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	Yoruba Omo Oduduwa
		Oduduwa became involved with idolatory, and had local mosques converted to temples for idol worshiping.
		Oduduwa is the legendary progenitor of the Yoruba.
		Oduduwa is the symbol of the nation, the rallying point for all those who subscribe to the Yoruba identity.
	www.uga.edu /aflang/YORUBA/ODUDUWA.htm (8074 words)

	IFA Religion, Yoruba Religion, Babalawo
		During Oduduwa's lifetime, or soon after his death, his sons and grandsons are said to have left Ile Ife to found their own kingdoms.
		It is incontestable that Oduduwa who all sources of history proclaim as the progenitor of the Yoruba race, had his house (sacred grove) in lle-lfe.
		Oduduwa is believed to have had several sons (16 in number) who later became powerful traditional rulers of Yoruba land: Alafin of Oyo, Oni of Ife, Oragun of Ila, Owa of Ilesha, Alake of Abeokuta and Osemawe of Ondo.
	www.neworleansmistic.com /spells/primer/ifa.htm (1434 words)

	The Benin-Ife Connection
		Furthermore, Oduduwa could not have been the founder of Yoruba kings because, of his seven children, one became lame, one developed hunchback, and another "turned to a river" leaving four able-bodied ones.
		Ekaladerhan (or Oduduwa) narrated his experience in Benin language thus: When he emerged from the bush into the village, he was led by the local people to their village head to whom he narrated his plight and how he wandered in the bush to get to the village.
		With the popularity Ekaladerhan (or Oduduwa) had established for himself as a powerful "medicine man" it was no difficulty at all for the victors in the revolt to invite him to assume leadership of the community as their new head, a position he accepted with humility.
	www.edo-nation.net /erediauwa1.htm (2274 words)

	The Sun News Online \| travels
		Oduduwa was the first Ooni (King) of Ile-Ife and is said to have sired 16 sons, believed to have founded the original 16 kingdoms of Yoruba land.
		Oduduwa poured the earth into water and the cock spread it to form the land, while the kernel grew into a tree with 16 limbs.
		Sources say Oduduwa, who described this city as "the nearest to his heart," added that he "would be comforted knowing that a wise ruler, who is of his own blood, succeeded him as king of Ile-Ife." Oranmiyan had consequently returned to occupy the throne after the passage of his father.
	www.sunnewsonline.com /webpages/features/travels/2006/may/11/travels-11-05-2006-001.htm (3505 words)

	Moses Ebe Ochonu: Deconstructing the Oduduwa Debate
		Oduduwa had sixteen children we were told and the eldest was Orangun of Ila and the Egbas in Abeokuta were descendants of the female child of Oduduwa named Alaketu.
		Oduduwa found an easy way out to appease the disgruntled son Oranmiyan he gave him, his staff as a symbol to present to his brothers and sisters to be able to collect ten percent of revenue derived from yearly harvest through out Yoruba Land.
		Oduduwa was primarily a skillful priest and voodoo person who the Oba of Benin argued picked up the powers in the forest.
	www.nigeriavillagesquare1.com /Articles/ebe_ochonu/2004/06/deconstructing-oduduwa-debate.html (5015 words)

	ArtsConnectEd
		According to one version of their origin myth, (Lloyd 222-223) the chief god Olorun (oh-lo-roon), god of the sky, let down from heaven a chain, by means of which his chosen delegate, his son Oduduwa (Oh-due-du-a), descended to the primeval waters.
		Oduduwa carried with him a handful of earth, a five-toed chicken, and a palm nut.
		As the descendant of Oduduwa, he was a supernatural being who could assure the fertility of plants and animals and who was the indispensable link between the living and the dead.
	www.artsconnected.org /search/text.cfm?DBowner=mia&id=71&nonav=no (2384 words)

