Je ka so yoruba, je ka ka yoruba, and je ka gbo yoruba. Yoruba spiritual heritage maintains that the yoruba ethnic groups are a unique people who originally settled at ileife. Iran yoruba are an ethnic group that inhabits western africa, mainly nigeria and benin. With this intense faith in beads, yoruba have made waist beads for fertility, beauty, seduction, necklaces bracelets and many other objects central to daily and religious life using seeds, husks, mollusc shells, cowrie shells, indigenous brass beads as well as indigenous and. The yoruba people quarreled often with nearby citystates. Let us do it, the way it is usually done, so that we may have the usual result. Olodumare and some divinities lived in heaven, descending and ascending by means of spiders webs or a chain. The basics of yoruba an african spiritual tradition metal. Lucas, the first indigene to write about yoruba religion was an acclaimed egyptologist in his life time, and perhaps the only intel lectual among the anglican clergy in his time. Counting in yoruba language ki ka ni ede yoruba youtube. The yoruba believe in the creator who rules over the entire. According to lounge, the yoruba language has a rather elaborate vigesimal base20 numeral system that involves both addition and subtraction and multiplication.
The yoruba are said to believe that the personality of each. The creation of the universe and ife mythology of africa. The basics of yoruba an african spiritual tradition. The base of the counting system is ogun twenty or score. Yoruba religion and culture louisville lectures 2004 2005 baba wande abimbola dr. The yoruba are said to believe that the personality of each individual is predetertnined ori. Atlantic yoruba and the expanding frontiers of yoruba culture and politics 2012 j. All yoruba words are subtitled in english for better understanding. Therefore, these figures are symbolically washed, fed and clothed on a regular basis, according to a popular yoruba saying dead ibeji expenses are expenses for the living. The yoruba in diaspora reveal to us profound imaginations of diasporic movements and connections, the process and.
Some examples rituals and rites abound in yoruba traditional religion. Influence of yoruba culture in christian religious worship by odejobi cecilia omobola institute of education, faculty of education, obafemi awolowo university, ileife, osun state, nigeria. It may have to do with the yoruba of west africa or with some aspect of. In every division of yoruba land great importance was attached to a bride. The supreme being sent obatala or orishanla down from the sky to create some land out of the chaos. Computational modelling of yoruba numerals in a numbertotext. Ifa in yoruba thought system carolina academic press. Jan 11, 2016 as well as the visual and decorative power, the yoruba people attributed spiritual power and religious meaning to beads.
Home computing and intelligent system research group. In the beginning, there was only the sky above and waters below, and this was ruled by the mighty orisha, the council of gods. The creation of the universe and ife originated among the yoruba people of nigeria. This book takes the inclusive energy of ifa to a new level by offering simple, comparative excerpts from religious texts from differing religions, even a list of chakras and their yoruba counterparts. Yoruba calculator and the onka dialog gives the user access. The ibejiswill have to be cared for by the parents or later on by the surviving twin. The yoruba creator is called olurun or olodumare and is often assisted by the lesser god, obatala. My first book of numbers a picture book for early learners to learn numbers from zero to twenty. A list of carefully prepared yoruba numbers onka ede yoruba 1. Most yoruba people speak the yoruba language, which is. Yet the beliefs of yoruba are also incredibly widespread around the world. However, since different scholars on yoruba studies have used the term yoruba in different ways, it is illuminating that we. Yoruba pronunciation for 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, 11,12,14, 15,16,17,18,19,20, 30,40,50,60,70,80.
Development of a yoruba arithmetic multimedia learning system. The materials pdf and ppt files provided are as follows. In the earliest times, great importance was attached to virginity. Aug 27, 20 yoruba is a west african spirituality that some anthropologists estimate is 10,000 years old. My first naija numbers a childs yorubaenglish picture book of counting by ata agoro available from rakuten kobo. You will need a long gold chain, a snails shell filled with sand, a white hen, a black cat, and a palm nut, said orunmila. The diverse oral traditions referred in the oral narrative verses are accumulated in the major eer. The yoruba calendar kojoda is a calendar used by the yoruba people of southwestern and north central nigeria and southern benin. As mentioned above, je ka gbo yoruba is based on the classical yoruba novel o le ku and a movie of the same title. If youre trying to practice your yoruba reading then the page below should help.
