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• CollectionsThe corpus's structured record sets: proverbs, tales, wisdom entries, children's games, and the unreviewed oríkì harvest.

Interactive tools and lookups

• ExploreFive interactive ways into the corpus: the Odù structure, the map of towns and diaspora, the dated chronology, the local concept graph, and the visual gallery.
• The 256 OdùEvery Odù is a signature of eight marks across two columns. Browse the full set of 256, open any one for what the corpus holds about it (its ẹsẹ Ifá verses, themes and narratives), toggle the marks yourself to feel how 256 follows from the structure, or see where the historical ranking orders disagree.
• Towns, Kingdoms and DiasporaEvery town and diaspora place the corpus names, plotted where a coordinate is verified.
• ChronologyThe corpus's dated chronology, from deep background to the present, each event graded by how well it is sourced.
• Concept GraphThe corpus as a graph of documents and the links between them, centred on whichever one you open.
• GalleryIllustrations and archive images from across the corpus, filterable by source or subject.
• Àmì: tone and diacritic toolsLook up the correct tone for a word, search by tone pattern, or restore diacritics to untoned text.
• LearnExercises drawn from the corpus itself: tone, diacritics, proverbs, the glossary, Odù notation, towns and rulers, and the timeline. Progress is tracked in this browser only, in the tradition's own terms (depth and return), never a score or a rank.
• AmòyeAsk Amòye anything about Yorùbá culture, history, language or thought. Every answer shows where it comes from: what's been read, what live search found, or Amòye's own analysis, always labelled.
• What the corpus establishesEvery principle here was drawn from a document and carries the line it rests on, quoted word for word. Open one to see the reasoning and the source.
• DictionaryLook up any Yorùbá word: part of speech, pronunciation, senses and examples from the bundled Wiktionary.
• Corpus GlossaryThe corpus's own concepts explained in place: cosmology, Ifá, òrìṣà, social and historical terms.
• Òwe: ProverbsYorùbá proverbs drawn from the corpus, each with the literal gloss and the idiomatic English the corpus itself gives it. Nothing here is paraphrased.
• NamesYorùbá personal names, with their morphological breakdown, meaning, and the naming-system category each belongs to. Search is diacritic-insensitive.