The handbook of yoruba religious concepts by baba ifa karade, olodumare. Festival with pictures and oriki praise songs for osun. A journal of contemporary research, 92, 8996, 2012. It deals with a member or members of a race of people who live in a particular place. Jan 06, 2012 oriki is an important and cultural, but unwritten oral genre of yoruba literature that is usually used in praise singing. Oduduwa between 1100 ad and 1700 ad, the yoruba kingdom of ife experienced a golden age, the oba or ruler of ife is referred to as the ooni of ife.
The yoruba culture, for the present purpose, can be defined as follows. Yoruba traditional adjudicatory systems 17 considered ileife the first town created by god. If a male, it is always expressive of something heroic, brave or strong. The study is a contribution to the development of yoruba literary genre as it increases the corpus of oriki investigation and collection among the yoruba. More precisely, oriki awon orisa reinforces four elements of oral tradition 1. Women, scarification, and yoruba identity 349 of owu into egba, ijebu, or oyo after 1820. Virtually all oyoyoruba royal bards perform in a tune peculiar to the oyo. As used in yoruba social life, oriki have all got the same basic literary form and style. Eshu is the messenger god, acting as a link between humans and the. An aborigine appellation is a cognomen which is subdivided into personal and group appellation, popularly known in yoruba land as oriki. If you dont see any interesting for you, use our search form on bottom v. Pdf on jan 1, 2002, olanike ola orie and others published yoruba names and.
The aggregate of the ways of life of the yorubaspeaking peoples of southwestern nigeria and their kiths and kins elsewhere in the world. If youre trying to practice your yoruba reading then the page below should help. The yoruba people iv page ife and thus became the first oba meaning king or ruler in the yoruba language of who today are known as the yoruba people. The oriki varies in length depending on whether it is the name given to a child to describe the future portents of the life or a recital of the accomplishments of a persons clan. Oriki varies and it is based on each family lineage and ancestral clan,which talks about the bravery act and the pedigree of their ancestors. Rearrange individual pages or entire files in the desired order. Oriki awon orisa by obafemi origunwa paperback lulu. Every yoruba poet therefore strives to know the oriki of important people in his locality as well as lineage oriki because every person, common or noble has his own body of utterances by which he can be addressed. Analysis and interpretation ades ola o late ju university of ibadan, nigeria abstract the paper undertakes a study of animal metaphors in the yoruba language with a view to highlighting the stylistic and communicative potentials of these metaphors. The concepts of ori and human destiny in traditional.
The ogun festival is an annual celebration among the yoruba, where african idioms of puppetry, masquerading, music, dance, mime, invocation, evocation and several elements of drama are. Sep 05, 2015 a people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots marcus garvey. Yoruba spiritual heritage maintains that the yoruba ethnic groups are a unique people who originally settled at ileife. Mo be yin, kiegbe mi kimi niyi, ki e egbe mi kimi nola, ifakifa kiiniyi koja ejiogbe. Sep 07, 2012 this is the actual full oriki ogun as i learnt from prof. The first section is in yoruba and the second part is in english. The pennantwinged nightjar also carries certain sorcery associations. Their rulers and the generality of their people agree that they belong to the yoru. Just as you know that the yoruba nation is a civilized nation and has varieties in every part of its culture and tradition,so is the oriki. According to him, a person is referred to by several different kinds of names and the geneology of the subject of the oriki traced by. It is invoked to praise a child for bringing pride to the parents or to attempt to evoke virtuous character traits of bravery, fortitude and perseverance that are. Adeoye, 1980, for instance, olomode ife ife youths were the public enforcement officers. Legend holds that oduduwa created the world at this place by delegation from the high god, olorun. Olaosun monifa olakesi, a tennessee olaorisa devotee has published a description of the spiritual experience of osun.
On this page you can read or download oriki of owo town in ondo state in pdf format. Their work and relevance in the society akintunde akinyemi obafemi awolowo university, nigeria abstract the paper describes the social function performed by the yoruba royal bards in the society. Oriki yoruba praise poetry ekimogun descendant united. It refers to the sixteen cowries shells that are used to represent the sixteen fundamental odu used inorisha divination. In her earlier writing, badejo explores the ways in which osun can provide a feminist model for african americans. The odu used inmerindinlogun are the 16 principles from. Jones ore ye ye o an experiment in translating performance events into ethnographic scholarship drawing on both verbal and visual means of communication. This is the actual full oriki ogun as i learnt from prof. There are multiple files available for this download. For all yoruba in home and diasporal to know and understand their family lineage. It is a popular thing mostly among the people of the yoruba descents. The yoruba people have very rich cultural oral literature, oriki is on of them. According to the yoruba historian samuel johnson, the oriki is an attributive descriptive, one that expresses what a child is or what he or she is hoped to become.
