* Yorùbá religion

Èṣù ( other names include Exu, Eshu Eleggua, Esu Elegbara, Eshu Elegbara, Elegba, Legba, Papa Legba and Eleda ) is both an orisha and one of the most well-known deities of Yorùbá religion and related New World traditions.

Èṣù is involved within the Orisha-Ifá system of Yorùbá religion as well as in African diasporic faiths like Santería / Lukumi and Candomblé developed by the descendants of enslaved West Africans in the Americas, where Èṣù was and is still sometimes identified with Anthony of Padua, Saint Michael or Santo Niño de Atocha, depending on the situation or location.

The Yorùbá religion comprises the indigenous religion of the Yoruba people.

Yorùbá religion is formed of diverse traditions and has no single founder.

Nana Buluku was also incorporated into the Yorùbá religion as Yemaja, the female thought of the male creator Ashe and the effective cause of all further creation.

Today the Yorùbá religion, and all its branches, is still practiced by tens of millions of people all over the world and Nana Buluku has an honored place in their faith.

The religion and beliefs the Yorùbá brought with them eventually became the basis for what is known as Lukumí ( or Santería in Cuba ).

This religion spawned the creation of the first ' sacred ' Batá in Cuba around 1830 by a Yorùbá named Añabi.

Kidjo is fluent in Fon, French, Yorùbá and English, and sings in all four languages ; she also has her own personal language, which includes words that serve as song titles such as " Batonga ".

For the south western Yoruba people ( Ilé Yorùbá ) one of the most common breakfasts is Ògì — a porridge made from corn, usually served with evaporated milk.

Occasionally, natives from cultures which the drums originate, as in the case of the Yorùbá, used the drums for religious ceremonies and, since their introduction in Cuba in the 1820s, have come to be an understood and important part of the perceived culture of the southwestern Nigerian people.

Olòrún is the Yorùbá name given to one of the three manifestations of the supreme god in the Yoruba / Lucumi pantheon.

In Yorùbá mythology, Yemoja is a mother goddess ; patron deity of women, especially pregnant women ; and the Ogun river.

Babalawo ( Babaaláwo in full and pronounced Baba-a-láwo, literally meaning ' father or master of the mysticism ' in the Yoruba language ) is a Yorùbá chieftaincy title that denotes a Priest of Ifá.

In the Yorùbá belief system, Olódùmarè has àṣẹ over all that is.

The area is neighbored mainly by other Kwa languages, except for the east and north-east, where Yorùbá is spoken.

To the north, it is bordered by Adele, Aguna, Akpafu, Lolobi, and Yorùbá.

To eat, a small amount of ẹbà is taken with the fingers and rolled into a small ball and dipped into the ọbẹ ( a thick soup ) such as okra soup, bitter leaf ( ewurò ) soup or pepper soup ( ọbẹ ata or ofe depending on dialect ) with either okro, ọgbọnọ ( Igbo )/ apọn ( Yorùbá ), or ewédú, meat or fish, stewed vegetables or other sauces such as gbegiri or egusi soup ( melon ).

Yorùbá music is regarded as one of the more important components of the modern Nigerian popular music scene.

According to one of the Yorùbá accounts of creation, during a certain stage in this process, the " truth " was sent to confirm the habitability of the newly formed planets.

* Ijo Alawoye. com Awo Ifaloju, Traditional Yorùbá site dedicated to teaching

* OGUMEFU, M. I., Yorùbá Legends, London, The Sheldon Press, 1929.

BÔLAJI., Olódùmarè: God in Yorùbá Belief, London, Longmans, 1962.

Samuel Ajayi Crowther | Samuel Crowther's Yorùbá grammar led to Standard Yoruba becoming a literary language.

The first novel in the Yorùbá language was Ogboju Ode ninu Igbo Irunmale ( The Forest of A Thousand Demons ), written in 1938 by Chief Daniel O. Fagunwa ( 1903 – 1963 ).

