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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.
The figure Yoruba dynasties descend from, held simultaneously as a creation divinity, a migrating conqueror, and an ancestor, sometimes as female, and now as the name of a political identity.
The beaded crown and what it does constitutionally, why the king's face is veiled, the birds at its apex, the beads themselves and their trade history, and the men's workshops that made them.
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.
The city the Yoruba world treats as its origin point, its Ọ̀ọ̀ni institution and ruling houses, its quarters, its groves and sacred sites, the Ọ̀rànmíyàn staff, and the Modáké̩ké̩ question.
A scholarly historical account of Ilé-Ifẹ̀, examining its cosmogonic traditions, political centralisation, sacred institutions, archaeological record, and modern developments.
The dual position of Odùduwà as primordial creator deity and ancestral progenitor of crowned Yorùbá monarchs, including historical debates, ritual offices, and Atlantic transformations.
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.
An authoritative overview of the Kétu subgroup, covering their migration traditions, political institutions, dialectal phonology, borderland history, and religious institutions.
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.
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.