Oluorogbo
Yoruba · mortal · oduduwa foundation · Recorded classification
He is the cost. The Moremi story is told for her, and he is the item she hands over, but Ife did not leave it there: he has a shrine, he has worshippers, and an iron rod is carried for him beside hers at the Edi festival. Other Ife traditions attach further material to his name; none of it was reachable from this session in a form worth citing, and none is asserted here.
Parentage
- parent: Moremi Ajasoro
Domains
- sacrifice
Sources
- Oluorogbo is the only son of Moremi Ajasoro, given to the Esimirin river in payment of her vow after Ife's deliverance from the Ugbo, and the holder of a shrine at Ile-Ife.: Reference treatments of Oluorogbo, of his sacrifice and of his shrine at Ile-Ife. (secondary)