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Guide to the six files in the foundations section, what each covers, and the order to read them in.

What this corpus is, who the Yorùbá are, and how to read the material without being misled in either direction.

Guide to the ten files in the language section, covering the Yorùbá language itself, its sound and tone system, writing, etymology, proverbs, praise poetry, names, translation bias, literature, and learning resources.

Guide to the eleven files in the history section, what each covers, and the order to read them in.

Guide to the eleven files covering Ifá as divination system, literary corpus, binary structure, profession, and living practice.

Index and reading guide to the orisa section, covering what an orisa is, how worship is organized, each major orisa, the masquerade and cult societies, the festival calendar, the ancestors, and the tradition today.

Guide to the thirteen files covering Yoruba aesthetics, sculpture, textiles, beadwork, craft, architecture, body arts, music, dance and theatre, with reading paths and a note on what is contested.

Guide to the diaspora section, what each file covers, the argument that runs through all of them, and how to read the section in order or by interest.

Guide to the twelve files on Yoruba social institutions, what each covers, and the order to read them in.

Guide to the eight files in the onboarding section, what each covers, and which to read first depending on what brought you here.

Four ordered routes through the corpus with time estimates, for the curious newcomer, the diaspora Yorùbá reconnecting, the reader who came for Ifá as an information system, and the parent teaching children.

Section guide to the thirty-three files covering precolonial founders, nineteenth-century warlords, returnees, nationalists, intellectuals, artists, and modern diaspora figures across Yoruba history.

Guide to the gazetteer, what each file covers, the argument that runs through the section, and how to read it in order or by interest.

Guide to the six files on how Christianity, Islam, and indigenous Òrìṣà tradition are actually practiced, contested, and governed in Yorùbáland today, and the order to read them in.

Guide to the eight files on the farms, kitchens, dishes, drinks, ritual food practice, markets, and diaspora afterlife of Yoruba cuisine, and the order to read them in.

Guide to the seven files covering the Yoruba dress system, aṣọ òkè and adìrẹ technique in depth, the gèlè headwrap, personal beadwork, the aṣọ ẹbí group-dress economy, and contemporary fashion, with a note on what is cross-referenced rather than repeated.

Guide to the five files in the language corpus section, covering text and speech datasets, natural language processing, lexicography, descriptive grammars, and language pedagogy and policy.

Guide to the ten files on women, gender constructs, political titles, economic institutions, ritual authority, kinship, and historical resistance across Yorùbá history.

Guide to the six files covering Yoruba military organisation, weapons and fortification, the social and economic consequences of nineteenth-century war, campaign historiography, war ritual and medicine, and named field commanders, with a note on what is cross-referenced rather than repeated.

Guide to the twelve files in the medicine and indigenous sciences section, covering pharmaceutical botany, clinical practice, bone-setting, psychiatry, obstetrics, epidemic management, metallurgy, numeracy, and contemporary regulation.

Comprehensive guide and analytical index to the eighty-one thematic files comprising the Yorùbá proverb corpus.

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 thirty biographical, historical, and historiographical studies in the People Deep section, examining the individual agents who shaped Yorùbá civilization.

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

Systematic guide to the sixteen principal Odù of the Ifá corpus, outlining their metaphysical principles, regional seniority debates, literary structures, and suggested reading paths.

Guide to the fifteen files in the deep diaspora section, covering transatlantic Yorùbá ritual traditions, regional adaptations, continental neighbours, and multidirectional return circulation.

Guide to the twenty files in the visual arts, material culture, and organology section, examining Ife antiquity, sacred carving, masquerade arts, textiles, architecture, and musical speech surrogacy.

Guide to the thirty-six files in the alọ́ section, covering Yorùbá folktales, trickster cycles, cautionary narratives, etiological myths, and source criticism.

Guide to the ten files in the children section, examining traditional Yorùbá games, moonlight play, oral literature, physical contests, and indigenous child pedagogy.

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.