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yearningforunity · 1 month

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Oya’s Betrayal

Oya’s Betrayal tells a Yoruba tale, a patakí, about a relationship between orishas Ogun, Oya, and Shango in a Renaissance style. Harmonia Rosales was inspired by artistic depictions of the Roman myth of Vulcan, Venus, and Mars.

Harmonia Rosales

#Oya's Betrayal #Yoruba #Ogun #Oya #Shango #Orishas #Renaissance #Art #Afro Cuban #Artist

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oliviersilven · 1 month

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AFRICAN GODS SKETCHES More details on BEHANCE: https://www.behance.net/gallery/193959725/AFRICAN-GODS-SKETCHES TUMBLR: http://oliviersilven.tumblr.com/ Sketch+Cintiq+Photoshop. All Artwork Copyright Olivier SILVEN.

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lowcountry-gothic · 1 year

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Festa de Orixá, by Breno Loeser. | 1, 2

#art #breno loeser #folklore #brazil #candomblé #yoruba #orisha #yemoja #oxossi #ogun #nana #oya #esu #oxumare #oxum #ossain #oba

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jadeseadragon · 10 months

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Harmonia Rosales 🎨🖌 @honiee

Taking of Oya’s Freedom, 2023, 48 × 60 inches.

"Ogun and Oya were two forces that should have never came together. For Ogun, the god of war was driven by anger, control, and aggression and Oya demanded her freedom for she was the embodiment of the wind, wild and free. To escape the watchful eyes of her husband, she would don a buffalos skin and transform, being able to roam the lands freely. Ogun curious and frustrated as to where she would go to spend her days, followed her. Jealous of her time spent without him, he hid and waited for the perfect moment to surprise her and take the skin."

#harmonia rosales #women artists #afrolatina artist #orisha #oya #ogun

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scrollsofhumanlife · 1 year

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Faith Nnenna Umeizudike-Ibekwe nee Ezike

B. February 24th 1965 at Lagos Island Maternity Hospital in Lagos , Nigeria

Houston, Texas

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kemetic-dreams · 1 month

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The Yoruba religion (Yoruba: Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), West African Orisa (Òrìṣà), or Isese (Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), comprises the traditional religious and spiritual concepts and practice of the Yoruba people. Its homeland is in present-day Southwestern Nigeria, which comprises the majority of Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Kwara and Lagos States, as well as parts of Kogi state and the adjoining parts of Benin and Togo, commonly known as Yorubaland (Yoruba: Ilẹ̀ Káàárọ̀-Oòjíire).

It shares some parallels with the Vodun practiced by the neighboring Fon and Ewe peoples to the west and with the religion of the Edo people to the east. Yoruba religion is the basis for a number of religions in the New World, notably Santería, Umbanda, Trinidad Orisha, and Candomblé.[1] Yoruba religious beliefs are part of Itàn (history), the total complex of songs, histories, stories, and other cultural concepts which make up the Yoruba society.

The Yoruba name for the Yoruba indigenous religion is Ìṣẹ̀ṣẹ, which also refers to the traditions and rituals that encompass Yorùbá culture. The term comes from a contraction of the words: Ìṣẹ̀, meaning "source/root origin" and ìṣe, meaning "practice/tradition" coming together to mean "The original tradition"/"The tradition of antiquity" as many of the practices, beliefs, traditions, and observances of the Yoruba originate from the religious worship of Olodumare and the veneration of the Orisa.

According to Kola Abimbola, the Yorubas have evolved a robust cosmology. Nigerian Professor for Traditional African religions, Jacob K. Olupona, summarizes that central for the Yoruba religion, and which all beings possess, is known as "Ase", which is "the empowered word that must come to pass," the "life force" and "energy" that regulates all movement and activity in the universe".Every thought and action of each person or being in Aiyé (the physical realm) interact with the Supreme force, all other living things, including the Earth itself, as well as with Orun (the otherworld), in which gods, spirits and ancestors exist. The Yoruba religion can be described as a complex form of polytheism, with a Supreme but distant creator force, encompassing the whole universe.

The anthropologist Robert Voeks described Yoruba religion as being animistic, noting that it was "firmly attached to place".

Each person living on earth attempts to achieve perfection and find their destiny in Orun-Rere (the spiritual realm of those who do good and beneficial things).

One's ori-inu (spiritual consciousness in the physical realm) must grow in order to consummate union with one's "Iponri" (Ori Orun, spiritual self).

Iwapẹlẹ (or well-balanced) meditative recitation and sincere veneration is sufficient to strengthen the ori-inu of most people. Well-balanced people, it is believed, are able to make positive use of the simplest form of connection between their Ori and the omnipotent Olu-Orun: an Àwúre (petition or prayer) for divine support.

In the Yoruba belief system, Olodumare has ase over all that is. Hence, it is considered supreme.

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ifayanmi-blog · 10 months

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#oshun #orisha #Obatala #ogun #Esu #yemoja #shango #ifa

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lawleitleerskov · 10 months

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Remember even in the darkest times you are never alone

The spirits, your ancestors, and the Orishas themselves walk beside you

With them by your side nothing can block your path for long

Ashe

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voodoocarving · 1 year

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Ochosi and Ogun Yemaya and Elegua Until the end of April, the store has a discount https://www.etsy.com/shop/VoodooCarving?ref=seller-platform-mcnav

#Ochosi #Ogun #Yemaya #Elegua

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gravalicious · 8 months

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Wifredo Lam - Ogun, God of Iron (1944)

#wifredo lam #cuba #caribbean #west indies #orisha #ogun

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s1ncitystudios · 2 months

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I'm late, but here's a birthday fanart I made for Ogun Montgomery today 🥳🔥

#art #artist #anime #fanart #anime art #anime fanart #fireforce fanart #FireForce #OgunMontgomery #炎炎ノ消防隊 #オグンモンゴメリ #s1nfulart #myart #Fire Force #Ogun Montgomery #Ogun #Flamy Ink

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xavierpayne · 11 months

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When the world was young, the Creator wanted to tame the wild earth he made. The jungles and forests had grown too thick, and they were home to creatures unimaginable to us today. He named Ogun the warrior to be the clearer of worlds to make the lands safe for humans. When the Creator asked Ogun who he would take with him, Ogun replied, "I work alone." The Creator accepted this declaration with a slow nod. Thus, Ogun's work began.

The trees grew higher and more aggressively than they do today, and vines and roots were much thicker. The air was hotter and filled with more oxygen from an atmosphere that would kill the strongest man today. But Ogun, the warrior Orisha, was in his element. The moon and the sun traded places hundreds of times as Ogun hacked away without rest. He couldn't rest; the plants seemed to be alive as he cleared one jungle at a time, one forest at a time. The leaves pulled at his chest and cut into his skin. Vines hissed as they whipped his legs and tried to stop his mighty slashes. But Ogun had a mission.

At last, the world was cleared and made safe enough for us humans... most of it anyway. We have Ogun to thank for that. Today, Ogun's spirit lives in every hard-working person and every loner. Green is his color. The sword is his symbol.

#yoruba #Ogun #xpayne

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why-i-love-comics · 1 year

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