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Podcast: Yoruba Proverbs with Bidemi Ologunde
Episode: Yoruba Cosmology and the UFO Question
Description: Check out host Bidemi Ologunde's new show: The Work Ethic Podcast, available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Email: [email protected] this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde traces how Yoruba cosmology understands contact with "sky beings," from Ọ̀run and Ayé, Odùduwà’s chain, Ọ̀ṣun's skyward journey, and Ṣàngó's thunderstones to folk accounts of night-flying àjẹ́, then connects those themes to contemporary UFO/alien talk. He explores how these ideas traveled through the Atlantic slave trade and live on in the diaspora (Cuba's Lukumí/Santerí...