Yoruba states include oyo, ondo, ogun, and lagos as well as part of kwara. The african american orisa practitioners in oyotunji african village tend to believe that spiritual ancestral connections, symbolized through racial blackness. Though there are countless orisha, this book covers the eight main orisha: elegua, yemaya, oshun, chango, obatala, oya, orunmila and ogun. Yermmu 10 santeria and the white robed king of the orisha il oguns incest with yemmu one of the most often-told, yet controversial pataki sacred. Oguns sword, planted in the ground in front of the orisha drum trio. He is the patron orisha over surgeons, barbers, metalworkers, blacksmiths, mechanics, computer analysts and. The histories of the yoruba, edo, and igbo intertwine and date back many hundreds of years. To celebrate the show through the mind of onayemi ogunkoye, as above so below. Ori?A orishas are gods and goddesses who reflects one of the manifestations of the supreme god olodumare in yoruba religion. 398 Male orisha such as shango, the orisha associated with thunder, ogun. Project muse promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and. Get free orisha textbook and unlimited access to our library by created an. Texts from ifa, the yoruba system of divination, which also offers humans the. The drums further cement the connection through their allusion to oguns status as orisha of war. Ochosi obatala ogun osanyin orisha oko dada orunmila ?Shun oba shango yemaja ori olokun.
Romulo lachatanere, manual de santeria: el sistema de cultos lucumis. Complex of religious beliefs found among the yoruba of. Every man who seriously desires to appreciate masculinity and to face reality. Orishas include eshu, the trickster; shango, the god of thunder; and ogun. See more ideas about orisha, yoruba religion, santeria. Of spiritualism in terms of womens agency and middle-class manhood. The ogun festival is an annual celebration among the yoruba, where african idioms of puppetry. Between diazs and vazquezs styles is by looking at the orishas ogun. Studies by juxtaposing both sango and ogun and exploring their patriarchal. My deepest concern seems to be the survival of manhood, of humanity, of the spirit. Ashe of the orisha and directed it toward specific ends. Elegba, ogun, ochosi, and osun and making ocha priestly initiation into orisha worship. Sung to ogun to equal the number sung to the devil, because. In 1852, barthet published a spiritualism manual, the. They conduct ceremonies in the worship of orishas at a location known. 14 ceremonial staff of ogun, yoruba, probably late eighteenth century. Caribbean masculinity is problematic and represents an outsider. The yoruba visitor said, ogun was the smith in his village, and his job was not. 616
Orisha ana who is manifest in drums and rhythms, bata drummers comprise a. Like all of the yoruba deities called or isba, shango is both a deified ancestor and a natural force, both aspects. Those who attained manhood under british occupation. Training and technical assistance resource manual, paper presented at conference on. The yoruba regions affected by war, slaves may have been held in agriculture not. Provided was the minimum required for manual and semi-skilled labour. 70 Download and read online orisha ebooks in pdf, epub, tuebl mobi, kindle book. Return of hunters or warriors, and honoring ogun, are. The main personal religious identifier for any orisha worshiper. The following is a list of yoruba orisha ori?A, or deities. Ofesu, the yoruba trickster, within the orisa ritual context.
Dionysus may be the influence of the yoruba god ogun, who plays a. Keywords: ogun, orisha, yoruba, literature, paule marshall paule marshalls third novel, praisesong for the widow 183, is part of a body of fiction that features. 3 reincarnation 4 yoruba religion around the world o. Ile ife ee-lay ee-fay in the yoruba creation myth is the spot where obatala. Manhood in a historically relevant, future-oriented extrapolation of. How women negotiate with patriarchy in yoruba oral genres. Rationality and emotion, man and gods, man and beast, masculinity and femininity and. Description of esu as the hermeneut of yoruba religion, based on. Oshosi and ogun are natural com- panions, for both blaze paths through the forest and both are knowledgeable about the secret powers of. 24 In the brother/sister plays oba raises marcus on her own.
In trying to interpret what the word yoruba means, there have been different attempts. Be initiated to the worship of ogun, the patron orisha of steel. The novel very effectively combines the literary and oral forces at work among yoruba artists of the time. Ogun elemona nii gba esun su ogun elemona takes roasted yam. Identification with yoruba divinities ogun and iansan requires a study of. Kela nnarka francis published the spirituality of carnival. Download and read online powers of the orishas ebooks in pdf, epub. Orishas that the second title of this paper are timeless, that is, beyond the human temporality given through the demarcation of. Ogun is the orisha of war and iron, ogun gave the secret of iron to the humans and taught. Some shorter stays in i?Ara remo, ogun state and ilobu, ??Un state. A paper image of the orisha, in the form of a saint, should be authorized. 565 Pdf masculinity and femininity in yoruba traditional musical. Ayodeji ogunnaikes thoughtful analytical piece positing the palm tree as the axis mundithe center point around which the world turnsin yoruba cosmology. Even though shango uses tools and ogun uses fire to forge, there is the problem of the joyful.
286 The spirits, obias it is called in yoruba languageserves at once. Indigenous theory of the tragic and heroic spirit of ogun, yoruba god of iron. To haphazardly throw shango and ogun on the same altar without doing research may anger them! God of fire, virility, masculinity, and lightening. Indias timeless and practical scripture is presented as a manual for. Considerable knowledge of how festivals are performed. Republished in riding ogun: olu amoda, master artist and craftsman. An expression of masculinity and fierceness envelops her face. While the addressee of psalm 35 is god, that of the yoruba ofo or ogede is to the gods such asesu, ogun, ifa and others rather than the supreme being, olodumare. Chango is also the orisha of masculinity and male energy. Protagonist as a hypermasculine subject whose masculinity is not questioned.
Oh! I am afraid of ogun, theyd chanted in yoruba, laughing. He is a warrior and a powerful spirit of metal work, war, hunting, civilization and as well as rum-making. Ogun is one that you would invoke in surgical matters. Communities to expand and disrupt their notions of femininity and masculinity new. To be clear, the bomba dancers are not invoking yoruba religious practices. Which he has hitherto defined himself and his manhood, so that. 25 ogun sculpture standing in yaw owusu shangofemis blacksmith shop. - explore kitwana tyhimbas board ogun orisha on pinterest. Upon his return, the congregation began to chant for ogun, the god of iron and. When the yoruba god of iron ogun became disgusted with humanity and ran away to the forest, none of the other gods could persuade him to rejoin the world. Yemoja is the orisha of the ogun river, the largest river in yorubaland. 303 In praise of the orishas: a diasporic african spirituality. Ibara 2017, noted that the efe masquerade, the symbol of masculinity. Same time recalls a major manifestation of the yoruba deity of iron, ogun.