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The thunder orisa and fourth Alaafin of Oyo, the contested question of whether a king became a god or a god absorbed a king, the Oba ko so narrative, and Sango in Cuba and Brazil.

The Yoruba four-day week and the orisa days, the annual festival cycle, and detailed treatment of Osun-Osogbo, Sango, Olojo, Itapa, Igogo, Agemo and Ojude Oba including their present condition under tourism.

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.

Ṣàngó is worshipped as the òrìṣà of thunder and named in Ọ̀yọ́ king lists as the fourth Aláàfin, and this file sets out what each tradition says, why the two cannot simply be merged, and what scholars have argued.

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 comprehensive history of the Ọ̀yọ́ kingdom from its ancient origins at Ọ̀yọ́-Ilé and imperial consolidation to colonial bombardment and modern succession politics.

Ṣàngó is the Yoruba divinity of thunder, lightning, fire, justice, and royal power, whose cult formed the theological foundation of the Ọ̀yọ́ Empire.

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

Scholarly analysis of the river deity Oba, her historical cult centers, liturgical poetry, mythological narratives, and transatlantic divergences in Lucumi and Candomble traditions.

A comprehensive scholarly analysis of Aganjú as an ancient Oyo monarch, wilderness divinity, and transformed Afro-Atlantic deity across West Africa, Cuba, and Brazil.

The historical Alaafin of Old Oyo and the orisa of thunder, lightning, and justice, examining the tension between imperial history and apotheosis.

The political career, military rule, and historical debates surrounding Kurunmi of Ijaye, the supreme military commander of nineteenth-century Oyo.

A comprehensive scholarly account of the life, dramaturgy, archival record, and historiographical debates surrounding the Nigerian playwright and folk opera pioneer Duro Ládipọ̀.

A scholarly account of the annual ten-day Ṣàngó Festival in Ọ̀yọ́, examining its liturgical calendar, priestly offices, historical origins, theological schisms, and modern global heritage status.

The binary signature, regional ranking disputes, published verses, and scholarly interpretations of Okanran Meji within the Ifa divination corpus.

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

A comprehensive scholarly analysis of Yoruba twin memorial figures, their theological functions, carving techniques, stylistic regionalisms, museum histories, and contemporary restitution debates.

The organology, ensemble hierarchy, speech surrogacy, and sacred history of the Yorùbá bàtá drum across West African and transatlantic contexts.

An Ọ̀yọ́ aetiological tale in which a tiny rat's three enormous sons are each driven off by a farm-robbing bird, until the ram fights him into the ground and the noise of that fight becomes thunder.

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.

How traditional Yoruba jurisprudence establishes truth through metaphysical covenants, deity invocations, and judicial ordeals when material evidence is absent.

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.