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    Ọlọrun (redirect from Olodumare)
    Supreme Being in the Yoruba pantheon, Olorun is also called Olodumare (Yoruba alphabet: Olódùmarè), Eledumare and Eleduwa/Eledua. In Yoruba culture, Ọlọrun...
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    system, Olodumare has ase over all that is. Hence, it is considered supreme. Olodumare Orishas Ancestors Human Animal, Plant, etc Olódùmarè is the most...
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    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...
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    ("believers"). Santería teaches the existence of a transcendent creator divinity, Olodumare, under whom are spirits known as oricha. Typically deriving their names...
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    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...
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    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)...
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  • is a prominent primordial Divinity (a delegated Irúnmọlẹ̀ sent by the Olódùmarè) who descended from Ìkọ̀lé Ọ̀run, and the Chief Enforcer of natural and...
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  • beings living on Earth. He is praise named "Igbákejì Olódùmarè" (second in command to Olodumare) and "Ẹlẹ́rìí ìpín" (witness of fate). Priests of Ifá...
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    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...
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    Irunmole (primordial spirit) sent to assist Shango to create the world by Olodumare, the Supreme God. The other spirits sent ignored Oshun, who went to Shango...
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