Shango Essays

Oshun the goddess Just how much of a role does Oshun play in the Orishas? Yoruba mythology originated in the Yoruba tribe, in West Africa around 5,000 years ago. This mythology is known for the presence of the supreme being and other more minor “gods" or “spirits” known as Orishas which are both male and female, which continues to influence Southwestern Nigeria (Ogbado). Oshun is the Yoruba deity of love, sensuality, femininity, and is known for the myth of the creation (Jeffries). According to

In the beginning, all that was, was the sky overhead and the waters beneath. The sky and waters was ruled by the mighty Orisha, the authority of all gods. Furthermore, Olorun ruled the sky overhead and Olokun controlled all life in the waters beneath Sooner after, a god named Obatala decided to establish dry land with Olorun and asked for his permission and asked for advice from Orunmila who is the wisest of the authority of Orisha. Orunmila gave some advice to Obatala. “You’ll need a long gold

as well as her love for Shango who’s a slave in the harsh sugar cane fields. Both characters were born into slavery; Shola has been raised to be more accepting of her status, while Shango is extremely rebellious. At one point in the film, while Shango is in the pillory for challenging Master James, the white overseer, Shola brings leftover food from the plantation house for Shango. Shango refuses to eat the food, and asks Shola why she is unwilling to join the rebels. Shango asks Shola "Why won’t you

heartbeat. Some of the similarities between Ogun the orisha and the Ogun in the play were that they are both sweet honorable men. Ogun the Orisha helps people with his powers while Ogun the character helps Oya when she lost her mother and when Shango left her. They both

Student’s Name Professor’s Name Subject DD MM YYYY SANKOFA – CRITICAL REVIEW Sankofa, a movie by Haile Gerima revolves around the horrors of slavery, revealing the humiliating and torturous experiences people from the African Diaspora had to go through during the Atlantic slave trade period. A film based in Ghana, where the slave trade was rampant for centuries, it highlights the savagery of white people and how internalized the oppression was for the Africans through poetic descriptions of complacency

ballet, modern dance, jazz, and theater. Both ballet and modern dance was greatly influenced even though she was not considered a jazz dancer. Katherine Dunham performed venues around the world and many of her original works are: Batucada, L’ag’ya, Shango, Veracruzana, Nanigo, Choros, Rite de Passage, Los Indios and many others. Dunham directed her own dance company in the American and European theater in the late 20th century. Katherine Dunham combined classical ballet

Throughout the Lemonade movie, there is a continuous motif of spirituality that helps the artist communicate her messages. Beyoncé manages to include these religious themes from a variety of belief systems in her work with some help from elements of cinematography and qualified lyricists. By doing so, the artist targets a wider demographic as her audience and aims to be mostly understood by the entirety of her viewers. One prominent culture embodied in the visual exclusive would be that of the Yoruba

type dance while using a flat-footed two-step. The shimmy incorporates the main movements of the Shika dance from the Federal Republic Nigeria. The Lindy Hop is also known as Jitterbug which is a social dance have steps that are like those of the Shango dance and an Ejor tribal dance. In the early 1920s, Snake Hips was duplicated from the Congo in Trinidad and in Africa. The Charleston uses dance moves from one of the first movements from the first ever recorded animal dance, the “Buzzard’s Lope”

girls found in the woods of Morgantown, he was very curious and ready to dig deep into the heart of the crime. The girls’ heads were missing, marks and cuts found on each body, seemed to be no pointing fingers as to who it was. Chase’s drinking buddy Shango adds humor throughout the book. Because of him we hear “behind the scenes” details on his case and his drunken thoughts seem to add to it. Alexandra Heyden, a psychiatrist in the book, appears to live a normal life outside of her office. When she’s

The dream I witnessed is about Oya passing on to afterlife. Oya is floating in the water, which is filled with blood from her ear. At this point in the play we do not know that the blood is originating from her ear that was sliced off to give to Shango. The dream scene was way more vivid in person then when I read it. The lighting, costumes, and music definitely set a tone that is extremely different from the rest of the play. It is also a very important scene that makes up the tittle. The description

forty percent of these people are committed to the religion of Islam, another forty percent dedicated to Christianity, and the last twenty percent worship the traditional Yoruba religion which consists of a large amount of different gods such as, Shango, god of thunder and lightning, Ogun, god of iron and war, and a many others as

East Indian subcontinent brought with them their languages and their Hindu and Muslim religions. As time passed diversification followed with the immigration of Syrians and Lebanese who brought them the African-influenced religious sects such as Shango, or Orisha faith, derived from Yoruba culture of modern Nigeria, and they also brought the Spiritual Baptists faith which is a syncretic Protestant-African church. Then In the late 20th century there was a striking increase in the adherents of Hinduism

Care Bears/voodoo Before the care bears became a television show or appeared in movies they were once a set of characters made by a greeting card company in 1981 named American greetings. They appeared for the first time on September 23 1985 on the ABC network and on later years, CBN, and later on the family network. The care bears is centered on a group of multi colored bears who bring good to the world. The show is bright and colorful, with lively characters that brings pure delight

Introduction African-American pop culture and pop culture in general, may be researched by a lot of researchers but I still get the impression that its roots are badly overlooked. Pop culture isn’t only an entertainment but it has some great depth into it that makes it worth learning the subject. In my thesis, I want to give more attention to the development of the African-American culture throughout all these years from the very beginning. How only one race can make a significant changes, not only