Talk:Orisha/Archive 1

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Try again. Voodun gods are called Loa not Orisha.

It says loa further down. Secretlondon 18:59, Dec 11, 2003 (UTC)

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I understand, this article is not solely African American by any means, but any objections to adding Template:African American topics sidebar under See Also?

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My main objection is again this is an African tradition, and is practiced worldwide. The African-American Template includes a menu with link exclusively to African-American topics. If I were a practitioner linking to this site from Ethiopia, or France or Cuba, what would the relevance of a link to Jim Crow laws in the North American south be to my desire to get more info. on the Orisha tradition? Would not a link to the history of Nigerian, or the Partitioning of African or other African related topic be more appropriate? How about the slave trade of Africans to Europe? If the slave trade in the USA is relevant, why not contemporary instances of the slave trade in other parts of the world? I suspect you mean well, but this comes across as the typical North American narrow view of global matters and a general disregard of the rest of the planet. This is the WORLD-wide-web, not the USA-wide-web. (PS, for the record one of my parents is African-American and the other one is African)

Phenomonology and Orisha

What does this religion have to do with tsetse, which is endemic to West Africa? If I were in West Africa, I would pray not to get a bad bite. What is the phenomonological basis of this religion if not protection from insect bite? As tsetse inhabit wooded areas, it is an obvious question one would have after viewing the photo of the Osun Shrine in Osogbo Nigeria near river. Since this is an article about religion, this dynamic of life in West Africa should not be neglected. The article should be a lot deeper in tone and content, commensurate with its subject. --McDogm 02:24, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Huh? and where is the inclusion of the plague in the history of christianity? or is Buddhism just a way to deal with hunger? To take a look at a photo of a place you have never been and based on that to presume you can dismiss and entire ancient tradition to a disease prevention strategy is amazing.

One million only?

Considering the Yoruba population of Nigeria alone is at least 25 million, and the majority of it practices this religion, how do you come up with 'there could be more than 1 million'??

Wikipedia's other article on the Yoruba people states that only 10% practise the tradition (2.5 million).Domsta333 (talk) 12:36, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Of course it is not just 25 million, but SCORES OF MILLIONS throughout West Africa. Understand that, like the numerous dialects and language groups found in many of these arrapian cultures and tribes and ehnics, they curiously retain a common thread in their religious legends and oraratories. The mere fact that there are variations in the names of these gods, though the overall legends stories remain consistant proves that the Orisha (by any other name,) is prevalent throughout Africa, even in those place where Islam is supposedly dominant. --24.46.103.28 (talk) 19:24, 10 May 2011 (UTC)Veryverser

itutu merge

hi, i support the merge, and I made the page, so i dont think anyone else will mind. go for it somebody Spencerk 04:29, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

I do not. Itutu, or Ori tutu are about good/cool character, which is part of the practice of orisha, but not Orisha. It would be like merging and article on confession with and article on catholicism.