#Yoruba culture

[urtopia]

Honoring the spirits of the deceased with elaborate masquerades in Yoruba culture, Egungun Festival Benin

[chu-diaries]

100 days of mental healthcare: day 40/100

I can’t believe it’s already day 40 of this challenge! My life has changed so much since I started this. I’m proud of my progress and I hope to keep improving until day 100 🥰

Today was such a productive day! I'm happy to have a routine again. even though I didn't wake up to my 6 am alarm, I managed to go out for a quick walk in the morning and the sky was so beautiful. I worked until lunchtime listening to my favorite Sasusaku playlist and then did some laundry. I had an inspiration for a new story (Hogwarts Legacy based) and organized my ideas for about an hour or so... it’s so good to feel my creativity flowing through the screen again! After that I studied some myths about Ogum for an hour, played with my cat and talked to my best friend. In the evening I had a yoga class and I read a little before bedtime.

💥: day 14/28

💧: 2 L (it’s easier to drink the right amount of water in this heat)

🏃🏻‍♀️: morning walk (30 min)

🧘🏻‍♀️: yoga class (1h)

📝: planning my fanfic (1h) + Yoruba mythology studies (1h)

🎧: lazy - exo cbx

📚: hp and the order of the phoenix

📺: 🚫

🎮: 🚫

🛑: 11 days pick-free

💊: took all my vitamins

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[High Museum of Art :: Atlanta Ga]

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Just as most beliefs, the Yoruba culture includes a world of myths, allegories, poetry and the love and wisdom of the Ifa divination system which helps to remind the Yoruba people of their past and customs that have survived through history and have helped shape their literature and religion as we know it today.

Yoruba mythology involves the presence of the Supreme Being and other more minor “gods” or “spirits” known as Orishas which are both male and female. The exact number of Orishas is not known, but it is said to be about 401. Either way, the Orishas are spirits sent out by the Supreme Being to help humanity succeed on earth and teach them all they need to know spiritually. Most orishas are said to come from the spirit realm to become incarnated as humans on earth. They lived as normal humans but had great wisdom and power during their existence. On the other hand, some practitioners believe that the Orishas were ordinary humans who were divinized after they died because of the way they led their lives and others physically and spiritually.

[Guardian]

[ausetkmt]

The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present

[melanatedmedia2]

"Iyanu: Child of Wonder" - A New Frontier in Animated Storytelling

Hey everyone! Have you heard about the upcoming animated series "Iyanu: Child of Wonder"? It's an exciting project that celebrates Nigerian culture and mythology. Can't wait for this epic journey to unfold!

[idolomantises]

I know about Genshin Impact's pretty infamous whitewashing but goddamn I didn't know they were whitewashing characters from my country/culture.

[ghost-37]

[frmarino]

Royal Yoruba Tunic

[thesirenisles]

daughters of the sun.

[chu-diaries]

okay, it's official now: I was accepted into the African Studies course on Yoruba Culture!!! now I can finally go back to being a studyblr in peace :')

[kemetic-dreams]

Yoruba gods protect Fidel Castro: priest

By Reuters

January 21, 20083:31 PM ESTUpdated 17 years ago

HAVANA (Reuters) - Yoruba gods protect ailing Fidel Castro from witchcraft and want to see him continue leading Cuba, the first priest of the Santeria religion to be elected to parliament said on Monday.

"Olodumare says he is the one that should be there and so he is untouchable," said Antonio Castaneda, a babalawo (priest) in the religion slaves brought to colonial Cuba from Nigeria.

Hurricanes may batter Cuba this year, but Castro's health will not break, according to the orishas (deities), he said.

The 614-seat National Assembly elected on Sunday must approve Cuba's top leadership at its first session on February 24, when Cubans will learn whether Castro will retire as head of state.

Castro, 81, has not appeared in public since stomach surgery for an undisclosed illness forced him to hand over power temporarily to his brother almost 18 month ago.

Santeria followers have believed their gods were on Fidel Castro's side ever since a white dove landed on his shoulder during a victory speech in Havana after his 1959 revolution.

Castaneda, who played the sax at Havana's famed Tropicana cabaret for 30 years, never joined Cuba's Communist Party, but considers himself a "revolutionary." He praised Cuba's social safety net despite widespread economic hardships Cubans face.

He said 60 percent of Cubans believe in Santeria and he can give them a voice in the National Assembly. Castaneda won a seat as president of the Yoruba Cultural Association of Cuba, which is close to the government.

The orishas augur a good year for Cuba, the babalawo said. "If Cuba marches ahead, so too does the Comandante," he said.

[ausetkmt]

Visiting The MOST SACRED place of NIGERIA : Exploring Yoruba Culture Osun, Oshugbo

[yearningforunity]

Ilê Aiyê is a carnival block located in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Carnival blocks, carnaval blocos or blocos de rua are street bands that mobilize crowds on the streets and are the main popular expression of Brazilian Carnival. The name Ilê Aiyê stems from the Yoruba language: Ilé - home; Ayé - life; which can be loosely translated as 'earth'. It was founded in 1974 by Antônio Carlos “Vovô” and Apolônio de Jesus, making it the oldest Afro-Brazilian block.

[clonerightsagenda]

Even English speakers call Japan Nippon in the His Dark Materials universe, which is cool but also gets me back on my soapbox of 'why don't we just call every country what they call themselves'. Yes it could get tricky in cases of not having those sounds in your language or disputed territories but I'd think it could be done in many cases and would spare me from re-learning all the countries every time I learn a new language.

[folkfashion]

Egungun masker, Nigeria, by Dan Kitwood