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adiva_calandia) wrote2008-03-05 03:58 pm
adiva_calandia) wrote2008-03-05 03:58 pm
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.... So I'm working on a presentation I'm doing tomorrow on Wole Soyinka's The Bacchae of Euripides (which, incidentally, I highly recommend to my f-list, both Soyinka's version and Euripides'). Soyinka's play blends Greek myth, Christian sensibility, and Yoruba religion. So I go to look up Yoruba religion.
*... weakly* Okay then. I am in a library, I'm not allowed to yell. Or, for that matter, make muffled noises of Gotcha, Sai King!
(It's worth noting, perhaps, that Wikipedia says that the term is orisha. Whatever. My eyes bugged out anyway.)
The ideology that is present here is called orisa.
*... weakly* Okay then. I am in a library, I'm not allowed to yell. Or, for that matter, make muffled noises of Gotcha, Sai King!
(It's worth noting, perhaps, that Wikipedia says that the term is orisha. Whatever. My eyes bugged out anyway.)