enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. La Masia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Masia

    La Masia de Can Planes was an old Catalan farmhouse, built in 1702. In 1979, it was first used by the club to house its young footballers who originated from outside Barcelona. [ 3 ] The idea for the youth academy was proposed to Josep Lluís Núñez by Jaume Amat Murtra [ 4 ] and Oriol Tort was put in charge of the facility.

  3. Yoruba literature - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_literature

    Itan is the word for the sum of Yoruba religion, poetry, song, and history. Yoruba divinities are called Orishas, and make up one of the most complex pantheons in oral history. Ifá, a complex system of divination, involves recital of Yoruba poetry containing stories and proverbs bearing on the divination. A divination recital can take a whole ...

  4. Masia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masia

    The FC Barcelona youth academy is called La Masia, so named because it was formerly located in an authentic 18th-century masia called the 'Masia de Can Planes'.The masia is located adjacent to the Camp Nou in the Les Corts district of Barcelona, and was used to house young footballers from 1979 to 2011.

  5. Initiation in Santería - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiation_in_Santería

    Santería initiation ceremonies derive from those in Yoruba traditional religion but is almost always carried out for adults, whereas among the Yoruba, initiation can also involve children. [8] Each initiation varies in its details, [ 9 ] although practitioners often try to ensure a veil of secrecy around the process, ensuring that the precise ...

  6. Orisha - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orisha

    Orishas (singular: orisha) [1] are divine spirits that play a key role in the Yoruba religion of West Africa and several religions of the African diaspora that derive from it, such as Haitian Vaudou, Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican Santería and Brazilian Candomblé.

  7. Yoruba culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_culture

    Despite the fact that the Yoruba cannot detail all their long pedigrees, such as Oduduwa, Obatala, Orunmila, Sango, Ogun, Osun (one of the three wives of Sango), Olokun, Oya (one of the three wives of Sango), Esu, Ososi, Yemoja, Sopona etc., nonetheless it is a fact of truth that they had all impacted the Yoruba people and contributed to the ...

  8. Wole Soyinka - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wole_Soyinka

    Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde "Wole" Soyinka CFR (/ ˈ w oʊ l eɪ s ɔɪ ˈ (j) ɪ ŋ k ə,-ʃ ɔɪ ˈ-/ WOH-lay s(h)oy-(Y)ING-kə; Yoruba: Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé "Wọlé" Ṣóyíinká, pronounced [wɔlé ʃójĩnká]; born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language.

  9. Ifá - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifá

    A divination tray on which cowrie shells rests, as are used for Ifá divination. Ifá is a divination system originating from Yorubaland in West Africa. It originates within the traditional religion of the Yoruba people although is also practised by followers of West African Vodun and in African diasporic religions like Cuban Santería.