Yoruba people
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The Yoruba people are a West African ethnic group who inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, a region collectively called Yorubaland. The Yoruba constitute more than 50 million people in Africa an
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Some Yoruba cities of the Middle Ages
The Ade-Are crown in Ile Ife
Yoruba religion
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The Yorùbá religion, West African Orisa, or Isese, comprises the traditional religious and spiritual concepts and practice of the Yoruba people. Its homeland is in what is commonly known as Yorubaland
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…people and Olodumare, God. They include some now well-known divinities such as Obatala, Ogun, Orunmila, Osun, Eshu, Olokun, Yemoja, Osanyin, and Shango, among others. These are now recognizable in the New World as divinities brought across the Atlantic by people of Yoruba descent. There in their new ex-situ environment…
The Temple of Obatala in Ile-Ife, Oṣun, a holy place of Iṣẹṣe
Yorùbá divination board Opon Ifá
An Egungun masquerade dance garment in the permanent collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Egungun (Ara Orun) with an infant.