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The dirge chanted through the night at a hunter's funeral, restricted to the hunters' guild, and Bade Ajuwon's argument that it is the mechanism by which the guild's tradition is transmitted.

How Yorùbá warfare was bound up with the worship of Ògún, pre-campaign Ifá divination, herbal and spiritual war medicine, and iron oaths sealing military alliances, and how tradition, academic history and colonial missionary sources read that ritual dimension three different ways.

Guide to the thirty files in the orisa deep section, covering primordial divinities, deified dynastic figures, metaphysical forces, nature spirits, and masking institutions.

Guide to the eighteen files in the festivals section, examining royal renewals, masquerade complexes, ancestral commemorations, agrarian rites, and urban spectacles across Yorubaland.

An exhaustive scholarly account of the annual Ọ̀ṣun-Òṣogbo festival, its foundational origin traditions, liturgical stages, ritual offices, conservation challenges, and scholarly debates.

The premier annual state ritual of Ilé-Ifẹ̀, commemorating the cosmogonic dawn of creation, renewing the covenant of the sacred monarchy, and venerating the divinity Ògún.

Guide to the nine files in the practice section, covering practitioner roles, sacrificial mechanics, moral metaphysics, evidential truth, initiation lineages, gender dynamics, ethics, and contemporary transnationalism.