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Dream On! Good Heavens! So Sue Me! Esu! gods bless you! Read the small print!

Land of the Aboriginies

In mythic times they were supernatural beings who emerged and roamed the earth

This ensures that certain people are forbidden to participate in certain rituals..

As an expectant parent visits a sacred site, or become involved in a specific ritual, the spiritual essence of the Ancestors comes to reside here

Wilyaru ritual

Belief in one god

Belief in many gods

A story that tends to answer questions of origins and serves as a source of sacred truth

The transmission of the divine will or knowledge to human beings, typically through myths or religious experience

The Beginning of all Religion

A means of seeking spiritual power through an encounter with a guardian spirit, usually in the form of an animal.

Connecting link between heaven and earth during the Sun Dance

North west regions of central Africa, in Nigera, Benin, and Togo

Orlorun

The hundreds of various Yoruba deities

The Yoruba trickster figure

Casting bones and predicting the future

Details how we are to act while living in the world

Seeing things from another’s perspective

Ife

Understanding of the nature of the universe