Oro Festival
oro festival yoruba orò event celebrated various town settlement yoruba origin annual traditional festival patriarchal nature celebrated male descendant paternal native specific location particular event taking place venerates orisha orò yoruba deity bullroarers communal justice festival female nonnatives stay indoors oral history orò must seen woman nonparticipating people ceremony surrounding celebration orò differ town town one often called death monarch oba important official dy special atonement period mourning held orò usually concealed except festivity orò make entrance making highpitched swishing sound whirring sound said made wife called majowu orò festival argued antiwoman requirement woman stay indoors festival woman must come outside full day believed woman come encounter oro suffer dire consequence includes death supported yoruba saying awo gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ́ l’obìnrin le mọ̀ tí obìnrin bá fi ojú kan orò orò á gbe lọ meaning woman experience gelede woman lay eye oro oro would surely take away accordingly contrast oro allmale affair gelede spectacle celebrates power influence woman mother àwọn ìyá yoruba society festival voice sound orò fill public space private space well traditional belief blessing everyone hears orò festival mentioned fágúnwàs novel ìrìnkèrindó nínú igbó elégbèje expedition mountain thought mother olojumajele flees forest hears sound orò bullroarers behind ahead scared might come facetoface orò spirit unbeknownst masquerade evil spirit forest imitating noise bullroarers