Outside Eurasia, in Yoruba mythology, Oshunmare was another mythic regenerating serpent.

* In Yoruba mythology, the thunderbolt is the weapon of Shango.

* Yoruba mythology

* Yoruba mythology: ashe

* Shango, or Changó, thunder god in Yoruba mythology

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The equivalent in Yoruba mythology is Sopona, and in Orisha, Babalu Aye.

In Yoruba mythology, Egungun-oya is a goddess of divination.

In Yoruba mythology, Orunmila is the spirit of wisdom among the Irunmole and the divinity of destiny and prophecy.

* Aja ( Yoruba mythology )

In Yoruba mythology, Oshunmare ( also Oshumare, Oxumare ) is a divine serpent which is believed to create the rainbow, both male and female, and is a symbol of creation, human procreation and the link between the world of the mundane and that of the ancestors.

Category: Yoruba mythology

One example is Eshu, a trickster god from Yoruba mythology who deliberately fostered violence between groups of people for his own amusement, saying that " causing strife is my greatest joy.

In the African Yoruba mythology, Egbere is a malevolent spirit that inhabits woods and is seen at night.

Category: Yoruba mythology

* Gu ( god ), a god in Haitian Vodou and Yoruba ( Africa ) mythology

He occasionally contacts mortals through Gor ( a thunder god who is also an elephant ) or a chameleon ( similar to the divine messenger used by Orish-nla of Yoruba mythology ).

Changeling draws primarily from Gaelic mythology, particularly stories of the sidhe and Tuatha Dé Danann, but also uses mythology and folklore from various other cultures including Native American nations, Greece, India and Yoruba mythology of Africa.

* the Orishas of Yoruba and Ketashi mythology ( Ketu nation ), spelled Orixás in Portuguese ;

Ketu deities are basically those of Yoruba mythology.

These deities correspond to Olorun and the Orishas of Yoruba mythology, and to Olorun and the Orixá of Candomblé Ketu.

* Egbere, a mat-carrying creature in Yoruba mythology.

The Niger is called Jeliba or Joliba " great river " in Manding ; Orimiri or Orimili " great water " in Igbo ; Egerew n-Igerewen " river of rivers " in Tuareg ; Isa Ber " big river " in Songhay ; Kwara in Hausa ; and Oya in Yoruba.

In Yoruba, the name Oya literally means " She Tore ".

" This is due to the Niger River ( known to the Yoruba as the Oya ) traditionally being known for nine tributaries.

The Yoruba theogony enjoys a Pantheon of Orishas, this includes: Aganju, Babalu Aye, Erinle, Eshu / Elegba, Yemaya, Nana Buluku, Obà, Obatala, Oxossi / Ochosi / Osoosi, Oshumare, Ogun / Ogoun / Ogunda, Oko, Olofi, Olokun, Olorun, Orunmila, Oshun, Osun, Oya, Ozain, and Shango, among countless others.

The mother goddess figure they worship often is syncretised with the Yoruba goddess called by the names Iansan and Oyas.

* Obàtálá ( Yoruba mythos ): Obàtálá, created by the supreme entity Olódùmarè, was given ownership of every being's head ( the seat of the soul ), created the land by causing a rooster to kick and scatter the earth, and founded the first Yoruba city, Ife ; he is also called the King of White Cloth, Orisha-Nla, or Olufon.

These expeditions were typically carried out by African kingdoms, such as the Oyo empire ( Yoruba ), the Ashanti Empire, the kingdom of Dahomey, and the Aro Confederacy.

Albanian, Arabic, Assyrian ( VSO and VOS are also followed, depending on the person ), Berber, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Italian, Ganda, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Javanese, Kashmiri, Khmer, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Quiche, Rotuman, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Vietnamese, Yoruba and Zulu are examples of languages that can follow an SVO pattern.

Animal sacrifice has turned up in almost all cultures, from the Hebrews to the Greeks and Romans ( particularly the purifying ceremony Lustratio ), Ancient Egyptians ( for example in the cult of Apis ) and from the Aztecs to the Yoruba.

* Lange, Dierk: " Yoruba origins and the ' Lost Tribes of Israel '", Anthropos 106 ( 2011 ), 579-595.

* Ojuade, J. S., ' The issue of ' Oduduwa ' in Yoruba genesis: the myths and realities ', Transafrican Journal of History, 21 ( 1992 ), 139-158.

" The same procedure exists in Yoruba land, with " ese n ' taye " ( birthing rites ), " Ise ' fa " ( adolescent initiation rites ) and " Ite ' fa " ( consecration of the paraphernalia of Ifá practice ).

* Ojigi ( Oyo ), a Yoruba king

However, a few performers kept the style alive, such as Yoruba singer and trumpeter Victor Olaiya ( the only Nigerian to ever earn a platinum record ), Stephen Osita Osadebe, Sonny Okosun, Victor Uwaifo, and Orlando " Dr. Ganja " Owoh, whose distinctive toye style fused jùjú and highlife.

There are three main ethnic groups and languages in Kogi: Igala, Ebira, and Okun ( part of Yoruba ) with other minorities like Bassa, a small fraction of Nupe mainly in Lokoja, Gwari, Kakanda, Oworo people ( similar to Yoruba ), ogori magongo and the Eggan community under Lokoja Local Government.

The king, known as the Oni of Ife, is reputed to have sent Oranyan ( also known as Oranmiyan ), one of his sons by the Yoruba princess Okanbi.

* Yoruba ( known as Lucumi in Cuba ), the language of the Yoruba people, brought to the New World by African slaves, and preserved in Santería, Candomblé, and other transplanted African religions.

In addition to all these, Awolowo was the first individual in the modern era to be referred to as Leader of the Yorubas ( Yoruba: Asiwaju Omo Oodua ), a title which has come over time to be conventionally ascribed to his direct successors as the recognised political leader of the elders and young members of the Yoruba clans of Nigeria.

However, this basic beat can be found in music of Yoruba ( in the rhythm associated with the god Obatala ), and in other musical traditions across West Africa.

* Robert Smith ( professor ) ( 1919 – 2009 ), expert on the history of the Yoruba people of Nigeria

Its origins are entwined with the religious and beneficent brotherhoods ( irmandades ) organized by the Roman Catholic Church among ethnic Yoruba slaves, the Order of Our Lady of the Good Death ( Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte ), for women, and the Order of Our Lord of the Martyrdom ( Nosso Senhor dos Martírios ), for men.

Together with other cultural groups from the Fon homeland region such as the Yoruba and Bantu, Fon culture merged with French, Portuguese or Spanish to produce distinct religions ( Voodoo, Mami Wata, Candomblé and Santería ), dance and musical styles ( Arará, Yan Valu ).