Foundations

What this corpus is, who the Yorùbá are, and how to read the material without being misled in either direction.

The three registers this corpus never blends, what the confidence markers mean, and why initiate-held knowledge is left as a marked gap instead of being filled in.

A documented history of the process by which Yorùbá religion was reframed as satanic, from the missionary encounter through colonial vocabulary, Nigerian Pentecostalism and Nollywood, followed by what the tradition actually holds.

Twelve widespread misconceptions about Yorùbá religion and thought, each answered with evidence, correcting hostile distortions and celebratory overclaims alike.

How Yorùbá people actually live with three religious traditions at once, the real tensions, what scholars document about coexistence, and the full range of positions people hold.

The twenty core Yorùbá concepts in brief, each defined in two sentences with a pointer to where the corpus treats it fully.