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- The Yoruba (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are one of the largest ... Yoruba religion and mythology is a major influence in West Africa ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 21:30, 4 June 2023
- and authoritative of all the early Yoruba principalities. Empire was the most politically important Yoruba state from the mid-seventeenth ...14 KB (2,175 words) - 01:53, 14 September 2025
- lines, the Hausa and Fulani (north), Yoruba (south-west), and Igbo or ... northern part of the territory; and, the Yoruba, which formed about 75 percent ...31 KB (4,828 words) - 01:03, 1 July 2025
- east, the Oyo Empire arose as the dominant Yoruba state and the Aro Confederacy ... the region. As the second most prominent religion in West Africa, Christianity ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 17:17, 4 May 2023
- to oppose the political authority of the Yoruba People of Oyo. Technically ... In order to unite the Fon people in opposition to the Yoruba, leaders ...28 KB (4,350 words) - 21:40, 3 March 2025
- Found in the mythology, folklore, and religion of virtually all world ... Hermes in Greek mythology, Eshu in Yoruba mythology, Loki in Norse ...19 KB (2,802 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- ties with their neighbors the Bini, Igala, Yoruba, and Idoma, with whom it ... ethnic groups, such as the Hausa and the Yoruba became sharper. ...21 KB (3,234 words) - 15:53, 28 November 2024
- To the south, the Yoruba kingdoms of Ifẹ and Oyo in the western ... and Nigeria elected Olusegun Obasanjo, a Yoruba and former military head ...37 KB (5,316 words) - 01:02, 1 July 2025
- [[Image:Yoruba-bronze-head.jpg|thumb|225px|Yoruba bronze head sculpture ... ancient Egypt was centered on the state religion of the time. The art ranged ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- destiny, from Thrace to pagan Mecca. In Yoruba traditional religion, the ... Heritage of Humanity. The Sociology of religion has long recognized that ...22 KB (3,568 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- source of material for historians of religion. He also visited Morocco ... found by Frobenius as belonging to the Yoruba culture. ==Legacy== ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 19:25, 11 March 2025
- Caribbean practitioners of the Yoruba traditions from Africa sometimes ... Category:philosophy and religion Category:religion Category:religious ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 19:07, 22 December 2022
- in Africa, each with its own language, religion, and way of life. ... and death. At burial ceremonies the Owo Yoruba perform the igogo, in which ...41 KB (6,461 words) - 06:06, 16 June 2023
- a person is possessed by a spirit in the yoruba tradition he cannot rise ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion 113010298 ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 23:03, 30 June 2025
- beliefs, that over time became a unique religion in its own right. Properly ... Forms of the Lukumà religion are practiced throughout the Americas ...19 KB (3,085 words) - 03:21, 23 December 2022
- figure in Santeria, standing in for the Yoruba deity Babalu Aye. Like the ... Category:Philosophy and religion Category:Religion 214274546 ...15 KB (2,333 words) - 19:04, 11 March 2025
- spoken in the territory include Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo, and Fulani. Muslims make up 50 percent of the population, Christians 40 percent, while the ...14 KB (2,053 words) - 07:06, 14 June 2023
- In African Yoruba mythology, Oshunmare was a mythic regenerating serpent ... who continued to be venerated in the folk religion of Judah and was tolerated ...23 KB (3,735 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- * Yoruba mythology : oloddumare Also related are the philosophical ... * Thompson, Laurence G. 1996. Chinese Religion: An Introduction. Belmont ...21 KB (2,999 words) - 16:39, 6 November 2024
- few trees around to burn and the local religion (Buddhism) believes that ... ===Philosophy, religion, and mythology=== [[Image:Paradiso Canto 31 ...47 KB (7,217 words) - 08:56, 28 January 2024
