Orisha
Orishas are Yoruba spirits central to African traditions; detailed profiles, origins, and meanings of Santería, Candomblé, and diaspora religious practices.
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.
Children of Blood and Bone Film Trailer: The Òrìṣà Behind Orïsha
A girl with white hair stands in shallow water, and the water answers her. That image carries the first film trailer for Children of Blood and Bone, Paramount's adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi's 2018…
Children of Blood and Bone: African Fantasy Fiction and Real Yoruba Belief
Look at the poster long enough and you notice the dots. Orïsha, the kingdom in Tomi Adeyemi's novel, carries two of them over the i.
Children of Blood and Bone: What the Film Announcement Tells You
The advice comes around every time a studio options a novel with African gods in it: check the music credits.