Yoruba

How To Use Yoruba In A Sentence

• In this form, goddess Māri is very similar to Sitala Devi2, her counterpart in North India and the orisha Babalu Aye of the Yoruba tradition. Archive 2009-05-01
• The six Yoruba markings (three on each cheek), and the ten Fon markings (two on each cheek, temples, and forehead) are readily discernible.
• Some Yoruba woodcarvers also work in bone, ivory, and stone.
• The Yoruba and the Igbo are the domineering languages of the South, but it is quite difficult for the people of the South-South geopolitical zone to accept inferiority under any of the duo. Thisday Online
• Candomble is often presented in the literature as a religion born of syncretism between Catholicism and the Yoruba gods and liturgies of West Africa.
• Another aspect of the cosmology working toward the creation and maintenance of the Yoruba commonwealth is the power of the Orisa to mediate during times of conflict and warfare.
• Geoffroy tries to speak to them, a few words of Ibo, phrases in Yoruba, in pidgin, but they are always silent, not haughty, merely absent, disappearing rapidly in single file along the river, lost to view in the tall grass yellowed by drought. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Prose
• Maybe I'll tell you about all the prayers, and the psychic chiropractor, and the herbs, and the cascaria bath prescribed by my friend the Yoruba priestess, and the miraculous appearance of a Melchite abbot just when I'd been praying to see him. Life Goes On
• The Gullah language retains a great deal West African syntax and combines English vocabulary with words from African languages such as Ewe, Mandinka, Igbo, Twi, Yoruba, and Mende.
• Stone, terra cotta and metal images of royal figures—and some misshapen commoners—populate "Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria," a look at the Yoruba city-state of Ife from the 12th to 15th centuries. Don't Miss