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There is no Yoruba church. Òrìṣà devotion is organised town by town and lineage by lineage, with local priesthoods, local shrines, and local festivals, and this page explains how those structures work.

What Egúngún actually is, why it is a lineage institution rather than an orisa cult, how the costume and the taboo on touching it work, and how the tradition has been misrepresented.

How a Yoruba person is located among relatives, in a physical compound and in a descent group, and why seniority rather than sex does most of the organizing work.

The praise poetry that attaches a person to a place of origin, why Yoruba people carry a town identity they may never have lived in, and how that identity crossed the Atlantic.

Sourced Yorùbá proverbs about the household, the lineage, the father's house and the obligations that follow from being born into a particular family.

Lineage and town-of-origin oríkì for four major Yoruba groups, including two variant texts for Ọ̀fà shown side by side rather than merged.