#yoruba

[princessofafrica]

vintage yoruba women.

[rice-fae]

Boycott hoyoverse, please.

I used to be a big genshin impact lore buff, i played, i read, i was on forums, i made fanart, and then i was deeply disrespected by the game itself (this post is about natlan)

I am brazilian and i follow a religion named candomblé. Long story short, its from yoruba people who were sent to brazil as slaves, then went through a big process of spreading out to not just black people, but light-skinned people of lower classes like my family. We believe in the creation by Olorum, the power of Axé, and the Orixás.

Natlan, as of now, has two characters named Iansan and Ororon. These names come from not just the yoruba predecessors of candomblé, but also the religion itself, the Orixá deities Iansã and Olorum.

My religion, my deities. My mother's deities. The statuettes in my house. Their names are recycled cheaply to be used trivially. Never have we of candomblé ever gotten mentioned by AAA games or films that give such attention to detail like Genshin does, and we are disrespected. Our Gods are used like rags for someone's profit to be thrown away, washed out. They do not convey our beauty, our grit, our wonder, they do not convey us but they profit from us.

People love to tell us that it is just a game, but think again: games are not entitled to disrespect us just because of their nature. We are entitled to complain, to scream, because this is cruelty. You brutalize our image, butcher our names, for what?

When I was younger, I used to look at games with religious imagery very curiously. It was always weird to see the faith of the people I know be used for aesthetic reasons or just because it looks cool. The same has now happened to me, but times worse. People will say anything to justify this mockery and throw excuses to keep playing the product of a corporation that won't ever understand what it means to be us.

Boycott, complain, scream, because I will do it too. I regret the time I invested in playing, in reading, in watching, in dedicating myself to something that would never do me justice. It is not expensive to change a character's name, not even talking about the model. I don't plan on re-entering the fandom while it still lies unaware of the gross source material's true colors. Candomblé is not mythology, it's faith. We are alive. We have existed for centuries and will continue to grow, despite the challenges we face.

[urtopia]

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

[sxxlol]

coming back from tumblr death momentarily to share this olorun redesign 🇳🇬

[jeneka]

[ghost-37]

[womenaremypriority]

Interested in linguistics? Want to watch a bunch of lovely, everyday women talking with not much else happening? Do I have the youtube channel for you!

This one is too short 😭 ^

The woman here talks at the start but spends most of the video singing, it’s beautiful

Thankfully this video is so long!

This one is so surreal for me because the rhythm and tone and whatnot are so English-sounding but it’s very much not English.

This is so soothing. She reads a book near the end and the way her voice drifts from English to Shetlandic is soooo lovely.

This is so long! I knew this channel was a blessing but most videos are quite short, it’s so amazing when they’re able to get a lot. Unfortunately only a few of these have optional subtitles to turn on, either in the language being spoken or English. There are auto-generated ones but I’d imagine those are quite inaccurate. I believe they’re looking for more translators to help, however.

This is an odd post but I genuinely just love these videos and watching them. Especially when they’re women, I love how different and interesting women are. I had to share because I know radblr is full of smart women who are interested in supporting other women.

[kemetic-dreams]

[yearningforunity]

Oya’s Betrayal

Oya’s Betrayal tells a Yoruba tale, a patakí, about a relationship between orishas Ogun, Oya, and Shango in a Renaissance style. Harmonia Rosales was inspired by artistic depictions of the Roman myth of Vulcan, Venus, and Mars.

Harmonia Rosales

[frmarino]

Royal Yoruba Tunic

[oliviersilven]

AFRICAN GODS SKETCHES More details on BEHANCE: https://www.behance.net/gallery/193959725/AFRICAN-GODS-SKETCHES TUMBLR: http://oliviersilven.tumblr.com/ Sketch+Cintiq+Photoshop. All Artwork Copyright Olivier SILVEN.

[chrissabug]

Ọya, also known as Oiá, is a prominent and powerful African goddess who is widely worshipped in several West African, Brazilian, and Caribbean countries. She is a fierce and powerful goddess associated with storms, transformation, death, and rebirth

Hello my lovelies! First time dipping into Afro centric mythology (aside from Egypt). It was so fun to dive in and learn more about this goddess, who has a few different interpretations depending on the region!

[readyforevolution]

[omgthatdress]

Nigeria! Part 1!

Yoruba:

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Adire African Textiles

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The British Museum

[jareckiworld]

Ayanfe Olarinde — Through the Valley of Shadow III (acrylic, charcoal, ink and oil pastel, on canvas, 2023)