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African Religions
Sacred Texts: African Religion and Spirituality
Historical African religion, folklore, and ethnography
- PUBLIC DOMAIN
Rights vary by item; many older texts are public domain but may reflect colonial-era biases
African & Diasporic Religions
Yorùbá religion, Ifá and Òrìṣà traditions: living religions with their own theology, priesthood and scholarship.
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African & Diasporic Religions
Yorùbá religion, Ifá and Òrìṣà traditions: living religions with their own theology, priesthood and scholarship.
A note on this collection. Yorùbá religion, Ifá and Òrìṣà traditions are living religions practised today, not historical curiosities and not a branch of occultism. Older ethnographic works here are period sources; practitioner and academic material is listed alongside them.
African & Diasporic Religions resources
10 resources
Yoruba / Ifa / Orisa
Myths of Ife
Yoruba gods, Ife mythology, folklore
- CC0
- CC0 1.0
CC0 1.0 / public domain
Yoruba / Ifa / Orisa
Christianity, Islam, and Orisa-Religion
Modern academic study of Yoruba religious interaction
- CREATIVE COMMONS
- CC BY-NC-ND
CC BY-NC-ND (see book PDF)
Yoruba / Ifa / Orisa
African Traditional Religions Textbook: Ifa
Introductory Ifa, Orisa, Odu, cosmology, Yoruba terms
- CREATIVE COMMONS
- CC BY-NC 4.0
CC BY-NC 4.0 except where otherwise noted
Yoruba / Ifa / Orisa
Ifa Textbook - Orientation and Overview
Introduction to Ifa/Isese
- CREATIVE COMMONS
- CC BY-NC 4.0
CC BY-NC 4.0 except where otherwise noted
Yoruba / Ifa / Orisa
Ifa Textbook - Holy Odu: 256 Sacred Parables
Odu Ifa overview
- CREATIVE COMMONS
- CC BY-NC 4.0
CC BY-NC 4.0 except where otherwise noted
Yoruba / Ifa / Orisa
Ifa Textbook - Glossary of Yoruba Terms
Liturgical Yoruba and Ifa terminology
- CREATIVE COMMONS
- CC BY-NC 4.0
CC BY-NC 4.0 except where otherwise noted
Yoruba / Ifa / Orisa
Sacred Texts: The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast
Historical Yoruba religion, customs, Orisa references
- LINK ONLY
Historical text; public-domain-era source, but Sacred Texts site terms apply
Yoruba / Ifa / Orisa
Ifa Foundation Free Library
Ifa basics, Orisa, Ori, ancestors, divination, ritual topics
- FREE OFFICIAL RESOURCE
Copyrighted practitioner content; link-only recommended
Yoruba / Ifa / Orisa
Ifa Textbook - Categories of Spiritual Forces and Praise Names
Yoruba spiritual-force terminology
- CREATIVE COMMONS
- CC BY-NC 4.0
CC BY-NC 4.0 except where otherwise noted
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