The Yoruba derived religious practice of Orisha worship is a religious system based on the veneration of a supreme god, various deities (Orishas), and ancestral spirits. Although one Supreme Being or ...

The Varieties of Religious Therapy (VRT) blog series features representatives from twelve belief systems discussing how they integrate faith with their approach to psychotherapy. This installment is ...

My father, a prominent Christian leader, once visited the Oyo Museum, where artefacts and relics of the old Oyo Empire—such as the Opon Ifa, masquerade masks, and Sango outfits—were displayed. He ...

In the Yoruba religious tradition, divine spirits known as orishas rule over various cosmic forces and elements of nature. There is Shango, the king orisha of thunder and fire; Yemaya, the orisha of ...

In the precolonial and colonial periods, Shango priesthood with its possession cult symbolized by mounting -- husbands mounting wives, gods mounting possession priests, riders mounting horses -- was ...

History in Africa, Vol. 44 (2017), pp. 63-100 (38 pages) This study juxtaposes the observations and interpretations of a twentyfirst- century ethnographer with those of nineteenth-century Christian ...

Yoruba people believe that the deities in Yoruba land have lived on earth like humans and had wives and even kids. Erinle They are known to be very staunch believers that idolize culture and believe ...

As I observed in an earlier article titled ‘Redefining the Cultural Essence of Yoruba Kingship,’ published in the Nigerian Tribune on 8 February 2025, traditional rulers, even in historic times, were ...

Wale Adebayo (Sango)Bunmi Sanya (Oya)Wale Ogunyemi Jimi Sholanke Joseph Layode Jide Ogungbade Antar Laniyan Rachael Oniga Kayode Odumosu Kola Oyewo Femi Lesode The epic tale of the lengendary king of ...