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The Yorùbá believe that previous bearers of a name have an impact on the influence of the name in a child's life. Yorùbá names are traditionally classified into five categories: [2] Orúko Àmútọ̀runwá 'Destiny Names', ("names assumed to be brought from heaven" or derived from a religious background). Examples are: Àìná, Ìgè, and ...
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Motúnráyọ̀ audio ⓘ is a female Yoruba name from the Southwestern region of Nigeria. It means " I see joy again " This name is usually given to a child given birth to after a family has gone through a bad event like the death of a child or family member.
After the ritual, the child is named and members of the extended family have the honour of also giving a name to the child. The gift of a name comes with gifts of money and clothing. In many cases, the relative will subsequently call the child by the name they give to him or her, so a new baby may thereafter have more than a dozen names. [14]
Pages in category "Yoruba given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 234 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
The Yoruba have a large population in West Africa and broad dispersion through enslavement in the Americas. [ 1 ] The Republic of Benin and Nigeria contain the highest concentrations of Yoruba people and Yoruba faiths in all of Africa .
A review of the oral histories around abiku note that: "Such accounts (sometimes they are just hasty definitions) often mix facts about àbíkú with facts about ògbánje; represent àbíkú as homogeneous across time and space; fail to distinguish between popular and expert, official and heretical, indigenous and exogenous discourses of àbíkú; assume that the belief in àbíkú has a ...
Egungun, masked costumed figures of the Yoruba people. Egungun, Yoruba language: Egúngún, also known as Ará Ọ̀run (The collective dead) in the broadest sense is any Yoruba masquerade or masked, costumed figure. [1] More specifically, it is a Yoruba masquerade for ancestor reverence, or the ancestors themselves as a collective force.