Yoruba
Yoruba beliefs center on orishas and Ifá divination in West African and diaspora traditions. Scholarly guides to deities, cosmology, and spiritual practice.
Children of Blood and Bone: What the Film Trailer Owes the Òrìṣà
The fight over the Children of Blood and Bone film trailer is not a fight about whether Hollywood got the òrìṣà right. It cannot be.
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.
Yoruba Indigenous Religion in Church and Mosque: What Survived
The praise session at a Pentecostal church in Ìbàdàn opens the way a party opens. A gángan — the small talking drum held under the arm — answers the song leader line for line, bending its pitch to…
Children of Blood and Bone: Film Adaptation Announcement and the Orïsha
The number I wrote down was ten. I had the trailer running in one tab and a dog-eared paperback of Children of Blood and Bone face-down beside the keyboard, and I did the small, slightly obsessive…
African Mythology in Netflix Releases: What the Numbers Miss
The subtitle reads the spirit world. The word the actor said was Ọ̀run. Those are not the same thing, and the distance between them is the whole subject of this piece.
Children of Blood and Bone: Inside a Film Adaptation Announcement
A teaser plays before whatever you actually queued up. Ninety seconds, a drum figure under the studio logo, and a single word held on screen long enough to read: Orïsha.