1. Two Faces of Yoruba Religion The proliferation and overlapping of spiritual beings is a feature of many religions. Saints in popular Catholicism and Vishnu'savatārasin Hinduism represent, in different ways, the possibility of spiritual beings that are simultaneously one and many, clusters or series of manifestations whose inner relationships are often not fully explained. Yorubaòrìṣàare in good company. However, the way in which multiple aspects of gods are made and maintained clearly varies from one religious repertoire to another. I suggest that it is important to look at the means or medium by which fractions of gods are established, in order to understand how the relationships between them are conceived. Yorubaòrìṣàcan scarcely be apprehended without taking into account the specific textuality of the oral genres through which they are created, maintained and communicated with.
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