Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Eyo Bajulaiye Ineso masquerade in a residential area of Lagos near the Tafawa Balewa Square.. The Eyo Festival, otherwise known as the Adamu Orisha Play, [1] is a Yoruba festival unique to Lagos, Nigeria and has a strong historical footing in Iperu-Remo, a town in Ikenne Local Government, Ogun State. [2]
Eyo Olokun masquerades at the Eyo Festival in Lagos, Nigeria. Water deities are "ubiquitous and vitally important in southern Nigeria"; [4] Olókun worship is especially noted in the cities of the Yoruba and Edo people in southwest Nigeria. In West African areas directly adjacent to the coast, Olokun takes a male form among his worshipers ...
The Olokun Festival is the name of annual cultural festival in Nigeria celebrated throughout Yorubaland by various Yoruba people groups, and also by the Edo. In the Yoruba Language, Okun means Sea, while Osa means Lagoon (enclosed sea). Olokun is the goddess/god of the sea, while Olosa also known as Osara is the Goddess of the lagoon and ...
Aganjú - orisha that was a warrior king, walked with a sword as a staff, and is associated with fire. He is not associated with volcanoes in Yorùbáland in West Africa, contrary to what is believed in Cuban-style practice of orisa.
The Eyo festival is a dedication to the god of the Sea Olokun, who is an Orisha, and whose name literally mean Owner of the Seas. [149] Generally, there is no customarily defined time for the staging of the Eyo Festival. This leads to a building anticipation as to what date would be decided upon.
Olokun was skilled at weaving and dyeing cloth, which made her think that she was superior to all of the other Orishas, including Olorun. She challenged Olorun to a cloth-making contest to determine who was truly superior. Olorun told Agemo to ask Olokun to show him her best cloth, and if he was impressed, he would accept the challenge.
Remove the following from the lede: "kamajalodun is the first olokun of eyo adimu orisha and is the one that brought the orisha from okepa to ibegede and also there are the owner of eyo adimu orisha play let call them the celebrant" Without punctuation and without context, this looks like a string of gibberish, but I think it's trying to ...
His father Ojooya was born as one of the six children of Ọ̀ṣúnrẹ̀, who was a worshipper of the water deity Olokun and Oshun, and was a titled chief, in Ilara-Mokin. Osunre herself was born into a family of Ifa religion and Ogun worshippers.