Tales of Yoruba gods and heroes.
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Sketch Map of the Yoruba Country; the Yorubas; the Gods, Heroes and other Protagonists; Some of the Orishas appearing In these Stories; The Yoruba Week; The Descent from the Sky; The Orishas acquire their Powers; Why Eshu Lives In the Open; Iron Is received from Ogun; Sonponno’s exile; The Scattering from Ife; Moremi and the Egunguns; Oranmiyan, The Warrior Hero Of Ife; The Friendship Of Eshu and ■ Orunmila; ■ Eshu and Death; ■ Oshun Learns the Art Of Divination; ■ Orunmila’s Visit to Owo; ■ The Division Of the Cowries; ■ Shango and the Medicine Of Eshu; Obatala’s Visit to Shango; The Quarrel Between Oya And Oshun; Two Warrior Heroes, and How Shango Departed from Oyo; Obatala’s Farm at Abeokuta; The Women’s War; The Coming Of the Ora River; Ogbe Baba Akinyelure, Warrior of Ibode; The Burning of the Elekute Grove; The Oba’s Food; Ogedengbe’s Drummers; How Twins came Among the Yorubas; The Stone People of Esie; The Deer-Woman of Owo; Ologun and Apasha; Olosun of Ikere-Ekiti; Erinle, Hunter of Ijebu; How Ijapa Became a Sacrifice; The Medicine of Olu-Igbo.