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Meet the Orisas

By Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi

Meet the Orisas Social Sciences

Meet the Orisas

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This is a reintroduction to divine figures who have long been misnamed, mistranslated, or buried. Orunmila, the wisdom keeper. Ogun, the iron pathfinder. Shango, the thunder that still rolls. Babaluaye, the healer and the afflicted. Iya. Egungun. Spirits that are ancestors, ancestors that are memory, memory that still lives.In this mythic microbook, Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi reawakens the Orisha - not as relics of a vanished religion, but as living presences. This is not a theological text - it is a storytelling text, lyrical and potent, a cultural remembering and a mythic reimagining.You will also meet the Relikas - deities born of consequence, created in spaces of rupture, spirit-forged by what the world lacked. Gods like Ogirini, Aria, Yaya, and Benita Masret - mythic figures formed when silence demanded story.This is the first book in The Mythic Codex, a series of mythohistorical microbooks designed to reclaim African mythology as a source of imagination, story, and sacred fire.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
126
Release Date:
2025-04-16
Publication Date:
2025-04-16
Publisher:
Afrodeities Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1917765126
ISBN13:
9781917765121
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
253 g
Height:
178 cm
Width:
254 cm
Thickness:
7 cm
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