Orisha
Orishas are Yoruba spirits central to African traditions; detailed profiles, origins, and meanings of Santería, Candomblé, and diaspora religious practices.
The Character Arc and Orisha: What Film Adaptation Changes
There is a question asked in every story meeting, every workshop, every notes call: what does she want, and who is she by the end? It sounds like common sense.
Children of Blood and Bone: What a Film Adaptation Announcement Can and Can't Do for Orïsha
The advice comes around with every trailer, and it came around again with this one: a big enough movie will finally teach the world about African religion.
Children of Blood and Bone: African Fantasy Fiction and Yoruba Belief
Children of Blood and Bone is not a book about Yoruba religion. That is a strange thing to say about the best-known work of African fantasy fiction of the last decade — a novel whose magic clans are…
Children of Blood and Bone: The Orisha Behind the Film Adaptation
In the behind-the-scenes footage there is a moment where a costume designer lifts a beaded panel and talks about weight — how it hangs, how it will move at a gallop.
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.
Children of Blood and Bone: The Film Trailer and the Real Orïsha
The word lands early, cut over drums and a horizon of red dust: Orïsha. Three syllables, one diaeresis, the name of a kingdom that has never existed anywhere but on a page.