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The four-day week and the ritual calendar, how a Yoruba diagnosis of a problem actually proceeds, and an accurate account of aje, women's spiritual authority and the Gelede response.
Seven orisa treated together: the farming orisa, the hunter who became a river, Sango's other wife and the ear narrative, the orisa of wealth, the sea, the hunter of Ketu, and the one whose diaspora identity diverged furthest from his Yoruba one.
The Efe and Gelede masked spectacle of the western Yoruba, what it says about women's spiritual power, why it is one of the most conceptually sophisticated things in the tradition, and its UNESCO inscription.
How market authority was structured, how trade wealth converted into political leverage and where that conversion was blocked, the credit system that financed women's trade, and the twentieth-century associations that turned market organisation into a political instrument.
What àwọn ìyá wa actually names, why "witch" mistranslates it, the ambivalence built into the power, Gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ́ as the institutional answer to it, and the Atinga witch-hunt of 1950-51 with Apter's cocoa-economy explanation.
Twenty-two Yorùbá proverbs on àjẹ́ (witches), oògùn (medicine or charm), and other hidden forms of power, showing how ordinary speech treats these as real, checkable forces with their own limits.
A comprehensive scholarly treatment of Ọ̀ṣun, the Yoruba divinity of fresh waters, fertility, wealth, and sovereignty, examining her theology, oríkì, priesthood, and transatlantic developments.
The Yoruba orisa of wealth, cowrie currency, and market commerce, examined through her rituals, priesthoods, scholarly debates over gender, and diaspora transformations.
The cosmic principle of primordial feminine power, female mystical authority, moral balance, and nocturnal justice in Yorùbá cosmology and the transatlantic diaspora.
A scholarly analysis of the Odù Ifá Ọ̀sá Méjì, detailing its binary sign, regional rankings, mythological covenants with the Àjẹ́, and published poetic corpus.
Seven further divinities' praise texts, from the ancestral founder to the deified river of a jealous co-wife, including two conflicting sources for the goddess of wealth.