Abstract
The Yoruba religion is a tradition dating back over 500 years when Africans were brought as slaves to the Americas. With them, they also brought all their religious secrets with their myths and legends, transmitted through all generations to today in various forms. This paper directs its argument to the female presence in Yoruba texts conducting a study through psychoanalytic theory from which the archetypes of Carl Jung are primarily used to encode the role of women in these texts, recreated summaries of mythical stories from eight of the sixteen female odduns – IFA Meyis; this is the methodological basis for the realization of this work.
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Critical Cultural Studies, Literary Humanities
KEYWORDS
"Woman", " Archetype", " Jung", " Yoruba", " Orisha", " Oddun", " Oshun", " Yemaya"
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