#Yorùbá

[theloyalpin]

so mysterious even ppl who have known me for months don’t seem to know my name 🤭

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Romu 5:19 Nítorí gẹ́gẹ́ bí nípa àìgbọ́ràn ọkùnrin kan, ènìyàn púpọ̀ di ẹlẹ́ṣẹ̀, bẹ́ẹ̀ ni nípa ìgbọ́ràn ẹnìkan, a ó sọ ènìyàn púpọ̀ di olódodo.

For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by that obedience of that one, shall many also be made righteous. — Romans 5:19 | Bíbélì Mímọ́ Yorùbá Òde Òn (BYO) and 1599 Geneva Bible (GNV) Yoruba Contemporary Bible Copyright © 2009, 2017 by Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide and Geneva Bible, 1599 Edition. Published by Tolle Lege Press. All rights reserved. Cross References: Isaiah 53:11; Romans 5:12; Romans 5:15; Romans 5:18; Romans 11:32; Philippians 2:8

[jjsanguine]

Me every other month: hey, this Nigerian Instagram account is funny/relatable/insightful you know! Why don't I follow more Nigerians on here again?

Account: has a random homophobic/transphobic/misogynistic video further down their page

Me: ...yep

[readyforevolution]

The Yorùbá community is a prominent Niger-Congo ethnic nationality inhabiting southwestern and north-central Nigeria, as well as southern and central Benin. Collectively, these territories are referred to as Yorubaland. The Yoruba population totals approximately 44 million individuals.

The majority of this demographic resides in Nigeria, where the Yorùbá account for 21% of the nation's population, according to the CIA World Factbook, rendering them one of Africa's most extensive ethnic nationalities. Most Yoruba individuals communicate in the Yoruba language, which features tonal characteristics and holds the distinction of being the Niger-Congo language with the most native speakers.

The Yorùbá share territorial boundaries with the closely affiliated Itsekiri to the southeast in the North West Niger delta, the Bariba to the northwest in Benin, the Nupe to the north, and the Ebira to the northeast in central Nigeria. To the east lie the Edo, Ẹsan, and Afemai groups in mid-western Nigeria. Adjacent to the Ebira and Edo groups are the related Igala people situated in the northeast, on the left bank of the Niger River. To the southwest are the Gbe-speaking Mahi, Egun, Fon, and Ewe, who border Yoruba communities in Benin and Togo. To the southeast are the Itsekiri, who inhabit the north-western extremity of the Niger delta and have maintained a distinct cultural identity despite ancestral ties to the Yoruba.

Substantial Yoruba populations reside in other West African countries, including Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The Yoruba diaspora comprises two primary groupings:

Recent migrants, predominantly relocated to the United Kingdom and the United States following significant economic and political shifts between the 1960s and 1980s.

Descendants of those displaced by the Atlantic slave trade, now residing in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Saint Lucia, Jamaica, Brazil, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago, among other nations.

[kemetic-dreams]

The Yoruba religion (Yoruba: Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), West African Orisa (Òrìṣà), or Isese (Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), comprises the traditional religious and spiritual concepts and practice of the Yoruba people. Its homeland is in present-day Southwestern Nigeria, which comprises the majority of Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Kwara and Lagos States, as well as parts of Kogi state and the adjoining parts of Benin and Togo, commonly known as Yorubaland (Yoruba: Ilẹ̀ Káàárọ̀-Oòjíire).

It shares some parallels with the Vodun practiced by the neighboring Fon and Ewe peoples to the west and with the religion of the Edo people to the east. Yoruba religion is the basis for a number of religions in the New World, notably Santería, Umbanda, Trinidad Orisha, and Candomblé.[1] Yoruba religious beliefs are part of Itàn (history), the total complex of songs, histories, stories, and other cultural concepts which make up the Yoruba society.

The Yoruba name for the Yoruba indigenous religion is Ìṣẹ̀ṣẹ, which also refers to the traditions and rituals that encompass Yorùbá culture. The term comes from a contraction of the words: Ìṣẹ̀, meaning "source/root origin" and ìṣe, meaning "practice/tradition" coming together to mean "The original tradition"/"The tradition of antiquity" as many of the practices, beliefs, traditions, and observances of the Yoruba originate from the religious worship of Olodumare and the veneration of the Orisa.

