Community of Yoruba Religion
The shrine house and the lineage.
Priesthood is made, not claimed: divination calls you, initiation seats it, and the lineage of your godparents is your address in the tradition.
How you joinBorn into lineage shrines, or brought in through divination and initiation
Who leadsBabalawo and iyanifa (diviners); orisha priests by initiation
The unitThe shrine house and the lineage
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Yoruba religious authority is lineage-based and local: shrine houses attached to particular orisha, priesthoods passed within families, and godparent relationships created at initiation that constitute a person's religious address. There is no central authority, no orthodoxy, and considerable regional variation, and the diaspora traditions added their own lines. Initiation is expensive, lengthy, and typically follows a divination indicating that an orisha has claimed the person.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
The guru and the lineage.
Hinduism
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The flower sermon.
Buddhism · story
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Parshvanatha — the one before.
Jainism · figure
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The matriarchs — Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Leah.
Judaism · figure
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Peter — the rock that cracked.
Christianity · figure
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Leadership was appointed, not chosen.
Islam · core tenet
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