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What Yorùbá proverbs do in speech and in law, and a worked collection of more than forty proverbs in original, literal gloss, and idiomatic English.

Index to the section covering the structure of the Yoruba cosmos, the supreme being debate, destiny and character, sacrifice, personhood, knowledge, and the figure of Esu.

Character as the whole content of Yoruba ethics, iwa pele and iwa rere, the identity of character with beauty, patience as the source of character, and an ethical system grounded in consequence and community rather than divine command.

The decade or more of memorisation before initiation, the stages of entry, how knowledge is checked between practitioners, and the real disagreement about women in Ifá.

How the corpus carries pharmacology, ethical reasoning and historical precedent, and how far the comparison between ẹsẹ Ifá and case law actually holds.

The 2005 proclamation and 2008 inscription, the state of practice in Nigeria and the diaspora, commercialisation and the online problem, and what a curious outsider should and should not do.

Destiny, character, the inner head, what a person is, and how Yorùbá ethics works, in plain language.

The evening storytelling tradition, the call-and-response frame that opens it, riddles as a separate discipline, and the Ìjàpá cycle read as a body of ethical and comic literature.

How Yoruba religious thought treats food as a channel of spiritual power, structured by deific and lineage prohibitions, the mechanics of sacrifice as a food transaction, and the ethics of eating together.

Who actually practises Yoruba medicine, how the specialisms divide, how a practitioner is trained and how long it takes, and how expertise is checked among practitioners themselves rather than by any outside body.

Fifty-eight Yorùbá proverbs on character, presented with the original, a literal gloss, a named translation, and the situation each is spoken in.

What the cautionary àlọ́ in this section actually warn against, how severe their endings are, and the pattern that public exposure rather than private harm is the punishment they most often reach for.

Guide to nine distillations covering character, destiny, generative force, sacrifice, hermeneutic method, tone, the Odù structure, and the colour triad, each pointing back to the full treatment in the section that owns the subject.

Ìwà is not a personality trait or a rule you follow; it is the one thing Yoruba ethics actually measures you by, and understanding that changes how every other idea in this corpus reads.

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.

How the tradition actually frames moral categories, why the Christian good/evil binary maps badly onto it, ìwà as the measure, Èṣù's place in the picture, and what ibi, evil or misfortune, actually denotes.

The ethical frameworks, disciplinary codes, fee structures, confidentiality requirements, and guild regulations governing Yoruba diviners and herbal healers.