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[size=20pt]Oba[/size]

In Yoruba mythology, Oba was a river-goddess (Orisha), and one of the wives of Shango. She offered Shango her ear to eat, and he scorned her. Grieving, she became the Oba river which intersects with the Oschun river (Oschun was another wife of Shango) at turbulent rapids, a symbol of the rivalry between the two wives.

[size=20pt]Obatala[/size] 

In Yoruba mythology, Obatala was a creator god; he made human bodies, and his father, Olorun (husband of Olokun), breathed life into them. Obatala also created defective (handicapped) individuals while drunk off palm wine, making him the patron deity of such people. He is the god of the north. He had a son named Orunmila.

[size=20pt]Ochun[/size]

In Yoruba mythology, Ochun is an Orisha and goddess of love, maternity and marriage. She had to become a LovePeddler to feed her children and the other Orishas removed her children from her home. Ochun went insane from grief and wore the same white dress every day; it eventually turned yellow. Aje'-Shaluga, another Orisha, fell in love with her while she was washing her dress. He gave her money and gems which he collected from the bottom of the river he lived in. They were married and she was reunited with her children.
She is associated with the color yellow and the metals gold and copper.

[size=20pt]Odudua[/size]

In Yoruba mythology, Odudua is ancient fertility goddess, a daughter of Olorun and Olokun, and sister/wife of Obatala, with whom she is the mother of Yemaja. She (occasionally male) is the goddess of the south.

Alternative: Oduduwa, Odudu

[size=20pt]Aja[/size]

In Yoruba mythology, Aja is an Orisha, patron of the forest, the animals within it and herbal healers, whom she taught their art.

[size=20pt]Aje[/size]

In Yoruba mythology, Aje is an Orisha and the goddess of wealth and prosperity.

[size=20pt]Egungun-oya[/size]

In Yoruba mythology, Egungun-oya is a goddess of divination.

[size=20pt]Eshu[/size]

In Yoruba mythology, Eshu is an Orisha, and one of the most respected deities of the tradition. He is the protector of travelers and a god of roads, particularly crossroads. Every magical ceremony or ritual began with an offering to Eshu; failure to do so guaranteed failure in the intent of the ceremony.

Eshu is a trickster-god, and plays frequently malicious tricks for the purpose of causing maturation. He is a difficult teacher, but a good one. As an example, Eshu was walking down the road one day, wearing a hat that was red on one side and blue on the other. Sometime after he departed, the villagers who had seen him began arguing about whether the stranger's hat was blue or red. The villagers on one side of the road had only been capable of seeing the blue side, and the villagers on the other side had only been capable of seeing the red half. They nearly fought over the argument, until Eshu came back and cleared the mystery, teaching the villagers about how one's perspective can alter one's perception of reality, and can be easily fooled.

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Osun-Osogbo
The mythology of the Yoruba is sometimes claimed by its supporters to be one of the world's oldest widely practised religions. It is a major religion in Africa, chiefly in Nigeria, and it has given origin to several New World religions such as Santería in Cuba and Candomblé in Brazil.

                                                                                [size=20pt]Deities[/size]

Yoruba deities are called Orishas. The primordial, first-existing, Orishas are called Obatala and Odùduwà, brother and sister respectively, and their father Olorun. Obatala created humanity and Olorun gave life to the hollow shells Obatala had made. Obatala and Odùduwà later had a son, Aganyu, and a daughter, Yemaja, who was a mother goddess. Her son, Ogun, violated her twice; the second time, her body exploded and fifteen Orishas came out. They included Oshun, Olukun, Shakpana, Shango.

                                                                                  [size=20pt]The Orisha[/size]
Aja
Aje
Egungun
Eshu
Ibeji
Oba
Obatala
Ogun
Oshun
Odùduwà
Olokun
Orunmila
Oshunmare
Oya
Shakpana
Shango
Yemaja
                                                                             [size=20pt]Yoruba mythology in the New World[/size]

Many ethnic Yoruba were taken as slaves to Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Brazil and the rest of the New World (chiefly in the 19th century, after the Oyo empire collapsed and the region plunged into civil war), and carried their religious beliefs with them. These concepts were combined with preexisting African-based cults, Christianity, Native American mythology, and Kardecist Spiritism into various New World lineages:

Santería (Cuba)
Oyotunji (USA)]
Idigene (Nigeria)
Anago (Nigeria)
Candomblé (Brazil)
Umbanda (Brazil)
Batuque (Brazil)



The popularly known Vodun religion of Haiti was founded by slaves from a different ethnic group (the Ewe of present-day Benin), but shares many elements with the Yoruba-derived religions above.

Goodluck all the way.

Well, most black people are stupid. They never think about the future, only about the present.

We are all human

As you can see Nigeria is very tribalist Country.

When will Nigeria drop this ethnical shit? The man who said this should be jailed.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=778738.msg9310161#msg9310161 date=1318252454]Nope, Josef Stalin and Hitler are also heroes to some people ![/quote]'

Hitler Transform Germany from a third world to a world power in 15 years.

Let them laugh, but in the end we're right.  Continue your good job bro.

Nice more more please !

[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=777670.msg9300659#msg9300659 date=1318094737]so what then are the libyan rebels fighting for since the place was so good.



i think the returnees should rather focus on asking the govt to assist them in resettling, for now.

even during the wars in liberia and sierra leone some nigerians were still complaining about how good they had it over there. This was while the liberian population was being massacred and the entire country scattered.

lets apply wisdom when we talk. I dont think that's too much to ask.

nobody said its easy to start over again after you've lost everything you worked for over the past years, but i really dont know why nigerians like living in openly anti-black or anti-them areas.


there's money to be made in such places?

may God help us all.[/quote]They dont know what they're fighting for right now Just wait, they'll miss Gaddafi. Anyway, you're right. We should focus on a way to make nigeria better

Note all this were build before europians

Want to learn more about acient bini and yoruba?

for yoruba, link: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-770881.0.html

for bini, link: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-582176.0.html

Shrine to the goddess of fertility
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The temple in the Sacred Forest, Osogbo, State
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Entrance to the shrine of goddess of fertility-Oshogbo, Osun state:
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Africa would have been much better, ill be writing yoruba instead of english now. . .

Many ignorant fools here saying africa would have been in stoneage?? smh


Yoruba military architecture:

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Olokun head
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NO No NO!!!!!! What is all this selvhating bro? before it was jew, egypt, arab and now it is japanese?? Tomorrow chinese?

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executinal:
Easy, so you expect the little boy to talk about this bunch of idiots that keep this country were we are today? He could have also talk about Abacha and IBB, not only OBJ and co.  either BRIKO OR NAIJA, the paper said 10 yrs old Nigeria. Lets appreciate good thing, we no dey carry last

Appreciate what? This boy is not from Nigeria, his parent are. Lets stop this sh.it already.

Good for England . Why should Nigeria care about this?

[quote author=aloy/emeka link=topic=775841.msg9283861#msg9283861 date=1317850133]Makes more sense. Why should OBJ write the president in the first place when he has direct access to him 24/7.[/quote]lol true

lol

Seems like the civilwar will be between the southern ethnical groups

God is not white,black,rosa or whatever.

God is God. I dont think he exist though

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Nigeria - Yoruba Gelede Mask

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Yoruba wooden polychrome Egungun Headress mask