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How Yorùbá came to be written in Arabic and then Roman script, who decided the spelling rules, and why the subdots and tone marks are not optional.

What oríkì are, the different kinds, who performs them and why, and how they carry history that written records do not.

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

How the corpus carries pharmacology, ethical reasoning and historical precedent, and how far the comparison between ẹsẹ Ifá and case law actually holds.

Four thousand years compressed into one pass, from the Niger-Benue confluence through Ifẹ̀ and Ọ̀yọ́ to the nineteenth-century wars, conquest and the present, with dating confidence marked throughout.

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

What Owomoyela's collection can and cannot say about dialect origin, plus eight proverbs naming specific peoples, towns, or historical events, presented as regional and historically datable rather than as a dialect atlas this source does not support.

Nine Yorùbá proverbs datable by internal evidence to the pre-colonial cowrie-currency economy or to the early colonial period, kept current in speech as fixed idiom for amounts and situations no living speaker has transacted in.

Comprehensive guide and reading pathways for the forty in-depth historical profiles of Yorùbá urban centres, kingdoms, and frontier settlements.

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

A comprehensive guide to the thirty files examining the distinct regional, political, dialectal, and cultural subgroups across the Yorùbá world.

Bolanle Awe's case for oríkì as historical evidence, worked through two towns' founding oríkì, with a plain statement of what a historian can and cannot recover from the form.

A comprehensive guide to the six clarification files addressing historical distortions, theological reinterpretations, and conceptual shifts in Yorùbá religious studies.

The historical formation of the Yoruba orisa pantheon through political conquest, regional cult absorption, and the debate between euhemerist deification and primordial cosmology.

A historical and structural analysis of Ifá divination, examining its relationship to trans-Saharan geomancy, regional adaptations across West Africa, colonial suppression, and transatlantic diaspora divergence.

A historical analysis of structural transformations, theological shifts, and archival biases in Yoruba religious practice from pre-1830 lineage shrines to contemporary global networks.

A historical clarification untangling the distinct periods, geographical relocations, and state structures of classical Ife, Old and New Oyo, the Owu crisis, nineteenth-century Ibadan, and coastal Lagos.