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The Yoruba Proverbs Podcast with Bidemi OlogundeAuthor: CHIP STORY Media & Rainmaker Podcasts
A podcast about proverbs of the Yoruba people, featuring guests' insights and perspectives. Thank you for your time. Language: en-us Genres: Education, Language Learning, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Yoruba Cosmology and the UFO Question
Saturday, 8 November, 2025
Send Bidemi a Text Message!In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde traces how Yoruba cosmology understands contact with “sky beings”—from Ọ̀run and Ayé, Odùduwà’s chain, Ọ̀ṣun’s skyward journey, and Ṣàngó’s thunderstones to folk accounts of night-flying àjẹ́—then connects those themes to contemporary UFO/alien talk. He explores how these ideas traveled through the Atlantic slave trade and live on in the diaspora (Cuba’s Lukumí/Santería, Brazil’s Candomblé, in Haiti, Trinidad, and beyond), including spiritist currents that speak of otherworldly guides. Along the way, Bidemi highlights how Ifá verses, proverbs, and Egúngún traditions frame “visitation” as ancestral or divine rather than extraterrestrial—and how modern Yoruba communities sometimes bridge both lenses. A concise, story-rich look at continuity, adaptation, and why Yoruba thought treats the boundary between worlds as porous.Support the show