In the hierarchy of beings in yoruba religion, olodumare, or olorun, owner of the skies and heavens, is at the top, fol lowed by the orishas, and next. Analysis and interpretation ades ola o late ju university of ibadan, nigeria abstract the paper undertakes a study of animal metaphors in the yoruba language with a view to highlighting the stylistic and communicative potentials of these metaphors. The study of yoruba religious tradition in historical. Orthographies of nigerian languages, manual 1 yoruba ed. Yoruba customs and beliefs pertaining to twins remains as powerful as the living one. We welcome you to the official website of the ife computing and intelligent system research groupifecisrg. Oduduwa between 1100 ad and 1700 ad, the yoruba kingdom of ife experienced a golden age, the oba or ruler of ife is referred to as the ooni of ife. Publication date 1852 topics yoruba language english publisher. Though many know that beads were one of the products traded in exchange for humans between europeans and west africans in the trans atlantic slave trade era, not many know that the yoruba had their own bead manufacturing industry at the time. The name yoruba is said to be an adaptation of euroba or arabism. Image source yoruba is a west african spirituality that some anthropologists estimate is 10,000 years old. Odunjo lecture, university of ibadan, may 7, 2012 toyin falola. The paper will address some aspect of art and its cultural context addressed in the course.
Through painstaking research, he wrote that the yoruba religion had its origin in. The deamon, the woman and the bird african fairy tale from senegal duration. The vast majority of this population is from nigeria, where the yoruba make up 16% of the countrys population, making them one of the largest ethnic groups in africa. Legend holds that oduduwa created the world at this place by delegation from the high god, olorun. Johnson and oyinade, monotheism in traditional yoruba religion. Ede onka yoruba kiko onka yoruba ni nonba ati ede yoruoa b. Abstract written in an erudite yet accessible style, this lecture begins with a moral allusion to a historical yoruba curse as. Olorun ruled the sky above and olokun was master of all that was in the waters below. The obaship in yoruba land is an introduction into the orisa traditional family religious system, connecting the oba to the orisa.
Abstract religion is the strongest element in african culture and exerts great influence upon the conduct of the african people. The yoruba pantheon consists of hundreds of gods, worshipped for an immense variety of purposes, each representative of some natural element or human emotion. A divine journey to the inner self and god consciousness. Ogunwande abimbola1 babalawo awise agbaye class notes. The yoruba people iv page ife and thus became the first oba meaning king or ruler in the yoruba language of who today are known as the yoruba people.
My first naija numbers a childs yoruba english picture book of counting by ata agoro available from rakuten kobo. Within this atlantic unit, the yoruba are located far and wide, not just along the coastlines but in the hinterland as well. Yoruba oral literature as a panacea for unemployment in nigeria adesoye omolasoye abstract in spite of government efforts and policies towards tackling the problem of unemployment in nigeria, the problem is still plaguing the nation. A vocabulary of the yoruba language by crowther, sammuel adjai, bp. Yoruba people culture music art language mythology people main article. It comprises the beliefs of the yoruba people, whose homeland is in the south western part of nigeria and adjoining parts of benin and togo. Among the yoruba, the myth of creation holds that in the beginning the world was a marshy, watery wasteland. Origin of the yoruba and the lost tribes of israel anthropos 106. The yoruba constitute about 44 million people in total. Eshu is the messenger god, acting as a link between humans and the yoruba deities orishas. Topics yoruba language collection opensource language english. He asked for permission from olorun and advice from orunmila, the wisest of the orisha.
All my patterns are created using a combination of computer and hand correction. A naturalistic interpretation of the yoruba concepts of ori. Videos about calendar forum links extras in order to make a post or to start a new thread and. According to yoruba yourabah mythology, the first yoruba kings were the offspring of the creator, oduduwa ohdoodoowah.
Understanding the yoruba religious beliefs and concepts. Aug 29, 2016 the deamon, the woman and the bird african fairy tale from senegal duration. The yoruba constitute between 30 and 50 million individuals1 throughout west africa and are found predominantly in nigeria and make up around 21% of its. In this paper, we examine the processes underlying the yoruba nu meral system. The majority of the yoruba speak the yoruba language yoruba. For example, yoruba genitive markers are not used in the text as they are normally used in everyday speech. You will be able to sharpen your comprehension and understanding of the sample text below, which is part of the article 26 and 27 from the universal declaration of human rights. Yoruba cultural studies edited byedited by m0y0 okediji m0y0 okediji this volume is under construction the university of african art press, 2008 denver, co. They frequently visited the earth, particularly for. History of the yoruba people edit general history the african peoples who lived in the lower western niger area, at least by the 4th century bc, were not initially known as the yoruba, although they shared a common ethnicity and language group. Influence of yoruba culture in christian religious worship. Existence is dependent upon ase because ase is the power to make things happen and change. We learnt how to translate any number between 11100 in yoruba.
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