Yoruba & Diaspora · German · 1913
The Voice of Africa, Volume I
Leo Frobenius; tr. Rudolf Blind
The expedition account that made Ife famous in Europe, carried for the material rather than the thesis. Frobenius is thorough on Shango, Ogun, Oya and the Ifá divination he watched being performed, and he is also the author of the claim that Ife was Atlantis, which nobody has believed since. A source can be an excellent recorder and a bad reasoner at once; the rows below cite him only where he is reporting.
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| Name here | Rank given | # | Powers described |
|---|---|---|---|
 Edshu = Eshu | — | — | Spelled from the German, which is a small demonstration of why the corpus checks names under several spellings: this is the same figure Ellis writes Elegba and Dennett writes Eshu, and a search for any one of the three finds only its own source. |
| — | — | Carried through the account of the smiths and their work. | |
Olorun = Olodumare | — | — | Named as the high god, again under the Olorun name rather than Olodumare. |
| — | — | Named throughout in connection with Shango. | |
| — | — | The figure Frobenius returns to most often, and the one his expedition saw most of in practice. |
