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The Odùduwà traditions and the versions that compete with them, the argument over migration versus indigenous development, and what excavation at Ilé-Ifẹ̀ has actually dated.
The white orisa who moulds human bodies, the contested creation narrative in which Oduduwa takes his place, the palm wine story and what Ife devotees actually say about it, and the politics carried inside the itan.
What an òrìṣà is, how the pantheon is organised, who the major figures are, how devotion actually works, and why the demon framing does not describe any of it.
The figure at the root of Yoruba dynastic claims, the several incompatible traditions about who or what Òdùduwà was, the conflict with Ọbàtálá at Ilé-Ifẹ̀, and what archaeology and historians can and cannot establish.
Twenty-two Yorùbá proverbs in which òrìṣà appear as the vehicle of an argument about human affairs, showing how ordinary speech treats the gods as present, particular, and sometimes named individually.
A scholarly historical account of Ilé-Ifẹ̀, examining its cosmogonic traditions, political centralisation, sacred institutions, archaeological record, and modern developments.
The primordial Yoruba deity of ethical purity, creation, and coolness, tasked with sculpting human forms from clay before the breath of life is bestowed.
The dual position of Odùduwà as primordial creator deity and ancestral progenitor of crowned Yorùbá monarchs, including historical debates, ritual offices, and Atlantic transformations.
A comprehensive scholarly reference on Ọ̀ṣàlá, the premier Yoruba arch-divinity of creation, ethical purity, physical molding, and white cloth.
An analysis of the life, sculptural interventions, spiritual initiations, and scholarly controversies surrounding Susanne Wenger (Àdùnní Olórìṣà) in Osogbo.
An annual multi-day ritual reenactment in Ile-Ife dramatizing the primordial political conflict, exile, and reconciliation between the indigenous Obatala faction and the incoming Oduduwa dynasty.
Three Ọbàtálá texts from Idowu, Beier and the Verger fieldwork tradition, and three Ṣàngó texts of markedly different sourcing quality, presented with an explicit account of which meet this corpus's standard.
The historical formation of the Yoruba orisa pantheon through political conquest, regional cult absorption, and the debate between euhemerist deification and primordial cosmology.
Scholarly distinctions between frequently confused Yorùbá divinities, literary corpora, and historical figures.