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The orisa of wind, storm and the Niger river, wife of Sango, the buffalo narrative, her relation to the dead, and the difference between the Yoruba Oya and the Oya of Cuba and Brazil.

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.

The chanted poetry of the Egúngún masquerade, its lengthened-vowel vocal signature, the altered voice that marks it as the speech of the dead, and its descent into the Aláàrìnjò travelling theatre.

The satirical song traditions of the masquerade societies, especially the all-night Ẹfẹ̀ performance in which named individuals are held to account, and the wider Yoruba institution of licensed abuse.

Fifty-one Yorùbá proverbs in which death, burial, mourning and the masquerade of the ancestors carry the argument, each with the original, a literal gloss, a named translation, and the situation it is spoken in.

Thirty-eight Yorùbá proverbs in which kinship is argued through the body, blood as substance and as evidence, bone and marrow as the limit of what can be extracted, flesh and the breast, and resemblance as the proof of descent, each with the original, a literal gloss, a named translation, and the situation it is spoken in.

A comprehensive history of Ìgbòho, from its establishment as the sixteenth-century fortified exile capital of the Ọ̀yọ́ Empire through its institutional, military, and chieftaincy evolution to the modern era.

A comprehensive scholarly reference on the Yoruba orisha Oya, covering her riverine, atmospheric, and ancestral domains, mythic variants, ritual priesthood, and transatlantic developments.

An exhaustive scholarly analysis of Egúngún masquerade traditions, ancestor veneration, ritual hierarchies, historical origins, and Atlantic diaspora transformations.

An exhaustive scholarly analysis of the Yoruba Egúngún festival, detailing ritual choreography, institutional offices, origin historiography, typological variants, and contemporary tourism dynamics.

The institutional history, liturgical programme, sacerdotal hierarchy, and modern transformations of the annual ancestral masquerade festival among the Ọ̀yọ́ Yorùbá.

An authoritative overview of the Ọ̀yọ́ Yorùbá, examining their linguistic profile, political institutions, royal cults, and major historiographical debates.

Construction methods, material stratigraphy, lineage ownership, and museum provenance debates surrounding Yoruba ancestral masquerade regalia.

Royal and lineage oríkì for four eastern and central Yoruba kingdoms, including a rare text naming a specific carver rather than only royalty or warriors.

A taxonomic guide clarifying the cosmological, political, and gender distinctions among Yoruba ritual embodiments often lumped together as generic masquerades.