	Oduduwa Link
		Oduduwa is believed to have had several sons (16 in number) who later became powerful traditional rulers of Yoruba land, most notably Alafin of Oyo, Oni of Ife, Oragun of Ila, Owa of Ilesha, Alake of Abeokuta and Osemawe of Ondo.
		Yoruba tradition holds that Oduduwa fled from Mecca to Ile-Ife, bringing with him the Ifa religion which was under persecution in Mecca.
		The earth was thrown into the water, the cock scratched it to become land, and the kernel grew into a tree with sixteen limbs, representing the original sixteen kingdoms.
	www.cultural-expressions.com /ifa/orisha/oduduwa.htm (449 words)

	Oduduwa: Saving history from ethnic propaganda
		Having conquered the native Igbo of Southwest, Oduduwa appointed his lieutenant as Oba in all the towns and became the overlord of the Southwest.
		Before Oduduwa and his Oba put the whole Southwest to rout, the Oyo, who thought they were enjoying Oduduwa's civilisation, would call the Igbo "bush people." The Igbo, to pay them back their insult, would call them "Oyo, Oru Oba'" (Oyo, slaves of the Oba).
		From the foregoing it is clear that the Oduduwa children have deliberately revised and falsified the history of Southwest Nigeria for the sole aim of covering the Igbo root of most Southwesterners, thereby denying Nigeria the long-sought-for unity.
	www.kwenu.com /history/yoruba/oduduwa_chukwueke.htm (1407 words)

	Creation Myths in Africa
		Oduduwa brought with him a handful of dirt, a special five-toed chicken, and a palm nut.
		He planted the palm nut, which grew into a proud tree with 16 branches, symbolizing the 16 sons and grandsons of Oduduwa.
		Oduduwa was the first ruler of the kingdom and the father of all Yoruba.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /mitos_creacion/esp_mitoscreacion_0.htm (1971 words)

	THE CORRECT HISTORY OF EDO
		The Yoruba (who call The Creator, Olodumare), saw Oduduwa as a direct descendant, which he claimed as a result of his God-son lineage, although his banishment link with the God-sons (Ogisos) was kept a secret from the Yoruba.
		Chief Oliha kept the lice in the hair of one of their slaves and after three years returned the lice to Izoduwa who was surprised at the level of preservation and development of the lice.
		Izoduwa (Oduduwa) concluded that if the Edionisen could so adequately take care of the lice, his son was likely to be in good hands.
	www.cwo.com /~lucumi/osahon.htm (5048 words)

	oduduwan revolution in world history
		We don’t say that the word “Oduduwa” is from the ancient Egyptian word, “Duduat”, or that the Itsekiri progenitor was born to Oduduwa by a mother, whose father was a high priest of “Shekiri” in ancient Egypt—without properly directing the reader to the sources wherefrom these information were obtained.
		THE PERSONALITY OF “ODUDUWA” The personality of Ikaladeran; whether he was the man who later became Oduduwa will be scientifically analyzed In this discourse, Oduduwa is seen as the founder of the Yoruba monarchical system, or at least, a founder of a prominent dynasty in Yoruba history.
		Oduduwa’s descent from heaven – The Ife’s have been totally embarrassed by the invectives thrown on them by the Binis in their I claim that Oduduwa fell from the sky.
	www.dawodu.net /_Edodelta/0000006d.htm (20061 words)

	Edofolks - Forgotten Son Of Oduduwa
		For the descendants of Oduduwa (and Oonis after him) Egor appears to have been one ancient forgotten accident of history.
		Oduduwa in response, sent one of his sons, Oranmiyan but not before he sent seven lice to Benin chiefs to nurture for 1,000 days.
		When the chiefs passed the test, Oduduwa was so impressed that a people could nurture creatures as minute as lice felt they could look after his son.
	www.edofolks.com /html/pub50.htm (751 words)

	Untold Yoruba Ife
		In Benin tradition it was believed that a descendent of Oduduwa, a prince from Ile-Ife named Oranmiyan founded the monarchy of Benin.
		But the dating of the time of Oduduwa can only be pure speculation as the conflict in the stories of the traditions were so striking.
		The founder was believed to be Oranyan (possibly he was the 'Oranmiyan' of Benin folklore that started their monarchy), Oduduwa's youngest and bravest son.
	www.sanduliac.plus.com /Untold_Yoruba_Ife.htm (735 words)

