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The 1974 blaxploitation film Abby features Eshu, but mostly as a deranged and ruthless sex deity that possesses a young woman and causes her to sexually assault and brutally murder various men in the process. Eshu appears as the main antagonist of the film Scooby-Doo! Ghastly Goals.
The film's use of the Yoruba religion distinguishes it from The Exorcist. In the story, Abby is apparently possessed by Eshu , a West African orisha of chaos and whirlwinds. He is also a trickster and the guardian of roads, particularly crossroads.
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.
Jagun Jagun (The Warrior) is a 2023 Netflix original Yoruba film produced by Femi Adebayo Salami and Euphoria360 Media . [1] It was directed by Adebayo Tijan i and Tope Adebayo Salami. [ 2 ] The film stars Femi Adebayo , Adedimeji Lateef , Bimbo Ademoye , Faithia Balogun , Mr Macaroni , Bukunmi Oluwasina , Ibrahim Yekini and Muyiwa Ademola .
The first translation of the Bible into Yoruba in the late 1800s by Samuel Ajayi Crowther controversially adopted traditional Yoruba names, such as "Olodumare/Olorun" for "God" and "Eshu" for the devil, and thus began associating Olorun with the male gender.
Thunderbolt: Magun was made with a DV calm and the budget for the film was about $50,000. [1] It was released on VHS. [4] It was listed as one of the 10 best selling Yoruba movies. [5] It screened at the Pan African Film Festival in Ouagadougou, Milan Italiano Film Festival and the African Film Festival in New York. [1]
Elesin Oba, The King's Horseman is a 2022 Yoruba-language Nigerian historical drama film directed by Biyi Bandele and distributed by Netflix, based on Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman, a stage play he wrote while in Cambridge, where he was a fellow student at Churchill College during his political exile from Nigeria, [1] and it is based on a real incident that took place in ...
The Republic of Benin and Nigeria contain the highest concentrations of Yoruba people and Yoruba faiths in all of Africa. Brazil , Cuba , Puerto Rico , Haiti , Trinidad and Tobago are the countries in the Americas where Yoruba cultural influences are the most noticeable, particularly in popular religions like Vodon, Santéria , Camdomblé, and ...