Parcourir

The orisa of leaves and of the knowledge of what plants do, the one-limbed body, the iron staff of birds, and the relationship between Osanyin and the practising herbalist.

The Yoruba deity of botanical pharmacopoeia, herbal medicine, and forest mysteries, who operates in essential partnership with Ifa divination.

Two further Esu texts beyond the one analysed for its poetics elsewhere in this section, two Osanyin herbal-medicine oriki of markedly different quality, and the hunter-diviner Osoosi's homage formula.

The historical development, functional boundaries, and colonial transformations of the babaláwo, oníṣègùn, adáhunṣe, and related Yoruba healing specialists.