Editing Oduduwa (section)

== Ife traditions ==
{{royal house|
|surname = House of Oduduwa
|type = [[Yoruba people|Yoruba]] [[royal dynasty]]
|image = Cabeza de rey (ciudad yoruba).jpg
|image_caption = [[Ife Head]], [[Imperial cult|relic of the royal cult]] of an ancient [[Ooni]] of [[Ile-Ife]] and [[Heraldic charge|heraldic symbol]] of Ife royalty
|parent house = 
* [[Oke Ora]] (Historically)
* [[Son of God|Olodumare (God)]] (Philosophically)
|founded = c.11th century
|founder = Oduduwa (Olofin Adimula)
|region = [[Yorubaland]]
|current head = [[Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi|Ojaja II]]
|traditions = [[Yoruba religion|Ìṣẹ̀ṣe]] <br> [[Christianity]] <br> [[Islam]]
|titles = * [[Oba (ruler)|Ọba]], Ọọni [[Ife|Ifẹ]] 
* Ọba, Olofin Adimula Ife 
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[[Oloye|Ojoye/Oloye]] Ife<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lange |first1=Dierk |title=Ancient Kingdoms of West Africa: African-centred and Canaanite-Israelite Perspectives ; a Collection of Published and Unpublished Studies in English and French |date=2004 |publisher=J.H. Röll Verlag |isbn=978-3-89754-115-3 |page=368 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=syATJKcx5A0C&dq=Wasin+obajio&pg=PA368 |access-date=1 November 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* '''ÌHÀRẸ – Outer/Town chiefs (Àgbà Ifẹ̀)''':<ref>{{cite book |last1=Okelola |first1=Olubayo |title=Political History of Ile-Ife (cradle of Yoruba Race) 1900–1980 |date=2001 |publisher=Lichfield |page=4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJAPAQAAMAAJ&q=Obalaaye+Obajio |access-date=1 November 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* Ọbalufe (Ọ̀runtọ́) Ife
* Ọbalọran Ife
* Ọbajio Ife
* Ọbalaye Ife
* Akọgun Ife
* Waasin ife
* Jagunọṣin ife
* Ejesi Ife
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* '''MỌDÉWÁ – Inner/Palace chiefs (Ẹmẹsẹ̀):<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Adegoke |first1=Ebenezer Olalekan |title=A study of the role of women in the burial rituals of the Ife of southwestern Nigeria. |date=March 1995 |page=20 |url=https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/2933262/244106.pdf |journal= King's College Research Portal |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref>'''
* Lọwa ijaruwa
* Isanire
* Jaran
* Aguro
* Arodẹ
* Ladin
* Lọwate
* Erebẹsẹ
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* [[Omoba|Ọmọba]] Ife 
* Yeyeluwa Ife 
* [[Oloori]] Ife
|members = * [[Olubuse II]] 
* [[Adesoji Aderemi]]
* [[Tejumade Alakija]]
|styles =  ''Kábíèsí'' <br />[[Majesty]] <br /> [[Imperial Highness]] 
|other_families = [[Oyo empire#The Alaafin of Oyo|Oyo royal family]] <br /> [[Oba of Benin|Bini royal family]]
|cadet branches = In [[Ife]] (4)
* Oshinkola of Iremo 
* Giesi of Moore
* Ogboru of Ilare
* Lafogido of Okerewe 
Outside Ife (Several)
* [[Oyo empire#The Alaafin of Oyo|Oyo royal family]]
* [[Oba of Benin|Bini royal family]]
* [[List of rulers of the Yoruba state of Ketu|Ketu royal family]]
* Various royal families across [[Yorubaland]].
|motto = ''Ilé Ifẹ̀ orírun ayé, Ibi tí ojúmọ́ ti ń mọ́ wá''. ([[Yoruba language|Yoruba]]: Ife, source origin of the world, the place from which dawn begins)
}}
Ife tradition, which modern historians accord precedence, relates that Oduduwa was a personage who migrated from the community of [[Oke Ora]], a hilltop abode to the east of the original Ife confederacy of thirteen communities known as the '''Elu'''. The leadership of these communities structured themselves to be rotational, with the [[Oba (ruler)|Oba]] of each community taking turns at chairmanship. The communities are remembered to be; Iloromu, Imojubi, Ideta (Idita), Oke-Oja, Parakin, Ido, Iwinrin, Odin, Ijugbe, Iraye, Oke-Awo, Iloran and Omologun.{{sfn|Ogundiran|2020|p=53}}

