This is a book where Wole Soyinka explored the spirituality of the African Continent. He mentioned the following Orisa, "deities": Obatala, Ogun, Oya, Osun, and Orisa Oko. The book in a way creates awareness for these deities, especially as they seem not to be understood by many. Wisdom, clarity, direction, guidance, vengeance, friendship, togetherness and knowledge are attributed to these deities.
The author's approach is like mind pouring and appealing to people to study and understand the Yoruba religion. He mentioned that he can only write to the extent that he knows but individual study and exposure to the African religion will guide everyone interested, accordingly.
The book is also rich in images. If you ever want to see portraits, statue or figurine representing the deities, you have many of them in this book.
My experience with the book is reading the work of an author that is appealing to his audience to give some attention to the orisa. In other words, re-think the ORISA.
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