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: 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…
Yoruba Indigenous Religion in Church and Mosque: What Carried Over
The service ran two hours and ten minutes, and I spent most of it with a notebook on my knee, counting. Eleven congregational songs.
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.
Orïsha on Screen: The 401 Behind the Film Adaptation Announcement
There is a Yoruba way of counting the divinities that refuses to close. The figure most often given is ọ̀kànlénírinwọ́ irúnmọlẹ̀ — four hundred and one. Four hundred, and then one more.