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Àkọsílẹ̀ 694 ní àwọn apá 38. Ṣàyẹ̀wò nípa apá, ìpele, ìdánilójú tàbí àmì.
The river orisa of Osogbo, the seventeenth of the orisa sent to earth and the one whose exclusion made the work fail, the founding covenant of a town, and the largest surviving Yoruba festival.
The foundational tripartite colour system of the Yoruba world, organizing visual, thermal, and spiritual realities into chromatic temperaments rather than narrow spectral wavelengths.
What an òrìṣà is, how the pantheon is organised, who the major figures are, how devotion actually works, and why the demon framing does not describe any of it.
An examination of female sacerdotal leadership, institutional authority, theological debates on gender, and the historical dispute surrounding the initiation of female Ifá diviners.
A comprehensive scholarly history of Òṣogbo, examining its founding covenant, the Ataoja dynasty, the decisive 1840 battle, its twentieth-century artistic renaissance, and the sacred grove.
A comprehensive historical study of the northern Osun community of Ọ̀yán, examining its founding by Prince Ẹpẹ́ from Ile-Ife, dynastic succession disputes, quarter institutions, sacred rituals, and modern civic development.
A comprehensive scholarly treatment of Ọ̀ṣun, the Yoruba divinity of fresh waters, fertility, wealth, and sovereignty, examining her theology, oríkì, priesthood, and transatlantic developments.
A comprehensive scholarly analysis of the Yoruba Gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ́ masking tradition, its theological grounding in female spiritual power, performance structures, origin debates, and diasporic trajectories.
An exhaustive scholarly account of the annual Ọ̀ṣun-Òṣogbo festival, its foundational origin traditions, liturgical stages, ritual offices, conservation challenges, and scholarly debates.
A comprehensive scholarly reference on the Ìgbómìnà Yorùbá subgroup, examining their territorial boundaries, autonomous mini-state governance, linguistic features, ritual institutions, and frontier history.
An examination of Yoruba ceramic traditions, detailing technical processes, female potting lineages, ritual and domestic vessel typologies, documented master artists, archaeological chronologies, and debates surrounding provenance and restitution.
The three water divinities' praise texts, including a case where a scholarly translation of Osun's oriki was found repackaged online without credit to its actual author.