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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.
Index to the section covering the structure of the Yoruba cosmos, the supreme being debate, destiny and character, sacrifice, personhood, knowledge, and the figure of Esu.
Hallen and Sodipo's finding that the Yoruba distinction between knowing and believing is drawn in a different place from the English one, why that is a genuine philosophical result, and what it exposes about Western epistemology.
Ifá is a Yorùbá system for reaching a decision by casting a signature, retrieving the memorised verses filed under it, and reasoning from the precedents they contain.
How the corpus carries pharmacology, ethical reasoning and historical precedent, and how far the comparison between ẹsẹ Ifá and case law actually holds.
What the Yoruba word for medicine covers, how physical and spiritual causation work together inside one diagnostic act rather than in separate compartments, and why calling this system "traditional" as opposed to "scientific" describes it wrongly.
How divination functions as a diagnostic instrument and what kind of reasoning it supports, and Hallen and Sodipo's finding that Yoruba herbalists distinguish knowledge from belief by a criterion stricter than the English one.
A comprehensive scholarly analysis of Ọ̀wọ́nrín Méjì, examining its binary signature, regional ranking variations across West Africa and the diaspora, verse morphology, and documented academic literature.
Guide to nine distillations covering character, destiny, generative force, sacrifice, hermeneutic method, tone, the Odù structure, and the colour triad, each pointing back to the full treatment in the section that owns the subject.
Every claim about Yoruba tradition is one of three different kinds of statement, and mixing them up is the single most common way writing on this subject goes wrong. Learn to sort them and the rest of the corpus becomes far easier to read critically.
How truth is determined in Yoruba thought and practice, the etymology and relationship of otito and ooto, Hallen and Sodipo's imo/igbagbo distinction, and the standards of evidence the tradition applies to testimony and oath.
A rigorous distinction among core Yorùbá linguistic, discursive, and oral literary categories that are frequently conflated in translation.