Tales of Yoruba gods and heroes.
| dc.contributor.author | COURLANDER, Harold | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-16T15:16:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-08-16T15:16:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1973 | |
| dc.description | The myths, legends and tales in this book were gathered over a period of several years from Yoruba storytellers and informants. The Yoruba people of whom there are probably more than ten million, occupy the southwestern corner of Nigeria along the Dahomey border, and a branch of the Yorubas, the Anago people, extends into Dahomey itself. To the east and north the Yoruba culture reaches its approximate limits in the region of the Niger River, though there are ample reasons to believe that ancestral cultures directly related to the Yoruba once flourished well north of the Niger. | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 0-517-500639 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://nigeriareposit.nln.gov.ng/handle/20.500.14186/1606 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | New York: Crown Publishers Inc. | |
| dc.title | Tales of Yoruba gods and heroes. | |
| dc.type | Book |