Awon Asa ati Orisa Ile Yoruba: Yoruba Cultural Practices & Orisa

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treatise written entirely in Yoruba about Yoruba cultural practices and
Orisa. Contains much information not available anywhere in english.
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Lesson One: Home training and greeetings

Lesson Two: Games of Yorubaland
Ayo
Arin
Wrestling
Ijala
Okoto
Afako
Moonlight games
Storytelling
Eye meta tolongo waye
Mude-mude

Lesson Three: Marriage in Yorubaland
Looking for a wife
Asking for marriage
Idana
Preparations for wedding
Weddings in church
Marriage licenses
Marriages in court
Muslim weddings
Eleha
Divorce

Lesson Four: Taking care of pregnant women, childbirth and taking care of children
Pregnancy
Washing the child
Taking care of belly button/umbilical cord
Facial markings
Taking care of the child

Lesson Five: Naming ceremonies
Oriki praise names
Praising the land one is from
Praise names of Ela

Lesson Seven: Children who are born to die (Abiku)

Lesson Eight: The tradition of facial markings

Lesson Nine: Beautification and jewelry

Lesson Ten: Taking care of the head and hair

Lesson Eleven: Clothing of Yorubaland

Lesson Twelve: Business and Profitmaking

Lesson Thirteen: Susu and collective business enterprise

Lesson Fourteen: Pawnage

Lesson Fifteen: It is the King who owns the land

Lesson Sixteen: Kingmaking

Lesson Seventeen: Secret societies
Sorcerers and Sorceresses

Lesson Nineteen: Wars and warriorship

Lesson Twenty: Burial and Death in Yorubaland

Lesson Twenty-One: Ancestors

Lesson Twenty-Two: Reincarnation

Lesson Twenty-Three: Yoruba thoughts about Olodumare and Orisa

Lesson Twenty-Four: Various drums of Yorubaland
Learning drumming amongst the Yoruba
Traditional rulership amongst the Yoruba
Yoruba foods
Inherited professions of Yorubaland
Woven cloth
Blacksmithing
Carpentry/Carvers
Mat-weaving

Orisa of Yorubaland

Lesson Twenty-Five: Ela

Lesson Twenty-Six: Obatala/Orisa-Nla

Lesson Twenty-Seven: Aginju and Yemoja

Lesson Twenty-Eight: Ifa
The Odu
Propitiation of Orunmila

Lesson Twenty-Nine: Egungun the Ancestral order

Lesson Thirty: Oro

Lesson Thirty-One: Agemo

Lesson Thirty-Two: Orisa-Oko

Lesson Thirty-Three: Orisa-Ibeji

Lesson Thirty-Four: Sango

Lesson Thirty-Five: Sonponna

Lesson Thirty-Six: Ogun

Lesson Thirty-Seven: Esu