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The two-part Yoruba cosmos, why translating orun as "heaven" and aye as "earth" gets it wrong, how the two are joined rather than opposed, and what the calabash image actually claims.
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.
What ebo does inside the system's own logic, its dependence on divination, the range from daily offering to symbolic substitution, and why the missionary reading of it as appeasement was wrong.
Who performs ebo and under what authority, how it is actually carried out from household offering to ritual substitution, its dependence on divination, and why appeasement was the wrong category for it from the start.