yoruba

Question 1

Ife

Answer 1

The center of yoruba religion

Question 2

Orisha-nla

Answer 2

FIrat god to create the world; CREATED IT AT IFE

Question 3

cosmology

Answer 3

Heaven and earth; has witches

Question 4

Olorun

Answer 4

SUPREME GOD
- distant and remote and not worshipped

Question 5

Orishas

Answer 5

Lesser deities
- function as mediators between humans and olorun

Question 6

Ogun

Answer 6

God of iron and war
- originally human
- First KING OF IFE
- inhabits the border are between ancestors and the rest of the orishas

Question 7

Esu

Answer 7

good and evil
TRICKSTER FIGURE

Question 8

Trickster figure

Answer 8

A type of supernatural that disrupts the normal course life.

Question 9

Ancestors

Family and Defied

Answer 9

Can also help or harm
- deceased humans who have acquired supernatural status

Family: Gain super status by having a good rep; only worshipped by family
Deified: Important human figures known throughout yoruba society; worshipped by large ppl

Question 10

Roles?

Answer 10

Head of family does the shrine
king in charge of anuual festivities
priests oversee th various rituals carried our at the shrines

Question 11

Diviners

Answer 11

Practitioners who specialize in divinition; learning ones future
- Rquires years of training and is passed down