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Life at the Temple

Moments of worship, divination, festival and community — the living tradition of Ile Ase Omo Olobara Temple.

Videos

Festival celebration at the temple

Ceremony at the temple

Sacred rite at the temple

Ẹbọ Rírú — offering ceremony

Initiation and consecration rites

Ceremony at the temple

Sacred rite at the temple

Photos

Practitioner seated on a mat preparing ritual items and offerings

Offerings and ritual items laid out for a ceremony

Practitioner in a teal and gold patterned tunic with a bead necklace

Water being poured over a devotee's head during a ceremony

Two men in striped tunics and caps outside the temple

Cowrie shells cast on a woven divination tray

Initiate wearing an elaborate cowrie-shell vest and headdress

Temple member in a vibrant floral tunic

Initiation rite with a painted calabash held over a devotee's head

Procession of practitioners in matching red and black ceremonial dress

Temple member in crisp white traditional attire

Priest in red beside a feathered masquerade figure at a festival

Practitioner holding a painted sacred vessel during a rite

Priest applying sacred white chalk markings to an initiate's head

Ceremony at Ile Ase Omo Olobara Temple

Ceremony at Ile Ase Omo Olobara Temple

Ceremony at Ile Ase Omo Olobara Temple

Ceremony at Ile Ase Omo Olobara Temple

Ceremony at Ile Ase Omo Olobara Temple

Ceremony at Ile Ase Omo Olobara Temple

Ceremony at Ile Ase Omo Olobara Temple

Ceremony at Ile Ase Omo Olobara Temple

Practitioner in green patterned attire tending a shrine with sacred white figures

Temple entrance sign with the Omo Olobara emblem

Shrine with carved sacred figures, herbs and ritual vessels on red cloth

Offering bowls with food and palm oil prepared for a ceremony

Priest in red and white ceremonial dress at the temple entrance

Two temple members together

Temple member at the temple doorway

Temple member holding fresh leaves for a rite

Temple member in white traditional wear

Sacred ritual items prepared for a ceremony

Hand-beaded sacred necklace on a woven mat

Sacred stones arranged for ritual work

Carved wooden figure with a cowrie-decorated sacred vessel

Ẹbọ Rírú — sacred offering with bowls, herbs and red cloth

Priest seated with a goat during an outdoor rite

Divination beads, cowries and ritual sticks on a blue cloth

Bags of sacred herbs prepared for ritual use

Bowl of dried sacred seeds for offerings

Bowl of kola nuts for ceremony

Wrapped sacred items for ritual work

Sacred white chalk used in temple rites

Bottles of palm oil for offerings

Bowl of sacred palm kernels

Beaded Ẹẹ́rìndínlógún necklace on a study book

Ritual iron implements and offering bowls on red cloth

Orogbo — bitter kola used in sacred offerings

Baskets of kola nuts gathered for ceremony

Basket of sacred cowrie shells