According to Kola Abimbola, the Yorubas have evolved a robust cosmology. Nigerian Professor for Traditional African religions, Jacob K. Olupona, summarizes that central for the Yoruba religion, and which all beings possess, is known as "Ase", which is "the empowered word that must come to pass," the "life force" and "energy" that regulates all movement and activity in the universe".Every thought and action of each person or being in Aiyé (the physical realm) interact with the Supreme force, all other living things, including the Earth itself, as well as with Orun (the otherworld), in which gods, spirits and ancestors exist. The Yoruba religion can be described as a complex form of polytheism, with a Supreme but distant creator force, encompassing the whole universe.

The anthropologist Robert Voeks described Yoruba religion as being animistic, noting that it was "firmly attached to place".

Each person living on earth attempts to achieve perfection and find their destiny in Orun-Rere (the spiritual realm of those who do good and beneficial things).

One's ori-inu (spiritual consciousness in the physical realm) must grow in order to consummate union with one's "Iponri" (Ori Orun, spiritual self).

Iwapẹlẹ (or well-balanced) meditative recitation and sincere veneration is sufficient to strengthen the ori-inu of most people. Well-balanced people, it is believed, are able to make positive use of the simplest form of connection between their Ori and the omnipotent Olu-Orun: an Àwúre (petition or prayer) for divine support.

In the Yoruba belief system, Olodumare has ase over all that is. Hence, it is considered supreme.

[worldtalks]

Èdè Yorùbá ní pàtàkì ní Ìwọ̀ Oòrùn Áfíríkà

Yoruba is spoken mainly in West Africa.

[burntsoft]

SPACE!

Yorùbá sculpture, date & maker currently unknown

[lokifreign]

or wait rather than curious abt nationality i was wondering what the language was in your header, languages r kinda my own interest myself

I'm mostly American, my family sorta is sorta isn't; their culture wasn't american in the 60s & 70s but it's where I was born and reared & they've all americanized pretty heavily since then (their kids are all 100% USA namean)

when I was a child I spoke several languages & tended to run them together, Korean and German and Russian

the header is in Slovenian, which has been my special favorite language for about three years now ^_^

I cycle through language fixations; my all-time reigning favorite is Yoruba, it's sophisticated and beautiful and its accent in other languages is superb; Yoruba speakers are masters of picking up other languages too, admirable and covetous. Yorùbá sọ̀rọ̀ sókè jẹ́ ọ̀kan lára ​​àwọn ìró tó dára jù lọ tí ẹ̀dá lè dá!

Slovenian's shared words with Russian and Polish made it a natural area of study for me; I started using it in my writing and have been slowly letting it & Croatian & Serbian expand my understanding of that area of the world.

Ko govorim na glas (out loud), zveni Slovenščina zelo blizu ruščini; moja teta brez težav razume, kar je zabavno!

Cyrilica nekaterim povzroča težave, zato je slovenščina način za transliteracijo nekaterih od teh ruskih idej. The way a given language shapes my thoughts is of intense interest to me, I'm driven to find some combination of words that will work, that will fix it all.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Masquerade

historical fiction set in 15th century West Africa

follows a young woman from Timbuktu, recently conquered by the the warrior king of Yorùbáland

her guild of blacksmiths were already shunned as witches, and their conditions worsen under Yorùbá rule - so when she’s kidnapped by the king to be his wife, she decides to accept that it’ll be a better life for her, as long as she can get her mother’s blessing

but as months go by without her mother being found, and political tensions rise, she must decide what she wants

[canto-da-sereia]

Ancestralidade

Toda vez que me olho no espelho

Vejo refletido nos meus olhos

A moça vestida de branco

De turbante, dançando,

Daqui escuto seu canto

Em yorùbá me chamando

E ela segue esperando,

O dia que eu a permita ser eu.

[museum-archives]

Container

c. 1920

Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, possibly Oyo region,

Yorùbá-style carver

Wood, paint, and iron alloy

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Johanu 17:23 Èmi nínú wọn, àti ìwọ nínú mi, kí a lè ṣe wọ́n pé ní ọ̀kan; kí ayé kí ó lè mọ̀ pé, ìwọ ni ó rán mi, àti pé ìwọ sì fẹ́ràn wọn gẹ́gẹ́ bí ìwọ ti fẹ́ràn mi.