	Art Bulletin, The: Aworan: Representing the self and its Metaphysical other in Yoruba Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Almost all the kings and their subjects regard themselves as Omo Oduduwa, the descendants of Oduduwa, a mythical progenitor popularly identified as the first "divine" king of Ife, the ancient city widely regarded as the cradle of Yoruba civilization.
		In other parts, the same Oduduwa (also pronounced Oodua) is worshiped as an earth goddess who sustains humanity in the same way that a mother nurtures her children.
		The fact that Oduduwa, the male warrior, is sometimes addressed as a "mother" has led some scholars of Yoruba history and religion to suggest that the male aspect is a later development, reflecting an attempt by a new dynasty to legitimize its hegemony by grafting a male aspect onto a preexisting earth goddess.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0422/is_3_83/ai_84192647 (1241 words)

	Yoruba Religion
		During Oduduwa's lifetime, or soon after his death, his sons and grandsons are said to have dispersed from Ile Ife to found their own kingdoms.
		In several oral traditions, the founders of the principal kingdoms are presented as the children of Oduduwa specifically by his principal wife, Omonide or Iyamode.
		While Christian missionaries arrived in Yorubaland by the middle of the 19th Century, Christianity spread rapidly, and independent churches such as Aladura sprang up throughout Yorubaland by the earlier part of the 20th Century.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/sub/yoruba.html (507 words)

	About Egbe Omo Yoruba \| National Association of Yoruba Descendants in North America, About Yoruba People
		According to the second version of the myth, there was a pre-existing civilization at Ile-Ife prior to its invasion by a group led by Oduduwa.
		Oduduwa is the symbol of the nation, the rallying point for al those who subscribe to the Yoruba identity.
		These original founders of the Yoruba nation included Olowu of Owu (son of Oduduwa's daughter), Alaketu of Ketu (son of a princess), Oba of Benin, Oragun of Ila, Onisabe of Sabe, Olupopo of Popo, and Oranyan of Oyo.
	www.yorubanation.org /Yoruba.htm (1704 words)

	SOJI
		Oduduwa also relapsed into the religion of idolatry, and had local mosque converted to temples for idol worshiping.
		By the influence of Oduduwa all the men of the city were ordered on a three day hunting expedition in preparation for the festival held in honor of their gods.
		But Oduduwa died in Ile Ife before he was powerful enough to revolt against the Moslems of his country.
	www.uga.edu /~aflang/YORUBA/PAPERS/SOJI.html (2325 words)

	Creation Myth
		Oduduwa piled the dirt carefully over the waters and set the chicken down.
		In time, as Oduduwa's 16 sons and grandsons grew, he crowned them and sent them out into the world to establish their own Yoruba kingdoms.
		After this was done Oduduwa planted the palm nut that he had brought with him when he left his father Olorun.
	members.tripod.com /~astrianna/mythos/yoruba.html (215 words)

	Untold Yoruba Myths
		This one claims that the Yoruba migrated to their present homeland from Mecca under the leadership of Oduduwa as a result of a political crisis in Arabia after the rise of Islam.
		In any case, such is the overwhelming prevalence of Oduduwa in all the stories, that they too did not deny that he was the leader of the immigrants.
		Meaning that Oduduwa and his followers were not the bringers of the Yoruba language.
	www.sanduliac.plus.com /Untold_Yoruba_Myths.htm (824 words)

	Politics : Yoruba origin controversy:You can’t just wake up and say Oduduwa was a Benin prince — Prof. Ade Ajayi
		You see, people don’t just wake up one day and say that Oduduwa must have been a Benin prince rather than an Ife king that Ife took their kingship from Benin, that a Benin prince that they wanted to execute escaped ran and ran to a village and you call Ife a village.
		We acknowledge this fact, but to say that Oduduwa has seven children, one was deformed, anther a cripple and so on, I don’t agree.
		Let him come out with the historian who taught him that during his coronation rites, he has been touting this for long, he just wants to provoke controversy, that is why he dragged in the story in the book about his life which is not relevant to the book.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/politics/p116052004.html (1732 words)

