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Egungun-oya

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In Yoruba tradition, Egungun-oya is a deity of divination.[citation needed] "Egungun" refers to the collective spirits of the ancestral dead; the Orisha Oya is seen as the mother of the Egungun.[1]

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  1. ^ Babatunde, Abosede Omowumi (2022). "Reimaging Women Ritual Space: Gender and Power Dynamics in African Religion". The Palgrave Handbook of Africa and the Changing Global Order. Springer International Publishing. pp. 969–986. ISBN 978-3-030-77481-3. Retrieved 16 February 2024.