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The four-day week and its orisa, the lunar month and the thirteen-month year, how festivals were dated, and how a four-day week now coexists with a seven-day one.

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

An examination of the week-long festival commemorating the founder of the Oyo Empire, detailing its historical traditions, ritual officiants, performance genres, and modern institutionalization.

An extensive scholarly examination of the Yoruba New Yam Festival (Ọdún Ìjẹsù), its ritual liturgy, agricultural theology, regional variations, and contemporary civic transformations.

A comprehensive scholarly examination of the sacred ritual calendar, origin traditions, ceremonial offices, and festival cycles of Ọ̀tùn Ẹkìtì in Mobaland.

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