	Nigeriaworld -- Ife/Benin connection: The relevance of dating and the burden of smallness
		Oduduwa did not migrate from the North East or Middle East as Samuel Johnson (an Oyo man, strong in Christian faith, who tried his "intellectual" best to link the origin of Yoruba to the Middle East, but contradicted by other sources) would want us to believe.
		To lend the dignity and respect of one of the esteemed offices of Oduduwa descendants to this kind of inanity for unquantifiable and largely ephemeral political gain is to say the least, very unbecoming.
		They need not pretend that Oduduwa was one of their great ancestors, because he is. They need not a new validation, to be politically relevant in the scheme of things, because they are already RELEVANT.
	nigeriaworld.com /columnist/oyeyemi/080904.html (2842 words)

	On Yoruba origin controversy
		A reading of the interview shows that Prof Ade-Ajayi has either not read the portion of the book dealing with the origin of the Oduduwa published in Nigerian dailies or he was too disoriented by the content as to be able to articulate his comments or replies to the questions posed by the interviewer.
		The meetings were held under the auspices of the British and it was the administrative mechanism for foisting regionalism and formed the basis of the latter western region house of chiefs which Oba Akenzua II also attended by virtue of his status as a first class ruler.
		I am sure that if Ade-Ajayi (and the Yoruba whose cause he is championing) were aware of this, he (they) would start having a second thought on calling him for evidence to support their case.
	www.kwenu.com /history/edo/edoghimioya_yoruba.htm (3308 words)

	JANGBALAJUGBU » Blog Archive » Odu to da Iwa! (Oduduwa)
		Oduduwa is regarded as the progrenitor of the Yoruba race.
		In one of the stories of creation, Oduduwa is said to have descended from the heavens via a chain let down to Ile Ife, Odùduwà brought with him a chicken, some soil in a snail shell and a calabash.
		Oduduwa died in Ile-Ife and the town is seen as the source of the Yoruba people.
	www.edwardpopoola.com /blog/?p=61 (422 words)

	The creation of the world: A Yoruba myth - A West African Folktale, allFolkTales.com
		Oduduwa, finding his master drunk, picked up the calabash and the chicken and continued on the journey.
		When Oduduwa reached the earth, he sprinkled earth from the calabash over the water and he dropped the chicken on the earth.
		Oduduwa had now created earth from what used to be water.
	www.allfolktales.com /wafrica/yoruba_creation.php (282 words)

	THISDAYonline
		It is a known historical fact that by the time Oduduwa emerged in Ife, 'from the east' as modern Yoruba historians usually put it, there were many Yoruba communities in existence and who had their leaders or 'kings'.
		According to him, "Oduduwa the legend, the father of the bigger Yoruba Dynasty has no connection whatsoever with Ogiso dynasty in Benin history as portayed by the Oba of Benin, because Oduduwa descended directly from heaven through a chain to where is now known as Ife today in company of four hundred deities.
		He would want to see Omonoba and the rest of those who hold his views drop the idea that the Ekalederhan he wrote about was not the same as Oduduwa who was loved by his people and who liberated them from the fear and onslaught of their enemies.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2004/05/09/20040509spe01.html (2994 words)

	YORUBAS HONOR
		The septuagenarian Poet Laureate, Gwendolyn Brooks is to receive the Oduduwa Medal of Honor for her outstanding contribution to the expansion of global consciousness in a world of increasing cultural diversity.
		King Sikiru Adetona, the Awujale of Ijebu-Ode is this year’s recipient of the Oduduwa Medal of Honor for outstanding contribution to the modernization and development of Yoruba culture.
		Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, a world-famous pediatrician and one-time Minister of Health in Nigeria, is to be awarded an Oduduwa medal for outstanding contribution to public health and social development in Nigeria during his four decades of professional life.
	www.yoruba.org /News/Excellence1.html (319 words)

	The Story of Africa\| BBC World Service
		Oduduwa became the first ruler, or Ooni, of Ife.
		We know little of how these early Ooni exercised power or how their territory was administered, or precisely when the kingship started.
		The first king, or Oba, of Benin is traditionally supposed to be a descendant of Oduduwa, the founder of Ife.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/4chapter7.shtml (725 words)

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