gods
The collective of deities in Yoruba religion residing in the otherworld.
↻ synthesized from 9 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -1000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Veneration dates to Archaic Greece.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- spirits, ʻaumakua, ʻuhane, anela, akua, Zeus, Carian gods, angels, goddesses, demons, Triton, Thetis, Peleus, Bacchantes, Hathor, Amun, Anhur, Helios, ancestors
- child of
- Tum
- syncretized with
- Deva
- creator of
- Nephele
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“in Ọrun (the otherworld), in which gods, spirits and ancestors exist.”
#115 · extracted by claude-sonnet-4-6
“the early Hawaiian gods were benign.”
#242 · extracted by claude-sonnet-4-6
“western frieze, a battle between gods and giants”
#20083 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“academic articles on the named gods, angels, and demons in the books of the Hebrew Bible, Septuagint and Apocrypha, as well as the New Testament and patristic literature”
#25672 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The pagan Slavs were polytheistic, which means that they worshipped many gods and goddesses. The gods of the Slavs are known primarily from a small number of chronicles and letopises, or not very accurate Christian sermons against paganism. Additionally, more numerous sources in which Slavic theonyms are preserved include names”
#26590 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001