Supreme Being in the Yoruba pantheon, Olorun is also called Olodumare (Yoruba alphabet: Olódùmarè), Eledumare and Eleduwa/Eledua. In Yoruba culture, Ọlọrun...

Intangible Heritage of Humanity. Olodumare Irunmole Orisha Oku (Ancestors) Alaye (Human) Animal, Plant, etc. Olódùmarè is the most important "state of...

("believers"). Santería teaches the existence of a transcendent creator divinity, Olodumare, under whom are spirits known as oricha. Typically deriving their names...

Igbó Olódùmarè (English translation:The Forest of God ) is the second novel by the Yorùbá author D.O. Fágúnwà, published in 1949 by Thomas Nelson. It...

beings. This was authorized by his father, Olodumare which gave Obatala the name sculptor of mankind. "Now Olodumare [the supreme being] once called on Obatala...

is a prominent primordial Divinity (a delegated Irúnmọlẹ̀ sent by the Olódùmarè) who descended from Ìkọ̀lé Ọ̀run, and the Chief Enforcer of natural and...

beings living on Earth. He is praise named "Igbákejì Olódùmarè" (second in command to Olodumare) and "Ẹlẹ́rìí ìpín" (witness of fate). Priests of Ifá...

produces change in the Yoruba religion. It is believed to be given by Olódùmarè to everything — gods, ancestors, spirits, humans, animals, plants, rocks...

these religions, the orishas are spirits sent by the supreme creator, Olodumare, to assist humanity and to teach them to be successful on Ayé (Earth)...

as a divine or semi-divine being that was sent by the creator deity, Olodumare, from heaven to create the earth upon the waters. These beliefs are held...