One of the prominent features of yoruba oriki yoruba praise poetry is what patunji1984. Proudly yoruba oriki idowu this panegyric is dedicated. The concepts of ori and human destiny it is the ancestral guardian soul, having its physical symbolization as the physical head. Gender dialectics of yoruba drum poetry shared meaning can be made possible w hen there is consideration for situational contexts, the use of stock phrases and practical interpretation of tonal marks. However, the influence of the yoruba culture, its music, and its. The yoruba territory lies in southwestern nigeria, west africa, commonly known as yorubaland. Odu refers to a metaphysical principle that is at the foundation of creation. Oriki varies in length depending on lineage and the clan of the individual and the past ancestors. Here is an everchanging assortment of reading material that will introduce you to the psychology of meaningful change. Microsoft office language interface pack 2010 yoruba maa pese oji a. Yoruba cultural studies edited byedited by m0y0 okediji m0y0 okediji this volume is under construction the university of african art press, 2008 denver, co.
Oriki olodumare from the names of god the praises. The study of yoruba religious tradition in historical. The book explains the intricate linkage of a variety of yoruba art forms and the role of oriki praise poetry songs in the transmission of knowledge. Orisa worship among the igbomina yoruba of ilaorangun. Origin of the yoruba and the lost tribes of israel dierk lange abstract. Yoruba culture yoruba culture refers to the idiosyncratic cultural norms of yorubaland and the yoruba people. The data are from the oyoyoruba communities, but mutatis mutandis they can be seen to.
The names of god in yoruba language oruko ati oriki olorun. Their traditions and culture, their political associations with one another in war and peace have been continuous. Yoruba language and culture is quite enduring and deep, evidence by the fact that close to two hundred years after slavery the culture and language survives in some parts of the americas. This comes after the childs ritual birth, massage of specific body parts and other rites as well. You will be able to sharpen your comprehension and understanding of the sample text below, which is part of the article 26 and 27 from the universal declaration of human rights. The name yoruba is said to be an adaptation of euroba or arabism.
Its loan words are mostly from arabic, english, hausa and igbo languages. Yoruba and ancient near eastern history, the present article argues that yoruba traditions of provenance, claiming immigration from the near east, are basically correct. It is a continuum beginning from their subsistence, communal, agrarian life of the. The yoruba pantheon consists of hundreds of gods, worshipped for an immense variety of purposes, each representative of some natural element or human emotion. Olofa of offa palace offa is a city located in kwara state with a population of about 100,000 inhabitants. The images of women in yoruba folktales social science. Oriki is an important and cultural, but unwritten oral genre of yoruba literature that is usually used in praise singing. The names of god in yoruba language oruko ati oriki olorun submitted by admin heres a list of yoruba praise names for god aka oriki as well as their meanings in english. Yoruba oriki names are names yoruba people give to their children for symbolic reasons. Short words indicating individual or tribal appellation first came before the chain of words used as recitation. Home oriki of yoruba kingdoms oriki of yoruba kingdoms. They had underground dungeons gbere where they kept criminals awaiting trial or execution bascom, 1965. Oriki awon orisa is a timeless offering that will continue to add value to your learning library. They analytically articulate and decompose yoruba conception of creativity and art.
Oriki oyo eulogy of oyo oba lamidi olayiwola adeyemi iii oyo is an ancient town in oyo state, southwestern nigeria. In yoruba land, one of the most important things done when a child is born is to give the child a name. Jan 02, 2015 oriki is the most popular of yoruba poetic forms. Ade, ebenezer obey, shina peters and kollington ayinla as textual references, the paper closely analyses orikis. The importance of oriki in yoruba mural art request pdf. Its a collection of essays and ebooks that address yoruba cosmology, the jungian approach to human development and the interesting ways in which i combine them in my own practice. A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots marcus garvey. It has been designed to acquaint the western student with the pedagogical format of indigenous yoruba teaching and learning. Also, you will find some interesting yoruba oriki names and meanings of these names that we have listed below. The images of women in yoruba folktales olarinmoye, adeyinka wulemat department of sociology lagos state university nigeria abstract because much of the anthropological literature appears to tell us that men are everywhere superior and dominant and women everywhere play subordinate roles, we must then ask what the evidences are and what it means. Document resume ed 391 370 fl 023 524 author olabode, afolabi. However, on the basis of the object praised there are three main categories. Given this consideration, ori is nothing short of what the yoruba call ipin or okeipori.
Oriki is used during individual or communal ceremonies, for individuals or the community. On the basis of comparative studies between the dynastic tradition of the. This work will be of immense value to scholars of literary studies and other fields. Lucas, the first indigene to write about yoruba religion was an acclaimed egyptologist in his life time, and perhaps the only intel lectual among the anglican clergy in his time. If a female, it is a term of endearment or of praise. The yoruba artist presents the latest in fieldresearch and critical methodology, pointing to new directions in african cultural scholarship.
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