The Culture That Attacks Women Who Looks Upon Their Deity
The culture that forbids women from seeing their deity
The ancient Oro Festival is an annual gender-specific festival of the Yorubas in Nigeria, West Africa celebrated in worship of their god Orisha Oro their deity of bullroarers and justice. They practice this as a cleansing ritual after the death of a monarch or king, though other localities celebrate it for other reasons because the celebration of the festival varies from locality to locality among the Yorubas.
Reasons for the Ritual
Oro Festival is celebrated to mark several significant events in Yoruba culture apart from functioning as a form of worship for which it is reputed. The festival is celebrated during the induction of a child into a family’s principles, core values, and belief system where the child goes through some rites. Again, the Yorubas celebrate Oro in their naming culture; some families adopt or as the beginning of the names of their children. Anyone whose name begins with Oro is an indication that such a person belongs to a family that serves Oro as their family god. Furthermore, Oro is consulted as an oracle to foretell the destiny of a child after birth.
Another major event the Oro festival is celebrated among the Yorubas is in the aspect of…