Other writers in the Yorùbá language include: Senator Afolabi Olabimtan ( 1932 – 1992 ) and Akinwunmi Isola.

Yoruba religious beliefs are part of itan, the total complex of songs, histories, stories and other cultural concepts which make up the Yorùbá society.

According to Kola Abimbola, the Yorùbá have evolved a robust philosophy.

The Yorùbá regard Olódùmarè as the principal agent of creation.

But do the plays deal with the same facets of experience religion must also deal with??

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

At the same time that religion binds the individual helpfully to the supernatural and gives him cosmic peace and a sense of supreme fulfillment, it also has great therapeutic value for him.

In America also all of our major religious bodies officially sanction a universalistic ethic which is reflective of our common religion.

The beliefs of a religion also reflecting the values are expressed in creeds, dogmas, and doctrines, and form what Durkheim calls a credo.

The unifying effect of religion is also brought out in the fact that historically peoples have clung together as more or less cohesive cultural units, with religion as the dominant bond, even though spatially dispersed and not politically organized.

Historically, religion has also functioned as a tremendous engine of vindication, enforcement, sanction, and perpetuation of various other institutions.

At the same time that religion exercises a conserving influence, it also energizes and motivates both individuals and groups.

Cultural anthropology also covers economic and political organization, law and conflict resolution, patterns of consumption and exchange, material culture, technology, infrastructure, gender relations, ethnicity, childrearing and socialization, religion, myth, symbols, values, etiquette, worldview, sports, music, nutrition, recreation, games, food, festivals, and language ( which is also the object of study in linguistic anthropology ).

Tylor also theorized about the origins of religious beliefs in human beings, proposing a theory of animism as the earliest stage, and noting that " religion " has many components, of which he believed the most important to be belief in supernatural beings ( as opposed to moral systems, cosmology, etc .).

Frazer, a Scottish scholar with a broad knowledge of Classics, also concerned himself with religion, myth, and magic.

A strong Brazilian influence was also exercised by the Jesuits in religion and education.

They also worshipped gods such as Indra, Varuna and Mitra, which again were to become part of the Hindu religion in India.

In philosophy, religion, mythology, and fiction, the afterlife ( also referred to as life after death, or Hereafter ) is the concept of a realm, or the realm itself ( whether physical or transcendental ), in which an essential part of an individual's identity or consciousness continues to reside after the death of the body in the individual's lifetime.

* Morris Jastrow, Jr., The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria: its remains, language, history, religion, commerce, law, art, and literature, London: Lippincott ( 1915 ) — a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries ; also available in layered PDF format

* The being which manifests in Christianity also manifests in all faiths and religions, and each religion is valid and true for the time and cultural context in which it was born ;

" A formal defection of this kind was then noted in the register of the person's baptism, an annotation that, like those of marriage or ordination, was independent of the fact of the baptism and was not an actual " debaptism ", even if the person who formally defected from the Catholic Church had also defected from the Christian religion.

The constitution also created an independent judiciary, guaranteed inheritance of estates by primogeniture, and installed Catholicism as the state religion.

" Attributes that are seen as religious — such as ancestor worship, ritual, and sacrifice — were advocated by Confucius as necessary for social harmony ; however, these attributes can be traced to the traditional non-Confucian Chinese beliefs of Chinese folk religion, and are also practiced by Daoists and Chinese Buddhists.

Taoism ( Daoism ) is a philosophy and later also developed into a religion based on the texts the Tao Te Ching ( Dào Dé Jīng ; ascribed to Laozi ) and the Zhuangzi ( partly ascribed to Zhuangzi ).

The element air also appears as a concept in the Buddhist religion which has an ancient history in China.

There have also been periodic tensions with both mainstream and fundamentalist Christians, who think the religion is aligned with Gnosticism or is a cult, and fault it for departing from traditional Christian doctrine.

In addition to each having varied views on the other as a religion, there has also been a long and often painful history of conflict, persecution and at times, reconciliation, between the two religions, which have influenced their mutual views of their relationship over time.