Talk:Ọlọrun

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It it correct to say, "This mythology-related article is a stub" ? Olorun is a Lukumí (aka Santeria) deity. Doesn't this mean the article is religion-related? Rossj81 12:19, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose it's not incorrect. Olorun is a central character in all yoruba based cosmologies, and can be found or traced in many modern and ancient faiths. So it's probably both mythology AND religion related. It would fall under the definition of

Qyd 12:50, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply

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Perhaps a better question to ask is why Yoruban religious figures are mythology-related and Christian, Muslim, Jewish, etc. religious figures are religion-related. A better way to label these articles would be "religious mythology-related" or "cosmology-related." Slide424 02:25, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

religion and mythology are universal to all people. We understand the world through stories.

Goldenrowley 08:15, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Do you consider christian, muslim,jewish a religion or mythologgy? i think it can only be rate as one of them.

Y.P (71.200.195.241 (talk) 14:14, 10 September 2008 (UTC))[reply]

• Support It seems to me that the proposed merge is a no-brainer. Any dissenters? --mordicai. 03:08, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support because they are two names for the same entity Jno.skinner (talk) 03:45, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the history, it looks like many people kept completely rewriting this article. William Ortiz (talk) 14:18, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is only one God Yoruba, which is

It is difficult to distinguish between proper names and

names of Allah, and names of YHWH and the the thousand names of Vishnu and list of titles and names of Krishna and names and titles of Jesus e.t.c. The general idea is that they all amount to the same thing — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmckaskle (talk • contribs) 01:36, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply

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