===Early Ife===
Oduduwa and his group are believed to have disrupted the political structure of the 13 communities being lead by Obatala, a conflict said to be responsible for some early migrations from Ife.{{sfn|Ogundiran|2020|p=64}} Between war and diplomacy lasting several generations, the groups were at a stalemate, until a large smallpox outbreak brought about a truce from the Obatala camp, eventually forming these communities into a single Ife state under the Oduduwa group.{{sfn|Ogundiran|2020|p=65}} 
The reconciliation and reintegration of the Obatala group into the political and civil structure of Ife is commemorated annually in the Itapa festival.{{sfn|Ogundiran|2020|p=65}}

There were elements of the Ugbo, members of the former Obatala faction, who strongly opposed the new alliance. Some, seeking more fertile land, are said to have left Ife of their own accord to resettle and form their own Yoruba communities [[Ugbo Kingdom|near the coast]], while others relocated elsewhere in Ife to continue the conflict.{{sfn|Ogundiran|2020|p=89}}

===Crowns of Oduduwa===
{{Main|Oranyan}}
{{Main|Moremi Ajasoro}}
Long after the era of Oduduwa and Obatala, the next major progression of events were captured in the figure of [[Ọranyan]] (Ọ̀rànmíyàn).{{sfn|Ogundiran|2020|p=115}} In tradition, Oranyan was a ''son of Ogun'',{{sfn|Wyndham|1921|p=45}} and the youngest of Oduduwa's grandsons.{{sfn|Johnson|1921|p=8}} He is said to have been the most war-like Yoruba prince out of all his contemporaries,{{sfn|Peter M. Rose|2004|p=112}} and certainly one of the most adventurous of the historical princes. Ife was under constant raids by disassociated factions of the previous Ugbo groups, but upon learning their secrets from ''Mọremí'', Oranyan is said to have brought an end to their brigandry, and along with Moremi, brought a long period of peace to Ife.{{sfn|Wyndham|1921|p=45, 46}}

Ife enjoyed remarkable royal and technological developments throughout its classical period. It became the largest emporium for religious, economic, and political advancement in the region, and attracted traders from all over West Africa who sought its exclusive offerings.{{sfn|Ogundiran|2020|p=104, 105}} As Ife's renown increased, the eminence of the Oduduwa dynasty grew to the extent that the possession of a "crown of Oduduwa" projected the ability to guarantee security through cultural, military, and political power for migrating groups.{{sfn|Adebayo|2018|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vPdKDwAAQBAJ&dq=crown+of+oduduwa&pg=PT21 page 21]}}

Oranyan spread the consolidated model of Ife kingship to many parts of the Yoruba world through his own offspring, notably establishing the two most prominent regional dynasties after Ife in the [[Oyo Empire]], and the [[Benin kingdom]]. Some traditions from Ado Ekiti and other Yoruba kingdoms also associate part of their royal Ife origins with figures who accompanied Oranyan's initial entourage out of Ife.{{sfn|Ogundiran|2020|p=144}} Oranyan later returned home, to claim Ife's crown of Oduduwa.{{sfn|Wyndham|1921|p=47}}

===Omo Oduduwa===
Various traditions say that up to 16 different princes or groups left Ife (Oranyan being the last) to create kingdoms that would constitute a familial commonwealth with Ife as their sacred fatherly centre. The founders of these various royal lineages are commonly translated from Yoruba traditions to English as ''sons'' or ''grandsons of Oduduwa''.{{sfn|Adebayo|2018|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vPdKDwAAQBAJ&dq=crown+of+oduduwa&pg=PT21 page 21]}}{{sfn|Law|1973|p=210}}{{sfn|Shillington|2013|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=umyHqvAErOAC&q=%22Omo%20oodua%22 p. 1680]}} Historians and anthropologists generally see these traditions as the compressed selections of Yoruba descendants who were remembered for their impact, rather than as a literal and complete family tree.<ref>{{cite book |title=ANCIENT IFE: A REASSESSMENT |date=June 1979|isbn=9789783550766|last1=Robin|first1=Horton | publisher=Historical Society of Nigeria | page=98}}</ref>{{sfn|Law|1973|p=211}} Till today Yoruba people call themselves ''Ọmọ Odùduwà'' (descendants of Oduduwa) after the same manner.{{sfn|Shillington|2013|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=umyHqvAErOAC&q=%22Omo%20oodua%22 p. 1680]}}