Deities & spirits
The beings who inhabit the world's traditions — supreme creators, orishas and alusi, water spirits and tricksters — and what each one asks of the people who know them.
Children of Blood and Bone Film News: What Orïsha Is (and Isn't)
The advice comes in the replies under every trailer: it's a fantasy movie, relax, none of it is real.
Tomi Adeyemi, Orïsha, and What the Film News Leaves Out
Children of Blood and Bone is not a story from Yoruba religion. It was never trying to be, and its author has been clearer about that than most of her coverage has.
Orisha, Mami Wata, and the Fantasy Novel Review Rule
A reader meets Èṣù on page forty. He is standing at a crossroads, which is where he usually stands, and the book does not stop to explain him.
Children of Blood and Bone Movie News: Who the Òrìṣà Really Are
A trailer went out this week for Children of Blood and Bone, and somewhere in the first minute a word crosses the screen that already has a street named after it in Ọ̀ṣogbo, a drum pattern in Havana…
Children of Blood and Bone: The Film Adaptation and Yoruba Belief
Somewhere in the first fifty pages, a reader stops and types a name into a search bar. Òya. Ṣàngó. Yemọja.
Not sure where to start?
Begin at Origins. Every other thread makes more sense once you know how each people says the world began.