Osun-Osogbo

Osun-Osogbo
Author: Brown Steve
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-01-22
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

Discover the enchanting world of the Osun-Osogbo festival, a celebration of Yoruba culture and spirituality like no other. In this captivating book, delve into the rituals, art and devotion that honor the goddess Osun. Explore the timeless traditions, intricate sculptures and the profound impact the festival has on its devotees. Immerse yourself in the mystic splendor of the Goddess Grove Festival and unlock the secrets of an ancient tradition that resonates with spirituality, beauty and sacred wisdom.

Osogbo and the Art of Heritage

Osogbo and the Art of Heritage
Author: Peter Probst
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0253222958

Why has the home of a Yoruba river goddess become a UNESCO World Heritage site and a global attraction? Every year, tens of thousands of people from around the world visit the sacred grove of Osun, Osogbo's guardian deity, to attend her festival. Peter Probst takes readers on a riveting journey to Osogbo. He explores the history of the Osogbo School, which helped introduce one style of African modern art to the West, and investigates its intimate connection with Osun, the role of art and religion in the changing world of Osogbo, and its prominence in the global arena.

A Study of Eyo & Osun Osogbo Festival Performances in a Changing World

A Study of Eyo & Osun Osogbo Festival Performances in a Changing World
Author: Ogunkoya Ninilola Jennifer
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2012
Genre: Festivals
ISBN: 9783659117480

The need to grapple with the effects of the historical events that have shaped the world people's cultures has been a frightening reality to cope with . The Africans, without doubt, daily stair back into their past with rippling emotions. From the East Africa, to the West, North and South; it has been the same labeling and blaming of the colonial masters on their several missions to the African's soil and the attendants effects- their trades, evangelism, colonialism, rebuilding exercises, modernization and the now-globalization. Today, the Africans are having mixed feelings of both bitterness and relief at the new trends in their cultures. This work may just be a window for the world to see how the old have become new

A Portrait of Osun, a Yoruba Goddess in Osogbo and the Americas

A Portrait of Osun, a Yoruba Goddess in Osogbo and the Americas
Author: Adewale Kuyebi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Goddesses, Yoruba
ISBN: 9780955338519

This book provides us with more information about Osun Osogbo and Osun in Americas. Our three areas of study are myth as a form of oral literature and poetic elements for religious studies; the Osun annual festival in Osogbo and continuity of Osun in existence in the New World today. In this book we bring the two side of the Atlantic together in dialogue through the spread of myth.