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What the sources actually attribute to Olodumare, the disputed etymologies, and the live scholarly argument over whether the supreme-being framing is indigenous Yoruba thought or a shape given to it by the missionary encounter.

Nineteen Yorùbá proverbs in which Olódùmarè and Ọlọ́run appear, showing how ordinary speech talks about the supreme being's power, patience and inaccessibility to human interference.