
#REDIRECT Yorùbá mythology
#REDIRECT Yorùbá mythology
Just one thing- I was taught that "orisha" doesn't exaclty correspond to "god" in English, since there is a whole hierarchy of Orsishas in many shades of diminishment to humans- for example, Olorun is the most like the God (with a captial "G"), the ruler over all, and the most abstract (in that sometimes he is androgynous, like the Christian god technically is.) There are also orishas that are more like anamistic gods and have control over specific elements in nature, and finally there are orishas that are more like heros (like Odysseus or Achilles in Greek mythology). I think it would be good if someone who knew more about this than me could make this point in the article (if I'm right.) --:DGB ---- Why do people keep making the error of assuming Vodun must necessarily be Yorùbá-derived? Anyone with a cursory knowledge of the Yorùbá language would recognize the absurdity of this claim; for one thing, the v-sound is absent from the language. As a factual matter, Vodun is actually of Ewe origin, and is still known and practiced under the name Vodun in Togo, the country of its birth. --User:Abiola Lapite (User talk:Abiola Lapite) ü 12:58, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC) ---- I am trying to clean up the Candomblé pages, the best I can. (I know very little of the subject but as a Brazilian I can at least read the relevant webpages in Portuguese). From what I read, it seems that Candomblé has three major "sects" created by slaves from different regions of Africa: roughly, Yoruba, Ewe-Fon, and Bantu(?). Each sect has its own liturgical language, and their spirit-gods are called Orishas, Voduns, and Inkices, respectively. However, it seems that, apart from names, the three sects have roughly similar beliefs, and there is a rough correspondence between the pantheons. So the mistake that Abiola is pointing out probably was caused by this connection. Namely, Haiti's Vodun is probably derived from the Ewe religion, which the author of the page considered that it was "the same as" Yoruba religion, at some level. Is that view valid? What is the relationship between the Ewe and Yoruba religions? User:Jorge Stolfi 02:33, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
The mythology of the Yorùbá 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. Yorùbá mythology is only one part of itan — the complex of myths, songs, histories and other cultural concepts which make up the Yorùbá religion and society. == Deities == Yorùbá God 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, raped her twice; the second time, her body exploded and fifteen Orishas came out. They included Oshun, Olukun, Shakpana, Shango. Shango is perhaps the most important Orisha; god of thunder and an ancestor of the Yorùbá. He was the fourth king of the Yorùbá, and deified after his death. Eshu is another very important Orisha. He is a trickster and very well-respected both by the Yorùbá themselves and the other Orishas. ===The Orisha=== *Aja *Aje *Egungun *Eshu *Oba *Obatala *Oshun *Odùduwà *Olokun *Orunmila *Oshunmare *Oya *Shakpana *Shango *Yemaja ===Other concepts=== Yorùbá mythology includes several other entities besides the Orisha, such as Egbere. Ifá (cowrie shell divination) is an important element of Yorùbá religious practices. * Elegua == Yorùbá mythology in the New World == Many ethnic Yorùbá were taken as slaves to Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Brazil and the rest of the New World (chiefly in the 19th century century, after the Oyo empire collapsed and the region plunged into Yorùbá Civil War), and carried their religion with them. These concepts were combined with preexisting African-based cults, Christianity, Native American mythology, and Kardecist Spiritism into various New World religions: *Santería (Cuba) *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 Yorùbá-derived religions above. ==External link== * [http://www.mythome.org/yorubareligion.html MythHome: Yoruban Religion: Its cosmology and mythology] Yorùbá mythology
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#REDIRECT Yorùbá mythology
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Just one thing- I was taught that "orisha" doesn't exaclty correspond to "god" in English, since there is a whole hierarchy of Orsishas in many shades of diminishment to humans- for example, Olorun is the most like the God (with a captial "G"), the ruler over all, and the most abstract (in that sometimes he is androgynous, like the Christian god technically is.) There are also orishas that are more like anamistic gods and have control over specific elements in nature, and finally there are orishas that are more like heros (like Odysseus or Achilles in Greek mythology). I think it would be good if someone who knew more about this than me could make this point in the article (if I'm right.) --:DGB ---- Why do people keep making the error of assuming Vodun must necessarily be Yorùbá-derived? Anyone with a cursory knowledge of the Yorùbá language would recognize the absurdity of this claim; for one thing, the v-sound is absent from the language. As a factual matter, Vodun is actually of Ewe origin, and is still known and practiced under the name Vodun in Togo, the country of its birth. --User:Abiola Lapite (User talk:Abiola Lapite) ü 12:58, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC) ---- I am trying to clean up the Candomblé pages, the best I can. (I know very little of the subject but as a Brazilian I can at least read the relevant webpages in Portuguese). From what I read, it seems that Candomblé has three major "sects" created by slaves from different regions of Africa: roughly, Yoruba, Ewe-Fon, and Bantu(?). Each sect has its own liturgical language, and their spirit-gods are called Orishas, Voduns, and Inkices, respectively. However, it seems that, apart from names, the three sects have roughly similar beliefs, and there is a rough correspondence between the pantheons. So the mistake that Abiola is pointing out probably was caused by this connection. Namely, Haiti's Vodun is probably derived from the Ewe religion, which the author of the page considered that it was "the same as" Yoruba religion, at some level. Is that view valid? What is the relationship between the Ewe and Yoruba religions? User:Jorge Stolfi 02:33, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Yorùbá mythology
The mythology of the Yorùbá 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. Yorùbá mythology is only one part of itan — the complex of myths, songs, histories and other cultural concepts which make up the Yorùbá religion and society. == Deities == Yorùbá God 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, raped her twice; the second time, her body exploded and fifteen Orishas came out. They included Oshun, Olukun, Shakpana, Shango. Shango is perhaps the most important Orisha; god of thunder and an ancestor of the Yorùbá. He was the fourth king of the Yorùbá, and deified after his death. Eshu is another very important Orisha. He is a trickster and very well-respected both by the Yorùbá themselves and the other Orishas. ===The Orisha=== *Aja *Aje *Egungun *Eshu *Oba *Obatala *Oshun *Odùduwà *Olokun *Orunmila *Oshunmare *Oya *Shakpana *Shango *Yemaja ===Other concepts=== Yorùbá mythology includes several other entities besides the Orisha, such as Egbere. Ifá (cowrie shell divination) is an important element of Yorùbá religious practices. * Elegua == Yorùbá mythology in the New World == Many ethnic Yorùbá were taken as slaves to Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Brazil and the rest of the New World (chiefly in the 19th century century, after the Oyo empire collapsed and the region plunged into Yorùbá Civil War), and carried their religion with them. These concepts were combined with preexisting African-based cults, Christianity, Native American mythology, and Kardecist Spiritism into various New World religions: *Santería (Cuba) *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 Yorùbá-derived religions above. ==External link== * [http://www.mythome.org/yorubareligion.html MythHome: Yoruban Religion: Its cosmology and mythology] Yorùbá mythology
Yorùbá mythology
African mythology Mythology by culture
Yorùbá mythology
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