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Ọlọrun
Ọlọrun (Yoruba alphabet: Ọlọrun) (Ede language: ɔlɔrun) is the ruler of (or in) the Heavens, creator of the Yoruba, and the Supreme Deity or Supreme Being in the Yoruba pantheon and related syncretic religions. Ọlọrun is also called numerous other names including Olodumare (Yoruba alphabet: Olódùmarè), Eledumare and Eleduwa/Eledua. However, in some in belief systems the different names refer to particular deities or aspects of the same deity.
From the Yoruba language, Olorun's name is a contraction of the words oní (which denotes ownership or rulership) and ọ̀run (which means the Heavens, abode of the spirits).
Another name, Olodumare, comes from the phrase "O ní odù mà rè" meaning "the owner of the source of creation that does not become empty," "or the All Sufficient".
In Yoruba culture, Ọlọrun is credited with creating the universe and all living things. Ọlọrun is frequently perceived as a compassionate entity who protects its creations and is thought to be omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. People do not worship Olorun directly; there are no sacred areas of worship, no iconography.
Ọlọrun's ordained are known to be Obatalá of which is appointed a divine sun OlúwaṢójon. Olorun is outlying, distant, and does not partake in human rituals. There are no shrines or sacrifices dedicated directly to them, although followers can send prayers in their direction.
For Yoruba traditions, there is no centralized authority; because of this, there are many different ways that Yoruba people and their descendants or orisha-based faiths can understand the idea of Ọlọrun.
Historically, the Yoruba worship Ọlọrun through the agency of the orisha; thus there is no direct image, shrine or sacrifice for the deity. It is generally believed that Ọlọrun is manifest in all of existence, and the believer is therefore bound to be grateful and loving towards all beings. However, there are those who also worship directly. Believing the deity to be the origin of virtue and mortality, and bestower of the knowledge of things upon all persons when they are born. Ọlọrun is omnipotent, transcendent, unique, all knowing, good, and evil[clarification needed]. Orishas, the deity's manifestations, are supernatural beings, both good (egungun) and bad (ajogun), who represent human activity and natural forces, and who maintain universal equilibrium.
The one supreme god in Trinidad Orisha is Oludumare, the Yoruba supreme being who created the aye, the world of the living, visible to us, and the Orun, the invisible spiritual world of the gods, spirits, and ancestors. Creator of the cosmology and all that exists, Babalú-Ayé.
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Ọlọrun
Ọlọrun (Yoruba alphabet: Ọlọrun) (Ede language: ɔlɔrun) is the ruler of (or in) the Heavens, creator of the Yoruba, and the Supreme Deity or Supreme Being in the Yoruba pantheon and related syncretic religions. Ọlọrun is also called numerous other names including Olodumare (Yoruba alphabet: Olódùmarè), Eledumare and Eleduwa/Eledua. However, in some in belief systems the different names refer to particular deities or aspects of the same deity.
From the Yoruba language, Olorun's name is a contraction of the words oní (which denotes ownership or rulership) and ọ̀run (which means the Heavens, abode of the spirits).
Another name, Olodumare, comes from the phrase "O ní odù mà rè" meaning "the owner of the source of creation that does not become empty," "or the All Sufficient".
In Yoruba culture, Ọlọrun is credited with creating the universe and all living things. Ọlọrun is frequently perceived as a compassionate entity who protects its creations and is thought to be omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. People do not worship Olorun directly; there are no sacred areas of worship, no iconography.
Ọlọrun's ordained are known to be Obatalá of which is appointed a divine sun OlúwaṢójon. Olorun is outlying, distant, and does not partake in human rituals. There are no shrines or sacrifices dedicated directly to them, although followers can send prayers in their direction.
For Yoruba traditions, there is no centralized authority; because of this, there are many different ways that Yoruba people and their descendants or orisha-based faiths can understand the idea of Ọlọrun.
Historically, the Yoruba worship Ọlọrun through the agency of the orisha; thus there is no direct image, shrine or sacrifice for the deity. It is generally believed that Ọlọrun is manifest in all of existence, and the believer is therefore bound to be grateful and loving towards all beings. However, there are those who also worship directly. Believing the deity to be the origin of virtue and mortality, and bestower of the knowledge of things upon all persons when they are born. Ọlọrun is omnipotent, transcendent, unique, all knowing, good, and evil[clarification needed]. Orishas, the deity's manifestations, are supernatural beings, both good (egungun) and bad (ajogun), who represent human activity and natural forces, and who maintain universal equilibrium.
The one supreme god in Trinidad Orisha is Oludumare, the Yoruba supreme being who created the aye, the world of the living, visible to us, and the Orun, the invisible spiritual world of the gods, spirits, and ancestors. Creator of the cosmology and all that exists, Babalú-Ayé.