- Candomblé. The
preferred spelling varies depending on the
language in question:
òrìṣà is the
spelling in the
Yoruba language, orixá in Portuguese, and orisha...
-
Orisa is a
character who
first appeared in the 2016
video game Overwatch, a
Blizzard Entertainment–developed first-person shooter, and the
resulting franchise...
-
traditional Yoruba w**** has four days. The four days that are
dedicated to the
Orisa go as follow: Day 1 is
dedicated to Obatala, Sopona,
Iyami Aje, and the...
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descendants or
orisa-based
faiths can
understand the idea of Olorun. Historically, the
Yoruba worship Olorun through the
agency of the
orisa; thus there...
- The
Yoruba religion (Yoruba: Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), West
African Orisa (
Òrìṣà), or
Isese (Ìṣẹ̀ṣe),
comprises the
traditional religious and
spiritual concepts and practice...
- Èṣù is a
pivotal Òrìṣà/Irúnmọlẹ̀ in the
Yoruba spirituality or
Yoruba religion known as ìṣẹ̀ṣe. Èṣù is a
prominent primordial Divinity (a
delegated Irúnmọlẹ̀...
-
pantheon of up to 6,000 deities. The
following is a list of
Yoruba orisha (
òrìṣà), or deities. The
supreme being in Yorùbá
culture is
known as Olódùmarè/Elédùmarè...
-
masquerade or the
plural form. This
misconception is
common in the
Americas by
Orisa devotees that do not
speak Yorùbá
language as a vernacular.
Egungun is a...
- Santería in the
Spanish Caribbean and
other communities that
practice Santería/
Orisa/the Lu****í religion/Regla de Ocha. The Yorùbá
language has not been a vernacular...
- father's
lineages or from a
particular òrìṣà. If the
latter is the case, then the
child will
undergo an
orisa initiation during adulthood,
during which...
