Ṣàwárí

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.

An analysis of colonial and missionary vocabulary shifts, examining how European terms like fetish and juju, alongside translated Yoruba concepts like Èṣù, Òrìṣà, and Olódùmarè, were reconfigured during nineteenth-century religious encounters.

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