(I in them and You in Me. So that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.) — John 17:23 | Bíbélì Mímọ́ Yorùbá Òde Òn (BYO) Yoruba Contemporary Bible Copyright © 2009, 2017 by Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide. Cross References: John 3:17; John 6:56; John 10:38; John 15:9; John 16:27; John 17:3; John 17:8

[vvvords]

> What is YorubaName.com?

YorubaName.com is an online intervention to preserve and document all Yorùbá names in a multimedia format. It is part of a long-term project to document all types of African cultural experiences on the internet as a way of ensuring the survival of African identities in their various expressions.

Initially presented as a university thesis in 2005, this multimedia dictionary of Yorùbá names found a new iteration in January 2015 as a crowdsourced platform run by volunteer language enthusiasts from around the world. It is supported by funds from hundreds of individual donors who contributed to an Indiegogo fundraising campaign that ran from January to March 2015. This website was launched in February 2016.

[culturalukumi333]

¡LETRA DEL AÑO 2023! ♥️♠️🗿🌈🌪️ Se realizaron todas y cada una de las ceremonias previas para la letra del año. Por este medio se informa que una vez realizando la consulta de adivinación, ifa nos da el Odu que rige para nuestra nación siendo este el sagrado Odu de Otrupon Owonrin, siendo el orisa regente para la nación de México Elegbara y la divinidad acompañante Oya. La bandera será rojo y negro al centro con el ribete de los colores correspondientes, sin mas por el momento se subirá una explicación detallada realizada por los ministros de la iglesia para el pueblo de México. OLODUMARE GBEWAO. ATENTAMENTE MARCELO CANACASCO OGBE ATE BRANDON QUINTANAR IRETE ALAJE ALEJANDRO QUINTANAR OSA OSHE HÉCTOR CARDENAS IRETE LAZO Fuente: Sociedad Yorùbá de México CETEM #letradelaño2023 #paramexico #orishas #eshu #eleggua #oggún #oshun #Yemayá #obatala #shango #oyá #espiritismo #palomonte #Ifá #puebla #loscabos #mexico #chiapas #tlaxcala #guadalajara #españa #chile #perú #estadosunidosdenorteamerica #miami https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm6J7BVONtT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[maticide666]

idk i started a names masterpost and never finished it

i ended up down a rabbit hole and ended up with a list of resources for finding names. hopefully this helps someone find a name for whatever reason. i don't consider this a full list of resources, nor is it all the resources i have. i'm choosing to publish it now as is just so i have yet another place to reference while working on a full list on my neocities.

"If you like this name, you'll also like..."

Nameberry - when you click on a name, it offers similar names and lists containing that name

Magic Baby Names - a tool for finding names based on what names appear together in family trees

Name Energy - an AI tool for finding names with the same vibe. data is based on top 4000 names in the USA in 2021 (not working as of 14 november 2023)

Nymbler - currently down for maintenance, may be back up in the future. hopefully.

r/transnames - name suggestions for trans people. Reddit account needed to post, but you can search names on the subreddit without an account

r/namenerds - subreddit about names in general. offers name suggestions, but isn't as trans-friendly as r/transnames

Names by popularity (and popularity tools)

Behind the Name - links to sources of these lists may offer more information for country-specific info

babynames.ch - offers some older lists and unofficial lists

forebears.io - based on available genealogical data, which may be incomplete

NameGrapher - historical popularity graphs of names in the USA

nancy.cc - usage data of names that were used at least five times in the USA in a single given year. in English

Nombres en Argentina - usage data of names in Argentina. single names and composite names are counted separately. in Spanish

Nederlandse Voornamenbank - usage data of names in The Netherlands. in Dutch and English

Naše jména - usage data of names in Czechia. in Czech

England & Wales Baby Names -

Atlas der Vornamen - usage data of names in Austria. in German, searching for a name gives you the option to switch to English

Names by language/culture/how tf do i phrase this

mixedname.com - for finding names compatible in two different languages

r/JewishNames - subreddit wiki offers more Jewish name resources

Kveller Baby Name Finder - Jewish names. also offers guides for finding names

r/DesiNameNerds - South Asian names

yorubaname.com - Yorùbá names. in English and Yorùbá

Testing names

Pronoun Dressing Room - this one only works with one name and set of pronouns

Pronoun Dressing Room - this one allows multiple names and sets of pronouns

Discover Me Name Finder - iOS only app

r/TransTryouts - Reddit account needed to post

[kemetic-dreams]

What do great civilizations have in common?

