Ṣàwárí

The mother of the fish children, an Ogun river orisa in Yorubaland who became the sea in Brazil and Cuba, why that displacement happened, and what it shows about how the tradition actually works.

The Brazilian and Cuban returnees to Lagos and Porto-Novo, the Afro-Brazilian architecture they built, the twentieth-century traffic in training and pilgrimage running both ways, and how diaspora demand now shapes Nigerian practice and its economics.

The scale of the documented Yoruba pharmacopoeia, how plants are classified and named, the tonal wordplay that makes a plant's name a mnemonic for its use, and a worked table of named plants against what pharmacological research has and has not established.

Scholarly analysis of the river deity Oba, her historical cult centers, liturgical poetry, mythological narratives, and transatlantic divergences in Lucumi and Candomble traditions.

The third principal sign of the Ifá divination corpus, its geomantic structure, regional ranking variations, textual themes, and published oral literature.

A comprehensive scholarly analysis of the ninth principal sign of the Ifá corpus, examining its binary structure, regional rankings, mythological associations, and published verses.

A scholarly analysis of the Odù Ifá Ọ̀sá Méjì, detailing its binary sign, regional rankings, mythological covenants with the Àjẹ́, and published poetic corpus.

A comprehensive scholarly analysis of the twelfth principal Odù in the Yoruba Ifá corpus, examining its structural notation, sequence disputes, thematic corpus, and published verses.

Three Ọbàtálá texts from Idowu, Beier and the Verger fieldwork tradition, and three Ṣàngó texts of markedly different sourcing quality, presented with an explicit account of which meet this corpus's standard.

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.

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.