Talk:Yoruba calendar

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please stay on topic, spamming is uneccesary Otelemuyen 22:02, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Intercalary days
It is not clear if the Yoruba calendar uses intercalated days and leap days. If not then the years will drift compared with the Gregorian (and solar) year, since 91*4=52*6=364, compared with c. 365.25. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:04, 6 February 2015 (UTC).

Calendar Examples (4-day week)
Shouldn't the calendar example for the 4-day week have days of June progress in columns, like the 7-day week example?

Also that example has inconsistent years.

Karl (talk) 13:42, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Traditional Yoruba Calendar
I decided to Google "Yoruba Calendar" and found nothing useful in the written pages, but found some images that reveal a Traditional Yoruba Calendar whose years have 364 days made up of 13 months of 28 days. The web page shows calendar for years 2017 & 2019 with new years on 28 Apr 2017 & 26 Apr 2019. This link is a blog, so does make a valid source. Another image shows a calendar for 2015 with highlighted days occurring 5 days later in the Gregorian calendar than in 2019, so correspond to traditional month starts.

Karl (talk) 17:19, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Authenticity of calendar vs. authenticity of epoch
There seem to be some genuinely independent sources out there for the calendar itself (with four day weeks, etc), but absolutely nothing on the epoch of ~8000BC that doesn't derive from Alaran or this article. Is that right? Does anyone have any pre-2008 sources? (At this point there's evidence of people actually using the epoch, at least in a few Facebook posts; I'm not sure whether that complicates things. Seems to be a "look at this fun fact from Wikipedia" thing.) Patallurgist (talk) 07:31, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your edits. My best guess here is that the calendar is (at least mostly) genuine but the epoch was invented by this guy Alaran or was otherwise pretty obscure, since I couldn't find anything online (see above). I'm unsure if we should remove it entirely or keep it with appropriate qualifying statements. (I think Alaran's archived website *is* a reliable source on Alaran's version of the calendar, although probably not on the Yoruba calendar in general.) Patallurgist (talk) 04:27, 10 May 2020 (UTC)


 * the phrase itself is hardly English yet is in all the sources, so I'm sure it originated with the article. I've deleted it. I have found something, "Iwe Itan Ọyọ: A Traditional Yoruba History and Its Author" by Toyin Falọla, Michel R. Doortmont and M. C. Adeyẹmi

The Journal of African History Vol. 30, No. 2 (1989), pp. 301-329 which I've downloaded. " This article intends to fulfil two aims. The first is to offer a translation of a history of Oyo, written in Yoruba and published in I914. This short book, written by M. C. Adeyemi, carries the long title Iwe Itan Oyo-Ile ati Qyo Isisiyi abi Ago-d'Oyo, which can be briefly translated as A History of Old and New Qyo. The second aim is to provide a short analysis of the book along with a biography of its author,", and a useful excerpt is " The topic addressed in chapter nine is religion. The major contribution of Adeyemi to contemporary literature on Oyo religion is a calendar of religious worship.45 This calendar is not only useful in understanding the importance attached to every deity, but it can also assist in the dating of events that occurred within the same year." If you or anyone you know are interested in this either for this article or others, email me. Doug Weller talk 09:14, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Months of the Year in Yoruba in Language
Oṣù Ṣẹ̀rẹ́ - January

Oṣù Èrèlè - February

Oṣù Ẹrẹ̀nà - March

Oṣù Ìgbé - April

Oṣù Ẹ̀bìbì - May

Oṣù Òkúdu - June

Oṣù Agẹmọ - July

Oṣù Ògún - August

Oṣù Ọ̀wẹwẹ - September

Oṣù Ọ̀wàrà - October

Oṣù Bélú - November

Oṣù Ọ̀pẹ́ - December Adeola Ready (talk) 14:17, 25 September 2021 (UTC)