Yoruba Mythology: Stories of the Orisa from West Africa and the Diaspora

The first major work of Yoruba mythology retells hundreds of traditional tales from West Africa, Cuba, and Brazil.Beautifully illustrated throughout. Yoruba mythology is sacred to the traditional Yoruba religion and culture of the Yoruba people of West Africa found primarily in Nigeria, Bénin Republic, and Togo.It is a community of more than 100 million practitioners, who can be found on every continent.An oral tradition, many of the stories revolve around Olodumare, a Supreme Being, and the source of all creation and a number of divinities, or Orisa, who control the elements of nature, events, and human behavior including Obatala (creation), Oduduwa (the warrior), Sango (lightning, fire, dance, and drumming), Oya (wind, storms, and thunder), Esu (chaos and trickery), Yamoja (motherhood and protection), and Iku (death), to name just a few.Yoruba Mythology is the first-ever full-scale collection of more than 300 myths of this ancient, profound, and beautiful storytelling tradition.Autho