Book contents
- Frontmatter
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- Contents
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 THE YORUBA LANGUAGE
- 3 A SKETCH OF YORUBA GRAMMAR
- PART I THE PEOPLE, COUNTRY, AND THE LANGUAGE
- PART II
- CHAPTER I THE FOUNDERS OF THE YORUBA NATION
- CHAPTER II HISTORICAL KINGS
- CHAPTER III THE KINGS OF OYO IGBOHO
- CHAPTER IV A SUCCESSION OF DESPOTIC KINGS
- CHAPTER V BASORUN GAHA AND HIS ATROCITIES AND ABIODUN'S PEACEFUL REIGN
- CHAPTER VI THE REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER VII THE RISE OF THE FULANIS TO POWER
- CHAPTER VIII CONSEQUENCES OF THE REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER IX FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE ANARCHY
- CHAPTER X SPREAD OF THE ANARCHY
- CHAPTER XI THE REVOLUTION IN THE EPO DISTRICTS
- CHAPTER XII WARS FOR THE CONSOLIDATION AND BALANCE OF POWER
- CHAPTER XIII THE LAST OF KATUNGA
- CHAPTER XIV THE INTERREGNUM
- CHAPTER XV THE NEW CITY, NEW GOVERNMENT, ILORIN CHECKED
- CHAPTER XVI FRATRICIDAL WARS
- CHAPTER XVII SUBJUGATION OF THE IJESAS AND EKITI'S SOCIAL REFORMS
- CHAPTER XVIII A GLORIOUS END AND A GORY DAWN OF TWO REIGNS
- CHAPTER XIX SEQUELS TO THE IJAYE WAR
- CHAPTER XX THE CLOSE AND THE OPENING CAREERS OF TWO HEROES
- CHAPTER XXI TWO ADMINISTRATIONS OF OPPOSITE POLICIES
- CHAPTER XXII A NEW REIGN AND EVIL PROGNOSTICATION
- CHAPTER XXIII THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE 16 YEARS' WAR
- CHAPTER XXIV CONFLICTS IN THE NORTH
- CHAPTER XXV IBADAN AT ITS EXTREMITY
- CHAPTER XXVI FAILURES AT RECONCILIATION
- CHAPTER XXVII A RIFT IN THE CLOUD
- CHAPTER XXVIII THE REV. J. B. WOOD AND THE A.O.K.
- CHAPTER XXIX THE INTERVENTION OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
- CHAPTER XXX DISPERSAL OF THE COMBATANTS BY SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS
- CHAPTER XXXI DISTURBANCE IN EVERY PART OF THE COUNTRY
- CHAPTER XXXII ABORTIVE MEASURES TO TERMINATE THE WAR
- CHAPTER XXXIII THE DARK BEFORE THE DAWN
- CHAPTER XXXIV THE END OF THE WAR
- CHAPTER XXXV THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BRITISH PROTECTORATE. THE SEQUEL
- APPENDIX A TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS
- APPENDIX B
- INDEX
CHAPTER I - THE FOUNDERS OF THE YORUBA NATION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- Contents
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 THE YORUBA LANGUAGE
- 3 A SKETCH OF YORUBA GRAMMAR
- PART I THE PEOPLE, COUNTRY, AND THE LANGUAGE
- PART II
- CHAPTER I THE FOUNDERS OF THE YORUBA NATION
- CHAPTER II HISTORICAL KINGS
- CHAPTER III THE KINGS OF OYO IGBOHO
- CHAPTER IV A SUCCESSION OF DESPOTIC KINGS
- CHAPTER V BASORUN GAHA AND HIS ATROCITIES AND ABIODUN'S PEACEFUL REIGN
- CHAPTER VI THE REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER VII THE RISE OF THE FULANIS TO POWER
- CHAPTER VIII CONSEQUENCES OF THE REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER IX FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE ANARCHY
- CHAPTER X SPREAD OF THE ANARCHY
- CHAPTER XI THE REVOLUTION IN THE EPO DISTRICTS
- CHAPTER XII WARS FOR THE CONSOLIDATION AND BALANCE OF POWER
- CHAPTER XIII THE LAST OF KATUNGA
- CHAPTER XIV THE INTERREGNUM
- CHAPTER XV THE NEW CITY, NEW GOVERNMENT, ILORIN CHECKED
- CHAPTER XVI FRATRICIDAL WARS
- CHAPTER XVII SUBJUGATION OF THE IJESAS AND EKITI'S SOCIAL REFORMS
- CHAPTER XVIII A GLORIOUS END AND A GORY DAWN OF TWO REIGNS
- CHAPTER XIX SEQUELS TO THE IJAYE WAR
- CHAPTER XX THE CLOSE AND THE OPENING CAREERS OF TWO HEROES
- CHAPTER XXI TWO ADMINISTRATIONS OF OPPOSITE POLICIES
- CHAPTER XXII A NEW REIGN AND EVIL PROGNOSTICATION
- CHAPTER XXIII THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE 16 YEARS' WAR
- CHAPTER XXIV CONFLICTS IN THE NORTH
- CHAPTER XXV IBADAN AT ITS EXTREMITY
- CHAPTER XXVI FAILURES AT RECONCILIATION
- CHAPTER XXVII A RIFT IN THE CLOUD
- CHAPTER XXVIII THE REV. J. B. WOOD AND THE A.O.K.
- CHAPTER XXIX THE INTERVENTION OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
- CHAPTER XXX DISPERSAL OF THE COMBATANTS BY SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS
- CHAPTER XXXI DISTURBANCE IN EVERY PART OF THE COUNTRY
- CHAPTER XXXII ABORTIVE MEASURES TO TERMINATE THE WAR
- CHAPTER XXXIII THE DARK BEFORE THE DAWN
- CHAPTER XXXIV THE END OF THE WAR
- CHAPTER XXXV THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BRITISH PROTECTORATE. THE SEQUEL
- APPENDIX A TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS
- APPENDIX B
- INDEX
Summary
ODUDUWA
Oduduwa the reputed founder and ancestor of the race is really a mythical personage. The Etymology of the term is from Odu(ti o) da Iwà. Whatever is unusually large as a large pot or container is termed Odù: the term then implies, the great container the author of existence. According to Ife mythology Oduduwa was the son of Olodù mare, i.e. the father or Lord of Odu; ma rè implies cannot go beyond i.e. the Almighty. Oduduwa was sent by Olodumare from heaven to create the earth. Olokun i.e. the goddess of the ocean was the wife of Oduduwa, Oranmiyan and Isedale their children, and Ogun a grand-child.
Such is the desire of most nations to find a mythical origin for themselves through their kings and ancestors.
All that was known of him has been told in Part I of this history, which gives an account of the emigration of the ancestors of the Yorubas from the east to Ile Ife where Oduduwa died in peace and was deified, being worshipped to this day by the Ifes, and up to the time of the British Protectorate, human sacrifices were offered to him at regular intervals. The soil of Ile Ife is said to be sacred to him. He was the grandfather and great-grandfather of renowned Kings and Princes who ruled and made history in the Yoruba country.
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- The History of the YorubasFrom the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate, pp. 143 - 154Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010