker
Book Synopsis Yoruba Mythology Coloring Book by : Nzinga-Christina Reid
Download or read book Yoruba Mythology Coloring Book written by Nzinga-Christina Reid and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoruba mythology is often studied and yet many questions remain about the ancient gods and goddesses, or Orishas, of West Africa. As the Orisha stories were passed down orally through the centuries, there evolved many variations of the characters, their name spellings, and their relationships to one another. This coloring book is designed to help you explore answers about their nature while enjoying the relaxation and fun of coloring! Plunge into this educational coloring book, featuring: -20 stunning pictures of various Yoruba gods and goddess for you to color -Detailed and informative information of the Yoruba faith on every page -Text designed to help relax and inspire -For adults and children -Huge variety of styles and designs -For artists of all levels, beginner to expert -8.5 x 11 inches book size
Book Synopsis Yoruba Mythology by : Source Wikipedia
Download or read book Yoruba Mythology written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Orisha, Yoruba deities, Yoruba divinities, Shango, Obatala, Eshu, Yemaja, Olokun, Ogoun, Oduduwa, Oya, Egungun-oya, Orunmila, Oshunmare, Ifa, Obalumo, Ibeji, Orangun, Ayagunna, Sopona, Letra del ano, Aganju, Oxossi, Zangbeto, List of Yoruba deities, Nana Buluku, Merindinlogun, Itan, ba ko so, Ofiran, Ellegua, Emere, Abiku, Iroko Tree, Iya Nla, Egbere, Orungan. Excerpt: Ifa refers to the system of divination and the verses of the literary corpus known as the Odu Ifa. Yoruba religion identifies Orunmila as the Grand Priest; as that which revealed Oracle divinity to the world. Such is his association with the Oracle divinity; in some instances, the term "Orunmila" is used interchangeably with Ifa. Originating in West Africa in the form of a stringent Yoruba philosophy; celebrated in traditional African medicine, Santeria (referred to as Lukumi), Candomble, West African & Diaspora Vodou, and similarly in Orisa'Ifa lineages all over the globe. In the Yoruba religion, divination gives priests unreserved access to the teachings of Orunmila. Esu, is seen as being in charge of justice and the transportation of ebos, one said to lend authority (ase) to the oracle during provision of direction and or clarification of counsel. Ifa divination rites are claimed to provide an avenue of communication to the spiritual realm. In Togo, Ifa is known as Afa, where the Vodou deities come through and speak. In many of their Egbes, it is Alaundje who is honored as the first Bokono to have been taught how to divine the destiny of humans using the holy system of Afa. The Ifa Divination system was added in 2005 by UNESCO to its list of "Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity." Performing Ifa divination is called Ifa dida or idafa (or dida owo and ounte ale). Ifa dida / Idafa is performed by a Babalawo or...
Download or read book Ífè Myths written by John Wyndham and published by Rolled Scroll Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short book is a translation of some of the myths of the Yoruba people of Nigeria. It is a history of the creation of the world, the gods, and humanity, and the early days of the sacred city of Ífè, the traditional center of Yoruba culture. The text was recited to the author/translator by the high priests of Ífè, and the book is still cited in some books on traditional Yoruba religion and thought today. It has undeservedly become quite rare, as it can be considered a minor classic in the field.
Download or read book Yoruba Mythology written by Matt Clayton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-11-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you like stories about kings and queens, spirits and monsters, or tricksters and villains? If so, this book is for you. Containing delightful stories from the Yoruba and other West African peoples, this book presents tales of courage and cunning, virtue and vice, and fortunes found and lost. Some of these stories draw upon actual historical persons and events, while others are purely fictional, but each story has something to delight any reader. Here are just a few of the stories you will find inside this book: How Queen Moremi saved her people from their enemies Why King Oranyan's staff still stands in its place today How Gassire gave up dreams of a kingdom to become a singer of tales How a king wanted to know what it was like to be poor and found out the hard way How clever commoners outwitted the kings who wanted to kill them How the Ashanti came to farm yams How a baby who was not yet ready to be born defeated the monster Sasabonsam How the wise and clever Kumba saved her village from a man-eating lion How Kigbo the farmer learned the hard way that it is not wise to play around with spirits And much, much more! Scroll up and click the "add to cart" button to enjoy each of these captivating West African stories!
Book Synopsis The Coming of Night by : James Riordan
Download or read book The Coming of Night written by James Riordan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the daughter of the river goddess Yemoya goes to the Land of Shining Day to marry a handsome earth chief, her longing for the cool darkness of her former home causes Night to be brought to the world.