"What common attributes do great civilizations share? They typically possess access to both local and global markets, the capacity to attract a diverse population eager to settle for the purposes of commerce and education, accepting influence and reflecting influence, I will use African examples, but this is true the world over.

There was a saying "To cure mange for a camel, use bitumen; to cure poverty, go to the Sudan." this was said at the time of the Wagadu or Ghana empire when great trading trains were crisscrossing the Sahara, both the Wagdau and Gao were mentioned as the richest kingdoms in the world and their Kings the most wealthiest beyond compare, this was hundreds of yrs before the now famous Mansa Musa of Mali, it’s ultimate successor.

These conceptions do not need to extend outside the continent although the more extensive the better, example.

These connections between West and West-Central Africa to the world are anathema to historical traditions in which ‘Africa” s isolation from the rest of the world, before contact began with Europeans, is assumed. But they emerge from a number of factors. As the historian Jan Vansina showed, similar techniques in wood-carving found from Yorùbá regions as far south as Loango suggest shared techniques and exchanges. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century carvings from the Kuba kingdoms depict the playing of warri, a game found widely further north in West Africa, as well as in East Africa.

Other evidence suggests that these exchanges then interconnected with the long-distance routes linked to the Sahara – and these patterns may in turn have influenced how the Kongolese reacted when the Portuguese first arrived in the 1480s.

Kongo’s connection to long-distance trade routes is the only logical explanation for how sugarcane – long cultivated in the eastern Mediterranean and in the Arab worlds – grew in Kongo before the Portuguese arrival.

Long-distance trade can also help to explain the use of a shell currency in Kongo (the nzimbu), for the use of the nzimbu surely was not unrelated to the experience of the use of the cowrie-shell currency in West Africa and the Sahel; the Kalahari regions to the south were connected to the Indian Ocean trade by perhaps the ninth or tenth century, and cowries may have been involved in this trade – which offered a route for this influence to spread to Kongo addition, there seems to have been an important spiritual dimension that connected the forest Kingdom of Kongo with that of Benin to the north, for it is noteworthy that both Edo and Kongo peoples (and, indeed, peoples of the Kingdom of Ndongo in northern Angola) used diamond-shaped crosses as a religious symbol prior to the arrival of the Portuguese. In Kongo, the ‘cosmogram’ connected the worlds of the living and the dead, and was used widely on textiles and bowls used for daily life, as well as later in Christian art.

The use of the cross as a religious symbol among the Edo also suggests some cultural and perhaps commercial connection between Edo and Kongo peoples, as does the shared use of shell currencies, similar wood-carving techniques and the presence of sugarcane in Kongo, since all had likewise existed in Benin prior to the Portuguese arrival.

Yet how did these connections develop, in a region famous for its thick forests and swamps? As we have seen in other parts of the continent, rivers and seaways were roads. Many peoples along the coasts of West-Central Africa were good boat-builders, with the Vili of Loango remarked upon as such by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century. There were fishing groups to be found everywhere, and their skill in making seagoing ships is shown by the presence of Bubi peoples on the Island of Bioko by the time the Portuguese arrived in the fifteenth century.

But The idea that Europeans ‘brought’ seafaring to Africa must also, therefore, be challenged. Thus, it was most likely through African navigators that related religious and aesthetic practices grew up; and when the manikongo Afonso I wrote in 1526 of a number of traders from Benin resident in the Kongolese port of Mpinda, it is possible that they found their way there in local embarkations rather than through Portuguese networks.

The Kongo ‘cosmogram’ Kongo may not, therefore, have been as isolated from other parts of West Africa as has hitherto been supposed.

From the book A Fist Full Of Shells, By Toby Green